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
Before
assuming charge as Pro Vice-Chancellor of Chhattisgarh Swami Vivekanand
Technical University (CSVTU) Bhilai, Prof. Sanjay Agrawal was Professor in
Electrical Engineering, School of Engineering and Technology, Indira Gandhi
National Open University (IGNOU), New Delhi. He is the recipient of prestigious
Bhaskara Solar Energy Fellowship from the Indo-US Science and Technology Forum
(IUSSTF) and Department of Science and Technology (DST), India. This led him to
his Post Doctoral Fellowship from Smart Grid Energy Research Centre, University
of California, Los Angeles (UCLA),USA. Prof Agrawal received his Ph.D. from Indian
Institute of Technology, Delhi. He has 20 years of rich teaching and research
experience with specialization in Electrical Engineering. He has published more
than 80 papers in international journals and authored three books. According to
Google Scholar, his total citation is over 1940 with i-10 index 31 and h-index
23.He has presented papers in Sweden, Spain and USA and has given more than 50
invited talks in reputed organizations. He has also published a patents, titled
‘Improved Hybrid Solar Collector’, ‘Hybrid Photovoltaic Thermal Apparatus with
V-Groove Absorber” and Sheet and tubes based hybrid photovoltaic thermal
system.
His
areas of interest include grid connected photovoltaic system, micro-grids, solar
PV water pumping systems, power electronics, electrical machines, circuit
theory, power systems and hybrid solar thermal.
His
industrial experience includes working with MNCs like Johnson Control (I) PVT
Ltd. He has worked on Projects like ‘Automatic power factor correction’ funded
by Applied Electro-Magnetic (P) Ltd, ‘Improved hybrid solar cooker’ and ‘green
house dryer’ funded by TEQIP through CSVTU, Bhilai. He has guided 08 Ph.D.
scholars so far and is a member of editorial board and panel of reviewers of
reputed international journals.
He has designed and developed industry
oriented programme like PG Certificate and PG Diploma in Industrial Safety. He
also coordinates a skill oriented certificate course for technicians in
Motorcycle Service Repair which is now also being offered to South African
countries through IGNOU-GOAL, Guyana Project.
He
has also developed two Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs), one on ‘Principles
of Electrical Science’ and the other on ‘Renewable Energy Technologies and
Their Uses’ which is available on SWAYAM. He has also contributed two modules
to another MOOC of SWAYAM on ‘Solar Energy and its Applications’. On the
SWAYAMPRABHA channel of Ministry of Education, he coordinates a course on
‘Electrical and Mechanical Safety’. His lectures are regularly telecasted on
Gyan Darshan channel, Gyan vani radio
and official facebook page of IGNOU. His
digital content is also available on Egyankosh, the digital repository of
IGNOU.
He
has been a member of project evaluation committees of Technical Universities
within and outside of India, has been on evaluation board for different
committees of AICTE, Public service commission, 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 is a member of
Academic Council, IGNOU and Board member of School of Engineering and School of
Education, IGNOU as well as chaired different committees within the University.
In addition to this, he has coordinated many Faculty Development Programme
(FDP)/workshop/short-term courses sponsored by AICTE and CSTT, Ministry of
Education.
Prof Agrawal is a Fellow of Institution of
Engineers, India (FIE) and Charted
Engineer of Institution of Engineers, India. He is also senior member of Institute of
Electrical and Electronics Engineers, USA (SMIEEE).
Prof Sanjay Agrawal
Pro Vice Chancellor
Chhattisgarh Swami Vivekanand Technical University
(CSVTU), Bhilai
M no: +91- 9999266576 (M)
Tel no: +91 -0788-2445010( O)
(On Deputation from Indira Gandhi National Open
University (IGNOU), New Delhi)
Email:
Google scholar link:
https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=list_works&hl=en&user=JZroyGIAAAAJ
Research gate link:
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/S-Agrawal-2
LinkedIn link:
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/S-Agrawal-2
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