Project Quality Assurance
Resume:
R SUM
Name : SUBHRANKAR MUKHERJEE PhD, MBA
Address : P6 Cluster 2, Purbachal, Salt Lake, Kolkata 700 097, INDIA.
Telefax : +91-33-233*-**** Mobile: +91-933******* ; +91-943*******
e-mails : [**********@*****.***]; [*****@************.***]; [********@****.*********.***]
EDUCATION:
Lead Assessor Training Certificate August 1992
Program conducted by Confederation of Indian Industries, India
Doctor of Philosophy in Electrical Engineering
1984 - 1988
University of Missouri-Columbia, USA: Advisor Dr Richard G. Hoft; Power/Machine Electronics;
Digital Signal Processing applications; digital measurement system; FEM Analysis; System Modeling
Master in Business Administration
1984 - 1987
University of Missouri - Columbia, USA - Thesis: Human Resource Mgmt. for Innovating Organizations
Master of Science in Electrical Engineering : GPA 4.0 / 4.0
1982 - 1984
Wayne State University, USA - Power Systems and Residential Solar Energy Systems
Bachelor in Electrical Engineering : First Class (Hons)
1968 - 1974
Jadavpur University, India - Automatic Control [Stood first in order of merit in BEE (Pt-I)]
Overseas Cambridge School Certificate : Grade I
1964 - 1967
Raffles Institution, Singapore - Science [Distinctions in Physics, Chemistry & Mathematics]
Primary School Leaving Certificate
1958 - 1963
Rosyth School, Singapore
WORK EXPERIENCE: (Institution/location, last designation & dates of joining/leaving)
Alagappa University, Karaikudi, India: Visiting Professor
February to June 2005
Worked with Dr. Kanniappan, Vice Chancellor to set up the Center for Rural Development ; conceived an
IT-Enabled Community Center (ITECC) for Total Community Development.
Colorado State University, Fort Collins, USA: Affiliate Professor
since December 2004
Worked with the Late Prof. Emeritus Maurice L. Albertson co-founder of the Peace Corps movement as a
Faculty Affiliate in the Civil Engineering Department; Develop Renewable Energy, Appropriate Technology
and Participatory programs in association with Village Earth, a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization under CSU.
Techna Institute, India: Sr. Faculty Member
May 2001 May 2002
Teach the University of London s Distance Education courses in the fields of Management, Software Engineer-
ing & Information Systems; Member of the company s Software Quality Assurance team.
ADA Software & Services, India: Management Representative (MR)
May 1997 October 2006
Head of Softlution, Trivandrum Unit [July 2005 June 2006]; responsible for maintaining the company s Quality
Assurance Systems & implementation of ISO 9000 Standards; Program Manager ERP software develop-
ment; Promote OMG Standards & Model Driven Architecture (Modeling 2006) in South Asia and Singapore.
Society for Appropriate Rural Tech. for Sustainability, India: Secretary
since October 2003
ARTS is a tax-exempt/80G non-profit NGO and the implementing partner of Sankalpa Trust, to implement knowl-
edge-based, rural development & sustainable livelihood initiatives in renewable energy, shelter and ICT.
Sankalpa Trust, India: Managing Trustee
since January 2000
A non-profit NGO that promotes environment-friendly technologies, primary education, sustainable development
& livelihood initiatives for renewable energy technologies (RETs) and shelter products & services and in general
the socio-economic development of village-based communities using Information & Communications Technologies
(ICT), and has initiated the Total Rural Development (TRD) Project [http://www.sankalpacmfs.org/trd/]
Q Tronix Pvt. Ltd., India: Managing Director
since December 1993
Design, development & manufacture of renewable energy products and applications; Solar Photovoltaic sys-
tems; Power and machine electronics; Microprocessor-based systems
Total Consulting Group, India: Principal Consultant
since June 1993
Consultancy in the fields of Quality Management (TQM, ISO 9000 Standards, QFD, KAIZEN, Statistical Proc-
ess Control and statistical methods, Quality Costs); Renewable Energy Technologies (RET); Systems devel-
opment. Digital Imaging & Software Content Mgmt.; Project Mgmt.; e-Commerce application development
Prudential Power, India: Advisor
February 1996 April 1997
Project planning, design and technical management of various Renewable Energy Technologies, including Wind
Power, Solar Photovoltaic, Solar thermal systems, Micro-hydro power systems, Biomass gasification systems.
FICCI Quality Forum, India : Quality Counselor
May 1995 April 1997
Conduct management development programs and restructure / reorganize Quality Systems to align with ISO
9000 Standards; introduce TQM methodologies and conduct Quality Audits.
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VXL Landis & Gyr Ltd., India : General Manager
June 1990 May 1993
Responsibilities included management and control of companywide activities in 'Quality Assurance', 'R&D' and
'Production' of meters and metering equipment.
I was responsible for the implementation of the company's TQM program / compliance with ISO 9000 Standards
in the manufacture of metering products at the Calcutta factory.
Bhartia Cutler Hammer Ltd., India : Marketing Manager
June 1989 May 1990
'Applications Engineering' for motor controlgear and switchgear products at Faridabad; 'Marketing & Strategic
Planning' - New Projects (electronic relays); 'Corporate Planning'.
I was responsible for the codification project towards the computerization of the company s manufacturing,
commercial and marketing operations.
University of Missouri Columbia, USA : Post-Doctoral Fellow May November 1988
Worked for the Electronics Systems Div. of Square D Co., Cedar Rapids, IOWA, USA, a leading 'FORTUNE 500'
control and switchgear company, to design and formulate the algorithms and simulate/test the critical sub-
systems of a unique digital power monitoring and control system product.
The device provides for remote data communication, system status, power quality monitoring, automatic load
shedding & power factor correction, amongst several other features.
Jay Engineering Works, India : Manager R&D August 1974 August 1982
Responsible for the design and development of domestic and industrial fans; management of cost reduc-
tion/value engineering projects; special assignments in Quality Assurance, Production and Market Research.
GRANT WRITING EXPERIENCE:
I have twenty years of experience in writing educational, scientific, technical and social programs oriented
grant proposals, in which I have either been the Principal Investigator or Co-Principal Investigator.
The fields in which I have written grant proposals correspond to those areas that have been covered under
my work experience at Colorado State University, Sankalpa Trust, ARTS, ADA Software, Q Tronix & TCG.
WORK EXPERIENCE IN INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY:
Design and architecture of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software using Model Driven Archi-
tecture (MDA) and the software component factory approach;
Reengineering of Legacy Systems using Architecture Driven Modernization (ADM);
Quality Assurance of software systems through the development cycle (ISO 9000 Standards);
Object-oriented Analysis & Design (OOAD) & Modeling using UML and OMG Standards ;
Technical writing and Documentation services; Digital imaging and Content Management;
CORBA/IIOP architecture for interoperability across globally networked IT systems.
SOFTWARE PROJECT MANAGEMENT EXPERIENCE:
Design/implementation of a 'Product Configurator' as a cartridge for 'Intershop 3' shopping mall;
Design and implementation of a 'Full Text Search Engine' for a web publishing application;
'Workflow Modeling' and design, in accordance with Workflow Management Coalition (WfMC) standards;
Design and implementation of a 'Vocabulary Games' software application;
Design of a Website for a large, multi-unit and diversified financial institution;
Reengineering AS/400 ERP application for running on native 'green screen' and on 'Windows' platform.
TECHNOLOGY SKILLS ACQUIRED IN THE FIELD OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY:
Finite Element Method of analysis; Borland's Delphi 4 for application development;
AutoCAD R14 and bCAD for 3D modelling and engineering management applications;
Adobe products (PhotoShop, Illustrator, Premier and PageMaker), Macromedia Director, Fractal Painter &
Bryce for digital imaging, multimedia content generation & software;
Other applications : HTML, Javascript, MicroCap V and CM40 for electronic circuits and simulation; MS
Office (Word, PowerPoint and Excel); Macintosh Hypertext; SPSS; FORTRAN; SPICE; CSMP; Matlab
PUBLICATIONS:
Digital Measurement of the Efficiency of Inverter-Induction Machines - 1987 IEEE-IAS Conference
held at Denver, Colorado in 1986.
FEM Analysis of Inverter-Induction Motor Rotor Conduction Losses - 1987 IEEE/PES Winter Con-
ference at New York.
Integrating CRM and QFD to create a collaboration platform for innovation in product design -
Hawaii International Conference on Business, June 2002.
HONORS:
Wayne State University: Graduate-Professional Scholarship (1983); Represented WSU at the Ameri-
can Power Conference, Chicago in 1983.
Jadavpur University: University Blue (1974); P N Roy Medal for scoring the highest marks in Power
Systems Engineering (III); Prizes and scholarships for ranking within the top three positions.
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PROJECT MANAGEMENT EXPERIENCE IN THE SOCIAL SECTOR:
NABARD s Incubation Hub Project : since February 2012
Project Manager/PI for NABARD-funded project entitled Building an Integrated IT Enabled Incubation
Hub at Village Ullon, Laxmikantapur, near Sunderbans, India . This 18 month duration ~ Rs.1.1 million project is in
technical collaboration with (a) Vivekananda Sevakendra-O-Sishu Uddyan (VSSU); and (b) Lutheran World Service
India (LWSI). Project objectives: Implement a participative model for rural development, which will provide bene-
ficiaries with access to modern ICT-enabled, knowledge-based systems and Appropriate Technologies (ATs) both
hard and soft that will help them to promote social entrepreneurship and total community development. Please
see [http://www.sankalpacmfs.org/src/wp/ARTS_Concept.Note_Incubation.Hub_Ullon.pdf] for details.
Ongoing collaborations with NGOs in Bangladesh and India: since November 2008
(a) With Mr. Shamsul Haq, Executive Director of Society for Development Initiatives (SDI), Dhaka,
Bangladesh to collaborate in sustainable livelihoods projects such as growth of spirulina micronutrients, and in
the application of appropriate technologies in energy and shelter projects in the rural areas of Sundarbans. We
have submitted a BD Taka 20 million Micro-TRD project to Palli Karma-Sahayak Foundation (PKSF), Bangladesh
for 6,000 households in a village-based community at Sandip Island, Bangladesh, as a demonstrative model for ho-
listic rural development. Please see [http://www.sankalpacmfs.org/trd/] for details of the TRD Project.
(b) With Mr. Kapilananda Mondal, CEO & Founder of Vivekananda Sevakendra-O-Sishu Uddyan (VSSU)
and Mr. Vinay Jaju, CEO of Environment Conservation Society (Switch ON) to demonstrate the
socio-economic and environmental sustainability of livelihoods programs and renewable energy tech-
nologies based on distributed energy paradigm for village-based communities and rural households in India,
in general, and the people in the South 24 Parganas/Sunderbans area in particular.
USAID s Methane-to-Markets Partnership Initiative: October 2006 to September 2008
Project Director/PI for USAID project entitled Building a Plug-Flow Biogas Digester (PFBD) at Baidyapur
Village, District Nadia, West Bengal, India as a demonstrative model for USAID s M2M Partnership Initiative.
This 2-year ~US$95k project is in technical collaboration with (a) Dr H N Chanakya of IISc Bangalore, (b) Prof
Emeritus Maurice Albertson of Colorado State University and (c) Prof Ali Ansari, Chairman EWB-India.
Eco Kiln (Vertical Shaft Brick Kiln or VSBK) Project: August 2006 to July 2008
Co-Principal Investigator for a Dept of Science (GOI) funded project entitled Building a model VSBK
at Baidyapur Village, WB for the economical, energy efficient and environment friendly manufacture of bricks .
This 2-year ~Rs 15 Lakhs project with CER benefits is in technical collaboration with Development Alternatives,
New Delhi, and is a flagship project for creating sustainable shelter products and habitats for the rural poor.
Total Rural Development (TRD) Project: [http://www.sankalpacmfs.org/trd/] since August 2004
Principal Investigator for a circa US$25 million/seven year project, which is proposed based on a
three-tiered model to promote (a) Asset-based & market-creation approaches for building Private-
Public Partnerships (PPPs); (b) Process and object oriented focus to build reusable models for holis-
tic rural development, and (c) The growth of an ethics and morality of self-development.
The Prime Minister s Office & Planning Commission of India had approved a unique version of the TRD project for
the Auroville bio-region in Tamil Nadu in the hope that it becomes the model for the rest of the country. The
TRD concept is being actively proposed for implementation in India including West Bengal, Assam, Jammu,
Uttaranchal and Gujarat and internationally as well, in Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Nigeria.
In March 2006, I was invited to meet with the President of India, Dr. A P J Kalam at the Rashtrapathi Bhavan,
New Delhi, to discuss with him a proposal for the new paradigm for rural development entitled Convergence of
Rural Development Paradigms at Sivaganga District, Tamil Nadu, that I had sent to him in January 2006.
Environmental Economics Research: June 2001 Dec 2003
Principal Investigator for a World Bank funded IGIDR research project entitled Study of the Eco-
nomic and Environmental Impact of Biomass Gasification Based Power Plants .
The policy recommendations from this Rs. 1 million project were used as inputs by the Government of India to
frame policy decisions for the development of biomass-based strategies for rural electrification.
Sankalpa Research Center: [http://www.sankalpacmfs.org/src/] since August 2003
Sankalpa Research Center rural development programs are showcased at Village Baidyapur, District Nadia,
West Bengal, [http://www.sankalpacmfs.org/src/] where we have established models for disseminating approp-
priate technologies. The work was started with an experimental Sustainable Development Center at Santini-
ketan in 2002 to develop the Sankalpa Pyramidal Model for Rural Development, including:
Livelihoods Center: Promote sustainable livelihoods, such as handmade paper and jute products, shelter
products, energy and IT-enabled products and services; Direct-to-Home vegetable delivery service;
Building Center: Demonstration of environment-friendly social housing, including Eco Kiln (aka VSBK), Mi-
cro-concrete Roofing Tiles,, Ferroconcrete Doors & Windows and Compressed Earth Block;
Renewable Energy Center: Demonstration of biomass gasification and biomethanation technologies for
rural electrification; briquetting; improved chulha; Solar Photovoltaic and Solar Thermal systems; food-driers.
IT Enabled Community Center: Internet and IT-enabled services & telemedicine; in general, creation
of self-employment, sustainable livelihood opportunities and provisioning of a Learning Center .
Signed MOU for collaboration with Development Alternatives, New Delhi in March 2000. At IISc Bangalore:
Prof H S Mukunda, Advisor World Bank project; Dr H N Chanakya for biodigesters. We have interacted with
(a) Dr Ashok Jhunjhunwalla at IIT Madras/n-Logue to implement CORDECT (WLL) technology for rural
Internet connectivity and IT-enabled services; (b) Dr Saravanan of Anna University, Madras to replicate
the Biomass-based Cold Storage Systems for rural applications (c) Prof A G Rao of IIT Bombay to develop
bamboo artefacts (d) Prof S P Mukherjee, of IAPQR for quality management.
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WORK EXPERIENCE IN SOCIAL AND APPROPRIATE TECHNOLOGY PROJECTS:
Year Field Description of Work/Experience
2012 Incubation Hub Ongoing NABARD-funded project at VSSU, Laxmikantapur, 24 Parganas
Project (South) near the Sunderbans, for building an Incubation Hub .
Project objectives: Implement a participative model for rural development, which will
The Rural Con-
provide beneficiaries with access to modern ICT-enabled, knowledge-based systems
vergence Pro- and Appropriate Technologies (ATs) both hard and soft that will help them to
gram (RCP) promote social entrepreneurship and total community development. For details:
[http://www.sankalpacmfs.org/src/wp/ARTS_Concept.Note_Incubation.Hub_Ullon.pdf]
2012 Aquaponics/ Proposed project for Workshop on Design and Implementation of Aquapon-
Urban Agricul- ics Systems, submitted to Indo US Science and Technology Forum, in col-
ture: laboration with Dr. Nathaniel R. Storey, University of Wyoming, Laramie.
Seminar and Project objectives:
We propose to conduct a two-day Seminar in Kolkata, which will focus on design,
Pedagogy
development, implementation and monitoring & evaluation of the effectiveness of Aq-
uaponics/urban agriculture systems.
2012 The Rural Con- Proposal submitted to the Central Tibetan Administration, Dharamsala to
vergence Pro- implement the Rural Convergence Program (RCP), in a Tibetan village-
gram (RCP) based refugee community in Orissa.
Project objectives: Leverage participatory practices for sustainable development
TRD Project
(PPSD) and disseminate appropriate technologies (ATs) for holistic development.
2011 Aquaponics/ Proposal submitted to Mumbai Metropolitan Region-Environment Improve-
Urban Agricul- ment Society (MMR-EIS) for building an Aquaponics Eco Park in Mumbai, in
ture collaboration with Central Institute of Fisheries Education (CIFE).
Aquaponics Eco Project objectives: To demonstrate holistic and sustainable models of urban aquacul-
ture and agriculture, integrating aquaponics-spirulina-vermicompost-biomethanation.
Park
Details: [www.sankalpacmfs.org/src/wp/Cocept.Note_Aquaponic.Systems.pdf]
2011 Spirulina Project Proposal submitted to Young Horizons School, to build a facility for growing
Spirulina as a micronutrient food supplement, as a means to provide nutri-
Nutritional secu-
tional security for poor school children, and provide sustainable livelihoods &
rity for children
empowerment opportunities to women.
and Livelihoods
for women Project objectives:
a) Develop a framework for eliminating malnutrition in school children and creating
sustainable livelihoods based on the growth of Spirulina Super Food ;
b) Promote alternative sustainable livelihood models, such as Aquaponic and handi-
crafts, based on eco-friendly and natural raw materials.
2010 Spirulina-4- Ongoing project at VSSU, Laxmikantapur, 24 Parganas (South) near the
Schools Project Sunderbans, for growing Spirulina as a micronutrient food supplement for
the poor especially children in village-based communities, in conjunction
Micronutrients
with biomethanation, for absorption of biogas CO2 for enhancing the pro-
as a food sup-
ductivity of spirulina; monitoring & evaluating the outcome.
plement
Project objectives: [http://www.sankalpacmfs.org/src/01liv/spi4children.html]
a) Reduce child mortality by doubling the productivity of Spirulina micronutrients as
a food supplement to meet the daily nutritional requirements of children;
b) Promote gender issues and employment opportunity for women.
2010 Biomethanation Proposal submitted to US EPA to evaluate Methane capture from bio-
end use strate- methanation of biomass waste and CO2 in biogas to produce Spirulina and
gies fish for an integrated village-based energy, health and waste management
system.
Project objectives: [http://www.sankalpacmfs.org/src/wp/Concept_Integrated_Bio_Spi.pdf]
a) Reduce GHG emissions and capture methane as a renewable and clean source of
energy from agricultural and kitchen/food waste, using tried and tested tech-
nologies;
b) Use the by-products from biomethanation for vermicomposting, fish aquaculture
and using the CO2 in biogas to enhance the productivity of Spirulina micronutri-
ent, so that the waste by-product of each process is recycled as raw material
inputs for the other.
2009 Passive/ Ab- Ongoing project at Sankalpa Research Center for design, production, dis-
sorption cooling semination and evaluation of a novel Pot-in-Pot (PiP) vegetable cooler
based on evaporation principle with Society for Development Initiatives
Refrigeration
(SDI) Bangladesh.
system without
electricity; Project objectives: [http://www.sankalpacmfs.org/src/wp/pip.pdf]
a) Refrigerate vegetables and perishables without consuming electricity;
Livelihoods &
b) Use Finite Element Method (FEM)/ State Variable approach for functional per-
Appropriate
formance optimization and usability simulation.
technology
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Year Field Description of Work/Experience
2009 Eco Kiln (VSBK) Training Center and technology transfer workshops for disseminating sus-
Training Center tainable village-based shelter technologies for the rural people in West Ben-
gal and the North Eastern region of India, and evaluate the effectiveness of
Shelter tech-
the social housing program.
nologies
[http://www.sankalpacmfs.org/src/wp/Concept_EcoKiln.pdf]
The budget includes a provision for operating the Eco Kiln for demonstrating the
operations and management of the Eco Kiln, and other sustainable shelter demon-
stration projects.
2008 Total Rural De- R&D project for holistic rural development in collaboration Development
velopment Alternatives and other coalition partners to build, operate and evaluate a
(TRD) Project Rural Convergence Program (RCP), to promote asset-based, market crea-
tion, process centric and object oriented approaches for holistic community
Holistic ap-
development, and to deliver knowledge-based products and services to the
proach
targeted beneficiaries.
Process ori- Project objectives: [http://www.sankalpacmfs.org/trd/wp/trdglobal.pdf]
Overcome local barriers to socio-economic development through Public-Private Part-
ented & Object
nerships (PPP); knowledge-based products and services as tools for empowerment;
oriented
Use process oriented and scientific approaches for community building and monitoring
ICT and evaluation of the effectiveness of the RCP;
Adopt a reusable and modular structure for a software driven approach for realizing
the change processes.
2007 Solid Oxide Fuel R&D project at Sankalpa Research Center to evaluate the use of fuel cells
Cells to convert biogas into electricity for clean air and long-term rural energy
security in collaboration with Central Glass & Ceramic Research Institute
Biomethanation
(CGCRI), Calcutta and CECRI, Karaikudi, Tamil Nadu.
strategies
Project objectives: [http://www.sankalpacmfs.org/src/wp/ConceptNote_SOFC.pdf]
Distributed en-
c) Demonstrate and evaluate the use of fuel cells to directly convert the biogas pro-
ergy paradigm
duced in village-based PFBDs into electricity;
d) Promote healthier air quality and reduce GHG emissions.
2007 Biomass energy Ongoing project at Sankalpa Research Center to build, operate and evaluate
a model 20kWe biomass gasification based power plant (BGBPP) in asso-
Gasification
ciation with GP Green Energy, Calcutta.
Rural energy
security Project objectives: [http://www.sankalpacmfs.org/src/02ene/02ene.html#7]
Distributed en- (a) Create awareness of biomass as a sustainable source of renewable energy that is
an alternative to fossil fuels;
ergy system
(b) Preserve bio-diversity and reduce GHG emissions;
CDM
(c) To study and evaluate the impact on fuel properties of mixing producer gas and
methane-rich biogas from adjoining PFBD.
2006 Methane-to- Ongoing project at Sankalpa Research Center to build, operate and evaluate
a 60 Nm3/day Plug Flow Biogas Digester (PFBD) at Baidyapur Village, Nadia,
Markets part-
nership WB as USAID s Methane-to-Markets Partnership Initiative.
GHG emissions Project objectives: [http://www.sankalpacmfs.org/src/02ene/02ene.html#4]
reduction a) Conduct localization and commercialisation of the PFBD model for generation of
methane powered energy services to rural and semi-urban areas, using different
Rural energy
kinds renewable resources as inputs;
security
b) Develop a decentralized energy system based on methane gas to serve domestic
Distributed en- and commercial needs;
ergy system
c) Develop methods and systems for cost recovery through user fees.
2006 Eco Kiln (VSBK) Ongoing project at Sankalpa Research Center to build, operate and evalu-
ate a model Eco Kiln/Vertical Shaft Brick Kiln (VSBK) at Village Baidyapur,
Energy conser-
Nadia, West Bengal, for the economical, energy efficient and eco-friendly
vation
manufacture of bricks.
GHG emissions
Project objectives: [http://www.sankalpacmfs.org/src/03she/03she.html#8]
reduction/CDM
a) Perform localization and adaptation work for the eastern India.
Energy efficient
b) FEM analysis/State Variable approach for performance optimisation;
homes
c) Promote shelter technologies, such as MCR Tiles, FC Doors and Windows, CEBs
and energy-efficient low-cost homes.
2006 Ongoing project at Sankalpa Research Center, Village Baidyapur, Nadia, to
Biomass energy
build, operate and evaluate a model energy briquetting plant, for energy
Energy briquettes
security & sustainable livelihoods.
2006 Knowledge Cen- R&D project to build, operate and evaluate an IT Enabled Community Cen-
ter ter (ITECC) at Sankalpa Research Center, Nadia.
Community Project objectives: To build: [http://www.sankalpacmfs.org/src/04ite/04ite.html]
a) A Learning Center for capacity building and Telemedicine Center ;
building/ICTs
b) A platform to network with the global community.
2006 Biomass-based R&D project at Sankalpa Research Center to build, operate and evaluate a
refrigeration model 20kWt/3-TR biomass based cold storage system (BBCSS) for rural
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Year Field Description of Work/Experience
systems applications in collaboration with Dr. Saravanan of Anna University. For
details, please download
GHG emissions
[http://www.sankalpacmfs.org/src/wp/bbg_cold_storage.pdf].
reduction/CDM
Project objective: To create an awareness of BBCSSs as a viable and established
technology, and use of renewable biomass thermal energy instead of fossil fuels/grid
electricity for refrigeration.
2004 Rural electrifica- Proposal for design, development and evaluation of a novel low-cost, multi-
tion; fuel Mini Electric Generator (MEG) for domestic and commercial use in global
rural communities ongoing Sankalpa Research Center R&D project.
Distributed en-
ergy systems Project objectives:
a) Improve the quality of life of rural and remote households;
b) Generate electrical/thermal energy for sustainable livelihoods;
c) Generate reliable sources of energy for farmers/small industries.
2003 Solar Thermal Proposal to build, operate and evaluate a 10,000 liters per day hot water
Systems system for Apollo Hospitals (In technical consultation with Tata BP Solar).
2003 Solar Photo- Study report to evaluate the socio-technical and socio-cultural aspects of
voltaic Solar Home Systems .
- In consultation with Tata BP Solar. for market research and analysis.
Proposal to build a model biomass-based gasifier system for a cremato-
2003 Biomass gasifi-
cation (thermal rium, which reduces fuelwood consumption by almost 75%. Please see
use) [http://www.sankalpacmfs.org/src/wp/bg_crematorium.pdf] for details
2002 Environmental Principal Investigator for a World Bank funded research project entitled
Economics of Study of the Economic and Environmental Impact of Biomass Gasification
Biomass gasifi- Based Power Plants .
cation based The policy recommendations emerging from this project were used as inputs by the
power plant Government of India to frame policy decisions at the national level for the dissemina-
(BGBPP); tion of biomass-based renewable energy strategies.
2001 Solar Cooker Provide consultancy to build, operate and evaluate a community solar
cooker and pond reclamation project for Stree Shakti at Rajarhaat, Kolkata.
- As Managing Trustee, Sankalpa Trust
1996 Wind Power; Technical management and monitoring of Wind Power, Solar Photo-
to Solar Photo- voltaic/Thermal, and Biogas renewable energy projects.
1997 voltaic & Solar Work included development of life-cycle costing projections for Solar Photo-
Thermal; Bio- volatic/Solar Thermal plants, modelling of renewable energy systems in general, and
monitoring and evaluation of sysytems.
methanation
- As Advisor to Prudential Power Pvt Ltd
1993 Solar Photo- Design, manufacture and dissemination of an efficient solar lantern for ru-
to voltaic; ral villages, with a novel maximum power point static electronic device for
1996 optimising energy conversion.
Rural domestic
lighting project - As Managing Director, Q Tronix Pvt Ltd
1990 Energy meter- Management, control & evaluation of companywide activities in Quality As-
to ing surance, R&D and Production of energy meters and metering equipment.
1993 - As General Manager, VXL Landis & Gyr
1989 Motor control- Applications Engineering for motor controlgear and switchgear products at
to gear and Faridabad, India; Marketing & Strategic Planning New Projects (elec-
1990 switchgear tronic relays); Corporate Planning .
- As Manager (Applications), Bhartia Cutler Hammer
1988 Digital power Design, formulate and evaluate the algorithms and simulate/test the criti-
monitoring cal sub-systems of a unique digital power monitoring and control system
product for Electronics Systems Div, Square D Co, Cedar Rapids, IA, USA.
For remote data communication, system status, power quality monitoring & evalua-
tion, automatic load shedding & power factor correction.
- As Post Doctoral Fellow, University of Missouri-Columbia.
1984 Inverter Induc- FEM Analysis of the performance of inverter induction motor drives (simu-
to tion Motor lation of rotor current in cage-type machines).
1988 Drives - Doctoral Thesis, University of Missouri-Columbia.
1982 Residential solar MS Thesis at Wayne State University on applications and residential usage
to energy systems of solar energy systems.
1984 - Research area: Photovoltaic /Thermal (PVT) systems
1974 Electric fans Research & Development of domestic and industrial electric fans; man-
to agement of cost reduction/value engineering projects.
1982 - Manager R&D, Jay Engineering Works, Calcutta.
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