Publications

• In Journals
• In Conferences/ Symposia
• Internal Reports/ Technical Notes

In Journals

1. “Design of regenerators for Gifford McMahon Cycle Cryorefrigerator”,
   P K Kush and M Thirumaleshwar,
   1084 − 1091, Vol 29, Cryogenics (1989).
   
   
2. “Single Stage (30K) and Two Stage (10K) Giffod McMahon Cryocoolers Developed at CAT”,
   Kush P K, Sharma R C, Doohan R S, Sagar A K, Choudhary L C and Ansari M S,
   Indian Journal of Cryogenics, Vol 29, No. 2, P 69-72, 2004.
   
   
3.  “Test Results of Cryogenic Reciprocating type Expansion Engine with Nitrogen as Process Gas”,
   Kush P K, Ghosh Rupul, Ghosh Parthasarthi, Sharma R C, Doohan R S.,
   Indian Journal of Cryogenics, Vol 29, No. 4, P 120-125, 2004.
   
   
4.  “Development of Cross-Counter-Flow Heat-Exchanger for Cryogenic Temperature Range”,
   Gupta Prabhat K, Sharma R C  and Kush P K,
   Indian Journal of Cryogenics, Vol 30, No. 4, P 201-203, 2005.
   
   
5. “Development of Closed Cycle Refrigerator Based Cryopump”,
   Gilankar S G and Kush P K, Indian Journal of Cryogenics,
   Vol 30, No. 4, P 204-208, 2005.
   
   
6. ”Low Cost Vacuum Valve for Cryogenics Applications”,
   Sharma. R C., Indian Journal of Cryogenics,
   Vol 30, No. 4, P 209, 2005.
   
   
7. “Design and optimization of coil finned-tube heat exchangers for cryogenic applications”,
   Gupta Prabhat Kumar, Kush P K , Tiwari A,
   Cryogenics 47 (2007) 322-332.
   
   
8. “Second law analysis of counter flow cryogenic heat exchangers in presence of ambient heat-in-leak and longitudinal conduction through wall”,
   Gupta Prabhat Kumar, Kush P K , Tiwari A,
   Int. Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer 50 (2007) 4754-4766.
   
   
9. “Some critical aspects of designing the JT heat exchangers for helium liquefier/refrigerator”,
   Gupta P K, Kush P K, Tiwari A ,
   Indian Journal of Cryogenics, Vol. 32, p. 142, 2007.
   
   
10. “Validation and performance of the LHC cryogenic system through commissioning of the first sector”,
    L Serio, A Bouillot, J Casas-Cubillos, A Chakravarty, S Claudet, F Gicquel, P Gomes, M Kumar, P K Kush, F Millet, A Perin, R Rabehl, M R Singh, M Soubiran, LTavian,
    Advances in Cryogenic Engineering, Vol 53, P 1411-1418, (2008).
    
    
11. “Experimental verification of capture coefficients for a cylindrical cryopanel of closed cycle refrigerator cryopump”,
    Gilankar S G, Kush P K,
    Journal of Physics: Conference Series, Vol. 114, p. 012058, 2008.
    
    
12. “Experimental research on heat transfer coefficients for cryogenic cross-counter-flow coiled finned-tube heat exchangers”,
    Gupta P K, Kush P K, Tiwari Ashesh,
    International Journal of Refrigeration, Vol. 32, no. 5, p. 960 - 972, Jun. 2009.
    
    
13. “Experimental studies on pressure drop characteristics of cryogenic cross-counter flow coiled finned tube heat exchangers”,
    Prabhat Kumar Gupta, P K Kush, Ashesh Tiwari
    Cryogenics, Volume 50, Issue 4, April 2010, Pages 257-265

In Conferences/ Symposia

1. “A G−M Cycle Cryorefrigrator operating at 10 K”,
   M Thirumaleshwar, P K Kush, R C Sharma, K V Madhusudan, A Banerjee and M V Deverajan,
   International Cryogenics Engineering Conference (ICEC 12).
   
   
2. “Design of a Lquid Helium Cryostat for Mossbauer Spectroscopy (4.2K − 300K)”,
   Ratnesh Gupta, Ajay Gupta, M Thirumaleshwar and P K Kush,
   National Symp. On Vacuum Science and Technology, CAT Indore (Nov. 1991).
   
   
3. “Theoretical design of Reciprocating Expansion Engine for 80 K and 20 K inlet temperature level”,
   R Ghosh, M D Atrey and P K Kush,
   Sixteenth National Symposium on Cryogenics, IIT Kharagpur, (Dec. 1997).
   
   
4. “Development of Liquid Nitrogen based Variable Temperature Gas Purifier for Excimer Lasers”,
   S G Gilankar and P K Kush,
   Sixteenth national Symposium on Cryogenics, IIT Kharagpur, (Dec. 1997).
   
   
5. “Effect of Geometrical Design Parameters on the performance of Coiled Finned Tube Heat Exchangers”,
   M D Atrey and P K  Kush,
   Sixteenth National Symposium on Cryogenics, IIT Kharagpur, (Dec. 1997).
   
   
6. “Development of 15 K Two Stage G-M Cryocooler for Continuous Maintenance Free Operation”,
   P K Kush and R C Sharma,
   Sixteenth National Symposium on Cryogenics, IIT Kharagpur, (Dec. 1997).
   
   
7. “Development of Helium Compressor using Oil Injection in Commercially available Freon Compressor”,
   P K Kush,  U R Dubey  and  R C Sharma,
   Sixteenth national Symposium on Cryogenics, IIT Kharagpur, (Dec. 1997).
   
   
8. “Experimental investigation on second stage regenerator of a two stage 10 K G-M Cryorefrigerator”,
   M D Atrey and P K Kush,
   Seventh National Symp. On Cryogenics, Feb. 19-21, 1999.
   
   
9. “Performance evaluation of a tube-in-tube heat exchanger in 300-77 K temperature range”,
   Prabhat Gupta, R Ghosh, P K Kush and M D Atrey,
   Seventh National Symp. On Cryogenics, Feb. 19-21, 1999.
   
   
10. “Numerical simulation and experimental investigation of tube-in-tube heat exchangers in 300 – 77 K range”,
    Prabhat Gupta, P K Kush and M D Atrey,
    Proceedings Eighteenth International Cryogenics Engineering Conference (ICEC18), 303, IIT Mumbai, Feb. 2000.
    
    
11. “Cyclic analysis and experimental investigation of a single stage G M Cryocooler”,
    B Duttagupta, P K Kush and M D Atrey,
    Proceedings Eighteenth International Cryogenics Engineering Conference (ICEC18), 579, IIT Mumbai.
    
    
12. “Analysis and performance prediction of Stirling Cryogenerator”,
    R Ghosh et al,
    Proceedings of joint Cryogenics Engineering Conference (CEC) and International Cryogenic Materials Conference (ICMC), July 16-20, 2001, Madison, Wisconsin, USA.
    
    
13. “Approach towards establishing Cryogenic Test Facility for SCRF cavities of proposed proton Linac at CAT”,
    Prashant Khare, P K Kush and M G Karmarkar,
    11th Workshop on R F Superconductivity SRF 2003, Lubeck Germany, Sept. 8 − 12, 2003.
    
    
14.  “Performance of Indigenously Developed Closed Cycle Refrigerator Based Cryopump”,
    Gilankar S G and Kush P K,
    Proc. National Symposium on Vacuum Science & Technology and Its Application to Plasmas, IVSNS 2005.(P 157-160),  Nov. 16th-18th, 2005, IPR, Gandhinagar (Gujarat).
    
    
15. "Status of Indigenously Developed Closed Cycle Refrigerator Based Cryopump of 1000 Lit/s Pumping speed",
    S.G. Gilankar and P.K. Kush,
    Twenty-first National Symposium on Cryogenics, (22-24 November 2006), NPL, New Delhi-110 012.
    
    
16. “Indian participation in LHC, SPL and CTF-3 projects at CERN, Switzerland”,
    Bhanage V P , Dwivedi J, Jain A K, Khare P, Kotaiah S, Kush P K, Kumar A, Prabhu S S, Puntambekar A M, Rawat A, Sahni V C, Sharma A K, Shridhar R, Shrivastava P, Singh G, Sadhu R K,
    Asian Particle Accelerator Conference - 2007 (APAC-07) , RRCAT, Indore , Jan. 29 - Feb. 2, 2007, p. 829-831.
    
    
17. “Cryocooler vibrations in ultrafast reflection spectroscopy”,
    Khan S, Ramachari, Oak S M, Ansari M S, Sagar A K, Chowdhry L, Doohan R S, Kush P K,
    National Conference on Recent Trends in Optoelectronics and Laser Technology (NCOLS 2007) , Thiruvananthapuram, Apr., 9-11, 2007.
    
    
18. “Performance analysis and experimental results of cryogenic reciprocating expansion engine with helium gas”,
    Rupul Ghosh, R S Doohan, R C Sharma, P K Kush,
    22nd National Symposium on Cryogenics, IISc Bangalore, December 4-6, 2008.
    
    
19. “Indigenous development of coiled finned tube heat exchangers,
    Prabhat Kumar Gupta, P K Kush,
    22nd National Symposium on Cryogenics, IISc Bangalore, December 4-6, 2008.
    
    
20. “Assessment of thermal radiation load on cryopanel of refrigerator based cryopump”,
    Gilankar S G and Kush P K,
    22nd National Symposium on Cryogenics, IISc Bangalore, December 4-6, 2008.
    
    
21. “Commissioning and first operation of Superconducting links at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC)”,
    R van Weelderen, T Goiffon, A Perin, C Darve, R S Doohan, S G Gilankar,
    Cryogenic Engineering Conference and International Cryogenic Materials Conference (CEC/ICMC 2009) - 28 June-2 July 2009, Tucson, USA.

Internal Reports/ Technical Notes

1. “Cryogenic Regenerators”,
   P K Kush, S C Joshi and M Thirumaleshwar,
   Internal Report, BARC − 1301 (1986)
   
   
2.  “Facility for vacuum Impregnation of Super Conducting Magnets”,
   P K Kush, A Banerjee, C K Ramachandran, S C Bapna and M Thirumaleshwar,
    Internal Report, BARC − 1315 (1986).
   
   
3. “Design of a High Current D C Acceleration Tube”,
   P K Kush and S S Ramamurthi,
   Internal Report – 87/CAT/EAP/81000/001/D.
   
   
4. “Measurement of Cryo-Cooler Vibrations”,
   Salahuddin Khan, Rama Chari, S M Oak, M S Ansari, A K Sagar, L Chowdhary, R S Doohan and P K Kush,
   RRCAT Report/ 2007-05.
   
   
5. “Recommendation concerning integrating a J-T heat exchanger in the VTS-2 & 3 cryostats”,
   Roger Rabehl, Prabhat Gupta, Yuenian Huang, Pradeep Kush.