Publications

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Indexed Journal Publications

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2023

Roshan R. Rao, Suchi Priyadarshani, and Monto Mani, “Examining the use of End-of-Life ( EoL ) PV panels in housing and sustainability,” Solar Energy, vol. 257, no. June 2023, pp. 210–220, 2023, doi: 10.1016/j.solener.2023.04.033

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2018

Roshan R. Rao, Monto Mani, Praveen C. Ramamurthy. An updated review on factors and their inter-linked influences on photovoltaic system performance. Heliyon 4 (2018) e00815. doi: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2018. e00815

 

2015

Roshan R. Rao, H. R. Swetha, J. Srinivasan and Sheela K Ramasesha, "Comparison of performance of solar photovoltaics on  dual axis tracker with fixed axis at 13 degrees N latitude" Current Science, VOL. 108 (11), 2087 - 2094 (2015) http://www.currentscience.ac.in/Volumes/108/11/2087.pdf)​

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Conference Publications

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2022

Roshan R Rao, Suchi Priyadarshani, Monto Mani, “An Investigation into thermal performance of buildings built using upcycled End-of-Life Photovoltaic panels”, 5th Building Simulation Applications 2022 (BSA 2022), July 29 – July 01, 2022, Bozen/Bolzano, Italy

 

Suchi Priyadarshani, Roshan R Rao, Monto Mani, Daniel Maskell “Investigating the role of humidity on indoor wellness in vernacular and conventional building typologies”, 5th Building Simulation Applications 2022 (BSA 2022), July 29 – July 01, 2022, Bozen/Bolzano, Italy

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2019

Roshan R Rao and Monto Mani, “Degradation observation of 9 year old PV modules in Bangalore,India”, 46th IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference (PVSC-46), June 16-21, 2019, Chicago, Illinois, USA. 

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2018

Roshan R Rao and Monto Mani, “Case study on degradation of 8-year-old BiPV modules in Bangalore, India”, 7th edition of the World Conference on Photovoltaic Energy Conversion (WCPEC-7), June 10-15, 2018, Waikoloa Village, Hawaii, USA .DOI: 10.1109/PVSC.2018.8547411 (URL) 

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2017

Gayathri Aadithya, Roshan R Rao and Monto Mani, “Integrability Comparison between BIPV and BAPV in Tropical Conditions: A Bangalore Case-Study”, 2017 IEEE 44th Photovoltaic Specialist Conference (PVSC), Washington, DC, 2017, pp. 604-607 . 10.1109/PVSC.2017.8366449 (URL)

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2012

Roshan R Rao, Sheela K Ramasesha and J Srinivasan, “Performance Study of rooftop photovoltaic panels”, Third National Research Conference on Climate Change, November 3-4, 2012 at IISc,Bangalore. http://icrn.in/themes/icrn/presentaions/Roshan%20R%20Rao%20introduction.pdf)

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Other Publications

 

2019

Siddharth Nair, Roshan Rao, Tarun Kumar, Guru Prasad G, Manish Kumar, Khadeeja Henna P, Aysha Saifudeen, Monto Mani, “Design of a Do-It-Yourself (DIY) based Solar Powered LED Lighting System for Training and Empowering Rural youth”, 7th International Conference on Research Into Design, 9 - 11 January 2019, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India

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2018

Tarun Kumar, Roshan Rao,Praveen C Ramamurthy and Monto Mani, "Safety of Light Emitting Diode (LED) Based Domestic Lighting Rural Context", 15th IEEE India Council International Conference (INDICON) (INDICON 2018), 16– 18 December 2018, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Coimbatore, India

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2018

Siddharth Nair, Roshan Rao, Tarun Kumar, Guru Prasad G, Manish Kumar, Khadeeja Henna P, Aysha Saifudeen, Monto Mani, “Roshini- Developing a DIY Rural Solar Light: utilizing products at End-of-Life (EoL) stage”, IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Conference (GHTC 2018) 18 – 22 October 2018, San Jose, California, USA

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2016

Roshan R Rao, Satheesh S K, J Srinivasan, “High resolution spectral irradiance measurements: Spectral aerosol radiative forcing and techniques to develop an aerosol model”, EGU General Assembly 2016, April 16-22, 2016, Vienna, Austria  http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2016EGUGA..18.5646R)

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2015

Roshan R Rao, Satheesh S K, J Srinivasan, “Estimation of optically equivalent aerosol composition using ground-based spectral irradiance measurements”, National Climate Science Conference, 2-3 July 2015 at IISc, Bangalore (http://dccc.iisc.ac.in/Abstracts%20for%20presentation.pdf)

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