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• Parallel tracking the conceptualization of advanced, scalable, long term projects .• Actively pitching and discussing research and process development strategies in core tech team meetings, supporting other design projects beyond defined roles

•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• Testing new product ideas which can open unexamined future opportunities while investigating the probable advantages and limitations of various process conditions.• Taking initiative to developing a VBA tool to compile, organize and plot data to save significant data-processing time and streamline data collection

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 brake discs, etc.• 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• Performance evaluation of high pressure turbine blades and low pressure turbine vanes at temperatures upto 400 °C• Performance comparision of PMA and OEM components• Transient temperature measurement using IR camera and thermocouples, flow measurements using orifice meter and continuous data acquisition through LabView• Data processing using Matlab to reduce the data to a unique don-dimensional parameters.

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