Dr Vinoth Kannan V

@prist.ac.in

Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering
PRIST Deemed to be University

Dr Vinoth Kannan V


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Associate Professor at PRIST Deemed to be University, Thanjavur (Since August 2025)
Textbook Editor: "Futuristic Trends in Renewable & Sustainable Energy" book series for 2024, 2025 volumes.
Editorial Board Member at International Journal for Development of Science and Technology - ISSN: 2456-8503.

10 years of progressive experience across PRIST Deemed to be University, Indra Ganesan College, Parisutham Institute of Science and Technology, Kings College of Engineering, and Star Lion College of Engineering and Technology. Mentored 15 UG and 4 PG projects in alternative fuels and engine technology.

Conference Leadership: Organizing Secretary, ICETMEEST-2024; Coordinator, RDDB & C4i4 Laboratory; Presented 8+ papers at national/international conferences

EDUCATION

B.E– Mechanical Engineering
M.E – Manufacturing Engineering
M.B.A – Environmental Management
Ph.D - Alternative fuels for I.C Engines

RESEARCH, TEACHING, or OTHER INTERESTS

Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, Environmental Engineering
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Scopus Publications

131

Scholar Citations

5

Scholar h-index

4

Scholar i10-index

Scopus Publications

  • Artificial intelligence based prediction and multi-objective RSM optimization of tectona grandis biodiesel with Elaeocarpus Ganitrus
    V Vinoth Kannan, Bhavesh Kanabar, J Gowrishankar, Ali Khatibi., Sarfaraz Kamangar, Amir Ibrahim Ali Arabi, Pushparaj Thomai, Jasmina Lozanović
    Scientific Reports, 2025
    Meta-heuristic optimization algorithms are widely applied across various fields due to their intelligent behavior and fast convergence, but their use in optimizing engine behavior remains limited. This study addresses this gap by integrating the Design of Experiments-based Response Surface Methodology (RSM) with meta-heuristic optimization techniques to enhance engine performance and emissions characteristics using Tectona Grandi’s biodiesel with Elaeocarpus Ganitrus as an additive. Advanced Machine Learning (ML) models, including Artificial Neural Networks (ANN), K-Nearest Neighbors (KNN), Extreme Gradient Boosting (XGB), and Random Trees (RT), were employed for predictive analysis, with ANN outperforming RSM in accuracy. The study identified the Teak biodiesel blend (TB20) with a 5 ml Elaeocarpus Ganitrus additive (TB20 + R5) as the optimal formulation, achieving the highest Brake Thermal Efficiency and reduced Brake-Specific Fuel Consumption. Desirability analysis further confirmed the blend’s superior performance and emissions characteristics, with a desirability rating of 0.9282. This work highlights the potential of hybrid optimization approaches for improving biodiesel performance and emissions without engine modifications, contributing to the advancement of sustainable energy practices in internal combustion engines.
  • PERFORMANCE AND EMISSION CHARACTERISTIC ANALYSIS OF CUCURBITA PEPO L. AND TECTONA GRANDIS SEED OIL BIODIESEL BLENDS IN CI ENGINE WITH ADDITIVE
    V. Vinothkannan, T. Pushparaj
    Energy Sources Part A Recovery Utilization and Environmental Effects, 2025
    Biodiesel is produced from the refined/edible type oils using methanol and an alkaline catalyst which is one of the environmentally friendly alternative liquid biofuels that has proven itself commercially, with international standards all around the world. In present investigation, mixture of two biodiesels in equal weight ratio namely Cucurbita pepo.L (pumpkin) and Tectona grandis (teak) seed oil was used for the synthesis of biodiesel with 5-ml Diethyl ether as additive. Performance test was made with the biodiesel blend using water-cooled, constant speed, CI engine, and emission characteristics were analyzed using a five-gas analyzer. It was observed that there was 35.5% increment in Brake Thermal efficiency and 25.8% reduction in Brake Specific Fuel consumption at maximum load for 200-ml pumpkin and teak biodiesel blend mixed to the diesel with additive. For this blend, it was observed at maximum load, the emission of Carbon monoxide reduced by 26.67% of diesel; Carbon di-oxide reduced by 12.96% and Nitrous oxide reduced by 26.57%. The emission gets increased in over load condition. Unburned Hydro Carbon emission and smoke opacity increased by 67.16 and 9.84%. The combustion characteristics of blended biodiesel with additive closely followed the diesel fuel operation. Hence, this blend was used as fuel in CI engine without engine modification.
  • Hybrid optimization and modelling of CI engine performance and emission characteristics of novel hybrid biodiesel blends
    Vinoth Kannan Viswanathan, Abdul Razak Kaladgi, Pushparaj Thomai, Ümit Ağbulut, Mamdooh Alwetaishi, Zafar Said, Saboor Shaik, Asif Afzal
    Renewable Energy, 2022
  • Experimental Investigation and Prediction of Performance, Combustion, and Emission Features of a Diesel Engine Fuelled with Pumpkin-Maize Biodiesel using Different Machine Learning Algorithms
    N. Magesh, T. Pushparaj, V. Vinoth Kannan, Deepak Thakur, Abhishek Sharma, Abdul Razak, Abdulrajak Buradi, Abiot Ketema
    Mathematical Problems in Engineering, 2022
    The current study examines the usage of biodiesel as a diesel substitute that is produced through the transesterification of pumpkin and maize with the addition of a diethyl ether (DEE) additive. Pumpkin-maize (PM) biodiesel and addition of diethyl ether (DEE), as well as their blends of 10%, 20%, 30%, 40%, and 50% with diesel, were used in performance, combustion, and emission examinations under various load conditions. According to the experimental findings, adding 5 ml of the DEE boosts BTE by 31.91 percent (B20 blend) compared to diesel. While the diesel equivalent of BSFC decreases by 9.519%. NO emission dropped by 34.91 percent at peak loads, HC emissions were augmented by 32.43%, and smoke opacity improved by 27.24%. To enhance the engine performance, combustion, and emission features of the substitute biodiesel diesel, the study emphasises the precise mix proportions of PM biodiesel with DEE addition. Using ANN, BTE, and NO were predicted with R2 values of 0.93 and 0.95, respectively. As can be observed, the R2 value for the ANN model was almost one, suggesting that the ANN models had better predictive power than other machine learning (ML) models.
  • Performance and emission characteristics analysis of Elaeocarpus Ganitrus biodiesel blend using CI engine
    Vinoth Kannan Viswanathan, Pushparaj Thomai
    Fuel, 2021

RECENT SCHOLAR PUBLICATIONS

  • Performance and emission characteristic analysis of Cucurbita Pepo l. and Tectona Grandis seed oil biodiesel blends in CI engine with additive
    V Vinothkannan, T Pushparaj
    Energy Sources, Part A: Recovery, Utilization, and Environmental Effects 47 … , 2025
    2025.0
    Citations: 8
  • Artificial intelligence based prediction and multi-objective RSM optimization of tectona grandis biodiesel with Elaeocarpus Ganitrus
    VV Kannan, B Kanabar, J Gowrishankar, A Khatibi, S Kamangar, ...
    Scientific Reports 15 (1), 3833 , 2025
    2025.0
    Citations: 20
  • INVESTIGATION OF CRYOGENIC TREATED DRILL BIT
    MGDK Mr.R Ramesh Babu, Dr.V Vinoth Kannan, Dr.M Shanthi, Mr.Chinnamuthu ...
    INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH IN ENGINEERING AND MANAGEMENT 7 … , 2023
    2023.0
  • Hybrid optimization and modelling of CI engine performance and emission characteristics of novel hybrid biodiesel blends
    VK Viswanathan, AR Kaladgi, P Thomai, Ü Ağbulut, M Alwetaishi, Z Said, ...
    Renewable energy 198, 549-567 , 2022
    2022.0
    Citations: 49
  • Characteristics analysis of performance as well as emission of Elaeocarpus ganitrus additive based pumpkin and juliflora mixed biodiesel blend in CI engine
    VK Viswanathan, P Thomai
    Diesel Engines and Biodiesel Engines Technologies , 2022
    2022.0
    Citations: 1
  • Experimental Investigation and Prediction of Performance, Combustion, and Emission Features of a Diesel Engine Fuelled with Pumpkin‐Maize Biodiesel using Different Machine …
    N Magesh, T Pushparaj, VV Kannan, D Thakur, A Sharma, A Razak, ...
    Mathematical Problems in Engineering 2022 (1), 9505424 , 2022
    2022.0
    Citations: 20
  • Performance and emission characteristics analysis of Elaeocarpus Ganitrus biodiesel blend using CI engine
    VK Viswanathan, P Thomai
    Fuel 288, 119611 , 2021
    2021.0
    Citations: 28
  • PERFORMANCE AND EMISSION ANALYSIS OF CI ENGINE FUELLED WITHCUCURBITA PEPO L. AND TECTONA GRANDIS SEED OIL BIODIESEL BLENDS
    TP V.Vinoth Kannan
    Journal of Huazhong University of Science and Technology 50 (3), 1-7 , 2021
    2021.0
  • Experimental investigation on performance, combustion and emission characteristics of CI engine fuelled with pumpkin and maize biodiesel blends
    N Magesh, P Thomai, VK Viswanathan
    Tierärztliche Praxis 41, 51-64 , 2021
    2021.0
    Citations: 3
  • Investigation on performance and emission characteristics of CI engine fuelled with Cucurbita Pepo L. and Prosopis Juliflora seed oil biodiesel blends
    VK Viswanathan, P Thomai
    Tierärztliche Praxis 40, 203-212 , 2020
    2020.0
    Citations: 2
  • Hybrid Vehicle
    S Sivanesan, S Santhosh, VV Kannan
  • Influence of Al2O3 Additive on the Performance of a Diesel Engine Fueled with Jatropha Oil and Diesel Fuel
    V Vinothkannan, N Magesh

MOST CITED SCHOLAR PUBLICATIONS

  • Hybrid optimization and modelling of CI engine performance and emission characteristics of novel hybrid biodiesel blends
    VK Viswanathan, AR Kaladgi, P Thomai, Ü Ağbulut, M Alwetaishi, Z Said, ...
    Renewable energy 198, 549-567 , 2022
    2022.0
    Citations: 49
  • Performance and emission characteristics analysis of Elaeocarpus Ganitrus biodiesel blend using CI engine
    VK Viswanathan, P Thomai
    Fuel 288, 119611 , 2021
    2021.0
    Citations: 28
  • Artificial intelligence based prediction and multi-objective RSM optimization of tectona grandis biodiesel with Elaeocarpus Ganitrus
    VV Kannan, B Kanabar, J Gowrishankar, A Khatibi, S Kamangar, ...
    Scientific Reports 15 (1), 3833 , 2025
    2025.0
    Citations: 20
  • Experimental Investigation and Prediction of Performance, Combustion, and Emission Features of a Diesel Engine Fuelled with Pumpkin‐Maize Biodiesel using Different Machine …
    N Magesh, T Pushparaj, VV Kannan, D Thakur, A Sharma, A Razak, ...
    Mathematical Problems in Engineering 2022 (1), 9505424 , 2022
    2022.0
    Citations: 20
  • Performance and emission characteristic analysis of Cucurbita Pepo l. and Tectona Grandis seed oil biodiesel blends in CI engine with additive
    V Vinothkannan, T Pushparaj
    Energy Sources, Part A: Recovery, Utilization, and Environmental Effects 47 … , 2025
    2025.0
    Citations: 8
  • Experimental investigation on performance, combustion and emission characteristics of CI engine fuelled with pumpkin and maize biodiesel blends
    N Magesh, P Thomai, VK Viswanathan
    Tierärztliche Praxis 41, 51-64 , 2021
    2021.0
    Citations: 3
  • Investigation on performance and emission characteristics of CI engine fuelled with Cucurbita Pepo L. and Prosopis Juliflora seed oil biodiesel blends
    VK Viswanathan, P Thomai
    Tierärztliche Praxis 40, 203-212 , 2020
    2020.0
    Citations: 2
  • Characteristics analysis of performance as well as emission of Elaeocarpus ganitrus additive based pumpkin and juliflora mixed biodiesel blend in CI engine
    VK Viswanathan, P Thomai
    Diesel Engines and Biodiesel Engines Technologies , 2022
    2022.0
    Citations: 1
  • INVESTIGATION OF CRYOGENIC TREATED DRILL BIT
    MGDK Mr.R Ramesh Babu, Dr.V Vinoth Kannan, Dr.M Shanthi, Mr.Chinnamuthu ...
    INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH IN ENGINEERING AND MANAGEMENT 7 … , 2023
    2023.0
  • PERFORMANCE AND EMISSION ANALYSIS OF CI ENGINE FUELLED WITHCUCURBITA PEPO L. AND TECTONA GRANDIS SEED OIL BIODIESEL BLENDS
    TP V.Vinoth Kannan
    Journal of Huazhong University of Science and Technology 50 (3), 1-7 , 2021
    2021.0
  • Hybrid Vehicle
    S Sivanesan, S Santhosh, VV Kannan
  • Influence of Al2O3 Additive on the Performance of a Diesel Engine Fueled with Jatropha Oil and Diesel Fuel
    V Vinothkannan, N Magesh

Publications

Performance and emission characteristic analysis of Cucurbita Pepo l. and Tectona Grandis seed oil biodiesel blends in CI engine with additive, Vinoth kannan Viswanathan, T Pushparaj, Energy Sources, Part A: Recovery, Utilization, and Environmental Effects, Volume 47, Issue 1, Pages 2978-2992
Artificial intelligence based prediction and multi-objective RSM optimization of tectona grandis biodiesel with Elaeocarpus Ganitrus, Vinoth Kannan Viswanathan, Bhavesh Kanabar, J Gowrishankar, Ali Khatibi, Sarfaraz Kamangar, Amir Ibrahim Ali Arabi, Pushparaj Thomai, Jasmina Lozanović, Scientific Reports, Volume 15, Issue 1, Pages 3833.
Hybrid optimization and modelling of CI engine performance and emission characteristics of novel hybrid biodiesel blends, Vinoth Kannan Viswanathan, Abdul Razak Kaladgi, Pushparaj Thomai, Ümit Ağbulut, Mamdooh Alwetaishi, Zafar Said, Saboor Shaik, Asif Afzal, Renewable Energy, Volume 198, Pages 549-567.\
Performance and emission characteristics analysis of Elaeocarpus Ganitrus biodiesel blend using CI engine, Vinoth Kannan Viswanathan, Pushparaj Thomai, Fuel, Volume 288, Pages 119611.
Experimental Investigation and Prediction of Performance, Combustion, and Emission Features of a Diesel Engine Fuelled with Pumpkin-Maize Biodiesel using Different Machine Learning Algorithms, N Magesh, T Pushparaj, Vinoth Kannan Viswanathan, Deepak Thakur, Abhishek Sharma, Abdul Razak, Abdulrajak Buradi, Abiot Ketema, Mathematical Problems in Engineering – Hindawi, Volume 2

RESEARCH OUTPUTS (PATENTS, SOFTWARE, PUBLICATIONS, PRODUCTS)

UK Design Patent (No. 6296264, 2023): Sensor-based UV-C disinfection robot
Textbook Editor: "Futuristic Trends in Renewable & Sustainable Energy" book series for 2024, 2025 volumes.
Editorial Board Member at International Journal for Development of Science and Technology - ISSN: 2456-8503.