Solar Academy Seminar : Bio-inspired Energy Efficient Building Envelope

26 avril 2022 13:30 - 26 avril 2022 15:00

Bio-inspired Energy Efficient Building Envelope

On-line seminar, link for connection : Link Teams

Key words: Solar energy, bio-inspired, solar photovoltaics, optical losses, thermal regulation

 

Speaker: Ankita GAUR, PhD.

Ramanujan Fellow (Scientist), SERB/DST Govt. of India
School of Energy Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, Guwahati, Assam, India. Web page

Phone: +91 361 258 3134 (O), Email: ankitagaur@iitg.ac.in

Area of Interest: Bio-inspired self-regulative solar energy devices, Development and integration of advanced solar energy devices, Solar photovoltaics, Solar Photovoltaic thermal, Organic solar cells, exergy, CO2 mitigation climate change and carbon trading.

 

Current ongoing project : “Bio-inspired adaptive advanced solar building envelope”

Objectives: Development of biomimetic interfaces using multiple functional principles and concepts from nature and their integration into building envelopes

Sponsoring Agency: Science and Engineering Research Board, Department of Science and Technology, Govt. of India

 

School of Energy Science and Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati has been profoundly involved in multidisciplinary activities namely (i) Renewable energy generation (ii) Energy storage (Li-ion Battery, compressed air and metal hydride) (iii) Energy transmission (nano-fluid, metamaterials) and (iv) development of integrated systems and innovative products.

Dr. Gaur is currently working as Ramanujan Fellow Scientist with the School of Energy Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, where the focus of her work is on energy efficient solar devices and interfaces for self-adaptive/zero energy building. Her current project integrates the building envelope with techniques naturally developed in nature over thousands of years, such as solar energy collection and conversion, thermoregulation, air regulation, humidity control and adaption of thermal resistance to increase or reduce heat transfer with the environment. By utilizing such bio-inspired techniques, performance of the building sector with less energy consumption and appropriate indoor environment can be enhanced remarkably.

Dr. Gaur received her Ph.D degree. in 2014 from Centre for Energy studies, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi. During her Ph.D, Dr. Gaur performed numerical and experimental investigations on organic and inorganic solar cells with their applications in solar photovoltaic thermal and building integrated photovoltaic thermal systems.

She is recipient of Shrimati Vijay Usha Sodha award for best research publications in thesis from IIT Delhi. Her Ph.D. was funded by Department of Science and Technology Delhi, Govt. of India under prestigious INSPIRE fellowship award.

 

After her PhD, Dr. Gaur joined Department of Physics of Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai in Dec 2014, where, she worked on fabrication and efficiency enhancement of perovskite solar cells. Further, she joined  » Centre for Energy and Thermal of Lyon (CETHIL) UMR CNRS 5008, National Institute of Applied Science (INSA) Lyon, France as a Postdoctoral Researcher in 2015. During this, she worked on Photovoltaic thermal integrated greenhouse with the aim of achieving a good combination of high electrical efficiency and cultivation in several ways.

Before joining IIT Guwahati, Dr. Gaur was working as a Postdoctoral Researcher in “LOCIE » UMR CNRS 5271, which is a joint laboratory of University of Savoie Mont Blanc and National Solar Energy Centre (INES), Le Bourget du lac, France since April 2016, where she worked on building integrated photovoltaic with phase change materials and absorption machine. She has produced research publications in international peer reviewed journals as Applied Energy, Progress in photovoltaics, Energy conversion and management, Renewable Energy, Journal of applied physics etc. to her credit.

She is a gold medalist for topping the university in Physics at post graduate level. She is recipient of prestigious Ramanujan Fellowship award by Science and Engineering research board, Department of Science and Technology, Government of India. This award is meant for brilliant Indian scientists and engineers from all over the world to take up scientific research positions in India.