R&D newsletter: Vol. 3 Issue 2; 2016

CONNECT COLLABORATE CREATE Volume 3 Issue 2 (2016)
R&D News
February 2016
Volume 3 Issue 2 (2016)
CONNECT COLLABORATE CREATE 8TH FEBRUARY 2016 IN THIS ISSUE
Foreword
I am extremely grateful to the Editorial Team of
the News Letter to invite me to write the
Foreword of Vol. 3, No. 2, 2016 Issue of R&D
News Letter. Research and Development in a
University plays an extremely important role in
its contribution to the stakeholders as well as
society at large.
Research needs to be relevant, usable by the
industry and innovation oriented. Being a
University, synergy in teaching and research is
also very important. Teaching students without
knowing the latest trends in the area of study, is
an incomplete exercise by a teacher. Is one looks
at the research carried out by us, it is in volumes,
but with little relevance or use by the society.
The best teaching & research Universities
worldwide have very strong research content and
that is why their world-wide ranking is very high.
Absence of Indian Universities in high ranking
institutions is mainly on account of lack of
research. Unless we concentrate on this aspect,
we would perhaps never be able to secure our
place among these institutions. We have to very
clearly understand that a University has the best
possible environment to promote Research.
Reasons are many: Flexibility of working and
autonomy to a faculty member and a huge
battery of young minds of our student for whom
nothing is impossible. The only thing we need to
do is to wake them up, guide them properly and
challenge their inquisitive and sharp intellects.
UPES has been progressing steadily in this
direction by way of publishing Research News
Letter, providing seed money to faculty
members for implementation of their
research interests, organizing regular
seminars by faculty to discuss research ideas,
giving top priority for interdisciplinary
research, publishing research papers in good
impact factor/indexed journals and
conferences, introducing research right from
the first year of undergraduate as well as
postgraduate students, and planning for
several incentives/schemes to faculty
members carrying out good research. I am
very confident that the University is moving
very fast in securing its place among one of
the best teaching and research Universities.
I very much congratulate the Editorial team
for their hard work and determination to
boost research. My best wishes to one and
all.
By: Prof. J.P. Gupta,
Director – Emeritus Quality Assurance
RAC Meeting 2
R&D Retreat 2
Brain Storming Session 2
Research Publications 3
Research Publications Cont. 4
Anveshan 2015 4
UPES Researchers Investigated 5
Research Proposals 6
Recent MoU’s 6
International Collaborations 7
Analog & Digital Sensors Workshop 8
24th NCICEC 2015 8
Seminar on “Criminology: Insight in
the Contemporary Age of Science” 8
Techno Symposium 9
Visits/Lectures 9
Distinct Achievements 9
New Joining in R&D 10
Upcoming Events 10

CONNECT COLLABORATE CREATE | Volume 3 Issue 2 (2016) 2
3rd
R&D Retreat– Dec 2015
The UPES Research Advisory Committee
meeting was held on 5th December 2015.
The external members Dr. Savita - Director
of Forest Research Institute, Dehradun, Dr.
S.C. Mullick – Emeritus Professor of IIT Delhi
in Centre of Energy Studies, Dr. Prasenjit
Mondal – Professor IIT Roorkee and Dr.
Siddharth S Ray – Senior Scientist and Head
of Division Chemical Science in CSIR – IIP
Dehradun attended the meeting.
Agenda of RAC meeting was to put forward
challenges like Incentivization of researchers
who contribute other than the academic
responsibilities, consolidation of research
activities, in-house lab development, to
motivate faculty to do research, increment
in the number of dedicated full time Ph.D.
students.
4th
Research Advisory Committee Meeting– Dec 2015
The proposed suggestions by the committee
members were to have dedicated team of
experts which should be developed in-house
for thorough reviewing of research proposals
for quality and alignment, research product
should reach end-market especially
communities at large, translational research
where the lab based output/technology can
be applied to real-world problems and target
on demonstration based projects rather than
fundamental research to get more coverage
and become a preferred institution from the
funding agencies point of view should be
focused.
It was recommended to support researchers
with the things like SEED funding.
R&D Retreat was organized on 11th
December 2015 at MDC Bidholi campus.
More than 45 participants from various in-
house Research Centers and Departments of
CoES, CoMES and CoLS attended the retreat.
The main theme of this retreat was to
incentivize the researchers and synchronize
the diverse research activities in UPES that
must enhance the qualitative and
quantitative outcomes.
Researchers suggested to get the points in
PBAS system for submission of research
proposals.
Consultancy projects with R&D component
must be monitored to explore the
possibility of additional funding through
regular funding agencies.
Quality research publications are of
immense importance and it has been
suggested to maintain the quality by
submission of anti-plagiarism report
through corresponding author, responsible
for any such issues.
R&D website was inaugurated by Vice
Chancellor, where information such as
project calls, events, details of ongoing and
complete proposals etc. will be available in
detail.
Brain Storming Session
First Brainstorming Session on ‘Developing
Domain based New Technologies’ was
organized at UPES Bidholi Campus on 4th
December 2015. In-house researchers and
research fellows of UPES have attended this
session.
New research plans were proposed in this
session and future prospects for funding
were discussed in different areas of waste to
energy, environmental friendly drainage
system etc. It was proposed to open up
research in Technology Enabled Education to
reduce Digital Divide. Content based
multilingual database development systems
for IT awareness and dissemination was
discussed in details
The force created by the falling of a feather
or water droplet on the triboelectric
generator surface creates a small current.
This energy can be harvested.
Research proposal are in progress on;
Sustainable production of Biobutanol, Bio-
lubricants from Cellulosic Biomass, Reverse
Peltier Effect based materials for
Refrigerators to benefit the Environment.
Possibility of research in the field of
Piezoelectricity with non centrometric
materials was discussed to be used for
various applications in the electronics and
consumer industries.
“Research is to see what everybody
else has seen and to think what
nobody else has thought”
Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

# Authors Title Source Title
1 R. Mishra, P. Kuchhal,
A.Kumar
Impact of Slots on the Performance Analysis of
Microstrip Antenna
International Journal of Applied
Engineering Research, Sept 2015;
Issue 10; No. 16 ; 37217-37221
2 R. Mishra, P. Kuchhal,
A.Kumar
Effect of Height of the Substrate & Width of
the Patch on the Performance Characteristics
of Microstrip Antenna
International Journal of Electrical and
Computer Engineering, Vol 5;No. 6,
1441-1445
3 Amneesh Singla, Rajnish Garg
and Mukesh Saxena
Microstructure and Wear behavior of Al-Al2O3
in situ composites fabricated by the reaction of
V2O5 particles in pure aluminum
Green Processing and Synthesis
Journal, Issue 4; Vol 6; 487-497
4 W.O. Osawa, P.K. Sahoo, J.M.
Onyari, F.J. Mulaa
Effect of antioxidants on oxidation and storage
stability of croton megalocarpus biodiesel
International journal of Energy and
Environmental Energy, 2015; 1-7
5 Dr. Neelu J. Ahuja, Dr.
Kanchan D. Bahukhandi, Mr.
Ritesh Saini and Ms. Aparna
Narayanan
A Novel Landfill Capacity Estimation Model for
Dehradun City
Asian Journal of Microbiology,
Biotechnology & Environmental
Sciences Paper
6 Mukul Kumar Gupta, Nitish
Sinha, Kamal Bansal, Arun
Kumar Singh
Natural Frequency of Multiple Pendulum
Systems Under Free Condition
Archive of Applied Mechanics, Oct
2015; 1-13
7 Anita Gehlot, Rajesh Singh,
Rohit Samkaria, Sushabhan
Choudhury
WPAN and PSO based Water Quality
Monitoring with Lab View as Data Logger
International Journal of Engineering
and Technology, Vol 7; No. 5; 2015;
1735-1742
8 Anita Gehlot, Piyush Kuchhal,
Adesh Kumar and Rajesh
Singh
Zigbee and GSM Based Antiheft and Safety
System for Motorcyclist
International Journal of Applied
Environmental Sciences
Research Publications (UPES) Oct.-Dec. 2015

# Authors Title Source Title
9 Yashvir Singh Tribological Behavior as Lubricant Additive and
Physiochemical Characterization of Jatropha Oil
Blends
Friction, Issue 3; Vol 4; 2015; 320-
332
10 Yashvir Singh, Rajnish Garg,
Suresh Kumar
Optimization of tribological behavior of Pongamia
Oil Blends as an Engine Lubricant Additive
Green Processing and Synthesis
Journal, Issue 4; Vol 5; 2015; 421-
431
11 Yashvir Singh, Rajnish Garg,
Suresh Kumar
Aspects of Non-Edible Vegetable Oil-Based Bio-
lubricants in the Automotive Sector
Green, Issue 5.1; Vol 6; 2015; 59-
72
12 Shyam Pandey, Parag
Diwan, Pradeepta Kumar
Sahoo, Sukrut Shrikant
Thipse
The Effect of Exhaust Gas Recirculation and
Premixed Fuel Ratio on Combustion and emission
in a Partial homogenous Charge Compression
ignition-direct Injection Engine Fueled with
Bioethanol and Diesel
BioFuels; Issue 6.5; Vol 6; 2015;
357-367
Research Publications (UPES) – cont…
Winner Research Competition Anveshan’15
Association of Indian Universities
(AIU) New Delhi has organized a
national level “Student Research
Convection: Anveshan”. The
convention was first held at zonal
level. North Zone Convention was
on 28th
– 29th
December, 2015 at
NDRI Karnal, where 19 universities
had participated. Stage 1 was Poster
presentation where total 70
students had participated from
different universities. 10 students in
each category were selected for oral
presentation. The categories were
divided into basic science, life
science, social science, science and
technology and medical science.
Vishal Singh M.Tech HSE-DM won
1st
prize in category of Science and
Technology at North Zonal Level
and has been selected for national
level.
His oral presentation was on
“Preparation of Thermoelectric cells
using CaO-PVA membrane from
waste hen eggshells”. In this
process waste eggshells are
calcinated into CaO and crosslinked
with PVA and thermoelectric cell is
assembled by using CaO-PVA
membrane. This method can be
used for storing charges and can
produce electricity.

UPES Researchers Investigated…
Microstructure can change the wear behavior
Novel landfill capacity estimation is helpful for solid waste management
Potential of Pongamia Oil Blends as an Engine Lubricant Additive
Effect of Height of the Substrate & Width of the Patch on the Performance of
Microstrip Antenna help full for disaster management
In explicit wear tests simulating industrial conditions between metallic surfaces, there are no
clear chronological distinction between different wear-stages due to big overlaps and
symbiotic relations between various friction mechanisms. UPES researchers studied the
fabrication of Al based in situ composites and their formation mechanism through the stir
casting approach. Increment in hardness was observed in cast in situ composites and
compared with the pure aluminum. Friction and wear behaviors of cast in situ composites
were studied by using a pin on disc tribo tester. The result indicates that wear rate increases
with higher percentage of addition.
Green Processing and Synthesis, Volume 4, Issue 6, Pages 487–497, ISSN: 2191-9550, DOI:
10.1515/gps-2015-0073.
Estimation of land for solid waste has been a very critical part for its management
especially in cities where SMW is considered as totally unorganized sectors. Landfill
capacity estimation has been done using standard mathematical model of capacity
estimation with projected solid waste quantity provided as input. As this model of capacity
estimation does not take internal landfill conditions into consideration, a novel approach
was designed and the model was modified, particularly for a bioreactor landfill and has
been proposed. Research work provides the municipality with a model that would help in
the planning of a bioreactor landfill, for the city.
Asian Journal of Microbiology, Biotechnology & Environmental Sciences Paper
Pongamia oil is derived from the seeds of the Millettia pinnata tree, which is native to
tropical and temperate Asia. Effect of Pongamia oil doped with lube oil on Tribological
characteristics of Al-7% Si alloy was set forth using the Taguchi method. The control factors
involved were Pongamia oil percentage (PB 0%, PB 15%, PB 30%), sliding velocity (1.3 m/s,
2.5 m/s, 3.8 m/s) and load (50 N, 100 N, 150 N) which was optimized for weight loss, friction
coefficient and wear rate characteristics of Al-7% Si alloy.
Green Processing and Synthesis Journal, Issue 4; Vol 5; 2015; 421-431
There are two main parameters responsible for the broadening the bandwidth of the
antenna, one is the height of the dielectric substrate and another one is the width of the
patch paper. Optimum parameters were suggested to have higher efficiency of antenna.
One of the parameter was varied keeping the other fixed and the characteristic effects on
resonant frequency, band width and gain were studied. This has the potential to apply in
disaster management.
International Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering; Vol 5; No. 6, 1441-1445

Submitted Research Proposals – Oct’15 to Jan’16
# Proposal Title Date of
Submission
Agency/Grant
Call
Investigators Cost in Lakhs
1 Feasibility Study of Diesel –
Ethanol Blending on Light
Commercial Vehicles:
Condition Monitoring
10-Oct-15 Ministry of
Petroleum and
Natural Gas
Dr. Shyam Pandey,
Mr. Santosh
Kumar Kurre and
Mr. Shival Dubey
263.93
2 Complex Dynamics of Non-
Linear Rational Difference
Equations
6-Jan-16 National Board for
Higher
Mathematics
Dr. S.K Sarif
Hassan
19.61
3 Need for Indulging Youth in
Yoga and Meditation – A
Demonstrated Approach
With the Help of Calibrated
Studies
7-Jan-16 DST Dr. D.K Gupta and
Dr. Saurabh Mittal
22.38
4 Framework for Enhancing
Vocational Education in
Indian and Egyptian
Universities
31-Jan-16 ASRT-DST Dr. Ashraf Darwish
and Dr. Amit
Aggarwal
1.4
Recent Memorandums of Understanding (MoUs)
 MoU signed with Uttarakhand Space Application
Centre, Dehradun.
 Envisages joint R&D programs.
 Internships for students in area of
Avionics/Aerospace Engineering.
 MoU signed with Institute of Chemical
Technology, Mumbai.
 Facilitate Cooperative activities in research.
 Short term to mid-term exchange of faculty and
research scholars.
Uttarakhand Space Application Centre
Department of Science & Technology
Government of Uttarakhand

Universite de Poitiers Ecole Nationale Universite de Rennes 1, France
Superieere D’ingenieurs De Poitiers, France
Waste Water Services, Greece University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee, United States
Analog, Digital Sensors & Arduino Workshop
Coordinators:
Mr. Rajesh Singh, Head, Institute for Robotic Technology
& Ms. Anita Gehlot
The “Electronics and Instrumentation Control
Department, UPES” had conducted a workshop on
Analog, Digital Sensors and Arduino on 17th
October
2015 and 30th
October 2015 for the students of B.Tech
Electronics, Power System, Instrumentation and
Mechatronics.
The aim of the workshop was to teach students basics of
Arduino like Arduino interfacing in different modes,
Analog sensor interfacing and Programming in Arduino-
IDE.
“In much of society, research means to investigate
something you do not know or understand”
– Neil Armstrong
International Collaborations...

24th
National Conference on IC Engines and
Combustion (NCICEC 2015)
Department of Aerospace &
Mechanical Engineering, CoES-
UPES and Combustion Institute
(Indian Section) has jointly
organized “24
th
National
Conference on IC Engines and
Combustion” during 30
th
OCT 2015
to 1
st
NOV 2015. The major focus of
the conference was on Combustion
for Energy Security with
Sustainability. The inaugural session
was chaired by his Excellency Dr. K
K Paul, Honorable Governor of
Uttarakhand, Mr. B V R Mohan
Reddy, Chairman-Nasscom, Dr. V K
Sarswat, Member-NITI Ayogh, Prof.
Durgesh Pant, Director-USAC, Mr. P
K Pandey, Head- Aero structures-
UTC Aerospace Systems, Mr. Utpal
Gosh, CEO-UPES, Dr. S J Chopra,
Chancellor, UPES. Besides these
dignitaries, executive council
members of combustion Institute,
Director GTRE, Project Director-
Astra Missile was present at the
conference.
162 delegates participated in the
conference, and 92 Papers were
presented in 12 sessions. The
conference focused on areas like
Clean Coal combustion, Super Sonic
Combustion, Advancements in
diesel combustion, Hybrid Energy
Production System, Mathematical
Modelling and Simulation and Bio
Mass Processing and Gasification.
The conference was sponsored by
IOCL R & D, DRDL, BRAHMOS-
Aerospace, ISRO, DST-SERB, ARK
Info solutions, Gurukrupa Industries
and VSSC.
The Plenary lectures were delivered
by Mr. L M Naik, Vice President, Sr-
GM, Bosch India Ltd. Dr. S
Channiwala Professor SVNIT Surat,
Dr. V K Sarswat- Member NITI
Ayogh, Mr. A. K. Modi, Vice
President, Design Competency
Centre and Product Design &
Process Technology - L&T Mumbai
Mr. A K Sehgal – General Manager
(R&D) India.
National Seminar on “Criminology, Crime and the
Criminal Justice: An Insight in the Contemporary
Age of Science and Technology”
Convener: Dr. Saroj Bohra, Head
Law Research Centre
The College of Legal Studies, UPES
organized this national seminar on
21st
& 22nd
November 2015 for
discussion on different emerging
facets in form of crimes and
criminality. (Retd) Chief Justice of
India, Justice K.G. Balakrishnan was
the chief guest.
The Plenary session was on ‘Crime and
Technology’ and the technical sessions
discussed were on: Race, Ethnicity,
Social Structure and Crime; Technology,
Crime and its changing Patterns; Cross-
border and Transnational crimes:
Complexities; Dilemmas in Criminology
and Criminal Justice; Criminal Justice
Technology in 21st
century- Crime
Prevention and Policing; Trends and
Issues in Crime and Criminal Justice;
Contemporary Crime discourse and
depiction.
Prof. Sudhir Joshi, from UPES has
been elected as Joint Secretary of
CIIS for two years. This conference
should lead to research
collaboration and joint submission
of research proposal in the area of
IC Engines and Combustion

Techno Symposium CoES - 2015
Convener: Dr. Kamal Bansal and Dr. Ajay Kumar Srivastava,
Co-Convener: Dr. Amit Mondal and Mr. Shival Dubey,
TechnoSymp is an annual M.Tech symposium event where 1st
and 2nd
year PG students are encouraged to showcase their
research. The aim behind TechnoSymp is to cultivate the research orientation in engineering domain among PG students.
This year TechnoSymp was organized on 15th
September, 2015 i.e. on “Engineers Day”. 34 papers in the different areas of
engineering were presented in the research paper category, while 15 posters were exhibited in innovative poster category.
Visit/Lectures
Mr. Pranay Kumar (CEO of Vasudha Group Companies) has visited UPES on 19
th
November 2015 to explore research collaborative opportunities in the area of water
treatment and management and to enhance research culture among students and also
pave a path for industry. Mr. Kumar was impressed after interacting with M. Tech.
students and will consider them for internship in the industry.
Distinct Achievements
UGC sponsored visiting associateship awarded and extended further upto August 2018 at
IUCAA to Dr. Shyamal Kumar Banerjee, Sr. Professor and Associate Dean, College of
Engineering, UPES. First time, it was awarded to Dr. Banerjee in the year 2000 for three
years and since then he has been receiving the same from UGC continuously, after having
proper official review and assessment of his work every end of third year. During this
period Dr. Banerjee works on different projects in the area of General Relativity and
Cosmology with Padma vibhushan Prof Jayant Vishnu Narlikar as a joint Collaborator.
Ms. Vindhya Devalla Doctoral Research Fellow in Aerospace Engineering Department had
presented a paper on “Performance Analysis of a Powered Parafoil Unmanned Aerial
Vehicle Using Open Loop Flight Test Results and Analytical Results” authored by Ms.
Vindhya Devalla, Dr. Amit Kumar Mondal and Dr. Om Prakash at RED UAS 2015, IEEE,
Robotics and Automation Society, Cancun, Mexico during 23
rd
– 25
th
November 2015. She
was also a session chair for a technical session on “Application of UAVs”.
Dr. Krunal M. Gangawane Assistant Professor-Selection Grade in Chemical Engineering
Department has won ‘Young Scientist Award’ in Engineering – Fluid Mechanics by Venus
Research Foundation (VRF) on 19
th
December 2015.
He was also shortlisted for the talk on “Multiphase Flow in Power and Steel Industries” in
National Symposium on Multiphase Flow (NSMF 2016) at NIT Durgapur.
Dr. V. P Singh (Distinguished Professor & Caroline and William N. Lehrer Distinguished
Chair in Water Engineering of Biological and Agricultural Engineering; & Zachry
Department of Civil Engineering Texas A & M University College Station, Texas) delivered
a lecture on “Water Resources Assessment for Climate Change” on 16
th
December 2015
and It was considered that water related research will be enhanced in upcoming years.

New Joining in R&D….
Upcoming Events
It is proposed to hold a National Conference on “Water Resources and Hydro Power” in association with Civil
Engineering Department, IIT Roorkee, UJVN Limited - Uttarakhand and Indian Society for Hydraulics - Pune at University
of Petroleum and Energy Studies, Dehradun on 17th
– 18th
June 2016.
Conference Convener: Dr. Vikas Garg, Professor and Head, Department of Civil Engineering, UPES
Dr. Narendra Soni, Associate Professor and Head, Department of Electrical Engineering, UPES
Uttarakhand Council of Science and Technology (UCOST), and UPES, are jointly organizing 10th
Uttarakhand State Science
and Technology Congress (USSTC), 10th
– 12th
Feb 2016 at UCOST Vigyan Dham Jhajra Premnagar, Dehradun,
Uttarakhand.
EDTITORIAL BOARD
Patron Editor in Chief Technical Editor Production Editor
Dr. S J Chopra Dr. Jitendra K Pandey Dr. Girdhar Joshi Ms. Meenakshi Pundir
R&D @ UPES
Block B, First Floor, Energy House, UPES Bidholi Campus, Energy Acers, Dehradun – 248007
Uttarakhand, India
Phone: +91-135-2776061 / Ext: 1225/1221
Mobile: +91-7579216817/+91-9629773491
Web: http://rnd.upes.ac.in/
The R&D Department is happy to announce the joining of Ms. Meenakshi Pundir as a Research
Scientist into its team. She has done her M.Tech in Nanotechnology from VIT University and
was a Project Fellow at IIT Bombay. Her research interests include Nanomaterials and
Characterization, Nano sensors etc.
10th Uttarakhand State Science and Technology
Congress (USSTC), 10th – 12th Feb 2016 at
Patron Chairmen
Prof. S.J. Chopra Dr. Rajendra Dobhal
Chancellor-UPES DG-UCOST

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