STAFF PROFILE
Professor Abhijit Date
Position:
Professor
College / Portfolio:
STEM College
School / Department:
STEM|School of Engineering
Phone:
+61399250612
Email:
abhijit.date@rmit.edu.au
Campus:
Bundoora East
Contact me about:
Research supervision
Abhijit Date's areas of interest are engineering thermodynamics, heat and mass transfer, mechanical design and sustainable energy systems. His research is focused in the areas of water desalination, waste heat recovery and utilization and renewable energy generation technologies.
Teaching activities include course coordination and delivery of,
- Applied Thermodynamics
- Thermal-Fluid System Design
- Introduction to Engineering Design
Research activities include,
- PhD and Master by research supervision
- Industry consultation
- Member of editorial team high impact international journals
- PhD, RMIT, 2009
- Certificate of training and assessment, 2009
- BE(Mech), University of Mumbai, India, 2001
- Professor, Jan 2024 – to present, School of Engineering, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia
- Associate Professor, Jan 2020 – Dec 2023, School of Engineering, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia
- Senior lecturer, Jan 2016 – Dec 2019, School of Engineering, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia
- Lecturer, Jan 2014 – Dec 2015, School of Aerospace, Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia
- Visiting Fellow, Sept 2013 – Dec 2013, University of Pune, Pune, India
- IIT Madras, May 2013 – July 2013, Chennai, India
- Post Doctorate Research Fellow, April 2010 to Dec 2013, RMIT University, School of Aerospace, Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, Melbourne, Australia
- Teacher / Program coordinator, Feb 2009 to April 2010, RMIT University, School of Engineering, Melbourne, Australia
- Research Assistant, Nov 2004 to Jan 2009, RMIT University, School of Aerospace, Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, Melbourne, Australia
- Engineer (Design), August 2002 to Jan 2004, Zigma Engineering, Pune, India
- Graduate Trainee Engineer, August 2001 to August 2002, Eaton Hydraulics Pvt. Ltd., Pune, India
- Zhang, X.,Koirala, R.,Pramanik, B.,Fan, L.,Zhang, Y.,Date, A.,Jegatheesan, V. (2024). Performance of membrane distillation assisted crystallization and crystal characteristics for resource recovery from desalination brine In: Desalination, 574, 1 - 13
- Koirala, R.,Ve, Q.,Date, A.,Inthavong, K.,Akbarzadeh, A. (2023). Influence of inlet pressure and geometric variations on the applicability of Eductor in low temperature thermal desalinations In: Journal of King Saud University - Engineering Sciences, 35, 137 - 147
- Koirala, R.,Ve, Q.,Rupakheti, E.,Inthavong, K.,Date, A. (2023). Design Enhancement of Eductor for Active Vapor Transport and Condensation during Two-Phase Single-Species Flow In: Energies, 16, 1 - 22
- Zhang, X.,Koirala, R.,Pramanik, B.,Fan, L.,Date, A.,Jegatheesan, J. (2023). Challenges and advancements in membrane distillation crystallization for industrial applications In: Environmental Research, 234, 1 - 14
- Zhang, X.,Koirala, R.,Date, A.,Jegatheesan, V. (2022). Modelling and simulation of flux prediction and salinity variation in direct contact membrane distillation for seawater desalination and brine treatment In: Desalination, 540, 1 - 13
- Koirala, R.,Ve, Q.,Rupakheti, E.,Inthavong, K.,Date, A. (2022). Performance Analysis of an Eductor-Based Membrane Distillation Unit In: Water, 14, 1 - 19
- Erinofiardi, E.,Koirala, R.,Shiwakoti, N.,Date, A. (2022). Sustainable Power Generation Using Archimedean Screw Turbine: Influence of Blade Number on Flow and Performance In: Sustainability, 14, 1 - 25
- Koirala, R.,Zhang, X.,Rupakheti, E.,Inthavong, K.,Date, A. (2022). Performance Study of Eductor with Finite Secondary Source for Membrane Distillation In: Energies, 15, 1 - 19
- Velardo, J.,Singh, R.,Long, P.,Kajtaz, M.,Date, A. (2022). A model based on analytical spreading relations for predicting the thermal performance of vapour chambers in thermal management solutions In: International Journal of Thermal Sciences, 185, 1 - 14
- Date, A.,Linh, V.,Zhang, F. (2022). Embedding career development learning, empowering students, and discouraging plagiarism In: Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Teaching, Assessment and Learning for Engineering, Hong Kong/Virtual, 04/12/202 - 07/12/2022
Note: Supervision projects since 2004
11 PhD Current Supervisions and 2 Masters by Research Current Supervisions26 PhD Completions and 2 Masters by Research Completions
Renew energy namely hydro-electric turbines, concentrated solar PV and solar thermal systems, solar desalination, low temperature heat engines, geothermal desalination and power generation and solar chimney.
- Building and empowering intersectional groups in STEM. Funded by: Department of Industry, Science, Energy and Resources Grant from (2023 to 2025)
- Improved PV/solar thermal pool heating systems. Funded by: Innovation Connections grant - Cat 1 from (2023 to 2024)
- RACE for 2030 CRC Project - Techno-economic feasibility study of Mechanical Vapour Recompression for improving Energy Efficiency in Meat Rendering (Fast Track Project Agreement). Funded by: Race for 2030 Limited CRC - Competitive from (2023 to 2024)
- Opportunity Assessment: B3 Electrification and renewables to displace fossil fuel process heating. Funded by: Race for 2030 Limited CRC - Competitive from (2021 to 2021)
- Sustainable water management system for water desalination and agricultural irrigation independent of electric grid. Funded by: Australia-India Strategic Research Grant Pre-2014 - Round 8 from (2015 to 2017)