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Rangan Banerjee

Professor and Head of Department, Department of Energy Science and Engineering, IIT Bombay

Research Areas

  • Energy Management & Energy Efficiency
  • Demand Side Management
  • Energy Modelling
  • Power Systems Planning
  • Energy Planning and Policy
  • Cogeneration
  • Fuel cell / Hydrogen storage
  • Academic Background

  • PhD (Mechanical Engg.) from IIT Bombay
  • BTech (Mechanical) from IIT Bombay
  • Publications

  • Yadav, D., and Banerjee, R., (2018) Economic assessment of hydrogen production from solar driven high-temperature steam electrolysis process, Journal of Cleaner Production, (in Press), available online February 17, 2018.
  • Nandi, B.R., Bandyopadhyay, S., Banerjee, R., (2018) Numerical modeling and analysis of dual medium thermocline thermal energy storage, Journal of Energy Storage, 16, pp 218-230. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.est.2018.01.020
  • Das, J., Abraham, A. P., Ghosh, P.C. and Banerjee, R., (2018) Life cycle energy and carbon footprint analysis of photovoltaic battery microgrid system in India, Clean Technologies and Environmental Policy, (20)1, pp 65-80. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10098-017-1456-4
  • Jacob, A. S., Banerjee, R., Ghosh, P. C., (2018) Sizing of hybrid energy storage system for a PV based microgrid through design space approach, Applied Energy, 212, pp. 640-653. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apenergy.2017.12.040
  • Singh, R., and Banerjee, R., (2017) Impact of large-scale rooftop solar PV integration: An algorithm for hydrothermal-solar scheduling (HTSS), Solar Energy, 157, pp. 988-1004. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.solener.2017.09.021
  • Dhariwal, J. and Banerjee, R., (2017) An approach for building design optimization using design of experiments’, Building Simulation, Springer Nature, (10)3, pp 323- 336, June 2017. DOI: http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12273-016-0334-z
  • Debnath R., Bardhan R., Banerjee R, (2017) Taming the killer in the kitchen: mitigating household air pollution from solid-fuel cookstoves through building design’, Clean Technologies and Environmental Policy’, (19)3, pp 705-719, April 2017. DOI: http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10098-016-1251-7
  • Courses Taught

  • EN 110: Fundamental of Energy Engineering
  • EN 606: Energy Resources, Economics & Environment
  • EN 618: Energy Systems Modelling and Analysis
  • EN 607: Energy Management
  • EN 642: Power Generation and Systems Planning
  • MG 632: Technology Assessment and Forecasting
  • EN 402: Introduction to Energy Engineering
  • Positions Held

  • Professor (Forbes Marshall Chair Professor since) March 2003-till date
  • Associate Professor, June 1997
  • Assistant Professor, July 1994
  • Joined IIT Bombay as ‘Visiting Assistant Professor’, October 1993
  • Assistant Professor, Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research, Mumbai (1992 Oct -1993 Oct)
  • Senior Engineer, Engineers India Ltd. (R&D) (1991 – 1992)
  • Research Associate, Tata Energy Research Institute, Delhi (1990 – 1991)
  • Research Associate, Centre for Applied Systems Analysis in Development, Pune (1986 – 1987)
  • Management Trainee, Cadbury’s India (1986)