DOCTORAL THESES (Electrical Engg): Recent submissions

  • PLACEMENT OF PHASOR MEASUREMENT UNITS AND CONTROL OF ROTOR ANGLE STABILITY IN POWER SYSTEMS 
    Sharma, Charu (Dept. of Electrical Engineering iit Roorkee, 2014-10)
    For secure and reliable operation of an interconnected power system, it is required to monitor wide area system and its stability in real time. The recent development of synchro phasor technology has brought a paradigm ...
  • DESIGN OF CONTROL SCHEMES FOR DISTILLATION COLUMN 
    Singh, Amit Kumar (Dept. of Electrical Engineering iit Roorkee, 2014-07)
    Distillation is defined as a process in which a liquid or vapor mixture of two or more substances is separated into its component fractions of desired purity, by the application and removal of heat. The objective of present ...
  • GENE ONTOLOGY DATA MINING AND SYSTEMS BIOLOGY OF CANCER 
    Sharma, Ajay Shiv (Dept. of Electrical Engineering iit Roorkee, 2014-07)
    Bioinformatics and computational systems biology fuses several branches of applied sciences and applied engineering and interplay that exploits basic sciences such as mathematics, physics, chemistry, computer science ...
  • DEVELOPMENT OF NANOSTRUCTURED DIELECTRIC HYDROPHOBIC THIN FILMS FOR HIGH VOLTAGE INSULATOR 
    Dave, Vikramaditya (Dept. of Electrical Engineering iit Roorkee, 2015-01)
    High voltage insulators are the backbone of any power system network. They can be defined as the devices which are used on transmission lines, transformers and distribution substations to support, separate or contain ...
  • POWER QUALITY IMPROVEMENT USING D-STATCOM 
    D., Sreenivasrao (Dept. of Electrical Engineering iit Roorkee, 2013-07)
    In present day distribution systems, major power consumption has been in reactive loads, such as motor drives, fans, pumps and power electronic converters. These loads normally draw lagging power factor currents and ...
  • PERFORMANCE INVESTIGATION OF SWITCHED RELUCTANCE MOTOR DRIVE 
    Makwana, Jignesh Ashokbhai (Dept. of Electrical Engineering iit Roorkee, 2013-06)
    The Switched Reluctance Motor (SRM) offers significant benefits over conventional AC and DC motors which include higher efficiency over wide speed range operation and under partial loading. Even though it exhibits high ...
  • Electromagnetic and Thermal Analysis of Gas Insulated Substation (GIS) 
    Vilas, Kulkarni Tushar (Department of Electrical Engineering,IITR., 2015-11)
    GIS is preferred to AIS now a days because it has many advantages over it viz. small space requirement, better insulation strength etc. Main components of GIS include electrical bus bars, circuit breakers, current ...
  • PERFORMANCE INVESTIGATION OF UNIFIED POWER QUALITY CONDITIONER (UPQC) 
    Thomas, Amal (Department of Electrical Engineering,IITR., 2016-05)
    Power Quality (PQ) is used to describe the electrical phenomenon manifested in terms of variations in current, voltage and/or frequency that produce undesirable effects in the power system. The growing interest in the ...
  • Induction Motor Operated In Vector Control Mode and Direct Torque Control Mode: A Comparative Study 
    Niranjan, Alok (Department of Electrical Engineering,IITR., 2016-05)
    Variable speed operation of IM drives can be generally classified as scalar control and vector control. Scalar control is used for low performance drives where only the magnitude and frequency of stator voltage or current ...
  • MITIGATION OF HARMONICS AND REACTIVE POWER COMPENSATION IN GRID CONNECTED PV SYSTEM 
    Sarkar, Gautam (Department of Electrical Engineering,IITR., 2016-05)
    The upsurge in demand of energy has been accentuated by industrial drives system, domestic appliances etc. The drive system and many household/domestic equiments has to its core semiconductor based switches. The very ...
  • PERFORMANCE INVESTIGATION OF PV BASED 3-LEVEL INVERTER USING 2-LEVEL INVERTERS 
    Srivastava, Ashish (Department of Electrical Engineering,IITR., 2016-06)
    This Thesis presents a photovoltaic supply system fed multilevel inverter for pump load with common mode voltage elimination, the cascaded MLI topology is needed only 12 switches and no extra clamping devices required ...
  • THE INVESTIGATION OF SENSORLESS CONTROL METHODS OF INDUCTION MACHINES FOR LOW SPEED OPERATION 
    Renathi, Meda (Department of Electrical Engineering,IITR., 2016-05)
    This dissertation report describes the investigation of sensor less control methods of Induction machines for low speed operation. Requirement of low cost, low maintenance, robust electrical motors has resulted in ...
  • MODELLING OF PHOTOVOLTAIC ARRAY MONITORING SYSTEM 
    Tiwari, Manish (Department of Electrical Engineering,IITR., 2016-05)
    This dissertation comprises the process of monitoring the performance of solar panel with the application of MPPT under different meteorological conditions, buck boost converter and a nonideal condition of partial shading ...
  • DESIGN AND SIMULATION OF CASCADED H BRIDGE MULTILEVEL INVERTER USING GRID CONNECTED PV SYSTEM 
    Tak, Neha (Department of Electrical Engineering,IITR., 2016-05)
    The continuous increase in power demands and need for a cleaner environment makes decentralized renewable energy production, like solar and wind, more and more interesting. Decentralized energy production using solar ...
  • Performance Investigation of Vector Controlled Induction Motor Drive Using Sensorless Speed Estimation Techniques 
    Munshi, Mintu (Department of Electrical Engineering,IITR., 2016-05)
    It has become a common practice for the industry to use vector control technique in induction motor control.In this method stator current space vector is decoupled into two components in synchronously rotating reference ...
  • PLC BASED TEMPERATURE CONTROL USING PID CONTROLLER 
    Bhatt, Yogesh Chandra (Department of Electrical Engineering,IITR., 2016-05)
    Temperature is a very important quantity, especially in the process industries all big plant like chemical plant, steel plant for them monitoring of tempera- ture is very important. So temperature controller are needed ...
  • Design of Robust controller for Robotic arm 
    K P, Nikhil (Department of Electrical Engineering,IITR., 2016-05)
    The development of automation in the industries involves the use of robots. This increases the productivity in a fast and accurate .which in terms increases the quality of products. There are many researches are going on ...
  • DEVELOPMENT OF MPPT SYSTEM FOR VARYING ATMOSPHERIC CONDITIONS 
    K., Sanjay Krishna (Department of Electrical Engineering,IITR., 2016-05)
    Solar Photovoltaic (SPV) energy is one of the most prominent energy source as it is clean, pollution free and inexhaustible. However, it is less efficient. In order to improve the efficiency maximum power has to be extracted ...
  • PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS OF TRANSFORMER-LESS INVERTER FOR SOLAR POWER CONVERSION 
    Verma, Rohit (Department of Electrical Engineering,IITR., 2016-05)
    Solar energy is the most emerging renewable energy. Applications of solar energy are increasing for both gird connected and standalone system. Much more efforts have been made on the integration of renewable energies in ...
  • OPTIMAL RELAY COORDINATION WITH DISTRIBUTED GENERATION USING ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE ALGORITHM 
    Chawla, Astha (Department of Electrical Engineering,IITR., 2016-05)
    Due to dependency on Plug Setting (PS), Time Dial Setting (TDS), size of the network, more than one back-up relays for one primary relay and other technical constraints, coordination of Directional Overcurrent Relays (DOCRs) ...