Facilities for undertaking Doctoral studies in "Alternate Hydro Energy Systems" and other renewable energy technology as well as "Environmental Management of Rivers and Lakes" are available at the department. Full-time and part-time candidates are accepted for this programme as per the rules of the Institute.
Research Area of HRED
Renewable Energy:
Small Hydro Power: Investigations, Planning, Designs, Economic and Financial Analysis Policy, Cost optimisation, tariff analysis. Planning, Investigation and Designs of SHP, Planning, Design & Analysis of Civil Works of SHP & related Software Development, Energy Economics and Policy, Small Hydro turbine design and performance testing, Silt erosion in hydro turbines, Optimal selection of SHP equipment. Solar Energy: Cost optimization of SHP schemes, Solar thermal energy storage & utilization: performance enhancement of solar air heaters, packed bed sensible heat storage system. Design and selection of generators for SHP for rural electrification, SPV Power and wind power plants and their interconnection with grid, Bio-energy: biodiesel production, biomass gasification; biogas generation, Modelling of IRES & HES systems.
Environmental Management:
Environmental Management of Water Bodies, Project Management, Cumulative Environment Impact Assessment, GHG Emissions from Hydropower Reservoir, MSW Dump Sites/ landfill gas sites, Rivers Water Quality Mapping, Ecological Health & carrying capacity of rivers, Waste Water Treatment, Cumulative Environment Impact Assessment.
Research leading to Ph.D. degree
A. Ongoing
S.No | Name | Title | Supervisor(s) | Date of Registration |
1. | Souvik Roy | 17.08.2020 | ||
2. | Robins Anto (QIP) | 17.08.2020 | ||
3. | Ankush Jageshwar Hedau | 17.08.2020 | ||
4. | Akanksha Chauhan | 17.08.2020 | ||
5. | Abhishek Tarun | 17.08.2020 | ||
6. | Pooja Upadhyay | 16.08.2020 | ||
7. | Sunil Kumar Sethy | 16.08.2020 | ||
8. | Krishna Kumar (PT) | Study of Hydro Power Plants | Prof. R. P. Saini | 12.07.2019 |
9. | Naman Arora | Hydro Power | Prof. Arun Kumar Prof. S. K. Singal |
12.07.2019 |
10. | Priya Gupta | Solar Energy | Prof. Rhythm Singh | 12.07.2019 |
11. | Achintya Goswami (Spon-PT) | Grid Integration of Renewable Energy System | Prof. R. P. Saini | 27.12.2018 |
12. | Polamarasetty P Kumar (QIP) | Integrated Hybrid Renewable Energy System for Off-grid Rural Electrification | Prof. R. P. Saini | 09.07.2018 |
13. | Saumya Arya | Urban Storm Water Resilience | Prof. Arun Kumar | 06.07.2018 |
14. | Siddhita Yadav | Performance Enhancement of Solar Air Heater by using Corrugated Absorber Plate with Jet Impingement | Prof. R. P. Saini | 06.07.2018 |
15. | Shraiya Pant | Optimization of Solar Water Pumping System | Prof. R. P. Saini | 06.07.2018 |
16. | Firoz Khan | Unsteady Pressure loading in Francis Turbine | Prof. Arun Kumar Dr. Thomas Staubli |
06.07.2018 |
17. | Vishal Saini | Integrated Renewable Energy System for Remote Rural Area | Prof. S. K. Singal Prof. R. P. Saini |
28.12.2017 |
18. | Abhishek Gautam | Performance Investigation of a Packed Bed Solar Energy Storage System having spheres with pores as packing elements | Prof. R. P. Saini | 28.12.2017 |
19. | Kirti Goyal | Decision Support System for Treated Wastewater Reuse | Prof. Arun Kumar | 28.12.2017 |
20. | Sandeep Kumar | Studies on Production and Utilization of Bio diesel from Mixed Oils | Prof. M. K. Singhal Prof. M. P. Sharma |
28.12.2017 |
21. | Charmala Surresh | Investigation of a Combined Sensible and Latent Heat Solar Thermal Energy storage system | Prof. R. P. Saini | 07.07.2017 |
22. | Penugonda Sunil Babu | Evolving a Mathematical Model for Estimating Wind Energy Resource potential | Prof. M. K. Singhal Prof. R. P. Saini |
07.07.2017 |
23. | Patel Harshadkumar Dahyalal (QIP-PT) | Development of Integrated Renewable Energy System for a Rural Area | Prof. S. K. Singal Prof. R. P. Saini |
26.12.2016 |
24. | Vaibhav Mohan Das | Investigation on Optimal Design of Diversion Weir for Small Hydro Power projects | Prof. M. K. Singhal Prof. S. K. Singal |
26.12.2016 |
25. | Nitin Kumar Jhankal (Spon-PT) | Experimental Analysis of Pressure Fluctuation in Hhydro Turbines | Prof. Arun Kumar | 28.07.2016 |
26. | Sanat Kumar Patro (QIP-PT) | Solar Energy | Prof. R. P. Saini | 08.07.2016 |
27. | Manoj Sood | Development of Model for Potential Assessment of Hydrokinetic Energy | Prof. S. K. Singal | 08.07.2016 |
28. | Akshita Gupta | Optimization and Prediction of Hydro Power with other Renewable Energy | Prof. Arun Kumar | 08.07.2016 |
29. | Saurabh Sangal (PT) | Hydro Power | Prof. M. K. Singhal Prof. G. S. Tomar Prof. R. P. Saini |
08.07.2016 |
30. | Dixit Kumar Praful Kumar Pathak (QIP-PT) | Integrated Renewable Energy System | Prof. D. K. Khatod | 11.01.2016 |
31. | Rajesh Kumar (QIP-PT) | Integrated Pumped Storage Scheduling | Prof. Arun Kumar | 08.07.2015 |
32. | Rahul Kumar Garg (QIP) | Analysis of Hydraulic Transients in Hydro Power Plant | Prof. Arun Kumar | 09.07.2014 |
33. | Prem Prakash (QIP-PT) | Optimal Sizing and Siting of Distributed Generation | Prof. D. K. Khatod | 26.07.2013 |
34. | Ramjee Lal Meena (QIP-PT) | Development of Control Strategies for DC Micro-Grid | Prof. D. K. Khatod Prof. Avik Bhattacharya |
26.07.2013 |
35. | Surender Singh Tanwar (QIP-PT) | Optimal Planning of Distributed Generation for Distributed Network | Prof. D. K. Khatod | 12.07.2013 |