Publications

Master Dissertation:

“Combustion and Emission Behavior of Ethanol Fuelled HCCI Engine: An Experimental Investigation” at Department of Mechanical Engineering, IIT, Kanpur, 2006.

Doctoral Dissertation

“Performance, Emissions, Combustion Characterization and Close Loop Control of HCCI Engine Employing Gasoline like Fuels” at Department of Mechanical Engineering, IIT, Kanpur, 2012.

Authored Books

1. Rakesh Kumar Maurya, " Characteristics and Control of Low Temperature Combustion Engines: Employing Gasoline, Ethanol and Methanol" Springer, 2018;  ISBN 978-3-319-68508-3 (e-book), ISBN 978-3-319-68507-6 (hardcover); DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-68508-3. (link). (Amazon-India,  COM).

2.. Rakesh Kumar Maurya, " Reciprocating Engine Combustion Diagnostics:In-Cylinder Pressure Measurement and Analysis" Springer, 2019; ISBN 978-3-030-11954-6 (e-book), ISBN 978-3-030-11953-9 (Hardcover),    (link). (online)  (Amazon) (Amazon India)

Edited Books:

1. Srivastava, D.K., Agarwal, A.K., Dutta, A., Maurya, R.K. (Eds.) Advances in Internal Combustion Engine Research, Springer 2018. ISBN 978-981-10-7574-2 (link).

Book Chapters:

1.  Mohit Raj Saxena, and Rakesh Kumar Maurya, "Hydrogen Fueled Low-temperature Combustion Engines", In: Tingas, E.A. (Eds) Hydrogen for Future Thermal Engines, Springer, Green Energy and Technology. Springer, Cham. 2023. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-28412-0_13 . [link]

2. Mohit Raj Saxena, and Rakesh Kumar Maurya, “Low and Medium Carbon Alcohol Fuelled Dual Fuel Compression Ignition Engine” In: Shukla, P.C. Giacomo B., Gabriele D., Agarwal A. K. (Eds) Alcohol as an Alternative Fuel for Internal Combustion Engines, Springer, 2021.  [Link] 

3. Neeraj Kumar Yadav and Rakesh Kumar Maurya, "Numerical Investigation of Swirl and Tumble Motion in the Cylinder and Their Effect on Combustion of Gasoline–Methanol Blends in SI Engine", In: Sikarwar, B. S., Sundén, B., Wang, Q. (Eds.) Advances in Fluid and Thermal Engineering, Springer, 2021, pp 1-10, ISBN 978-981-16-0158-3. [Link]

4. Ajay Singh, Mohit Raj Saxena and Rakesh Kumar Maurya, "Investigation of Nature of Cyclic Combustion Variations in RCCI Engine" In: Gupta, A.K., Mongia, H., Chandna, P., Sachdeva, G. (Eds.) Advances in IC Engines and Combustion Technology, Springer, 2021,pp 589-598,  ISBN 978-981-15-5995-2 DOI: 10.1007/978-981-15-5996-9_46  [Link].

5. Ajay Singh, Rakesh Kumar Maurya and Mohit Raj Saxena, "Effect of Diesel Injection Timings on the Nature of Cyclic Combustion Variations in a RCCI Engine" In: Bose, M., Modi, A. (Eds.) Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Advances in Energy Research, Springer, 2020 ISBN 978-981-15-5954-9   [Link].

6. Mohit Raj Saxena, and Rakesh Kumar Maurya, “Experimental Investigation on Range of Fuel Premixing Ratio for Stable Engine Operation of Dual Fuel Engine Using Port Injection of Gasoline/Methanol and Direct Injection of Diesel”, In: Singh S., Ramadesigan V. (Eds) Advances in Energy Research, Vol. 2, Chapter 36, pp 393-403, Springer, 2020 ISBN 978-981-15-2662-6 [link]. 

7. Rakesh Kumar Maurya and Mohit Raj Saxena, (2019) “Nanoparticle Emissions in Reactivity-Controlled Compression Ignition Engine", In: In: Agarwal A., Dhar A., Sharma N., Shukla P. (eds) Engine Exhaust Particulates, Chapter 12, pp 239-266. ISBN: 978-981-13-3298-2. (link). 

8. Srivastava D.K., Agarwal A.K., Maurya R.K., Datta A. (2018) Horizons in Internal Combustion Research. In: Srivastava D., Agarwal A., Datta A., Maurya R. (eds) Advances in Internal Combustion Engine Research. Energy, Environment, and Sustainability. Springer, Singapore. ISBN 978-981-10-7574-2. [Link] 

9. Rakesh Kumar Maurya, Mohit Raj Saxena, Akshay Rathore and Rahul Yadav, “Chemical Kinetic Simulation of Syngas Fueled HCCI Engine”, In: Srivastava, D.K., Agarwal, A.K., Dutta, A., Maurya, R.K. (Eds.) Advances in Internal Combustion Engine Research, Springer 2018, pp 209-226. ISBN 978-981-10-7574-2. [Link] 

10. Mohit Raj Saxena   and Rakesh Kumar Maurya, “Characterization of Cycle to Cycle Variations in Conventional Diesel Engine Using Wavelets”, In: Srivastava, D.K., Agarwal, A.K., Dutta, A., Maurya, R.K. (Eds.) Advances in Internal Combustion Engine Research, Springer 2018, pp 135-155. ISBN 978-981-10-7574-2. [link] 

11. Rakesh Kumar Maurya and Mohit Raj Saxena, “Characterization of Ringing Operation in Ethanol Fueled HCCI Engine using Chemical Kinetics and Artificial Neural Network”, In: Srivastava, D.K., Agarwal, A.K., Dutta, A., Maurya, R.K.(Eds.) Advances in Internal Combustion Engine Research, Springer 2018, pp 43-61. ISBN 978-981-10-7574-2. [Link] 

12. Mohit Raj Saxena and Rakesh Kumar Maurya, “Performance, Combustion and Emissions Characteristics of Conventional Diesel Engine Using Butanol Blends”, In: Srivastava, D.K., Agarwal, A.K., Dutta, A., Maurya, R.K. (Eds.) Advances in Internal Combustion Engine Research,  Springer 2018,  pp 93-110. ISBN 978-981-10-7574-2. (link) 

13. Amit R. Patel, Rakesh Kumar Maurya, Prabir Sarkar, Harpreet Singh,  Himanshu Tyagi, "Biomass Gasification and Sustainability Assessment of Biomass Utilization", In: In: Kumar S., and Sani R.K. (Eds) Biorefining of Biomass to Biofuels:  Opportunities and Perception,  Springer, 2018, pp 53-85; ISBN: 978-3-319-67677-7 ; DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-67678-4_3. (link). 

14. Rakesh Kumar Maurya, Amit R. Patel, Prabir Sarkar, Harpreet Singh,  Himanshu Tyagi, "Biomass, its Potential and Applications", In: Kumar S., and Sani R.K. (Eds) Biorefining of Biomass to Biofuels:  Opportunities and Perception, Springer, 2018, pp 25-52. ISBN: 978-3-319-67677-7; DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-67678-4_2  (link) 

15. Mohit Raj Saxena and Rakesh Kumar Maurya, "Impact of Fuel Premixing Ratio and Injection Timing on Reactivity Controlled Compression Ignition Engine",  In: Agarwal A.K., De S., Pandey A., and Singh A.P. (Eds) Combustion for Power Generation and Transportation: Technology, Challenges and Prospects, Springer, 2017, pp-277-296, ISBN:978-981-10-3784-9. DOI:10.1007/978-981-10-3785-6_13. (link). 

16. Rakesh Kumar Maurya, Mohit Raj Saxena, "Investigation of Effect of Butanol Addition on Cyclic Variability in a Diesel Engine using Wavelets", In:Corchado Rodriguez, J.M., Mitra, S., Thampi, S.M., El-Alfy, E.-S. (Eds.)Intelligent Systems Technologies and Applications 2016, Springer 2016, pp 965-976, 978-3-319-47951-4; DOI:10.1007/978-3-319-47952-1_77 (Link). 

17. Rakesh Kumar Maurya and Nekkanti Akhil, Combustion Instability Analysis Using Wavelets in Conventional Diesel Engine," In: Ram M., Davim J.P. (Eds.) Mathematical Concepts and Applications in Mechanical Engineering and Mechatronics, IGI Global, USA, 2017,DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-1639-2.ch019. (Link) 

18. Rakesh Kumar Maurya, Prashant Mishra "Computational Analysis of Emissions from Gasoline HCCI Engine Using Stochastic Reactor Model" In:Krishnankutty P., Mahbub A.M, Zhan W., Majumdar S., Janardhanan S. and Vucinic D. (Eds.) Computing in Mechanical  Engineering, Research  Publishing Services, Singapore, 2016, ISBN: 978-981-09-6278-4; doi:10.3850/9789810962784-1570115407. 

19. Rakesh Kumar Maurya, “Investigation of Deterministic and Random Cyclic Patterns in a Diesel Engine using Symbol Sequence Analysis", In: Choudhary, R.K., Mandal, J.K., Auluck, N., Nagarajaram, H.A. (Eds.) Advanced Computing and Communication Technologies,       Springer 2016, pp 549-556. ISBN: 978-981-10-1023-1. (Link).

20. Rakesh Kumar Maurya, Mohit Raj Saxena, "High Efficiency Reactivity Controlled Compression Ignition Engine" Chapter 12 p.p. 313-328, In: A.K. Agarwal, S.K. Aggarwal, A.K. Gupta, A. Kushari, and A. Pandey (Eds.) Energy, Combustion& Propulsion: New Perspectives, Athena Academic, UK 2015. ISBN:9781910390290 (Link). 

21. Rakesh Kumar Maurya, Mohit Raj Saxena, Nikkanti Akhil, “Experimental Investigation of Cyclic Variation in a Diesel Engine Using Wavelets" In: Berretti S., Thampi S.M., Dasgupta S. (Eds.) Intelligent Systems Technologies and Applications, Springer 2016. pp 247-257; ISBN 978-3-319-23036-8 [Link].

Peer Reviewed / Journals:

1. Neeraj Kumar Yadav, Mohit Raj Saxena and Rakesh Kumar Maurya,  " Inhalation Toxicity Characterization of Nanoparticle and Carbonyl Emission from Conventional Diesel and Methanol/Gasoline-Diesel RCCI Engine", Accepted in Fuel, 27th Feb 2024. 

2. Ratnesh Kumar Yadav, Mohit Raj Saxena, Rakesh Kumar Maurya, "Investigation on Combustion Stability, Unregulated and Particle Emissions in RCCI Engine", SAE 2024-01-2088, SAE Technical Paper 2024. [Link].

3. Neeraj Kumar Yadav, and Rakesh Kumar Maurya,  "Numerical Investigation on Hydrogen Enrichment and EGR on In-Cylinder Soot and NOx Formation in Dual-Fuel CI-Engine", SAE 2024-01-2098, SAE Technical Paper 2024. [Link].

4. Neeraj Kumar Yadav, Mohit Raj Saxena and Rakesh Kumar Maurya,  " Environmental and cancer risk potential assessment of unregulated emissions from Methanol-Diesel dual fuel engine", SAE 2024-26-0152, SAE Technical Paper 2024. [Link]

5. Neeraj Kumar Yadav, Mohit Raj Saxena and Rakesh Kumar Maurya,  "Numerical Investigation for carcinogenicity and mutagenicity potential of PAHs emitted from hydrogen/diesel dual-fuel engine " SAE 2023-32-0049 SAE Technical Paper 2023 [Link].

6. Mohit Raj Saxena, Sahil Rana and Rakesh Kumar Maurya, " Experimental investigation on the effect of in-cylinder heat release features on particle emissions characteristics of CNG–diesel RCCI engine",  International Journal of Environmental Science and Technology, FEB 2023. doi: 10.1007/s13762-023-04811-1 . [Link]

7. Ratnesh Kumar Yadav, Mohit Raj Saxena, Rakesh Kumar Maurya, "Experimental Investigation of Cycle-to-cycle Variations in Homogeneous Charge Compression Ignition Engine Fuelled with Methanol using Wavelets", SAE 2023-01-0278, SAE Technical Paper 2023 [link].

8. Mohit Raj Saxena, and Rakesh Kumar Maurya, "Exergy Analysis and Investigation on Effect of Inlet Valve Closing Temperature and Hydrogen Enrichment in Syngas Composition in an HCCI Engine", International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, Volume 48, Issue 8, 26 January 2023, Pages 3269-3286. [Link].

9. Ajay Singh, Mohit Raj Saxena and Rakesh Kumar Maurya, "Investigating a Deterministic yet Computationally Cheap Combustion Parameter for Model Predictive Control of a CNG-Diesel RCCI Engine", Fuel, Volume 332, Part-2, 15 January 2023, 126059 . [Link]

10. Tomesh Kumar Sahu, Pravesh Chandra Shukla, Giacomo Belgiorno and Rakesh Kumar Maurya, “Alcohol fuelled compression ignition engines for sustainable transportation: A review", Accepted in Energy Sources Part A: Recovery, Utilization, and Environmental Effects,  September, 2022. [Link]

11. Mohit Raj Saxena, Shekhar Suman and Rakesh Kumar Maurya, "An Assessment of Cyclic Variations in the Air-Fuel Ratio for RCCI Engine",  SAE 2022-01-1057, SAE Technical Paper 2022 [Link].

12. Mohit Raj Saxena, Vishwajeet Ranjane and Rakesh Kumar Maurya, "Crank Angle Based Exergy Analysis of Syngas Fuelled Homogeneous Charge Compression Ignition Engine", SAE 2022-01-1037, SAE Technical Paper 2022.  [Link].

13. Sahil Rana, Mohit Raj Saxena and Rakesh Kumar Maurya and Pravesh Chandra Shukla, "Numerical Investigation on the Effect of Fuel Injection Timing on Soot Particle Size and Number Characteristics of Diesel Engine",  SAE 2022-01-1053, SAE Technical Paper 2022.  [Link].

14. Prashant Gupta, Mohit Raj Saxena, and Rakesh Kumar Maurya, "A Review on the Effect of Fuel Additives and EGR on Knocking Behavior of Spark Ignition Engine", SAE 2022-01-1004, SAE Technical Paper 2022.  [Link].

15. Ajay Singh and Rakesh Kumar Maurya, “Effects of Intake Charge Temperature and Relative Air-Fuel Ratio on the Deterministic Characteristics of Cyclic Combustion Dynamics of a HCCI Engine "  International Journal of Engine Research, May 2022.  [LINK] DOI:10.1177/14680874221106571 

16. Ajay Singh, Mohit Raj Saxena and Rakesh Kumar Maurya, "Investigation of Bifurcations in Cyclic Combustion Dynamics of a CNG-Diesel RCCI Engine", Fuel, Volume 320, 15 July 2022, 123871,  2022. [Link]

17. Ajay Singh and Rakesh Kumar Maurya, “Application of Delay Embedding and Recurrence Analysis to a Noisy Nonlinear Map for Cyclic Combustion Dynamics of SI Engines" International Journal of Engine Research, February 2022. [Link]

18. Mohit Raj Saxena, and Rakesh Kumar Maurya, "Combustion Instability Analysis of Dual-Fuel Stationary Compression Ignition Engine Using Statistical Method and Wavelet Transform",  SAE 2022-01-0462, SAE Technical Paper 2022. [Link]

19. Mohit Raj Saxena, Sahil Rana and Rakesh Kumar Maurya, " Analysis of Low and High Temperature Heat Release in Dual-Fuel RCCI Engine and its Relationship with Particle Emissions", ASME Journal of Energy Resources Technology, December 2021. [Link]

20. Sahil Rana, Mohit Raj Saxena and Rakesh Kumar Maurya, "A Review on Morphology, Nanostructure, Chemical Composition and Number Concentration of Diesel Particulate Emissions" Environmental Science and Pollution Research, August 2021. [Link]

21. Ajay Singh and Rakesh Kumar Maurya, “Experimental investigation of cyclic variation of heat release dynamics of HCCI combustion engine”, SAE 2021-01-1170, SAE Technical Paper 2021. [Link].  

22. Mohit Raj Saxena, and Rakesh Kumar Maurya and Prashant Mishra, "An Assessment of Performance, Combustion and Emissions Characteristics of Methanol-Diesel Dual-Fuel Compression Ignition engine", Journal of Traffic and Transportation Engineering, Volume 8, Issue 5, 2021,  pp-638-680, 2021. [Link]

23. Sahil Rana, Mohit Raj Saxena, and Rakesh Kumar Maurya “Development and Characterization of Aerosol Conditioning Devices for Solid Ultrafine Particle Measurement from Diesel Engines: A Review”, SAE 2021-01-0615, SAE Technical Paper 2021. [Link]  

24. Neeraj Kumar Yadav, Mohit Raj Saxena, and Rakesh Kumar Maurya, “A Review of Toxicity analysis of particulate emissions from conventional and advanced low-temperature combustion engines”, SAE 2021-01-0617, SAE Technical Paper 2021. [Link].

25. Ajay Singh and Rakesh Kumar Maurya, “Accessing the Predictabilities in Cyclic Combustion and Emission Variations in SI Engines for their Modelling and Control: A literature review”, SAE 2021-01-0464, SAE Technical Paper 2021. [Link].  

26. Mohit Raj Saxena, and Rakesh Kumar Maurya, “Influence of Fuel Injection Pressure and Injection Timing on Nano-Particle Emission in light-Duty Gasoline/Diesel RCCI Engine" Particulate Science and Technology-An International Journal, Volume 39, Issue 5, 2021,  pp-641-650. DOI: 10.1080/02726351.2020.1815257. [Link]

27. Mohit Raj Saxena, and Rakesh Kumar Maurya, “Influence of Direct Injection Timing and Mass of Port Injected Gasoline on Unregulated and Nano-particle Emissions from RCCI Engine," Fuel, Volume 282, 15 December 2020, 2020. [Link]

28. Neeraj Kumar Yadav, Mohit Raj Saxena, and Rakesh Kumar Maurya, “Numerical Investigation of in-cylinder Tumble/swirl flow on mixing, turbulence, and combustion of Methane in SI engine”, SAE 2020-01-2013,SAE Technical Paper, 2020. [link].

29. Mohit Raj Saxena, and Rakesh Kumar Maurya, "Experimental Investigation of Combustion Stability and Particle Emission from CNG/Diesel RCCI Engine", SAE 2020-01-0810, SAE Technical Paper, 2020. [link].

30. Mohit Raj Saxena, and Rakesh Kumar Maurya, "Determination of Range of Fuel Premixing Ratio in Gasoline/Butanol-Diesel DualFuel Engine for Lower Exhaust Emissions and Higher Efficiency", SAE 2020-01-1128, SAE Technical Paper, 2020. [link].

31. Mohit Raj Saxena,  Suprim Negi, and Rakesh Kumar Maurya. "Investigation of cyclic variations in air-fuel ratio, cylinder wall temperature, and residual gas fraction of a dual fuel compression ignition engine." Journal of Physics: Conference Series. Vol. 1276. No. 1. IOP Publishing, 2019.

32. Rakesh Kumar Maurya, Parth Jaggi and Mohit Raj Saxena, "Crank-angle resolved exergy analysis of Ethanol fuelled HCCI engine using newly reduced ethanol oxidation mechanism",  SAE 2018-01-1683, SAE Technical Paper, 2018. (Link) ISSN 0148-7191.  

33. Mohit Raj Saxena, and Rakesh Kumar Maurya, "Effect of Fuel Injection Strategy on Nano-particle Emissions from RCCI Engine", SAE 2018-01-1709, SAE Technical Paper, 2018. (Link) ISSN 0148-7191.  

34. Mohit Raj Saxena, and Rakesh Kumar Maurya, "Effect of butanol addition on performance, combustion stability and nano-particle emissions of a conventional diesel engine", SAE 2018-01-1795, SAE Technical Paper, 2018. (link) ISSN 0148-7191.

35. Mohit Raj Saxena, and Rakesh Kumar Maurya, " Effect of Diesel Injection Timing on Peak Pressure Rise Rate and Combustion Stability in RCCI Engine", SAE 2018-01-1731, SAE Technical Paper, 2018. (link). ISSN 0148-7191.

36. Avinash Kumar Agarwal, Akhilendra Pratap Singh, Rakesh Kumar Maurya, Pravesh Chandra Shukla, Atul Dhar, Dhananjay Kumar Srivastava, "Combustion Characteristics of a Common Rail Direct Injection Engine using Different Fuel Injection Strategies", International Journal of Thermal Sciences, Volume 134, December 2018, Pages 475-484, 2018 (link).

37. Rakesh Kumar Maurya, Mohit Raj Saxena, Rahul Yadav, and Akshay Rathore, " Numerical investigation of Syngas fueled HCCI engine using stochastic reactor model with detailed kinetic mechanism", SAE 2018-01-1661, SAE Technical Paper, 2018. (link) ISSN 0148-7191.

38. Rakesh Kumar Maurya, and Mohit Raj Saxena, "Characterization of Ringing Intensity in a Hydrogen-Fueled HCCI Engine", International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, Volume 43, Issue 19, 10 May 2018, Pages 9423–9437. DOI: 10.1016/j.ijhydene.2018.03.194    (link)

39. Rakesh Kumar Maurya, "Experimental Investigation of Deterministic and Random Cyclic Patterns in HCCI Engine using Symbol Sequence Approach"  Iranian Journal of Science and Technology, Transactions of Mechanical Engineering, March 2018. DOI: 10.1007/s40997-018-0158-9. (link)

40. Rakesh Kumar Maurya, Mohit Raj Saxena, Piyush Rai, and Aashish Bhardwaj, “Effect of Compression Ratio, Nozzle Opening Pressure, Engine Load and Butanol Addition on Particle Emissions from a Nonroad Diesel Engine"  Environmental Science and Pollution Research, Volume 25, Issue 15, pp 14674–14689, May 2018. DOI:10.1007/s11356-018-1644-8. (Link)

41. Rakesh Kumar Maurya, and Nikkanti Akhil, "Experimental Investigation on Effect of Compression Ratio, Injection Pressure and Engine Load on Cyclic Variations in Diesel Engine Using Wavelets", SAE Technical Paper, 2018-01-5007, 2018. (link) DOI:10.4271/2018-01-5007

42. Rakesh Kumar Maurya and Prashant Mishra, “Parametric investigation on combustion and emissions characteristics of a dual fuel (natural gas port injection and diesel pilot injection) engine using 0-D SRM and 3D CFD approach”, Fuel, Volume 210, 15 December 2017, Pages 900-913. DOI: 10.1016/j.fuel.2017.09.021 (link).

43. Mohit Raj Saxena and Rakesh Kumar Maurya, "Optimization of Engine Operating Conditions and Investigation of Nano-Particle Emissions from a Non-Road Engine Fuelled with Butanol/Diesel Blends",  Biofuels, Volume 11, Issue 5, Pages 543-560, 2020. DOI:  10.1080/17597269.2017.1378987. 

44. Mohit Raj Saxena and Rakesh Kumar Maurya, "Effect of Premixing Ratio, Injection Timing and Compression Ratio on Nano Particle Emissions from Dual Fuel Non-Road Compression Ignition Engine Fueled with Gasoline/Methanol (Port Injection) and Diesel (Direct Injection),  Fuel. Volume 203,1 September 2017, Pages 894–914. DOI:10.1016/j.fuel.2017.05.015 (link).

45. Avinash Kumar Agarwal, Akhilendra Pratap Singh and Rakesh Kumar Maurya, “Evolution, Challenges and Path Forward for Low Temperature Combustion Engines”, Progress in Energy and Combustion Science. Volume 61, July 2017, Pages 1–56.  DOI:10.1016/j.pecs.2017.02.001.  (Link)

46. Rakesh Kumar Maurya, and Nekkanti Akhil, "Comparative study of the simulation ability of various recent hydrogen combustion mechanisms in HCCI engines using stochastic reactor model",  International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, Volume 42, Issue 16, 20 April 2017, Pages 11911–11925. DOI: 10.1016/j.ijhydene.2017.02.155. (Link)

47. Sanghoon Lee, Chang Sik Lee, Sungwook Park, Jai Gopal Gupta, Rakesh Kumar Maurya, Avinash Kumar Agarwal, "Spray Characteristics, Engine Performance and Emission Analysis for Karanja Biodiesel and its Blends ", Energy Volume 119 (15 January 2017) Pages 138-151, DOI: 10.1016/j.energy.2016.12.043  (ISSN#0360-5442) (link)

48. Rakesh Kumar Maurya, and Nekkanti Akhil, "Development of a new reduced Hydrogen combustion mechanism with NOx and parametric study of hydrogen HCCI combustion using stochastic reactor model”, Energy Conversion and Management, Volume 132 (15 January 2017) pp.65-81; DOI:  10.1016/j.enconman.2016.11.021 (ISSN # 0196-8904) (Link)

49. Mohit Raj Saxena and Rakesh Kumar Maurya, "Effect of Butanol Blends on Nano Particle Emissions from a Stationary Conventional Diesel Engine", Aerosol and Air Quality Research, Volume 16, No. 9, Pages 2255-2266; September 2016. DOI: 10.4209/aaqr.2016.04.0144

50. Rakesh Kumar Maurya, “Estimation of optimum number of cycle for combustion analysis using measured in-cylinder pressure signal in conventional CI engine” Measurement, Volume 94, December 2016, Pages 19–25, DOI:10.1016/j.measurement.2016.07.065  [link].

51. Rakesh Kumar Maurya, and Nekkanti Akhil, "Numerical investigation of Ethanol fuelled HCCI engine using stochastic reactor model. Part 2: parametric study of performance and emissions characteristics using new reduced ethanol oxidation mechanism", Energy Conversion and Management, Volume 121, pp. 55-70, 2016, DOI:10.1016/j.enconman.2016.05.017 (ISSN # 0196-8904) (link).

52. Rakesh Kumar Maurya, and Nekkanti Akhil, “Numerical investigation of Ethanol fuelled HCCI engine using stochastic reactor model. Part 1: development of a new reduced ethanol oxidation mechanism”, Energy Conversion and Management, Volume 118, pp, 44-54, 2016. DOI: 10.1016/j.enconman.2016.03.076. (ISSN # 0196-8904) (link)

53. Avinash Kumar Agarwal, Jai GopalGupta, Rakesh Kumar Maurya, WoongII Kim, SanghoonLee, Chang Sik Lee, Sungwook Park,  “Spray evolution, engine performance, emissions and combustion characterization of Karanja biodiesel fuelled common-rail turbocharged direct injection transportation engine,” International Journal of Engine Research , Volume 17, Issue 10, pp. 1092-1107, December 2016, DOI: 10.1177/1468087416641802 (ISSN: 1468-0874). (link)

54. Rakesh Kumar Maurya, and Avinash Kumar Agarwal, “ Experimental Investigations of Particulate Size and Number Distribution in an Ethanol and Methanol Fuelled HCCI Engine”, Journal of Energy Resource Technology, Volume 137, Issue 1,  012201; DOI: 10.1115/1.4027897. (ISSN # 0195-0738) (Link)

55. Rakesh Kumar Maurya, and Avinash Kumar Agarwal, “Combustion and Emission Characterization of n-Butanol Fuelled HCCI Engine”, Journal of Energy Resource Technology, Volume 137, Issue 1, 011101;  DOI: 10.1115/1.4027898.(ISSN # 0195-0738) (Link)

56. Rakesh Kumar Maurya, and Avinash Kumar Agarwal, “Experimental investigations of performance, combustion and emission characteristics of ethanol and methanol fueled HCCI engine” Fuel Processing Technology, Volume 126, October  2014, pp. 30-48, 2014 . DOI: (ISSN # 0378-3820).doi:10.1016/j.fuproc.2014.03.031 (Link)

57. Rakesh Kumar Maurya, and Avinash Kumar Agarwal, “Effect of intake air temperature and air–fuel ratio on particulates in gasoline and n-butanol fueled homogeneous charge compression ignition engine”, International Journal of Engine Research, Volume 15(7) 789-804, October 2014, DOI: 10.1177/1468087413516617 (ISSN: 1468-0874). (link)

58. Rakesh Kumar Maurya, and Avinash Kumar Agarwal, “Particulate Morphology and Toxicity of an Alcohol Fuelled HCCI Engine”, SAE International Journal of Fuels and Lubricants, Volume 7, Issue 1, pp, 323-336, 2014, SAE 2014-01-9076. (Print ISSN: 1946-3952; Online ISSN: 1946-3960).DOI:10.4271/2014-01-9076 (Link)

59. Rakesh Kumar Maurya and  Avinash Kumar Agarwal , “Experimental Investigation of Cyclic Variations in HCCI Combustion Parameters for Gasoline like Fuels Using Statistical Methods” Applied Energy , Volume 111, November  2013, pp. 310-323, 2013. doi: 10.1016/j.apenergy.2013.05.004 (ISSN # 0306-2619). (link)

60. Rakesh Kumar Maurya, and Avinash  Kumar Agarwal, “Experimental Investigation of Close Loop Control of HCCI Engine Using Dual Fuel Approach”, Kinetically Controlled CI Combustion (including HCCI), 2013, COLL-TP-00348 (SAE 2013-01-1675), SAE International, 2013, doi:10.4271/2013-01-1675. (Link).

61. Avinash Kumar Agarwal, Dhananjay Kumar Srivastava, Atul Dhar,  Rakesh Kumar Maurya, Pravesh Chandra Shukla and Akhilendra Pratap Singh, “Effect of Fuel Injection Timing and Pressure on Combustion, Emissions and Performance Characteristics of a Single Cylinder Diesel Engine”,  Fuel, Volume 111, September 2013, Pages 374–383. doi:10.1016/j.fuel.2013.03.016, 2013 (ISSN: 0016-2361) (Link). 

62. Avinash Kumar Agarwal, Atul Dhar, Dhananjay Kumar Srivastava, Rakesh Kumar Maurya and Akhilendra Pratap Singh, “ Effect of Fuel Injection Pressure on Diesel Particulate Size and Number Distribution in a CRDI Single Cylinder Research Engine”,  Fuel,  Volume 107, May 2013, Pages 84–89, 2013 doi:10.1016/j.fuel.2013.01.077 (ISSN: 0016-2361). (Link)

63. Rakesh Kumar Maurya, and Avinash Kumar Agarwal, “Investigation on the effect of measurement errors on estimated combustion and performance parameters in HCCI combustion engine”, Measurement, Volume 46, Issue 1, pp, 80–88, 2013. doi:10.1016/j.measurement.2012.05.021 (ISSN: 0263-2241). (Link)

64. Rakesh Kumar Maurya, Dev Datt Pal, and Avinash Kumar Agarwal, "Digital Signal Processing of Cylinder Pressure Data for Combustion Diagnostics of HCCI Engine" Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing, Volume 36, Issue 1, pp. 95–109, 2013. doi:10.1016/j.ymssp.2011.07.014 (ISSN # 0888-3270). (Link)

65. Rakesh Kumar Maurya, and Avinash Kumar Agarwal, “Experimental Investigations of Gasoline HCCI Engine during Startup and Transients”,  SAE Technical Paper, SAE 2011-01-2445. doi:10.4271/2011-01-2445. . (Link)  

66. Rakesh Kumar Maurya, and Avinash Kumar Agarwal, "Effect of Start of Injection on the Particulate Emission from Methanol Fuelled HCCI Engine" SAE International Journal of Fuels and Lubricants,  Volume 4, Issue 2, pp, 204-222, 2011, SAE  2011-01-2408. doi: 10.4271/2011-01-2408 (Print ISSN: 1946-3952). (Link)

67. Rakesh Kumar Maurya, and Avinash Kumar Agarwal, “Statistical Analysis of cyclic variation of Heat release parameters in HCCI combustion of Methanol and gasoline fuel”, Applied Energy, Volume 89, Issue 1, January 2012, pp. 228-236, 2012. doi:10.1016/j.apenergy.2011.07.002 (ISSN # 0306-2619). (Link)

68. Rakesh Kumar Maurya, Dhananjay Kumar Srivastava, and Avinash Kumar Agarwal, “Experimental investigations of particulate emitted by an alcohol fuelled HCCI/ CAI combustion engine,” International Energy Journal, Volume 12, Issue 1, March, 2011, pp 29-38, 2011. (ISSN# 1513-718X). (link)

69. Rakesh Kumar Maurya, and Avinash Kumar Agarwal, “Experimental Investigation on Intake Air Temperature and Air-Fuel Ratio Dependence of Random and Deterministic Cyclic Variability in a Homogeneous Charge Compression Ignition Engine”, SAE 2011-01-1183, SAE Special Publication SP-2313, 2011. (ISBN # 978-0-7680-4752-3).

70.  Rakesh Kumar Maurya, and Avinash Kumar Agarwal, “Experimental investigation on the effect of intake air temperature and air fuel ratio on cycle-by-cycle variations of HCCI combustion and performance parameters,” Applied Energy, Volume 88, Issue 4, pp 1153-1163, 2011. doi:10.1016/j.apenergy.2010.09.027 (ISSN # 0306-2619). (Link)

71. Rakesh Kumar Maurya, and Avinash Kumar Agarwal, "Experimental Study on the Combustion and Emission Characteristics of the Ethanol fuelled Port Injected Homogeneous Charge Compression Ignition (HCCI) Combustion Engine," Applied Energy, Volume 88, Issue 4, pp 1169-1180, 2011. doi:10.1016/j.apenergy.2010.09.015 (ISSN # 0306-2619). (Link)

72. Rakesh Kumar Maurya, and Avinash Kumar Agarwal, "Experimental Investigation of Effect of Intake Air Temperature and Mixture Quality on Combustion of Methanol and Gasoline Fuelled HCCI Engine", Journal of Automobile Engineering, Proceedings of IMechE, Part-D, Volume 223, Number 11,pp 1445-1458, 2009. doi: 10.1243/09544070JAUTO1238 (ISSN # 09544070). (Link)

73. Rakesh Kumar Maurya, and Avinash Kumar Agarwal, "Experimental Investigation of cycle-by-cycle variations in CAI/HCCI combustion of Gasoline and Methanol by varying different engine operating conditions", SAE 2009-01-1345, SAE Special Publication SP-2242, 2009. doi:10.4271/2009-01-1345 (ISBN # 978-0-7680-2138-7). (link)

Refereed International Conferences/ Published in Proceedings:

1. Sahil Rana, Mohit Raj Saxena and Rakesh Kumar Maurya, "Experimental investigation on characterization of solid soot particle emissions using insitu developed thermodesorption system from RCCI Engine",  Paper NO- SEEC-2023-150, 8th International Conference on Sustainable Energy and Environmental Challenges (SEEC-2023) 04-06 December, 2023, NIT Jaipur, India.

2. Neeraj Kumar Yadav, Mohit Raj Saxena and Rakesh Kumar Maurya,  "Assessment of Lung Loading of Nanoparticle Emissions from Conventional Diesel and Methanol Diesel-RCCI Engine ", 9th International Conference on Advances in Energy Research (ICAER), December 2023. IIT Bombay, Mumbai, India. []

3.  Ratnesh Kumar Yadav, Mohit Raj Saxena and Rakesh Kumar Maurya,  "Characterizations of Cyclic Combustion Variations in RCCI Engine using Multifractal Detrended Fluctuations Analysis", 9th International Conference on Advances in Energy Research (ICAER), December 2023. IIT Bombay, Mumbai, India. []

4. Neeraj Kumar Yadav, Mohit Raj Saxena and Rakesh Kumar Maurya,  " Environmental and cancer risk potential assessment of unregulated emissions from Methanol-Diesel dual fuel engine", SAE 2024-26-0152, Symposium on International Automotive Technology (SIAT 2024), Pune, 2024. [Link]

5. Neeraj Kumar Yadav, Mohit Raj Saxena and Rakesh Kumar Maurya,  "Numerical Investigation for carcinogenicity and mutagenicity potential of PAHs emitted from hydrogen/diesel dual-fuel engine " SAE 2023-32-0049 JSAE/SAE Powertrains, Energy & Lubricants International Meeting. Japan. 2023.  [Link]

6. Neeraj Kumar Yadav and Rakesh Kumar Maurya, " Numerical Investigation of Swirl and Tumble Motion in the cylinder and Their Effect on Combustion of Gasoline - Methanol Blends in SI Engine, " 2nd International Conference on Future Learning Aspects of Mechanical Engineering (FLAME - 2020), 5th – 7th August 2020.

7. Mohit Raj Saxena, and Rakesh Kumar Maurya, “Influence of Fuel Injection Pressure and Injection Timing on Nano-Particle Emission in Gasoline/Diesel RCCI Engine", 7th International Conference on Advances in Energy Research (ICAER), December 2019. IIT Bombay, Mumbai, India.

8. Ajay Singh, Rakesh Kumar Maurya and Mohit Raj Saxena, "Effect of Diesel Injection Timings on the Nature of Cyclic Combustion Variations in a RCCI Engine"  7th International Conference on Advances in Energy Research (ICAER), December 2019. IIT Bombay, Mumbai, India.

9. Ajay Singh, Mohit Raj Saxena and Rakesh Kumar Maurya, "Investigation of Nature of Cyclic Combustion Variations in RCCI Engine", National Conference on Internal Combustion Engines and Combustion (NCICEC 2019), November 1-4, 2019, National Institute of Technology Kurukshetra, India. [link]

10. Mohit Raj Saxena, Suprim Negi and Rakesh Kumar Maurya, "Investigation of cyclic variations in air-fuel ratio, cylinder wall temperature, and residual gas fraction of a dual fuel compression ignition engine,"International Conference on Recent Advances in Fluid and Thermal Sciences, December 5-7, 2018, Dubai, U.A.E. [Link]

11. Mohit Raj Saxena, Rakesh Kumar Maurya, and Geo Alex, "Comparative study on characteristics of compression ignition engine in dual fuel mode employing gasoline/butanol and diesel", Paper NO- SEEC-2018-141, International Conference on Sustainable Energy and Environmental Challenges (SEEC-2018) 01 Jan – 03, January, 2018, Indian Institute of Science (IISc), India. 

12. Mohit Raj Saxena, and Rakesh Kumar Maurya, “Experimental Investigation on Range of Fuel Premixing Ratio for Stable Engine Operation of Dual Fuel Engine using Port Injection of Gasoline/Methanol and Direct Injection of Diesel”, International Conference on Advances in Energy Research (ICAER), December 2017. IIT Bombay, Mumbai, India. [Link]

13. Rakesh Kumar Maurya, Mohit Raj Saxena, Rahul Yadav and Akshay Rathore,  "Comparative analysis on simulation ability of several syngas reaction Mechanisms in HCCI engine", Paper NO-SEEC-2017-123 , International Conference on Sustainable Energy and Environmental Challenges (SEEC-2017) 26 – 28 February, 2017, Mohali, India.

14. Mohit Raj Saxena and Rakesh Kumar Maurya, "Investigation of cyclic variability in a non road diesel engine fueled with Diesel/butanol blends", Paper NO-SEEC-2017-60 , International Conference on Sustainable Energy and Environmental Challenges (SEEC-2017) 26 – 28 February, 2017, Mohali, India.

15. Rakesh Kumar Maurya and Mohit Raj Saxena, "Investigation of Effect of Butanol Addition on Cyclic Variability in a Diesel Engine using Wavelets", Second International Symposium on Intelligent Systems Technologies and Applications (ISTA’16) September 21-24, 2016 Jaipur, India. (LMNIT).

16. Rakesh Kumar Maurya, “Investigation of Deterministic and Random Cyclic Patterns in a Diesel Engine using Symbol Sequence Analysis",  9th International Conference on ‘Advanced Computing and Communication Technologies' ICACCT™-2015, 27-29 November 2015, Panipat 132103 INDIA. 

17. Rakesh Kumar Maurya, Prashant Mishra "Computational Analysis of Emissions from Gasoline HCCI Engine Using Stochastic Reactor Model" International Conference on Computing in Mechanical Engineering (ICCME’15), August 10-13, 2015, Kochi, Kerala, India.

18. Rakesh Kumar Maurya, Mohit Raj Saxena, Nikkanti Akhil, “Experimental Investigation of Cyclic Variation in a Diesel Engine Using Wavelets” International Symposium on Intelligent Systems Technologies and Applications (ISTA’15), August 10-13, 2015, Kochi, Kerala, India. 

19. Rakesh Kumar Maurya, and Avinash Kumar Agarwal, “Experimental Investigation of Close Loop Control of HCCI Engine Using Dual Fuel Approach”, SAE World Congress 2013 (2013-01-1675) April, 2013, Detroit, USA.

20. Rakesh Kumar Maurya, and Avinash Kumar Agarwal, “Experimental Investigation on Intake Air Temperature and Air-Fuel Ratio Dependence of Random and Deterministic Cyclic Variability in a Homogeneous Charge Compression Ignition Engine”, SAE World Congress 2011 (2011-01-1183) April, 2011, Detroit, USA.

21. Rakesh Kumar Maurya, and Avinash Kumar Agarwal, "Experimental Investigation of cycle-by-cycle variation of Heat release parameters in HCCI combustion of Methanol and gasoline fuel", International  conference and Exhibition on Advances in Energy Research, December, 2009, IIT Bombay, Mumbai, India.

22.  Rakesh Kumar Maurya, and Avinash Kumar Agarwal, "Experimental Investigation of cycle-by-cycle variations in CAI/HCCI combustion of Gasoline and Methanol by varying different engine operating conditions", SAE World Congress 2009 (2009-01-1345) April, 2009, Detroit, USA.

23. Rakesh Kumar Maurya, Dhananjay Kumar Srivastava, and Avinash Kumar Agarwal, “Experimental investigations of particulate emitted by an alcohol fuelled HCCI/ CAI combustion engine,” International Conference on Energy Security and Climate Change: Issues, Strategies, and Options, ESCC-08, August 2008, Bangkok, Thailand.

24.  Rakesh Kumar Maurya, Avinash Kumar Agarwal, “Combustion and Emission Behavior of Ethanol Fuelled Homogeneous Charge Compression Ignition (HCCI) Engine”, SAE Paper No. 2008-28-0064, SAE INDIA International Mobility Conference-2008, pp 440-445, January 2008, New Delhi, India.

Presented International Conferences but not published in Proceedings: 

25. Dhananjay Kumar Srivastava, Atul Dhar, Rakesh Kumar Maurya, Akhilendra Pratap Singh, and Pravesh Chandra Shukla “Effect of Fuel Injection Timing and Pressure on Combustion, Emission and Performance Characteristics of a Single Cylinder Research Engine” Student Paper, SAE INDIA International Mobility Conference-2012, January 2012, New Delhi, India.

26. Rakesh Kumar Maurya, “Statistical Analysis of Cycle-to-Cycle Variations of Methanol Fuelled HCCI Combustion Engine”, Student Paper, SAE INDIA International Mobility Conference-2012, January 2012, New Delhi, India.

27. Rakesh Kumar Maurya, and Avinash Kumar Agarwal, “Experimental investigation of combustion and emission behaviour of homogeneous charge compression ignition (HCCI) of ethanol fuel", SAE Paper No. M20090269, SAE India International mobility Engineering congress and exposition-2009, 13th-15th December 2009, Chennai, India.

Submitted Papers /Book Chapters:

1. Ajay Singh and Rakesh Kumar Maurya, “Application of Delay Embedding and Recurrence Analysis to Noisy Nonlinear Map for Cyclic Combustion Dynamics of SI Engines”, Under Review.

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