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Dr.SUMIT BALGUVHAR

Senior Project Scientist
Department of Civil Engineering
Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IITD)
Hauz Khas, New Delhi-110 016

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About

SUMMARY

• Senior Project Scientist at IIT Delhi(September 2020-Present)

• Rich experience in the area of piezoelectric energy harvesting during Ph.D. at IIT Delhi

• Founder: Futuristic Technologies of India (Virtual Start-up)
Organized 6 E-workshops

• Seminars and Lectures: organized 3 seminars and delivered 3 lectures

• Research areas of interest include piezo-electric energy harvesting (PEH) structural health monitoring(SHM),Sensing, MEMS, Embedded systems, Circuits for wearable, standalone autonomous systems and biomedical applications.


RESEARCH

PhD 2020


(Title: Piezoelectric energy harvesting through low frequency non sinusoidal vibrations of civil structures)

• Feasibility of piezoelectric energy harvesting and energy storage using piezoelectric elements bonded directly to the actual real-life structure operating in the d31-mode

• Experimental evaluation of passive rectifier circuit topologies in low-frequency and small voltage amplitude typically encountered in real-life civil structures.

• Storage of energy in the capacitor and battery successfully achieved in a realistic environment

• Successfully raised the technology readiness level (TRL) of PEH from 4 to 7.


M.Tech 2013
(Embedded system technology)

•Development of Microcontroller based SCADA System and Fault Analysis using ABB SCADA


B.E 2011
(Electronics and communication)

•Designed an Ultrasonic Radar


RESEARCH

Ph. D. Research


(Title: Piezoelectric energy harvesting through low frequency non sinusoidal vibrations of civil structures)


• Feasibility of piezoelectric energy harvesting and energy storage using piezoelectric elements bonded directly to the actual real-life structure operating in the d31-mode.


• Experimental evaluation of passive rectifier circuit topologies in low frequency and small voltage amplitude typically encountered in real-life civil structures.


• Storage of energy in the capacitor and battery successfully achieved in a realistic environment

• Successfully raised the technology readiness level (TRL) of PEH from 4 to 7.


M.Tech 2013


• Development of Microcontroller based SCADA System and Fault Analysis using ABB SCADA.


B.E 2011


• Designed an Ultrasonic Radar.


R & D/Consultancy Pojects


• Experimentation for investigation of behaviour of UV coated 2015 cement fibre board under wind load


• Identifying cause and remedy measures for excessive vibrations 2019 in TCIL Bhawan, New Delhi




EDUCATION

Doctoral of Philosophy (Ph. D.)(2015-2020)


Ph.D. from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi.
(Title: Piezoelectric energy harvesting through low frequency non-sinusoidal vibrations of civil structures) (CGPA 8.0)





Master of Technology (2011-2013)

(Embedded system technology) (CGPA 8.77)
Amity University, India



Bachelor of Engineering

RGTU, India
May (2007-2011) (Title: Electronics and communication) (70.19%)



AWARDS & RECOGNITIONS

Best Oral Presentation award

Balguvhar, S and Bhalla, S “Green Energy Harvesting Using Piezoelectric Materials from Bridge Vibrations”, 2018 2nd International Conference on Green Energy and Applications (ICGEA 2018), IEEE, March 24-26, 2018, Singapore, doi: 10.1109/ICGEA.2018.8356282





Delivered a lecture on “Electronics for Piezoelectric Energy Harvesting

In One Week E-Workshop on “Retrofitting and Rehabilitation of Structure” at “Mahakal Institute of Technology, Ujjain” Under TEQIP – III, on 30th July 2020.





CSIR travel award

To present paper in International conference SPIE, USA



Guest speaker, IGNOU: Delivered a lecture on “Energy Harvesting from Piezo Sensors”

The School of Engineering and Technology (SoET)- IGNOU, broadcasted on National Television Channel, ‘Gyan Darshan’, Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU), October 11th, 2019.





MHRD Scholarship

Received Ministry of Human Resource & Development (MHRD) scholarship during PhD



LECTURES & SEMINARS

Delivered a lecture on “Electronics for Piezoelectric Energy Harvesting”.

One Week E-Workshop on “Retrofitting and Rehabilitation of Structure” at “Mahakal Institute of Technology, Ujjain” Under TEQIP – III, on 30th July 2020.





Delivered a lecture on “Piezoelectric Energy Harvesting”.

E-workshop on Futuristic Energy Harvesting using Smart and Metamaterials organized by FTI, on 22nd Aug. 2020



Delivered a lecture on “Energy Harvesting from Piezo Sensors”.

The School of Engineering and Technology (SoET)- IGNOU, broadcasted on National Television Channel, ‘Gyan Darshan’, Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU), October 11th, 2019




SEMINARS ORGANIZED at IIT Delhi

• CAN CONSCIOUS MACHINES BE BUILT? on 12thJuly 2018”.

• MANAGEMENT LESSONS FROM RAMAYANA: Indispensable Tips for Ethics, Empowerment, Leadership, and Success on 16thOct. 2019

• ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY THROUGH SIMPLE LIFESTYLE: BROKEN OR UNBROKEN LINK on 24th Feb. 2020.


PUBLICATION

Journal Publication:

1. Balguvhar S, Bhalla S. “Evaluation of power extraction circuits on piezo‐transducers operating under low‐frequency vibration‐induced strains in bridges”. Strain. Vol. 55 No. 3, pp. e12303. https://doi.org/10.1111/str.12303. (Top 10% downloaded paper).



2. Balguvhar, S, Bhalla S. Assessment of MOSFET/Diode Based Rectifier Circuits for Piezoelectric Energy Harvesting from Structural Vibrations (Communicated).

3. Balguvhar, S, Bhalla S. Feasibility of Harvesting Energy using Piezoelectric Elements operating in d31 mode from Real-life Structural Vibrations (Communicated).



Conference Proceedings:

1. Balguvhar, S and Bhalla, S “Green Energy Harvesting Using Piezoelectric Materials from Bridge Vibrations”, 2018 2nd International Conference on Green Energy and Applications (ICGEA 2018), IEEE, March 24-26, 2018, Singapore, doi: 10.1109/ICGEA.2018.8356282 [Received Best Presentation award].

2. Balguvhar, S, Dalal, P and Bhalla, S “Feasibility of piezoelectric energy harvesting from real-life city flyover: a case study,” Proc. SPIE 10973, Smart Structures and NDE for Energy Systems and Industry 4.0, 3-7, March 2019, Denver, USA doi: 10.1117/12.2511941.

3. Balguvhar, S, Singhal, S and Bhalla, S “Energy Harvesting using d33 Mode by Insole Embedded Low Cost Piezo-sensors” 2nd IEEE International conference on Power Electronics, Intelligent Control and Energy systems (ICPEICES-2018), Oct. 22-24, 2018, Delhi Technological University, Delhi, India 10.1109/ICPEICES.2018.8897310.

4. Balguvhar, S and Bhalla, S “Review of Power Processing Circuits for Piezoelectric Energy Harvesting Systems,” ISSS International Conference on Smart Materials, Structures and Systems, July 5-7, 2017, Bangalore, India, 2017.

5. Kaur, N. and Balguvhar, S “Integrated Piezoelectric Energy Harvesting and Structural Health Monitoring for Transportation Infrastructure” 6th International Conference on Power Electronics Systems and Applications (PESA), IEEE, December 15th-17th, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, 2015, doi: 10.1109/PESA.2015.7398959.

6. Kataria, D, Kumar, S, Balguvhar, S, Mukhiya, R, Jain, A, Kumar, S.S and Sinha, S, “Realization of MEMS-based silicon cantilever using bulk micromachining” Recent Innovations in Signal processing and Embedded Systems (RISE), IEEE, Oct. 2017, doi: 10.1109/RISE.2017.8378193.

7. Khera, N and Balguvhar, S “Development of a Simple Microcontroller based real-time data acquisition and alert system in LabVIEW environment”, Proceedings of International Conference on Reliability Infocom Tech and Optimization (ICRITO’2013), 2013..


Entrepreneurship

Founder:

Futuristic Technology of India (Virtual Start-up Ecosystem) 2020



Objective:

To bring learning, teaching, and practical applications of the technology together and organize the online workshops, lectures, panel discussions related to the futuristic technologies that are need of the hour.


FTI received participation from national institutes of importance (IITs, NITs, Central Universities), Defense organization (DRDO-GTRE), PSU (NTPC, ARAI), and multinational companies (Shimizu Corporation, McDermott, ADCPL, Indus towers, etc.). Moreover, participation and appreciation were also received from UK (University of Bath), USA (Utah University), France (IFSTTAR), and Nepal.







Following E-Workshop Organized till date (Synchronous and Asynchronous mode)

        

S.No.

Title of the E-Workshop

Date

No. of Participants

Role/Remarks
1.
Futuristic Sensing Technologies for Civil, Mechanical and Instrumentation Engineers
16th May, 2020
60
Organizer and Moderator
2.
Earthquake: Effects on Structures and Futuristic Mitigation Techniques
27th June, 2020
200
Organizer and Moderator
3.
ONE WEEK E-WORKSHOP on “RETROFITTING AND REHABILTATION OF STUCTURE” AT “MAHAKAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, UJ JAIN” Under TEQIP - III
16th May, 2020
200+
• Delivered Lecture
• Organizer (One day was organized by FTI consisted of three lecture
4.
Futuristic Energy Harvesting using Smart and Metamaterials
22nd Aug, 2020
20

• Delivered Lecture
• Organizer
4.
Structural Health Monitoring using Internet of Things and Machine Learning
5th Sept. 2020
198

•Organizer and Moderator
4.
Biomedical Techno Innovations and Health Monitoring
19th Sept. 2020
36

•Organizer and Moderator







TRAINING & SKILLS

Trainings:

• Skill Development Course on MEMS Processing at CEERI (India’s Top Govt. Lab), Pilani, Rajasthan from 27 Feb. 2017 to 07 April 2017.



• Summer Internship from Academy of Embedded Technology, on Atmel’s 8-bit Microcontroller, Azadpur, New Delhi in 2012.

• Training on Robotics & Embedded C with A+ grade from Robosapians Technologies Pvt. Ltd., Noida in 2011.

• Industrial training on Colour Picture Tube at Taikisha Engineering India Ltd, New Delhi.



SKILLS:

• Languages: Embedded C, Python

• Hardware: Microcontroller AVR.

• Software/Tools: LabView, AVR Studio 4, MATLAB, COMSOL for MEMS design, Multisim, Virtuoso, Spectre, OrCad.



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