PATENTS
Indian Patent No: 566116
A clamping system and method for cylindrical fuel cells based on polymer electrolyte membrane technology
Inventors: Sunil K. Sethy and Amit C. Bhosale
PATENTS FILED:
1. An Indian Patent applied on “A SOLAR-POWERED DECENTRALIZED FERTILIZER PRODUCTION-CUM-IRRIGATION UNIT”. Innovators: Dr. Pratham Arora, Dr. Rhythm Singh, Dr. Amit C. Bhosale, and Nitish Srivastava, 2024 (Ref. no. 202411052393)
JOURNAL ARTICLES
26. M Kumar, P Arora, N Srivastava, J Padma, R Singh, AC Bhosale, Optimal sizing of solar photovoltaic water pumping systems by synergizing irrigation patterns and static heads: A comprehensive study in the Indian context, Sustainable Energy Technologies and Assessments, 77, 104341, 2025
25. Somar Rajeh Ghanem, Amit C Bhosale, Analytical modeling of Nusselt number and friction factor for honeycomb-shaped artificial roughness in solar air heater, Next Materials, 8, 100529, 2025
24. Madhuparna Ray, Sunil K. Sethy, Nasir Ali, Amit C. Bhosale, Yuvraj Singh Negi, Sujay Chattopadhyay, Leveraging C2H4N3+CH3SO3– Ionic Liquid-Embedded MOF-808 and Biobased Vitamin E for Enhanced Performance and Oxidative Tolerance in Zero-Humidified PEMFCs, ACS Appl. Energy Mater., 2025
23. Nitish Srivastava, Mohammad Saquib, Pratham Arora, Amit C Bhosale, Investigation of NiMoSe/Ti3C2Tx on Carbon Cloth as an Effective Electrocatalyst for the Hydrogen Evolution Reaction in an Acidic Medium, Energy & Fuels, 39, 5719-5729, 2025
22. A Singhal, P Arora, A Kumar, H Jain, AK Sharma, AC Bhosale, R Singh, SK Saini, D Rakshit, AKS Parihar, S Arora, Integrated life cycle assessment and techno-economic analysis of grid-scale energy storage alternatives for India, Sustainable Production and Consumption, 54, 2025, 404-422
21. N Srivastava, P Arora, R Singh, AC Bhosale, Exploring synergy between solar pumping and nitrogenous fertilizer requirement in India, Sustainable Energy Technologies and Assessments, 73, 2025, 104126
20. Saket Sahu, Nitish Srivastava, Pratham Arora, Indraneel Natu, Amit C Bhosale, Rhythm Singh, Dhirendra Tiwari, Vineet Saini, Techno-enviro-economic evaluation of decentralized solar ammonia production plant in India under various energy supply scenarios, Energy Conversion and Management, 318, 11890, 2024
19. KB Reddy, AC Bhosale, Numerical analysis on hydrodynamic performance and wake recovery of helical-bladed hydrokinetic turbine: Impact of section inclination angle, Sustainable Energy Technologies and Assessments, 68, 103884, 2024
18. KB Reddy, AC Bhosale, Effect of number of blades on performance and wake recovery for a vertical axis helical hydrokinetic turbine, Energy, 299, 131520, 2024
17. SK Sethy, AC Bhosale, Effect of design and operating pressure on the performance of a polymer electrolyte membrane-based cylindrical fuel cell, International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, 72, 349-359, 2024
16. SR Ghanem, AC Bhosale, Honeycomb-Shaped Artificial Roughness in Solar Air Heaters: CFD-Experimental Insights into Thermo-Hydraulic Performance, Renewable Energy, 230, 120829, 2024
15. M Saquib, P Arora, AC Bhosale, Nickel molybdenum selenide on carbon cloth as an efficient bifunctional electrocatalyst for alkaline seawater splitting, Fuel, 365, 131251, 2024
14. SK Sethy, AC Bhosale, A unique clamping mechanism for a cylindrical PEMFC for enhanced performance, Journal of Power Sources, 600, 234258, 2024
13. M Saquib, N Srivastava, P Arora, AC Bhosale, NiMoSe/Ti3C2Tx MXene@ CC as a highly operative bifunctional electrocatalyst for hydrogen and oxygen evolution reactions in an alkaline medium, International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, 59, 1132-1142, 2024
12. KB Reddy, AC Bhosale, Influence of aspect ratio on the performance and wake recovery of lift-type helical hydrokinetic turbine, Energy, 289, 129996, 2024
11. Ray, M., Sethy, S.K., Maiti, S.K., Ali, N., Bhosale, A.C., Negi, Y.S., Chattopadhyay, S. Triazole-rich 3D metal–organic framework incorporated solid electrolytes for superior proton conductivity and durability in fuel cells, Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 26, 20971–20983, 2024
10. Nitish Srivastava, Mohammad Saquib, Pramod Rajput, Amit C Bhosale, Rhythm Singh, Pratham Arora, Prospects of solar-powered nitrogenous fertilizers, Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 187, 113691, 2023
9. K Bheemalingeswara Reddy, Amit C. Bhosale, RP Saini, Performance parameters of lift-based vertical axis hydrokinetic turbines-A review, Ocean Engineering, 266, 113089, 2022
8. Ratikanta Nayak, Reeshab Goenka, Amit C. Bhosale, Prakash Ghosh, Phosphonated MWCNT- Poly (2, 5-Benzimidazole): Improved nanocomposite membrane for high-temperature fuel cells, Advances in Natural Sciences: Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, 1-9, 2022
7. Amit C. Bhosale, S. R. Suseendiran , Kiran Rokhade, and Raghunathan Rengaswamy, Effect of gas pressure and clamping pressure on interfacial contact resistance of a cylindrical polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cell, International Journal of Sustainable Engineering, 1-9, 2021
6. Amit C. Bhosale, PC Ghosh, L Assaud, Preparation methods of membrane electrode assemblies for proton exchange membrane fuel cells and unitized regenerative fuel cells: A review, Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews 133, 110286, 2020
5. J Al Cheikh, R Zakari, Amit C. Bhosale, Angel Villagra, Nathalie Leclerc, Sébastien Floquet, Prakash C Ghosh, Alireza Ranjbari, Emmanuel Cadot, Pierre Millet, Loïc Assaud, Electrocatalytic properties of {Mo3S4}-based complexes with regard to the hydrogen evolution reaction and application to PEM water electrolysis, Materials Advances, 2020
4. Amit C. Bhosale, R Rengaswamy, Interfacial contact resistance in polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cells: Recent developments and challenges, Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews 115, 109351, 2019
3. Amit C. Bhosale, MA Mahajan, PC Ghosh, Optimization of contact resistance with better gasketing for a unitized regenerative fuel cell, International Journal of Hydrogen Energy 44 (37), 20953-20962, 2019
2. Amit C. Bhosale, S Meenakshi, PC Ghosh, Root cause analysis of the degradation in a unitized regenerative fuel cell, Journal of Power Sources 343, 275-283, 2017
1. Amit C. Bhosale, SR Mane, D Singdeo, PC Ghosh, Modeling and experimental validation of a unitized regenerative fuel cell in electrolysis mode of operation, Energy, 121, 256-263, 2017
CONFERENCE PUBLICATIONS
8. Sunil K Sethy, Kunal Basliyal, Amit C. Bhosale, Thermal and pressure distribution in a PEMFC using a modified cooling channel, Accepted in 2025 IEEE 5th International Conference on Sustainable Energy and Future Electric Transportation (SEFET)
7. Bajpai, U., Yadav, P., Bhosale, A.C., Singal, S.K. (2025). Techno-Economic Analysis of Integrated Solar and Pumped Storage Hybrid System: A Case Study in India. Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering, Springer, Singapore, vol 410 (pp. 187-202)
7. Ghanem, S.R., Bhosale, A.C. (2024), Numerical Modeling of Thermo-Hydraulic Performance and Enhancement Factors in Solar Air Heaters with Honeycomb Roughness
6. Reddy, K.B., Bhosale, A.C., Saini, R.P. (2023) Computational Analysis of Performance of Helical-Bladed Hydrokinetic Turbine, International Conference on Innovation in Energy Management and Renewable Resources
5. Reddy, K.B. and Amit C. Bhosale, (2023), September. Performance and Wake Recovery Analysis of a Lift-driven Helical Hydrokinetic Turbine: A Numerical Approach. In 2023 10th International Conference on Power and Energy Systems Engineering (CPESE) (pp. 24-29). IEEE.
4. Reddy, K.B., Amit C. Bhosale and Saini, R.P. (2022), Numerical Investigations on the Performance of Cross-Flow Hydrokinetic Turbine. In Proceedings from the International Conference on Hydro and Renewable Energy: Net-Zero Carbon Energy Systems (p. 183). Springer Nature
3. Sunil K Sethy and Amit C Bhosale (2022) “Effect of mechanical behaviour of gas diffusion layer pores with contact pressure in a proton exchange membrane fuel cell”, Lecture notes in Civil Engineering, Springer Nature
2. Bhosale A.C., Goenka R., Ghosh P.C. (2022) Study of the Degradation in a Unitized Regenerative Fuel Cell. In: Govindan K., Kumar H., Yadav S. (eds) Advances in Mechanical and Materials Technology. Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering (LNME). Springer, Singapore.
1. Suseendiran S R, Gowri Mohandass, Amit C Bhosale (2021), Raghunathan Rengasamy, Ramya Ramkumar, Suman Roy Choudhury, Performance Evaluation of a Cylindrical PEM Fuel Cell and the Stack, 14th International Renewable Energy Storage Conference 2020 (IRES 2020)
TECHNICAL REPORT
Kumar A, Arora P, Jain H, Sharma AK, Amit C. Bhosale, Rakshit D and Singh R; “Development of National Scheme for Advanced grid-scale energy storage technologies”, A study for India, October 2023.
BOOKS AUTHORED
3. Saquib, A Sharma, AC Bhosale, B Deka, Fuel Cells–Phosphoric Acid Fuel Cell| Overview, Elsevier, 460-482
2. Sunil Kumar Sethy, Amit C. Bhosale, Thermal management in Fuel Cells, Handbook of Research in Heat Transfer, Nova Publishers, 2022, 233-238
1. Amit C. Bhosale, SR Suseendiran, R Ramya, SR Choudhury, R Rengaswamy, Phosphoric Acid Fuel Cells, Earth Systems and Environmental Sciences, 2020doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-819727-1.00006-6
CONFERENCE TALKS
12. Sunil K Sethy and Amit C. Bhosale, “Effect of current collector thickness on contact resistance and performance of a cylindrical PEMFC” at GEM 2024, Los Angeles, CA, USA. 2024
11. Sunil K Sethy and Amit C. Bhosale, “Optimization of contact resistance of a cylindrical PEMFC using gaskets” at 37th Topical Meeting of the International Society of Electrochemistry, Stresa, Italy. 2024
10. S. R. Ghanem and A. C. Bhosale, “Numerical Modeling of Thermo-Hydraulic Performance and Enhancement Factors in Solar Air Heaters with Honeycomb Roughness.” 9th International Youth Conference on Energy, IEEE Xplore. Presented on July 02-06, 2024, Colmar, France.
9. Nitish Srivastava, M. Saquib, Pratham Arora, Amit C. Bhosale “Investigation of NiMoSe/ Ti3C2Tx on carbon cloth as effective electrocatalyst for hydrogen evolution reaction in acidic medium” in International Conference on Petroleum, Hydrogen and Decarbonization (ICPHD’23), IIT Guwahati, India, 2023
8. Nitish Srivastava, Sunil K Sethy, Kunal Basliyal and Amit C. Bhosale *, “Effect of bipolar plate designs on flow and contact resistance for PEM electrolyser” at IECS – 2023, IIT Madras, India. 2023
7. Akshay Sharma, Bhaskar Jyoti Deka, Amit C. Bhosale “Development of ABPBI-based proton exchange membrane for High-temperature proton exchange membrane” ACS workshop India. 2023
6. Invited talk: “Challenges and Opportunities in PEMFCs”, presented at 2nd International Conference on Green Hydrogen by CBIP, October 26, 2023
5. Invited talk: "Contact Resistance Management in Fuel Cells" at Indo-US SPARC workshop at IIT Mandi, March 16, 2022
4. Amit C. Bhosale, Kiran Rokhade, Suseendiran S.R. Raghunathan Rengaswamy, Effect of gas pressure on cylindrical fuel cells, 4th International Conference on Physics of Materials and Materials Based Device Fabrication (ICPM-MDF-2019), Shivaji University, Kolhapur, January, 8-10, 2019
3. Amit C. Bhosale, Manthan A. Mahajan, P.C. Ghosh, Optimization of gasket for URFC with its preliminary testing, 4th International Conference of Chemical Engineering and Industrial Biotechnology, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, August 1-2, 2018
2. Amit C. Bhosale, Prakash C. Ghosh, Degradation study of unitized regenerative fuel cell, International Conference on New and Renewable Energy Resources for Sustainable Future, Jaipur, India, February 2-4, 2017
1. Amit C. Bhosale, Swapnil R. Mane, Prakash C. Ghosh, Modeling of high pressure PEM electrolyser, International Conference on Science and Technology, Toronto, Canada, November 14-15, 2014
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