Dr. V.S. Hans joined PAU in the year 1997 in the Department of Mechanical Engineering in the college of Agricultural Engineering & Technology. Completed his Ph. D. In the field of solar thermal from Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee and did his M.E. (Mechanical) and B.E.( Mechanical) from Punjab Engineering College, Chandigarh. He has 18 years of teaching and research experience. He has 21 publications in journals and conferences. He is PI of UGC funded project titles design and development of efficient solar air heaters for agricultural applications and Co- PI of All Indian Co-ordinated Research Project on Renewable Energy Sources funded by Indian Council of Agricultural Research. He has 21 evaluated M.Tech theses till date. He is member of Indian Society of Heat and Mass Transfer, Indian Society of Technical Education, Solar Energy Society of India. He was associated with a teaching project titled development of e-courses for B.Tech (Agri Engineering) students funded by ICAR under NAIP.

Professional Accomplishments

Research Projects completed

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

Research Publications:

1. Hans VS, Singh S and Gill RS. (2014). Thermal and thermohydraulic performance of packed bed solar air heater. Journal of Agricultural Engineering, 5 (1), 51-57.
2. Singh S, Singh B, Hans V S and Gill R S (2015). CFD (computational fluid dynamics) investigation on Nusselt number and friction factor of solar air heater duct roughened with non-uniform cross-section transverse rib. Energy (Elsevier) 84 : 509-517.
3. Singh S, Singh B, Hans V S and Gill R S. (2015). Heat transfer and flow in square wave profiled transverse rib roughened solar air heater. 1st International ISHMT-ASTFE Heat and Mass Transfer Conference.
4. Gill R S, Hans V S, Singh R P. (2016). Heat transfer and friction characteristics of broken arc ribs roughened solar air heater ducts. Agric Res J 53(1): 81-85. 
5. Hans V S, Gill R S, Singh R.P.(2016). Effect of rib roughness pitch on thermal and thermo-hydraulic performance of a solar air heater roughened artificially with arc rib having gap. Journal of Applied and Natural Science 8 (1): 251 –256