As part of the One Week One Theme (OWOT) Programme for Energy (Conventional and Nonconventional) and Energy Devices theme of CSIR, an event was organized under the Energy Infrastructure thrust area on 25^th June 2024 from 2.00 PM to 5.30 PM at CSIR-SERC.

 

Dr. M. V. Ramanamurthy, Advisor & Programme Head, Deep Ocean Mission, Ministry of Earth Sciences and Director, NCCR was the Chief Guest of the event. Dr. N. Anandavalli, Director, CSIR-SERC and Coordinating Director, CMC delivered the welcome address of the event. She told that Dr. Jitendra Singh, Honourable Minister (S&T) inaugurated this one week one theme (OWOT) campaign in Delhi on 24^th June 2024. She informed that CSIR-SERC is working in the renewable energy area and as a part of the energy infrastructure thrust area, CSIR-SERC planned to celebrate the one week one theme (OWOT) event for Energy and Energy Devices (EED) theme of CSIR at CSIR-SERC. Ms. N. Ramya, Scientist, CSIR-SERC briefed about the background of the one week one theme (OWOT) Energy and Energy Devices (EED) event and also introduced the chief guest.

 

The chief guest, Dr. M. V. Ramanamurthy discussed about the offshore wind potential areas (Tamilnadu and Gujarat) of India as well as the challenges associated with the offshore monopile installation in Gujarat. He also told about the dynamic challenges associated with the offshore floating platform installation. Dr. A. Subbulakshmi, Scientist, CSIR-SERC presented the key contributions of CSIR-SERC in Energy Infrastructure. She discussed about the works carried out on floating offshore wind turbine and floating offshore solar farm at CSIR-SERC during the project “ESagar - Engineering of Large Floating Offshore Structures and Systems for Renewable Energy Farming”. She also told about the ongoing projects of CSIR-SERC such as hybrid floating offshore wind and solar farm and agrivoltaics related to the energy infrastructure thrust area.

 

Dr. Mohit Verma, Principal Scientist, CSIR-SERC introduced the keynote speakers Prof. M. A. Atmanand, Visiting Professor, IIT Madras, Director (Retd.), NIOT, Prof. S. Nallayarsu, Professor & Head, Department of Ocean Engineering, IIT Madras, and Dr. Purnima Jalihal, Head, Energy and Fresh Water, NIOT. Prof. M. A. Atmanand delivered the keynote lecture on the challenges for offshore floating wind energy platforms in India. He covered the major challenges such as platform stability in offshore environment, grid systems, anchors, infrastructure development, and funding for the project. Prof. S. Nallayarsu delivered the keynote lecture on offshore wind energy - key challenges. He told about the challenges regarding the crane availability for the installation of offshore wind turbine. He discussed about the cyclonic condition, problem due to corrosion, substation requirement for reducing the power loss, and cost economic study for fixed and floating platforms. Dr. Purnima Jalihal delivered the keynote lecture on offshore challenges in harnessing energy and fresh water from the oceans. She discussed about the low temperature desalination technology, wave powered desalination, floating wave energy devices, hydrokinetic turbines, ocean thermal energy conversion (OTEC) powered desalination, and cold water pipeline. Dr. Manabendra Manindrakumar De, Principal Scientist, CSIR-NAL presented about the CSIR-NAL wind energy harvesting efforts – past, present & future.

The panel discussion - way forward was also conducted as a part of the event on the innovation and cross-sector collaboration roles in advancing the renewable energy. The panelists were Dr. N. Anandavalli, Director, CSIR-SERC, Dr. S. Gomathinayagam, Director General (Retd.), NIWE, Dr. Purnima Jalihal, Head, Energy and Fresh Water, NIOT, Prof. M. A. Atmanand, Visiting Professor, IIT Madras, Director (Retd.), NIOT, Prof. S. Nallayarsu, Professor & Head, IIT Madras, Prof. R. Panner Selvam, Professor, IIT Madras, Shri. S. Senthilkumar, Head, Structural Engineering, Zentech Offshore Engineering. All of them shared their views and thoughts on the renewable energy and way forward during the panel discussion. Finally, the vote of thanks was delivered by Dr. A. Subbulakshmi, Scientist, CSIR-SERC. The event was coordinated by Dr. A. Subbulakshmi and Ms. N. Ramya, scientists from CSIR-SERC.

          

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