Arun Kathapillai
@stjosephs.ac.in
Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering
St. Joseph's College of Engineering
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Energy Conversion Technologies, Renewable Energy Systems, Internal Combustion Engines and Alternate Fuels, Nano-fluids and Nano-materials
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T. Gavaskar, Venkata Ramanan M, K. Arun, and S. Arivazhagan
Elsevier BV
K. Arun, M. Venkata Ramanan, and S. Mohanasutan
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Gavaskar Thodda, Arun Kathapillai, Venkata Ramanan Madhavan, and Murugapoopathi Saravanamuthu
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
K. Arun, K.M. Kumar, K.M.B. Karthikeyan, and S. Mohanasutan
Elsevier BV
K.M. Kumar, K. Arun, N. Sathishkumar, M. Pathri Narayanan, and E. Raviraj
Elsevier BV
K.M.B. Karthikeyan, J. Vijayanand, K. Arun, and Vaddi Seshagiri Rao
Elsevier BV
K. Arun, M. Venkata Ramanan, and S. Sai Ganesh
American Chemical Society (ACS)
Prediction of gasifier performance is generally carried out using two techniques, namely, kinetic modeling and chemical equilibrium modeling. The later model was adopted in the current study because it is not governed by any of the gasifier design parameters. Chemical equilibrium modeling was deployed to compute and ascertain the influence of the equivalence ratio (ER), moisture content (MC), and reaction temperature (RT) on corn cob gasification. The simulation studies reveal that, for a gasification system, with an increase in the ER (for a constant MC and RT), the higher heating value (HHV) of producer gas drops, with an increase in the MC (for a constant ER and RT), the H2 content increases but CO decreases, and with an increase in the RT (for a constant ER and MC), both the H2 and CO contents increase. An attempt was made toward validating the simulated results by subjecting corn cob to gasification in a 25 kWth downdraft gasifier. A comparative analysis on the simulation results and experimental out...