Pratik Bhansali, Ph.D. Email & Phone Number

Jersey City, NJ, US

New Jersey, United States

Raleigh, North Carolina, United States

Redwood City, California, United States

• HME cooling die design, fabrication and testing to control texture of extruded plant-based meat analogue
• Designing and modelling novel cooling die configurations, performing FEA for stress, thermal and flow analysis using Solidworks and Flowsim
• Sourcing components based on need, capacity and safety restrictions, creating CAD drawings for fabricators, installing test setups
• Performing experiments to analyze effect of control variables like temperature, moisture, throughput, die-configurations
• Validation of non-Newtonian fluid simulations to develop modelling capabilities and inform process decisions
• Taking initiative to study patents, conceptualize and design sophisticated dies to obtain local control over melt

• High pressure and temperature supercritical pilot plant operation, supporting process data analysis, and designing bench top experiments to further company's shelf-stable food goals
• Taking responsibility to train operators to make more trained people available at a crucial juncture
• Supporting design and automation to scale-up and commercialize, active participation in strategy meets
• Designing and executing experimental runs on the pilot system to find optimum process steps, achieve better control over the system and evaluate its impact on the product and packaging
• Supporting the product development team to meet required specification and trial runs by using the understanding of the system developed for best possible results and control
• Support packaging studies by designing experiments to evaluate the packaging material and style, analyzing it's failure pattern and impact of each process step on it

Rochester, New York, United States

• Leading SCO2 system modelling to analyze heat transfer, fluid flow and achieve predictive capabilities
• Using real gas models and NIST database to consider realistic fluid thermo-physical property changes
• Developing DOEs to evaluate hypotheses, developing empirical and mathematical models to incorporate all variables that will drive the development of the technology
• Informing process decisions based on fluid behavior, flow rate, temperature and vessel pressure.
• Informing current modifications and future design decisions based on the expected temperature and pressures, and vessel temperature distribution using CFD

• Jet Impingement Heat Transfer on Stationary and Rotating Surfaces
• Numerical and steady state experimental study (using thermocouples and liquid crystals) on rotating surfaces with heat transfer enhancement features for application in rotating heat sinks, gas turbine disks, automobile.
• Flow measurements using orifice meter, differential manometer and pressure transducer
• Computational study on single jet impingement heat transfer for various lobe-shaped nozzles using Ansys CFXInternal cooling of gas turbine blades
• Heat transfer characterization using transient liquid crystal thermography for stationary and rotating blades
• Achieving more uniform and enhanced heat transfer rate using multi-pass channels and pin finsThermal Evaluation of PMA components for aircrafts

Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

• Coordinating with industrial sponsors for Capstone Senior Design
• Assisted in restructuring of the course
• Teaching concepts of design for manufacturing based on constrains and requirements, testing and analysis of design

Thiruvananthapuram Area, India

• Optimization of purge seals for LOX turbopump
• Computational analysis of hydrodynamic forces and leakage assessment using ANSYS Fluent
• Providing modified design along with 3D modelling
• Design modification of LOX Turbopump for operation in a LOX-LCH4 system

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, Mechanical Engineering

Master Of Technology (M.Tech.), Cryogenics & Vacuum Technology

Bachelor Of Engineering (B.E.), Mechanical Engineering

Ssc, General