Kumar Narasimhan

Comm. Address: Kumar Kripa, #5/29, C - Sector, st V. G. Rao Nagar, 1 Street, Katpadi P. O., Vellore 632007, Tamil Nadu, India Mobile: +91-96876-11723; +91-97896-85482 E-mail: kumarnarasimhan@gmail.com

ZEAL
As an aspiring environmental engineer, with a bachelors degree in civil engineering and masters in environmental process engineering, I look forward to leverage the technical and management skills I have acquired, which will be responsible for contributing to the uplift of renewable energy sector in India and for my academic as well as my professional development.

EDUCATION
M. Sc., (WASTE Engineering), Jan 2004 Apr 2007 Universitt Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany Air quality control, Solid waste and Wastewater Process Engineering (WASTE) Worked in three different departments at ISWA (Worked with 15 research scholars on three different projects during my tenure) Independent Study presentation on "Comparative study of ultrasonic cleaning method on Microfiltration / Ultrafiltration Membranes", Institute for Sanitary Engineering, Water Quality and Solid Waste Management, Universitt Stuttgart, Stuttgart Dec 2005 Master Thesis presentation on "A general research on ultrasonic cleaning of ceramic and polymer membranes", Institute for Sanitary Engineering, Water Quality and Solid Waste Management, Universitt Stuttgart, Stuttgart May 2007 Co-presenter for "Ultrasonic Cleaning of Membranes" (In-situ Ultraschall Systeme - ISUS), (other authors are Dr. rer. nat. Angela Boley and Dr. -Ing. Wolf-Rdiger Mller) Project meeting at Institute for Sanitary Engineering, Water Quality and Solid Waste Management, Universitt Stuttgart, Stuttgart Sep 2007 Ceramic membrane ultrafiltration of natural surface water with ultrasound enhanced backwashing, paper published for the Journal - Water Science & Technology. (WST, Vol 61, No 5, pp 11211127: 2010) Work based on Ultrasonic cleaning of Ceramic & Polymeric membrane modules which included: Designed the experiments to artificially simulate fouling in liquids to enhance fouling of membranes and to clean them using ultrasound Fabrication of experimental set up involved conversion of lab-scale to pilot-scale Performing different cycles of experiments along with analysis of the results with discussions B. E. (Civil Engineering), Sep 1998 May 2002 Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT), Vellore, India In-depth work performed on "Performance efficiency of the current methods available for treatment of community wastewater" Paper presented on "Effect of Flyash added to concrete as an admixture", in a symposium conducted at Anna University, Chennai Jul 2001 Speech delivered on "Non Destructive Testing of Concrete (NDT)" and "Electronic Distance Measuring (EDM)", at the Society for Civil Engineers (SOCE), VIT, Vellore Aug 1999 and Jul 2000 respectively

WORK EXPERIENCE
Freelance Consultant for Biogas, Mar 2012 present TM Have jointly developed, BioEnergiFer , launched at B4E Global Summit, New Delhi, Apr 2013, to tackle household organic wastes and provide rural sanitation, by converting it into biogas and biofertilizer 3 Provide designs, EPC, O&M (also AMC), and consultancy for small, medium and large biogas plants (85 m to 3 18,000 m )

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Co-Chairman, Feb 2012 present (remote assistance) Indian Biogas Association (iba), #B-2/2392, Vasant Kunj, New Delhi 110070, India Event manager, communications, and co-ordinator at Indian Biogas Association (iba) Co-ordinated for events like, Current and Emerging Trends in Indian Biogas and Bio-fertilizer Development, IIT Delhi, Sep 2012 Renewable world 2013, Hotel Le Meridien, New Delhi, Apr 2013 B4E Global Summit, Hotel Ashok, New Delhi, Apr 2013 ICESN, Hotel JW Marriot, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Jun 2013 7th Renewable Energy India 2013 Expo, Sep 2013 Have chaired and co-ordinated the two newsletters at iba so far Projects Manager, Dec 2012 Aug 2013 Arka BRENStech Pvt. Ltd., #117/4, Pradyuman Park, Satya Sai Hospital Road, Rajkot 360005, Gujarat, India Marketing, project planning, purchases and procurement, and biogas plant commissioning Dealing with biogas generation, biogas enrichment to CBG (compressed biogas), CO2 recovery, H2S removal, electricity generation from biogas, bottling of CBG, and raw biogas distribution for cooking Client and supplier handling for biogas plants and other projects Senior Engineer, May 2011 Apr 2012 Excellent Renewable Pvt. Ltd., G. I. D. C., Killa Pardi, Valsad, Gujarat, India 396125 Job responsibility included project planning and project management, site maintenance, warehousing, material procurement and purchase, and product standardization Managing a team of 18 experts for procurement, purchase, fabrication, testing, commissioning, and site maintenance 3 Handling biogas plants for small size plants (150 m ) to 1 MW plants Research Analyst, May 2008 Mar 2011 Frost & Sullivan (I) Pvt. Ltd, Nandanam, Chennai 600035, India Job responsibility includes covering the technological trends in Renewable Energy, Environment & Building Technologies. Have published about 410 technology based articles in the aforesaid verticals with strategic and research insights Worked on individual customized consults for different clientele across the globe with eleven published research services employing technology benchmarking, analytical hierarchy process, strategic R&D measures and various other analytical techniques Green building technologies and markets: micro-.generation using building integrated photovoltaic, biomass/biogas, building lighting, smart windows, and solar thermal Solid waste management, water and wastewater technologies and markets: desalination, produced and ballast water, phosphorus recovery, wet & dry anaerobic digestion, biogas, and bio-fertilizers Student Research Assistant, Jan 2004 Nov 2007 Institute fr Siedlungs wasserbau, wassergute und abfallwirsschaft (ISWA), Universitt Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany Job responsibility included working with three departments Department of Applied Biology, Department of Wastewater technology (both for ISWA) and Department of Decentralized Energy Conversion Coordinated and researched on Anaerobic Sludge Digestion, De-nitrification of drinking water using PCL (Polycaprolactone) and NOx reduction and Flameless Oxidation of Bio-fuels for both Solid and gaseous fuels (Wood chips, wood pellets as solid fuels and Natural gas as gaseous fuel) with three different research groups and was successful in completing all the projects before the scheduled deadline with good results Conducted two independent studies on Ultrasonic cleaning of Ceramic and Polymer membranes and Oil separators using Horiba-OCMA 310 instrument as part of the institutes industrial consultancy work Graduate Engineering Trainee, May 2002 Sep 2002 Consolidated Construction Consortium Limited (CCCL), Chennai, India Tasks included in site supervision: Excavation, Concreting, Levelling, On-site Material balance, Housekeeping, Safety, Contractor billing
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COMPUTER SKILLS
MSOffice (Word, PowerPoint, and Excel), Coral Draw X4, and AutoCAD 2007

KNOWN LANGUAGES
English Full Proficiency (Read, Write, and Speak) Hindi Full Proficiency (Read, Write, and Speak) Tamil Fair Proficiency/Native Tongue (Read, Write, and Speak) German Basic Proficiency (Read, Write, and Speak) Malayalam Basic Proficiency (only Speak)

EXTRA-CURRICULAR ACTIVITES
Co-ordinated the three day national convention titled Current and emerging trends in Indian Biogas and Biofertilizer development, for Indian Biogas Association (iba) along with Biogas Forum India and Indian Institute th th of Technology Delhi (IITD) at Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, New Delhi, India, 15 17 Sep 2012 Nominated to attended the worlds largest trade fair that exhibits solar energy technology Intersolar Europe th th 2012 held at Mnchen, Germany, 13 15 Jun 2012 and Nominated for the International DAAD and BTU Cottbus Alumni Summer School on Using Solar Energy Technology for Development of Rural Areas in the th th Global South solar convention held at Universitt Cottbus, Cottubus, Germany, 4 12 Jun, 2012 Associate secretary, Society for Civil Engineers (SOCE), VIT, Vellore, India from Jun 2000 May 2001

REFERENCES
Available on request

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