Cranfield University

Professor Riti Singh

Professor of Gas Turbine Engineering
Location: Building 52
E: r.singh@cranfield.ac.uk
T: +44 (0) 1234 754666
Department of Power and Propulsion

Current activities

Novel cycles for power and propulsion, particularly in the context of the environment and advanced gas path diagnostics.

Clients

Background

Riti Singh is an Emeritus Professor of Cranfield University. Until summer 2006, he was the Deputy Head of the School of Engineering at Cranfield and the Head of the Department of Power, Propulsion and Aerospace Engineering.  He is the Director of the University Technology Centre in Performance Engineering.   He is a Board member of the Aerospace Industries Board, Institution of Mechanical Engineers; the European Turbine Network and the International Society of Air Breathing Engines. He is a Past Chair of the Aerospace Industries Board of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers and the Past Vice-President of the International Society of Air Breathing Engines. He has an interest in novel cycles for power and propulsion, particularly in the context of the environment.  A paper first presented at ASME Turbo Expo, Vienna, in 2004, ‘Economic and Scenario Analyses of New Gas Turbine Combined Cycles with no Emissions of Carbon Dioxide’, and subsequently published, won the Cycles Innovations Committee Best Paper Award.

Professor Singh has chaired many international conferences on gas turbine technology and has been the plenary/keynote speaker at several major international conferences. He holds numerous patents and has published widely. His research has been strongly supported by industry, EU and EPSRC with whom he holds the prestigious “Platform Grant”.

Professor Singh has consulted for over forty organizations, including gas turbine manufacturers and users in over twenty countries. He has also acted as a consultant for UNESCO and advised a number of national governments. He has over 40 years' experience in gas turbine research, design and development both in industry and in post-graduate education, university research and consultancy. He has held senior appointments in Rolls-Royce plc, Stal Laval (now Siemens) in Sweden and was Chief Engineer at Kongsberg Gas Turbines Norway.

Selected publications

1. F Haglind, A Hasselrot, R Singh, ‘Potential of Reducing the environmental impact of aviation by using hydrogen: Part I: Background, prospects and challenges’, The Aeronautical Journal, August 2006, p. 533-540. (Silver Award, accompanied by the Ackroyd Stuart Prize, Royal Aeronautical Society).
2. F Haglind, A Hasselrot, R Singh, ‘Potential of Reducing the environmental impact of aviation by using hydrogen: Part II: Aero Gas Turbine Design’, The Aeronautical Journal, August 2006, p. 541-552. (Award/Prize Royal Aeronautical Society).
3. F Haglind, A Hasselrot, R Singh, ‘Potential of Reducing the environmental impact of aviation by using hydrogen: Part III: Optimum Cruising Altitude and Airport Implications’, The Aeronautical Journal, August 2006, p. 553-565. (Award/Prize Royal Aeronautical Society).
4. S. Sampath and R. Singh, ‘An Integrated Fault Diagnostics Model Using Genetic Algorithm and Neural Networks’, ASME Journal of Engineering for Gas Turbines and Power, Vol 128, No 1, Jan 2006
5. R, Gabbrielli and R, Singh, ‘Economic and Scenario Analyses of New Gas Turbine Combined Cycles with no Emissions of Carbon Dioxide’, ASME Journal of Engineering for Gas Turbines and Power Vol 127, Issue 3, 2005 (ASME, Cycles Innovations Committee Best Paper Award).
6. A. J. B. Jackson, H. Audus, and R. Singh, ‘Gas Turbine Engine Configurations for Power Generation Cycles having CO2 Sequestration’. Proceeding of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers: Journal of Power and Energy, Volume 218, Part A, 2004.
7. R. Gabbrielli and R. Singh ‘Thermodynamic Performance Analysis of New Gas Turbine Combined Cycles with no Emissions of Carbon Dioxide’. Transactions of ASME, Journal of Engineering for Gas Turbines and Power. Vol. 125, October 2003, pp 940-946.
8. S.O. T. Ogaji, and R. Singh, ‘Gas Path Fault Diagnoses Framework for a 3-Shaft Gas Turbine’, Proceeding of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers: Journal of Power and Energy, Volume 217, A3, 2003. pp. 149-157.
9. M. Zedda and R. Singh, ‘Gas turbine engine and sensor fault diagnosis using optimization techniques’, AIAA Journal of Propulsion and Power Vol 18, Issue 5, 2002, pp. 1019-1025.