Research Grants
Concept to realization: Combined thermal wave heat and mass recovery cycle based compact and efficient solar adsroption cooling/heating system (PI), SERB CRG, India.
A novel hybrid solar thermal power and desalination plant for remote areas (Co-PI), DST, India.
Cascaded Latent Heat Storage (CLHS) for high temperature CSP applications material development and characterization to lab-scale setup (PI), DST, India, 2018-2022.
Thermal modeling of PCM cool Vest and PCM warm jacket (PI), Defence Research & Development Organisation, Defence Laboratoty, Jodhpur, India 11/09/2015 -10/09/2017,1-D, 2-D thermal modelling, experimental set-up.
Thermal analysis of direct steam generation from single and binary PCM heat storage device (PI), IIT Jodhpur, Seed Grant, 30/10/2015 -29/10/2018, 2-D thermal modelling, Storage type heat exchanger design.
Establishment of centre of excellence in solar thermal research and education at IIT Jodhpur (Co-PI), MNRE, 24/09/2011 - 23/09/2016, Establishment of Solar Air Tower Simulator with cascaded pebble bed sensible heat storage unit.
Hybrid: Latent and Sensible heat thermal storage system for medium and high temperature CSP applications (Co-PI), IMPRINT (MNRE), 3 years.