Facilitation Centre for Industrial Plasma Technologies

Institute for Plasma Research

Gandhinagar

 

Name             : Nirav I. Jamnapara

Qualification : PhD (Met. Eng. Mat. Sci) - IIT Bombay

Designation   : Engineer - SF

 

Contact

Phone                : 079 - 23269017

E-mail ID           : nirav@ipr.res.in, nirav.jam@gmail.com

Current Projects/Activities

  • Development of plasma aluminizing process for Inconel (IN718) alloys

  • Development of hot dip aluminizing process for fusion reactor applications

  • Study of liquid metal corrosion resistance of aluminide coated 9Cr steels

  • Plasma oxidation studies on metals / aluminides using DC and DC pulsed plasma

 

Publications

  • "Al2O3 films grown by glow discharge plasma aluminizing" N. I. Jamnapara, Vishal Nayak, D. U. Avtani, N. L. Chauhan, D.Panda, S.B.Gupta, K.Kalaria, N. Vaghela, S. Mukherjee, A. S. Khanna, Surface Engineering, 30 (2014).

  • "Effect of Si on morphology of alumina scales", Surface Engineering, Vol. 28, (2012), doi: 10.1179/1743294412Y.0000000046 (article in press) N. I. Jamnapara, D. U. Avtani, N. L. Chauhan, P. M. Raole, S. Mukherjee, A. S. Khanna

  • "Microstructural studies of electro spark deposited aluminide coatings on 9Cr steels"; Surface Engineering, Vol. 28(2012), doi: 10.1179/ 1743294412 Y.0000000043 (article in press) Nirav I. Jamnapara, Stefano Frangini, Dilip Avtani, Vishal Nayak, N. L. Chauhan, G. Jhala, S. Mukherjee, A. S. Khanna

  • "Effect of Si on hot dip aluminized 9Cr-1Mo steels and subsequent oxidiation studies", IPR technical report no. IPR/TR-205/2012 dtd. March 2012. Nirav I. Jamnapara, Dilip U. Avtani, N. L. Chauhan, P. M. Raole, S. Mukherjee, A. S. Khanna

  • "Comparative study of aluminide coatings on mild steel by different aluminizing techniques", Proceedings of the Materials Science & Technology (MS&T 2011), Symposium on corrosion protection through metallic and non-metallic coatings, Ohio, USA (2011) pp. 1143-1151 G. Awasthi, M. Mehta, D. Avtani, N. Jamnapara, G. Gupta, N. Chauhan, G. Jhala

Patents

  • PATENT: Indian patent application no. 3431/MUM/2011 dated 7-12-2011, titled "Plasma oxidation of a substrate and an apparatus thereof".