Experience

Suresh Sarma

Mr. Suresh Sarma (Primary Consultant)

  • Experience 25 + years in Thermal Design, commissioning & performance testing of IDCT & NDCT.
  • Thermal Design, Supervision, commissioning and testing of more than 50 Cooling Tower Projects.
  • Cooling Tower Guaranteed performance upgrades with guaranteed cold-water improvement.
  • Major role in R&D of cooling towers and components.

Research & Development, Qualification, Registrations & Awards

  • CO AUTHOR FOR “COOLING TOWER INSTITUTE PAPER TP 16-13 “Presented at the CTI Conference winter 2016 at HOUSTON USA. “CFD ANALYSIS OF RECIRCULATION IN MECHANICAL DRAFT COOLING TOWERS”.
  • Developed multi nozzle test rig in Mumbai - India  for testing “nozzle head vs flow”, “head vs spread” and “density of flow” for a project owned by  NUCLEAR POWER CORPORATION.
  • Key contribution in developing single stage nozzle test rig in Chennai for assessing nozzle characteristics for NPCIL Project, year 2006 Nuclear Power Corporation as per client requirements.
  • Developed wet cooling tower selection program in “Visual Basic” for predicting the performance of Counter Flow Mechanical (Induced draft) cooling tower using fills both splash and film, using EPRI, Fulkerson and other tested data results.
  • Developed Program for generating cooling tower “Performance Curves as per CTI – ATC -105”.
  • Coordinated with Dr Kruger (University of Stellenbosch – South Africa) for “V” bar thermal performance evaluation in Counter flow Cooling Tower. (empirical relation for the mass transfer coefficient and pressure drop coefficient).
  • Worked on Scaled down model fan test at AMCA lab at Singapore to assess the fan performance and fan efficiency.
  • Successfully implemented thermal upgrade and performance improvement in various cooling towers in India and Abroad.
  • Article - EPR Magazine – FEB 19 – “Cooling Tower Thermal Performance Upgrades for Power Plants”.