People
| Name | Dr. Samir S. Khirwadkar |
Designation: | Scientific Officer-H, Head, High Temperature Technologies Division (HTTD), IPR. | |
E-mail Id: | sameer AT ipr.res.in | |
Contact No: | Ph.No: +91-79-2396 2073, (Annu net -792 & 2073) | |
Fax: | +91-79-2396 2277 | |
Area of work: | Design - Development - Testing of Divertors & FirstWall Components (Plasma Facing Components) for thermo-nuclear plasma fusion devices / reactors such as Tokamaks. This includes scientific and engineering computations & simulations, engineering design and analysis of components, development and testing of materials - material joining processes - components, fabrication, assembly and testing of components, set up various destructive and non-destructive test facilities needed for testing of materials & components. |
| Name: | Dr. K.P. Singh |
Designation: | Scientific Officer-F (Physics) | |
E-mail Id: | kpsingh AT ipr.res.in | |
Contact No: | Ph.No: +91-79-2396 2107 | |
Area of work: | Work area involves the development of joining techniques for PFCs in ITER-like tokamaks and DEMO divertors, including W/WL10, WL10/SS, SS/CuCrZr, and WCu/CuCrZr joints using diffusion bonding and vacuum brazing, material testing using the Gleeble 3800 system, and fabrication and qualification of mockups (such as water-cooled dome, reflector plate, and tungsten monoblock), metallography, mechanical testing, and thermal fatigue evaluation, thermal and electrical property measurements using laser flash analysis and four-probe resistivity methods, coating using RF magnetron sputtering of materials such as W, Cu, Cr, and graphite on selected substrates, and development of plasma gun electrodes for thermal spray coating applications. Currently involved in the development and characterization of SiC-coated PFCs in collaboration with BARC. |
| Name: | Mr. Sunil M. Belsare |
Designation: | Scientific Officer-F (Electronics / Instrumentation ) | |
E-mail Id: | belsare AT ipr.res.in | |
Contact No: | Ph.No: +91-79-2396 4015 | |
Area of work: | Overall operation and safety aspects of High Heat Flux Test Facility (HHFTF). Development and operation of data acquisitions and control system of HHFTF. Operation and programming of vacuum brazing furnace to carry brazing/casting experiments for the development of Plasma Facing Components. Calibration of contact/ non-contact type high temperature measuring instruments till 3000 °C. |
| Name: | Alpesh Patel |
Designation: | Scientific Officer-F (Mechanical) | |
E-mail Id: | akpatel AT ipr.res.in | |
Contact No: | Ph.No: +91-79-2396 4112/2187 | |
Area of work: | Operation and maintenance of Gleeble 3800 system. Material development and material characterization related work using Gleeble 3800 system. Development of material joining technology for plasma facing components. |
| Name: | Rajamannar Swamy |
Designation: | Scientific Officer-F (Mechanical) | |
E-mail Id: | rajamannar AT ipr.res.in | |
Contact No: | Ph.No:+91-79-2396 4420/2239 | |
Area of work: | Operation of HHF test vacuum chamber, Electron beam system, water circulation systems. High heat flux (HHF) testing of plasma facing components, Development of High pressure high temperature water circulation system. |
| Name: | Shailesh Kanpara |
Designation: | Scientific Officer-E (Metallurgy) | |
E-mail Id: | skanpara AT ipr.res.in | |
Contact No: | Ph.No:+91-79-2396 4420/2239 | |
Area of work: | Development of Plasma Facing Materials for ITER like Tokamak, Coating technology development for Divertor and First wall application of Tokamak, Welding technology development, Materials Characterization and testing . |
| Name: | Kedar Satish Bhope |
Designation: | Scientific Officer-E (Applied Physics) | |
E-mail Id: | kedar AT ipr.res.in | |
Contact No: | Ph.No:+91-79-2396 4420/4156 | |
Area of work: | Development of Non-Destructive testing Techniques and Facility for Divertor Plasma Facing Materials, Components and joints. Development Diagnostics for High Heat Flux Testing of PFCs. Quality Evalution for PFCs using NDT techniques. |
| Name: | Dr. Mayur Harshadbhai Mehta |
Designation: | Technical Officer-C | |
E-mail Id: | mayur AT ipr.res.in | |
Contact No: | Ph.No:+91-79-2396 2116/4420 | |
Area of work: | Study of neutron induced reactions cross-section of reactor materials with detailed covariance analysis. Associated work related with Non Destructive Techniques and its sample preparations for PFC. Operation of Ultrasonic testing and IR Thermography. |
| Name: | Priyanka Patel. |
Designation: | Scientific Assistant-D (Physics) | |
E-mail Id: | priyankapatel AT ipr.res.in | |
Contact No: | Ph.No:+91-79-2396 2239 | |
Area of work: | Operation and maintenance of the laser flash system for thermal property measurements, magnetron sputtering system for coating of materials and four-probe resistivity setup for electric property measurements. Division-related other work includes maintaining and updating the HTTD division server, the HTTD division website and the division database. |
| Name: | Prakash K. Mokaria |
Designation: | Scientific Assistant-D1 (Physics) | |
E-mail Id: | prakashk AT ipr.res.in | |
Contact No: | Ph.No:+91-79-2396 4414 | |
Area of work: | Operational and Maintenance Activity related to Vacuum Brazing Furnace, Sample preparation activity for Brazing, Testing of vacuum components and related experiments. |
| Name: | Tushar Patel |
Designation: | Scientific Assistant-D1 (Electrical) | |
E-mail Id: | tpatel AT ipr.res.in | |
Contact No: | Ph.No:+91-79-2396 4420 | |
Area of work: | Design and development of Electrical distribution power panel and power supply for various test facilities. Maintenance of electrical power distribution panel and other electrical equipments. |
| Name: | Nikunj Patel |
Designation: | Scientific Assistant-D (Mechanical) | |
E-mail Id: | pnikunj AT ipr.res.in | |
Contact No: | Ph.No:+91-79-2396 4420 | |
Area of work: | Operation & maintenance of High Pressure High Temperature Water Circulation System (HPHT WCS) in High Heat Flux (HHF) experiment.Operation and maintenance of water chillers. Assembly of test mock ups in vacuum chamber for HHF experiment. Sample preparation using metallurgical equipments. |
Name: | Sunil Kumar Agrahari | |
Designation: | Scientific Assistant-B (Mechanical) | |
E-mail Id: | sunil.agrahari AT ipr.res.in | |
Contact No: | Ph.No:+91-79-2396 2239 | |
Area of work: | Operation and maintenance of Gleeble 3800 system. Material characterization related work using Gleeble 3800 system. Development of material joining technology for plasma facing components. Making this drawing for plasma facing components. |
| Name: | Rajan Kumar |
Designation: | Scientific Officer-C (Mechanical) | |
E-mail Id: | rajan.kumar AT ipr.res.in | |
Contact No: | Ph.No:+91-79-2396 4420 | |
Area of work: | Development of Plasma Facing Materials for ITER-like Tokamak and EUROFusion DEMO Reactor, Conceptual Design of Liquid Metal Divertor, Corrosion Studies of Liquid Metals (e.g., Liquid Lithium, Liquid Tin, Liquid Sn-Li Alloy). |
