Sastry Munukutla, Ph.D.
Director, Center for Energy Systems Research/ Professor, Mechanical Engineering

Office: Prescott Hall 409
Phone: (931) 372-3628
Fax: (931) 372-6369
E-mail: smunukutla@tntech.edu

Degrees:
B.S. (Mathematics) - Andhra University, India, 1957
B.S. (Electrical Engineering) - Andhra University, India, 1961
M.S. (Aeronautical Engineering) - Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India, 1963
Ph.D. (Mechanical Engineering) - University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, 1981

Professional Expertise: Fluid/Thermal Sciences, Power Plant Performance Monitoring, Scale Model Studies, Turbulence Measurement

Recent Works/Projects Accomplished:

1. "Modeling of the Performance of a Coal-Fired Power Plant in Real-Time" (with R. Craven, Paper accepted for presentation at The Fifth IASTED International Conference on European Power and Energy Systems, Benalmadena, Spain, June 15-17, 2005
2. "Field Experience of On-Line Heatrate Monitoring of Coal-Fired Units," (with R. Craven), Presented at EPRI Heatrate Improvement Conference, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, January 25-27, 2005
3. "Numerical and Experimental Study of Pressure Drop reduction in a Power Plant Stack", (with Murty Lakshmiraju, Jie Cui, and Steve Idem) Paper No. IMECE 2004-61937, Presented at ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and R&D Expo, Anaheim, California, November 13-19, 2004
4. "On-Line Coal Analyzer Based on CEMS Data" Paper presented at International On-Line Coal Analyzer Technical Conference, St. Louis, Missouri, November 8-10, 2004
5. "Real-Time Performance Monitoring of a Lignite Fired Power Plant" Paper presented at 19th International Conference on Lignite, Brown, and Subbituminous Coals, Billings, Montana, October 12-14, 2004
6. "A General Discrete Filtration Model with Applications to Sieving" (with Wilson Davis and John Peddieson) Fluid/Particle Separation Journal, Vol 16, November 1, 2004, pp 53-67
7. "Real-Time Boiler Performance and Greenhouse Gas Monitoring Technology with Applications," with Li Daolin, paper presented at U.S.—China Industrial Boilers Workshop, June 10-11, 2004, Beijing, China.
8. "Stack Scale Model Study for Improved Pressure Drop and Velocity Profile," with Steve Idem, paper presented at EPRI CEM User’s Group Meeting, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, May 3-7, 2004.