Start
Nov 05, 2015 - 17:15
End
Nov 05, 2015 - 18:15
Venue
Main Auditorium Victor Menezes Convention Centre
Event Type
Title
Experiments with Sustainable Technologies - A personal account
Abstract: Development and mainstreaming of Sustainable Technology- End use Packages (STEPs) has been an important stream of work in supporting sustainable development in the long run. The talk is an elaboration of challenges experienced by the speaker in developing and mainstreaming STEPs divided broadly under the categories: solar heating and natural cooling; small micro and rural enterprises; small power; and waste utilization. Integrating resource variability efficiency emissions convenience and cost with a particular end use or application is an engineering challenge in itself requiring different disciplines. In addition experiences so far show that there are even bigger challenges related to development of a final product finding credible manufacturers and creating mechanisms for repair maintenance etc. Mainstreaming challenges for several STEPs remained more or less same over several decades due to factors such as difficulties in establishing marketing channels indifference of governments and financial institutes and changing user mind sets. Development of STEPs had been and most likely will be largely driven by individuals and by a few entrepreneurs with limited support by institutes but the existing institutional structures do not seem to be either interested or capable of providing adequate support to such efforts over long periods. Also as the information on past attempts is limited scattered or not documented properly it seems that re-inventions do happen only again to fall into a circle of product development marketing etc. Several questions come to the fore on how promising innovators entrepreneurs and others committed to the idea of sustainable development can get adequate support in the form of knowledge advice finance etc. Some suggestions and open thoughts in this regard will be presented.About the Speaker: Dr. V.V.N. Kishore is a Chemical Engineer by training. After graduating from Andhra University Waltair he obtained M. Tech and PhD from IIT Kanpur. He started working in the area of renewable energy technologies in 1978 first at IIT Kanpur and later at CSMCRI Bhavnagar. He joined TERI in 1984 and served in various capacities as Area Convener Dean (EET) Advisory Board member and Resource Advisor. Dr. Kishore was deputed to TERI University in 2008 to start higher education programs in Renewable Energy and held the position of Professor and Head Dept. of Energy & Environment till his retirement in 2013. Over a long span of over three decades he has acquired a vast experience in the broad area of renewable energy utilization covering basic research product/process development field testing technology transfer execution of turnkey projects policy research consultancy training and capacity building and teaching. Dr. Kishore has trained a large number of professionals in renewable energy in a wide range of topics such as solar thermal energy biomass gasification biomass densification bio-methanation lignocellulosic ethanol production solar passive building design techno-economics of renewable energy systems biomass cook stove emission measurements system integration and so on. He has eight books about 170 publications in journals/conference proceedings numerous reports 30 products/end-use packages and eight patents to his credit. He acted as supervisor/co-supervisor for several M Tech/M Sc students and 6 PhD students. Dr. Kishore was on many expert evaluation/monitoring committees of MNRE TIFAC CSIR etc. and served SESI (Solar Energy Society of India) for many years as secretary and secretary/treasurer. He was a member of ASME AIChE and ACS and a Fellow of World Technology Network. He is the recipient of Dr K S Rao Memorial Award of SESI for the year 2001 for his outstanding contributions to the field of new and renewable sources of energy.
Compulsory for CL 702/704.