Advances in Energy Research, Vol. 1

1. Front Matter

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2. Study of Soiling Effect on Inclined Photovoltaic Surfaces

   • Sumon Dey, Veena Aishwarya, Bala Pesala

   Pages 1-8

3. Efficiency Enhancement of Betanin Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells Using Plasmon-Enhanced Silver Nanoparticles

   • S. Sreeja, S. Prabhakaran, Bala Pesala

   Pages 9-18

4. Improving the Short-Wavelength Spectral Response of Multi-crystalline Silicon Solar Cells by ZnS Downshifting Phosphor Nanoparticles

   • Amruta Pattnaik, Som Mondal, Monika Tomar, Vinay Gupta, B. Prasad

   Pages 19-28

5. SiO2 Grating-Based Photonic Structures as Ideal Narrowband Emitter for Solar Thermophotovoltaics Application

   • M. V. N. Surendra Gupta, Ameen Elikkottil, Bala Pesala

   Pages 29-35

6. Reduction of Escape Cone Losses in Luminescent Solar Concentrators Using High-Contrast Gratings

   • Ameen Elikkottil, Kiran Vaddi, K. S. Reddy, Bala Pesala

   Pages 37-43

7. Agri-Voltaic System for Crop Production and Electricity Generation from a Single Land Unit

   • Priyabrata Santra, R. K. Singh, H. M. Meena, R. N. Kumawat, Dhananjay Mishra, D. Machiwal et al.

   Pages 45-56

8. Comparison of Different Photovoltaic Array Configurations Under Partial Shading Condition

   • Vandana Jha, Uday Shankar Triar

   Pages 57-68

9. Effect of Thermal Stress over High-Efficiency Solar Photovoltaic Modules in real operating condition

   • Rashmi Singh, Madhu Sharma, Rahul Rawat, Chandan Banerjee

   Pages 69-79

10. Enhancement of Visible Light Driven Photovoltaic Efficiency Upon Copper Incorporation to Silver Indium Sulfide Nanocrystals

    • Jit Satra, Bibhutosh Adhikary

    Pages 81-88

11. Improved Analytical Model for Electrical Efficiency of Semitransparent Photovoltaic (PV) Module

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

    Pages 89-99

12. Dielectric-Coated Metal-Integrated Lightweight Solar Panel

    • Prosenjit Bose, S. V. Narasimhamurthy, Ajith Shetty, Bhagwati Bharadwaj, Tapan Kumar Rout, A. N. Bhagat et al.

    Pages 101-114

13. Study on Spray-Deposited Cu2ZnSnS4 Thin Films: Deposition and Physical Properties

    • Jitendra P. Sawant, Rohidas B. Kale

    Pages 115-124

14. Cogeneration of Power and Desalination Using Concentrated Photovoltaic/Thermal Humidification and Dehumidification System

    • B. Anand, T. Srinivas

    Pages 125-137

15. Computational Fluid Dynamic (CFD) Analysis of Air-Based Photovoltaic Thermal System

    • T. M. Sathe, A. S. Dhoble, Sandeep Joshi, Chidanand Mangrulkar

    Pages 139-150

16. Synthesis of One-Dimensional Bismuth Sulfide Nanoparticle with Enhanced Photovoltaic Properties

    • Arpita Sarkar, Bibhutosh Adhikary

    Pages 151-157

17. Effect of Forced Convection Cooling on Performance of Solar Photovoltaic Module in Rooftop Applications

    • Arunendra K. Tiwari, Rohit Kumar, Rohan R. Pande, Sanjay K. Sharma, Vilas R. Kalamkar

    Pages 159-172

18. Influence of Deposition Temperature on the Si Richness in SiC-Based Thin Films for Optoelectronic Applications

    • S. Sam Baskar, Giri Goutham, Job Sandeep, Fabrice Gourbilleau, R. Pratibha Nalini

    Pages 173-181

19. Optimization of TiO2 for Low-Temperature Dopant-Free Crystalline Silicon Solar Cells

    • Swasti Bhatia, Irfan M. Khorakiwala, Kurias K. Markose, Neha Raorane, Pradeep R. Nair, Aldrin Antony

    Pages 183-189

20. Copper Oxide Phase Change During Pulsed Laser Deposition of SrTiO3

    • Garima Aggarwal, Ashish K. Singh, Sandeep K. Maurya, K. R. Balasubramaniam

    Pages 191-197

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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