Dr. Rajesh Patel received his first degree in Mechanical Engineering from S P University, Vallabh Vidyanagar in September, 1999 and second degree in Thermal Science from M S University, Vadodara in November 2002. He completed PhD study from New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA in May 2011. He has vast teaching experience working with growing engineering institutes and research experience at Particulate Multiphase Flow Laboratory at New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA.

Dr. Rajesh Patel is currently involved in teaching engineering thermodynamics and fluid mechanics. Currently, his research work is focused on mechanistic modeling of multiphase flow hydrodynamics couple catalytic reaction in solids laden riser reactors.

Specialization: Fluid Mechanics, Heat and Mass Transfer, Multiphase Flow

Research Area:

• Particulate multiphase flow
• Modeling of nonuniform gas-solid flow structure, heat and mass transfer and catalytic reaction in Fluid Catalytic Cracking (FCC) process

Publications:

Journal Paper
1.       Chao Zhu, You Jun, Rajesh Patel, Dawei Wang, Teh C. Ho            “Interactions of Flow and Reaction in Fluid Catalytic Cracking Risers”             AIChE Journal, 2010.

2.        Jun You, Rajesh Patel, Dawei Wang, Chao Zhu, “Role of Inter-particle            Collision on Solids Acceleration in Risers”, Particuology, 8: 13-18,            2010.

Conference Paper

• Rajesh Patel, Dawei Wang, Chao Zhu, Teh C. Ho, “Coupling of Hydrodynamics, Vaporization and Reaction with Liquid Spray Injection into a High-Temperature Gas-Solid Reactor”, Proceedings of the ASME/JSME 2011 8th Thermal Engineering Joint Conference, March 13-17, 2011, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA.
• Rajesh Patel, Raivat Patel, Chao Zhu, Chao-Hsin Lin, “Flushing of Non-Condensable Gases by Saturated Steam”, Proceedings of the ASME/JSME 2011 8th Thermal Engineering Joint Conference, March 13-17, 2011, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA.
• Pengfei He, Rajesh Patel, Chao Zhu, Chao-Hsin Lin, “Cooling-Induced Depressurization of a Steam-Filled Chamber”, Proceedings of the ASME/JSME 2011 8th Thermal Engineering Joint Conference, March 13-17, 2011, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA.
• Rajesh Patel, Dawei Wang, Chao Zhu, “Coupling of Hydrodynamics and Catalytic Reaction in Core Flow of Riser Reactors”, AIChE Annual Meeting, Nashville, TN on November 10, 2009.
• Jun You, Rajesh Patel, Dawei Wang, Chao Zhu, “Hydrodynamic Modeling of Gas-solids Riser Flows”, AIChE Annual Meeting: Philadelphia, PA on November 17, 2008.
• Rajesh Patel, Hasit Parikh, “Energy Auditing & Conservation of a Paper Mill” at BIT on 35th ISTE Convection, 2007.