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Dr. Atul Sagade lives in Pandharpur, Maharashtra, India, and is the founder and director of Solar Energy Research Laboratory (SERL), Pandharpur. He has been involved in the design, development, and research of solar cookers, along with teaching and promoting solar cookers and solar thermal systems since 2010. He is Co-inventor of Cooker Opto-Thermal Ratio (COR) based intermediate temperature heating and Open Sun Cooling Test protocols and thermal methods for experimental determination of effective concentration ratio for solar box type and concentrating type of solar cookers.
Atul has been involved in teaching, training, research, entrepreneurial and administrative works at Engineering institutes for more than fifteen years, as well as Principal/Director of the engineering polytechnic institute for more than seven years. Presently, he is associated as a professor/Scientist with internationally reputed universities in Europe and South America. With his colleagues, they have conducted several awareness and training programs on solar cookers along with entrepreneurial workshops at a self-owned, state-of-the-art test facility for solar thermal and renewable heating research work.
Dr. Atul participated as a solar expert in the International Energy Agency's workshops on a Technology Roadmap: solar heating and cooling in Germany, China, Australia, and is also a member of various editorial boards, and serves as a reviewer for prestigious international journals on energy.
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- October 2023: Low-cost solar concentrating collector-receiver system as an effective enabler for clean cooking and heating in urban areas
- July 2022: Apaolaza-Pagoaga, CR Ruivo, A Carrillo-Andrés, Solar Energy 241 (2022), 157-166. (Elsevier)
- Novel Biomass based clean cook stove with blue flame
- May 2021: Solar Cooker with Tracking-Type Bottom Reflector: An Experimental Thermal Performance Evaluation of a New Design, M.A. Tawfik, Atul A. Sagade, Rodrigo Palma-Behnke, Hanan El-Shal, Wessam E. Abd Allah, Solar Energy 220 (2021), 295-315. (Elsevier)
- September 2020: Mathematical Modeling and Experimental Validation of the thermal performance of a Novel Design Solar Cooker A.E.M.M Khallaf, M.A.Tawfik, A.A. El-Sebaii, Atul A. Sagade, Solar Energy 207 (2020), 40-50. (Elsevier)
- May 2020: Experimental determination of the thermal performance of a solar box cooker with a modified cooking pot, Atul A. Sagade, S.K. Samdarshi, P.J. Lahkar, Narayani A. Sagade, Renewable Energy 150 (2020), 1000-1009. (Elsevier)
- February 2019: Ensuring the Completion of Solar Cooking Process under Unexpected Reduction in Solar Irradiance, Atul A. Sagade, S.K. Samdarshi, P.J. Lahkar, Solar Energy 179 (2019), 286-297. (Elsevier)
- September 2018: Enabling rating of intermediate temperature solar cookers using different working fluids as test loads and its validation through a design change, Atul A. Sagade, S.K. Samdarshi, P.S. Panja Solar Energy 171 (2018), 354-365. (Elsevier)
- January 2018: Experimental determination of effective concentration ratio for solar box cookers using thermal tests, Atul A. Sagade, S.K. Samdarshi, P.S. Panja, Solar Energy 159 (2018), 984-991. (Elsevier)
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Email: atulsagade@gmail.com
Skype: atul.sagade