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of his graduate degree, he joined as project engineer for Serval Paper Boards Ltd., Coimbatore (now ITC Unit, Kovai). Presently he is working as a Professor in the Department of EEE, PSG College of Technology. He is also a Certified Charted Engineer and BSI Certified ISO 500001 2008 Lead Auditor. He has authored 19 books in his areas of interest with our various publishers as well. He has 11 patents, one Design patent and two Copyrights to his credit and also contribute 18 chapters in various books. He is also the Chairman of Indian Association of Energy Management Professionals and Executive Member in Institution of Engineers, Coimbatore, Executive Council Member in Institute of Smart Structure and Systems, Bangalore, Associate Member in CODISSIA. He is also holding prestigious positions in various national and international forums, and he is a Fellow Member in IET (UK), Fellow Member in IETE, Fellow Member in IE and Senior Member in IEEE.

R. Manivel, Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Head, Research at Kumara guru College of Technology, Coimbatore. Research areas include thermal energy storage, computational fluid dynamics with fluid surface interaction. For industries, industrial design analysis and experimental techniques in the thermal equipment applications of Engines, Blowers, Compressors, Fans., Heat Exchangers were caried out. Received research grant of 90 lakhs from Government Funding Agencies to carry out research projects in the area of Energy Storage, Automobile Radiators, Hydel Power Generation etc., He published 50 scientific papers in various proceedings, Journals. He is Fellow Member of Institution of Engineers (IE)India and Member of Combustion Institute (India)The areas of his academic interest include Energy Engineering, Modelling, Computational Fluid Dynamics and Energy Transfer and Storage. Further in the field of oil and Gas industries, the academic interests are Subsea, Valves and equipment design through ASME standards.

Eyal Ben Dor is Head of the Remote Sensing Laboratory at Tel Aviv University (RSL-TAU), the leading group in Israel for imaging spectroscopy (IS), soil spectroscopy and remote sensing applications dedicated for soil mapping and environmental monitoring. The RSL is expert in field and airborne campaigns in national and international levels and has gained significant experience to that end in many projects. The IS technology is also used by the RSL-TAU to investigate issues in medicine, veterinary, food security, civil engineering and agriculture. The RSL-TAU is responsible for more than 200 scientific papers in scientific proceedings, peer review journals and chapter books. Four patents in the IS direction for veterinary, civil engineering, soil science and contamination application are also the yield of the RSL-TAU. The areas of his academic interest include Hyperspectral remote sensing of the earth; soil spectroscopy; developing applications in many disciplines (medicine, veterinary, civil engineering, precise agriculture); generating Soil Spectral Library for the Mediterranean countries; Bilateral projects with Czech Republic (CGS), Germany (GFZ), Greece (i-BEC), Italy (CNR) and EC (EUFAR, EO-MINERS and GEO-CRADEL).