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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2018 - Fellow of the Combustion Institute for innovations in fuel and engine research
  • 2012 - Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (UK)

Overview

Gautam Kalghatgi is an independent scientist and consultant based in the United Kingdom, specializing primarily in engineering fields related to combustion engines and sustainable transportation. Their research spans across engineering, chemical engineering, and energy, focusing on advancements in vehicle technology and environmental impacts.

The scientist's scholarly work emphasizes automotive engineering, electrical and electronic engineering, fluid flow and transfer processes, biomedical engineering, and renewable energy, sustainability, and the environment. These areas reflect a multidisciplinary approach to addressing challenges in energy and transportation systems.

Kalghatgi's research interests cover a range of topics including vehicle emissions and performance, electric vehicles and infrastructure, advanced combustion engine technologies, biodiesel production and applications, advanced battery technologies research, energy and environment impacts, and transportation policies.

The frequent publication venues where Kalghatgi's research appears are:

  • Transportation Engineering
  • Nature Communications
  • SAE International Journal of Sustainable Transportation, Energy, Environment & Policy

Recent papers authored by or including Kalghatgi are:

  • The scope for improving the efficiency and environmental impact of internal combustion engines, 2020, Transportation Engineering
  • Electrifying passenger road transport in India requires near-term electricity grid decarbonisation, 2022, Nature Communications
  • Is it the end of combustion and engine combustion research? Should it be?, 2022, Transportation Engineering
  • Economic Competitiveness of Battery Electric Vehicles vs Internal Combustion Engine Vehicles in India: A Case Study for Two- and Four-Wheelers, 2024, SAE International Journal of Sustainable Transportation, Energy, Environment & Policy

Collaborators frequently working with Kalghatgi include:

  • Avinash Kumar Ágarwal
  • Amir F.N. Abdul-Manan
  • Deepak Kumar
  • Felix Leach
  • Richard Stone

The scientist's contributions have been recognized with fellowships, including the Fellow of the Combustion Institute awarded in 2018 for innovations in fuel and engine research, and the Fellowship of the Royal Academy of Engineering (UK) awarded in 2012.

Best Publications

  • IJER editorial: The future of the internal combustion engine:

    R D Reitz;H Ogawa;R Payri;T Fansler

  • Is it really the end of internal combustion engines and petroleum in transport

    Gautam Kalghatgi

  • Partially pre-mixed auto-ignition of gasoline to attain low smoke and low NOx at high load in a compression ignition engine and comparison with a diesel fuel

    Gautam T. Kalghatgi;Per Risberg;Hans-Erik Ångström

  • The scope for improving the efficiency and environmental impact of internal combustion engines

    Felix Leach;Gautam Kalghatgi;Richard Stone;Paul Miles

  • Advantages of Fuels with High Resistance to Auto-ignition in Late-injection, Low-temperature, Compression Ignition Combustion

    Gautam T. Kalghatgi;Per Risberg;Hans-Erik Ångström

  • Auto-Ignition Quality of Practical Fuels and Implications for Fuel Requirements of Future SI and HCCI Engines

    Gautam T. Kalghatgi

  • Recent progress in gasoline surrogate fuels

    S.Mani Sarathy;Aamir Farooq;Gautam T. Kalghatgi

  • Developments in internal combustion engines and implications for combustion science and future transport fuels

    G.T. Kalghatgi

  • Pre-ignition and 'super-knock' in turbo-charged spark-ignition engines

    Gautam T Kalghatgi;Derek Bradley

  • Blow-Out Stability of Gaseous Jet Diffusion Flames. Part I: In Still Air

    Gautam T. Kalghatgi

  • Mapping surrogate gasoline compositions into RON/MON space

    Neal Morgan;Andrew Smallbone;Amit Bhave;Markus Kraft

  • HCCI experiments with toluene reference fuels modeled by a semidetailed chemical kinetic model

    Johan C. G. Andrae;Tore Brinck;G. T. Kalghatgi

  • The outlook for fuels for internal combustion engines

    Gautam T Kalghatgi

  • Autoignition of toluene reference fuels at high pressures modeled with detailed chemical kinetics

    Johan C. G. Andrae;Johan C. G. Andrae;P. Bjornbom;R. F. Cracknell;G. T. Kalghatgi

  • Influence of autoignition delay time characteristics of different fuels on pressure waves and knock in reciprocating engines

    D Bradley;GT Gautam Kalghatgi

  • Fuel Anti-Knock Quality - Part I. Engine Studies.

    G.T. Kalghatgi

  • Fuel/Engine Interactions

    Gautam Kalghatgi

  • Fuel Octane Effects in the Partially Premixed Combustion Regime in Compression Ignition Engines

    Leif Hildingsson;Gautam Kalghatgi;Nigel Tait;Bengt Johansson

  • Evaluation of heat transfer correlations for HCCI engine modeling

    HS Soyhan;H Yasar;H Walmsley;B Head

  • Fuel Anti-Knock Quality- Part II. Vehicle Studies - How Relevant is Motor Octane Number (MON) in Modern Engines?

    G. T. Kalghatgi

Frequent Co-Authors

Bengt Johansson
Bengt Johansson Technical University of Denmark
Roger Cracknell
Roger Cracknell Shell (Netherlands)
Andrew Smallbone
Andrew Smallbone Durham University
Markus Kraft
Markus Kraft University of Cambridge
S. Mani Sarathy
S. Mani Sarathy King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
Heinz Pitsch
Heinz Pitsch RWTH Aachen University
Christof Schulz
Christof Schulz University of Duisburg-Essen
Hongming Xu
Hongming Xu University of Birmingham
Shijin Shuai
Shijin Shuai Tsinghua University
Guohong Tian
Guohong Tian University of Surrey

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