Strategic University Network to Revolutionise Indian Solar Energy (SUNRISE)

Completed

Renewable Energy Sources(Solar Energy, Photovoltaics)
Renewable Energy Sources(Bio-Energy, Production of transport biofuels (incl. Production from wastes))
Renewable Energy Sources(Bio-Energy, Production of other biomass-derived fuels (incl. Production from wastes))

Basic and strategic applied research

SOCIAL SCIENCES (Development Studies)
PHYSICAL SCIENCES AND MATHEMATICS (Chemistry)
PHYSICAL SCIENCES AND MATHEMATICS (Physics)
PHYSICAL SCIENCES AND MATHEMATICS (Metallurgy and Materials)
ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY (Electrical and Electronic Engineering)

Not Cross-cutting
Sociological economical and environmental impact of energy (Environmental dimensions)
Other (Energy technology information dissemination)

Dr DA Worsley
Engineering
Swansea University

Standard

EPSRC

01 October 2017

31 March 2022

54 months

£6,580,123

Energy

Wales

GCRF RCUK Grants

Dr DA Worsley, Engineering, Swansea University

Professor A Bhattacharya, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineerin, Brunel University
Dr M Carnie, Engineering, Swansea University
Dr S Chand, National Physical Laboratory, India
Dr C Charbonneau, Engineering, Swansea University
Dr M Davies, Engineering, Swansea University
Professor J Durrant, Engineering, Swansea University
Professor V Dutta, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi
Professor Sir R Friend, Physics, University of Cambridge
Professor A Garg, UNLISTED, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
Dr SA Haque, Chemistry, Imperial College London
Professor S Irvine, Centre for Solar Energy Research, Swansea University
Dr G Lingamallu, Indian Institute of Chemical Technology, India
Dr I McCulloch, Chemistry, Imperial College London
Professor KS Narayan, UNLISTED, Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (AMD), USA
Dr R Narayan, Indian Institute of Chemical Technology, India
Professor J Nelson, Department of Physics (the Blackett Laboratory), Imperial College London
Professor S Ogale, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Pune (IISER), India
Professor S Patil, Indian Institute of Science
Dr A Patra, National Physical Laboratory, India
Professor A Shukla, Indian Institute of Science
Dr H Singh, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineerin, Brunel University
Dr S Singh, Indian Institute of Chemical Technology, India
Dr hjs Snaith, Oxford Physics, University of Oxford
Professor HM Upadhyaya, School of Engineering and Physical Sciences, Heriot-Watt University
Dr T Watson, Engineering, Swansea University

Project Contact, BIPVCo
Project Contact, Energy For You, Spain
Project Contact, Tata Capital Limited, India
Project Contact, Eight19 Ltd
Project Contact, Oxford Photovoltaics Limited
Project Contact, Tata Group UK
Project Contact, Pilkington Group Ltd

In November 2016 the UK Government mounted a technical trade mission to India. During this visit the delegation witnessed some of the worst aerial pollution in Delhi's history. At times the air quality was contaminated with 999 mg per cubic metre of particulates almost five times the emission consent of an iron making coke oven! India will be the World's largest economy potentially as early as 2030 requiring a total transformation in energy generation. At the Trade summit Prime Minister Modi detailed a vision for India to leapfrog other countries reliance on fossil fuels harnessing global science implemented locally. As such the timing of SUNRISE could not be better. SUNRISE is an ambitious programme to rapidly accelerate and prove low cost printed PV and tandem solar cells for use in off grid Indian communities within the lifetime of the project. SUNRISE will combine world leading UK research teams from Imperial (Durrant/Nelson), Cambridge (Friend), Oxford (Snaith) a key Indo UK research leader (Uppadaya at Brunel) with an internationally leading photovoltaic scaling activity (SPECIFIC IKC at Swansea University (Worsley/Watson)) and key Indian institutions notably IIT Delhi (Dutta/Pathak), NPL Delhi (Chand, Gupta), CSIR Hydrabad (Giribabu, Narayan), IISER Pune (Ogale), IIT Kanpur (Garg, Gupta). The research impact of scaleable and stable low cost metal mounted PV products will be supported by technology demonstration at five off grid village communities (each of up to 20000 people). The EPSRC JUICE consortium will support the systems integration and electrical storage elements to create real technology demonstrators using local manufacturing supply chains (Tata Cleantech Capital and Tata Trust). In addition to electrical infrastructure the SUNRISE partnership includes activity on gasification of farming/crop wastes (a major cause of the incredible pollution in Delhi in November 2016) and the SPECIFIC IKC will support the practical on site demonstration of photocatalytic water purification using a linked programme with the Gates' Foundation. A key driver for this project is not only demonstration of technology in real demonstration sites but the creation of a legacy of better Indian Industry/Institution collaboration through the creation of an Industrial Doctorate programme modelled on the success of the UK EngD programme started by EPSRC in 1992 and pioneered at Swansea

15/02/19