Research Interests
Renston Fernandes currently works in the research of fuels/e-fuels in an Internal Combustion engine. Renston has been actively involved towards research and development towards the environment and has carried research around the realms pertaining to Infrastructure, Innovation, and Sustainability.
Some of his research carried out were “Experimental Investigation of a cycle by cycle fluctuations in a 4 stroke SI engine using gasoline-ethanol blends” and “Energy from Wastewater - An Economic Assessment of Wastewater in skyscrapers”.
He has also guided 3 projects at an Undergraduate level :
1. “Experimental Investigation Of Cycle By Cycle Fluctuations in a 4 Stroke SI Engine using Gasoline – Butanol blends”.
2. “Experimental Investigation of Performance parameters Using HFO blended with Cooking Oil”. (Funded by KSCST, Karnataka (2017-18))
3. “Conversion of Waste plastic into fuel using Heliostat” (Funded by KSCST, Karnataka (2016-17) ).
Selected Publications
“Experimental Investigation Of Cycle By Cycle Fluctuations in a 4 Stroke SI Engine using Gasoline – Ethanol blends”
Renston Jake Fernandes
NATIONAL CONFERENCE ON RENEWABLE ENERGY TECHNOLOGY , 2017 (ISBN: 978-93-86256-57- 7).
Conference Proceedings
Education
M.Sc, Engineering Business Management, University of Sussex, United Kingdom, 2020
M.Tech , Energy Systems Engineering, NMAMIT, India, 2016
B.E, Mechanical Engineering, Sahyadri College of Engineering and Management, India, 2014
Professional Profile
2020 - 2021 : Senior HR Associate (ERC) , Amazon , India
2016 - 2018 : Assistant Professor, Srinivas Institute of Technology, Mangalore , India
Awards
1.Funding obtained from KARNATAKA STATE COUNCIL FOR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY in the year 2017-2018 for guiding the project titled “Experimental Investigation of Performance parameters Using HFO blended with Cooking Oil”.
2.Funding obtained from KARNATAKA STATE COUNCIL FOR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY in the year 2016-2017 for guiding the project titled “Conversion of Waste plastic into fuel using Heliostat”.
Research Interests Keywords
Spark-ignition Engines
e-Fuels
Combustion Technology
Powercharging
