DESE Seminars | Department of Energy Science and Engineering

Halide perovskites and related materials: A new playground of discoveries by Prof. Dipankar Das Sarma

Location and Date: Mar 24th, 2025 (Monday), 4 PM, DESE seminar Room, 2nd Floor

Advancing Li-ion Battery Safety Through Critical Analysis of Thermal Runaway Behaviour by Dr. Peter Bugryniec

Location and Date: Feb 27th, 2025 (Thursday), 4 PM, DESE seminar Room, 2nd Floor

Sustainable Energy and Decarbonization by Dr Goutam Kumar Dalapati

Location and Date: Feb 3rd, 2025 (Monday), 4 PM, DESE Seminar Room, 2nd Floor

How green is your green hydrogen or green ammonia? by Prof Andrew Hoadley

Location and Date: Jan 31st, 2025 (Friday), 4 PM, DESE Seminar Room, 2nd Floor

Process design and Safety for laboratory/Pilot equipment by Mr G Sriganesh

Location and Date: Jan 29th, 2025 (Wednesday), 4 PM, DESE Seminar Room, 2nd Floor

Avoiding Dribbling and Dissipation of Heat Energy & Availing Unexplored Wind Generation resources by Dr Saurabh Kwatra Resolve

Location and Date: Jan 24th, 2025 (Friday), 5 PM, DESE Seminar Room, 2nd Floor

Process Integration to Optimize Carbon Trading by Prof Raymond R. Tan

Location and Date: Jan 7th, 2025 (Tuesday), 3.45 PM, DESE Seminar Room, 2nd Floor

The Role of Machine Learning in Decarbonization by Prof Kathleen B. Aviso

Location and Date: Jan 7th, 2025 (Tuesday), 3 PM, DESE Seminar Room, 2nd Floor

Multidomain Nature of design, packaging, and deployment of semiconductors for Energy Applications by Dr. Gautam Anil Raiker

Location and Date: 05 Dec 2024, 11.30 AM DESE Seminar Room, 2nd Floor

Lubricating Base Oil Production by Mr G Sriganesh

Location and Date: 23 Oct 2024 (Wednesday), 4 PM, DESE seminar Room, 2nd Floor

Introduction to Petroleum Refining by Mr G Sriganesh

Location and Date: 16 Oct 2024 (Wednesday), 4 PM, DESE seminar Room, 2nd Floor

Development of Layered Oxide Insertion Materials for Potassium-Ion Batteries by Prof Prabeer Barpanda

Location and Date: 27 Sep 2024 (Friday), 4 PM, DESE seminar Room, 2nd Floor

Catalysing Nuclear Reactions & Channelizing its energy by Prof Raj Ganesh S. Pala

Location and Date: 26 Sep 2024 (Thursday), 4 PM, DESE seminar Room, 2nd Floor

Beyond Traditional Modeling: Deep Learning Solutions for Turbulent Combustion Simulations by Dr Shubhangi Bansude

Location and Date: 25 Sep 2024 (Wednesday), 4 PM, DESE seminar Room, 2nd Floor

Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Climate Change: Some Anthropological Questions by Prof Akhil Gupta

Location and Date: 13 Sep 2024 (Friday), 3 PM, DESE seminar Room, 2nd Floor

Energy Trilemma of India with Regulatory Intervention by Shri D. Radhakrishna

Location and Date: 10 Sep 2024 (Tuesday), 4 PM, DESE seminar Room, 2nd Floor

GaN FET–based Power Converters: Practical Design Challenges and Machine Learning-assisted In-situ Health Prediction by Prof Dr Harish S. Krishnamoorthy

Location and Date: 9 August 2024 (Friday), 2.30 PM, DESE seminar Room, 2nd Floor

Present and future trends in electrification of Road and Air transportation by Prof Kaushik Rajashekara

Location and Date: July 29, 2024 (Monday), 3.00 PM, DESE seminar Room, 2nd Floor

Alternate Energy, Microgrids and the Hydrogen Economy by Dr A G Vishal Anand

Location and Date: May 6, 2024 (Monday), 4.00 PM, DESE seminar Room, 2nd Floor

Single-step Aerosol Technique for Lignin Valorization: from Fundamentals to Scale-up by Mr Sujit Modi

Location and Date: Feb 21, 2024 (Wednesday), 4.00 PM, DESE seminar Room, 2nd Floor

Strategic Planning and Implementation of Control Measures for Reductions of Greenhous Gas (GHG) Emissions in California by Prof Pramod Pandey

Location and Date: Feb 16, 2024 (Friday), 4.00 PM, DESE seminar Room, 2nd Floor

Asymptotic Analysis and Numerical Methods for Compressible Flows at all Mach Numbers by Prof Dr Andreas Meister

Location and Date: Dec 7, 2023 (Thursday), 4.00 PM, DESE seminar Room, 2nd Floor

Application of Advanced Computational Fluid Dynamics techniques in Hydrogen Technologies by Prof Weeratunge Malalasekera

Location and Date: August 10, 2023 (Thursday), 4.00 PM, DESE seminar Room, 2nd Floor

Advancements in Laboratory based X-Ray tools with Synchrotron capabilities and their applications in Battery Research by Dr S H Lau

Location and Date: July 27, 2023 (Thursday), 4.00 PM, DESE seminar Room, 2nd Floor

Lithium Voids Precede Dendrite Growth in Solid State Lithium Metal Batteries by Prof. Naga Phani Aetukuri

Location and Date: July 12, 2023 (Wednesday), 2.30 PM, DESE seminar Room, 2nd Floor

Development of Fuel Cell Electrodes: Stabilization of Pt Catalyst with Anchoring Agents and Mitigation of Cobalt Dissolution by Dr Nagappan Ramaswamy

Location and Date: March 24, 2023 (Friday), 3.30 PM, DESE seminar Room, 2nd Floor

Process Intensified Systems for CO2 Capture and Energy Applications by Dr. Niket Kaisare

Location and Date: Jan 25, 2023 (Wednesday), 4.30 PM, DESE seminar Room, 2nd Floor

Next Generation Portable Antineutrino Detectors using Semiconductors by Dr Shikha Prasad

Location and Date: Wednesday, 16 November, 2022, 04:00 PM, Seminar Hall, Second Floor, DESE Building

Future of Coal - an Indian perspective by Sri Pramod Agarwal, CMD, Coal India

Location and Date: Monday, 10 October, 2022, 03:30 PM, Seminar Room, Second Floor, DESE Building

Particulate Matter – The Invisible Enemy by Jose Martin Herreros

Location and Date: Wednesday, 24 August, 2022, 04:00 PM, Seminar Hall, Second Floor, DESE Building

Nuclear Energy Overview: Evolution, Technologies and Emerging Trends by Obaidurrahman K

Location and Date: Wednesday, 25 May 2022, 04:00 PM, Online

Multi-length scale modelling of lithium-ion batteries: from material science to energy engineering by Antonio Bertei

Location and Date: Wednesday, 20 Apr 2022, 04:00 PM, Online

Open Energy Models for Policy Research by Srihari Dukkipati

Location and Date: Wednesday, 09 Feb 2022, 16:00, Online

bp Statistical Review of World Energy 2021 by Spencer Dale

Location and Date: Thursday, 29 July 2021, 14:00, Online

India Energy Security Scenarios by Profs R Banerjee, V Ramadesigan, and Mr. S Chaudhari

Location and Date: Wednesday, 17 Mar 2021, 15:30, Online

Metal oxide/sulfur composite cathodes for lithium-sulfur batteries by Mr Arnab Ghosh

Location and Date: Wednesday, 27 Jan 2021, 04:30 PM, Online

Advanced electrodes from 2D layered materials for Li and Na storage by Mr Manas Ranjan Panda

Location and Date: Wednesday, 13 Jan 2021, 16:30, Online

Development of Occupancy-based Zone-level Building Energy and IEQ Control Methodology by Dr Prashant Anand

Location and Date: Monday, 09 November 2020, 04:00 PM, Online

Experiments and Numerical Analysis on Wave Energy Converter using Ocean Breaking Waves by Dr Paresh Haldar

Location and Date: Friday, 06 November 2020, 04:00, Online

Next Generation Secondary Batteries by Dr Arpita Ghosh

Location and Date: Wednesday, 14 Oct 2020, 16:00, Online

Novel Plasma-Assisted Combustion Route for NiO x Thin Film Deposition by Dr Chetan Singh

Location and Date: Wednesday, 16 Sep 2020, 16:00, Online

Accurate and verifiable lower-order model for radiation transport through purely absorbing particle clouds by Dr Immanuvel Paul

Location and Date: Wednesday, 29 July 2020, 10:00, Online

Information-Driven and Thermodynamics-Based Approaches to High-Efficiency, Low End-Use Energy Systems by Dr Sankaran Ramakrishnan

Location and Date: Wednesday, 22 Jan 2020, 11:30 AM to 12:30 pm, Seminar Hall, Second Floor, DESE-CESE Building

Biodiesel from Microalgae: Net Energy Analysis by Dr. Ramakant Pandey

Location and Date: Tuesday, 21 Jan, 2020, 03:00-04:00 pm, Seminar Hall, Second Floor, DESE-CESE Building

Optimal Low-Switching Frequency Pulse Width Modulation of Modular Multilevel Converters for Propulsion of All-electric Ship by Dr. Amarendra Edpuganti

Location and Date: Tuesday, 3rd December 2019, 11:30-12:30 AM, Seminar Hall, Second Floor, DESE-CESE Building

Photophysics of organic and hybrid solar cells by Prof K S Narayana

Location and Date: Tuesday, 22 October 2019, 03:00 PM, Seminar Hall, Second Floor, DESE-CESE Building

Natural Gas Expansion, Durable Infrastructure and Renewable Energy Development in Mexico by Prof Angel De La Vega Navarro

Location and Date: Thursday, 10 October 2019, 04:00, Seminar Hall, Second Floor, DESE-CESE Building

Charging India's Bus Transport by Dr. Satheesh Kumar

Location and Date: Wednesday, 9 October, 2019, 04:00 PM, Seminar Hall, Second Floor, DESE-CESE Building

Future of energy – research opportunities and challenges by Dr. Vijay Swarup

Location and Date: Wednesday, 9 October, 2019, 12:00 noon, Seminar Hall, Second Floor, DESE-CESE Building

Energy and Environment Wellness -- An Indian Perspective by Dr Sanat Kumar Saha

Location and Date: Wednesday, 28 August, 2019, 04:00 pm, Seminar Hall, Second Floor, DESE-CESE Building

Fabrication and characterization of carrier-selective contact silicon hetero-junction solar cells by Prof. Vamsi Krishna Komarala

Location and Date: Friday, 23rd August, 2019, 04:00 pm, Seminar Hall, Second Floor, DESE-CESE Building

Energy: Sketch of Present Scenario, Sustainability Goals and Possible Future Directions by Dr. Rudrodip Majumdar

Location and Date: Wednesday, 14 August, 2019, 04:00 pm, Seminar Hall, Second Floor, DESE-CESE Building

High Energy and Power Density All-Solid-State Batteries: Opportunities and Challenges by Dr. Venkataraman Thangadurai

Location and Date: Friday, 31 July, 2019, 04:00 pm, Seminar Hall, Second Floor, DESE-CESE Building

Applying Gandhian Principles for Energy Sustainability and Mitigating Climate Change by Prof. Chetan Singh Solanki

Location and Date: Friday, 5th July, 2019, 4:00 PM, LC 002

Microscopic view of heat conduction in solids by Dr. Navaneetha Ravichandran

Location and Date: Friday, 12 April, 2019, 12:00-01:00 pm, Seminar Hall, Second Floor, DESE-CESE Building

Energy efficiency with next gen Lubricants & Trends in Industrial Lubricants by Mr Siva Kasturi

Location and Date: Wednesday, 27 March, 2019, 3:00 pm, Seminar Hall, Second Floor, DESE-CESE Building

Micro-to-Nano Transport in Polymer Electrolyte Fuel Cell by Dr Udit Shrivastava

Location and Date: Wednesday, 20 February, 2019, 4:00 pm, Seminar Hall, Second Floor, DESE-CESE Building

Thermal performances for building by Mr P C Thomas

Location and Date: Wednesday, 6 February, 2019, 05:30 pm, Seminar Hall, Second Floor, DESE-CESE Building

X-ray scattering studies of flow induces alignment in polymer nanocomposites and new development in wire and cable and pressure sensitive adhesive technologies by Dr. Saswati Pujari

Location and Date: Wednesday, 6 February, 2019, 4:00 pm, Seminar Hall, Second Floor, DESE-CESE Building

Energy and Water areas at the University of Waikato by Prof. Martin Atkins

Location and Date: Tuesday, 5th February, 2019, 4:00 pm, Seminar Hall, Second Floor, DESE-CESE Building

Polymer based Proton Exchange Membrane for the use in Fuel Cell by Dr. Tushar Jana

Location and Date: Monday, January 28th, 2019, 3:00 pm, Seminar Hall, Second Floor, DESE-CESE Building

Significant Enhancements in Data Center Cooling Rates (or Power Density) along with associated Waste Heat Recovery as Electricity by Dr A. Narain

Location and Date: Wednesday, January 23st, 2018, 4:00 pm, Seminar Hall, Second Floor, DESE-CESE Building

Nano scale to megascale thermal engineering: A path to sustainable energy by Dr Bikram Bhatia

Location and Date: Wednesday, January 16st, 2018, 4:00 pm, Seminar Hall, Second Floor, DESE-CESE Building

Photovoltaics: where are we now? By Prof. David Cahen

Location and Date: Monday, December 31st, 2018, 4:00 pm, Seminar Hall, Second Floor, DESE-CESE Building

Inverted metamorphic multi-junction III-Vs for high efficiency photo-electrochemical hydrogen production systems: challenges in absorber stabilization and device scale-up by Dr Todd Deutsch

Location and Date: Monday, December 17, 2018, 3:30 pm, Seminar Hall, Second Floor, DESE-CESE Building

Dynamic Moving Boundary Characteristics of Two-phase ORC Heat-exchangers in Solar Thermal Applications by Dr. Rudrodip Majumdar

Location and Date: Wednesday, July 25, 2018, 4:30 pm, F-24 Mechanical Engineering

Achieving Energy Efficiency in Buildings through Design Optimization in Early Design Phase and Use of Personal Environment Control System by Dr. Vishal Garg

Location and Date: Wednesday, January 31, 2018, 12:15 PM, LT 105

Modeling Transient Wellbore Pressures under Varying Fluid and Operational conditions by Dr. Sandeep Kulkarni

Location and Date: Wednesday, January 17, 2018, 5:00 PM, LT 202

Computational, theoretical and experimental investigations in developing energy conversion technologies and systems by Dr. Neerav Abani

Location and Date: Wednesday, January 10, 2018, 5:00 PM, LT 302

Quasi Steady moving boundary modeling for solar thermal heat-exchangers and simulation of dynamic characteristics by Dr. Rudrodip Majumdar

Location and Date: Wednesday,September 6, 2017, 4:30 pm, LT 101

Smart Deployment of Smart Technology: Field Experimentation on the Demand-side of Electricity Markets by Prof. Meredith Fowlie

Location and Date: Thursday,August 24, 2017, 2:00 pm,LT 201

Experimental and modeling studies on the generation of hydrogen rich syngas through oxy-steam gasification of biomass by Dr. Sandip Kumar

Location and Date: Wednesday, February 08, 2017, 4 pm, LT 204

Superior electrocatalytic activity performance of borocarbonitrides, BxCyNz, as stable, low-cost metal-free electrocatalysts for the hydrogen evolution reaction by Dr. H. Chakraborty

Location and Date: Friday, January 27, 2017, 4 pm, LT 104

The thermoeconomic optimization of a high temperature Kalina cycle for concentrating solar power plants by Dr. Anish Modi

Location and Date: Thursday, September 15, 2016, 4:00 pm, LT 104

Space-vector-based pulse width modulation strategies to improve the performance of induction motor drives by Dr. Pavan Kumar Hari

Location and Date: Tuesday, September 13, 2016, 4:00 pm, LT 103

Recent Developments in Flow Modelling For Fluidized Dense-Phase Gas-Solids Transport of Fine Powders by Prof. S S Mallick

Location and Date: Friday, March 11, 2016, 5:00 pm, LT 202

Non-linear rheology and pressure propagation in the pipeline filled with gelled waxy crude oil in isothermal and non-isothermal conditions: in the context of flow restart by Dr. Lalit Kumar

Location and Date: Thursday, March 3, 2016, 3:30 PM, LT 102

Seminar by DESE PhD Scholars

Location and Date: Wednesday, March 2, 2016, 4:30 pm, LT 201

Multiscale CFD Simulations of Entrained Flow Gasification by Dr. Mayank Kumar

Location and Date: Tuesday, March 1, 2016, 4 PM, LT 004

Staged, Pressurized Oxy-Combustion Process A means to reduce efficiency penalties and cost for carbon capture by Mr. Akshay Gopan

Location and Date: Wednesday, February 17, 2016, 4:30 pm, LT 201

The transition to a low-carbon economy: What’s really reasonable and possible? by Prof. Chris Greig

Location and Date: Monday, February 15, 2016, 4:00 pm, LC 301

Electricity Distribution in India: Challenges and Opportunities for Reform by Prof. Vijay Modi

Location and Date: Wednesday, January 20, 2016, 10:00 am, LA 302

Three-Level Neutral Point-Clamped (NPC) Inverter Based Traction Inverter Drive for Electric Vehicle Propulsion Applications by Dr. Abhijit Choudhury

Location and Date: Friday, January 8, 2016, 3:30 pm, LT 002

Investigation of Energy Efficient Line-Focus Concentrating Solar Power Systems for Process Heat and Power Generation Application by Dr. K. Ravikumar

Location and Date: Thursday, August 27, 2015, 3.30 PM, LC 102

Big Data, behavior change, and the business of social impact: Empowering ordinary Indians to solve the energy equation by Mr David Moore

Location and Date: Tuesday, August 18, 2015, 3 PM, ME 217