NameDr. Tabish Alam
Date of Birth10.03.1984
E-mailtabishalam [at] cbri.res.in
Present DesignationSenior Scientist
DivisionArchitecture, Planning and Energy Efficiency

Educational Attainments

Degree / DiplomaMain SubjectUniversity/Institution with DistinctionCountryYear of Passing
B.TechMechanical EngineeringAligarh Muslim UniversityIndia2007
M.TechThermal EngineeringIndian Institute of Technology RoorkeeIndia2010
Ph.DUtilization of Solar EnergyIndian Institute of Technology RoorkeeIndia2015

Specialization

a) Main Area of SpecializationUtilization of Solar Thermal Energy, Heat Transfer
b) Sub-area of SpecializationSolar Air Heater, Heat Storage, Heat Transfer enhancement, Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD), Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV)

Countries visited in connection with higher studies, research training, employment and other scientific assignments:

Country visitedPurposeFromTo
South KoreaPost-Doctoral Research14/11/201519/11/2016
ThailandTo present paper in ICMET-201416/07/201420/07/2014
Publications and Patents
  • Current Publications (2009 onwards):
  1. Karmveer, Naveen Kumar Gupta, Tabish Alam, Experimental investigation of thermohydraulic performance of solar thermal collector for sustainable built environment, Sustainable Energy Technologies and Assessments, Vol. 57, 103257, 2023 (F. 7.632)
  2. Yogesh Agrawal, JL Bhagoria, Atul Gautam, Abhishek Sharma, Anil Singh Yadav, Tabish Alam, Rajan Kumar, Geetesh Goga, Subhendu Chakroborty, Rahul Kumar, Investigation of thermal performance of a ribbed solar air heater for sustainable built environment, Sustainable Energy Technologies and Assessments, 57,  103288, 2023 (I.F. 7.632)
  3. Rohit Khargotra, Tabish Alam, Kyaw Thu, Kovács András, Tauseef Uddin Siddiqui, Tej Singh, Influence of heat enhancement technique on the thermal performance of solar water heater for sustainable built environment. Start-of-the-art review, Sustainable Energy Technologies and Assessments, 57,  103293, 2023 (I.F. 7.632)
  4. Karmveer, Naveen Kumar Gupta, Tabish Alam, Effect of relative rib roughness pitch on the thermohydraulic performance of roughened duct of solar air heater, Materials Today: Proceedings, 2023.
  5. Karmveer, Naveen Kumar Gupta, Tabish Alam, Development of correlations for predicting Nusselt number and friction factor of roughened solar air heater duct for sustainable development, Experimental Heat  Transfer,  Taylor  & Francis, 2023, pp. 1-19. (IF 3.272)
  6. Sanjay, Mishra, S., Alam, T. Performance analysis of induced draft cooling tower integrated with rotary silica gel mesh. Heat Transf. Wilay, 2022
  7. Sanjay, Mishra, S.; Alam, T.; Shankar, R. Performance analysis of hybrid solid liquid desiccant material: dehumidification and CO2 absorption. Prog. & Sustain. Energy 2022, 1–12.
  8. Sanjay; Mishra, S.; Alam, T. Experimental investigation of cow dung based organic desiccant for dehumidification in evaporative cooling. Energy Sources, Part A Recover. Util. Environ. Eff. 2022, 44, 8380–8402.
  9. Karmveer; Kumar Gupta, N.; Alam, T.; Singh, H. An Experimental Study of Thermohydraulic Performance of Solar Air Heater Having Multiple Open Trapezoidal Rib Roughnesses. Heat Transf. 2022, 1–21.
  10. Dash, A.P.; Alam, T.; Siddiqui, M.I.H.; Blecich, P.; Kumar, M.; Gupta, N.K.; Ali, M.A.; Yadav, A.S. Impact on Heat Transfer Rate Due to an Extended Surface on the Passage of Microchannel Using Cylindrical Ribs with Varying Sector Angle. Energies 2022, 15, 8191.
  11. Kumari, N.; Alam, T.; Ali, M.A.; Yadav, A.S.; Gupta, N.K.; Siddiqui, M.I.H.; Dobrota, D.; Rotaru, I.M.; Sharma, A. A Numerical Investigation on Hydrothermal Performance of Micro Channel Heat Sink with Periodic Spatial Modification on Sidewalls. Micromachines 2022, 13, 1986.
  12. Saha, S.; Alam, T.; Siddiqui, M.I.H.; Kumar, M.; Ali, M.A.; Gupta, N.K.; Dobrota, D. Analysis of Microchannel Heat Sink of Silicon Material with Right Triangular Groove on Sidewall of Passage. Materials (Basel). 2022, 15, 7020.
  13. Khan, S.A.; Alam, T.; Khan, M.S.; Blecich, P.; Kamal, M.A.; Gupta, N.K.; Yadav, A.S. Life Cycle Assessment of Embodied Carbon in Buildings: Background, Approaches and Advancements. Buildings 2022, 12, 1944.
  14. Aditya Vatsa, Tabish Alam, Md Irfanul Haque Siddiqui, Masoood Ashraf Ali, Dan Dobrotă, “Performance of Microchannel Heat Sink Made of Silicon Material with the Two-Sided Wedge, Materials 2022, 15(14), 4740 (IF 748)
  15. Karmveer, Naveen Kumar Gupta, Md Irfanul Haque Siddiqui, Dan Dobrotă, Tabish Alam, Masood Ashraf Ali, Jamel Orfi, “The Effect of Roughness in Absorbing Materials on Solar Air Heater Performance” Materials 2022, 15(9), 3088 (IF 748)
  16. Naveen Kumar Gupta, Tabish Alam, Raffaello Cozzolino, Gino Bella, “A Descriptive Review to Access the Most Suitable Rib’s Configuration of Roughness for the Maximum Performance of Solar Air Heater”, Energies 2022, 15(8), 2800 (IF 252)
  17. Tabish Alam, Md Irfanul Haque Siddiqui, Hassan Alshehri, Masood Ashraf Ali, Paolo Blecich, Kushagra Saurabh “Exergy based thermo-hydraulic performance of roughened absorber in solar air heater duct” Applied Siences, Sci. 2022, 12(3) (IF 2.838)
  18. Nagesh Babu Balam,Tabish Alam, Akhilesh Gupta, Paolo Blecich, “Higher Order Accurate Transient Numerical Model to Evaluate the Natural Convection Heat Transfer in Flat Plate Solar Collector” Processes 2021, 9(9), 1508. (IF. 2.847)
  19. Tabish Alam,  Nagesh  Babu  Balam,  Kishor  Sitaram  Kulkarni,  Md  Irfanul  Haque Siddiqui, Nishant Raj Kapoor, Chandan Swaroop Meena, Ashok Kumar and Raffaello Cozzolino, “Performance Augmentation of the Flat Plate Solar Thermal Collector: A Review” Energies 2021, 14(19), 6203 (IF 004)
  20. Nehul Agarwal, Chandan Swaroop Meena, Binju P Raj, Lohit Saini, Ashok Kumar, N Gopalakrishnan, Anuj Kumar, Nagesh Babu Balam, Tabish Alam, Nishant Raj Kapoor, Vivek Aggarwal, “Indoor air quality improvement in COVID-19 pandemic”, Sustainable Cities and Society 2021, 70, 102942 (IF. 5.268)
  21. NR Kapoor,  A  Kumar,  CS  Meena,  A  Kumar,  T  Alam,  NB  Balam,  A  Ghosh  “A Systematic Review on  Indoor Environmental  Quality in  Naturally Ventilated School Classrooms: A Way Forward” Advances in Civil Engineering 2021, (IF. 1.176)
  22. T  Alam,   CS   Meena,   NB   Balam,   A   Kumar,   R   Cozzolino   “Thermo-Hydraulic Performance Characteristics and Optimization of Protrusion Rib Roughness in Solar Air Heater” Energies 2021, 14 (11), 3159 (IF. 2.702)
  23. T Alam, NB Balam “Performance Evaluation of Double Glaze Flat Plate Solar Thermal Collector”, VW Applied Sciences 2 (1), 59-63
  24. V Aggarwal, CS Meena, A Kumar, T Alam, A Kumar, A Ghosh, A Ghosh “Potential and Future Prospects of Geothermal Energy in Space Conditioning of Buildings: India and Worldwide Review”, Sustainability 12 (20), 8428 (IF. 2.576)
  25. Alam T “Thermo-hydraulic performance of solar air heater duct provided with conical protrusions rib roughnesses” VW Engineering International 1 (1), 35-44, 2019.
  26. Alam T, Man-Hoe Kim. “A critical review on artificial roughness provided in rectangular solar air heater duct”, Renewable and Sustainable Energy Review, 69:387-400:2017.
  27. Alam T, Man-Hoe Kim. “Numerical study on thermal hydraulic performance improvement in solar air heater duct with semi ellipse shaped obstacles”, Energy, 112:588-598:2016.
  28. Alam T, Kishore Kulkarni, “Municipal Solid Waste Management and its Energy Potential in Roorkee City, Uttarakhand, India”, Journal of The Institution of Engineers (India): Series A, Sprnger, 97: 9-17:2016.
  29. Alam T, Saini RP, Saini JS, “ Experimental investigation of thermo hydraulic performance due to angle of attack in solar air heater duct equipped with V-shaped perforated blockages”, International Journal of Renewable Energy Technology, 6:164-180:2015.
  30. Alam T, Saini RP, Saini JS, “Experimental investigation on heat transfer enhancement due to V-shaped perforated blocks in a rectangular duct of solar air heater”, Energy Conversion and Management, Elsevier, 81:373-384:2014.
  31. Alam T, Saini RP, Saini JS, “ Investigation of the effect of circularity of perforation holes in V-shaped blockages on heat transfer and friction characteristics of rectangular solar air heater duct”, Renewable Energy, 86:952-963:2014.
  32. Alam T, Saini RP, Saini JS. “Experimental investigation of thermohydraulic performance of a rectangular solar air heater duct equipped with v-shaped perforated blocks”, Advances in Mechanical Engineering, 2014:2014:1–11.
  33. Alam T, Saini RP, Saini JS, “Heat and flow characteristics of air heater ducts provided with turbulators-A Review”, Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 31:289-304:2014.
  34. Alam T, Saini RP, Saini JS, “Use of turbulators for heat transfer augmentation in an air duct-A review”, Renewable Energy, 62:689-715:2014.
  35. Alam T, Saini RP, Saini JS, “Investigation of Heat Transfer Enhancement due to V-Shaped Perforated Blockages Wall in a Rectangular Duct of Solar Air Heater”, Applied Mechanics and Materials, 619:125-129:2014.
  36. Alam T, Saini RP, Saini JS, “Packed Bed Solar Energy Storage: A State-of-Art Review”,. International Global Journal for Engineering, 9:1:2014.
  • International/National Conference:
  1. Deepak Gupta, Krishnant, Tabish Alam, Anil Singh Yadav, Abhishek Sharma, “Thermohydraulic performance of hybrid rib roughness equipped in Solar Air Heater Duct: An Experimental Study”, International Conference on Frontiers in Desalination, Energy, Environment and Material Science for Sustainable Development (FEEMSSR-2023), Organized by Madan Mohan Malviya University Technology, Gorakhpur (UP), March 16th-17th, 2023.
  2. Injamamul Haque, Jagmohan Yadav, Naushad Ali, Shivam Srivastava, Tauseef Uddin Siddiqui, Tabish Alam, Anil Singh Yadav, Abhishek Sharma, “Heat and Flow Characteristics in Microchannel Heat Sink: A Numerical Study”, International Conference on Frontiers in Desalination, Energy, Environment and Material Science for Sustainable Development (FEEMSSR-2023), Organized by Madan Mohan Malviya University Technology, Gorakhpur (UP), March 16th-17th, 2023.
  3. Dheerandra Singh, Ravi Kant, Tabish Alam, Ahmed Sabeeh, “Thermohydraulic Performance of Solar Air Heater (SAH) Equipped with Triangular Obstacles.”, International Conference on Frontiers in Desalination, Energy, Environment and Material Science for Sustainable Development (FEEMSSR-2023), Organized by Madan Mohan Malviya University Technology, Gorakhpur (UP), March 16th-17th, 2023.
  4. Dheerandra Singh, Ahmed Sabeeh, Tabish Alam, Ravi Kant, “Thermohydraulic Performance of Micro Channel Heat Sink with Surface Modification” International Conference on Frontiers in Desalination, Energy, Environment and Material Science for Sustainable Development (FEEMSSR-2023), Organized by Madan Mohan Malviya University Technology, Gorakhpur (UP), March 16th-17th, 2023.
  5. Alam T, Man-Hoe Kim, “Thermohydraulic performance of solar air heater duct provided with small height turbulators”, The 9th National Conference of Fluid Engineering, Daegu, Republic of Korea, August 10-12, 2016.
  6. Alam T, Man-Hoe Kim, “Thermohydraulic performance of solar air heater duct provided with obstacles”, SAREK, Daegu, Republic of Korea, April 29, 2016.
  7. Alam T, Saini RP, Saini JS. “Experimental investigation of thermohydraulic performance of a rectangular solar air heater duct equipped with v-shaped perforated blocks”, Bangkok, Thailand, July 17-18, 2014.
  8. Alam T, Saini RP, Saini JS, “Effect of open area ratio on thermo hydraulic performance of V shaped perforated blocks in a rectangular air duct”, 22nd National and 11th International ISHMT-ASME Heat and Mass Transfer Conference, IIT Kharagpur, India, December 28-31, 2013.
  9. Alam T, Saini RP, Saini JS, “Performance study of different techniques for heat transfer augmentation used in a solar air heater duct”, National Conferences on Advances in Heat Transfer and Fluid Dynamics, ZHCET, Aligarh, March 23-24, 2013
  10. Alam T, Saini RP, Saini JS, “A review on various approaches to determine temperature stratification in thermal energy storages”, National Conference on Emerging Trends in Renewable Energy Technology, UDML Jaipur, April 20-21, 2012.
  11. Alam T, Saini RP, Saini JS, “A review on performance measuring techniques of solar air heater duct”, International Conference on Advances in Chemical Engineering, IIT Roorkee, India, Feb 22-24, 2013.
  12. Alam T, Mangal B, Gupta A and Kumar R, “Investigation of convective heat transfer from heated plain and corrugated plates in a rectangular air duct”, International Conference in Advances of Renewable Energy, MANIT Bhopal, India, June 24-26, 2010.
  13. Alam T, Saini RP, Saini JS, “Enhancing the performance of a packed bed solar air heater using stone as packing material”, National Conference on Emerging Trends in Mechanical Engineering, HCTM Kaithal, India, May 14-15, 2010
  • Scientific Books / Book Chapters
  1. Alam T., Karmveer “Thermo-Hydraulic Performance of Solar Air Heater” , Renewable Energy for Sustainable Growth Assessment, Wiley Scrivener publishers (Accepted)
  1. Balam B. N., Alam, T., Gupta A., Transient Numerical Model for Natural Convection Flow in Flat Plate Solar Collector, Advances in Energy Research, Springer, pp 371–381, 2020
  1. Alam T, Nagesh B. Balam, Ashok Kumar “Thermo-hydraulic performance of solar air heater duct provided with conical protrusions rib roughnesses” Advances in Energy Research, Springer, Vol 2, 978-981-15-2661-9, 2020.
  • Patents filed / granted
  1. N.B. Balam, T. Alam, A. Kumar, N. GopalaKrishnan, N. R. Kapoor, C.S. Meena, K.S.Kulkarni, H. Garg, S. Das. “Air Disinfection and Purification System for Indoor Applications” Indian Patent filed.
  • Scientific Guidelines:
  • CSIR – Guidelines on Ventilation of Residential and Office Buildings for SARS- Cov-2 Virus.
  • Achievements/Award/Scholarships
  1. Got Second Best Paper award in “International Conference on Frontiers in Desalination, Energy, Environment and Material Science for Sustainable Development (FEEMSSR-2023)”, Organized by Madan Mohan Malviya University Technology, Gorakhpur (UP), March 16th-17th, 2023.
  2. Got Diamond Jubilee Best Technology Award for the year 2021 for technology “HVAC
  3. Ducting System for Integration of Covid-19 Disinfection Solutions”
  4. Got Best Paper Award in “International Conference on Advances in Energy Researches (ICAER 2019)” at IIT Bombay (2019).
  5. Got Shrimati Saroma Sanyal Memorial Award for best paper published in Journal of Institute of Engineer: Series A Vol. 97, Springer (2017)
  6. Got Kunygpook National University (KNU, South Korea) Post-Doctoral Fellowship (2015)
  7. Got Institute Post-Doctoral at IIT Bombay, Mumbai (2015).Got International Travel Support for participating in conference at Bangkok (2014)
  8. Got scholarship from Ministry of Human Resources (MHRD) for Ph.D (2011)
  9. Got scholarship from Ministry of Human Resources (MHRD) for M.Tech (2008)
 

Awards and Distinctions (including fellowships of the learned societies):.

Name of AwardAwarded byAwarded forYear
KNU Postroctoral-FellowshipKyungpook National UniversityPost-Doctoral Research2015
Institute Postdoctoral FellowshipIIT BombayPost-Doctoral Research2015
International Travel SupportDepartment of Science and TechnologyTo present research paper in ICMET-2014, Bangkok2014
MHRD ScholarshipHuman Resources and DevelopmentPh.D2010
MHRD ScholarshipHuman Resources and DevelopmentM.Tech2008
Professional Experience:
1 year and 4 Months
Any other:
Qulaified GATE-2007 with all India rank of 360.