Prof. P. Muthukumar | Department of Mechanical Engineering

Some of the Important Keynote / Invited Lectures Delivered

Title	Nature of lecture	Place	Date
Green Porous Radiant Burners	Plenary talk	ICITFES-2020, NIT Rourkela	10^thFeb 2020
Design, development and testing of thermal energy storage systems	Invited talk	Int Workshop on Energy Storage, IIT Tripati	24^thDec 2019
Design and development of large scale metal hydride based thermal systems	Invited talk	Hydrogen Energy Storage workshop, 8th Dec 2019, IIT Bombay	8^thDec 2019
Thermo-chemical Energy storage systems	Invited talk	Int Conference on Polygeneration, ICP 2019, Kyushu University, Japan	15^thMay 2019
Green Hydrogen – A future Energy Career	Key-Note talk	12th Int Conf on Thermal Engineering: Theory and Applications, February 23-26, 2019, Gandhinagar, India	26^thFeb 2019
Development and testing of large scale metal hydride based hydrogen storage device for automobile and stationary applications.	Invited talk	Indian Oil Corporation Delhi	7^thDecember 2018
Green Energy Technologies: A summary of Research Activates on Hydrogen and Thermal Energy Storage Systems carried out at IIT Guwahati	Invited talk	Texas A&M University, USA	27^thApril 2018
Thermal Energy Storage Systems for Concentrated Solar Thermal Power Plant Applications	Invited talk	Wichita state University, USA	24^thApril 2018
Hydrogen - A Future Green Energy Carrier	Invited talk	Wichita state University, USA	27^th March 2018
Energy Efficient and Green Energy Technologies	Plenary talk	IntConf on Mechanical Materials and Renewable Energy, Sikkim Manipal Institute of Technology, Sikkim,	9^th Dec 2017
Recent trends in solar thermal utilization	Plenary talk	International Workshop on Renewable Energy, NIT Silchar	26^th Sept 2017
Energy transition for sustainable future	Invited talk	9th Indo – German Frontiers of Engineering Symposium, Jaipur	9-11^th March 2017
Hydrogen a future energy carrier	Key note talk	International Conference on Advances in Functional Materials, Anna University, Chennai	8^th Jan 2017
Metal hydride based thermal management systems for heating and cooling applications	Key note talk	RAAR 2016, CV Raman Engg College, Bhubaneswar, India.	11 Nov. 2016
Thermal Energy Storage systems : Concept and Applications	Invited talk	Workshop on Renewable Energy, NIT Rourkela	15^th April 2016
Thermal Energy storage systems for solar thermal power plant applications	Key note talk	National Conference on Solar Thermal Energy Technologies (NCSTET), IIT Jodhpur	26^th Feb 2016
Metal Hydride based Thermal Machines	Key note talk	ICAME 2015, TKM College of Engineering, Kerala,	14-16^thDec. 2015
Development of Fast Reaction Metal Hydride Reactors for Hydrogen Storage and Thermal Management Applications.	Key note talk	6^th World Hydrogen Technologies Convention, Sydney, Australia	11 – 14^th Oct. 2015
Development of Porous Radiant Burners for Domestic LPG Cooking and Industrial Applications	Key note talk	2nd World Congress on Petro chemistry and Chemical Engineering 2014” conference, Las Vegas, USA during October 27-29, 2014	October 27^th 2014
Research Activities on Hydrogen and Thermal Energy Storage Systems and Porous Medium Combustion at IIT Guwahati	Invited talk	Clean Energy Research Centre, University of South Florida, USA	11^th June, 2014
Metal Hydride based Thermal Machines	Keynote lecture	Int. Workshop on Energy, Sustainability and Development (ISWESD-12),Sibs agar College, Joys agar, Assam	14th Oct.12
Development of novel porous radiant burner for domestic LPG cooking applications	Invited talk,	6^th Symposium on National Frontiers of Engineering. IIT Hyderabad	3^rd Sept. 2011
Thermal energy storage systems for solar thermal power plants: Methods and Materials.	Invited talk,	Indo-Spain joint work on Renewable Energy, Sevilla, Spain	3^rd March 2011,
Metal Hydride Based Energy Conversion Systems	Plenary lecture	RETIP-2010, NERIST, Arunachal Pradesh.	24^th Sept. 10
Research activities on “Metal hydride based thermal machines at IIT Guwahati.	Invited talk	IKE, University of Stuttgart, Germany,	16^th July, 2012
Metal Hydride Heat Transformer for waste heat up gradation.	Invited talk	NPTC, Noida,	19^th April 10.
Review on Metal hydride based heating and cooling systems.	Keynote lecture	ISOHIM·2009 3^rd International Symposium on Hydrogen in Matter, IIT Madras, India,	16^thDec.09
Thermal modeling of double stage double effect metal hydride heat pump.	Keynote lecture	World Hydrogen Energy Convection New Delhi	27^th August, 2009.
Performance Investigations of Metal Hydride based Thermal Machines.	Invited talk	Indo-French Workshop on Metal Hydride and Applications Jaipur, 22^nd- 28^th March 2009.	25^th March 2009
Applications of Metal Hydrides in Energy Sector.	Plenary lecture	Int. Conference on Energy Engineering (ICEE-2009), Pondicherry Engg. College, Puducherry, India.	7^thJan. 2009
Hydrogen Storage using Metal Hydrides- System modeling and Design.	Invited lecture	Indo-France Workshop on Bio-hydrogen Production: Basic concepts to Technology Mussorie, Dehradun,	7^th Nov. 2008.

Delivered over 150 invited lectures on various aspects of Hydrogen Energy Storage, Solar Thermal Utilization, Renewable Energy, Non-conventional Refrigeration System, Porous Medium Combustion, etc. in various Engineering Colleges/Research Institutes in India and aboard.