| Specialized Services | ARD |
| Academic Year | 2019-20 |
| Date & Time | 17th December, 2019 at 9.30 a.m. - 6.00 p.m. |
| Coordinator | Prof. Kavita Pradhan, Prof. Danish Khatri |
| Faculty Team Attendees | Prof. R. Venkatesh, Prof. Khushpreet Gujral, Prof. Sarojini Lohot, Prof. Reena Shah, Prof. Kavita Pradhan |
| Speaker | Hitachi Representatives: Mr. Nitin Karnik (Gneneral Manager) & Mr. Prabhakar Mhaskar (Faculty) |
| Venue | Hitachi Engineering Excellence Center, Chandivali |
| Attended by students | 5th Year |
| Number of students present | 17 |
| Attendance | View Attendance Details |
Tour of Hitachi Laboratories
Mr. Prabhakar Mhaskar conducting the training session
Mr. Prabhakar Mhaskar conducting the training session
A group photo of all attendees in the training session with Mr. Prabhakar & Mr. Karnik
HVAC is one of the most important services and there have been many innovations in this domain regarding making the systems more viable and cost effective. It is important to have thorough understanding of this topic for our faculty and students. We accepted invitation by Hitachi to go for 1 day training session at their premises at Chandivali where various HVAC systems were displayed.
They provided a training session based on following topics:
- Basics of heat and heat transfer
- Basics of Refrigeration and air conditioning
- Major parts of an air conditioning
- Refrigerants
- Types of air conditioning system – (DX & Chilled water)
Program
09.30 am : Assemble at Hitachi Centre
10.00 a.m. : Tour of the entire primises of Hitachi Training Centre
10.30 a.m. – 1.00 p.m. : Lecture by Faculty Prabhakar Mhaskar
1.00 – 2.00 p.m. : Lunch break
2.00 – 4.45 p.m. : Lecture by Faculty Prabhakar Mhaskar
4.45 – 6.00 p.m. : Tour of laboratories to see HVAC systems in working condition
Training Session Minutes
Mr. Prabhakar Mhaskar (Faculty) & Mr. Nitin Karnik (General manager Sales Engineering) from Hitachi took us on a tour of seeing all the AC equipment laboratories at Hitachi excellence center. Various different types of AC – ducted, split, VRF were all displayed in a working condition.
Students and faculty had several questions and doubts about air conditioning.
Mr. Prabhakar then explained that he will start the theory sessions for a thorough understanding of air conditioning.
In theory sessions he explained basic concepts of HVAC in great details.
The main topics were:
- Basics of heat and heat transfer
- Basics of Refrigeration and air conditioning
- Major parts of an air conditioning
- Refrigerants
- Types of air conditioning system – (DX & Chilled water)
Knowledge about practical implementation of HVAC systems was shared and there were discussions between PiCA faculty, students and Hitachi team about the same.
In the end there was again a detailed tour of each system’s working unit displayed in the laboratories.
Vote of thanks was given by Prof. Kavita Pradhan & Prof. Venkatesh.
