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| − | We have completed an ambitious project that consisted of the manufacture, transport, installation, and commissioning for 300 community cookers at tribal schools in the Indian state of [[:Category:Maharashtra|Maharashtra]]. These are 2.3 m diameter parabolic cookers designed by us. The order was placed by the state government on 14 February 2007 and the project was completed by 31 March 2007. M/s Essential Equipments, one of our trainees, executed the project. This is the single largest solar cooking project in the world, for dish cookers, with the installation of over 1200 m<sup>2</sup> of aperture area in just 45 days. |
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| + | [[File:PRINCE-40_with_Ajay_C.,_11-19-19.jpg|300px|thumb|[[Ajay Chandak]] stands with the company's award winning [[PRINCE-40]] ''Photo credit: PRINCE'']] |
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| + | *{{NewNov19}}'''November 2019: The PRINCE-40 wins award''' - The [[PRINCE-40]] parabolic solar cooker, designed to serve a community, has won a [https://www.birac.nic.in/desc_new.php?id=103 National Grand Challenge] for designing a robust, efficient, and compact community solar cooker. The challenge was from Department of Science and Technology, Government of [[India]]. The award focussed on [[:Category:Institutional solar cooker designs|community solar cooker designs]]. |
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| + | [[File:PRINCE_-_40_parabolic_cooker,_2-6-12.jpg|right|250px]] |
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| − | We conduct many training programs for developing manufacturers of parabolic cookers and our efforts are succeeding. I believe that the technology will propagate faster if we can make it accessible to all. |
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| + | *{{NewJul19}}'''July 2019:''' In the second week of July, Dr. Chandak will lead an environmental expedition to Ladakh to demonstrate the ability of solar thermal parabolic cookers to cook food and boil tea with the power of the sun even when snow is on the ground and temperatures are below freezing. Ladakh, a high-altitude desert with more than 325 clear sunny days and no locally available cooking fuel is an ideal region for cooking with solar thermal devices. Using solar cookers whenever the sun is shining can significantly reduce the amount of subsidized LPG fuel that residents of this region must currently purchase and import every year. Ajay and his team will demonstrate low cost, easy to use [[PRINCE]] solar cookers at schools and rural child care centers (Aanganwadis). They will carry out a solar cooking expedition to Khardungla Pass, at an elevation of {{MT|5360}} on the 10th of July. Ajay also plans to donate a PRINCE-40 solar community cooker to Indian Army personnel for pilot testing so that it can be used in remote outposts in this region where all cooking fuel must be imported at tremendous expense. Ajay has been instrumental in training and mentoring entrepreneurs from Ladakh since 2010. These entrepreneurs have manufactured and installed almost 1000 domestic solar cookers in the region. |
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| + | [[File:Solar Inclined trough line concentrator first trial Ajay Chandak|thumb|right|335 px|First video of new development of Inclined trough line concentrating solar steam generator. This will be the system with zero auxiliary power.]] |
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| − | I am teaching in a private engineering college in Dhule. During one meeting with the college management recently, I persuaded the chairman to organise an international renewable energy festival. He promised to contribute some 30-40% of funds for such an event. My idea for the festival are as follows: |
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| + | *{{NewMay18}}'''May 2018:''' Dr. Ajay Chandak, SCI Global Advisor, seeks a US partner for project development of inclined trough solar concentrator for a grant from the United States-India Science and Technology Endowment fund (IUSSTF): “Commercializing Technologies for Societal Impact." The pilot project can be seen in this video: Link to Pilot Project. Dr. Chandak is confident the cost of this concentrator will be at least 40% less than the corresponding cost of concentrators in the market. The fund aims to select and financially support promising joint US-India entrepreneurial initiatives. Grant size: up to INR 2.50 Crores (approx. $400,000 USD). To participate, contact Dr. Chandak well before the 15 June 2018 deadline: [mailto:renewable.consultant@gmail.com renewable.consultant@gmail.com] |
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| + | *{{NewMay18}}'''March 2018: WINTREX Award recipient''' - [[Ajay Chandak|Dr. Ajay Chandak]] and [[Promoters, Researchers and Innovators in New and Clean Energy]] have received the Gold Prize for their innovation of the Solar Paraboloid Concentrator at the [https://www.ifia.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/General-Information-WINTEX-2018.pdf World Invention and Technology (WINTREX)] in [[Indonesia]]. Dr. Chandak reports this is the same design approach they use for their production solar cookers and industrial concentrators.The team was represented by Mr. Raman from the [http://www.indiainvents.in Indian Innovators Association]. |
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| − | [[Image:Ajay_Chandak_balcony_model.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Ajay Chandak's balcony model concentrating solar cooker]] |
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| + | *{{NewApr17}}'''April 2017: Award recipient''' - [[Ajay Chandak|Dr. Ajay Chandak]] has received the [[SCI]] Order of Excellence for his work in promoting solar thermal cooking worldwide. |
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| − | #To organise solar cooker design competition: We will keep all the technical details and many designs and design plans available on our website. Many good resources are already available on our website, www.solarcooking.org, and will be augmented. We will ask all prospective participants (most of them are likely to be engineering students) to refer to this literature and design some solar cookers of their own. All these cookers will be displayed and will be tested during the conference event and prizes will be given for the good designs. Criteria for awards will be like efficiency, cost, convenience, capabilities etc. Prizes will be awarded for the commercial and amateur categories. Separate prizes will be given for panel, oven and concentrating cookers. |
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| − | #To have project presentation competition: Prospective participants will be encouraged to visit good sites like 'Tirupati', 'Shirdi', 'Smoke free village', etc. These participants are expected to prepare a story on the project including photographs, videos, interviews, etc., and present the same during the competition. I am expecting many engineering students to get involved in the competition. It will encourage them to study good renewable energy sites in detail and present the material at the competition. Such an exercise can generate interest in renewable energy in the minds of the young. |
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| − | #To conduct a training program and present lectures by experts: As all participants coming for the event are expected to be budding engineers and science students, we plan to conduct a training program on 'Entrepreneurship opportunities in Renewable Energy' for them. I am already conducting such program for some students with fair success. Lectures from experts like Deepak Gadhia and others will also be organised during the event. |
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| − | ==International solar cooker evaluation: July 2011 - June 2012== |
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| + | *{{NewMay17}}'''April 2017:''' |
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| − | * Originally announced as a one-time event Oct. 11-13, 2011 with a related conference, the solar cooker competition has been cancelled, and instead there will be a year-long opportunity for having solar cookers and fuel stoves tested free, starting this month. India’s [[Promoters and Researchers in Non-Conventional Energy]] (PRINCE) group have updated standards for solar cookers, developed in conjunction with input from SCWNet members. These universal [[testing]] standards will be used to evaluate the cookers by simulating real world conditions. Designers, manufacturers, NGOs and individuals are invited to submit solar cookers for testing, and need not be present for the tests. While there will be no cash prizes, solar cookers will be rated on thermal performance, cost of manufacture and transport, and user convenience. Send cookers anytime between now and June 2012 to: Prof. Ajay Chandak, PRINCE, Shamgiri, Opp Swagat Lodge, Agra Road, Deopur, Dhuli – 424005, Maharashtra, India. Include your usual instructions for consumers. If you wish your cooker returned, please arrange to cover return shipping costs. After testing, entrants will be contacted with results, and have the option of omitting their information in the publicly listed ratings. No reply from entrants within two weeks or so after receiving their results will be taken as consent to publish. Other questions? Email: [mailto:renewable.india@gmail.com renewable.india@gmail.com]. |
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| + | ::[[File:Urban Innovation Solar Power Dr. Ajay Chandak TEDxNMIMSHyderabad|thumb|none|400px|This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at http://ted.com/tedx]] |
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| + | *{{NewFeb17}}'''January 2017:''' |
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| + | ::[[File:Dr. Ajay Chandak - Solar Thermal Technology|none|400px|thumb|([[Media:Ajay_Chandak_2017_slides.pdf|Slides]])]] |
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| − | [[File:ARUN_100_at_Akshardham,_8-12-14.jpg|thumb|300px|The [[ARUN 100]] solar cooking array at the Akshardham Temple, New Delhi, [[India]].]] |
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| − | *'''August 2014:''' International solar cooking expert, [[Ajay Chandak]], has written about the recent installation of steam generating solar cooking systems at The Akshardham Temple located in New Delhi and at the Ram Krishna Mission Student’s Home, Mylapore, Chennai. The Akshardham Temple system is now able to serve 2,000 - 3,000 meals on a clear sunny day, saving approximately 30 to 50 scm of PNG each day in operation. MNRE has partly funded this installation and [http://www.cliquesolar.com Clique Solar] has manufactured and installed the system. The system at the Ram Krishna Mission Student’s Home as been adapted with the ability to store the excess heat generated mid-day to be able to cook very early in the day and after sunset. Read his reports: [[Media:SCI_news_1.pdf|ARUN®100 Installation at Akshardham Temple, New Delhi]] and [[Media:SCI_news_2.pdf|ARUN®100 with Thermal Storage at Ramkrishna Mission, Chennai]] - ''[[Ajay Chandak]]'' |
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| − | *'''March 2014:''' Ajay Chandak wants to update the solar cooking community that a [[Scheffler Community Kitchen]] has been installed and tested at the Aapla Ghar school for homeless rural children located in Naldurg. After cooking their first meal on this solar system the students and management were more than happy. He brings particular attention and notice of appreciation to the local M.P. Dr. Ashok Ganguly, who arranged financing of the project through their M.P fund, contributing $23,000 USD to the project. Also, another Scheffler system is to be opened soon at an orphanage located in Dhule. |
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| − | *'''December 2013:''' On December 9, 2013 Professor [[Ajay Chandak]], a global leader in the solar thermal cooking sector, was elected to the Board of Directors of the International Solar Energy Society (ISES). Chandak will represent "Solar Heating and Cooling". ISES is a UN-accredited NGO that is active in over 110 countries. |
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| − | [[File:PRINCE_solar_cookers_at_Solar_Trek,_Nepal,_2013.jpg|thumb|300px|PRINCE solar cookers are along on the first ever Solar Trek through the Himalayas in [[Nepal]].]] |
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| − | *'''November 2013: PRINCE solar cookers packed for Solar Trek 2013''' - The [[PRINCE - 15]] and the [[PRINCE - 40]] [[parabolic solar cooker]]s, designed by [[Ajay Chandak]], were taken along to prepare meals on the first ever Solar Trek through the Himalayas in [[Nepal]]. |
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| − | *'''November 2013: Solar cooking receives a new platform to speak from''' - The second edition of ''Sun Focus'', a quarterly magazine devoted to concentrated solar heat has just been released. The new publication from [[India]] was founded by Dr Farooq Addullah. He explains that the magazine will focus on off-grid applications of concentrated solar technologies (CSTs) for the purpose of saving fuel oil, firewood, and LPG in industrial and commercial establishments using heat between 80 °C and 250 °C. Solar cooking plays a major role in the content. This latest edition's cover article is devoted to the latest developments of the [[Scheffler Community Kitchen]], written by noted solar cooking designer and advocate for solar cooking education in public schools, [[Ajay Chandak]]. Read his article on page 11. [https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B3LcTeALQ3GJNXlDR01EMjRWcEk/edit?pli=1 Scheffler Solar Concentrators in India] - ''Sun Focus'' |
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| − | [[File:Parabolic solar cooker (Demo)|thumb|right|300px|The [[PRINCE - 40]] is demonstrated at the rural schools.]] |
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| − | [[File:WORT_training_demonstration,_1-5-13.jpg|thumb|300px|A field demonstration of the [[PRINCE - 40]] parabolic cooker.]] |
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| − | *'''January 2013: Parabolic community solar cookers used for midday meals in rural schools''' - [http://www.wotr.org WOTR] is a nonprofit organization that has been operating in five Indian states since the early nineties. They have untaken a unique solar cooking project targeting Zilla Parishad primary schools in the Sangamner and Akole taluka of the Ahmadnagar district. The objective was to find ways to help prepare their midday meal. Currently, twenty-three solar cookers are in service. After a careful study of all options, it was decided to deploy the [[PRINCE - 40]] [[parabolic solar cooker]], designed by [[Ajay Chandak]], for the pilot installation in fifty-three villages across three states – {{State|Maharashtra}}, {{State|Andhra Pradesh}}, and {{State|Madhya Pradesh}}. Most of the schools where these cookers are installed are using them as main source of energy for the mid-day meals. Read more about the project at: [[Media:Parabolic-Cookers-for-Mid-day-Meal-Schemes-in-Rural-Schools.pdf|A Report on Deployment of Parabolic Community Solar Cookers for Midday Meals in Rural Schools]] |
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| − | *'''December 2011:''' We are getting amazing feedbacks from end users for installations carried out for the [[PRINCE-40]] solar community cookers, with the help of NGOs like WOTR and MPSSS. It looks like these organizations will expand the program and we should see few hundred systems in schools in next year. You will find a few more models of community solar cookers from us in coming year. |
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| − | *'''October 2011:''' The latest [[PRINCE]] newsletter announces a scheduled training for [[Scheffler Reflector Solar Cooker]]s coming January 21 -27, 2012. Next, PRINCE founder [[Ajay Chandak]] has received an Energy Conservation Award from the Government of Maharashtra. Also, PRINCE has organized a networking workshop for all stakeholders in the renewable energy business on January 25 - 26, 2012. PRINCE Biogas Plants now approved by MNRE. Read more about these items: [[Media:PRINCE_newsletter1.pdf|PRINCE newsletter, Fall 2011]] |
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| − | *'''June 2011:'''The [[International Center for Networking, Ecology, Education and Re-Integration]] (ICNEER) has announced that Ajay Chandak is one of four recipients of the 'Dr. Shirin Gadhia Sustainability Award' to be presented on June 19, 2011 for his work in renewable energy. [[Media:Invitation_for_Dr_Shirin_Gadhia_Sustainability_Award_Ajay_Chandak.pdf|Dr. Shirin Gadhia Sustainability Award to Ajay Chandak]] Congratulations Ajay. |
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| − | [[File:Solar_Canteen_in_India.jpg|thumb|300px|Ajay Chandak and volunteers running solar canteen.]] |
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| − | *'''March 2009:''' '''Energy day''' was celebrated in a unique way in city of Dhule, [[India]], by a voluntary organization [[PRINCE]] (Promoters & Researchers In Non Conventional Energy). With the help of around 100 students of mechanical engineering from SSVPS BSD College of Engineering a solar canteen was set up by Prof. Ajay Chandak, Prof. [[Sham Patil]] and Prof. [[Deepak Dubey]]. Three SK-14, solar dish cooker, one square PRINCE design of dish cooker and one Community solar cooker of 2.3 m dia. were used in the canteen. On these gadgets almost 1000 snacks were cooked and sold by the students. Staff and students of the Institute and invited guests from the city enjoyed solar food. Guests had fun watching the food being cooked in front of their eyes in the solar cookers and to taste the same as any other methods of cooking. Snacks cooked and sold on large scale were Idlis and coffee. However other snacks like Khichadi, Cakes etc. were also prepared for demonstration to the visitors. Many students, staff and visitors showed great interest in the solar cooking demonstrations and local manufacturer, M/s Essential Equipments, reported sell of around ten solar cookers in next two days, which is welcome outcome of such event. |
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| − | :Many students were thrilled with the experience of this event for the first time in their life and have shown great interest to organize such events at different locations in the city, next year. Principal of the Institute Dr. Jahagirdar has promised to support such events in future. |
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| − | :Other programs for energy day celebrations included demonstrations of energy efficient technologies for lighting, fans and domestic appliances. All these equipments were demonstrated to visitors. Many visitors reported having changed their copper and aluminum ballasts with electronic ballasts in next week. After all seeing is believing. |
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| − | :One workshop was also organized for local masons, hoteliers and interested people to teach them skills of installation of biogas plants working on food waste. Chairperson of PRINCE, Prof. Ajay Chandak, has given up LPG since last four years and fuel requirement for his family comes up from the solar cookers and biogas plant working on food waste. PRINCE group has come up with a special cost effective design of biogas plant. After the workshop five people have shown interest in installation of the biogas plants. |
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| − | [[Image:Ajay_Chandak_receives_award.jpg|right|thumb|Professor Ajay Chandak accepts a renewable energy award from Mr. Vinay Kore, the Maharasthra state minister for non-conventional energy, as other dignitaries look on]] |
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| − | *'''November 2006:''' Professor Ajay Chandak of [[Prince India |Promoters and Researchers In Non-Conventional Energy (PRINCE)]] won a "Renewable Energy Award 2005" from the [[Maharashtra Energy Development Agency]]. Of the state-level award for excellence in renewable energy, Prof. Chandak says, "Such awards are small milestones on our way and keep us pushing forward." He thanks friends from around the world for their contributions, adding, "They are equal partners in the award." |
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| − | *'''January 2006:''' Professor [[Ajay Chandak]] of [[Prince India|Promoters & Researchers In Non-Conventional Energy (PRINCE)]] led a workshop titled “Manufacturing Parabolic Solar Cookers and an introduction to renewable energy technologies.” Twenty people from eight states participated in the workshop, mostly renewable energy professionals. Mr. Chandak hopes that several of them will consider manufacturing parabolic solar cookers in their own states. Large community-size cookers, two meters or more in diameter, proved quite popular. These cookers can cook meals for 30-50 people. Smaller, family-side cookers were also shown, as were related technologies like solar food dryers. |
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| − | *'''January 2009:''' [[Media:Design_of_multistage_evaporators_for_integrating_with_Scheffler_Solar_concentrators_for_food_processing_applications_-_Prof._Ajay_Chandak_&_Dr._Sunil_K._Somani_2009.pdf|Design of multistage evaporators for integrating with Scheffler Solar concentrators for food processing applications]] - ''Prof. Ajay Chandak & [[Sunil K. Somani|Dr. Sunil K. Somani]]'' |
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| − | * '''January 2009:''' [[Media:Design_of_Solar_Dryer_with_Turboventilator_and_fireplace_-_Prof._Ajay_Chandak_&_Dr._Sunil_K._Somani_2009.pdf|Design of Solar Dryer with Turboventilator and fireplace]] - ''Prof. Ajay Chandak & Dr. Sunil K. Somani'' |
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| − | *[[PRINCE - 40]] |
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| − | *[[Parabolic solar concentrator for industrial heating]] |
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| − | *[[Media:Granada06_Ajay_Chandak.pdf|Solar Energy for Quality Improvement in the Food-Processing Industry]] |
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| − | *[[Media:Granada06_Ajay_Chandak2.pdf|Innovative Balcony Model of Concentrating Solar Cooker]] |
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| − | *[[Prince India]] |
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| − | Prof. Ajay Chandak<br> |
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| − | PRINCE, Suman Foundation<br> |
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| − | Shamgiri, Opp. Swagat Lodge, Agra Road, Deopur,<br> |
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| − | Dhule: 424 005.<br> |
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| − | {{State|Maharashtra|Maharashtra}}<br> |
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| − | [[India]] |
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Ajay Chandak pictured on right
Professor Ajay Chandak is the founder of Promoters, Researchers and Innovators in New and Clean Energy, a non-governmental organisation in Dhule, India.
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Ajay Chandak stands with the company's award winning PRINCE-40 Photo credit: PRINCE
- November 2019: The PRINCE-40 wins award - The PRINCE-40 parabolic solar cooker, designed to serve a community, has won a National Grand Challenge for designing a robust, efficient, and compact community solar cooker. The challenge was from Department of Science and Technology, Government of India. The award focussed on community solar cooker designs.
- July 2019: In the second week of July, Dr. Chandak will lead an environmental expedition to Ladakh to demonstrate the ability of solar thermal parabolic cookers to cook food and boil tea with the power of the sun even when snow is on the ground and temperatures are below freezing. Ladakh, a high-altitude desert with more than 325 clear sunny days and no locally available cooking fuel is an ideal region for cooking with solar thermal devices. Using solar cookers whenever the sun is shining can significantly reduce the amount of subsidized LPG fuel that residents of this region must currently purchase and import every year. Ajay and his team will demonstrate low cost, easy to use PRINCE solar cookers at schools and rural child care centers (Aanganwadis). They will carry out a solar cooking expedition to Khardungla Pass, at an elevation of 5360 mt (17585.2 ft) on the 10th of July. Ajay also plans to donate a PRINCE-40 solar community cooker to Indian Army personnel for pilot testing so that it can be used in remote outposts in this region where all cooking fuel must be imported at tremendous expense. Ajay has been instrumental in training and mentoring entrepreneurs from Ladakh since 2010. These entrepreneurs have manufactured and installed almost 1000 domestic solar cookers in the region.
Solar Inclined trough line concentrator first trial Ajay Chandak
First video of new development of Inclined trough line concentrating solar steam generator. This will be the system with zero auxiliary power.
- May 2018: Dr. Ajay Chandak, SCI Global Advisor, seeks a US partner for project development of inclined trough solar concentrator for a grant from the United States-India Science and Technology Endowment fund (IUSSTF): “Commercializing Technologies for Societal Impact." The pilot project can be seen in this video: Link to Pilot Project. Dr. Chandak is confident the cost of this concentrator will be at least 40% less than the corresponding cost of concentrators in the market. The fund aims to select and financially support promising joint US-India entrepreneurial initiatives. Grant size: up to INR 2.50 Crores (approx. $400,000 USD). To participate, contact Dr. Chandak well before the 15 June 2018 deadline: renewable.consultant@gmail.com
- March 2018: WINTREX Award recipient - Dr. Ajay Chandak and Promoters, Researchers and Innovators in New and Clean Energy have received the Gold Prize for their innovation of the Solar Paraboloid Concentrator at the World Invention and Technology (WINTREX) in Indonesia. Dr. Chandak reports this is the same design approach they use for their production solar cookers and industrial concentrators.The team was represented by Mr. Raman from the Indian Innovators Association.
- April 2017: Award recipient - Dr. Ajay Chandak has received the SCI Order of Excellence for his work in promoting solar thermal cooking worldwide.
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- April 2017:
Urban Innovation Solar Power Dr. Ajay Chandak TEDxNMIMSHyderabad
This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at http://ted.com/tedx
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Dr. Ajay Chandak - Solar Thermal Technology
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