Assistant Professor
Mechanical Engineering
IIT Madras
6 Years
Concentrating Solar Power Technologies, Computational Heat and Fluid Flow, Thermo-hydraulic Modelling of Energy Systems, Techno-economic Analyses of Concentrating Solar Thermal Power Plants
Concentrating Solar Thermal Technologies, Thermal Energy Storage
Mail: b.nitinkumar@sru.edu.in
Ph.D. (IIT Madras)
M.Tech. (VNIT Nagpur)
B.Tech. (JNTUH)
Assistant Professor at SRU, Warangal, from 2020-12-07 to Till Date.
Assistant Professor at IARE, Hyderabad, from 2008-10-03 to 2011-12-12.
UG
Kumar, B.N., Reddy, K.S, "Optimal sizing of collector field for DSG based stand-alone concentrating solar power plant", 11th International Exergy, Energy and Environment Symposium, 14-18 July 2019, SRM IST, Chennai, India
Kumar, B.N., Reddy, K.S, "Thermo-hydraulic Modelling of Direct Steam Generation in a Solar Parabolic Trough Collector System", 13th International Conference on Heat Transfer, Fluid Mechanics and Thermodynamics, 17-19 July 2017, Portoroz , Slovenia
Boukelia, T. E., Mecibah, M. S., Kumar, B. N., Reddy, K. S., “Investigation of solar parabolic trough power plants with and without integrated TES (thermal energy storage) and FBS (fuel backup system) using thermic oil and solar salt”. Energy, 2015, 88, 292-303, IF:7.147
Boukelia, T. E., Mecibah, M. S., Kumar, B. N., Reddy, K. S., “Optimization, selection and feasibility study of solar parabolic trough power plants for Algerian conditions”. Energy conversion and Management, 2015, 101, 450-459, IF: 9.709
Reddy, K. S., Ajay, C. S., Kumar, B. N., “Sensitivity study of thermal performance characteristics based on optical parameters for direct steam generation in parabolic trough collectors”. Solar Energy, 2018, 169, 577-593, IF: 5.742
Kumar, B. N., Reddy, K. S.,“Comparison of two-phase flow correlations for thermo-hydraulic modeling of direct steam generation in a solar parabolic trough collector system”. Journal of Thermal Science and Engineering Applications,2018, 10(4), IF: 1.47
Kumar, B. N., Reddy, K. S., “Numerical investigations on metal foam inserted solar parabolic trough DSG absorber tube for mitigating thermal gradients and enhancing heat transfer”. Applied Thermal Engineering,2020, 178, 115511, IF: 5.295
National Fellowship from MHRD, India for Pursuing Ph.D. at IIT Madras
National Fellowship from MHRD, India for pursuing M.Tech. at VNIT Nagpur