Advances in Energy Research, Vol. 2

1. Front Matter

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2. Mathematical Modeling of Heat Losses from Cylindrical Cavity Receiver in Solar Parabolic Dish

   • R. Sinha, N. P. Gulhane

   Pages 1-11

3. Performance Evaluation of Latent Heat Storage Filled with Paraffin Wax for Solar Thermal Applications

   • D. Gudeta, S. R. Jena, P. Mahanta, P. S. Robi

   Pages 13-22

4. Performance Analysis of Spiral and Conical Receivers for the Paraboloidal Dish Collector Using CFD

   • Rashmi R. Joshi, Sandeep S. Joshi, Nilesh S. Wakchaure, Akshay C. Suryawanshi

   Pages 23-33

5. Performance Analysis of Phase Change Material Storage System for Solar Thermal Applications

   • Sneha Murali, R. P. Saini, Ambuj Punia

   Pages 35-47

6. Exergy and Energy Analysis of a Packed Bed Thermal Energy Storage System with Different Heat Transfer Fluids

   • Ambuj Punia, R. P. Saini, Sneha Murali

   Pages 49-58

7. Performance Analysis of Parabolic Trough Solar Collector with ‘U’-Tube and Helical Coil Receivers

   • Mohd. Mubashshir Naved, Sandeep S. Joshi, Nikhil A. Bhave

   Pages 59-65

8. Performance Evaluation of an Improved Dual Purpose Solar Collector

   • P. P. Krishnaraj, P. Arun

   Pages 67-79

9. Experimental Investigation on Farmer-Friendly Hybrid Dryer for Indoor Drying of Mushroom

   • K. Sharma, S. Kothari, N. L. Panwar, N. Rathore, K. Samar

   Pages 81-92

10. Wind Speed Forecasting Using New Adaptive Regressive Smoothing Models

    • Parikshit G. Jamdade, Prasad A. Godse, Prathamesh P. Kulkarni, Sujay R. Deole, Sudesh S. Kolekar, Shrinivas G. Jamdade

    Pages 93-101

11. Thermal Performance Analysis of a Heat Pump-Based Photovoltaic/Thermal System

    • S. Vaishak, Purnanand V. Bhale

    Pages 103-112

12. Overall Performance of N Partially Covered Photovoltaic Thermal-Compound Parabolic Concentrator (PVT-CPC) Collector with Different Concentration Ratio

    • Rohit Tripathi, Abhishek Tiwari, G. N. Tiwari

    Pages 113-122

13. Thermo-Hydraulic Performance of Solar Air Heater Roughened with V-Shaped Ribs Combined with V-Shaped Perforated Baffles

    • Vijay Singh Bisht, Anil Kumar Patil, Anirudh Gupta

    Pages 123-132

14. Highly Efficient Solar Steam Generation Using Carbon Cloth System

    • M. W. Higgins, A. R. Shakeelur Rahman, Neetu Jha

    Pages 133-139

15. Floating Absorber Integrated with Compound Parabolic Concentrator for Effective Solar Water Desalination

    • Chandan, Bala Pesala

    Pages 141-147

16. Study of Performance of Solar Flat Plate Collector Using Al2O3/Water Nanofluids

    • Pankaj Raj, Geleta Fekadu, Sudhakar Subudhi

    Pages 149-157

17. Thermo-Hydraulic Performance of Solar Air Heater Duct Provided with Conical Protrusion Rib Roughnesses

    • Tabish Alam, Ashok Kumar, Nagesh B. Balam

    Pages 159-168

18. Flocculation–Solar Distillation—an Integrated Energy-Efficient Technology for Desalination of Seawater

    • Devlina Das, Nilanjana Mitra

    Pages 169-180

19. Macro-Encapsulation of PCM Integrated with Double-Pass Solar Air Heater System

    • Arun K. Raj, M. Srinivas, S. Jayaraj

    Pages 181-193

20. Studies on Biomass Torrefaction for Energy Densification of the Fuel

    • Pradeep Kumar Budde, Jay Pandey

    Pages 195-204

This book presents selected papers from the 6th International Conference on Advances in Energy Research (ICAER 2017), which cover topics ranging from energy optimization, generation, storage and distribution, and emerging technologies, to energy management, policy, and economics. The book is inter-disciplinary in scope and addresses a host of different areas relevant to energy research, making it of interest to scientists, policymakers, students, economists, rural activists, and social scientists alike.

• Solar Photovoltaic technologies
• Energy Storage and Conversion
• Energy Systems
• Renewable Energy
• Biofuels
• Conventional fuels
• Power Electronics
• energy innovations
• Nuclear energy
• Non-conventional energy

• Department of Energy Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, India

  Suneet Singh, Venkatasailanathan Ramadesigan

Suneet Singh is a faculty at the Department of Energy Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IITB), India. He received his MTech and PhD in Nuclear Engineering from the IIT Kanpur and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA, after which he completed his postdoctoral research at Idaho National Lab, USA. He has received the Bhaskara Advanced Solar Energy (BASE) Fellowship 2014 from the Indo-US Science & Technology Forum (IUSSTF). His research interests include stability analysis of nuclear reactors, advanced numerical methods for fluid flows and neutron diffusion, analytical solution of multilayer heat conduction problems, and solar thermal heat transfer.


Venkatasailanathan Ramadesigan is a faculty at the Department of Energy Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IITB), India. He received his MS in Chemical Engineering from the University of South Carolina USA, and PhD in Energy, Environmental, and Chemical Engineering from Washington University, USA. His research interests include modelling and simulation of chemical and electrochemical processes, electrochemical large/grid-scale energy storage systems, system integration, nonlinear parameter estimation, and system-level optimization and control, as well as numerical and applied mathematics. 

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