Energy Storage and Conservation

Environmental impact assessment of Indian coal based power-generating units - A comprehensive review.- Asymmetric Laminar Micropolar Fluid Flow through a Channel by Analytical Method.- Squeezing MHD flow along with heat transfer between parallel plates by using the differential transform method.- Resilient design for the photovoltaic system under obstructed irradiance to achieve enhanced energy.- Mechanical properties of novel gel-polymer electrolytes for flexible super capacitors.- An Overview of the Selection of Materials in City Gas Distribution Value Chain.- An Overview on the Selection of Material in LNG Value Chain.- Lead-free piezoelectric materials for medical diligence.- Investigations on tensile behaviour of 3D printed PLA-GF-PLA sandwich composite structures.- Recent advances in Pharmaceutical degradation using Fenton oxidation.- A Geospatial approach to monitoring Land Use and Land Cover dynamics: A review.- Geochemical Evaluation of Geothermal Energy in active province ofGujarat, India.- A Comprehensive review of potential sites for CO2 Sequestration in India.- Economic analysis of Pumped storage hydropower technology.- Environmental impact of drilling fluid waste and its mitigation techniques.- Intelligent EOR Screening using Fuzzy Logic.- New Insights on Digital Transformation for Petroleum Industry.- Investigation on risk assessment by Monte Carlo Analysis (MCS).- Generation of green hydrogen using semiconductor-based nanomaterials.- Surface morphology studies on Al-Steel dissimilar friction stir spot joints.- Solution for Optimal Power Flow Problem Using WDO Algorithm.

Akhila Kumar Sahu, Senior Scientist, serving Central Electrochemical Research Institute - Madras Unit, CSIR Madras Complex, Chennai since 2008. He obtained his Ph.D. degree in Chemistry from the University of Madras, India in 2009. He was a Senior Research Fellow at National Aerospace Laboratories, Bangalore, during the period 2002-2005. In 2005, he joined Central Electrochemical Research Institute as a Senior Research Fellow and became Research Associate in the same institute during 2006-2008 and devoted his research work to the field of Materials Sciences and Fuel Cell Technologies. He worked as a Post Doctoral Researcher, at DGIST, Daegu, South Korea, for 1 year during 2012-2013. Presently, he has about 77 research publications in peer-reviewed journals, 3 international patents, and 1 book chapter to his credit. His present research activities include the development of composite membranes for PEMFCs operation at elevated temperature and reduced relative humidity, newmembrane materials for mitigating methanol cross-over in DMFCs, Synthesis of nano-porous/mesoporous carbon materials for fuel cell electrodes, Pt-based, non-precious and non-metallic electrocatalysts for oxygen reduction reaction (ORR), etc.

Bhim Charan Meikap, Professor& Head Department of Chemical Engineering serving the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur since 2004. He obtained his Ph.D. degree in Chemical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur in 2001. In 2004, he joined the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT), in Bangkok, Thailand as Visiting Assistant Professor. He also worked as an Assistant Professor National Institute of Technology since 1997. He was also the Chairman, of GATE/JAM 2015, Vice-Chairman, of GATE/JAM 2014 & 2013His recent work on CO2 adoption has been widely appreciated. He has received Excellence Award from NBCFDC, Ministry of Social Justice, Govt. of India awarded to IIT Kharagpur for demonstrating