{"id":236,"date":"2017-10-25T16:45:00","date_gmt":"2017-10-25T11:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cst.iisc.ac.in\/sudesi\/?page_id=236"},"modified":"2018-06-20T16:01:00","modified_gmt":"2018-06-20T10:31:00","slug":"roshanrao","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/cst.iisc.ac.in\/sudesi\/roshanrao\/","title":{"rendered":"Roshan R Rao"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_234\" style=\"width: 180px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-234\" class=\"wp-image-234\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cst.iisc.ac.in\/sudesi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/roshan.jpg?resize=170%2C172\" alt=\"Email:\u00a0rao.roshan.r@gmail.com\" width=\"170\" height=\"172\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-234\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><a href=\"mailto:rao.roshan.r@gmail.com\">\u00a0rao.roshan.r@gmail.com<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<p><b>Research Interests<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Solar forecasting, Solar Photovoltaic reliability issues, Environmental factors concerning PV performance. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Education<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b><i>2012.<\/i><\/b> <b><i>B.E<\/i><\/b><b> (Mechanical Engineering)<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, Nitte Meenakshi Institute of Technology (autonomous, affiliated to VTU), Bangalore (8.6\/10 CGPA)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b><i>2016.<\/i><\/b> <b><i>MSc (Engg) <\/i><\/b><b>(Atmospheric Science)<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, Centre for Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, <\/span><b><i>Indian Institute of Science,<\/i><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Bangalore (6.1\/8 CGPA)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Work Experience <\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">June 2012 \u2013 July 2013. Project Assistant at Divecha Centre for Climate Change, IISc, Bangalore<\/span><\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sep 2016 \u2013 July 2017. Project Assistant at Interdisciplinary Centre for Energy Research (SERIIUS project), IISc, Bangalore <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Projects<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Improvement assessment on using a dual axis tracking system for a flat photovoltaic system by conducting experiment using a setup of a dual axis sun tracked photovoltaic system and an optimally fixed angle photovoltaic system on rooftop. (<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">2012-2013<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Techno-commercial project of installation of 20kWp grid tied three phase solar power plant on JNTM Library rooftop which powers the Main Building of IISc. Project was co-funded by MNRE(<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">2012-2013<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Performance study of CPV (Concentrated Photovoltaic) in an urban region of India by setting up a 230Wp CPV panel on a dual axis tracker on rooftop at IISc. (<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">2012-2013<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Analysis of photovoltaic performance variability due to dust, temperature and wind interplay. (<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">2016-2017<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Computational Tools<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">MATLAB programming <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">SBDART ( radiative transfer band model )<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">FuLiou ( radiative transfer band model )<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">OPAC ( Mie Scattering calculation code )<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">System Advisor Model ( Performance and Financial model for renewable energies )<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Instruments\/Devices operational expertise<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Pyranometer (GHI Broadband measurement)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Pyrheliometer (DNI broadband measurement)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Spectroradiometer (350 -2500 nm high res. Spectral solar irradiance measurement)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sun tracker (for Flat PV and CPV)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Automatic Weather station<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Research Interests Solar forecasting, Solar Photovoltaic reliability issues, Environmental factors concerning PV performance. \u00a0 Education 2012. B.E (Mechanical Engineering), Nitte Meenakshi Institute of Technology (autonomous, affiliated to VTU), Bangalore (8.6\/10 CGPA) 2016. MSc (Engg) (Atmospheric Science), Centre for Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore (6.1\/8 CGPA) Work Experience June 2012 \u2013 July <a href=\"https:\/\/cst.iisc.ac.in\/sudesi\/roshanrao\/\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"sr-only\">Read more about Roshan R Rao<\/span>[&hellip;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-236","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P9uKN8-3O","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cst.iisc.ac.in\/sudesi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/236"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cst.iisc.ac.in\/sudesi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cst.iisc.ac.in\/sudesi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cst.iisc.ac.in\/sudesi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cst.iisc.ac.in\/sudesi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cst.iisc.ac.in\/sudesi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/236\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cst.iisc.ac.in\/sudesi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}