Electrical Power Plant

KUNAL SANDESH AMARE

Address: *** **** **** ****, *****: acvoui@r.postjobfree.com

Apt 4500D, Blacksburg, VA 24060 Phone: +1-540-***-**** OBJECTIVE

Seeking a full-time opportunity to contribute in the area of energy/power system engineering EDUCATION

Masters of Science- Electrical Engineering, (August’14-August’16) (GPA: 3.67/4.0) Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA 24061 (Advisor: Dr. Virgilio Centeno) Bachelor of Technology- Electrical, May 2014 (GPA: 8.98/10 3.9/4.00) Sardar Patel College of Engineering (SPCE) – Mumbai, India COURSES

Design, Management and Auditing of Electrical Systems, Alternate Energy Systems, Smart Grid, Advanced Instrumentation in Power Systems, Power System Planning, Robust Estimation and Filtering, Electric Machines and Transients, Applied Linear Systems COMPUTER SKILLS

Electrical: MATLAB, Simulink, SimPowerSystems, PowerWorld, PSLF, PSS/E, ETAP Siemens software: STARTER (Drives), STEP7 (PLC), WINCC (HMI), EPLAN (Electrical Design) Other: C++, C#, SQL, SAS, MS Office, AutoCAD, MicroStation, Revit, SketchUp, JMP, OSIsoft PI TECHNICAL EXPERIENCE

Research Intern – PJM Interconnection June’16-Aug’16 Synchrophasor Data Conditioning and Dynamic State Estimation using Kalman Filtering

Working in Applied Solutions Department to develop a C# code which will pre-process the Synchrophasor data and improve the performance of Linear State Estimator (LSE).

The algorithm will filter bad data from 50GB synchrophasor data fed to LSE. M.S. Thesis – Dr. Virgilio Centeno, Virginia Tech Dec’14-Present Synchrophasor based positive sequence linear state estimation

Currently developing a linear state estimator (LSE) on Southern California Edison (SCE) network that would use only PMU measurements to compute the system state.

The main aim of the research is to replace the current RTU based SCADA system with Synchrophasor based Wide Area Measurement (WAM) system.

Developed a Real-Time LSE Application using C#

Project Trainee - Siemens India Ltd. July’13-May’14

Project Title: Test set-up for Induction Machine.

Worked in Siemens Industrial Drive Technology Department to design and implement test-bed for conducting routine tests and type tests of an Induction Machine. Intern – Tata Power Co. Ltd. Dec’12

Acquired general idea of power plant functioning and understood the detailed working procedure of Transformer Protection and Switchgear Control. Intern – Bombay Electric Supply and Transport (B.E.S.T.) Nov’11-Dec’11

Worked in five departments namely Operations and Control, Erection, Workshop, Metering and Relay and Street Lighting.

PUBLICATIONS

Unified PMU Placement Algorithm for Power Systems

North American Power Symposium (NAPS) 2015

Developed a generalized PMU placement algorithm which will give the optimum PMU placement locations and minimum number of PMUs for any network. PROJECTS

Comprehensive design analysis for a rooftop solar PV system at a specified location. (Spring’15)

Generation planning of an Electrical utility using LOLP method. (Fall’14)

Developing a multi-input multi-output control system to regulate the ‘Hover Mode’ of the F-35B aircraft. (Fall’14)

Dynamic Simulation of Synchronous Generator (using MATLAB). (Fall’14)

Modelling and Transient Analysis of Transmission Lines (using ATP). (Fall’14) ACTIVITIES & HONORS

Finalist- Paul E Torgersen Research Excellence Award, Virginia Tech

General Secretary- Electrical Engineering Students Association, SPCE-Mumbai, India

Ranked 13th in India in National level Robotics Competition ABU ROBOCON 2013. REFERENCES

Dr Emanuel Bernabeu (Manager, Applied Solutions, PJM Interconnection, LLC) Email: acvoui@r.postjobfree.com

Shaun Murphy (Engineer, Applied Solutions, PJM Interconnection, LLC) Email: acvoui@r.postjobfree.com

Dr Virgilio Centeno (Associate Professor, Virginia Tech) Email: acvoui@r.postjobfree.com

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