Qualifications

• BScEng
• MEng
• PhD (Canterbury)

Career or Professional Bodies/Awards

Dr Navaranjan had 30 years of academic, research and commercial experience from Sri Lanka, Botswana and New Zealand before joining UTB in 2015. His major involvement was in food contact materials, enhancement of shelf-life of food, food supply chain quality and management, novel products development, and bio-based and hybrid materials for engineering and food packaging applications. He published over 30 refereed journal and conference papers and submitted 50 scientific reports to the New Zealand government, clients and stakeholders. He involved as a team member and individual to obtain research grant over BND50 million during his 13 years of service in New Zealand. He received a few prestigious awards and US$0.5 million grant from GTZ, Germany for his outstanding work in Botswana (1998). He was an editorial board member of Journal of Advances in Applied Ceramics (2009-2012), and reviewer for materials related research funding application from the Orthopaedic Research UK (2010) and a number of international journals. He was also a programme committee member of some international conferences including IEEE (2008) and 7th Annual World Congress of Nano Science & Technology, Japan (2017).

Current Teaching Module

• Food Contact Materials and Equipment
• Physics for Food Science and Technology
• Mass and Heat Transfer in Food Industry
• Thermodynamics for Food Processing

Current Postgraduate Projects

• Food Contact Antimicrobial Materials from Natural Resources
• High Quality Flour from Local Rice Varieties
• Optimum Process for Canning Halal Poultry Meat for Extended Shelf-Life
• Processing of Selected Fruits and Vegetables for Competitive Export Market
• Plant Based Emulsion Gels for Making Halal Meat Sausages
• Bioplastics Hollow Core and Natural Fibre Reinforced Plastics Composite Sandwich Structures
• Industry 4.0 and Its Impact on Agri-Food Manufacturing
• Edible Food Packaging from Bioresources
• Agri-Food Supply Chain Management in South-East-Asia
• Integrated Farming Management to Control Snails in Rice Fields

Research Interest

• Food Science and Technology: food contact materials and packaging; modification of food storage environment to enhance shelf-life of food products; food supply chain quality and management
• Materials Science and Engineering: fracture and mechanical behaviour of materials at multi-scale; functional multi-materials; monitoring and prevention of corrosion, erosion and wear; sustainable and biodegradable materials; self-cleaning and antimicrobial surfaces; synthetic and natural fibre composites
• Computational modelling and simulation: virtual prototyping; analysis; optimisation
• Nano-droplets: thermo-fluid dynamics of generation and dispersion; molecular modelling and analysis of evaporation; application to modify an environment or a surface
• Quality assurance of materials and products

Other Achievements/ Most Prominent Publications

(Papers published last five years)

1. Navaranjan, N. (2017) Nanomaterials in Food Packaging: Trends and Issues. BIT’s 7th Annual World Congress of Nano Science & Technology, Hilton Fukuoka Sea Hawk, Japan.
   
   
2. Navaranjan, N, T Neitzert. (2017) Impact Strength of Natural Fibre Composites Measured by Different Test Methods: A Review. MATEC Web of Conferences 109, 01003.
   
   
3. Navaranjan, N., Nur Bazilah Rasyiqah Bte Abu Bakar, Nurafiqah Binti Mohd. Ariffin and Eric Dimla. Effect of surface treatment on fatigue property of titanium alloy for femoral stem and bone fracture fixation. 6th Brunei International Conference on Engineering and Technology 2016 (BICET2016). 14 – 16 November 2016, Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei Darussalam.
   
   
4. Navaranjan, N., Eric Dimla and Hong Shyang Pei. Materials from Renewable Biomass: Trends and Challenges. 6th Brunei International Conference on Engineering and Technology 2016 (BICET2016). 14 – 16 November 2016, Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei Darussalam.
   
   
5. Das, R., Navaranjan, N., Browne, P., Riley, G. and Nguyen, C. Finite Element Analysis of Interfacial Fracture in Polyurethane Foam–Steel Composites at Micro-Scale. International Journal of Applied Mechanics 7(06) (2015).
   
   
6. D. J. Lowe, R. Das, C. Clifton, N. Navaranjan, “Characterisation of the Shear Stud-Concrete Connection Using Finite Element Analysis”, Applied Mechanics and Materials, Vol. 553, pp. 570-575, 2014.
   
   
7. Navaranjan, N., Fletcher, G.C., Summers, G., Parr, R. and Anderson, R. Thermal insulation requirements and new cardboard packaging for chilled seafood exports. Journal of Food Engineering. 119(2013), 385-706.
   
   
8. Navaranjan, N. and Jones, R. Application of Lock-in IR thermography for the evaluation of multi-layered corrugated paperboard structures. Appita journal 66 (2013), 163-168.
   
   
9. Navaranjan, N., Dickson, A., Paltakari, J. and Ilmonen, K. Humidity effect on compressive deformation and failure of recycled and virgin layered corrugated paperboard structures. Composites: Part B. 45 (2013) 965–971.
   
   
10. Kueh, C., Navaranjan, N. and Duke, M. The Effect of In-plane Boundary Conditions on the Post-buckling Behaviour of Rectangular Corrugated Paperboard Panels. Computers and Structures. 104-105 (2012) 55-62

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