Dr. Y RAJA SEKHAR

PROFESSOR · THERMAL AND ENERGY ENGINEERING

SCHOOL OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERING

Author

APID

8928

ORCID

0000-0003-4921-6331

Scopus

https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=57216530937

Google Scholar

https://scholar.google.co.in/citations?hl=en&user=DCnFKPQAAAAJ

Location

VELLORE, TAMILNADU, INDIA

Expertise

Solar potential estimation for Vehicle Integrated Photovoltaics [VIPV] Passenger Cars; Techno-economic Performance evaluation of domestic Photovoltaic Thermal [PVT] systems ; Development and Characterization of Novel Hybrid Thermal energy storage Materials for process heat applications; Nanomaterials for Perovskite solar cells ; and Net zero sustainable energy systems

Areas of interest

Solar Photovoltaics for domestic and vehicle applications ;Low and High temperature Solar thermal device design and development ;Sensible and Latent heat Thermal energy storage materials development and its characterization ;Life cycle analysis ; Data Analytics and Machine Learning Techniques for Solar applications; Green Hydrogen Generation

Member since

December 2024

Publications

1. Assessing the scope of vehicle integrated photovoltaics in urban driving conditions–Case study of a Tier-II city in southern India
2. Effect of molten binary salt on Inconel 600 and Hastelloy C-276 superalloys for thermal energy storage systems: A corrosion study
3. Experimental investigations on bi-symmetrical web flow water based photovoltaic-thermal (PVT) system: Energy, exergy, and entropy (3-E) analysis
4. Fabrication of dye-sensitized solar cells using natural flower dye extracts: a study on performance analysis and solar dye degradation
5. Local centric energy estimate model for clean and affordable power generation in a solar integrated passenger vehicle
6. Recent trends in photovoltaic technologies for sustainable transportation in passenger vehicles–A review