IITKGP

Responsibilities

  • Assistant Warden(Welfare), Visveswaraya Guest House
  • Nodal Officer, IUINDRR-NIDM

Research Areas

  • Fire Safety Engineering
  • Smart Firefighting Systems
  • Ergonomics & Industrial Safety
  • Process Safety
  • Safety Engg, Management, & Analytics
My research interests are Fire Safety EngineeringIndustrial Safety, Process Safety, Environment Safety, Engineering Education, etc.

My short-term plan for research consists of
1. Establishing a research facility for fire safety solutions
2. Designing and developing an AI-powered firefighting system with base injection for large storage tank fires
3. Building a novel smog tower for cleaning the air
4. Improving atomization efficiency of the nozzles in water mist systems
5. Developing tiny novel matchsticks ensuring less consumption of wood
6. Performance-based fire safety
7. Vehicle engineering for safety

If you are passionate about solving the industrial safety problems and creating fruitful products, please contact me. 
 
  • Characterization of a simplex water mist nozzle and its performance in extinguishing liquid pool fire by Shrigondekar H. H., Chowdhury A. , Prabhu S. V. Experimental Thermal and Fluid Science 93 441-455 (2018)
  • Intelligent Risk Analysis in Petrochemical Processes: A Text Data Mining Approach for HAZOP Studies by Bagchi G., Shrigondekar H. H., Maiti J. International Conference on Safety, Health and Analytics-Driven Governance - (2024)
  • Characterization of solid-cone simplex mist nozzles by Shrigondekar H. H., Chowdhury A. , Prabhu S. V. Fire Safety Journal 111 102936-102936 (2020)
  • Performance by Various Water Mist Nozzles in Extinguishing Liquid Pool Fires by Shrigondekar H. H., Chowdhury A. , Prabhu S. V. Fire Technology 57 2553-2581 (2021)
  • The Effect of Surrounding Water on the Burning Rates of Pool Fires by Raj . C., Shrigondekar H. H., Dixit B. , Mukunda H. S., Prabhu S. V. Fire Technology 58 1689-1709 (2022)
  • Performance of water mist system with base injection in extinguishing small container fires by Shrigondekar H. H., Chowdhury . , Prabhu S. V. Journal of Loss Prevention in the Process Industries 71 104448-104448 (2021)
  • Local heat transfer distribution of thermally developing region in a rectangular open-cell metal foamed channel by Roge N. H., Yogi K. , Singh A. , Shrigondekar H. H., Krishnan S. , Prabhu . International Journal of Thermal Sciences 203 109138- (2024)
  • Investigations on performance of single-phase immersion cooling system by Shrigondekar H. H., Lin Y. , Wang C. International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer 206 123961-123961 (2023)
  • Influence of inclined unconfined circular air jet impingement on local heat transfer characteristics of smooth flat plate by Talapati R., Baghel K. , Shrigondekar H. H., Katti V. International Journal of Thermal Sciences 197 108848- (2023)
  • Connected Vehicle (Vehicle 360º) Command Center for Intra-plant Logistics Safety by Anand V., Satapathy A. , Suman M. , Choudhary R. , Kumar A. , Shrigondekar H. H. International Conference on Safety, Health and Analytics-Driven Governance - (2024)

Principal Investigator

  • Integration of Intelligent Technologies for Advanced Building Fire Safety Management SRIC, IIT KHARAGPUR
  • Smart Water Mist Fire-Fighting System for Storage Tank Fires Anusandhan National Research Foundation (ANRF)

Ph. D. Students

Adivi B S Srikanth

Area of Research: Safety Engineering and Analytics

Arulmozhi Ranganathan

Area of Research: Safety Engineering and Analytics

Shahaji Nagorao Dewade

Area of Research: Safety Engineering and Analytics