Dr. Samsher

Professor , Mechanical Engineering Department

Phone:9818883689
Email: samsher@dce.ac.in , sam6764@yahoo.com

Qualifications

Ph. D

Areas of Interest

power plant engineering

  • Educational & Professional Qualifications

Name of Institution /

Board / University

Exam / Degree

 

Year of Passing

 

Subject / Discipline

 

IIT Delhi

Ph.D

2005

Mechanical  Engineering

IIT Delhi

M.Tech

1994

Energy Studies

HBTI Kanpur

B.Tech

1987

Mechanical  Engineering

  • Details of professional experience  (Total 29+ years)

S.No

Post Held & Scale of   Pay

Office

Period

From - To

Nature of Job

 

1

Engg. Executive

Trainee (1050-1900)

NTPC Ltd.

Lodhi Road. New Delhi

 

29.8.87-31.08.88

(1 year)

Undergone Training on Power Plant

2

Engineer (1100-2000)

 

01.09. 88-31.1.92

   (3 yrs 5 months)

Operation of 200/500 MW Units

3

Assistant Director (2200-4000)/

 

National Power Training Institute, Sector-33 Faridabad-121 003, Haryana

03.02.92-24.7.97

   (5 yrs 6 months)

Training  / Developmt. of Resource Materials (CBTs)

4

Dy. Director

(10000-15200)/

 

25.7.1997-11.09.2000

   (3 yrs 2 months)

Training  / Developmt. of Resource Materials (CBTs).

5

Assistant Professor (PB4+

GP 9000 /

Pre revised, 12000-18300)

Delhi College of Engineering (DCE), Govt. of NCT of Delhi, Delhi-110042

 

12.09. 2000-30.12.2007

    &

06.06.08-11.09.08

   (7 yrs 7 months)

Teaching and Research

6

Professor

  (PB4+GP 10,000)

Dr. B.R.A. NIT Jalandhar, Punjab-144011

 

  31.12.2007-        5.6.2008

    (5 months)

Teaching and Research

7

Director,

(PB4+GP 10,000)

 

National Institute of Electronics and Information Technology, Delhi

20.02.2014-

19.02.2016

  (2yrs)

Planning, Management and Execution of Technical, Administrative and Financial activities of training centres: Gorakhpur, Lucknow, Patna, Delhi, Chandigarh, Shimla, and Ropar.

8

Professor, (PB4+GP 10,000)

 

Delhi College of Engineering (DCE), Govt. of NCT of Delhi, Delhi-110042, (Now DTU)

 

12.09.2008-19.02.2014

  (5 yrs 5 m)

       &

20.02.2016-

Till Date

 ( 1yr  1m)

Teaching and Research

 

  • Publications, : Total publication : 60
  • Present residential address : 

         DR. SAMSHER,  FLAT NO. 194, Bagwan Apartment   GH-2, Sector-28, Rohini,DELHI 110042.

          Phone : 011-27823310

  • Other details    
  1. Hounor / Awards        : 03

 (a) Consistently high performance Award

         (b) Scroll of honor on teachers day                     

                      (c) Subject prize from Institution of Engineers)

      2. Programs organised                 : 09

      3. Sponsored projects                  : 10

      4. Ph.D Guidance                        : 02  Awarded (08  in progress)

      5. M.E/ M.Tech Guidance            : 13

      6. Books                                       : 02 Authored             

                                                            : 02 Edited

                                                            : 03 Reviewed : 3

     7. Administrative Assignment:

         a) Dean,

         b) Proctor

         c) Registrar

8. Memberships of profession bodies, FIE, ISME, ISTE, SAE.

  • Publications 

Journals

1. Samsher, Lajpat Rai,  S.R.Kale, 2006, Mapping of blade surface roughness of in-service steam turbine, Journal of Institution of Engineers (Mechanical Engineering Division), 87, 30-33.

2. Samsher, 2007, Effects of Localized Roughness Over Reaction and Impulse Blades on Loss Coefficient, Journal of Power and Energy, Part A IMechE, U.K. 221,  21-32

3. Samsher, 2007, Comparison between loss coefficients of smooth, smooth-thickened, and rough-thickened, axial turbine blades’ Journal of Power and Energy, Part A IMechE, U.K, 221, 575-582.

4. Nikhil Dev, Samsher, 2010, Kachhwaha S.S, Computational Analysis of Dual Pressure Non-reheat Combined Cycle Power Plant with change in Drum Pressure, International Journal of Applied Engineering Research, 5, 

5. Samsher, 2011, Comparison between loss coefficients of rough-thickened reaction and impulse blades, Journal of Institution of Engineers (Mechanical Engineering Division),  91, 8-13.

6. Nikhil Dev, Samsher, S.S. Kachhwaha, 2012,“Graph Theoretic Assessment of Critical Component in Combined-Cycle Power Plant” International Journal of  Engineering Studies, 4(1) , p. 1-13.

7. Nikhil Dev, Samsher, S. S. Kachhwaha, Rajesh Attri, 2012 “Digraph and matrix method for assessing the role of design parameters in Gas Turbine Power Plant efficiency”  Alexandria Engineering Journal (Elsevier).

8. Nikhil Dev, Samsher, S. S. Kachhwaha, 2013, “System Modeling and Analysis of a Combined Cycle Power Plant” International journal of system assurance and management (Springer), 4(4), p.353-364

9. Nikhil Dev, Samsher, S. S. Kachhwaha, Rajesh Attri, 2013, “Exergy analysis and simulation of a 30MW cogeneration cycle” Frontiers of Mechanical Engineering (Springer), 8(2) p169-180.

10. Nikhil Dev, Samsher, S. S. Kachhwaha, Rajesh Attri, 2013, “GTA-based framework for evaluating the role of design parameters in cogeneration cycle power plant efficiency” Ain Shams Engineering Journal (Elsevier),4, p. 273-284.

11.Vinod Kumar Singoria and Samsher, 2013, Mechanism, Characterization, Pattern, and Effect of Roughness Over Turbine Bade: A Review, International Journal of Engineering and Innovative Technology, Vol.2, issue 10, pp. 190-200.

12.Subhav Jain, Suvansh Bansal, Yash Khanna, Samsher, 2013, Improvement in the performamce of a Tidal Power Plant incorporating ebbing, positive and negative pumping, international conference on production, energy and reliability, organised by Universiti Teknologi, Petronos,   Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 21-14 June 2012.  The paper was later published in “Asian Journal of Scientific Research, Vol. 6, issue 3 pp.508-517, 2013” by organisers of the conference.

13.  Vinod Kumar Singoria and Samsher, 2013, The Study of End Losses in a Three Dimensional Rectilinear Turbine Cascade, International Journal of Emerging Technology and Advanced Engineering, Vol. 3, Issue 8, pp. 782-797.

14.  Vinod Kumar Singoria and Samsher, 2013, The Study of End Losses in a Three Dimensional Rectilinear Low Speed Axial Flow Compressor Cascade, International Journal of Emerging Technology and Advanced Engineering, Vol. 3, Issue 11, pp. 330-340.

15  Vinod Kumar Singoria and Samsher, 2013, A review: Techniques and Processes for Performance Improvement of Gas and Steam Turbine Power Plants,  International Journal of Emerging Technology and Advanced Engineering, Vol. 4, pp. 85-90.

16. Nikhil Dev, Samsher, S.S. Kachhwaha  Rajesh Atri, 2014 “Development of Reliability Index for Combined Cycle Power Plant Using Graph Theoretic  Approach,  Ain Shams Engineering Journal (Elsevier),5, p. 193-203.

17.Nikhil Dev, Samsher, S.S. Kachhwaha  Rajesh Atri, 2014 “Development of Reliability Index for Cogeneration Cycle Power Plant Using Graph Theoretic  Approach, International journal of system assurance and management (Springer), 5(4), p.700-710.

18. Nikhil Dev, Samsher, S.S. Kachhwaha and Rajesh Attri, 2015,“GTA modelling of combined cycle power plant efficiency analysis”, Ain Shams Engineering Journal, 6(1), 217-237.

19. Neelam Baghel and Samsher, 2015, Computational Analysis of Effect of Particle Injection in A Rectilinear Turbine Cascade, International Journal of Science Technology & Engineering, 1(12) P.47-50.
 
20. Nikhil Dev, Rajesh Attri, Samsher (2015) “System modeling and analysis of a cogeneration cycle power plant using graph theoretic approach” International Journal of Recent advances in Mechanical Engineering (IJMECH) Vol.4, No.2, pp. 105-119

21. Jaji Varghese, Samsher, K. Manjunath, 2015 " Current trends in solar water heating - CPC an amicable alternative, a proposed distinct design" , International journal of Science, Technology and Management, Vol(4), p. 956 - 961.

22. Jaji Varghese, Samsher, K. Manjunath, 2017 " A parametric study of a concentrated integral solar water heater for domestic uses", Applied Thermal Engineering, (Elsevier), Vol(111), p.734 - 744. 

23. Jaji Varghese, Samsher, K. Manjunath, 2017 " Experimental investigation and comparison between an integrated compound parabolic domestic solar water heater with and without an air gap introduced at the arms of the CPC", International journal of Advance research and innovation, Accepted for publication

24. Jaji Varghese, Samsher, K. Manjunath, 2017, "Heat loss tests on a novel batch solar water heater with CPC reflector for households", communicated to Case studies in Thermal Engineering, (Elsevier) and status under review. 

Conferences :

25. Samsher, Sharma, D.K, 1995, Benefits of physical beneficiation of power grade coals and concepts of coal refineries, National Conference on Power India 1995, conducted by Power and Process Society of India, New Delhi, April 26-27.

26.Samsher, Lajpat Rai,  S.R.Kale,1998, Effect of blade surface roughness on the performance of steam turbines, International conference on Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Power, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India, 15-17 Dec.

27. Manoj Kumar, Samsher, 2002, Role of Hydrocarbon Refrigerant in Reducing Ozone Depletion and Global Warming, National Conference on Emerging convergent technologies and systems, India.
28. L K Behera, Samsher, Lajpat Rai, S.R.Kale, 2005, Computational Study Of The Effect Of Blade Surface Roughness On The Performance Of Steam Turbines, 14th ISME International Conference on Mechanical Engineering in Knowledge Age, Delhi college of Engineering, 12-14 Dec .

29. Mahesh Kumar,  Samsher, Chaurasia O.P, 2005, Generalized Correlations For Profile Loss In A Steam Turbine, 14th ISME International Conference on Mechanical Engineering in Knowledge Age, Delhi college of Engineering, 12-14 Dec.

30. Ankit Garg, Ankur Sharma, Amit Kaushik, Achal Singhal, Samsher, 2005, Micro Air Vehicle and its Wing Optimization, 14th ISME International Conference on Mechanical Engineering in Knowledge Age, Delhi college of Engineering, 12-14 Dec.

31.  Team Endeavor and  Samsher, Maji, S., 2005, Super mileage vehicle project, 14th ISME International Conference on Mechanical Engineering in Knowledge Age, Delhi college of Engineering, 12-14 Dec.

32. Kachhwaha S.S., and Sunil Soni, Samsher, 2005, Heat and Mass Transfer Analysis of a Counter flow Wet Cooling Tower, 14th ISME International Conference on Mechanical Engineering in Knowledge Age, Delhi college of Engineering, 12-14 Dec. 

33. Mahesh Kumar, Om Prakash, Samsher, 2005, Review Paper On Methods Of Enhancement Of Pool Boiling Heat Transfer, 14th ISME International Conference on Mechanical Engineering in Knowledge Age, Delhi college of Engineering, 12-14 Dec.

34. Ramesh S.P., Samsher, 2005, Possibility Of Adopting A Biomass Gasifier Technology For Cooking Gas For Rural Mass In India, 14th ISME International Conference on Mechanical Engineering in Knowledge Age, Delhi college of Engineering, 12-14 Dec 2005.

35. Shailendra Kumar, Mahesh Kumar, And Om Prakash, Samsher, 2005, Effect Of Knowledge Management On Organizational Growth, 14th ISME International Conference on Mechanical Engineering in Knowledge Age, Delhi college of Engineering, 12-14 Dec 2005

36.  Kachhwaha, S.S and Sunil Soni, Samsher, 2006, Comparison of Merkel, Poppe and e-NTU methods for Mechanical Draught cooling Tower Analysis, National Conference on Advances in Mechanical Engg, Engg College Kota, India, March 18-19, 2006.

37. Harkiran Singh, Samsher, Kale, S.R., Lajpat Rai,2006, A numerical study of the effect of roughness on turbine blade cascade performance, National Conference on application of CFD in Power and Industry Sector, BHEL Hyderabad, Nov 17-18.

38. Samsher  and   Lajpat Rai, 2008, Effect Of Roughness Over Performance Of Steam Turbine, International Conference on O&M of TPS, NTPC, Delhi, Feb 13-15, 2008.

39. Samsher, 2008,Theft Of MWs Through Stack But You Can Catch The Thief, 15th ISME International Conference on Advances in Mechanical Engineering, Rajiv Gandhi Technological University, Bhopal, MP, India, March 18-20..

40. Effect of Coal  Samsher, 2009, Quality and Air Leakage on Requirement of Total Air And Generation Loss, International Conference on O&M of TPS, NTPC, Delhi, Feb 13-15.

41. Mayank Garg, Pulkit Agarwal, Samsher, 2010, Decentralized integrated Energy system with Bio mass gasification, photosynthesis, MHD, Thermionic, Thermoelectric and solid oxide fuel cell, Proceeding of international conference on advances in renewable  energy, NIT Bhopal, June 24,-26, 2010.

42. Mayank Garg, Pulkit Agarwal, Samsher, 2010, Study of integrated direct energy conversion systems, International conference on renewable energy technologies 2010, University  Tenaga National, Cyberjaya Malaysia, July 6-7..

43. Amit Bhatia, Shreya Agarwal, Swamini Khurana, 2010, Optimal use of waste heat of condenser of Thermal power plant, international conference on computer and automaton Engineering organized by IEEE Singapore, February 26-28, (The work was done by UG Studetns under the guidance of Dr. Samsher).

44. Nikhil Dev, Samsher, S.S. Kachhwaha, 2010, “Modeling and Analysis of Dual Pressure Non-reheat Combined-Cycle with Change in Drum Pressures” Proceeding of international conference on advances in mechanical engineering held at SVNIT Surat, 04-06 January, p-114-118.

45. Nikhil Dev, Samsher, S.S. Kachhwaha, Sandeep Grover, 2010, “Energy and Exergy Analysis of Cogeneration  Cycle With Change in Gas Turbine Operating Parameters” Proceeding of international conference on emerging technologies for sustainable environment held at AMU Aligarh, 29-30 October, 2010, p- 412-414.

46. Gogak G.D, Samsher and Bhat A.K, 2011, Performance Analysis of Uncontrolled Thermo Siphon Loop cylindrical Parabolic Collector for making Coffee,  International Conference on Recent trends in Engineering and Technology Management, BIET Jhansi, February 26-27.

47.Arjun Mahalingam, Mayank Vaish, Shirish Agrawal, 2011, Clean Electricity Production by Solid Oxide Cell Waste Heat Recovery Boiler Arrangement in Conjunction with a Gas Turbine”, IEEE International Conference of Environmental Science and Development, Mumbai, India, (The work was done by UG Studetns under the guidance of Dr. Samsher).

48.  Nikhil Dev, Samsher, S.S. Kachhwaha, Sandeep Grover, 2011,“A Comparison of Single and Dual Pressure Steam Extraction from Steam Turbine of Combined Cycle Power Plant” Proceeding of international conference on emerging trends in Mechanical Engineering held at Thapar University Patiala, 24-26 February, p-88

49. Nikhil Dev, Samsher, S.S. Kachhwaha, Sandeep Grover, 2011, “Mathematical modeling and exergetic analysis of cogeneration cycle with change in gas turbine parameters ” Proceeding of international conference on emerging trends in Mechanical Engineering held at Thapar University Patiala, 24-26 February, p-81.

50. Nikhil Dev, Samsher, S.S. Kachhwaha, 2011, “A Study of Combustion Product Concentration on Gas Turbine Performance” Proceeding of international conference CONIAPS-2011, held at UPES, Dehradun from 14-16 June, p-172.

51. Nikhil Dev, Samsher, S.S. Kachhwaha, 2011, “Simulation of gas turbine combustion chamber for CO2 emission minimization” SOCPROS-2011, Advances in Intelligent and Soft Computing (AISC Book chapter), Vol 131, p 235-246.

52. Nikhil Dev, Samsher, S.S. Kachhwaha, Mohit, 2011 “Mathematical Modelling and Computer Simulation of a Combined Cycle Power Plant” SOCPROS-2011, Advances in Intelligent and Soft Computing (AISC Book Chapter, Springer), Vol 131, p 341-350.

53. Dipika Sharma, Samsher,  2012, Effect of Roughness on Secondary Flow, National Conference on Emerging Trends in Mechanical Engineering, June 1, at ITM University Gurgaon.

54.  Vinod Singoria, Deepika Sharma, Samsher, 2012, Effect of Roughness on Secondary Flow in a Rectilinear Turbine Cascade, National Conference on ‘Trends and Advances on Mechanical Engineering’ organized by YMCE UST Faridabad, 19th & 20th October.

55. Solar Car Team, Samsher, 2012, Solar Electric Vehicle: A Sustainable Mode of Transport, National Conference on ‘Trends and Advances on Mechanical Engineering’ organized by YMCE UST Faridabad, 19th & 20th October.

56. Nikhil Dev, Samsher, S.S. Kachhwaha, Rajesh Attri, 2012,A review of Combined cycle Power plant Thermodynamic cycles, National Conference on ‘Trends and Advances on Mechanical Engineering’ organized by YMCE UST Faridabad, 19th & 20th October.

57. M. Zunaid, Qasim Murtaza, Samsher, S.S. Kachhwaha, 2013, Theoretical study of a humidification-dehumidification desalination process using down draft parallel flow shower cooling tower, ISTE Delhi Section Convention on Technological Universitites and Institution in New Knowledge Age, Organised by DTU-Delhi, September 5-6.

58. Subhav   Jain, Samsher, 2013, Efficient Utilization of the Potential of a Tidal Site by employing Techniques such as Ebbing, Flooding & Pumping, Proceedings of International Conference on Smart Technologies for Mechanical Engineers-2013, Organised by DTU- Delhi,  October 25-26.

59. M. Zunaid, Qasim Murtaza, Samsher, S.S. Kachhwaha, 2013, Exergy and performance Analysis of Parallel Flow Shower Cooling Tower, Proceedings of International Conference on Smart Technologies for Mechanical Engineers-2013, Organised by DTU- Delhi,  October 25-26.

60. Ashish Kumar, Atulesh Dhiman and Samsher, 2013,  Numerical Simulation of Vortex Induced Vibration of a Cylinder at Different Reynolds Number,   Proceedings of International Conference on Smart Technologies for Mechanical Engineers-2013, Organised by DTU- Delhi,  October 25-26. 

61.  M. Zunaid, Qasim Murtaza, Samsher, S.S. Kachhwaha, 2013, Analysis of Air and Water Spray Interaction in Downdraft Parallel Flow Shower Cooling Tower, Proceedings of  22thNational and 11th International ISHMT-ASME Heat and Mass Transfer Conference, organized by  IIT Kharagpur, India, December 28-31. 

62. Neelam Baghel, and Dr Samsher, 2014, “Computational analysis of Rectilinear Turbine Cascade at Different Inlet Velocity conditions, Proceedings national Seminar on Thermal Power Plant performance management, organized by Jindal power Institute, Raigarh, Chhatishgarh, India, ISBN 978-93-83459-12-4@2014 Bonfiring 2014 p 82-84.

63. Vinod kumar singoria, Samsher, 2015, the study of effect of blade surface roughness on aerodynamic performance of gas turbine,  Proceedings national seminar on Prospects and challenges of electrical power industry in india, organised by Jindal Institute of Power technology, Tamnar, Raigarh (CG), February 11-12, 2015, p 26-33. 
                 
64. Nikhil Dev, Samsher, S.S. Kachhwaha, Rajesh Atrti, 2015, Analysis of flow effect in a steam power plant using graph theory,  Proceedings national seminar on Prospects and challenges of electrical power industry in india, organised by Jindal Institute of Power technology, Tamnar, Raigarh (CG), February 11-12, 2015, p 19-25. ISBN 978-93-84743-43-7

65. Salman Javed, Farhan Javed, Taha Bilal, Samsher, Tarun Mehra, 2016, Review of Formula One Aerodynamic Devices, Proceedings of Recent Advances in Mechanical Engineering, organised by Mechanical Engineering Department, DTU, December      2016, p.417-430, ISBN: 978-194523970-0.

66. Nikhil Dev, Samsher, 2016, “System Structure Development for the Analysis of flow effect in a Steam Power Plant ” National seminar on best practices for power generation, transmission and distribution,  held at Jindal Institute of power technology from 06-07 January,  p 33-46.

67. Jaji Varghese, Samsher, K. Manjunath, 2017, "Heat loss tests on a novel batch solar water heater with CPC reflector for households", communicated to Case studies in Thermal Engineering, (Elsevier) and status under review. 

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