Mechanical Engineering Research & Consultancy

Sl. No. Name of the funding agency and Scheme Project Title Year of Funding Duration
(years)
Amount Sanctioned
(In Lakhs)
Status completed/ ongoing PI/Co-PI
1 AICTE
(TAPTEC)
Manufacture of wear resistant components from particulate reinforced composites 1999 3

12.00

Completed

Dr. B. B. Pani
2 DST
(SERC)
Design, Development and Fabrication of a CVD set-up for diamond coating on cemented carbide cutting tool inserts for machining non-ferrous materials 2007 3

18.36

Completed

Dr. S. K. Sarangi
3 DST
(FIST)
Development of Mechanical Engineering Laboratories 2008 5

67.57

Ongoing

HOD
4 AICTE
(RPS)
Characterization of Hot Filament Chemical Vapour Deposition (HFCVD) diamond coated carbide inserts 2008 2

5.50

Completed

Dr. S. K. Sarangi
5 AICTE
(RPS)
Biasing and Nucleation study by addition of metal powders on growth of diamond by Hot Filament Chemical Vapor Deposition (HFCVD) method on cemented carbide inserts 2009 3

6.49

Completed

Dr. S. K. Sarangi
6 AICTE
(MODROB)
Modernization of  Material Research Laboratory 2010 1.5

7.56

Completed

HOD/Dr. S. K. Sarangi
7 AICTE
(RPS)
Development of nano/ultranano diamond coating on cemented carbide inserts by Hot Filament Chemical Vapor Deposition (HFCVD) method 2012 2

14.10

Ongoing

Dr. S. K. Sarangi
8 CSIR-ERD-2013 Development of NCD and UNCD diamond coatings and their characterization on cemented carbide inserts 2013 3

21.92

Ongoing

Dr. S. K. Sarangi
9 DRDO-2014 Development of ultrasonic absorbent composite material using date palm leaf fiber 2014 3

7.358

Ongoing

Dr. J. R. Mohanty
10 UGC-MRP-2013 Development of a high vacuum brazing furnace for joining metals to ceramics 2015 3

14.97

Ongoing

Dr. S. K. Sarangi

Major Equipments:

  1. Universal Testing Machine- Instron, USA, Model 3382 (Rs.30.00 lakhs)
  2. Piezo Electric Force Dynamometer-Kistler, Swizerland (Rs.25.00 lakhs)
  3. CVD Diamond Coating Set-up (Rs.20.00 lakhs)
  4. Wear and Friction Monitor (Rs.6.00 lakhs)
  5. Optical Inverted Metallurgical Microscope- Olympus, Japan (Rs.5.00 lakhs)
  6. Optical Upright Metallurgical Microscope- Nikon, Japan (Rs.4.00 lakhs)
  7. Microprocessor Based Temperature Controlled Sintering Furnance (Rs. 2.80 lakhs)
  8. Microbalance Kern, Germany (Accuracy upto 10-4 grams) (Rs. 1.08 lakhs)
  9. Wirecut Electrode Discharge Machine (Rs. 25 lakhs)