Abbhijith Hari Gopal

Experience

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  Amrita Center for Entrepreneurship

  Jul 2016 - Jun 2020

  Student Member

  .As an active member at the Amrita Center for Entrepreneurship (ACE) club, I attended & conducted awareness camps, participated & organized events, and guest lectures to foster the spirit of entrepreneurship across all departments at Amrita School of Engineering.

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  NLC India Limited

  Nov 2018 - Nov 2018

  Internship

  • Studied the design and operation of the Steam Turbine in Thermal Power Station -1 Expansion.• Ran a performance test on the HP (High Pressure) and IP (Intermediate Pressure) steam turbines and determined the efficiency of the same.

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  KONE

  May 2019 - May 2019

  Summer Intern

  • Explored the design, assembly and functions of various components in an elevator such as door, car panel, conveyors etc. • Examined the supply chain of the company - procurement of raw materials, product development, warehousing & logistics and transporting them to various outlets.

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  Indian Institute of Technology, Madras

  Jul 2020 - Jul 2021

  Project Engineer

  • Studied the thermochemical conversion characteristics of locally available alternative biomass fuels in simulated conditions of relevance to pyro-processing of supplementary cementitious materials (SCMs)• Provided useful insights on the effects of the particle size distribution of different biomass on the product yield; reactor operating conditions for maximum yield; proximate, ultimate, and thermo-gravimetric analysis of different biomass; variation of product yield on firing biomass and clay in different mass ratios and temperatures• Analyzed the % deviation of experimental results from theoretically formulated energy balance calculations and outlined future scope for CFD simulations Client: FLSmidth Show less

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  E4 Carolinas

  May 2022 - Aug 2022

  Energy Analyst

  • As a part of the advanced nuclear technology grant research team, I visualized the database of companies in the nuclear industry (globally & the SouthEast US) and came up with dashboards using TABLEAU - presented in SENIAC & SENFAC meetings. • Developed a generic multi-period economic dispatch model for power plants operated by Duke Energy and Solar & Biomass IPP in the Carolinas region using publicly available data. • Developed a generic multi-period economic dispatch model for energy storage (batteries dispatch). My work can be found here: https://github.com/Abbhijith-Github/E4-Carolinas-Intern-Work.git Show less

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  Duke University Nicholas School of the Environment

  Sept 2022 - May 2023

  • Graduate Teaching Assistant for Power Markets (ENV 717)

    Jan 2023 - May 2023

  • Graduate Teaching Assistant for Modeling of Energy Systems (ENV 716)

    Sept 2022 - Dec 2022
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  ICF

  Jun 2023 - now

  Energy Market Analyst