DEEPAK KUMAR KANUNGO (Ph.D.)

• Directed CFD-led redesign of Naphtha combustor to resolve a key field issue, restoring plant
performance and unlocking high-value commercial benefits, while reinforcing company's capability
to secure recurring service and R&M opportunities.
• Applied CFD-driven optimization to ESP ducting, resolving chronic ash imbalance, recovering
significant withheld payments, and establishing a scalable diagnostic framework now leveraged
across multiple projects for ongoing business impact.

• Pioneered in-house CFD-driven design and fabrication of higher-rating automotive PEM fuel cells,
enabling superior product performance while eliminating multi-crore external consultancy costs.
• Drove CFD-based optimization of alkaline electrolyser cells, directly strengthening company's
technology proposition and enabling the securing of ₹35 crore in government grant funding.
• Applied advanced CFD engineering to redesign industrial valves and optimize multiple thermal
fluid systems across power plant components, delivering sustained commercial growth and
measurable performance gains.

• Demonstrated the effectiveness of a redesigned boiler duct system using high-fidelity CFD
simulations, supporting strategic decision-making and ensuring successful R&M delivery.
• Developed a CFD-based proof of concept for an air-pollution control tower, providing critical
insights that prevented a high-value non-viable investment.
• Established organizational expertise in moving dynamic mesh simulation through successful
performance verification of higher-capacity Roots blower

• Executed CFD-based optimization for ventilation systems, SCR units, and FGD components across
multiple industrial applications.
• Flow field optimization of cooling channel for PEM fuel cells using CFD study.

• Combustion optimization studies on coal-fired boilers using CFD tools.
• Optimization of ventilation circuit for generator transfer through CFD-based study.
• Designed and fabricated PEM fuel cell stack.

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