14 Mar 2012|Noida | Amity University Campus, Sector-125 Noida
Amity Institute of Green Technology Research & Studies organises conference on ‘Renewable Energy and Power Systems’
The Amity Institute of Green Technology Research & Studies organized a one day conference on ‘Renewable Energy and Power Systems’ sponsored by MNRE (Ministry of New and Renewable Energy).
The conference saw participation of academicians from various disciplines to discuss the recent advancements in the field of renewable energies. The need for alternate sources of energy as well as sustainable development is on the rise and is one of the main concerns worldwide. Experts and academicians from the industry, such as Prof.(Dr.) HP Garg, Vice Chairman, BLS Group of Institutions, Dr. SC Kaushika, Professor - IIT Delhi, Dr. KS Reddy- IIT Madras, Dr. AK Rai, AKG College of Engineering, Dr. Mohapatra, Professor-BVCOE spoke on various topics so that the citizen of the country can have a better tomorrow by using the various forms of renewable energy.
The conference was inaugurated by Dr. Balvinder Shukla, Pro-Vice Chancellor(A) Amity University, who shared her personal experiences and emphasized upon the growing demand for energy owing to changing lifestyles, which are both interdependent. Although continuous efforts have been made in the past to counter this problem and look for feasible alternate sources of energy, but due to various reasons they have failed to succeed, therefore there is a need to conduct research in this field.
Dr. ND Kaushika, Director AIGTRS, shared the initiatives taken by the institute and its progress to contribute towards the cause. Dr. Kaushika threw light on green technology, which he defined as generation of energy with environmental concerns, which ranged between engineering technology and biotechnology. This is a multi-disciplinary programme and has its branches spread to a number of science fields. He also outlined the topics of discussion, which ranged from the status, barriers in solar photovoltaics for becoming a major power resource and the recent research and development advances to remove these barriers.
Prof (Dr.) HP Garg, Vice Chairman, BLS Group of Institutions, spoke on ‘Energy Outlook: Key issues related to Renewable Energy Power’ in the first session. He strongly expressed his concern about India using obsolete technology, especially to generate electricity. With the current rate at which electricity is produced in India, the rising demands would be impossible to fulfill. The maximum capacity of electricity production in India is almost 1,87,549.62 MW at present, and a lot more is required for a developing nation like ours, expressed Prof. (Dr.) Garg.
Dr. KS Reddy, IIT Madras spoke on ‘Solar Thermal Power Generation Technology’, and discussed in detail regarding the recent advancements in this field and its scope. Dr. Reddy explained that since energy is correlated to environment, various models and techniques have been developed to harvest solar energy and counter its obstacles. Electrical energy is the highest efficient form of energy. New technologies such as Trough Power Plant (Thermic fluid and Direct steam generation), Solar Furnace, Solar Dish, PhotoVoltaic Power System, CPV system with passive cooling. Solar Desalination system, etc have been developed and are being used all over the world at various scales.
Dr. Anil Kumar Rai, AKG College of Engineering discussed the Reliability aspects of Solar PhotoVoltaic (PV). He reviewed the field experiences of solar PV systems and brought into sharp focus, an undesirable feature of solar PV arrays delivering lower power than the array ratings in field condition. He explained that the output energy delivered from solar PV array to battery (load) maybe maximized by using a power point tracker (MPPT). The maximum power point tracker is used to correct the variations in the current voltage characteristics of array resulting from the variability of incident solar radiation and ambient temperature. Though PV systems are not feasible options since they face barriers as well.
The conference deliberated on topics such as ‘Space based Solar Power’, ‘Contributory Solar PV Papers’, ‘The Renewable Resource Biomass: An Alternate Energy Source’, ‘Contributory Biomass And Other Technology Papers’ and a brain storming session on ‘Green Energy & Power Technologies’ and was attended by academicians, technocrats and students from all over India.