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PH.D.(MARCH 2005- CONTINUE) SARDAR PATEL UNIVERSITY, VALLABH VIDYANAGAR POST GRADUATION CERTIFICATE IN PROJECT MANAGEMENT

July 2009 – Till Today INDIRA GANDHI NATIONAL OPEN UNIVERSITY MASTER OF SCIENCE (PHYSICS), 2001-03 SARDAR PATEL UNIVERSITY, VALLABH VIDYANAGAR

SPECIALIZATION: ELECTRONICS DISSERTATION: 1. DEPOSITION OF PASSIVE COMPONENTS (CAPACITOR) BY THIN FILM TECHNOLOGY 2. PHYSICS THROUGH COMPUTERS PERCENTAGE: 61.0% BACHELOR OF SCIENCE (PHYSICS), 2000-01 SARDAR PATEL UNIVERSITY, VALLABH VIDYANAGAR PERCENTAGE: 63.0% BACHELOR OF SCIENCE (CHEMISTRY), 1997-2000 SARDAR PATEL UNIVERSITY, VALLABH VIDYANAGAR PERCENTAGE: 48.0% HIGHER SECONDARY CERTIFICATE EXAM, 1997 GUJARAT STATE EDUCATION BOARD PERCENTAGE: 53.2% SECONDARY SCHOOL CERTIFICATE EXAM, 1994 GUJARAT STATE EDUCATION BOARD PERCENTAGE: 71.0% COMPUTER LITERACY M.S.OFFICE AND VARIOUS ANALYTICAL TOOLS SUCH AS MATHEMATICA, ORIGIN 5.0 AND MATLAB 5.0 DURING TESTING WORKS AT RTC-SPRERI.. ALSO WORKED WITH FORTRAN, PASCAL AND C DURING ACADEMIC STUDIES

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PROJECTS WORK:

a) Commercial Projects for Development of New Products for Vadilal Chemicals Limited under capacity of Asst. Manager - Business Development 1) Solar Photovoltaic Production Through a – Si Thin Film 2) Manufacturing Cryogenic Storage / Transport Vessels 3) Liquid Helium Sourcing and Market Development in India 4) Development of Fluorine Based Gases and Chemicals 5) Hydrogen Distribution Through Pipeline in Gujarat 6) Export – Import of Argon, Speciality Gases for Vadilal

b) Research & Development Projects as Scientist at Sardar Patel Renewable Energy Research Institute, V.V.Nagar 1) Performance evaluation of Punjab Agri. Uni. Developed domestic dryer (project completed, paper publication is underway). 2) Comparative studies of different air heaters (completed, paper will be submitted soon). 3) State of art report on design and validation of building integrated hot water systems (completed, paper preparation is underway). 4) Electrification of rural village (completed, an article has been submitted to agriculture engineering, new-delhi). 5) Performance evaluation of solar tunnel dryer (completed, paper has been communicated to sesi). 6) Market development of solar dryers in industrial and agricultural sectors of gujarat (completed, paper publication is underway).

PROJECTS SUBMITTED: 1) Design and development of solar tunnel dryer suitable for drying high value fish (submitted to tifac) 2) Solar passive cooling of buildings and comfort living in houses (underway)

REGIONAL TEST CENTER, SPRERI Sardar Patel Renewable Energy Research Institute hosts premier test center – Regional Test Center (RTC), accredited by Bureau of Indian Standards and Ministry of New & Renewable Energy – New Delhi for testing of solar thermal devices like solar water heaters, box cookers, concentrating type cookers etc. of different designs and capacity. The applicant is also engaged in test center.

TRAINING ON INTERLABORATORY COMPARISON AND PROFICIENCY TESTING BY BUREAU OF INDIAN STANDARDS The applicant has undergone special training on Inter laboratory comparisons and proficiency testing and Z-scores organized by Bureau of Indian Standards, Mumbai. “Inter Laboratory Comparisons”, by words, means organizations of performance and evaluation of tests on the same or similar test items by two or more laboratories in accordance with predetermined conditions whereas, “Z-Scores” suggests the normalized value which gives a score to each result relative to the other members in the group. So a Z-Score value close to zero means that the result agrees well from the other values. Moreover there are other statistical parameters such as En values which gives us an indication of the normalized error (Corresponding to z-score) and used in judging the quality of measurement by calculating the error normalized with respect to the stated uncertainty. Certain other aspects which were part of the training were computing and interpreting classical and robust Z-scores, youden plots, Scrutiny for stragglers and outliers, Mandel h & k Statistics, Cocharan’s test, Grubb’s test etc. The training program covered various aspects such as calibration using reference standards or reference material, comparison of results achieved with other methods, inter laboratory comparison or Proficiency Testing, Systematic assessment of factors influencing result and assessment of the uncertainty of results based on scientific understanding of the theoretical principles and practical experience. Proficiency testing is a pre accreditation activity for any test laboratory and is one of the techniques by which the data produced by a laboratory/method/procedure can be validated. It is a method to check a laboratory’s testing/calibration performance within its own laboratory and with other higher echelon laboratories.

Special Skills

DETAILS OF CONFERENCE PARTICIPATED / ATTENDED IMPORT OF CAPITAL GOODS, 19 / 08 / 2009, Organized by Ahmedabad Management Association, Ahmedabad, India NEW STIMULUS PACKAGE TO HELP SME EXPORTERS & BANK, 20 / 05 / 2009, Organized by Gujarat Chamber of Commerce & Industry Building, Ahmedabad, India

HOW TO IMPROVE YOUR SALES SKILLS, FUTURE OF HELIUM CONFERENCE, 30 / 3 / 2009 TO 31 / 3 / 2009. Organized by Judges Business School, University of Cambridge at Cambridge,

UK. CONFERENCE ON CIG AND CIGSe THIN FILM SOLAR CELLS, 10/06/08-16/06/08, ORGANISED BY SOLAR PV FORUM AND INTERSOLAR 2008, AT MUNICH, GERMANY

RENEWABLE ENERGY INDIA EXPO 2008, 21 / 05 / 2008 TO 23 / 05 / 2008, Pragati Maidan, New - Delhi

23RD EUROPEAN PHOTOVOLTAIC SOLAR ENERGY CONFERENCE CUM EXHIBITION, FARIA VALENCIA, SPAIN, 1 / 09 / 08 to 5 / 09 / 08 INDIA SEMICONDUCTOR ASSOCIATION PHOTOVOLTAIC CONCLAVE 2008, September 29 , 2008, New- Delhi

DETAILS OF THE PAPERS PUBLISHED SOLAR THERMAL APPLICATIONS (SOLAR DRYERS, NEW COOKERS, HOT WATER SYSTEMS ETC.)  Sagar Agravat et al, “Design and Development of Efficient Multipurpose Domestic Solar Cooker/ Dryer”, Article in press, International Journal or Renewable Energy, Elsevier.  Agravat S.M. et al, “Drying of tomato using a solar dryer incorporated with LPG back – up” ISAE 42nd Annual convection held at CIAE, Bhopal, 1-3 February, 2008  Chavda T.V. & Agravat S.M., “Application Of Solar Energy For Drying Of Amla And Various Other Products” National Seminar On Production & Processing Of Aonla-Ahmedabad,

POLICY PAPERS (RURAL, ZERO ENERGY BUILDINGS) Agravat S.M. & Sajjan P, “Use Of Innovative Technologies For Rural Development”,Proceedings, All India Seminar On Innovative Technologies For Rural Developments-Bhopal, December 10-11, 2005. Agravat S.M. & Chavda T.V., “Building Integrated Hot Water Systems, Status & Prospects”, June-July 2007, Axay Urja, Ministry Of New And Renewable Energy Technology-New Delhi. PHOTOVOLTAIC Agravat S.M. et al., “From Darkness to Light: Village Dageria”, May-June 2009, Axay Urja, Ministry Of New And Renewable Energy Technology-New Delhi. Agravat S.M. et al, “Electrification in village Dageriya-Case study of a 3 kW SPV power supply system”, communicated to Axay Urja, Ministry Of New And Renewable Energy Technology-New Delhi.

NEW GENERATION SOLAR CELL (BASIC RESEARCH FOR SEARCH OF NOVEL MATERIALS LIKE ORGANIC DYES, BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS, MAGNETISM AND PHOTOVOLTAIC ETC.) Agravat et al., ‘Vibrational spectra of CT complexes of Acridine Orange, P 341-347, JCA Vol.47A(3) March 2008 Agravat et al. “Collision processes of charge carriers in organic semiconductors”, P65, January 3-4-5, 2008, Topical Conference on Atomic & Molecular Physics, Department of Physics, Sardar Patel University, Vallabh Vidyanagar Agravat S.M., Oza A.T., “Photoconducting Behaviour Of Organic And Organometallic Complexes”. Accepted For Publication In Bulletin Of Material Science, Iisc Banglore Agravat S.M., Oza A.T., “Charge Transfer Complexes Of Phenosafranine”, Accepted for publication in March-April, 2008 issue, Indian Journal Of Chemistry.

N.B.:- Four More Papers On Photoconductive Behaviour Of Some Bio Molecules, Magnetic Compounds And Other Organic Materials Have Been Communicated To Various Scientific Journals.