Research Areas
- Solar Energy
- Thermal energy Storage for CSP Process Heat Applications
- Green Hydrogen
- Supercritical Carbondioxide powerplant cycles for cleaner energy poduction
- Thermal Management of EV Batteries and Renewable Energy integration
- AI and ML in Renewable Energy
- Net Zero Energy Built Environment
- Energy & Environment
- Energy Efficiency and Energy Auditing
- System Analysis for Power Generation and Process heat
- Solar Desalination and Wastewater treatment
- Thermal Power Engineering
- Heat Transfer in Dispersed systems
- Thermo-Physical Properties of Two-Phase Systems
Research Interests
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Solar Energy Conversion
- Concentrating Solar Power (CSP) System
- Design and Development of Solar Parabolic Dish Cavity Receiver Systems for Power Generation and Hydrogen Production
- Development of Energy Efficient Receivers for Solar Parabolic Trough for Direct Steam Generation
- Concentrating Photovoltaic (CPV)
- Integration and Optimization of High Performance Solar Concentrating Photovoltaic Systems for Cogeneration and Tri-generation
- Solar Energy Storage
- Design of Transparent Insulation Materials (TIM) based Solar Integrated-Collector-Storage (ICS) Systems for Energy Efficiency
- Development of medium and high temperature solar energy storage system for buffer & extended storage
- Solar systems for desalination & natural evaporation of industrial effluents
- Design and Development of Integrated Multi-tray Solar Desalination System
- Design and Development of solar energy based natural evaporator for textile industrial effluent treatment.
- Solar Resources Estimation using Artificial Neural Networks (ANN)
Power Plant Cycle Analysis and System Integration for Energy Efficiency
- 4 E (Energy – Exergy – Environmental – Economic) Analyses of Fossil and Renewable Power Plants
- Identify and Prioritize the judicious mix of Energy Technologies & Sources
Thermo-physical Properties Estimation & Measurement
- Estimation of effective thermal conductivity of two-phase engineering materials
- Modeling of effective thermal conductivity based on primary and secondary parameters using collocated parameter model including effects of contact resistance and radiation
- Experimental investigation of thermal conductivity of solid, liquid, powder, paste and insulation materials using steady state and transient methods.
- Development of a Test facility for estimation of thermal conductivity for wide range of engineering materials