Dr. Digvijay Singh

Assistant Professor

Interest Area(s)

  • Building Integrated Photovoltaics (BIPV/BAPV)
  • Sustainable & Energy-Efficient Buildings
  • Solar Energy Systems
  • Phase Change Materials (PCM)
  • Techno-economic & Life Cycle Cost Analysis
  • Thermal Comfort and Building Performance
  • Renewable Energy Integration in Built Environment

Dr. Digvijay Singh is an Assistant Professor specializing in renewable energy systems, sustainable buildings, and building-integrated photovoltaic (BIPV) technologies. He holds a Ph.D. in Energy and Environment and has extensive academic and research. His research focuses on performance assessment, techno-economic analysis, and thermal comfort impacts of photovoltaic-integrated building envelope, Solar thermal & PV technologies. Actively integrating Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning techniques for energy performance prediction. He has published extensively in SCI and Scopus-indexed journals and has actively contributed to funded research projects, conferences, and curriculum development in the field of sustainable energy systems.

  • Ph.D. (2017–2022)
    Devi Ahilya Vishwavidyalaya, Indore
  • M.Tech (2012–2014)
    Devi Ahilya Vishwavidyalaya, Indore
  • B.Tech (2008–2012)
    Rajasthan Technical University, Kota
  • Assistant Professor, K. R. Mangalam University, Gurugram — Oct 2024–Present
  • Assistant Professor, Uttaranchal University, Dehradun — Mar 2022–Oct 2024
  • Teaching Assistant, School of Energy & Environmental Studies, DAVV, Indore — Feb 2019–Feb 2021
  • Visiting Faculty, School of Physics, DAVV, Indore — Jan 2020–Mar 2020
  • Assistant Professor, Poornima College of Engineering, Jaipur — Dec 2014–Jan 2016

Journal

  1. Singh, D., Buddhi, D., Rajput, P., Singh, K. Y., Mahor, H. S., & Kushwaha, P. K. (2024). Phase change materials in building integrated photovoltaic (BIPV) envelopes: A strengths, weakness, opportunities and threats analysis. International Journal of Modern Physics B, 2540041. (IF6; h-index 81; SJR 0.298) [SCI Indexed]
  2. Poonia, S., Santra, P., Singh, A. K., Singh, D., & Kumar, M. (2024). Energy Efficiency and Economic Survivance Appraisal of a 375 kWp Rooftop Solar PV System Under Hot and Dry Indian Climate. Heat Transfer. (IF8; h-index 46; SJR 0.52) [Scopus Indexed]
  1. Rajput, P., Singh, D., Singh, K. Y., Karthick, A., Shah, M. A., Meena, R. S., & Zahra, M. M. A. (2024). A comprehensive review on reliability and degradation of PV modules based on failure modes and effect analysis. International Journal of Low-Carbon Technologies, 19, 922-937. (IF4; h-index 40; SJR 0.5) [SCI Indexed]
  2. Singh, D., Chaudhary, R., Karthick, A., Patil, P. P., & Kaliappan, S. (2024). Economic and life cycle cost analysis of building-integrated photovoltaic system for composite climatic Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 1-22. (IF 5.8; h-index 132; SJR 0.85) [SCI Indexed]
  3. Poonia, S., Singh, A. K., Singh, D., & Kushwaha, H. L (2023). Economic analysis of a business model of basin-type building material-based solar thermal desalination device. Desalination and water treatment. (IF 1; h-index 83; SJR 26) [SCI Indexed]
  4. Singh, D., Singh, A. K., Poonia, S., & Buddhi, D. (2023). Determination of dew-point temperature and wet-bulb temperature using the steam table on a non-scientific calculator. Materials Today: Proceedings, 80, 314-319. [Scopus Indexed]
  5. Singh, D., Rawat, M., & Buddhi, D. (2023). Technoeconomic evaluation of insulated building integrated photovoltaic system as a building envelope. Materials Today: Proceedings, 80, 339-343. [Scopus Indexed]
  6. Singh, D., Buddhi, D., & Karthick, A. (2023). Productivity Enhancement of solar still through heat transfer enhancement techniques in Latent heat storage system. Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 1-36. (IF 8; h-index 132; SJR 0.85) [SCI Indexed]

 

  1. Rawat, M., Singh, D., & Buddhi, D. (2022). Thermal performance of cool roofs incorporated with phase change materials: A review. Materials Today: Proceedings. (IF 24; h-index 56; SJR 0.36) [Scopus Indexed]

 

  1. Poonia, S., Singh, A. K., Jain, D., Kumar, N. M., & Singh, D. (2022). Techno-Economic Analysis of Integrated Solar Photovoltaic Winnower-Cum Dryer for Drying Date Palm Fruit. Sustainability, 14(20), 13686. (IF 9; h-index 109; SJR 0.66) [Scopus Indexed]

 

  1. Singh, D., Akram, S. V., Singh, R., Gehlot, A., Buddhi, D., Priyadarshi, N., … & Bokoro, P. N. (2022). Building Integrated Photovoltaics 4.0: Digitization of the Photovoltaic Integration in Buildings for a Resilient Infra at Large Scale. Electronics, 11(17), 2700. (IF 7; h-index 49; SJR 0.59) [Scopus Indexed]

 

  1. Singh, D., Gautam, , Chaudhary R. (2022). Potential and performance estimation of free-standing and building integrated photovoltaic technologies for different climatic zones of India, Energy and Built Environment, 3 (1): 40-55 (IF-; h-index 12 ; SJR 1.57 ) [Scopus Indexed]

 

  1. Singh, D., Poonia S, Singh A.K. (2022). Carbon reduction and economic evaluation of building attached photovoltaic systems Materials Today: Proceedings. 63:92-98 (IF 24; h-index 56; SJR 0.36) [Scopus Indexed]

 

  1. Singh, D., Chaudhary, R., & Karthick, A. (2021). Review on the progress of building- applied/integrated photovoltaic system. Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 1-36. (IF 8; h-index 132; SJR 0.85) [SCI Indexed]

 

  1. Singh, D., & Chaudhary, R. (2021). Performance evaluation of thermally insulated building integrated photovoltaic roof. Materials Today: Proceedings. (IF 24; h-index 56; SJR 0.36) [Scopus Indexed]

 

  1. Kumar, S., Kumar, A., Maithani, R., Sharma, S., & Singh, D. (2022). Exergy analysis of various solar thermal collectors. Materials Today: Proceedings. (IF 24; h-index 56; SJR 0.36) [Scopus Indexed]
  2. Singh, D., Gautam, A. K., & Chaudhary, R. (2021). Application of phase change material in building integrated Photovoltaics: A review, Materials Today: Proceedings,45, 4624-4628. (IF 24; h-index 56; SJR 0.36) [Scopus Indexed]

 

  1. Singh, D., & Chaudhary, R. (2021). Impact of roof attached Photovoltaic modules on building material performance. Materials Today: Proceedings, 46, 445-450 (IF 24; h-index 56; SJR 0.36) [Scopus Indexed]

 

  1. Singh D., et al., (2020) Evolution of Design Criteria for Earth Air -Pipe Cooling System of Greenhouse. International Journal of Agriculture Sciences, ISSN: 0975-3710 & E-ISSN: 0975- 9107, Volume 12, Issue 24, pp.- 10517-10519. (NAAS rating – 4.20)

 

  1. Singh, A.K., Poonia, S., Jain, D., Singh, D. (2019). Direct Calculation of Wet- Bulb Temperature and Dew-Point Temperature. International Journal of Agriculture Sciences, 11 (20), 9169- (NAAS rating – 4.20)

 

  1. K. Singh, Digvijay Singh, “Simple Methods for Determination of Wet-Bulb Temperature and Dew-Point Temperature”, International Journal of Science and Research (IJSR), Volume 8 Issue 9, September 2019, 670 – 672.
  1. Singh, S. P. Singh, M. Agnihotri, K. Palley, and A. K. Singh, ―An Experimental and Economic Study of room heating through Solar Evacuated Tube Collector, Int. J. Res. Advent Technol., vol. 7, no. 1, pp. 516–519, 2019 [UGC approved]
  2. Renu, A. K. N., & Singh, D. (2019). Performance Evaluation of 400 kW Grid Connected Rooftop Solar Photovoltaic Power Plant Installed at SKIT, Jaipur. SKIT Research Journal, 9(1),25-32

 

  1. Singh, D., Singh, A. K., Singh, S. P., & Poonia, S. (2017). Economic Analysis of Parabolic Solar Concentrator Based Distillation Indian Journal of Economics and Development,13(3), 569-
  2. (NAAS rating – 5.15) [UGC approved]

 

  1. Singh, D., Singh, A. K., Singh, S. P., & Poonia, S. (2017). Year-Round Potential of Greenhouse as a Solar Dryer for Drying Crop Produce. Agricultural Engineering Today, 41(2), 29-33. (NAAS rating – 23)
  1. Singh, , Rawat, M., Singh, S. P., & Chaudhary, R. (2021). Performance of PV integrated wall and roof as a building material. In IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering (Vol. 1033, No. 1, p. 012005). IOP Publishing. (IF 0.51; h-index 48; SJR 0.249) [Scopus Indexed]
  2. Singh, D., Akram, S. V., & Yamsani, N. (2023, September). Internet of Things (lOT) in Community based Solar Cooking Technologies. In 2023 6th International Conference on Contemporary Computing and Informatics (IC3I) (Vol. 6, pp. 960-966). IEEE. [Scopus Indexed]
  3. Kumar, R., Ranjan, R., Singh, D., & Yamsani, N. (2023, September). Long Term Electricity Load Forecasting for Garhwal Region of Uttarakhand Using Artificial Neural Network. In 2023 6th International Conference on Contemporary Computing and Informatics (IC3I) (Vol. 6, pp. 955- 959). IEEE. [Scopus Indexed]
  1. Rawat, M., Singh, D., Singh, S., & Buddhi, D. (2023, September). Thermal insulation materials and its energy savings aspects for building envelopes: A review. In AIP Conference Proceedings (Vol. 2771, No. 1). AIP Publishing. [Scopus Indexed]
  2. Singh, , & Singh, S.P. (2021). Estimation of Energy Generation and Daylight Availability for Optimum Solar Cell Packing Factor of Building Integrated Semitransparent Photovoltaic Skylight Advances in Clean Energy Technologies, Springer, Singapore. DOI: 10.1007/978-981-16-0235-1
  3. Singh, D., Singh, A.K. Singh, S.P. Poonia, Surendra., (2021). Optimization of Tilt Angles for Solar Devices to Gain Maximum Solar Energy in Indian Climate Advances in Clean Energy Technologies Springer, Singapore. DOI: 1007/978-981-16-0235-1
  4. S.P. Singh and Digvijay Singh (2019) Passive and Hybrid cooling systems for building in Hot and Dry Climatic conditions, NIPA Publishers, New Delhi and CRC Press

Pg.no.247-260, ISBN-978-93- 87973-84-8

  • Co-PI, DST-funded Technology Business Incubator (NIDHI-TBI)
  • University Golden Jubilee Fellowship (2019–2021)
  • Technical Program Committee Member – AAI 2024 International Conference
  • Invited Speaker, UGC-HRDC Refresher Course on Sustainable Buildings at DAVV, Indore