MITS Communication 2014/EEE/Faculty/FDP attended/12 -17 May 14
Dr K.Sreenivasa Reddy
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B.SREENIVASA RAJU K.P.P.VADHIRAJ
Assistant Professor Assistant Professor
EEE Department
Report by Faculty
We are herewith presenting the report on Faculty Development Programme on “Advances on Power Electronics and Drives” attended by us at College of Engineering, Osmania University, Hyderabad from 12-5-14 to 17-5-14.
Day 1 started with an inaugural function at 9.30AM. The inaugural was attended by the Vice Chancellor of OU, Prof. S. Satyanarayana; Principal, College of Engineering, OU; HOD, EEE Dr. M. Manjula etc. The inaugural was followed by the first technical session of the day on ‘STATCOM for Voltage and Reactive Power Control’ by Dr. S.Eswara Rao from Corporate R&D, BHEL Hyderabad.
The afternoon session of day 1 was presented by Dr. M. Veerachary, Associate Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Delhi on ‘Impact of Soft-Switching in Power Electronic Conversion’. In this session, he emphasized on how soft-switching leads to improvement of efficiency in Power electronic converters.
Day 2 started with the session on ‘Converter Topologies for Standalone and Grid Connected Solar PVs’ by Mr. B. Mangu, Asst. Prof., COE, OU in which he has shown the evolution of various topologies for Solar PV power generation starting from the four converter configuration to the latest single converter configuration.
This session was followed by a session exclusively on search engines called ‘Search Engine for Information Retrieval with Reference to Scholarly Writing of Article’ by Mr. J. Vivekavardhan of Library, OU. The last session was by Dr. K. Siva Kumar, Asst. Prof., IIT Hyderabad on ‘Multilevel Inverter Applications to Induction Motor Drive’ in which he spoke at length on the emerging field of MLI fed open end winding IM Drive.
Day 3 was engaged by Prof T. Brahmananda Reddy of GPREC, Kurnool who gave a very nice discourse on various pulsewidth modulation techniques before he gave an emphasis on ‘Space Vector Modulation Technique’. He then discussed the Field Oriented Control and Direct Torque Control Techniques of Induction Motor Drive control.
Later, he discussed the simulation in MATLAB/SIMULINK of most of these techniques.
Day 4 started with a discussion on the topic ‘Power Electronic Applications to Power System and Power Quality’ by Dr. G. Siva Kumar of NIT, Warangal followed by an interactive presentation on ‘Induction Machine Design Aspects and its Applications’ by Mr. Sudheer Tapaskar, Lead Engineer, General Electric, Hyderabad.
The afternoon session of the day started with a lecture by DRDO scientist Mr. P.S.R. Srinivasa Sastry on ‘Electromechanical Actuator for Missile Control Application’ followed by a discussion on ‘Emerging Trends in Power Electronics’ by Prof. Sujit K. Biswas of Jadavpur University, Kolkata in which he touched upon various latest developments in the areas of Power Electronics and Drives.
Day 5 started with a discussion on ‘Grid Integrated Power Converters and Loads’ by Dr. B.L. Narasimha Raju, Asst. Prof., NIT, Warangal who emphasized that Power Electronic converters have a tendency to pollute the grid and hence one should design converters with lowest THD levels. This session was followed by a session by Dr. B. Venu Gopal Reddy, Asst. Prof., NIT, Goa on ‘Four Level Dual Inverter fed Induction Motor Drive’.
Mr. Prabhakar Nerella, Senior Engineer of GE Hyderabad delivered the next session on ‘Basic Topologies in UPS’ followed by a session on ‘Optimized PV Power feeding into the Grid’ by Mr P. Nataraj of IIT Bombay.
Day 6, being the last day had much of the sessions by engineers from Power Electronics Industry like ‘Design and Analysis of AC Drives’ by Mr. Prakash Reddy of Microsemi Ltd. and ‘Analysis of Inverters and Motor Control’ by Mr. J. Rajasekharaiah, Lead Engineer, InfoTech.
On the evening of Day 6, a valedictory session was held which was graced by the Vice Principal and Registrar of Osmania University. The FDP concluded on a very grand note by enlightening speeches by the dignitaries on stage and distribution of participation certificates to the various participants.
We would like to sincerely thank Correspondent Sir, Principal, Vice-Principal, Dean (Academics), Dean (R&D), TEQIP-II Coordinator and HOD of EEE Department for giving us an opportunity to attend the programme, which helped us a lot to upgrade our knowledge and to become cognizant of the current research trends and latest technological advancements in the domain of Power Electronics. We would also like to thank the faculty members who supported us for attending the same.
Dr.K.Sreenivasa ReddyB.Tech.,M.E.,Ph.D.,MISTE.,FIE.,MIAENGPrincipalMadanapalle Institute of Technology & ScienceMadanapalle - 517 325,A.P.INDIA(Chittoor District, Andhra Pradesh)Cell:09160020789,9849794277Ph:(RES):08571-226499Ph:(OFF):08571-280255 EXTN: 114