Power Electrical

UTSAV KHANDELWAL

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Available: Jan 2014 - Aug 2014

EDUCATION

NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY, Boston, USA May’14

Master of Science in Electrical Engineering- Power Systems &Power Electronics (GPA: 3.50 / 4.00)

Related Courses: Power System Analysis & Design, Power System State Estimation, Solid State Devices, Power Electronics

SASTRA UNIVERSITY, Tanjore, India Jun’12

Bachelor of Technology in Electrical and Electronics Engineering (GPA: 3.70 / 4.00)

Related Courses: Electrical Machines and Drives, Electronics & Circuits, Protection and Switchgear, Transmission and

Distribution, Generation Operation & Control, Advance Control Theory, Non-Conventional Energy Sources

TECHNICAL KNOWLEDGE

Simulation Software: MATLAB, Power World, PSPICE, PSIM, MULTISIM, KEIL, ETAP, Simulink, AutoCAD, Visual

EXPERIENCE

Aug’13

P2S Engineering, Inc., Electrical Design Engineer Intern

o Design of single line diagrams for power distribution systems and review electrical CAD plans

o Switchgear panel boards design, panel writing, estimate, testing and commissioning for distribution board

Defense Research and Development Establishment, Research Intern Feb’12

Replaced the current transformer by a magnetic field sensing coil and discovered fault locations in the power

transmission system. The sensors allow the monitoring of the transmission line condition using a collective quantity

Jul’11

SASTRA University, Research Assistant

Explored the ways to reduce the harmonics, enhance the controllability and increase power transfer capability of the

power electronic system using Flexible Alternating Current Transmission (FACTS) devices

Jul’10

Godrej Consumer Products Limited, Summer Intern

Learnt about manufacturing of the GLS, CFL, Incandescent lamps and their various characteristics in the

Engineering Services Department

Jan’10

Surya Roshni Limited, Trainee

Gained an insight on how to improve power factor of fluorescent lamps which have negative resistance

characteristics using electronic ballast

ACADEMIC PROJECTS

NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY, Dept. of ECE, Boston, USA Apr’13

Simulation and Setup of a Solar Energy and Diesel Generator based Microgrid:

o Consisted of the design of a Microgrid with two Distributed Generation Sources

o Determined the optimal size of the solar panel using solar irradiance data and determined optimal usage models

for urban, suburban and rural areas, providing Control Laws. (Advisor: Professor Brad Lehman)

IEEE 118 bus system design: Designed an optimally robust and economical model for the IEEE 118 bus system

for contingency case of a measurement lost using the Topological approach and Numerical approach. The system

was also checked for its Network Observability using MATLAB code (Advisor: Professor Ali Abur)

Power System Fault Analysis: Determined the types of unbalanced faults that give the highest per unit voltage in a

case study in Power World Simulator (Advisor: Professor Sarma Mulukutla)

Power Education Toolbox (PET): Designed an optimized set for the least number of power flows, power

injections and voltage measurements for the IEEE 14 bus system using the Power Education Toolbox

SASTRA UNIVERSITY, Dept. of EEE, Tanjore, India Jun’12

Design of Hybrid Active Power Filter for Current harmonic reduction

o Reduced harmonics & Performed Power quality improvement of Grid Connected Systems using FACTS devices

o Employed Synchronous Rotating reference frame or d-q method to control the strategy of active power filter

o Checked the effect on THD and current harmonics for imbalances in load by adding another non-linear load

TECHNICAL PAPER PRESENTATIONS

Power Quality Improvement for grid connected wind energy system using FACTS devices

A High Power Factor Single stage single switch Electronic Ballast for Compact Fluorescent lamps

Renewable Energy Micro Generation with Wind Turbine

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

Northeastern University, Secretary in Electrical and Computer Engineering

Northeastern University, Student Leader at ISSI

SASTRA University, DAKSH Infra and PR Head

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