Dr Sukhmeet Singh did B.E. (Mechanical) from Thapar Institute of Engineering & Technology, Patiala (Deemed University) and then Master’s and PhD (Mechanical Engineering)) from PAU and NIT Jalandhar. He is Principal Investigator of ICAR funded ‘All India Coordinated Research Project on Energy in Agriculture and Agro-based Industries’. As PI, he has completed a UGC funded research project titled ‘CFD analysis of rib-roughened solar air heater duct’; and a project funded by Himmotthan Society (an initiative of Tata Trusts) for development of solar dryer for apricot for Leh region. He has vast experience in the area of solar energy utilization and has developed number of technologies for the benefit of the farmers. Four of his technologies have been commercialized viz., ‘Forced Circulation Solar Dryer’, ‘Evacuated Tube Solar Dryer’, ‘Advanced Domestic Solar Dryer’ and ‘Agro-industrial Solar Dryer’. Besides, to his credit are two patents viz., ‘Pressurized All-glass Evacuated Tube Solar Water Heater’, and ‘An Improved Solar Dryer using Packed Bed Natural Circulation’. He has also been teaching Mechanical Engineering and Renewable Energy Engineering courses to under-graduate and post-graduate students.

Professional Accomplishments

Research Projects

ICAR-AICRP (All India Coordinated Research Project on Energy in Agriculture and Agro-based Industries)

• Development of medium capacity evacuated tube collector solar dryer
• Development of evacuated tube assisted, polyhouse type large capacity forced circulation solar dryer.
• Development of multi-tray type domestic solar dryer
• Development of Compact solar water heater
• Deveopment of Packed bed solar air heater
• Deveopment of Low cost solar air heater

Adhoc project funded by Department of UGC New Delhi

• CFD analysis of rib-roughened solar air heater duct

Project funded by Himmotthan Society (an initiative of Tata Trusts)

• Development of solar dryer for apricot for Leh region

Research Publications:

1. Singh S, Gill R S, Hans VS and Mittal T C (2022). Experimental performance and economic viability of evacuated tube solar collector assisted greenhouse dryer for sustainable development. Energy 241(2): 122794. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.energy.2021.122794.

2. Singla M, Hans V S and Singh S (2022). CFD analysis of rib roughened solar evacuated tube collector for air heating. Renew Energy 183(1): 78–89. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.renene.2021.10.055.

3. Singh S, Gill R S, Hans V S and Singh M (2021). A novel active-mode indirect solar dryer for agricultural products: Experimental evaluation and economic feasibility. Energy 222: 119956. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.energy.2021.119956.

4. Goel V, Hans V S, Singh S, Kumar R, Pathak S K, Singla M, Bhattacharyya S, Almatrafi E, Gill R S and Saini R P (2021). A comprehensive study on the progressive development and applications of solar air heaters. Solar Energy 229(11): 112–147. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.solener.2021.08.007.

5. Singh I and Singh S (2018). A review of artificial roughness geometries employed in solar air heaters. Renew Sustain Energy Rev 92: 405–425. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rser.2018.04.096.

Awards and Recognitions:  Nil