Power Electronics and High Voltage in Smart Grid

Dr. Atma Ram Gupta received his B. Tech. in Electrical Engineering from C.V. Raman College of Engineering, Bhubaneshwar, M. Tech. in Electrical Engineering from National Institute of Technology (NIT), Durgapur, and Ph.D. in Power Systems from NIT Kurukshetra. He is a senior member of IEEE and IEEE Power & Energy Society. He is an Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering at NIT Kurukshetra. Dr. Gupta's research interests are renewable energy-based D.G. and D-FACTS allocation in the distribution system and high voltage engineering. He has 50 research publications in various reputed international journals, book chapters, and conferences.Dr. N.K. Roy is a Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering, National Institute of Technology, Durgapur, India. He obtained his M.E. (Elect.) from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, and a Ph.D. (Elect.) from the University of South Australia, Australia. He has 80 publications in journals and conferences of international repute. His research interests include high voltage engineering, magnetic fields in power lines, ICT & IoT enabled high voltage laboratories and lab facilities, rural e-Governance, power quality & energy audit, digital e-Learning, and renewable energy.Dr. Sanjoy Kumar Parida works as an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Patna, India.  He did his Ph.D. in electrical engineering from IIT Kanpur, India. His research areas are optimal operation and control of power systems, power system dynamics, wide-area monitoring, control and protection, and micro-grid operation. He is a member of the IEEE, IEEE Power & Energy Society, IEEE Control System Society, and IEEE Power Electronics Society. He has got several publications in various journals and conferences.

• Moisture Estimation of Power Transformer Using Transfer Function of Conventional Debye Model.- Enhanced Operation of Grid Connected Inverter to Improve Power Quality Issues, Harmonic Compensation with Proposed Novel Approach.- Design of a Power Converter for Domestic Induction Heating Driven from PV Module.- Comparative Power Quality Analysis of SRF and UVT Control based DSTATCOM.- Double Stage Solar PV Array Fed V/F Controlled Induction Motor for Indian Irrigation Applications.- Diode based Passive Li-Ion Battery Balancer.- Comparison of used Conductor for Corona, Radio Interference Voltage (RIV) Characteristics and Audible Noise Values with Unused Conductor.- A Switched-Capacitor Based Generalized Topology for Multilevel Inverter with Cross-Switched Structure.- Coordinated Charging of Electric Vehicles in Smart Grids to Minimize Distribution Loss.- Solar Powered PMSM Driven Battery Supported Water Pumping System.