Projects
Earth-Air Cooling for the community-based System- A Case Study
- Conducted a thorough survey of the Budhanilkantha building in Kathmandu to accurately assess the energy needs for cooling during the summer season.
- Design the cooling solution, which involves creating a heat exchanger that utilizes geothermal energy.
- Simulating room environments to monitor temperature variations.
Authors: Ramesh Bhandari, Dipendra Raj Giri, Barun Nepal
Year: 2022-2023
Study and Optimization of back pressure of automobile muffler
- Literature review of various optimization methodologies and setting optimization methodology to reduce back pressure.
- Market survey of different kinds of mufflers available and design of model according to the commonality.
- Optimization of back pressure by changing various parameters.
DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4615719
Authors: Bhandari, Ramesh and Joshi, Prajwol
Year: 2021-2022
Design and Fabrication of Plastic Shredder
- Studied the impact of plastic on the environment, researched plastic waste recycling methods, calculated various design parameters required, designed a working model in Solidworks, fabricated, and demonstrated the outcome.
DOI: https://10.13140/RG.2.2.29002.13766
Authors: Barun Nepal, Abishek Ghimire, Ramesh Bhandari, Dipendra Raj Giri, Prajwol Joshi
Year: 2019-2020
Design and Fabrication of rocker bogie
- Successfully built a rocker-bogie using hands-on workshop skills and Arduino programming and proudly demonstrated the impressive outcome.
Authors: Suman Pathak, Lekhnath Gyawali, Anish Poudel, and Ramesh Bhandari
Year: 2018-2019
Design and Fabrication of Pedal-Powered Washing Machine
- Designed to simplify washing and rinsing clothes, addressing common laundry problems.
- New concept that performs washing and rinsing in one laundry cycle, comparable to automatic washing machines.
Author: Ramesh Bhandari
Year: 2018-2019
Publications
Adhikari, N., Bhandari, R., & Joshi, P. (2024). Thermal analysis of lithium-ion batteries in electric vehicles using different cooling mediums. Applied Energy, 360, 122781.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apenergy.2024.122781
- Investigation of maintaining battery temperature in electric vehicles by utilizing the cooling effect of an ethylene glycol solution.
- The research rigorously examines the interplay between ethylene glycol concentrations and cooling methods on EV battery performance. ANSYS and MATLAB, along with analytical techniques, were used for this project.
