Dr Harjit Singh

Dr Singh received his BEng, and MEng (IIT Roorkee, India) with specialisation in Mechanical and Thermal Engineering disciplines and PhD (University of Ulster, UK) in experimental evaluation of natural convective heat transfer in CPC solar collector cavities. He was a Senior Lecturer in Renewable Energy at the Kingston University London (2009-2011) prior to accepting the current position. He has six years of research experience on various EU, EPSRC, the Carbon Trust and Defra funded projects. Dr Singh was previously a Lecturer of Mechanical Engineering at National Institute of Technology Hamirpur, India. His research focuses on various aspects of solar energy systems, energy use in built environment. Topics currently being researched into include design and development of novel concentrating solar collectors, vacuum insulation panels and building retrofit for improved energy efficiency.

Research Interests

Concentrating solar thermal power systems, Vacuum insulation panels, Building integrated concentrating solar systems, Building retrofit for improved energy efficiency, Polymeric solar collectors.

Publications

Journal Papers

(Forthcoming) Khullar, V., Tyagi, H., Phelan, PE., Otanicar, TP., Singh, H. and Taylor, RA., Solar Energy Harvesting Using Nanofluids-Based Concentrating Solar Collector, ASME Journal of Nanotechnology in Engineering and Medicine ForthcomingNANO-12-1036

(2012) Singh, H. and Eames, PC., Reducing the carbon footprint of existing UK dwellings – 3 case studies, International Journal of Environmental Studies 69 (2) : 253-

(2012) Singh, H. and Eames, PC., Correlations for natural convective heat exchange in CPC solar collector cavities determined from experimental measurements, Solar Energy 86 (9) : 2443- 2457

(2011) Alam, M., Singh, H. and Limbachiya MC., Vacuum Insulation Panels (VIPs) for building construction industry - A review of the contemporary developments and future directions, Applied Energy 88 (11) : 3592- 3602

(2011) Singh, H. and Eames, PC., A review of natural convective heat transfer correlations in rectangular cross-section cavities and their potential applications to compound parabolic concentrating (CPC) solar collector cavities, Applied Thermal Engineering 31 (14-15) : 2186- 2196

(2010) Singh, H., Muetze, A. and Eames PC., Factors influencing the uptake of heat pump technology by the UK domestic sector, Renewable Energy 35 (4) : 873- 878

(2010) Singh, H., Redpath, DAG., Aboutorabi, A., Kattakayam, TA. and Griffiths, PW., Optimum configuration of compound parabolic concentrator (CPC) solar water heater types for dwellings situated in the northern maritime climate, International Journal of Ambient Energy 31 (1) : 47- 52

(2009) Jenkins, DP., Singh, H. and Eames PC., Interventions for large-scale carbon emission reductions in future UK offices, Energy and Buildings 41 (12) : 1374- 1380