Energy Systems, Drives and Automations

Mitigation Methods of Ground Leakage Current Caused by Common-Mode in Voltage Frequency Drives.- Implementation of ANN based UPQC to Improve Power Quality of Hybrid Green Energy System.- Thermal energy management strategy of the photovoltaic cell using Ferromagnetohydrodynamics.- ANN Based Faster Indexing with Training-Error Compensation for MW Security Assessment of Power System.- Effect and Utilization of Leakage Inductance on the Performance of Multi-Zone and Multi-Load Half-Bridge Inverter Based Induction Heating System.- Static and CV analysis of Gate engineered GAA Silicon Nanowire MOSFET for High Performance Applications.- Prediction of Disease Using Machine Learning and Deep Learning.- Effect of Source, Drain and Channel Spacing from Gate of HEMT.- SFS/PI Approach for AGC of Two Area Interconnected Thermal Power System.- An Active Multifunctional Filter Design Using Carbon Nanotube Transistors.- A Comprehensive Study of Time Moments and Markov Parameters in System Reduction.- Computing Processes of Recurrent Neural Network at Different Layers.- The mathematical modeling validation for fault location technique in parallel transmission lines.- Efficient FPGA Implementation of FIR Filter Using Distributed Arithmetic.- Voltage Cultivation from Fresh Leaves of Air Plant, Climbing Spinach, Mint, Spinach and Indian Pennywort for Practical Utilization.

Dr. Afzal Sikander is working as an Assistant Professor with the Department of Instrumentation and Control Engineering, Dr. B. R. Ambedkar National Institute of Technology, Jalandhar, India. He has earned Ph.D. degree from the Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, India, with specialisation in Control Engineering. Dr. Afzal has over 10 years of teaching and research experience in the diverse field of Control Engineering. His areas of interest include control theory and applications, model order reduction, machine learning, optimisation, robotics and renewable energy. He is actively involved in various research projects funded by CSIR, ISRO, TEQIP, etc. He has published 48 research articles in reputed national/international journals and conferences including 17 research papers in SCI-indexed journals. He is a member of the editorial board and Guest Editor of numerous reputed journals. He has organised three international conferences on recent trends in Electrical Engineering and Soft Computing in 2017 and 2018. Prof. Dulal Acharjee is working as Director in Applied Computer Technology, Kolkata, India. Before, he worked as a Professor in the Department of CSE & IT of Purushottam Institute of Engineering and Technology, Rourkela, Odisha. He also worked as Visiting Faculty in Maulana Abul Kalam Azad University of Technology, Kolkata. He received M.Tech. degree in Information Technology from Tezpur University. Before, he did M.Sc. in Applied Physics and Electronics from Dhaka University. He has long experience of working in software training and development industry. His research interests are automated activity recognition system, sensor-based applications, microprocessor- and microcontroller-based embedded systems, etc. He has 80 numbers of publications, 15 in international journals, 2 book chapters and others in different national/international conferences. He has delivered 16 invited talks in international conferences. He has organised about 20 international conferences as General Chair/Chairman in organising committee. He is an editorial board member of international journal of 'Microsystem Technologies' of Springer Nature, a SCI-indexed journal. He is a Guest Editor of many special issues of this journal. Dr. C. K. Chanda is working as a Professor with the Department of Electrical Engineering, IIEST, Shibpur, India. He has earned Ph.D. degree from the Department of Electrical Engineering, B.E. College (DU), Shibpur, India, with specialisation in Power Systems. Dr. C. K. Chanda has over 30 years of teaching and research experience in the diverse field of Power Systems Engineering. His areas of interest include smart grid, resiliency, stability and renewable energy. He is actively involved in various research projects funded by Centrally Funded Organizations like DST and UGC. He has published 135 research articles in reputed national/international journals and conferences including 28 research papers in SCI-indexed journals. He is a member of the editorial board and Guest Editor of numerous reputed journals. He has authored and co-authored many books in reputed publishing houses. Dr. Pranab K. Mondal is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati since May 2015. He received his undergraduate and postgraduate degree from Jadavpur University, Kolkata, and completed his Ph.D. from the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur in 2015. His principal research interest, encompassing the broad area of microfluidics, has covered various facets of micro-scale multiphase transport, electro-kinetics and micro-scale transport of heat. He is currently working on stability analysis of flows with free-surfaces, capillary filling of bio-fluids. He has co-authored more than 65 refereed journals conference publications. Dr. Piyush Verma works as Senior Energy Policy Analyst at the International Energy Research Centre in Ireland where he leads the policy and regulatory innovation work. He works on the intersection of technology, policy, society and the environment and has significant experience researching, developing and implementing energy transition policies in India, Vanuatu, New Zealand and Ireland. He has been selected as the World Energy Council's Global Future Energy Leader where he actively contributes to shape the policy agenda of frontier technologies. He also works as the Vice-Chair of Group of Experts on Energy Efficiency at the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe in Geneva. He is an Electrical Engineer, a postgraduate in Power Systems, and has a Ph.D. in Energy Efficiency Technology and Policy from The University of Auckland, New Zealand. He has also completed a programme on 'Public Policy Challenges of the 21st Century' from the University of Virginia, USA.