Energy Systems Engineering (ESE) was founded in 1981 as an
inter-disciplinary group at IIT Bombay offering M.Tech. and Ph.D.
programmes. ESE has graduated about 280 M. Tech. and 25 Ph.Ds since its
inception and currently has an output of 25-30 postgraduate (M. Tech.,
Ph.D.) each year.
In 2007, the Board of Governors of IIT Bombay approved the growth of
Energy Systems Engineering into a Department of Energy Science and
Engineering (DESE).The new Department is expected to provide critical
manpower and research inputs that are critical for the growth of India's
energy sector and provide innovative energy technologies and systems to
mitigate the global problem of climate change.
DESE has started an integrated M.Sc.- Ph.D. programme in Energy from 2007
and is planning to start a Dual Degree (B.Tech - M.Tech.) programme in
Energy Systems Engineering from 2008. The projected student strength of
the Department is about 300 (in 2013) with a core faculty of
15-20 and another 30-40 associated from other departments in the
Institute.
The Department's research activities will focus on developing cost
effective renewables (e.g. thin film photovoltaics, low cost solar thermal
industrial heating, microbial fuel cells, bio-refinery) and energy
efficient devices and systems (process integration, benchmarking, heat
pumps, trigeneration, controllers, power electronics). The Department
will have a combination of fundamental experimental work on new materials
(nanomaterials for fuel cell, battery, hydrogen storage applications) and
system simulation and analysis capabilities. The Department is in the
process of strengthening existing research groups and catalyzing new
research groups and building new research facilities.
The Department will have a new building (approx 80,000ft2 of built up
area) as a zero energy building using passive solar, building integrated
PV, daylighting. Specialised laboratories being planned are the Efficiency
laboratory, Solar PV laboratory, Fuel cells and Hydrogen laboratory,
Energy Innovation Laboratory, Alternative fuels laboratory apart from the
existing Solar and Energy Systems Laboratories.
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 IC Engines
alternative Fuels
Energy use in Transport
Small Hydro
Wind energy
Solar PV
Fuel Cells
Solar Pond
Solar Drying
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Solar Thermal Power Generation
Nuclear Power
Nuclear Engineering
Nuclear Materials and Safety
Power Systems
Electrical Energy Management
Power Electronics
Energy Integration & Conservation in Process Plants
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