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.

Autorentext

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.

Inhalt

Theme 1: Solar Photovoltaic (PV) technologies.- Theme 2: Energy Storage and Conversion.- Theme 3: Energy Systems - Policy/Economics/Optimization/Efficiency/Management.- Theme 4: Renewable Energy (RE) Technologies.- Theme 5: IC Engines/Biofuels/Conventional fuels (Coal, Oil, and Gas), Nuclear and Non-conventional energy resources.- Theme 6: Power Electronics and Systems/Microgrids.- Theme 7: Industry experience in energy innovations.