List of Completed Projects by the Faculty Members of IES

S. No	Name of the Project	Funding agency	Principal Investigator & Co principal investigator	Project duration	Sanctioned amount	Status
						Completed / Ongoing
1	To develop a Solar Cooker based on Thermal Storage System for Cooking During Night / Early Morning	TEDA, Chennai	Dr. R. Velraj Dr G. Kumaresan	2006 - 2010	10,00,000	Completed
2	To Design and Develop Energy Efficient Buildings using Solar Passive Architecture	TEDA, Chennai	Dr. R. Velraj	2006 - 2010	10,00,000	Completed
3	Phase change material based thermal storage system for solar air heating applications.	DST-BMBF (Indo - German)	Dr. R. Velraj Dr. G. Kumaresan	2008 - 2010	7,56,000	Completed
4.	Biogas refrigerator for urban, semi-urban and rural applications.	MNRE	Dr. R. Saravanan	2008 - 2009	11,00,000	Completed
5.	Soar power with steam injection gas turbine (STIG) cycle.	DST	Dr. S. Iniyan Dr. L. Suganthi	2011 - 2013	18,28,900	Completed
6.	Wind turbine CFD modeling and analysis.	CWET	Dr. R. Velraj	2011 - 2012	7,00,000	Completed
7.	Effective thermal management system for solid state laser devices using thermal energy storage technology	DRDO	Dr. R. Velraj	2012 - 2013	10,00,000	Completed
8.	Baffle configuration for primary sodium spherical header of future FBR	IGCAR	Dr. R. Velraj	2012 - 2013	10,00,000	Completed
9.	Simultaneous power and cooling production using solar operated absorption refrigeration system for cold storage applications.	DST	Dr. R. Saravanan	2014 - 2017	50,22,000	Completed
10.	Performance enhancement of solar water heater integrated with latent heat thermal storage system using nano - enhanced phase change materials.	UGC - UKERI	Dr. R. Velraj	2014 - 2016	11,50,000	Completed
11.	Investigations on small capacity wind turbine with compressed air energy storage system.	MNRE	DDr. R. Velraj Dr. G. Kumaresan	2014 - 2016	45,31,000	Completed
12.	Role of nano technology in augmenting the thermal performance of a solar collector system integrated with PCM based thermal energy storage system for space cooling applications.	DST	Dr. R. Velraj Dr. V. Kumaresan	2015 - 2018	61,32,325	Completed
13.	An innovative solar parabolic trough collector with secondary & end reflector to deliver boiled water for scheduled tribal community for socio - economic development.	DST	Dr. S. Iniyan	2016 - 2019	19,66,800	Completed
14.	Design & development of magnetically levitated micro vertical axis wind mill for power generation in low velocity regimes.	MNRE	Dr. M. Venkataramanan	2016 - 2018	12,92,500	Completed
15.	Desalination through waste heat recovery from solar PV operated VCR system.	DST	Dr. R.Velraj Dr. G. Kumaresan	2016 - 2019	35,35,000	Completed
16.	Development of functional phase change materials for enchanted energy efficiency of thermal energy storage system.	DST	Dr. V. Kumaresan Dr. R. Velraj	2017 - 2020	45,41,800	Completed
17.	UUser friendly functional simulation tool development through experimental validation for integration of PCM in energy efficient buildings for thermal management.	DST	Dr. R. Velraj	2017 - 2020	92,78,940	Ongoing
18	Sustainable Energy Technologies - Efficient renewable energy power generation with energy storage for sustainable smart grid	MHRD	Dr. R. Velraj	2017 - 2019	15,00,00,000	Ongoing
19	Efficient development and integration of desalination unit utilizing the heat from solar power plant	DST / IITM	Dr. R. Velraj	2018 - 2022	1,44,43,000	Ongoing
20	Promoting the Solar Thermal Technology and Energy Storage System with developed Prototype models for Science, Technology, Engineering and mathematics (STEM)	GRI	Dr. S. Iniyan	2019 - 2021	3,29,700	Completed
21	Development of Renewable Energy Systems for Automotive applications	MHRD	Dr. M.Venkata Ramanan	2020 - 2022	2,82,00,00	Ongoing