Experience

• Teaching: 1.5 years

Publications

Journal publications (During PhD):

• Vipin Nair, Tailor P.R, Parekh A.D (2016) Nanorefrigerants: a comprehensive review on its past, present and future. International Journal of Refrigeration 67:290–307 (Elsevier)
• Vipin Nair, Tailor P.R, Parekh A.D (2018) Water-based Al₂O₃, CuO and TiO₂ nanofluids as secondary fluids for refrigeration systems: a thermal conductivity study. Journal of the Brazilian society of Mechanical Sciences and Engineering 40: 262.  (Springer)
• Vipin Nair, Parekh A.D; Tailor P.R, (2019) Experimental investigation of the thermophysical properties of R718 based nanofluids at low temperatures. Heat and Mass Transfer 55: 2769-2784. (Springer)
• Vipin Nair, Parekh A.D., Tailor P.R (2020) Experimental investigation of a vapour compression refrigeration system using R134a/Nano-oil mixture. International Journal of Refrigeration 112: 21-36 (Elsevier)
•  Vipin Nair, Tailor P.R, Parekh A.D (2020) Performance analysis of Al₂O₃-R718 nanofluid turbulent flow through a flooded chiller tube: A Numerical investigation. Journal of the Brazilian society of Mechanical Sciences and Engineering 42:350 (Springer)

Journal publications (After PhD):

• Vipin Nair (2020) HFO Refrigerants:  A review of present status and future prospects. International Journal of Refrigeration 122: 156-170 (Elsevier)

 Conferences

• A.D.Parekh, P.R.Tailor Vipin Nair. Theoretical investigation on the thermophysical properties of R141b based nanorefrigerants- A comparative study. ISECT-2017, Dubai.
• A.D. Parekh, P. Joshi, V. Nair. Heat Transfer Enhancement Using Various R718 Based Nanorefrigerants in Air Handling Unit. Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Power Conference.FMFP-2017.
• P.R.Tailor Vipin Nair.Vapour Compression-Absorption Cascade Refrigeration System-Thermodynamic Analysis. International Conference on Heat transfer and Thermal Engineering .GENEVA,SWITZERLAND,DECEMBER 29-31,2014

Memberships

• Member of ISHRAE (Indian Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers) and IIR (International Institute of Refrigeration).

Teaching Interest

• Refrigeration and Air Conditioning
• Heat transfer
• Fluid mechanics
• Thermodynamics
• Fluid machinery  
• Solar Energy Technology.

 Research Interest

• Low GWP refrigerants
• secondary refrigerants
• Solar Cooling
• Nanofluid heat transfer and its thermophysical properties
• Vapour compression refrigeration systems.

Expertise (software/technology/machine)

• ANSYS 15.0
• Design-Expert
• MATLAB Simulink

Subjects handled

• Refrigeration and Air Conditioning
• Fluid Mechanics
• Thermodynamics
• Basic Mechanical Engineering

 FDP’s, Trainings/Certificate courses

• “ASME Section VIII: Division 1, Basic design and Fabrication of Pressure Vessels” organized by Anchor Institute cell, SVNIT, April-2013
• “Energy Conservation and Management” a Value added course organized by Anchor Institute cell, SVNIT, September 2013 to March 2014.
• “Fundamentals of Computational heat transfer and fluid flow” at Dept. of Mechanical Engineering (SVNIT) June-2014
• “Fundamentals and special topics in Fluid Mechanics” at Dept. of Mechanical Engineering (SVNIT) June-2015
• “Design of Experiments For Process Optimization” at Dept. of Mechanical Engg.(SVNIT) June-2016
• “Introduction to Matlab Programming” at Dept. of Mechanical Engineering (SVNIT) July-2016.
• “Basics and Developments in Refrigeration and Air Conditioning” at Dept. of Mechanical Engineering (SVNIT) March-2017.
• Attended ACRESERVE 2019-20 Workshop, Organized by ISHRAE Surat Chapter, December 2019.

Achievements

• Reviewer for International Journal of Refrigeration (Elsevier), Case studies in Thermal Engineering (Elsevier), International Journal of Energy research (Wiley) and International Energy Journal.
• Editorial board member for “Journal of Mechanical Engineering Research” Bilingual Publishing Co. (Singapore).
• Expert lecture delivered on “Application of nanorefrigerants and its future scope” at SVNIT during STTP on “Basics and Recent advances in Refrigeration and Air-conditioning” (March-2017)
• Expert lecture delivered on “Nanofluids and its application in refrigeration systems” at Bhagwan Mahavir College of Science and Technology, Surat (Jan-2018). 

Positions held

• Adhoc faculty at NIT Calicut from September 2020 to May-2021
• Assistant professor at Alpha college of Engineering and Technology from July-2014 to December 2014.

 Website

• https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Vipin-Nair