The National Conference on Refrigeration and Air Conditioning (NCRAC) was started at IIT Madras in 2009. It continued to host this biennial conference in 2011 and 2013 while Rajalakshmi College of Engineering, Chennai hosted the 4th NCRAC in 2015, and NITK Surathkal hosted the 5th NCRAC in 2018. NCRAC in 2020 was organized by KLN College of Engineering, Madurai, in association with IIT Madras. The recent edition (NCRAC 2022) brought International participants and was organized by IIT Guwahati in association with IIT Tirupati as First Interaction and the 7th National Conference on Refrigeration and AirConditioning. Addressing the objective of the Net Zero Emission target by 2070 by the Government of India, the 8th National and 2nd International Conference NCRAC 2024 is aimed to disseminate the knowledge to support the objective from the HVAC & R field worldwide.

TOPICS

The conference will cover all areas of Refrigeration and Air conditioning, including but not restricted to:

• Building services and automation
• Desiccant and evaporative cooling 
• District heating and cooling o Energy efficiency and cold/heat recovery 
• Cold chain, cold storage, and refrigerated transport
• Green buildings
• Indoor Environmental Quality (IEQ) and Industrial ventilation
• Low-temperature applications
• Modern innovations and materials in HVAC systems
• Novel/alternate eco-friendly RAC systems o Natural/new refrigerants and mixtures
• Polygeneration 
• Refrigerated cold chain, transport, and cold stores
• Sorption heating and cooling systems 
• Thermodynamic cycles
• Thermal comfort and comfort standards
• Thermal energy storage and any other related areas

Submission Guidelines

All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. The following paper categories are welcome:

• Full papers describing ...
• Posters describing ...

Committees

Program Committee

Chairman: 

• Prof. M. P. Maiya, Mechanical Engg., IIT Madras 

Co-Chairman:

• Prof. P. Muthukumar, Mechanical Engg., IIT Tirupati 

• Prof. R. Saravanan, Mechanical Engg., Anna University

Organizing Committee

• Dr. Advaith Sankar, Mechanical Engg., IIT Madras (Organizing Secretary)

• Dr. Gurubalan Annadurai, Department of Energy Science and Engg., IIT Bombay (Joint Organizing Secretary)

• Dr. B. Satya Sekhar, Mechanical Engg., IIT Jammu (Joint Organizing Secretary)

• Dr. B. Kiran Naik, Mechanical Engg., NIT Rourkela (Joint Organizing Secretary)

Contact

All questions about submissions should be emailed to NCRAC2024@gmail.com