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Ph.D.
ARCHANA SINHA
Academic
Background:
- M.Sc.-Ph.D. (Dual Degree), Energy Science and Engineering, IIT Bombay, India (2009-Present)
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B.Sc.-B.Ed. (Integrated) from Regional Institute of Education, Ajmer, MDSU Ajmer (Rajasthan), India (2005-2009)
Contact: +91-9869816339
Email id: archana.sinha@iitb.ac.in, asinhaiitb@gmail.com
Research Interests:
- PV Characterization
- PV Degradation and Defects
- Modelling and Simulation for PV devices
- Performance and Reliablity of PV Systems
M.Sc. Project: Modeling, Simulation and Characterization of Degradation effects in PV cells and modules
The objective of the work is to detect and characterize the defects present in the PV modulesby using some optical, electrical and thermal methods as well as to develop appropriate models for PV devices which can simulate the characterization methods. This work will be useful in identifying the parameters responsible for loss in the system performance and improving the reliability of PV modules.
Ph.D. Title: Non-destructive Characterization with Distributed Electrical Modelling and Simulation of Encapsulant Degradation of Silicon PV Modules
Publications
Patents
- R. Gupta, A. Sinha, Appu RP, System and Method for Detection and Characterization of delamination in PV Modules, Indian Patent Application No.: 1424/MUM/2014. (Filed on 21 Apr 2014)
Journals
- A. Sinha and R. Gupta, "Effects of Different Excitation Waveforms on Detection and Characterization of Delamination in PV modules by Active Infrared Thermography", Nondestructive Testing and Evaluation , 2016 (DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10589759.2016.1265961)
- A. Sinha, O.S. Sastry, R. Gupta, "Nondestructive Characterization of Encapsulant Discoloration in Crystalline-silicon PV modules", Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells , Vol. 155, pp. 234-242, 2016
- A. Sinha, M. Bliss, X. Wu, S. Roy, R. Gottschalg, R. Gupta, "Cross-Characterization for Imaging Parasitic Resistive Losses in Thin-film Photovoltaic Modules", Journal of Imaging , Vol. 2(3), pp. 1-19, 2016
- A. Sinha, O.S. Sastry, R. Gupta, Detection and Characterization of Delamination in PV modules by Active Infrared Thermography, Nondestructive Testing and Evaluation, Vol. 31, pp. 1-16, 2015.
- Xiaofeng Wu, Martin Bliss, Archana Sinha, T.R. Betts, Rajesh Gupta, Ralph Gottschalg, Accelerated Spatially Resolved Electrical Simulation of Photovoltaic Devices Using Photovoltaic-Oriented Nodal Analysis, IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices, Vol. 62, pp:1390-1398, 2015.
- Xiaofeng Wu, Martin Bliss, Archana Sinha, Tom Betts, Rajesh Gupta, Ralph Gottschalg, Distributed Electrical Network Modelling Approach for Spatially-resolved Characterisation of Photovoltaic Modules, IET Renewable Power Generation, Vol. 8, pp:459-466, 2014.
International Conferences
- A. Sinha, S. Roy, S. Kumar and R. Gupta, "Investigation of Degradation in Photovoltaic Modules by Infrared and Electroluminescence Imaging", Advances in Optical Science and Engineering, Springer proceedings of the 3rd International Conference OPTRONIX, vol. 194, Kolkata, India, 2016
- Xiaofeng Wu, Martin Bliss, Tom Betts, Ralph Gottschalg, Archana Sinha, Rajesh Gupta, Modelling spatial electrical properties in photovoltaic modules using PV-oriented nodal analysis, IECON 2013 - 39th Annual Conference of the IEEE; 2013
- Xiaofeng Wu, Martin Bliss, Tom Betts, Archana Sinha, Rajesh Gupta, Ralph Gottschalg, Modelling Spatial Electrical Behaviour of Photovoltaic Modules in Network Simulation Using a PV-oriented Nodal Analysis Method, 39th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society, 2013
- Xiaofeng Wu, Martin Bliss, Archana Sinha, Tom Betts, Ralph Gottschalg, Rajesh Gupta, A Distributed Modelling Approach for Spatially-resolved Characterisation of Thin-film Photovoltaic Modules, 9th PVSAT, Swansea, 2013
- A. Sinha, O.S. Sastry, Y.K. Singh, M. Kumar, R. Gupta, Performance of Champions Module for PV Lighting Systems in India, 27th EUPVSEC, Frankfurt, 2012
- P. Somasundaran, A. Sinha, R. Gupta, Simulation and Characterization of Spatial Variation of Shunts in Industrial Solar Cells by PSpice and Dark Lock-in Thermography, 27th EUPVSEC, Frankfurt, 2012
- Dhiraj Magare, O.S. Sastry, Rajesh Gupta, Arun Kumar, A. Sinha, Data Logging Strategy of Photovoltaic (PV) Module Test beds, 27th EUPVSEC, Frankfurt, 2012
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