Kalyan Annamalai

About

Prof. Kalyan Annamalai also known as Thakkolam Annamalai received BS from College of Engineering (Anna University) at Guindy, Chennai, MS from Indian Inst. of Science, Bangalore, Ph.D. from the Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, worked at Brown University, Providence, and at AVCO Everett Research Laboratory, Revere, Mass. and joined Texas A&M in 1981 as and an Assistant Professor. He was appointed as Paul Pepper Professor of Mechanical Engineering in 2005. On Fall 2013 sabbatical, he was visiting scholar at MIT Energy laboratory, Cambridge, Mass. He is the author of books on “Advanced Thermodynamics,” Taylor and Francis (2nd Ed, 2011) and “Combustion Science and Engineering” (Taylor and Francis, 2007). His research projects dealt with energy conversion from coal and biomass Combustion, alternate/biofuels, Gasification, and Emission of NOx and Hg. He is the author of about 150 journal and reviewed conference publications mostly in the area of combustion and gasification of coal and biomass, and emissions from fossil fuels. He had developed respiratory quotient method of ranking of fossil fuels for CO2 emission. Recently he was involved with transferring results from combustion and thermodynamics in engineering to biology field involving oxygen deficient metabolism, its relation to cancer, GOD number to monitor deficiency and entropy generation within human body in predicting organ stress and life span. He is currently emeritus Prof. of Mech. Engg.,Texas A&M and a fellow of American Society of Mechanical Engineers. He serves on the editorial boards of several journals.

Employment

• Texas A&M University Paul Pepper Professor
  1981 - 2017
• Brown University Research associate
  1975 - 1978

Education

• Georgia Institute of Technology PhD
  1970 - 1975
• Indian Inst of Science M E
  1966 - 1968

Projects & Funding

Projects & funding information is unavailable.

Publications (7)

• Secrets of Kleiber’s and Maximum Metabolic Rate Allometries Revealed with a Link to Oxygen-Deficient Combustion Engineering
  Oxygen 2025 DOI: 10.3390/oxygen5020006
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• Secrets of Kleiber’s and Maximum Metabolic Rate Allometries Revealed with a Link to Oxygen-Deficient -Combustion -Engineering
  2025 DOI: 10.20944/preprints202503.0386.v1
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• Breathing Planet Earth: Analysis of Keeling’s Data on CO2 and O2 with Respiratory Quotient (RQ), Part II: Energy-Based Global RQ and CO2 Budget
  Energies 2024 DOI: 10.3390/en17081800
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• Breathing Planet Earth: Analysis of Keeling’s Data on CO2 and O2 with Respiratory Quotient (RQ), Part I: Global Respiratory Quotient (RQGlob) of Earth
  Energies 2024 DOI: 10.3390/en17020299
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• Reburning of Animal Waste Based Biomass with Coal for NOx Reduction, Part I: Feedlot Biomass (FB) and Coal:FB Blends
  Energies 2021 DOI: 10.3390/en14238030
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• Oxygen Deficient (OD) Combustion and Metabolism: Allometric Laws of Organs and Kleiber’s Law from OD Metabolism?
  Systems 2021 DOI: 10.3390/systems9030054
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• Ranking Renewable and Fossil Fuels on Global Warming Potential Using Respiratory Quotient Concept
  Journal of Combustion 2018 DOI: 10.1155/2018/1270708
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