INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATION

S. No.	Purpose / Assignment	Organization / University/Company	Field of Assignment	Duration
				From...............	To.................	In   Years & Months............
Personal Academic International Exposure
1.	DAAD award	Solar Institute, Juelich, Germany	Part of Ph.D. research in the field of Thermal Energy Storage	June 1995	Feb 1997	1 year and 8 months
International Exposure - As an expert member
2.	10 member delegation from India in the expert meeting organized by DST (Govt. of India)	EPSRC, UK held during June 2012 at Bath, U.K.	In the field of "Smart Grid and Energy Storage"	June 2012	June 2012	4 days
3.	Special invitee in the two expert meetings of International Energy Agency,	Germany Spain	Applying Energy Storage in Ultra-low Energy buildings	Aug. 2011 May 2012	Sep. 2011 May 2012	5 days 5 days
4.	Represented the Indian team as part of a 6 member delegation	Potsdom, Germany.	Research CONNECT program organized by DST, Govt. of India &Humboldt Research Foundation	June 2010	June 2010	4 days
5.	Visited Universities in Moscow, Russia as part of a four member delegation from Anna University	Moscow, Russia	To explore the opportunities for student exchange and research collaboration	Sep. 2014	Sep. 2014	7 days
International Academic exposure and platform created for students / scholars under my supervision to carry out internship and partial research
6.	Collaboration for research project with Prof. Markus Spinler	Technical University, Munich, Germany - Visited by (i)  R. Velraj (ii) S. Essakimuthu (iii) N. Thilak Raj (iv) S. Vijayavenkataraman	Energy storage for solar drying applications	July 2008 Oct.2008 June2009 June2010	July 2008 Dec. 2008 Aug. 2009 Aug. 2010	2 weeks 3 months 3 months 3 months
7.	Collaboration for MNRE research project with   Prof. Jihong Wang	University of Warwick, U.K. (i)  R. Velraj (ii) V. Gayathri	Compressed Air Energy Storage	Oct.2014 Feb.2015	Oct. 2014 Mar. 2015	3 days 1 month
8.	Collaboration for DST research project with   Prof. Yulong Ding	University of Birmingham, U.K. (i)      R. Velraj (ii)     V. Kumaresan (iii)    G. Senthilkumar (iv)    P. Karthik	Thermal energy storage	Oct.2014 Aug.2015 Feb.2015 Nov.2015	Oct. 2014 Aug. 2015 April 2015 Dec. 2015	14 days 10 days 3 months 1 months
9.	Collaboration with Prof. Muthuswamy through Knowledge Exchange Programs	University of Central Florida, USA (i)      P. Karthik (ii)     I. Lovelyn Therasa	Building cooling / Heating	Aug.2016 Oct.2016	Feb. 2017 June 2017	6 months 9 months
10.	Collaboration with Prof. Muthuswamy through Knowledge Exchange Programs	University of Central Florida, USA (i)      G. Kalaiarasi	Solar Air Heating Systems	June2014	Feb. 2015	20 months
International Academic Collaboration made towards the conduct of training programs and Laboratory classes
13.	Industrial partners associated for Training	iPLON, GmBH, Germany	Solar PV training	2015	2016	2 years
14.	Industrial partners associated for Training	Edibon, Spain Visited the company by Dr. Velraj during Oct. 2015	Remote monitoring and Smart Grid systems	2015	Till Date	2 years
15.	Industrial partners associated for Training	Geindtech, Germany	Training in Solar Thermal technologies	2010	2012	3 years

EPSRC, UK held during June 2012 at Bath, U.K.

 

 

Visit to Potsdam, Germany

 

Visit to Juelich, Germany

 

Visit to ISES SOLAR WORLD CONGRESS, KASSEL, Germany, 2011

 

Visit to Moscow, Russia – Delegate member from Anna University

 

Visit to Offenburg, Germany – Smart Grid & Clean Energy Conference – 2015.

International Conference Participated

S. No.	Title of the paper	Details of the academic / research event (Conference / summit / Workshop etc)	Name of the country visited	Year of visit	Field of Research
1.	Heat transfer enhancement in a latent heat storage system	ISES SOLAR WORLD CONGRESS - PRESENTATION	South Korea	1997	Thermal energy storage
2.	Experimental Investigation On A Combined Sensible And Latent Heat Storage Unit Integrated With Solar Water Heating System	ECOSTOCK	USA	2006	Thermal energy storage
3.	Experimental investigation and parametric analysis using CFD simulation for cooling of cabin through augmented ventilation with passive hot and cold sources	ISES SOLAR WORLD CONGRESS - PRESENTATION	KASSEL, Germany	2011	Computational Fluid Dynamics
4.	Effective method of using PCM encapsulated spherical container for short duration charging and discharging applications	12th International conference on Energy Storage - INNOSTOCK	Spain	2012	PCM Energy Storage
5.	Performance Evaluation of Compressed Air Energy Storage using TRNSYS	5th International Conference on Smart Grid and Clean Energy	Offenburg, Germany	2015	Compressed Air Energy storage
6.	Presentation of paper titled "Experimental investigation on solidification behavior of organic and inorganic PCM under two different climatic conditions using modified PCM based free cooling system"	Energy Future 3 (EF3) organized by University of New South Wales (UNSW), Sydney.	Sydney, Australia	2018	Thermal Energy Storage for buildings

International Events Organized & Roles played in International Events in Other Universities / Organizations

S. No.	Title of event	Organization/University	Date	Role
Events organized at Anna University
1.	Indo German Workshop on Recent development in large scale solar thermal systems for commercial application and green buildings	Anna University in association with GIZ, Germany, Gerindtec, GmBH and TEDA	22nd June 2011	Coordinator
2.	International Workshop on Renewable Energy, Climate Change and Energy Management	Anna University in association with FICCI	24th Jan - 25th Jan 2013	Organizing Secretary
3.	Indo - US workshop on Advances in solar energy system and fast forward solar mission	Anna university in association with TEDA, FICCI, Dayalbagh Educational Institute with the collaboration of NREL, USA	7th& 8th April 2014	Coordinator
4.	International Conference on Polygeneration	Anna University in association with University of Rovira, Spain and IIT Madras.	18th Feb 2015 - 20th Feb 2015	Chair Person
Roles played in other Universities / Organizations / Institutes
1.	Energy and material research conference	Formatex Research Center, Badajoz, Spain	20 - 22 June 2012	International scientific advisory committee member
2.	2nd International conferences on advances in material processing and characterization	Anna University, Chennai	6th Feb - 8th Feb 2013.	Steering Committee member
3.	International Mechanical Engineering Congress - 2014	NIT, Trichy	June 13-15, 2014	Advisory committee member
4.	International conference on ocean acidification research	School of Energy, Environment and Natural Resources, Madurai Kamaraj University	15th Dec - 17th Dec 2015.	Advisory committee member
5.	1st International conference on hybrid energy systems and sustainability	Saveetha Engineering college	6th - 8th April 2016	Advisory committee member
6.	ICITMC 2016	PET Engineering College	2016	Advisory committee member
7.	4th International Conference  on Innovative Research in Engineering and Technology	Park College of Engineering and Technology supported by IEEE	30th March - 1st April 2017	Advisory committee member
8.	4th International Conference on Electrical Energy Systems	SSN Engineering College in association with IEEE	7th Feb - 9th Feb 2018	Advisory committee member
9.	2nd International conference on advances in mechanical engineering	SRM University, Chennai	22nd March - 24th March 2018	Advisory committee member

International Conference on Polygeneration – 2015 Role: Chair Person

Indo- German Workshop on Recent development in large scale solar thermal systems for commercial application and green buildings
Role: Coordinator

Indo- US Workshop on Advances in solar energy system and fast forward solar mission
Role: Coordinator

 

International Workshop on Renewable Energy, Climate Change and Energy Management
Role: Organizing Secretary