Experienced graduate student, proficient in power systems and power

electronics, grid integration, control systems along with commissioning

experience of power plant equipment. Looking for full time opportunity

EDUCATIONAL SUMMARY

Arizona State University

May 2014

Master in Electrical Engineering (Power and Energy Systems)

GPA: 3.15

Institute of Technology, Banaras Hindu University (IIT BHU), India

May 2007

Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) in Electrical Engineering

GPA: 7.09/10.0

WORK EXPERIENCE

BHEL- EDN (Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited-Electronics Division,

Bangalore, India) Feb 2008 - Jul 2012

. Commissioning engineer: Responsible for the commissioning, trouble

shooting of Excitation system (brushless excitation system and static

excitation system) up to 500 MW generators and for synchronous motors

and retrofitting of excitation systems in gas/thermal/hydro power

plants which needed travelling up to 80 % to state owned and National

Thermal Power Corporation(NTPC) power plants.

. It involved commissioning of digital excitation systems,

synchronization of generator to the grid, PID tuning by step test,

limiters and Power system stabilizer (PSS) online testing and tuning,

telephonic support for trouble shooting. I worked on equipments like

AVR, LCI for gas turbine, synchronization circuits/ panels, generator

protection, auxiliary and excitation transformer testing, HMI for

generator controls, PLC, GCB, and other measuring and metering systems

of the power plant.

. Working with wiring and single line diagrams, submitting site

commissioning and test reports to customer, HV tests of panels,

troubleshooting /faultfinding during testing of panels and customer

inspection, planning commissioning activities and schedule so as to

meet deadlines, hands on experience of working with DMM,Doble /omicron

kits, oscilloscopes/ high speed recorders.

. Commissioning of maxDNA PLC for power plant automation required for

turbine controls, auto synchronizers, automatic plant start-up and

shut down logic. Configuring the HMI for excitation system operation

from remote and local operations as per customer needs.

. Test run of the IGBT based drives used in traction application.

. Commissioned and developed control logics for excitation system

operation with LCI starting gas turbines at BHEL EDN.

. Projects at BHEL EDN: Team member of the design group for excitation

system required for Brushless Exciter Response Test Bed.

Teaching assistant under Dr. G. Heydt, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ

Aug 2013- present

. Organising and conducting lab for the course Energy systems and power

electronics (EEE-360).

. Maintenance of electrical machines, power supplies and equipment in the

lab.

BPCL (Bharat petroleum corporation Ltd. Mumbai, India)

June 2007 - Feb 2008

. Graduate engineer trainee. Involved with sub-station operation and

maintenance of refinery electrical equipment

INTERNSHIP EXPERIENCE

On Semiconductors (Phoenix, AZ)

June 2013 - Aug 2013

. Testing of power MOSFET's for BVDss and UIS. Understand the various

designs of T6 technology by carrying out the tests, and using

statistical data analysis tools.

. Worked on the paper "Process and Device Design Impact on BVDss and UIS

Stability of 60V Shielded Gate Trench Power MOSFETS" for the

technology forum at On Semiconductors.

Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited, Electronics Division

Dec 2004

. Studied the manufacturing process of Surface Mount Devices modules for

power plant automation and solar cell manufacturing.

Tata Power Company Ltd

May 2006 - June 2006

. Studied and worked with high voltage rectifier transformer for ESP

application in thermal power plant and drum level control, control loop in

power plants and generator protection.

ACADEMIC PROJECTS

Design and modeling of drive system for a 10 MW Permanent magnet

synchronous motor (PMSM) with multi level converter.

Dr Rajib Datta

November 2013

Designed the field oriented control and modeling of the PMSM, selection of

motor parameters, selection of drive components for the nine level multi

level converter and selection of phase shifting transformers for harmonic

cancellation( Five percent THD) and presented a report for the course.

Controller design, modelling and simulation of a simulation of wind

turbine, under Dr. Raja Ayyanar November 2012

Designed a suitable grid side, rotor side converter, turbine controller and

dc link voltage controller. Simulated the design using PLECS.Performed

steady-state and dynamic analysis of a GE 1.5 MW doubly fed induction

generator.

Design and simulation of a single phase PV inverter with MPPT under Dr.

Raja Ayyanar Oct

2012

Designed and simulated the power stages, PLL, DC link voltage regulator,

current controller for the inverter, voltage controller of the DC-DC boost

stage along with MPPT of a grid connected, single-phase full bridge PV

inverter system using PLECS.

Transmission line Design and analysis under the guidance of Prof. G. Karady

Jan 2013-April 2013

Designed a 500 kV transmission line including the line route selection,

tower and inventory calculation, electric and magnetic field calculation,

audible noise and interference calculation using Mathcad. Designed the

lightning protection for the line and performance analysis of the same was

done.

Analysis of a simulated Arizona power system environment under the guidance

of Prof G. Heydt Nov 2012

Analysed a simulated power system using PowerWorld to determine the level

of Photovoltaic injection possible at Gila Bend .Performed N-1 contingency

analysis and transient stability analysis using Power World simulator.

Project on electrical transients in Power Systems under the guidance of

Prof. G. Karady April 2013

Performed optimization of switching resistance for circuit breaker to

minimize the switching generated transients for a 500 kV line.

Technical skills

Software skills: PSLF, PSS/E, Power world, PLECS, MATLAB, Cadence, MATHCAD,

JMP, autocad, familiarity with Synopsys TCAD and Saber, PSCAD, Power World,

AMPL, maxDNA from Metso automation for power plant automation.

Leadership skills:

. Lead a team of three engineers for the commissioning of excitation

systems for over 70 power plants at NTPC and different State

electricity boards in India and abroad also.

. Organized and conducted robotics workshop for the graduate engineering

and high school students as a member of Technical activities club at

IT BHU.

Course work

Power Electronic Devices Transmission and Distribution Electric Energy Markets

Advanced Analog Integrated Renewable Electric Energy Power Eng. Operations and

Circuits Systems Planning

High Power Converters and Design of Multivariable Control Power System Transients

Drives Systems

Power Electronics I and II

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