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Energy Systems and Nanotechnology

  • Presents a collection of chapters in nanotechnologies and energy
  • Discusses various forms of renewable energy
  • Serves as a reference book for many energy and nanofluid-related courses

Part of the book series: Advances in Sustainability Science and Technology (ASST)

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Table of contents (18 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
  2. Investigation of Bulk, Doped and Thin Film Solar Cells: A Review Article

    • Aditi Gaur, Karina Khan, Jagrati Sahariya, Alpa Dashora, Amit Soni
    Pages 1-21
  3. Renewable Energy-Driven Charging Station for Electric Vehicles

    • Rudraksh S. Gupta, Arjun Tyagi, V. V. Tyagi, Y. Anand, A. Sawhney, S. Anand
    Pages 57-78
  4. Review on Optoelectronic Response of Emerging Solar Photovoltaic Materials

    • Karina Khan, Aditi Gaur, Kamal Nayan Sharma, Amit Soni, Jagrati Sahariya
    Pages 79-97
  5. Hybrid Solar PVT Systems for Thermal Energy Storage: Role of Nanomaterials, Challenges, and Opportunities

    • W. Rashmi, V. Mahesh, S. Anirban, P. Sharnil, M. Khalid
    Pages 131-160
  6. Use of Alcohols and Biofuels as Automotive Engine Fuel

    • Sumit Taneja, Perminderjit Singh, Abhishek Sharma, Gurjeet Singh
    Pages 161-183
  7. Environmentally Friendly Fuel Obtained from Pyrolysis of Waste Tyres

    • Abhishek Sharma, Deepti Khatri, Rahul Goyal, Alok Agrawal, Vivek Mishra, Dulari Hansdah
    Pages 185-204

About this book

This book presents a very useful and readable collection of chapters in nanotechnologies for energy conversion, storage, and utilization, offering new results which are sure to be of interest to researchers, students, and engineers in the field of nanotechnologies and energy. Readers will find energy systems and nanotechnology very useful in many ways such as generation of energy policy, waste management, nanofluid preparation and numerical modelling, energy storage, and many other energy-related areas. It is also useful as reference book for many energy and nanofluid-related courses being taken up by graduate and undergraduate students. In particular, this book provides insights into various forms of renewable energy, such as biogas, solar energy, photovoltaic, solar cells, and solar thermal energy storage. Also, it deals with the CFD simulations of various aspects of nanofluids/hybrid nanofluids.

 

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Mathematics, National Institute of Technology, Srinagar, India

    Dharmendra Tripathi

  • Department of Mechanical Engineering, Manipal University, Jaipur, India

    R. K. Sharma

About the editors

Dr Dharmendra Tripathi has been working as Associate Professor in Department of Mathematics, National Institute of Technology, Uttarakhand. Prior to joining NIT Uttarakhand, he has worked more than 10 years as faculty member (Associate Professor, Assistant Professor) in various reputed institutions like Manipal University Jaipur, NIT Delhi, IIT Ropar and BITS Pilani Hyderabad. He completed his PhD in Applied Mathematics (Mathematical Modelling of Physiological flows) in 2009 from Indian Institute of Technology BHU and MSc in Mathematics from Banaras Hindu University.  

He has supervised 04 PhD students and 04 are working under his supervision. He has also guided 20 B.Tech projects. He has published more than 130 papers in reputed international journals, 05 book chapters and presented more than 30 papers in International and National Conferences. His research h-index is 39 and i-10 index is 111 and his papers have more than 4000 citations. He has recently achieved World rank 375 & Indian Rank 6 in top 2% researchers/scientist across the World as per Updated science-wide author databases of standardized citation indicators in field of Mechanical Engineering and Transport published on October 16, 2020. He has been recognized by the Head of Institution for excellent work and contribution for the NIT Uttarakhand. 

He was awarded some prestigious fellowships INAE fellowship in 2015 & 2016, 2017 and 2018, postdoctoral fellowships (NBHM, Dr. D.S. Kothari and Indo-EU) in 2010 etc. He has delivered more than 40 invited talks in National and International conferences, STC/STTP/FDP/Workshop. He has also organized various events like National and International conferences/STC/STTP/FDP/Workshops/Winter School. 

He is lifetime member of various professional bodies, member of editorial board of two journals, and reviewer of more than 50 International Journals and reviewed more than 100 articles. 

His research work is focused on the mathematical modelling and simulation of biological flows in deformable domains, Peristaltic flow of Newtonian and non-Newtonian fluids, microfluidics; CFD, Biomechanics; Numerical methods and biomechanics. 

Dr. Ravi Kumar Sharma has been working with Manipal University Jaipur as Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. He has total of 15 years of teaching and research experience in various reputed Indian and foreign universities. He earned his Ph.D. in Thermal Engineering from the University of Malaya, Malaysia, in 2016, and masters from BITS Pilani, India. He has published 25 research papers in international journals of repute and presented his research work in many international conferences in India and abroad. He has also written 4 book chapters and been a reviewer of many international journals. He has also delivered many invited/keynote speeches in FDP/STTP/Workshop and conferences. His current area of research is renewable energy and thermal energy storage, in particular solar energy. His primary research is focused on the development of phase change materials or rapid heat transfer by enhancing their thermal conductivity. He is also working on the development of carbon-based materials. His research is being cited globally, and one of his papers has been in the top downloaded articles and most cited in the journal for more than a year. 

 


Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Energy Systems and Nanotechnology

  • Editors: Dharmendra Tripathi, R. K. Sharma

  • Series Title: Advances in Sustainability Science and Technology

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-1256-5

  • Publisher: Springer Singapore

  • eBook Packages: Energy, Energy (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2021

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-16-1255-8Published: 28 May 2021

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-981-16-1258-9Published: 29 May 2022

  • eBook ISBN: 978-981-16-1256-5Published: 27 May 2021

  • Series ISSN: 2662-6829

  • Series E-ISSN: 2662-6837

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XV, 384

  • Number of Illustrations: 18 b/w illustrations, 133 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Renewable and Green Energy, Nanotechnology, Nanotechnology and Microengineering

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eBook USD 149.00
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Softcover Book USD 199.99
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