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Welcome to the Department of Sustainable Energy Engineering
The Department came into existence in December 2020 and has association of more than twenty faculty members drawing from various disciplines who are active in various thematic areas related to the Department. More details of research activities and associated faculty profiles can be found here. The department is committed to excellence in teaching, research & development and outreach related to science, engineering, technology development and policy matters related to energy sustainability.
Obituary to Prof. Kanwar Singh Nalwa
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The Departmental 3rd Research Scholar Day was held on August 31, 2025. Picture Link
Departmental Events
13
Oct
Prof. Vikram Dalal Anson Marston Distinguished Professor at Iowa State University
Title: "Advance in Inorganic perovskite solar cells"
13th Oct 2025 (Monday), 12:00 PM, Seminar Room, 306, DJAC. Poster Link
08
Oct
Mr. Sushil Reddy received his B. Tech. in Energy Science and Engineering from IIT Bombay and M.Sc. in Sustainability and Social Innovation from Hautes Etudes Commerciales (HEC) Paris.
Title: "The SunPedal Ride" 08th Oct 2025 (Wednesday), 04:30 PM, Seminar Room, 306, DJAC. Poster Link
31
Aug
The Departmental 3rd Research Scholar Day was held on August 31, 2025. Picture Link
Selected Publications
A Mondal, D Kastha, AR Hota, P Bajpai, "Modeling and Control of a Three-Phase Five-Port Partially Isolated DC-DC Converter for DC-Powered Commercial Buildings" IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics 2025
SS Rauth, D Kastha, P Bajpai, "BESS assisted off-grid wind energy conversion system operated under adverse battery-SoC conditions" IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications 2025
Vishwa Deepak Kumar, Laltu Chandra, Rajiv Shekhar, "Solar Convective Furnace: System Dynamics and Operations Strategy", February 2025
P. Kumar, V. K. Yadav, A. Edpuganti, P. Bajpai, and R. P. Priya, "Powertrain Architecture and Control System Design for Overhead Line and Battery Powered Railway Tower Car", 2025 IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition (ECCE)- Asia, Presented.
A. Pandey, M. Donkena, S. Samanta and A. Edpuganti, "Precise Analytical Model Assisted Machine Learning Framework for Parameter Estimation of Litz-Wire and Ferrite Core-based Rectangular WPT Coils with Lateral Misalignment", 2025 IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition (ECCE)- Asia, Presented.
M Budaniya, AK Mishra, AC Rai, MS Dasgupta 2025 Indoor plants' effect on occupants' performance, perceived comfort, and affect in an open-plan space in composite climatic regions, India Building and Environment 274, 112785
Jana, A.; Li, Z.; Kini, A. R.; Yadav, V.; Nair, A. S.; Campos Mata, A.; Wu, J.; Machacek, J.; Base, T.; Pathak, B.; Roy, S.; Pradeep, T.A Silver-Chalcogenide Nanomaterial Enveloped with a Carborane-Thiolate Shell for the Electroreduction of CO2 to CO ACS Appl. Nano Mater. 2025
Li, Z.; Wang, P.; Han, G.; Yang, S.; Roy, S.; Xiang, S.; Jimenez, J. D.; Kondapalli, V. K. R.; Lyu, X.; Li, J.; Serov, A.; Li, R.; Shanov, V.; Senanayake, S. D.; Frenkel, A. I.; Ajayan, P. M.; Sun, Y.; Senftle, T. P.; Wu J. Ampere-level co-electrosynthesis of formate from CO2 reduction paired with formaldehyde dehydrogenation reactions Nat. Commun. 2025, 16, 4850
Tikadar, B. & Swami, D. (2025). Understanding the variability of residential energy poverty in India. Utilities Policy, 93, 101878. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jup.2024.101878
Tikadar, B., Swami, D., & Chowdhary, V. (2025). Process-level emission analysis and decarbonization pathway for BF-BOF route in Indian iron and steel industry. Journal of Environmental Management, 373, 123483. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2024.123483
A. A. Yahaya, A. Edpuganti, V. Khadkikar and H. Zeineldin, "A Novel Simultaneous AC and DC Charging Scheme for Electric Vehicles," in IEEE Transactions on Energy Conversion, doi: 10.1109/TEC.2024.3381280. Impact factor: 4.877. 2024
K Brajesh, R Bhunia, S Gupta, R Gupta, A Dixit, A Garg, Low temperature magnetic and dielectric properties correlation in Fe-doped copper (II) oxide ceramics for potential device application, 2024.
A. Sharma, A. De, S. Kumar. Investigation of injector-coupled combustion dynamics in a methane-oxygen combustor using large eddy simulation and dynamic mode decomposition. Physics of Fluids, 2024, 36, 065116, 2024.
Yugesh Kumar, Lokesh Yadav, Anand Singh, Raju Kumar Gupta, Kanwar Singh Nalwa, Ashish Garg, "Waste-derived carbon quantum dots for improving the photostability of perovskite solar cells to > 1,000 h". Read full article