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Avoiding Dribbling and Dissipation of Heat Energy & Availing Unexplored Wind Generation resources by Dr Saurabh Kwatra Resolve
Tue, 2025-02-04 15:34 — venkatr
Location and Date:
Jan 24th, 2025 (Friday), 5 PM, DESE Seminar Room, 2nd Floor
Avoiding Dribbling and Dissipation of Heat Energy & A vailing unexplored Wind Generation resources
Understanding and respecting the Laws of Thermodynamics, specially 2nd one to minimize dissipation of heat energy into environment (atmosphere/water bodies /land mass) by efficient thermal machinery design. 1) Avoid multiple energy conversions in a technical system, especially of heat. Rather attempt to ‘use’ idle/waste heat energy directly. For example, in iron casting, heat of poured molten metal heats water enclosed in a chamber below moveable base of mold. The moveable base lifted by steam, compensates thermal cooling of cast. Errors, breakages, residual stresses are reduced. Air conditioning of metro trains when inside air-conditioned underground stations be switched off, as hot air exiting from condenser units installed on roofs of coaches 'thermally' overload hot stations. 3) Live as ‘thermal’ community: super-system approach. Solar power scooters charged by reflective coat on nearby buildings, joint mega-refrigerators.
In wind generation, pyschological inertia refrains us to think out of box, out of standard visionary perceptions. Wind generators that do not resemble moving blades - vertically or horizontally constitute latest and highly efficient wind generation avenues. Swaying Kites in Mauritius, cyclone-powered wind machines that have capacity to run in typhoon for an hour and power a village for a month, etc. are important to be furthered to save our Earth!
Profile
Currently, Tech Head of Trimmed Innovations, an organization delved into cost-cutting via innovative design & manufacturing for startups and medium scale industries / large corporations. It is also a Partner of one G-7 nation's capital government. In 2020, he was Subject Matter Expert (SME) Electronic Design and Manufacturing, IDEA Week, EMBA, MIT. In 2023 summer, he was Teacher, (course titled - StudentS STEM), Educational Studies Program, MIT. From 2020-23 Oct, he was Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering Ambassador Network Council member and is currently Mentor, Graduate Engineering Engagement Program, Royal Academy of Engineering (UK). He was also Reviewer (paid) for NASA PostDoctoral Program (NPP) in multiple cycles. His inventions (patented/under patenting both) in areas of wind generation like Helium balloon-hung convoluted wind generators, centrifugally expanding wind turbines that capture stronger wind gusts but self-protecting by closing-in (inspired from flowers) when wind gusts turn into destructive typhoons. As part of research team, he has given extensive innovative consultancies for P & G, Ohio, USA ; Sanyo Japan ; etc. He is currently fascinated by unconventional forms of off-grid wind generation, like recently visited flying kite as wind generator (in operation in Mauritius - technology provided by a German company. He was a presenter (poster in 2020/speaker 2021) at NATO Force Health Protection Event, NATO.
Currently, Tech Head of Trimmed Innovations, an organization delved into cost-cutting via innovative design & manufacturing for startups and medium scale industries / large corporations. It is also a Partner of one G-7 nation's capital government. In 2020, he was Subject Matter Expert (SME) Electronic Design and Manufacturing, IDEA Week, EMBA, MIT. In 2023 summer, he was Teacher, (course titled - StudentS STEM), Educational Studies Program, MIT. From 2020-23 Oct, he was Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering Ambassador Network Council member and is currently Mentor, Graduate Engineering Engagement Program, Royal Academy of Engineering (UK). He was also Reviewer (paid) for NASA PostDoctoral Program (NPP) in multiple cycles. His inventions (patented/under patenting both) in areas of wind generation like Helium balloon-hung convoluted wind generators, centrifugally expanding wind turbines that capture stronger wind gusts but self-protecting by closing-in (inspired from flowers) when wind gusts turn into destructive typhoons. As part of research team, he has given extensive innovative consultancies for P & G, Ohio, USA ; Sanyo Japan ; etc. He is currently fascinated by unconventional forms of off-grid wind generation, like recently visited flying kite as wind generator (in operation in Mauritius - technology provided by a German company. He was a presenter (poster in 2020/speaker 2021) at NATO Force Health Protection Event, NATO.