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SOT MIRROR

ISSUE: 03, MAY 2015 | Editorial team

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EDITORIAL TEAM:
Department Student
Civil
Oshin Arora
Ashish
Chaurasiya
Abhijeet
patel
Abhijeet
patel
Saavan Vora
Swastika
Sinha
Chemical

Paulami
Patra

Electrical

Juner
Kukreja

Industrial

Shubhra
Singh

Mechanical

Neel
Padodara

Solar

Kaushik
Natrajan
Parth Bhatt

Faculties Advisors:
Dr. Manoj Kumar (Science)
Dr. Vimal Savsani( Industrial )

Talent wins games, but teamwork

and
intelligence
wins
championship...
Imbibing these very words of
legendry Michael Jordan, We bring
you the third edition of the school of
Technologys
newsletter,
SOT
MIRROR Wherein we have tried to
capsulate, everything thats taking
place in the university campus around
us. To reflect the school we have also
put in the activities undertaken by all
the departments in terms of workshop,
poster presentation, of SOT, PDPU in
recent times along with achievement
of students.
The editorial team wishes the students
for their final examinations and
placements.
Hoping that you enjoy reading it....

Pandit Deendayal Petroleum University

Raisan Village, District-Gandhinagar
Pincode-382 007. Gujarat, INDIA
Phone: +91 79 23275060
Fax: +91 79 23275030
Email: info@pdpu.ac.in

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I commend all the members involved in this

publication of the 3rd Issue of SOT mirror. This
publication has established the pedigree of the
youngest school introduced at Pandit Deendayal
Petroleum University in 2010.

Dr. H. B. Raghavendra
Director, SOT, PDPU

In relentless academic endeavours, the university

helps to expand opportunities for students and
professionals to develop intellectual knowledge-base
with leadership skills which enable them to compete
in the global arena. This goal is accomplished
through a number of specialised and well-planned
under graduate, post graduate, doctoral and
executive education programs. PDPU believes in
creating a pristine environment blended with modern
technologies to enhance the spirit and energy level of
learners and inspire them to optimise their learning
efforts. This newsletter offers the perfect pedestal
for young and creative minds in SOT to bring forth
their innovative ideas, share their synergies and to
display their achievements. I am sure in coming days
SOT Mirror would evolve itself as a knowledge
centre of excellence in technical arena and provide a
platform to express innovative thoughts and designs.
I hope this initiative is carried into the future with
the same passion and enthusiasm and I wish the best
of luck to all those involved with it.
SOT boasts of having student/faculty associations to
support value added services in the form of
workshops, expert lecture, posters and competitive
designs and auditing. The placement activities of
SOT for the year 2014-2015 is going smoothly with
hundreds of students already placed and many more
on their way.
Finally, I wish good luck to all the students for their
final examinations and future endeavours.

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A Symposium on Latest Trends and

Innovations in Construction Industry
We live in concrete forests, i.e. the world around us is
surrounded by construction and from there comes the
word Consentric i.e. construction centric. Consentric was
a civil symposium organized by the Department of Civil
Engineering, PDPU with the great support of PSP Projects
Pvt. Ltd. JP Structures, Laxmi Trading Company and
Technomen consultant.

The inaugural session started with the kind words of

Dr. Debasis Sarkar, HOD, Civil Engineering
Department, PDPU. He talked about various new
technologies that are coming up in the field of civil
engineering like high rise buildings, sustainable
development, less waste generation, cloud computing,
affordable housing etc. He also encouraged students to
Be Creative & Think out of the Box.
Then Prof. T.P. Singh , Dean, Student affairs , PDPU
talked about the effort at PDPU to raise the unlimited
potential in students and said that Consentric 14 was a
similar effort where students could interact with the
industry people and learn about their ideas as well as
expectations and increase their tacit knowledge which
cannot be found in books or literatures.
Later on the chief guest Shri G.R. Aloria (IAS),
Additional Chief Secretary, Urban Development and
Urban Housing delivered his talk. He emphasized on the
increasing demand of housing and infrastructure along
with best technology people in this rapidly developing
world. He also said that The World has become
borderless and so there is a need of putting latest
technology in use, to meet the contrast between EWS and
affordable housing and to make smarter our house
appliances.

In the technical session, the first speaker was Mr. Vivek

Kapadia, Superintending Engineer, Sardar
Sarovar
Narmada Ltd. He mainly focused on presenting the real
scenarios of the water and irrigation sector in India with
facts and figures.
He even compared the water capacity at international
levels and highlighted points like No Right to Water in
India. He also stated that if there is no irrigation, India will
be no more on the worlds map and highlighted some of
the key features of water planning like space for one
drought year per decade is a must.

Partners from the IndustryDholera SIR:

DelhiMumbai Industrial Corridor (DMIC) is Indias
most ambitious Infrastructure program aiming to develop
new industrial cities as Smart Cities and converging
next generation technologies across infrastructure sectors.
The objective is to expand Indias manufacturing and
services base and develop DMIC as a Global
Manufacturing and Trading Hub. The project manager
AECOMs official Mr. Jaimin Mehta gave lecture about
the strategies they are following and the plan to get the
project done on time. Their first phase would include
development of the trunk infrastructure i.e. the roads and
also that most of the land would be government land and
so the project will not get delayed.
L & T:
Mr. Neelkanth Upadhyaya spoke about new
technologies in road construction i.e. Stone Matrix
Asphalt (SMA), Fly Ash use in pavement construction,
Microsurfacing, Hot in place recycling etc.

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HR Round Table:
HR round table session was conducted with the help of
industry people like, Mrs. Sangeeta Mehta, Mr.
Chandresh Kapadia, Mr. Satvik Trivedi, Mr. Neeraj &
Mr. Ketan Bhatt, Mr. Anupam Tondon from Mott
Macdonald, Gift CL, JMC (Projects) India Ltd., and HN
Safal Group & Alchemist Consultancies.
They all discussed about Building and Sustaining
Workplace Culture and gave examples from their real life
experiences at their respective companies.

Avi Maniar
Mohit Singhi
Abhijeet Patel
Kishan Joshi
Pratyush Mandal
Kashish Gandhi
Mihir Rambhia
Shivang Tarika
Daksh Trangri
Oshin Arora
Raj Agarwal
Rohan Desai
Patel Gautam
Harshang Shah
Shrivastava Mohit
Bachani Nikhilkumar
Ishwarlal
Chelna Salgai

Sarkar, D (2015) A framework for development of

Lean Integrated Project Delivery Model for infrastructure
road projects Int. Journal of Civil and Structural
Engineering Vol. 5(3), pp. 261-217
Sarkar, D, Raghavendra, H.B. and Rupareila, M.
(2015) Role of Key Performance Indicators for evaluating
the usage of BIM as tool for facility management of
construction projects Int Journal of Civil & Structural
Engineering, Vol. 5(4), pp. 370-378

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Devendra Singh
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MIT Media Labs is a group of enthusiastic learned

people brought together to create an encouraging
environment for individuals to build their own
startups, to think out-of-the-box and break all limits
to achieve and make lives of people simpler and
more comfortable. The first two days, we were
shown videos and presentations so as to start
thinking different. This was followed by a
brainstorming session for product ideas. The mentors
helped by providing their valuable inputs.
On 17th January 2015, this group met at PDPU,
Gandhinagar for seven enthusiastic days. The main
aim of the event was to create something different
using materials readily available in the market. This
lead to in-depth research about the product and what
materials one would require. On the final day, all the
proposals were brought forward in front of an
audience comprising of mentors and businessmen.

Dhiraj Asopa
Jayati Bhambhani
Rachana Duvani
Akshatha Joyis
Abhishek Naidu
Virat Arvindbhai
Patel
Rachita Kakkar
Nikhil Tanna
Siddhartha Jain
Roushan Kumar
Singh
Monideepa Karmakar
Anirudh Gupta
Vedant Bhatti
Anish Kumar Singh
Mihir Shah
Parag Sharma
Paulami Patra
Shivangi Mishra
Anu Tripathi
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Chhayank Modi

ESSAR
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Milestones achieved
The Mechanical and Electrical Department of the team
had completed the virtual model of entire vehicle with
all necessary analysis and improvements and
manufactured the vehicle and participated in the
competition.
Out of 700 teams all over Asia only 300 teams entered
phase 2 out of which only 150 teams were successful to
portray their technical details and were qualified to
compete in Manila. And Team Kaizen was one among
those 150 teams to compete in the competition at
Philippines.
Team Kaizen was the only team from Gujarat to achieve
this milestone and is among top 18 teams representing
India in this International competition.
Vehicle highlights
In order to attain maximum fuel efficiency, weight of
our prototype is reduced to maximum level by. Using
lightweight materials for our chassis and body shell.

Another important feature is the aerodynamics of

our body shell which is designed to reduce air
drag. Maximum power output that our motor can
deliver is 11KW. Its armature is designed in a
unique way. It has copper plates instead of copper
windings. It also has 45 RPM/V and has 0.21 of
torque/ampere. The battery pack consists of 4
lithium ion cells (LiFePO4 chemistry), each of
nominal voltage of 3.2V (2.2V minimum and
4.2V maximum) and 40AH of capacity. All the
four cells were connected in series and the total
voltage will be 12.8V. The intelligent BMS
(Battery Management System) will balance the
cells and will protect each cell from over-voltage,
over-current, excessive temperature, etc. and will
automatically disconnect the cell in case of fault.
The solar panel of 17m2 area was used to charge
the battery during running conditions. Based on
our calculations, the expected mileage was
around 300 Km/kWh under ideal conditions.

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DATE: - NOVEMBER 8, 2014

Innovation is NOT a product. Innovation is NOT just
technology and is NOT merely a concept. Innovation is
a sustainable process and is a manifestation of
originality, originality in thinking, and originality in
conceptualizing natural inventiveness of the mind.
Stretching minds little further than the normal
thresholds have resulted in great innovations.
IAS IEEE student branch PDPU, organized a technical
paper presentation competition Adhyaan on 8
November 2014, as a part of TESSERACT, the
maiden technical festival of the university. The paper
presentation competition provided a platform to
students who were doing commendable work in the
field of research and technology to showcase their
work.
The participants had a wide spectrum of topics to
choose from: Power systems, digital electronics and
micro-controllers, renewable energy, automation,
wireless communication, control systems, energy
efficiency and savings to name a few.
The competition received a good response with around
15 abstracts being submitted by students of PDPU. Dr.
J. G. Jamnani, Electrical department, School of
Technology, PDPU, scrutinized and studied the
abstracts to select 10 abstracts for the finals of the paper
presentation competition.

The selected abstracts showcased an interesting

array of topics ranging from surge impedance to
PMDC motor control to hybrid energy models.
The selected entries prepared their paper, strictly
according to the IEEE format and present it in
front of the judges and their peers. The judges for
the event were Professor J.G. Jamnani and
Professor Siddharth Joshi. The selected teams
were given ten minutes each to present their
papers, which were followed by a question
answer session by the judges.
The participants were judged on the basis of their
quality of work, originality of work, practicality
and innovation in idea and their presentation
skills.
Varun Patel, 2nd year, M. Tech, Electrical
engineering, PDPU emerged as the winner of the
competition with his well-rounded paper on the
topic:
Power Transfer Capacity enhancement of EHV
AC Transmission line through increase in surge
impedance loading levels. He was followed by
Shantanu Vaishnav, Satbir Singh and Aakash
Patel, 4th year, Electrical engineering, PDPU. The
simple yet practical approach of their paper on
Current Trends in renewable Energy (Maglev
Windmill) impressed the judges. Sagar Patel,
Neel Soni and Kartik Rathi,3rd year, Electrical
engineering, PDPU bagged the third position with
their innovative paper on PMDC Motor Control
using Multi-Phase Buck Converter

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DATE: NOVEMBER 1, 2014

IEEE SB-PDPU and IAS organized a workshop on
LabVIEW. The workshop was conducted by the
senior committee members of IEEE student branch.
The session saw 25 students (20 from L.J. Institute
of Engineering and Technology and 5 from PDPU)
in attendance.
LabVIEW is a graphical programming platform
that helps engineers scale from design to test and
from small to large systems. It offers unprecedented
integration with existing legacy software, IP, and
hardware while capitalizing on the latest computing
technologies. LabVIEW provides various tools to
solve todays problemsand the capacity for future An extremely satisfactory feedback was received in
terms of quality of problems, a very interactive
innovationfaster and more effectively.
session at the end of lecture.

DATE: 20THFEB, 2015

ORGANIZERS: MINAL KOTHARI, AKSHAY
AGARWAL
IAS, IEE Student Branch, PDPU organized a visit to
the universitys Solar Power Plant. The visit was
scheduled on February 20, 2015 between 2pm to
4pm.It witnessed a successful participation of more
than 20 students.
The visit was supervised by Ms.Phani Swecha
(Electrical Engineering faculty)
Key Take-aways from the visit:
The attendee students were first introduced to the
basics of LabVIEW with its objective and
application explained in depth. Then they were
introduced to basic problem statements few of
which were on topics covered were:
Matrices
Arrays and Strings
Loops
Differential Equations
The working logic for all the problems was
explained in depth to the attending members to
apply LabVIEW for basic problem-solving. The
event was a great success as all the students
actively interacted with committee members while
ensuring that all of their doubts and queries were
solved.

Understanding about plant construction, PV

array structure design and installation.
Learning about different PV modules, cable
connections, earthing and protection systems.
Knowing about junction box and monitoring
hardwares etc.

About the Solar Power Plant:

Set up near the campus of Pandit Deendayal
Petroleum University, the 1MW solar power plant
was designed and constructed energy service provider
Sun Edison. It was inaugurated on 22 January, 2011
by then Chief Minister Narendra Modi.

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DATE: 25THNOVEMBER, 2014

IEEE-IAS SB PDPU undertook a membership drive
to help all those interested to be benefitted from the
membership of the Industrial Applications Society to
become members of the IAS benefit. A member of
our chapter, Mr. Sumit Chhabaria took special care
of the undertaking for the same. He had successfully
presented a poster at the annual IAS meet at
Vancouver, Canada and his insights were extremely
helpful for the interested students to understand the
perks of such an association and how it can help
them further their knowledge base along with great
networking opportunities and a holistic exposure to
diversity in all aspects. He shared his own
experience and further elaborated how to capitalize
such an opportunity as a student member.

Nisharg O. Chopra
Shikha Patel
Richa
Snehil Dagur
Shantanu Vaishnav

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Satbir Singh
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Anisha Goel
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Stavan Limbadia
Deep Sitapara
Siddharth M Parmar
Parth Shah
Ankit Shukla
Gaurav Singh

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DATE - 21ST FEBRUARY 2015

software adapted by various industries today for statistical

TARK - The Student chapter for Industrial engineering is analysis. Event aimed at making students aware about the
grateful to Cubic Computing Pvt. Ltd. Our gratitude various aspects of statistics. They were informed about its
extends to the members of TARK, our Faculty mentor, application and implementation in various companies. The
Dr. Aneesh Chinubhai and PDPU FAMILY. We also event witnessed the inquisitive nature of the participants.
acknowledge the efforts put in by all the present members
for keeping the spirit of learning and making the
workshop a grand success.
Special thanks to: PDPU Faculties, I.T. Department and
PDPU Amenities Department for helping the committee
members to complete the event successfully.
Technology has been advancing at an incredible pace and
so there has been an enormous demand of skilled
professionals, but without practical knowledge an
engineer can never be complete.
Minitab is a statistical package developed at the
Pennsylvania State University in 1972. It is often used in
conjunctions with the implementation of Six Sigma, Lean The success of the event was clearly depicted by the way
Six Sigma, Capability Maturity Model Integration participants showed their willingness to learn. They were
(CMMI) and other statistics based processes improvement exposed to new and user interactive software. We were
informed about its various applications in Industrial
methods.
sector.

Our university has a licensed version of Minitab Software

installed in its CAD Lab. Statistics is an integral part of an
Industrial engineering curriculum. Catering to that need,
TARK The Student chapter for Industrial engineering
organized the Minitab Workshop. The lecture
concentrated mainly on the History and the basic
implementation of statistics in this particular software.
It was an honour to have Mr. Bimal Kumar Kesh, Senior
Statistician & Training Manager, CUBIC Computing (P)
Ltd. The workshop was attended by considerable mass of
12 batch and 11 batch students.
It was followed by a practical lab session, in which
students promptly participated. Finally, the session
culminated with some snacks and high tea.
MOTIVE
This workshop aimed to train students with the Minitab

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Gaurang Kaushik
Jay Kumar
Mehul Patel
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DATE - 21-22 FEBRUARY, 2015.

ABOUT THE EVENT:
The ANSYS workshop was organized by the members
of the club MECHINERZO in association with
R_CAD solutions, Ahmedabad. The workshop was
conducted only for 4th year students keeping in mind
the scope of FEA (finite element analysis) or CFD
(computational fluid dynamics) field. The workshop
was conducted for 2 days (6-8 hr/day), divided into 4
sessions.

PowerPoint Presentation, Live Demos, Interactive

Question & Answer sessions and comprehensive reading
material made the workshop a captivating event.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT:
To make this event a roaring success there was constant
support not only from team members of MECHINERZO
but from PDPU FAMILY too. We acknowledge the
efforts put in by all the members and participants.
Special thanks to: Mr. Shabbir Memon, Mr. Vivek Patel
and I.T. Department for helping the committee members
to complete the event successfully.

Date-19th January 2015

ABOUT THE EVENT:
The major application that was taught in this
workshop are: Basics of failure mechanics
ANSYS mechanical APDL
ANSYS workbench
Analysis and optimization of design

ACHIEVEMENTS OF THE CLUB:

The event witnessed a total participation of 40
students, which in term was a massive turnout. The
event started with introduction and scope of ANSYS,
simulation software enticing the participants mind
and culminated with various facts regarding analysis
of machine designs.

A Workshop was held on the topic PROJECT

MANAGEMENT on this day. The targeted audiences
were from 3rd and 4th year students of the university. It was
a three hours lecture delivered by Mr. IMRAAN
MUNSHI, who works at LINDE ENGINEERS as
Project Manager.

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The complete procedure from starting of the project to the
execution of the project and how to complete it in various
time intervals with limited materials availability was
discussed. Students were also acquainted with many new
terminologies related to Project Management.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT:
There was a constant support not only from team
members of MECHINERZO but from PDPU FAMILY
too. We acknowledge the efforts put in by all the
members and participants.
Special thanks to: Mr. Imraan Munshi (Faculty for
Guest Lecture), Mr. Shabbir Memon, Mr. Vivek Patel
and I.T. Department for helping the committee members.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT:
We acknowledge the efforts put in by all the members
and participants (Including MACHINERZO and PDPU).
Special thanks to: the TESSERACT committee, Vivek
Patel and I.T. Department for helping the committee
members to complete the event successfully.

DATE- 8-9TH NOVEMBER, 2014

ABOUT THE EVENT:
PTC CREO is design software which helps us in create,
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analyze , view and designs utilizing 2D CAD, 3D CAD, DATE: 12 FEBRUARY 2015
parametric & direct modeling. The workshop was
conducted for 2 days (6-8Hr/day), divided into 4 sessions. INTRODUCTION:
The workshop was conducted in association with R-CAD
The ASME student chapter of PDPU organized an expert
solutions, Ahmedabad.
lecture for B.Tech and M.Tech students.
The major applications taught in this workshop are:MOTIVE:

Drawing views
Sketching
Part Designing
Assembly modeling

We, at A.S.M.E (American Society for Mechanical

Engineers), feel the need for practical exposure to
young engineering graduates for better conceptual
understanding. This expert lecture will help student
immensely in industry.

At the end of the workshop participants were assessed on

the basis of small tasks in limited time. Based on the
EVENT DESCRIPTION:
judgment, prizes were distributed.

ACHIEVEMENTS OF THE CLUB:

The event witnessed a total participation of 52
participants. The students from PDPU and U.V. PATEL
participated in this workshop. PowerPoint Presentation,
Live Demos, Interactive Question & Answer sessions and
comprehensive reading material made the workshop a
captivating experience.

The event was organized on 12th February 2015 at 9:00

am in Room-203, E-Block. There was a participation of
around 84 students from the third and fourth year B.Tech
(Mechanical) as well as M.Tech (Mechanical)
engineering students.
The Lecture was conducted by Mr. P.G Shah, who was
an A.S.M.E Authorized Training Instructor. He had 51+
years experience in Design and Manufacturing of
Pressure Vessels and Heat Exchangers to A.S.M.E Sec.
VIII Div. 1 CODE.

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ASME is an engineering society, a standards
organization, a research and development organization, a
lobbying
Organization, a provider of training and education, and a
nonprofit organization.
ABSTRACT
Simulation of robot systems is getting very popular,
especially with the lowering cost of computers. The
robotic arm is presumably the most mathematically
complex for the dynamic and kinematic analysis. The
purpose of this paper is to build a simulation framework
for a 3R robotic arm using PTC Creo Parametric 2.0 and
also to identify its advantages and disadvantages for such
analysis. Trajectory of the robotic arm is optimized by
considering the shortest path as an objective function
between the initial and final position which results in
straight line motion using an effective optimization
technique known as Teaching Learning Based
Optimization (TLBO).

The lecture covered various aspects of the design

considerations which were discussed at length. The
lecture spanned over duration of four hours. The students
then clarified their doubts making the lecture an
interactive session. The lecture concluded with a vote of
thanks from the faculty mentor- Dr. Vimal Savsani. The
guest was honored with a memento and honorarium.
.
Intermediate positions of the optimized results are taken
as an input for the simulation of the 3R robotic arm in
PTC Creo Parametric 2.0.The results obtained by using
TLBO and PTC Creo Parametric 2.0, such as angular
positions, joint velocities and joint accelerations are
compared based on RMS errors.
The verification of the obtained results by both methods
allows us to qualitatively evaluate the correctness of the
model and allow us to get the best result.

DATE: 21 FEBRUARY 2015

Anshul Jain (11BME025) and
Shubham Somani
s(11BME024) research paper is selected for publication
under Proceedings of the American Society of
Mechanical Engineers 2014 International Mechanical
Engineering Congress & Exposition in Montreal, Canada
during 14th-20th November, 2014 for their project on
Development of robotics simulation using PTC Creo
Parametric 2.0 under the guidance of Dr. Vimal J.
Savsani (Assistant Prof., PDPU) and Mrs. Poonam V.
Savsani (Lecturer, PDPU). The paper was presented by
Dr. Vimal J. Savsani.

A one day workshop on, Research Opportunities and

Resource Assessment of Wind Energy, was conducted
by the Department of Mechanical Engineering, on the 21st
of February 2015, which was attended by students of
B.Tech and M.Tech in Mechanical Engineering. Mr. D.
Alok, Head Business Development, Suzlon Energy
Ltd.; was invited to deliver a guest lecture, which was
followed by expert lectures by Dr.S.S.Kachhwaha,
H.O.D Department of Mechanical Engineering and
Dean FoET; and Mr. G.Nagababu, Lecturer
Department of Mechanical Engineering.
The workshop was divided into three sessions. The first
session was from 9.30 AM to 11.00 AM, the second
session was from 11.30 AM to 1.30 PM & the third
session was from 2.00 PM to 4.00 PM.

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In the first session, Mr. D.Alok, introduced the audience
to the wind power sector, explained its importance in
comparison to the other renewable as well as nonrenewable sources of energy and made them aware of the
global presence of Suzlon Energy Ltd. He also explained
the importance of the wind power sector in the upcoming
years and shared the valuable information about its great
potential to offer bright opportunities for research and
employment.
In the second session, Mr. Alok, enlightened the
audience about some crucial technicalities related to the
wind power sector, the present difficulties and challenges
faced and the current attempts being made to overcome
them and utilize as much wind energy as possible,
available both onshore and offshore. He also introduced
the audience to the concept of coupled wind solar power
stations as an attempt to reduce the fluctuations in the
output power. various offshore sites having a large
amount of untapped wind energy, on a global scale in
general and in India in particular. He also explained how
the wind energy utilization in India would tremendously
increase if the offshore wind energy is utilized along with
the current onshore utilization. The second session ended
with a short interactive session with Mr. Alok Das. In the
third session, the methodology applied to calculate the
offshore wind power resources at the Gujarat coast were
explained by Prof. S.S.Kachhwaha. He explained the
how to calculate the power generation in various parts of
Gujarat coastline by using wind and bathymetry data.
Also, as a part of the third session, Mr. G.Nagababu
delivered and expert lecture on the calculations pertaining
to wind energy. He explained the basics of wind power
calculations and solved some numerical problems related
to wind power.
Also, as a part of the second session, Prof. S. S.
Kacchwaha delivered an expert lecture on Offshore
Wind Energy. He enlightened the audience about the
India in general and in the state of Gujarat in particular.
At the end of the session the audience was highly
enlightened, motivated and equipped enough to perform
basic wind power calculations. Finally, with feedback
session the workshop was ended.

Mihirkumar Dharani
Ashutosh D Kapadia
Darshit Parmar
Nirmam Shah
Akshay Bora
Vijay Kanani
Chintan Patel
Sumit Kabiraj
Thaker Ruchik
Siddhant Agarwal
Vaghani Deep
Chaitanya Dave
Deep Jayantbhai Shah
Annam Roshan Sameer
Dargan Prinkeet
Gopalachari Raj
Kotak Kunal Girishbhai
S Rajat
Rajeev Singh
Ravi K Patel
Neel Shah
Sirupa
Chandraprakash
Rishi B.Thacker
Moucktic Saha
Shloka S. Shah
Raj Anupam
Chaudhary
Rahulkumar
Razin R. Desai
Parth Gojiya
Vishal Jhaveri

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