Sachin Nimbalkar

1.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
34 papers, 989 citations indexed

About

Sachin Nimbalkar is a scholar working on Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Mechanical Engineering and Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Sachin Nimbalkar has authored 34 papers receiving a total of 989 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 12 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, 9 papers in Mechanical Engineering and 9 papers in Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering. Recurrent topics in Sachin Nimbalkar's work include Energy Efficiency and Management (10 papers), Environmental Impact and Sustainability (6 papers) and Building Energy and Comfort Optimization (5 papers). Sachin Nimbalkar is often cited by papers focused on Energy Efficiency and Management (10 papers), Environmental Impact and Sustainability (6 papers) and Building Energy and Comfort Optimization (5 papers). Sachin Nimbalkar collaborates with scholars based in United States and China. Sachin Nimbalkar's co-authors include Joe Cresko, Sujit Das, Matthew Riddle, Diane Graziano, Runze Huang, Eric Masanet, Michael R. Müller, Mingzhou Jin, Dipti Kamath and Sarang D. Supekar and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Cleaner Production, Energy and Applied Thermal Engineering.

In The Last Decade

Sachin Nimbalkar

28 papers receiving 936 citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Energy and emissions saving potential of additive manufacturing: the case of lightweight aircraft components

2015 602 citations Runze Huang, Matthew Riddle et al. Journal of Cleaner Production profile →

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Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Sachin Nimbalkar United States	10	600	513	254	134	85	34	989
Matthew Riddle United States	13	535 0.9×	533 1.0×	239 0.9×	130 1.0×	100 1.2×	17	1.1k
Zhifeng Liu China	22	666 1.1×	289 0.6×	243 1.0×	146 1.1×	112 1.3×	76	1.2k
Rosa Di Lorenzo Italy	18	751 1.3×	162 0.3×	188 0.7×	80 0.6×	110 1.3×	65	996
Giuseppe Ingarao Italy	24	1.4k 2.4×	531 1.0×	396 1.6×	182 1.4×	164 1.9×	83	1.9k
Shitong Peng China	16	452 0.8×	273 0.5×	182 0.7×	188 1.4×	34 0.4×	58	874
Mahesh Mani United States	16	340 0.6×	349 0.7×	389 1.5×	248 1.9×	23 0.3×	28	872
Guillaume Mandil France	13	269 0.4×	253 0.5×	168 0.7×	106 0.8×	41 0.5×	23	616
Iñigo Flores Ituarte Finland	19	497 0.8×	590 1.2×	270 1.1×	60 0.4×	102 1.2×	56	1000
Sheng Yang Canada	20	560 0.9×	761 1.5×	630 2.5×	82 0.6×	42 0.5×	60	1.3k
Olivier Kerbrat France	11	512 0.9×	727 1.4×	556 2.2×	113 0.8×	16 0.2×	26	893

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sachin Nimbalkar

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Nimbalkar, Sachin, et al.. (2025). Opportunities for iron and steel industrial wastewater treatment and reuse in the United States. Water Resources and Industry. 34. 100298–100298.

Abbas, Ahmad, et al.. (2025). Analysis of US Industrial Assessment Centers (IACs) implementation. Energy. 315. 134415–134415.

Jin, Mingzhou, et al.. (2025). Estimating energy consumption and GHG emissions in the U.S. food supply chain for net-zero. npj Science of Food. 9(1). 19–19. 2 indexed citations

Kamath, Dipti, et al.. (2024). The Role of Low-Carbon Fuels and Carbon Capture in Decarbonizing the U.S. Clinker Manufacturing for Cement Production: CO2 Emissions Reduction Potentials. Energies. 17(20). 5233–5233. 6 indexed citations

Nimbalkar, Sachin, et al.. (2024). Wastewater hydrogen nexus (WwHeN): Greening the wastewater industry via integration with the hydrogen economy✰. OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information). 5. 100145–100145. 3 indexed citations

Nimbalkar, Sachin, et al.. (2024). Role of Hydrogen as Fuel in Decarbonizing US Clinker Manufacturing for Cement Production: Costs and CO2 Emissions Reduction Potentials. OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information). 3. 533–540. 2 indexed citations

Nimbalkar, Sachin, et al.. (2023). Cleaner Chips: Decarbonization in Semiconductor Manufacturing. Sustainability. 16(1). 218–218. 11 indexed citations

Kamath, Dipti, et al.. (2023). Energy Efficiency as a Foundational Technology Pillar for Industrial Decarbonization. Sustainability. 15(12). 9487–9487. 30 indexed citations

Jin, Mingzhou, et al.. (2022). A framework to quantify mass flow and assess food loss and waste in the US food supply chain. Communications Earth & Environment. 3(1). 17 indexed citations

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McCall, James, Prakash Rao, Sachin Nimbalkar, et al.. (2021). U.S. Manufacturing Water Use Data and Estimates: Current State, Limitations, and Future Needs for Supporting Manufacturing Research and Development. ACS ES&T Water. 1(10). 2186–2196. 7 indexed citations

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Polsky, Yarom, et al.. (2021). A techno-economic framework for comparing conventionally and additively manufactured parts for geothermal applications. Journal of Manufacturing Processes. 72. 458–468. 5 indexed citations

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Armstrong, Katy, et al.. (2020). Process Heating Assessments Using DOE’s Manufacturing Energy Assessment Software for Utility Reduction (MEASUR) Tool Suite. 1665–1679.

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Nimbalkar, Sachin, et al.. (2019). Estimation of and barriers to waste heat recovery from harsh environments in industrial processes. Journal of Cleaner Production. 222. 539–549. 49 indexed citations

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Supekar, Sarang D., Diane Graziano, Matthew Riddle, et al.. (2019). A Framework for Quantifying Energy and Productivity Benefits of Smart Manufacturing Technologies. Procedia CIRP. 80. 699–704. 20 indexed citations

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Huang, Runze, Matthew Riddle, Diane Graziano, et al.. (2017). Environmental and Economic Implications of Distributed Additive Manufacturing: The Case of Injection Mold Tooling. Journal of Industrial Ecology. 21(S1). 75 indexed citations

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Nimbalkar, Sachin, et al.. (2015). Preliminary Results from Electric Arc Furnace Off-Gas Enthalpy Modeling. OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information). 4 indexed citations

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Nimbalkar, Sachin, et al.. (2014). Waste Heat Recovery from High Temperature Off-Gases from Electric Arc Furnace. OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information). 1 indexed citations

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Lu, Hongyou, et al.. (2014). Energy Assessments under the Top 10,000 Program - A Case Study for a Steel Mill in China. OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information). 1 indexed citations

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Nimbalkar, Sachin, et al.. (2011). Study of R-161 refrigerant as an Alternate Refrigerant to various other refrigerants. International Journal of Current Engineering and Technology. 3 indexed citations

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Nimbalkar, Sachin, et al.. (2009). DOE's Industrial Technologies Program (ITP) -- Assessment Efforts to Improve Energy Efficiency, Carbon Footprint and Profit in the U.S. Steel Industry. OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information). 2 indexed citations

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