M K Shukla

Research Interest

• Engine performance and combustion behavior of Alcohol and Ether based fuels.
• Engine after-treatment devices.

Work Experience

Awards and Honours

• Letter of Appreciation from Indian Institute of Petroleum Dehradun in August 2013 for efforts regarding fire safety
• Best Paper Award in 7thInternational Symposium on Feedstock Recycling of Polymeric Materials (ISFR), 23-26 October 2013, New Delhi
• Award 2017 of International Society for Energy, Environment, and Sustainability
• Rashtriya Gaurav Award 2017 by India International Friendship Society.
• Young Scientist Award of Research Awards-VIRA 2017 in the field of automotive fuels and lubricants by Venus International foundation.

Selected Publications

• Water in Diesel Nanoemulsion Fuels for Diesel Engine: Combustion Properties and Emission Characteristics
  Hemant Kumar, M K Shukla, Vimalkumar
  Prospects of Alternative Transportation Fuels published by Springer (Book Chapter)
• Effect of blending alcohols on performance and exhaust of kerosene-fuelled 4 stroke genset
  MritunjayShukla, Eshansingh, Sunil Pathak
  In ‘Biofuels: Technology, Challenges and Prospects’ published by Springer (Book chapter)
• Effect of EGR on the Exhaust Gas Temperature and Exhaust Opacity in a Compression Ignition Engine
  Avinash Kumar Agarwal, Sharawn Kumar Singh, Shailendra Sinha, Mritunjay Kumar Shukla Sadhana
  Vol. 29,Part 3, June 2004,pp.275 284
• Experimental Wear Characterization of Titanium Based PVD Coatings for Automotive Applications Using Exhaust Gas Recirculation
  Avinash Kumar Agarwal, Ashish Garg, Dhananjay Kumar Srivastava, and Mritunjay Kumar Shukla
  Surface and Coating Technology, Volume 201, Issue 13, March 2007, pp 6182 6188. (ISSN # 0257 8972)
• Portable Biogas Bottling Plant: a Practical Approach for Using Biogas as Transportation Fuel in Rural Areas
  Avinash Kumar Agarwal, Mritunjay Kumar Shukla
  International Journal of Oil, Gas and Coal Technology, Volume 2, Number 4 / 2009, 379 – 388
• Performance Emission and Noise Characteristics Evaluation of n Butanol/Gasoline Blend in Constant Speed SI Engine
  EshanSingh, Mritunjay Kumar Shukla,Sunil Pathak , Vineet Sood, Nishan Singh
  International Journal of Engineering Research and Technology (IJERT), ISSN: 2278 0181, Vol. 3 Issue 11, November 2014.
• Prospects of 2,5 dimethylfuran as a fuel: physicochemical and engine performance characteristics evaluation
  Mritunjay Kumar Shukla, Eshan Singh, Nishan Singh, S K Singal,
  Journal of Material Cycles and Waste Management, July 2015, volume 17, issue 3, pp 459 464
• Heat transfer augmentation using twisted tape inserts: A review
  Varun, M.O. Garg, HimanshuNautiyal, Saurabh Khurana, M K Shukla
  Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, Volume 63, September 2016, Pages 193 225
• A K Agarwal, S Tripathy, S Sinha, M K Shukla
  L090, Proceedings of PETROTECH 2003, Vol. 2, pp. 225
• Comparative Wear Performance of Titanium Based Coatings for Automotive Applications Using Exhaust Gas Recirculation
  Avinash Kumar Agarwal, Ashish Garg, Dhananjay Kumar Srivastava, and Mritunjay Kumar Shukla
  International Conference on Superhard Coatings, Ein Gedi, Israel, 27Feb. 1 March 2006.
• Preliminary Investigation into Comparative Performance of Titanium based Coatings for Automotive Applications using Biodiesel Blend and Diesel
  Mritunjay Kumar Shukla, Avinash Kumar Agarwal, Ashish Garg
  Proceedings of Internal Combustion Engines Division, Spring Technical Conference 2006, ICES 2006 1974, Aachen, Germany, May 7 10, 2006
• Bio ethers as Transportation fuel A review
  MritunjayKumar Shukla, ThalladaBhaskar, A K Jain, S K Singaland M O Garg
  Proceedings of 5th International Conference on Biofuels, organized by Winrock International India, held at Delhi on Feb. 7 8, 2008
• Biodiesel Taxation Policies Worldwide
  Suchit Singh, Mritunjay Kumar Shukla, Sudhir Singhal
  In Proceedings of 5th International Conference on Biofuels, organized by Winrock International India, held at Delhi on Feb. 7 8, 2008
• Fuel Economy and Emission study on S.I. Vehicle Fueled by Ethanol/Gasoline Blends: Investigating the role of Viscosity” ,
  Devendra Singh”, M K Shukla, Y R Singh, S P Singh, A K Jain, and S K Singal
  Proceedings of ISFL 2008
• Experimental Investigation of Engine and Vehicular Performance and Emission of Diethyl Ether/ Diesel Blends
  Mritunjay Kumar Shukla, Kalyan Singh, Yograj Singh, I.P. Singh, A.K. Jain, S.K. Singal
  Paper N0. 805, in proceedings of PETROTECH 2009, New Delhi, 11 15 January 2009.
• Biobutanol: Potential Alternative to Gasoline
  Mritunjay Kumar Shukla*, A K Jain, S K Singal
  proceedings of 6th International Biofuels Conference organized by Winrock International India, , New Delhi, March 4 5,2009
• Cost-Benefit Analysis of Biodiesel: Is it socially viable
  M K Shukla, Bhawsinghka Amit, Suchit Singh
  proceedings of 6th International Biofuels Conference organized by Winrock International India, New Delhi, March 4 5, 2009
• Performance Characteristics of Biodiesel and Ethanol Gasoline Blend in a diesel Passenger Car,
  M K Shukla, Sunil Pathak, A K Jain, A K Aigal, S K Singal
  proceedings of Symposium on Fossil Economy to Biomass Economy, Indian Institute of Petroleum, Dehradun, 19 21 August 2009
• Study on Use of Natural Gas Hydrogen Mixtures in an Automotive Engine
  Sunil Pathak, A K Aigal, M K Shukla, Vineet Sood, ML Sharma, Yograj Singh, and S K Singal
  world Hydrogen Technologies Convention 2009 in New Delhi, India, held during August 26 28, 2009
• Studies on Use of Neat Biodiesel in an Automotive Diesel Engine for Performance and Emissions
  Wittison Kamei, I P Singh, M L Sharma, Kalyan Singh, M K Shukla, S K Singal
  Paper Number: A033 in proceedings of 7thInternational Symposium on Fuels and Lubricants, March 9 12, 2010
• Investigation of Engine and Vehicular Performance and Emission of n Butanol/Gasoline Blend
  Mritunjay Kumar Shukla, A K Jain, S K Singal
  IIP golden jubilee Symposium Biotechnology A Road Map towards Sustainable Energy, IIP Dehradun, December 10 12,2009
• Experimental Investigation of Engine Performance and Emission of n Butanol/Gasoline Blends Mritunjay Kumar Shukla, Sunil Pathak, Vineet Sood, A K Jain, S K Singal
  Paper No:20100965 In proceedings of, PETROTECH 2010
• Diethyl Ether as a Transportation Fuel
  Mritunjay Kumar Shukla, A K Jain, S K Singal
  Technical Bulletin of SIAT 2011
• Butanol/Diesel blends as an SI engine fuel: Physicochemical and performance characteristics evaluation
  M K Shukla, GD Thakre, R C Saxena, Y K Sharma, A K Jain, S K Singhal
  9th International Colloquium on fuels: Conventional and future Energy for Automobiles, Stuttgart Germany ”, January 15 17, 2013
• Investigation of Vehicular Performance and Emission from Isomers of Butanol Blended in Gasoline
  Mritunjay Kumar Shukla, Yograj Singh, Sethpal, A K Jain, S K Singal
  proceedings of 2012 Petrotech 2013, New Delhi, Paper ID 651, 14th to 17th October
• Fuel Economy of SI Vehicle Fueled by Ethanol/Gasoline Blends – Role of Engine Lubricant Viscosity
  Devendra Singh, M K Shukla, YR Singh, and Nishan Singh
  17th Asia Pacific Automotive Engineering Conference, a conference of Innovative Technology for Next Generation Mobility,  in Bangkok, Thailand Paper No.: 13APAC 0172, 1 4 April 2013
• Prospects of 2, 5 Dimethylfuran as a fuel: Physicochemical and engine performance characteristics evaluation
  Mritunjay Kumar Shukla, Eshan Singh, IrannaGogeri, Mohd Asif, SatishSingal
  7th International Symposium on Feedstock Recycling of Polymeric Materials (7th ISFR 2013) New Delhi, India, 23 26 October 2013
• Prospects of Diethyl Ether as Transportation Fuel: A Review
  Mritunjay Kumar Shukla, Sameer Sharma, Nishan Singh
  ICAEMR 2015: First International Conference on Advances in Engineering and Management Research Dehradun (Uttarakhand) India, July 19, 2015
• Prospects of 2, 5 Dimethylfuran as an Alternative Fuel: Performance Characteristics Evaluation on a 4s Motorcycle
  M K Shukla, S K Pathak, Yograj Singh, Yogesh Singh
  In Proceedings of 10th International Symposium on Fuels and Lubricants (10th ISFL 2016), New Delhi, India, 18 20 April 2016
• Optimizing the efficiency of a gasoline engine, by the onboard production of HHO gas
  Anshul Kumar, ShaswatTripathi, M K Shukla
  Power and Energy Conference, ASME International, 26 30 June 2016
• Experimental Evaluation of Manifold Injection of HHO on Performance Characteristics of Constant Speed 4 Stroke SI Engine
  ShashwatTripathi, Anshul Kumar, M K Shukla
  International Conference on Sustainable Energy and Environmental, February 26 28, 2017, Mohali
• Catalytic direct decomposition of NO” International Conference on Sustainable Energy and Environmental
  M K Shukla, T Bhaskar, Atul Dhar
  February 26 28, 2017,Mohali
• Recycling and reducing the use of platinum group metals (PGM) in catalytic converters
  M K Shukla, ThalladaBhaskar, AtulDhar, ShashwatTripathi
  4th 3R International Scientific Conference on Material Cycles and Waste Management, March 8 10, 2017, New Delhi