Dr. Rupinder Pal Singh is currently an Assistant Professor (joined on 28.12.2010) at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Punjab Agricultural University, and Ludhiana Punjab. He has fifteen years of experience in thermo fluid sciences pertaining to the design and optimization of renewable energy systems. His interests lie in Energy storage devices (system optimization/ characterization of storage materials), Bio-energy systems, Waste heat recovery, and nano-fluid heat transfer.

His PhD at the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi involved heat transfer studies of medium temperature thermal energy storage systems. He has also worked at ERIAN, Energy research institute @ Nanyang Technological University, Singaporeunder the supervision of a renowned Prof. Alessandro Romagnoli.  Dr. Singh was also awarded with fully funded Dutch fellowship to undergo advanced training entitled “at the Netherlands. He has also got MHRD scholarship (under QIP) for pursuing his Doctoral degree. Dr. Singh has published and reviewed many research papers with high-impact factors.Currently, he is also holding the charge of NSS programme officer of the college.

Professional Accomplishments

Research Projects completed

“Design development of an efficient solar air heater for agricultural applications” funded by UGC (2015) as Co-Investigator.

Research Publications:

1. Singh R, Singh R P, Singh R (2022). Biogas driven multigeneration integrated with simultaneous charging-discharging type thermal energy storage system . Energy Conversion and Management 270, 116234. 
2. Singh R P, Haoxin Xu, Kaushik S C, Rakshit D, Romagnoli A, (2019). Effective utilization of natural convection via novel fin design & influence of enhanced viscosity due to carbon nano-particles in a solar cooling thermal storage system. Sol. Energy 183, 105–119.
3. Singh R P, Haoxin Xu, Kaushik S C., Rakshit D., Romagnoli A., (2019). Charging performance evaluation of finned conical thermal storage system encapsulated with nano-enhanced phase change material. Applied Thermal. Engg. 151, 176–190.
4. Singh R P, Kaushik S C, Rakshit D. (2018). Melting phenomenon in a finned thermal storage system with graphenenanoplates for medium temperature applications. Energy Convers. Manag. 163, 86–99. 
5. Singh R P, Kaushik S C, Rakshit D (2018). Solidification behaviour of binary eutectic phase change material in a vertical finned thermal storage system dispersed with graphenenano-plates. Energy Convers. Manag. 171, 825–838. 

Awards and Recognition:

1. MHRD scholarship during Ph.D. 2016-2019.
2. Got fully funded fellowship to undergo advanced training entitled “Cold Technology, Water Supply Management and Solar Energy” at PTC+ Netherlands from 1st Sept. 2014 to 26th Sept 2014.