Ramaswami Velayudhan Pillai

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ABOUT RAMASWAMI VELAYUDHAN PILLAI

Highly accomplished renewable energy professional.Developed high performance solar glass with very high efficiency as certified by SPF, Rapperswil, Switzerland.Many variants for applications such as 1. Solar thermal2. Anti soiling3. Anti reflective4. Green house5. Coloured modules 6. Anti glare7. Bifacial 8. Floating module9. Glass to glass 10. BIPV were developed.Worked on low expansion borosilicate glass tubes for Conc. Solar PowerDeveloped world’s first antimony free solar glassDeveloped world’s first 60 ppm very low iron content solar glass in a commercial furnace.Developed and operated world’s longest continuous tempering lines (50 m long – three lines) in the world in collaboration with our vendor.Patents: Patents on use of industrial waste materials for glass productionPatent for Antimony free Solar glass ( both in the name of Gujarat Borosil LimitedExperience: Have 42 years of experience in various industries including Petroleum,Petrochemical, Fertiliser, Offshore and Onshore Oil industries in the middle east, in Design and Detailed Engineering, maintenance and operation.At SPIC, one of the largest petrochemical complexes in India in the 1980s, worked in ammonia. Urea, sulphuric acid, phosphoric acide, DAP plants. Later moved to Zadco abhudhabi. In Glass, worked in Low expansion, medium expansion Borosilicate glass, Sodalime glass, Opal glass, Solar glass etc.Drafted World’s first Solar glass standard for BIS which is under processing by BISSet up several glass melting furnaces including Solar glass furnaces in Borosil Renewables Limited/Hopewell tableware Pvt Limited/Gujarat Borosil Limited/Borosil glass Works Limited/Vyline Glass Limited.Well known glass designers such as Techglass-Poland, Sorg from Germany, Horn from Germany, JSJ from Germany, Zedtec from UK, Electroglass from UK, Teco from USA, frazier Simplex from USA are some of the designers with whom I have worked with for Glass furnaces. Also Borosil was owned by Corning, USA earlier and have interacted with them on various occasions.Collaborated with Fraunhofer Institute- Wurtzburg and other locations in Germany, PI Con institute of Berlin, Wageningen University of Netherlands, CGCRI of India, BARC of India, IIT Mumbai, TuV Rhineland, SPF of switzerland are some of the institutes and research institutions for various projectsWorked in All electric, Cold top, semi cold top, Electric boost, Gas fired, Oil fired furnaces,oxy fuel furnaces. Also worked in Recuperative, regenerative, cross fired, end fired and many other furnace configurations.