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Ramalingam Velraj

Ramalingam Velraj

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Engineering and Technology

D-Index
64
Citations
14659
World Ranking
1654
National Ranking
31

Overview

Ramalingam Velraj is affiliated with Anna University, Chennai in India. Their research spans multiple disciplines within engineering and energy, focusing primarily on mechanical engineering and renewable energy applications.

Their recent publications cover a range of topics related to thermal management, energy storage, and renewable energy systems. Notable papers include:

  • A state-of-the art review on advancing battery thermal management systems for fast-charging, 2023, Applied Thermal Engineering
  • Effective PCM, insulation, natural and/or night ventilation techniques to enhance the thermal performance of buildings located in various climates - A review, 2022, Energy and Buildings
  • Performance augmentation of solar photovoltaic panel through PCM integrated natural water circulation cooling technique, 2020, Renewable Energy
  • Sea-water desalination using a desalting unit integrated with a parabolic trough collector and activated carbon pellets as energy storage medium, 2021, Desalination
  • Review on numerical algorithms for melting and solidification studies and their implementation in general purpose computational fluid dynamic software, 2021, Journal of Energy Storage

Velraj collaborates frequently with several researchers including Pandiyarajan Vellaichamy, P. Ganesh Kumar, Amrit Kumar Thakur, Ravishankar Sathyamurthy, and G. Kumaresan. These coauthorships underline a consistent partnership in advancing research within their fields.

The scientist's work is often published in established specialized journals. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Journal of Energy Storage
  • Desalination
  • Thermal Science
  • Renewable Energy
  • Sustainable Cities and Society

Ramalingam Velraj's main fields of study include:

  • Engineering
  • Energy

Within these fields, the key subfields of study covered by Velraj's research are:

  • Mechanical Engineering
  • Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering
  • Biomedical Engineering
  • Building and Construction

The scientist's research covers a broad spectrum of topics that are critical to sustainable energy and environmental engineering. Main topics of work include:

  • Solar Thermal and Photovoltaic Systems
  • Phase Change Materials Research
  • Solar-Powered Water Purification Methods
  • Adsorption and Cooling Systems
  • Building Energy and Comfort Optimization
  • Membrane Separation Technologies
  • Nanofluid Flow and Heat Transfer

Best Publications

  • Heat transfer enhancement in a latent heat storage system

    R. Velraj;R.V. Seeniraj;B. Hafner;C. Faber

  • Phase change material-based building architecture for thermal management in residential and commercial establishments

    A. Pasupathy;R. Velraj;R.V. Seeniraj

  • Experimental investigation on a combined sensible and latent heat storage system integrated with constant/varying (solar) heat sources

    N. Nallusamy;S. Sampath;R. Velraj

  • Performance and exhaust emission characteristics of a CI engine fueled with Pongamia pinnata methyl ester (PPME) and its blends with diesel

    K. Sureshkumar;R. Velraj;R. Ganesan

  • Experimental investigation on heat recovery from diesel engine exhaust using finned shell and tube heat exchanger and thermal storage system

    V. Pandiyarajan;M. Chinna Pandian;E. Malan;R. Velraj

  • Influence of alumina nanoparticles, ethanol and isopropanol blend as additive with diesel–soybean biodiesel blend fuel: Combustion, engine performance and emissions

    T. Shaafi;R. Velraj

  • Effect of double layer phase change material in building roof for year round thermal management

    A. Pasupathy;R. Velraj

  • A review on compressed air energy storage – A pathway for smart grid and polygeneration

    Gayathri Venkataramani;Prasanna Parankusam;Velraj Ramalingam;Jihong Wang

  • Thermal management of electronics: A review of literature

    Sundaram Shanmuga Anandan;Velraj Ramalingam

  • Experimental investigation and numerical simulation analysis on the thermal performance of a building roof incorporating phase change material (PCM) for thermal management

    A. Pasupathy;L. Athanasius;R. Velraj;R.V. Seeniraj

  • Experimental analysis and numerical modelling of inward solidification on a finned vertical tube for a latent heat storage unit

    R. Velraj;R.V. Seeniraj;B. Hafner;C. Faber

  • Review of solar cooling methods and thermal storage options

    L.A. Chidambaram;A.S. Ramana;G. Kamaraj;R. Velraj

  • Solar cookers with and without thermal storage—A review

    R.M. Muthusivagami;R. Velraj;R. Sethumadhavan

  • Review on free cooling of buildings using phase change materials

    V. Antony Aroul Raj;R. Velraj

  • Mitigation of NOx emissions from a jatropha biodiesel fuelled DI diesel engine using antioxidant additives

    K. Varatharajan;M. Cheralathan;R. Velraj

  • Effect of dispersion of various nanoadditives on the performance and emission characteristics of a CI engine fuelled with diesel, biodiesel and blends—A review

    T. Shaafi;K. Sairam;A. Gopinath;G. Kumaresan

  • Experimental investigation of the thermo-physical properties of water–ethylene glycol mixture based CNT nanofluids

    V. Kumaresan;R. Velraj

  • Optimization of biodiesel production from Manilkara zapota (L.) seed oil using Taguchi method

    R. Sathish Kumar;K. Sureshkumar;R. Velraj

  • Augmenting the productivity of solar still using multiple PCMs as heat energy storage

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  • Experimental investigation on phase change material based thermal storage system for solar air heating applications

    S. Esakkimuthu;Abdel Hakim Hassabou;C. Palaniappan;Markus Spinnler

  • The effect of carbon nanotubes in enhancing the thermal transport properties of PCM during solidification

    Vellaisamy Kumaresan;Ramalingam Velraj;Sarit K. Das

Frequent Co-Authors

Ravishankar Sathyamurthy
Ravishankar Sathyamurthy King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals
Amimul Ahsan
Amimul Ahsan Universiti Putra Malaysia
S. Iniyan
S. Iniyan Anna University, Chennai
Yulong Ding
Yulong Ding University of Birmingham
Omid Mahian
Omid Mahian Xi'an Jiaotong University

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