This course “Renewable Energy Technologies and Their Uses” covers the concept of Solar Radiation, their characteristics and how to estimate solar radiation. Design of various solar thermal technologies like Solar Cooker, Solar water heater, solar air heater, Solar dryer and Solar still has also been discussed. Solar Photovoltaic Principles, Power Generation, construction and working of Solar Lantern, Solar Pump and solar street lighting have also been focused upon. The course also covers areas like Biomass Energy and Technologies for Biogas plants. Details of Solar Active and Passive Buildings have also been highlighted to give the learners a holistic learning
1. G.D. Rai, Non conventional energy sources, Khanna publication
2. G.N. Tiwari, Solar Energy: Fundamentals, Design, Modeling and Applications, Narosa Publication
3. S.P. Sukhatme, Solar Energy, Tata McGraw Hill Publishing Company Ltd., New Delhi
Dr. Sanjay Agrawal completed his PhD
from Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi and his Post Doctoral Fellowship was
from Smart Grid Energy Research Centre, University of California, Los Angeles
(UCLA), California, USA. He was awarded the prestigious Bhaskara Solar Energy
Fellowship from the Indo-US Science and Technology Forum (IUSSTF) and
Department of Science and Technology (DST). He has 18 years of rich teaching
and research experience. He has coordinated Programmes like B.Tech in
Electrical Engineering, B.Tech in Electronics and Communication Engineering,
Diploma in Electrical Engineering and Diploma in Electronics and Communication
Engineering under Vertical Integrated Engineering Programme from 2012 to 2019
and is currently working as Programme Coordinator for PG Certificate in
Industrial Safety Programme. He has also contributed on module (Solar energy
and its application) for MOOCs under Awareness programme on solar Energy
application–water pump which is available on SWAYAM. He as also developed
course “Principles of Electrical Science” for MOOCs which is available on
SWAYAM. His industrial experience includes
working in MNCs like Johnson Control (I) Pvt Ltd and on Projects like
“Automatic power factor correction” sponsored by Applied Electro-Magnetic (P)
Ltd, Noida. He has also worked on two projects as co-PI sponsored by CSVTU,
Bhilai. He presented papers in Sweden, Spain and USA and has given invited
talks in reputed organizations. Other
than teaching and research, he has also contributed as member in project
evaluation committees of Technical Universities within and outside of India,
evaluation board for different committees of AICTE, technical committees of
international conferences and selection committees of different bodies. He has
also been involved in examination related activities of national agencies,
state public service commission and other Universities. He has guided 06 PhD scholars
and 03 are in progress and also been a PhD evaluator for Universities across
India. He is also member of editorial board and panel of reviewers of reputed
international Journals. He has published more than 60 papers in international
journal and conferences and authored two books. As per Google Scholar citation,
total citation is more than 1200, his i-10 index and h-index are 25 and 20
respectively. His areas of research interest are hybrid solar thermal, grid
connected photovoltaic system, energy, carbon trading, and power system and
circuit theory.
For more information, one can visit my IGNOU website and Google
scholar:
http://www.ignou.ac.in/ignou/
https://scholar.google.com/
Dr. Sanjay Agrawal
Associate Professor, Electrical Engineering
School of Engineering and Technology, IGNOU, New Delhi 110068
Email: sanjay.agrawal@ignou.ac.in
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