Nishith B. Desai
Assistant Professor
Mechanical Engineering
Pandit Deendayal Petroleum University
India
Biography
Dr. Nishith Desai joined PDPU on 1st March 2016. He has over 14 years of professional experience in academia and as an active researcher. He is also a developer in the Solar Thermal Simulator, which is developed a part of the project "Development of a Megawatt-scale Solar Thermal Power Testing, Simulation and Research Facility". The project is sponsored by Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE), Government of India. His research involves energy systems modeling and optimization, solar thermal plant design and optimization, waste heat recovery, and software development.
Research Interest
Solar Thermal Systems, Process Integration, Waste Heat Recovery, Organic Rankine Cycle based Systems
Publications
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Desai NB (2017) Line-focusing concentrating solar collectors based power plants: a review. Clean Techno Envir Policy
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Desai NB (2017) Thermo-economic analysis of a novel organic Rankine cycle integrated cascaded vapor compression–absorption system. J Clean Product: 26–40
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Desai NB (2017) Solar Thermal Process Heat. In Reference Module in Earth Systems and Environmental Sciences. Elsevier.
