Course Co-ordinator

Prof. Dibakar Rakshit Associate Professor

Indian Institute of Technology

Delhi

CEP Short Term Course

9th – 13th March, 2020

Centre for Energy Studies,

Indian Institute of Technology Delhi,

Hauz Khas, New Delhi - 110016

SCOPE OF THE COURSE

The course focuses on relevant topics on energy storage, which is regarded as the alternative

to extract energy when conventional sources are not available. Apart from this, the course will

provide a basic background in energy storage devices intended for students with interests in

the control of thermal and electrical energy systems with applications ranging from research

level to real-time industrial purposes. Recent scientific and technological developments in this

area show that energy storage devices can be used in various applications ranging from

automobile, space, agriculture, building construction, to medical. The objective of this course

is to provide a common platform to scientists, engineers and technologists working in academia

and industry to discuss the fundamental and recent advances in the field of processing and

application of energy storage devices.

LEARNING OUTCOMES

Knowledge:

Upon successful completion of this course, participants will have a clear understanding of types

of energy storage devices and how to apply this knowledge to the design and analysis of

equipment.

Skills:

The successful completion of the course will enable the participants to understand and

appreciate various storage options which could be coupled with power generation and

consumption utilities as measures for achieving energy sustainability. The participants will also

acquire the ability to assess the performance of existing energy storage technologies and offer

novel solutions for energy conservation through its adequate storage.

General competence:

This course will also inculcate communication and discussion skills in participants on current

setback in the industrial sector on technical and feasibility aspects of energy storage for peak

hour demand. Demand side management skills along with the grid related technical terms and

the ability to answer questions on feasibility and awareness of the importance of these storage

devices for the modern society will also be attained by the participants.

COURSE CONTENTS

Introduction to energy storage; Electrochemical storage systems; Electrical Energy Storage;

Energy Storage Options in Buildings; Application of Energy Storage Systems for Heat

Exchanger Design; Electrical energy storage and key characteristics; Battery Thermal

Management System; Hybrid Energy storage systems; Lab Session (Afternoon)

TARGET AUDIENCE

The course is designed for engineers and scientists working in the areas of Energy Storage.

The course strength is intended to be kept under 15 participants to maintain high quality of

instruction. Applications will be shortlisted on the basis of shortlisting criteria as per CEP

norms.

COURSE COORDINATOR

Prof. Dibakar Rakshit, Associate Professor, Centre for Energy Studies (CES), Indian Institute

of Technology Delhi (IIT Delhi).

FOR ANY QUERY

For any query mail us at:

Ms. Ashima Verma: esz198262@ces.iitd.ac.in,

Mr. Rahul Kumar Sharma: Rahul.Kumar.Sharma@ces.iitd.ac.in or

Prof. Dibakar Rakshit: dibakar@ces.iitd.ac.in

ABOUT OUR INSTRUCTORS

Prof. Dibakar Rakshit,

Associate Professor, CES, IIT Delhi

Prof. Dibakar Rakshit has more than sixteen years of experience in

studying thermofluid sciences pertaining to design and optimization

of energy systems. His special interests lie in thermofluid studies of

thermal energy storage systems for different applications, solar

thermal coupled heat exchanger designs, energy conservation in

buildings, battery thermal management systems, solar assisted

refrigeration systems, and multiphase flows. In the context of

thermal energy storage systems, his interests are mainly in the area

of utilization of phase change materials (PCMs) for building

application, thermal energy storage system for medium temperature

applications, high temperature latent heat storage systems for

renewable energy applications, PCM based thermal energy storage systems

for process applications and battery thermal management in electric vehicles by applying PCM.

Prof. Rakshit has secured funding for 2 research projects from the Department of Science and

Technology (DST) in utilization of PCMs for façade optimization. He is leading design and

development of grid independent solar assisted vapour adsorption systems in the Indo-Trento

ITPAR program. He has strong research collaborations with Australian universities. His Ph.D.

at the University of Western Australia involved studies of multiphase mass transfer

phenomenon related to thermal diffusion of Liquefied Natural Gas (cryogenic fluids). From

there, Prof. Rakshit developed his deep interest for thermal energy storage and pursued it

further in his post-doctoral research at the Australian Solar Thermal Research Initiative

(ASTRI), CSIRO, Australia. After joining IIT Delhi as an Assistant Professor, Prof. Rakshit

continued his study on the thermal energy storage capacity of materials that can have different

applications. He has also received funding from IIT Delhi for developing building material

characterization laboratory. Prof. Rakshit currently has a team of 9 Ph.D. students and 5

Master’s students who are working in the field of thermofluids, and energy conservation

utilizing the possibility of freely available resources like solar energy and internal heat gains.

Since last 4 years, he is working in the area of thermal energy storage where the main aim is to

store the thermal energy utilize minimum energy to mitigate the carbon footprint as well as

thermal energy storage. Corresponding results have been communicated in top-tier journal

including ASME Journal of Solar Energy Engineering, ASCE Journal of Architectural

Engineering, and Energy Storage. He has to his credit more than 32 journal publications, 40

refereed conference papers, 6 technical reports and 8 book chapters. He has also applied for a

patent which is under initial investigation. Apart from this, he is also a member of Renewable

Energy Sources Sectional Committee of Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) and Bureau of

Energy Efficiency (BEE) committee member for Development of operational guidelines for

implementation of ECBC

Prof. S. C. Kaushik

Emeritus Professor, CES, IIT Delhi

Prof. S. C. Kaushik, currently an emeritus Professor at Centre for

Energy Studies, IIT Delhi, received his Ph.D. in Plasma Science from

IIT Delhi after his distinguished First Position in Master's degree in

Science (Electronics) from Meerut University. His research fields of

activities include Plasma Science & Thermal Science and

Engineering; Energy Conservation & Heat Recovery, Solar

Refrigeration & Airconditioning, Solar Architecture, and Thermal

Storage & Power Generation. He has made significant contributions in

these fields as evident by his above 300 research publications in Journals of repute at national

and international levels. He is a pioneer researcher on Exergy Analysis and Finite time

thermodynamics of Energy Systems at National & International level and a leading expert

on Alternative Refrigeration and Air Conditioning Technologies. He has guided 40 Ph.D.

Theses and 60 M. Tech. Projects. Prof. Kaushik has authored five books of the first kind on

“Solar Refrigeration & space-conditioning (1989)”, “Thermal Control in Passive Solar

Buildings” (1989), “Greenhouse Science & Technology” (2006), “Alternative Energy

Resources” (2010) and “Energy and Environment Laboratory Experiments” (2011). He has

also edited two volumes of Book on “Advances in contemporary Physics & Energy” and

Forwarded two books on Energy Conservation and Energy Savings in Industries. Earlier

Prof. Kaushik has been a Post-doctoral research Fellow at Queensland University Brisbane,

(Australia) during 1980-81, Visiting Professor at LES-IIM-UNAM (Mexico) during 1985-

86 and Madam Curie Visiting Fellow of European Commission at LIMSI-CNRS, Paris

(France) during 1995. He has been a distinguished teacher and Coordinator of

Interdisciplinary Postgraduate teaching programmes on Energy Studies and Energy and

Environment Management in Centre for Energy Studies for the period 2000-2005. He has

contributed to various sponsored/consultancy projects at IITD in the field of Energy

Conservation, Solar thermal devices and Building Space conditioning. His specific

contributions on Energy Systems have been recognized by national and international awards

to his credit viz. Young Scientist UNESCO Award (1986), Hariom Prerit S.S. Bhatnagar

Award (1988), and Divyajyoti Science and Technology Award (1990). Prof. Kaushik has

been a member of ISES (Australia) & IIR (France) and Life member of various other

professional societies viz SESI, PSSI, ISTE, ISHRAE and ISME etc. He has been National

Project Director cum Coordinator of MNRE Sponsored Renewable Energy Fellowship

Programme (2005-2010) and Head, Hindi Management Cell at IIT Delhi for 2005 - 2009.

Prof. S.C. Kaushik has also been nominated as Expert member for Advisory & Selection

Boards of various organizations like ONGC-Energy Centre, GERMI, MNRE, TERI, BEE,

BIS, BMTPC, NTPC, CSIR and DST etc. He has visited several countries viz. USA, Canada,

France, Australia, Saudi Arabia, Netherland, Holland, Mexico, USSR and Belarus as invited

speaker in various International Conferences & Workshops. He is also a nominated Fellow

of Institution of Engineers (India) to his credit for the recognition of his significant

contribution in Applied Science & Engineering. He is on Editorial Board of Applied Thermal

Engineering Published by Elsevier Press (U.K.) and Expert Reviewer in many other National

/ International Journals of repute. Professor S. C. Kaushik has been former Head, Centre for

Energy Studies during 2007 - 2010.

Prof. K. A. Subramanian

Professor and Head, CES, IIT Delhi

Prof. K.A. Subramanian, Professor and current Head of Centre for Energy

Studies, IIT Delhi has his research interests in alternative fueled internal

combustion engines. Prior to joining this Institute, he worked as a Scientist

in Indian Institute of Petroleum after he received his Doctoral degree in

Internal Combustion Engines (Mechanical Engineering) from Indian

Institute of Technology Madras. He has completed several sponsored

research projects in the area of alternative fuel use in internal combustion

engines / vehicles. He has recently developed the technology for utilization

of hydrogen in spark ignition engines (with reduced oxides of nitrogen

emission and backfire) for electrical power generation with collaboration of oil

and engine manufacturers. He is currently developing the technology for utilization of dimethyl

ether in compression ignition engines/ vehicles with collaboration of oil and automotive

industries. He has also developed alcohol fueled engine, biogas vehicle, dual fuel engine

(Hydrogen-Diesel, CNG-Diesel, Biogas-Diesel) and energy efficiency improvement using

oxy-combustion. Prof. Subramanian has developed many number of courses including

Hydrogen Energy, Zero Emission Vehicles, Emission Control in Internal Combustion Engines,

Carbon Capture and Storage and Organic Waste to Energy Conversion Technology. He has

guided several doctoral scholars and has published several research papers in reputed journals,

symposium, conferences and workshops. He has also filed two patents so far. He is the author

of the book “Biofueled Reciprocating Internal Combustion Engines” and co-author of another

book “Alternative Transportation Fuels: Utilization in Combustion Engines” published by

CRC Press (Taylor & Francis Group).

Prof. Vamsi K. Komarala

Professor, CES, IIT Delhi

Prof. Vamsi K. Komarala is a Professor at Centre for Energy Studies, IIT

Delhi. He received M. Sc. degree in Physics from the Sri Venkateswara

University, Tirupati in 1996; M. Tech. degree in Energy Science and

Technology from the Jadavpur University, Kolkata in 1999; and Ph. D.

on thin-film heterojunction solar cells from IIT Delhi in 2004. He

worked as a post-doctoral fellow in the School of Physics of Trinity

College Dublin, Ireland for 3 years, and as a research associate at the

Dept. of Physics, University of Arkansas, USA for 3 years on the topics;

Quantum dots’ excitons and metal nanoparticles’ surface plasmons

interaction, and Resonant energy transfer between excitons and plasmons for

enhancing quantum dots’ photoluminescence efficiency. Since 2010, he is associated with IIT

Delhi. His primary interest was on implementation of Plasmonics and Nanophotonics concepts

for enhancing solar cell performance under 3rd generation solar cell concepts. Now, his present

research interest is on silicon hetero-junction and carrier-selective contact solar cells

fabrication and characterization. He teaches Solar photovoltaic devices, and Direct energy

conversion methods to inspire and also to provide knowledge/understanding for the under-

/post-graduate students.

Prof. Ashu Verma

Associate Professor, CES, IIT Delhi

Prof. Ashu Verma, an Associate Professor at Centre for Energy Studies,

IIT Delhi, has more than twelve years of experience in power system

operation, analysis and optimization. Her special interests lie in

understanding and tackling the challenges of large scale integration

of RE sources and Electric Vehicles to future electric grids

specifically in Indian context. She received her B. Tech. degree in

Electrical Engineering from NIT Hamirpur in 2001, M. Tech in

Power Systems from IIT Delhi in 2002 and Ph. D. in Transmission

Expansion Planning from Electrical Engineering Department, IIT

Delhi in 2010. She worked as an Assistant Engineer in Nathpa Jhakri

Hydro Electric Project, H.P. (2002-2004), lecturer in Jaypee Institute of

Information Technology, Noida (2004-2005), Assistant Professor in TERI

University, Delhi (2009-2010) and Gautam Buddha University, Greater Noida (2010-2012).

She joined the Centre for Energy Studies in July, 2012. After joining IIT Delhi as an Assistant

Professor in 2012, she has been guiding master's and Ph. D. students in the area of Renewable

Energy and Electrical Power Systems and taught various courses such as Operation and

Control of Electrical Energy Systems, Electrical Energy Conservation and Management,

Power System Analysis and Optimization. She has been actively involved in various

administrative activities at the centre and institute, including Convener, CRC (Jan 2017

onwards), Convener Faculty Board (2016-2017), Faculty In-charge, Energy Forum, CES

(2012-2017), Coordinator, Open House, team member, “Day Care Development Committee

(DCMC)", etc. She is a senior member, IEEE and is actively involved in many IEEE Delhi

section chapter(s) activities. She has several publications in Journals/Conferences at

International level.

Prof. Ravi Kumar

Assistant Professor, CES, IIT Delhi

Prof. Ravi Kumar, an Assistant Professor at Centre for Energy Studies, IIT

Delhi, has research interests in design and development of efficient and

cost effective solar thermal power systems for various applications like

desalination, process heating, power generation and so on. He is also

focused on development of thermal energy storage technologies for

medium and high temperature applications. Prof. Ravi Kumar received

his Ph.D. from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras in 2012. At

IIT Madras, he worked on investigation of energy efficient receiver for line-

focus concentrating solar power (CSP) systems such as parabolic trough

collector and linear Fresnel reflector for process heating and power generation

applications. He also worked on solar field design, feasibility study of large scale CSP plants

and multi-stage solar desalination system and so on. After his Ph. D., he worked as a

postdoctoral fellow at ABB Corporate Research Center, Bangalore for a year. Then, he joined

as an Associate Scientist in the same organization in July 2013 and promoted as Scientist in

2014. His research work at ABB Corporate Research Center includes solar aided thermal power

generation, solar heat for process heating applications and multi-physics modelling of

secondary steel making (continuous casting) process & measurement devices. Since November

2016, he has been a part of Centre for Energy Studies, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi.

Prof. Sumit K. Chattopadhyay

Assistant Professor, CES, IIT Delhi

Prof. Sumit K. Chattopadhyay received Ph. D. in Electrical Engineering

from IIT Kharagpur in 2016. He has nearly 5 years of industrial

experience working in the areas of Power Electronic converters for

Renewable Energy, Naval Defence and HVDC. He has proposed a new

series of Multi Level Inverter Topology using Level Doubling Network

and has filed several patents and published papers on this topic. His

areas of research interest are power electronic converter topology,

modulation and control for renewable energy and smart grid. After

having B.E. degree in Electrical Engineering from Burdwan University,

Burdwan, India in 2004 and M. Tech. degree in Industrial Electrical

Systems from National Institute of Technology Durgapur in 2006, he joined

Larsen & Toubro Ltd., Navi Mumbai, India, where he was responsible for power

electronic system design of multiple industrial and mission-critical naval projects executed

for the first time in India. He worked in L&T until January 2010. From January 2010 to

March 2015, he was a full-time research scholar with Department of Electrical Engineering,

IIT Kharagpur, where he spent most of his time on topology, modulation, control and

application of high resolution multilevel inverters for renewable energy applications. From

March 2015 to July 2016, he has served as Scientist of HVDC Grid System R&D with ABB

Global Industries Service Ltd. in India, where he received a comprehensive training on VSC

based HVDC systems from the Corporate Research Centre of ABB located at Sweden. In

July 2016, he joined back to IIT Kharagpur as the first PDF of Electrical Engineering Dept.

to explore further the use of Level Doubling Network in various applications, where he was

also associated with several Ph. D. candidates to help their activities and contribute to the

UK-India consortium on Clean Energy. One of his proposed topologies is going to be

installed on the rooftop of Nalanda Complex of IIT Kharagpur to evacuate power from

90kWp solar PV array into the local grid. Prof. Chattopadhyay joined the Centre for Energy

Studies of IIT Delhi as an Assistant Professor in June 2018

Prof. Rahul Goyal

Assistant Professor, CES, IIT Delhi Prof. Rahul Goyal, an Assistant Professor at CES, IIT Delhi has research

interests in Experimental and numerical (CFD) study on hydraulic

turbines during Off-design and Transient operations to increase the

efficiency of turbine and to minimize dynamic pressure loading. He

received his Master’s degree in Hydro Energy (Mechanical) from IIT

Roorkee and Ph. D. in experimental and numerical fluid dynamics

(hydraulic turbines) from IIT Roorkee and Lulea Technical University,

Sweden. He worked as a Guest Researcher during Ph. D. at Norwegian

University of Science and Technology, Norway for almost a year (2015)

to conduct experimental and numerical studies on Francis turbine. After Ph.

D., he worked as a Project Fellow at IIT Roorkee from August, 2017 to March,

2018. Prof. Rahul has also worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow at Laboratoire des Écoulements

Géophysiques et Industriels (Laboratory of Geophysical and Industrial Flows), Grenoble-

INP, France from April, 2018 to October, 2018. Then, he worked as an Assistant Professor,

Mechanical Engineering Department at National Institute of Technology, Patna.

……………….. And Many more!!!!

REGISTRATION

A scanned copy of the proof of digital payment receipt must be sent to the course management

team through email on dibakar@ces.iitd.ac.in. The selection will be made on the basis of the

candidate’s area of relevance. Due preference will be given to the candidates pursuing research

aimed at topics related to energy storage. Accordingly, the confirmed candidates will be

notified.

Participants Registration fee

All participants INR 10,000 + 18% GST

Bank Details for e-transfer/RTGS/NEFT

Bank account no. 36819334799

Bank address State Bank of India, IIT Delhi, Hauz Khas New Delhi, 110016

Beneficiary IITD CEP ACCOUNT

IFSC code SBIN0001077

MICR code 110002156

Account type Saving

ACCOMMODATION

Boarding and lodging is to be arranged by the selected candidates themselves.

TRAVEL

No travelling allowances will be provided for the candidates.

IMPORTANT DATES

1. 27 February 2020: Last date for receipt of the registration payments.

Send the receipt of registration fee to esz198262@ces.iitd.ac.in,

Rahul.Kumar.Sharma@ces.iitd.ac.in and CC to dibakar@ces.iitd.ac.in.

2. 02 March 2020: Intimation to confirmed participants.

IIT Delhi CEP Account Details (for depositing registration fee)