Volume 5.2

Volume 5.2 (2019)

CONNECT | COLLABORATE | COLLECT

UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM AND ENERGY STUDIES, DEHRADUN - 248007, UTTARAKHAND

Editorial Team

Dr. Kiran Kumar R, Dr. Sm Tauseef, Dr. T Joji Rao

Ms. Rakhi Ruhal, Mr. Surajit Mondal, Mr. Ragunath V, Mr. Anurag Barmola, Mr. P Sairam, Mr. Ravi K Patel,

Mr. Nikhil Raj, Mr. Mukesh Kestwal

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SANCTIONED GRANTS

Title Funding Agency Team

Occupational Interest Schedule for

Law Students

UPES SEED Funded Project on

OIS LS

Dr Juhi Garg, Dr Tabrez Ahmad

UPES-Two Days of Workshop on Design Research Methods

Organized in School of design - Dr. R.S Karmakar

Workshop on Design Research Methods was conducted by Dr. S. Karmakar, Asso-

ciate Professor, Department of Design, IIT Guwahati, at UPES-School

of Design. On this event, all existing Design Ph.D. Candidates, Facul-

ty Members and any other Ph.D. aspirants of UPES-School of Design were partici-

pated in this workshop on 16th and 17th Nov 2018

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International Conference on Advanced Materials Energy & Environ-ment Sustainability (ICAMEES, Dec 2018)

A two days International Conference on Advanced Materials, Energy and Environmental Sustainability (ICAMEES-

2018) was organized by Department of Chemistry and Department of Physics at Bidholi Campus during 14-15 De-

cember, 2018. The event was jointly sponsored by SERB-India, CSIR-India, and Namami Gange; also supported by

USERC-Dehradun. The conference was aimed to overcome and respond the challenges and opportunities on advanced

materials, energy harvesting, energy storage, environmental sustainability, earth sciences and green technology.

The conference was attended by more than 300 participants including 4 plenary talks, 120 oral/invited talks, and more

than 100 poster presentations, comprising of international participants from 18 countries. Prof. Prashant V Kamat,

John A. Zahm Professor of Science, Notre Dame University, USA was the chief-guest of the conference. Prof. Rajen-

dra Dobhal, Director General, Uttarakhand State Council for Science and Technology (UCOST) was the guest of hon-

or. Conference inaugural was accomplished in the presence of Dr. S. J. Chopra, Chancellor; Dr. Deependra Kumar

Jha, Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Sanjeev Kumar, Associate Dean, Applied Science & Humanities, Dr. Shailey Singhal

(Convener-ICAMEES), Dr Piyush Dua (Convener-ICAMEES), including the speakers from Germany, Switzerland,

Sweden and Spain. The inaugural session was followed by 2 plenary talks including Prof. P. V. Kamat and Prof.

Wolfgang H. Binder, Research Director, Martin Luther University, Germany. Prof. Kamat talked on next generation

photovoltaics with semiconductor nano structures. Prof. Binder emphasized on chemical designing of self- healing

materials. The talks were preceded by invited and oral talk and poster sessions by researchers from foreign universi-

ties, IITs, CSIR labs and Central/ State universities.

On the second day of the conference, there were two plenary talks. Prof. Katsuaki Suganuma, Osaka university, Japan

emphasized on the synthesis of silver nano/sub- micron materials and their applications for energy conversion devices.

The other talk was delivered by Prof. Rajeev Ahuja, Uppsala University, Sweden. This was followed by invited and

oral talk sessions delivered by experts from national and international universities / laboratories, where invitees laid

stress on advanced materials, energy harvesting sources, energy storage, environmental sustainability and green tech-

nology.

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The valedictory session: was flagged by Prof. Sanjeev Kumar wherein best talk and poster presentation

awards were distributed amongst participants. The occasion was also graced by Shri Prabhat Raj ji, Technical

Advisor, Namami Gange Program where he explained the twin objectives of effective abatement of pollution,

conservation and rejuvenation of national river Ganga. The participants took oath to pledge for the cleanliness

of river Ganga. The conference was widely appreciated by dignitaries and delegates for providing a platform

for exchange of research ideas and innovations. The entire event was a thought provoking venture aimed at

sustainable research with beneficial outcomes for future generations.

Organizing team extends its sincere gratitude to the Dr. SJ Chopra, Chancellor; Dr. Deependra Kumar Jha,

Vice-Chancellor; Dr. Veena Dutta, Registrar for their motivation while organizing the conference. We are

highly obliged with the suggestions and keen interest given by Dr. Kamal Bansal. Dr. SK Gupta, Distinguished

Prof., Dept. of Chemical Engineering deserves special thank for making us able to approach a personality like

Prof. Kamat. Dr. Suresh Kumar, Dr. Piyush Kuchhal and Dr. Sanjeev Singh were the visionary eyes to the

conference. We thank our admin, IT, finance, pantry and all the departments, who supported us to make the

conference a grand success.

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Oath ceremony: Namami Gange

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Publications:

Sn no. Authors Title Journal name Link of the pa-

per

1 Anirban Chowdhury

Design and Development of a

Stencil for Mobile User Inter-

face (UI) Design. In:

Chakrabarti A. (eds) Research

into Design for a Connected

World

Smart Innova-

tion, Systems

and Technolo-

gies

vol 135. Spring-

er, Singapore

[SCOPUS]

2 Majumder, D. ,Chowdhury, A .A Strategy for Ergonomic De-

sign of Amphibian Vehicle.

Lecture Notes in

Mechanical En-

gineering.

[SCOPUS] –

Accepted

3 Anirban Chowdhury

Design and Evaluation of User

Interface of a Mobile Applica-

tion for Business Incubators.

Lecture Notes in

Mechanical En-

gineering.

[SCOPUS] –

Accepted

4 Karn, A., Chintala, V., Kumar,

S.

An investigation into sky tem-perature, its variation and sig-nificance in heat transfer calcu-lations of solar cookers.

Heat Transfer -

Asian Research

https://doi.org/10.1002/htj.21459

5 Kumar, A., Saha, A. K.,

Panigrahi, P. K., Karn, A.

On the flow physics and vortex behavior of rectangular orifice synthetic jets.

Experimental

Thermal and Flu-

id Science

Experimental

Thermal and Flu-

id Science 103,

163-181.

6 Ramesh K. Donga, Suresh Ku-

mar

Thermal performance of para-

bolic trough collector with ab-

sorber tube misalignment and

slope error

Solar Energy

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.solener.2019.04.007

7

Ratnesh K Pandey, Tanuj Ku-

mar, Udai B Singh, Shikha

Awasthi, Avinash C Pandey

SHI induced evolution of sur-

face and wettability of BaF 2

thin films

MRS Advances

(2019)

https://doi.org/10.1557/adv.2019.168

8

Kavyashree, Ratnesh K Pandey,

Dr Ram Pratap Yadav, Manven-

dra Kumar, Hari Pratap Bhasker,

Ashok Mittal, A. C. Pandey,

Satyendra N Pandey:

Substrate effect on the evolution

of surface morphology of BaF2

thin films: A study based on

fractal concepts.

Applied Surface

Science

Applied Surface

Science 466(2019)

780-786

Invited Talk: Research Perspectives on extracting Kinetic Hydro Power - Dr. Ashish Karan

Dr. Ashish Karan delivered an invited lecture cum research seminar on the topic “Research Perspectives on

extracting Kinetic Hydro Power” at ONGC Energy Center, New Delhi on 6th Feb 2019. The talk began with a

brief introduction of UPES given by Chancellor, Dr. S J Chopra. Then, Dr. Karn led the ONGC technical experts

into a brief overview on his prior and current research in the area of hydropower. This was followed by a brain-

storming discussion on two case-studies on kinetic hydropower generation. In particular, Dr. Karn touched upon

two areas of potential research that can be taken up in collaboration with ONGC Energy Center. First, the issue of

water quality enhancement in storage type hydros was taken up and the development of “zero energy aerators”

was suggested. Secondly, novel technologies for extracting kinetic hydro power from the tailraces/ canals/ rivers

etc. was suggested. The ONGC technical community has expressed a keen interest in collaborating with us on the

development of these novel technologies.

INVITED LECTURE ON NEURODESIGN TECHNIQUES AND ITS’ APPLICATIONS –by Dr Anirban Chowdhury at PHYSICON’18, 22 to 24 November 2018

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Resource Person At National Interdisciplinary Conference On Challenging The

Status Quo: Gendered Empowerment And Change-Dr Jughi Garg

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Resource person at Moderator for the Panel Discussion on the launch of Women Entrepreneurship Forum –WEF) TiE BIRAC Entrepreneurship

Conclave organized by UPES UCIE on February 13, 2019

Dr Binod Kumar Singh Received Appreciation from AIMS International on Jan 3 ,2019

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PhD Student Accolades

Pradhuman Singh, PhD Student -The Gold Medal Winner in 25 mtrs open sight Category in the Indian crossbow shooting team to emerge as overall winners in the Ist Asian Crossbow Shooting Championship at Koh Samui, Thailand. While Crossbow shooting is recognized by the Olympic Committee, it is yet to en-ter the Olympics as the sporting equipment is not al-lowed for civilian use in several countries due to its dual nature of usage as a highly lethal and silent weap-on. This award signifies the achievement of research scholar at UPES who, besides being a full time corpo-rate executive, also excelled in a sport which requires tremendous amount of physical strength and dexterity.

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