CERD Lab, Mechanical Engineering, IIT(BHU),VARANASI

The CERD laboratory consists of different equipment from the multiple research areas of renewable energy, such as solar energy, gasification technology, alternative fuels, and wind energy. In the solar energy field, it has experimental setup like parabolic trough concentrator (for the power generation), flat plate collector (water heating), Data logger (to collect solar energy data at IIT (BHU), Varanasi), Thermal energy storage setup (to evaluate the performance of different Phase change materials), solar drier (for the purpose of drying various food materials) and solar water heating system. Apart from solar energy equipment, there is a small wind tunnel to analyze the performance of wind turbines with the variation of wind speed.