Narasimharaju B. L

Associate Professor

Department of Electrical Engineering

National Institute of Technology, Warangal - 506004, Telangana, INDIA

: blnraju@nitw.ac.in,narasimharaju.bl@gmail.com,blnraju@ieee.org

: 08702462247

Interests: LED Drivers for Lighting Systems; Power Converters & Control Techniques; Multilevel power converters; Grid integration of solar energy ; Switched Reluctance Motor drives; Active Front End Power Converters ; Open End Winding Induction Motor Drives ; Modulation and switching techniques ; AI Techniques to Control of Power Converters ;

Qualifications & Specializations:

Degree	Institution/University	Year of Award	Specialization/Topic
B.E	UVCE Bangalore	1999	Electrical & Electronics Engineering
M.E	UVCE Bangalore	2002	Power Electronics
Ph.D	IIT Roorkee "01/01/2009 to 03/11/2011"	2012	An Improved Bi-directional Converter

Work Experience : 16 Years 10 Month ( Academic & Research Experience as on Feb 2019)

Institution/ Organization name	Date of joining	Date of leaving	Designation	Length of Experience
Dept. of EE, NIT Warangal	27/03/2018	Till date	Associate Professor
Dept. of EE, NIT Warangal	01/06/2012, Friday	26/03/2018	Assistant Professor	5 Years 10 Months
Dept. of EEE, MIT Manipal, Manipal University	20/08/2003, Wednesday	31/05/2012	Assistant Professor - Senior Scale	8 Years 10 Months, 11 Days
Dept. of EEE, UVCE Bangalore	09/04/2002, Tuesday	19/08/2003	Teaching Assistant	01 Year 04 Months, 10 Days
LRDE, DRDO Bangalore	August 2001	April 2002	Project Trainee

Areas of Research Interest: Power Electronics - Converters, PWM Techniques, Applications to Lighting System, Drives, Power Quality Issues etc.

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Course Taught Previously

^{Course Taught Previously:}

Course Title	Level (UG/PG)
1. Basic Electronics	UG
2. Power Electronics	UG
3. Basic Electrical Science / Technology	UG
4. Networks Theory	UG
5. Control Systems	UG
6. Modern Power Converters	UG
7. Solid state Drives	UG
8. Advanced Power Electronics Converters	PG

Courses Taught and Currently Being Taught:

Academic Year / Sem	Classes	UG / PG	Course ID	Course Name	Credits
2012-13, I Sem	II B.Tech (EEE) A & B Sec	UG	EE202	Circuit Theory -I	3+3
I M.Tech (PED)	PG	EE5105	Digital Signal Processing Lab	2
II B.Tech (Chemical Engg.)	UG		Basic Electrical Engineering Lab	2
II B.Tech (Metalorgy Engg.)	UG		Basic Electrical Engineering Lab	2
2012 - 13, II Sem	II B.Tech (EEE), B Sec	UG	EE251	Circuit Theory -II	4
III B. Tech (EEE) A & B Sec	UG	EE355	Control System Lab (In-Charge)	2
2013 - 14, I Sem	II B.Tech (EEE)	UG	EE202	Circuit Theory -I	3
II B. Tech (Metalorgy Engg), Sec-B	UG		Basic Electrical Engineering Lab (In-Charge)	2
III B.Tech (EEE)	UG	EE305	Circuit Lab	2
2013-14, II Sem	I M.Tech (EEE)	PG	EE5155	Power Electronics Simulation Lab	2
II B.Tech (EEE), Sec - B	UG	EE251	Circuit Theory - II	4
III B.Tech (EEE)	UG	EE355	Control System Lab (In-Charge)	2
2014-15, I Sem	II B.Tech (EEE), Sec-A & B	UG	EE202	Circuits Theory - I	3+3
III B. Tech (EEE) Sec- A & B	UG	EE305	Circuits Lab (In-Charge)	2
IV B.Tech (EEE), Sec- A & B	UG	EE449	Project Work Part-A Evaluations	2
2014-15, II Sem	I M.Tech (PED)	PG	EE5152	Advanced Power Electronics - II	4
IV B.Tech (EEE), Sec- A & B	UG	EE468	Renewable Energy Systems	3
IV B.Tech (EEE), Sec- A & B	UG	EE499	Project Work Part-B Evaluations	2
III B.Tech (EEE), Sec- A & B	UG	EE355	Control Systems Lab (In-Charge)	2
2015-16 I Sem	I. M.Tech (PED)	PG	EE5102	Advanced Power Electronics - I	4
I B.Tech Sec-M, 85 students	UG	EE101	Basic Electrical Engineering	3
III B.Tech (EEE)	UG	EE305	Circuits System Lab	2
2015-16, II Sem	I B.Tech (Physics Cycle), 2 -Secs. (A&F), 140 students	UG	EE102	Basic Electrical Engineering	3+3
III B.Tech (EEE), 70 students	UG	EE355	Control Systems Lab	2
2016-17, I Sem	I B.Tech (Chemistry Cycle), 2-Secs ( G&N), 146 students	UG	EE101	Basic Electrical Engineering	3+3
III B.Tech (EEE), 120 Students	UG	EE305	Circuits Lab (In-Charge)	2
2016-17, II Sem	I B.Tech (Chemistry Cycle), 2-Secs ( B&C), 146 students	UG	EE101	Basic Electrical Engineering	3+3
III B.Tech (EEE), 120 Students	UG	EE355	Control Systems Lab (In-Charge)	2
2017-18, I Sem	I B.Tech (Chemistry Cycle), 2-Secs ( G&M), 149 students	UG	EE101	Basic Electrical Engineering	3+3
III B.Tech (EEE), 140 students	UG	EE305	Circuits Lab (In-Charge)	2
II M.Tech (PED), 35	PG	EE 6149	Dissertation work, Part-A Evaluation, Member	8
I M.Tech (PED), 35	PG	EE 5141	Seminar-I Evaluation	1
2017-18, II Sem	II M.Tech (PED), 35	PG	EE 6199	Dissertation work, Part-B Evaluation, Member	18
II B.Tech (EEE), Sec-B, 67	UG	EE251	Circuit Theory - II	4
I B.Tech (Chemistry Cycle), Sec -F, 76	UG	EE101	Basic Electrical Engineering	3
III B.Tech (EEE), 35	UG	EE355	Control Systems Lab	2
2018-19, I Sem	III B.Tech (EEE), Sec-A	UG	EE301	Control Systems	4
III B.Tech (EEE),	UG	EE305	Circuits Lab	2
II BTech (MME)	UG		BEE Lab	2+2
IV BTech (EEE)	UG	EE449	Project Works Part-A&B, Chairman, Evaluations	2+4
2018-19, II Sem	II B.Tech (EEE), Sec-A, 73	UG	EE251	Circuit Theory - II
III B.Tech (EEE), 36 Students	UG	EE355	Control Systems Lab
I B.Tech , Sec-E, 75	UG	EE101	Basic Electrical Engineering
IV BTech (EEE)	UG	EE449	Project Works Part-A&B, Chairman, Evaluations

Publications

BLNRaju google scholar Citations: https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=PzevEcYAAAAJ

Journal Publication Details:

SCI / SCI-E Journal: IEEE/IET/IETE etc.: 10

J12.

J11. Ramanjaneya Reddy Udumula, Narasimharaju B L, Asif Md, (2018) “Voltage Mode Control DCM HSD-CIB PFC Converter for HB-LED Lighting Applications” (Open Access, WoS) Journal of Power Technologies 98 (4) (2018) Pp.305–313.

J10. Narasimharaju.B.L, Ramanjaneya Reddy U, Raveendra Dogga, Design and Analysis of Voltage Clamped Bidirectional DC-DC Converter for Energy Storage Applications, IET Journal of Engineering, 02-April-2018, Vol:2018, No.7, Pp-367-374.

J09. Vijay Babu K, Narasimharaju.B.L, D. M. Vinod Kumar, (2017) "Performance Investigation of Simplified PWM MPPT Approach for Direct PV-fed Switched Reluctance Motor in Water Pumping System", IET Electric Power Applications, Vol.11, No.9, 2017, pp.1645 - 1655.

J08. Ramanjaneya Reddy U, Narasimharaju.B.L, Vijay Babu K "( Dec 2016) High step-down Dual output Light Emitting diode driver , Int., Journal Of Renewable Energy Research (IJRER), Vol.7, No.1, 2017, pp.157-169.

J07. Ramanjaneya Reddy U, Narasimharaju.B.L, (Nov 2016)"A Cost Effective Zero Voltage Switching Dual Output LED Driver", Trans. on IEEE Power Electronics, Vol.32 , No.10 , 2017, pp.7941-7953 , Oct 2017.

J06. Ramanjaneya Reddy U, Narasimharaju.B.L, (Sept 2016) "Single-Stage Electrolytic Capacitor less Non-Inverting Buck-Boost PFC Based AC-DC Ripple Free LED Driver", IET Power Electronics, Vol.10, No.1, pp. 38-46, Jan 2017.

J05. Ramanjaneya Reddy U, Narasimharaju.B.L, (July 2016) "Improved Efficiency Coupled Inductor-Buck AC-DC Light Emitting Diode (LED) Driver", IEICE Electronics Express (ELEX), Vol.13, No.16, 2016, pp.1-6.

J04. Vijay Babu K, Narasimharaju.B.L, D. M. Vinod Kumar, (2016) "Performance Evaluation of Switched Reluctance Motor PWM Control in PV-fed Water Pump System", Int., Journal Of Renewable Energy Research (IJRER), Vol.6, No.3, 2016, pp. 941-950.

J03.Vijay Babu K, Narasimharaju.B.L, D. M. Vinod Kumar, (2015) "Switched Reluctance Machine for Off-Grid Rural Applications: A Review", Taylors & Francis- IETE Technical Review , Vol.33, No 2, Dec 2015, pp. 1-13. IF:0.888, (date: 31 October 2015)

J02. Narasimharaju.B.L, S. P. Dubey, S.P.Singh, (2012) Design and Analysis of Coupled Inductor Bidirectional DC-DC Convertor for High Voltage Diversity Applications", IET Power Electronics, Vol. 5, Iss. 7, pp. 998-1007, 2012. IF :1.683.

J01. **Narasimharaju B.L, et. al. (2015) " Space-vector pulse width modulation Scheme for Open-end Winding Induction Motor Drive Configuration", *IET Power Electronics,*** Vol.8, No.7, pp. 1083-1094

Scopus & Non-SCI peer reviewed international / national Journals : 06

J6. Narasimharaju B. L, et. al., (2016)"Bidirectional AC-DC Converter and DC-DC Converter for Charge/Discharge Applications", (RIJEEE), Publishing India Group Vol.1, No.2, 2016, pp.11-17.

J5. Narasimharaju B.L., et. al. (2015), Space-vector Based Equal Switching Strategy for Three-level Open- end Winding Induction Motor Drive, The Journal of CPRI, Vol.10, No.2, June 2014.

J4. Narasimharaju B.L., et. al., A new alternate Fixed-bias inverter SVPWM scheme for open-end winding induction motor drive, International Review of Electrical Engineering, Vol.9, No.1, pp.1-6, Feb 2014. (IF - 0.57)

J3. Narasimharaju B.L., et. al., Investigation of Device Temperature on Power Electronics Switches used in open-end winding induction motor drive for Alternate fixed-bias inverter scheme, International Review of Electrical Engineering ,Vol. 9, No. 1, pp. 36 - 41, Feb 2014.

J2. Narasimharaju.B.L, S. P. Dubey, S. P. Singh, (2011) "Performance Evaluation of Fuzzy Logic Controlled Bidirectional DC to DC Converter", International Journal of Computing Science & Communication Technologies, Vol.3, No. 2, pp. 598- 603, January 2011.

J1. Narasimharaju.B.L, *S. P. Dubey, S. P. Singh**, (2010)* "Analysis of PI controlled Bidirectional Converter for Discharge and Charge Applications", International Journal of Recent Trends in Engineering and Technology(IJRTET), Academic Publisher, Vol. 4, No. 3, pp. 7-11, November 2010.

International Conference Proceedings:

Vijaya Vardhan Reddy. P, Narasimharaju B. L, "Design of 2-DOF Controlled Boost Converter in CCM using Characteristic Ratio Assignment" IEEE Conf. 2016 (Submitted)
Satyakar Veeramallu, Porpandiselvi S, Narasimharaju B L & Mounika Dasohari, Reduced Ripple Current Three phase Parallel Loaded Resonant Converter for LED Lighting, PESTSE - 2018, Amritha University, Bangalore Campus, India, pp.
V K Satyakar V, S Porpandiselvi, B L Narasimharaju, Reduced Ripple Current LED Lighting System with Two Series Resonant Converters, IEEE International Conference on Communication and Electronics Systems (ICCES-2017), 19-20 October 2017 by Confyy Coimbatore, India, pp.1-5. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8321239/
Vijay Babu K, Narasimharaju B L & D M Vinod kumar, "Essence of Variable DC PWM Control for Switched Reluctance Motor in Direct PV-fed Water Pump", IEEE India Int. Conf. on Power Electronics - IICPE 2016, Thapar University, Patiala, pp.1-6 , 17-19 Nov 2016.
Ramanjaneya Reddy U, Narasimharaju B. L, "Unity power factor Buck-Boost LED driver for wide range of input voltage application" IEEE India Conf. INDICON-2015, JMI, Delhi, India, pp. 1 -5, 17 -20 December 2015.
Narasimharaju B. L, Goutham Bharma, Ramanjaneya Reddy U,Vijay Babu K, "Modeling and Analysis of Voltage Controlled Positive Output Synchronous buck-boost converter" IEEE India Conf. INDICON-2015, JMI, Delhi, India, pp. 1 -5, 17 -20 December 2015.
Narasimharaju B. L, Divya. P, Ramanjaneya Reddy U, Vijay Babu K, S. P Dubey, "Bidirectional AC-DC Converter and DC-DC Converter for Charge/Discharge Applications", Intl. Conf. Advanced Research Applications in Engineering , Technology , Science & Management, Shaastrarth 2015, 29^th -30^th June 2015, pp.1-5.
K. Karthik, Narasimharaju B. L, S. Srinivasa Rao, "Five Level Inverter using POD PWM Technique" IEEE EESCO-2015 conference, Visakhapatnam, India, 24-25th Janaury 2015., pp. --
Narasimharaju B. L, Ramanjaneya Reddy U "Enhanced Closed Loop Voltage Control of Buck Converter for Improved Performance", IEEE India Conference INDICON-2014, Pune, India, pp. 1 -5, 11 -13 December 2014. URL: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=7030630&isnumber=7030354.
Narasimharaju B. L, Venkata Prahlad V, et. al., "Optimized Dual Active Bridge Bi-Directional DC-DC Converter for UPS Application", Power Electronics, Drives and Energy Systems (PEDES-2014), Power India, IEEE-International Conference, IIT Bombay, India, pp. -, December 16 -19, 2014.
Narasimharaju B. L, S. P. Dubey, and S. P. Singh, "A Review on Bi-directional DC-DC Converters", Proc. International Conference ICAECT2010, MIT Manipal, India, pp. 471-480, January 7 - 10, 2010.
Narasimharaju B. L, S. P. Dubey and S. P. Singh, "Performance Analysis of a Coupled Inductor Bidirectional DC to DC Converter", Proc. 4^Th International Conference CERA2009, IIT Roorkee, India, pp. 1 (26) - 5(26), February 19 - 21, 2010.
Narasimharaju B. L, S. P. Dubey and S. P. Singh, "Mathematical Modelling and Analysis of Bidirectional DC to DC converter" Proc. International Conference ICSDC-2010, MIT Manipal, India, pp .485-490, August 19 - 22, 2010.
Narasimharaju B. L, S. P. Dubey, and S. P. Singh, "Performance Evaluation of Fuzzy Logic Controlled Bidirectional DC to DC Converter" Proc. 4^ThIEEE Conference ICACCT2010, APIIT, Haryana, India, pp. 486-491October 30, 2010.
Narasimharaju B. L, S. P. Dubey, and S. P. Singh, "Intelligent Technique for Improved Transient and Dynamic Response of Bidirectional DC-DC Converter" Power, Control and Embedded Systems (ICPCES), 2010 IEEE International Conference, MNNIT Allahabad, India in association with Queens University, Canada, pp.1-6, 28^th Nov. to 1^st Dec. 2010. URL: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=5698687&isnumber=5698599
Narasimharaju B. L, S. P. Dubey, and S. P. Singh, "Voltage Mode Control of Coupled Inductor Bidirectional DC to DC Converter"Electron Devices and Solid-State Circuits (EDSSC), 2010 IEEE International Conference, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, pp.1-6, December 15 - 17, 2010. URL: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=5713792&isnumber=5713670
Narasimharaju B. L, S. P. Dubey, and S. P. Singh, "Modelling and Stability Analysis of Coupled Inductor Bidirectional DC-DC Converter,"Electron Devices and Solid-State Circuits (EDSSC), 2010 IEEE International Conference, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong,pp.1-5, December 15 - 17, 2010. URL: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=5713707&isnumber=5713670
Narasimharaju B. L, S. P. Dubey, and S. P. Singh, "Parasitic Effect Considerations in Modeling of CI-BDC Converter and its Voltage Controller," Power Electronics, Drives and Energy Systems (PEDES) & 2010 Power India, IEEE 2010 Joint International Conference, IIT Delhi, India, pp.1-6, December 20 -23, 2010. URL: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=5712381&isnumber=5712370
Narasimharaju B. L, S. P. Dubey, and S. P. Singh, "A Novel Voltage Clamped CI-BDC Converter and its Control for Battery Storage Applications," Power Electronics, Drives and Energy Systems (PEDES) & 2010 Power India, IEEE 2010 Joint International Conference, IIT Delhi, India, pp.1-7, December 20 -23, 2010. URL: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=5712383&isnumber=5712370
Narasimharaju B. L, S. P. Dubey, and S. P. Singh, "Coupled Inductor Bidirectional DC-DC Converter for Improved Performance," Industrial Electronics, Control & Robotics (IECR), IEEE 2010 International Conference, NIT Rourkela, India, pp.28-33, December 27 - 29, 2010.
S. P. Singh, Narasimharaju B. L, and N. Rajesh Kumar, "Performance analysis of AC-DC power converter using PWM techniques" Energy Procedia, ELSEVIER, Vol. 14, 2012, pp. 880 -886.
Raveendhra, Dogga; Thakur, Padmanabh; Narasimha Raju, B.L., "Design and small signal analysis of solar PV fed FPGA based Closed Loop control Bi-Directional DC-DC converter," Circuits, Power and Computing Technologies (ICCPCT), 2013 International Conference on , vol., no., pp.283,288, 20-21 March 2013. URL: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6529011&isnumber=6528821
National Conferences:
Avinash S, Narasimharaju B. L, Ramanjaneya Reddy U, Vijay Babu K, Purna Chandra Rao, " Electrolytic capacitor less PFC based LED driver"National Systems Conference (NSC-2016), NIT Warangal, 4 - 6 Nov 2016, pp. 1-6
Tejaswi R, Narasimharaju B. L, Janaki M, "An Integrated PFC AC-DC Converter", National Systems Conference (NSC-2016), NIT Warangal, 4 - 6 Nov 2016, pp. 1-6.
Narasimharaju B. L, Shaik Rafi,Vijay Babu K, Ramanjaneya Reddy U, ï¿½??Modulation Index based Application Selectivity of Dual Source-Fed Open-end Winding Induction Motor Driveï¿½??, Proc. National Conf. AECT-2016, MIT Manipal, India, pp. -, 28^th - 30^th January 2016.
Karthik .K, Ramanjaneya Reddy U, Narsimharaju B. L, Srinivasa Rao S, "Performance Analysis of Single H-Bridge Multi-Level Inverter", Proc. National Conference AECT-2015, MIT Manipal, India, pp. -, 23rd - 24th January 2015.
Ramanjaneya Reddy U, Narsimharaju B. L, Vijay Babu K, "Hysteresis controlled power factor correction boost converter for LED lamp Load", Proc. National Conference AECT-2015, MIT Manipal, India, pp. -, 23rd - 24th January 2015.
Narasimharaju B. L, "Nonlinear Loads and Harmonics Role in Power Quality Issues", Proc. National Conference AECT-2013, MIT Manipal, India, pp. 1-6, 7^th - 9^th February 2013.
Narasimharaju B.L and Rajalakshmi Samaga .B.L, "PLC Based Star-Delta Starter with Over-Current Safety Feature for an Induction Motor", National System Conference record NSC-2007, MIT, Manipal, India, pp. 1-4, Dec 14-15 2007.
Narasimharaju B.L and G.S.N. Raju, "Optimization of Induction Heating System Topology Review", National Conference record AECT-2007, MIT Manipal, India, pp. 44-50, March 2007.
Narasimharaju B. L and G.S.N. Raju, et al., "High Frequency Current Controlled Power Supply Using Fly-Back Converter", National conf. record PCID-2006, BIT Sathyamangalam, India, pp. 54-57, March 24 - 25, 2006.

PHDs Supervised

PhD/Research Guidance : 06

Scholar Name	Year of Reg.	Co-Supervisor	Topic	Year of Award
Chakravarthi K	09-07-2018	-----	Power Conversion Techniques	Ongoing
S Madhu Babu	July 2017	-----	Multi Level Inversion	Ongoing
V K Satyakar V	July 2016	Dr. S. P Selvi	DC-DC Conversion	Ongoing
Ramanjeneya Reddy U	Dec 2013	----	Improved Driver Circuits For LED Lighting Applications	25 Oct 2017
Vijay Babu K	July 2013	Prof. D. M. Vinod Kumar	Investigation on Switched Reluctance Machine Control in Off-grid Applications	31 Oct 2017
P Srinivasan		Dr. N.V Srikanth	Investigation on PWM Techniques for an Open-End Winding Induction Motor Drive	17 Oct 2016

PG (PED) Dissertation / Project Works Guidance : 19

Academic Year	Student Name	Reg. No.	Title of Project	Completed (C)/ Ongoing (O)	Full Time (FT) / Part Time (PT)
2018-19	Mr. Siddharth Balaji G	172508	Multi Level Inverter	O	FT
Mr. Sainadh Gubbala	172509	Control technique for DC-DC Conversion	O	FT
2017-18	Manthena Harish	162521	Highly Reliable and High Efficient Quasi Single Stage Buck-Boost Inverter	C	FT
Vinod Kumar R	16253	SVPWM Control Strategy for Three-Level Cascaded H-Bridge Inverter	C	FT
R. Prasanth Kumar	162532	Multi Level Inversion	O	PT
2016-17	Datla Sravani	152542	PV fed LLC-LC Multi-resonant Converter based LED Driver	C	FT
Manikala Poorna Chandra Rao M	152523	SRM Drive	O	PT
Y Sai Baba	152552_	Performance Study of PV Fed Synchronous Boost Converter for Linear and Quadratic load	C	FT
2015-16	Surasani Avinash	142536	Capacitance Reduction with An Optimized Cascaded Converter Based LED Driver	C	FT
Vadapally Harish	142537	Switched Reluctance Motor Control Strategies for Quadratic Load Application - A Comparative Study	C	FT
2014-15	Golla Manikiran Kumar	132510	A Flicker-Free Electrolytic Capacitor less AC-DC LED Driver	C	FT
Harish S	132514	Design and Analysis of Isolated AC-DC Converter	C	FT
2013-14	Goutam Baram	122514	DESIGN OF SYNCHRONOUS NON-INVERTING BUCK-BOOST DC-DC CONVERTER	C	FT
Shaik Rafi	122536	Modified Decoupled SVPWM Based Four-Level Inverter Fed Open-end Winding Induction Motor Drive	C	FT
Divya P	122530	Bidirectional AC- DC PFC converter and DC-DC Converter for Charge/Discharge application	C	FT
2012-13	V. Venkata Prahlad	112537	Optimized Dual Active Bridge Bi-Directional DC-DC Converter for UPS Application	C	FT
B. Chiranjeevi	112501	Simulation and Analysis of Soft Switching DC-DC converters	C	FT
Deepa Das	112504	Bilevel Current Control LED driver	C	PT
2011-12 (MIT, MU)	Divya Shetty		DESIGN OF POWER SUPPLY FOR RGB LED BASED LAMP SOURCE	C	FT

Project Assistants: 06

AY:2017-18, under MHRD Internship scheme: Duration: 1 Month ( 14 June to 14 July 2017)

1. Arun Kumar, EED, NIT Mizoram: Modeling and Simulation Analysis of Soft switching DC-DC converters for PV integration.

2. Joseph V, EED, NIT Mzoram : Modeling and Simulation Analysis of Non-inverting Buck-Boost Converter.

AY:2016-17 under CoE - TEQIP-II

1. R. Tejaswi, - Design and Analysis of Three-level Integrated AC-DC converter

2. K Janaki - Design and Analysis of DC-DC converter

AY:2015-16 under CoE - TEQIP-II

1. Vijaya Vardhan Reddy. P, - Design of 2-DOF Controlled Boost Converter in CCM using Characteristic Ratio Assignment

2. Karthik .K - Performance Analysis of Single H-Bridge Multi-Level Inverter

Workshops/Conferences

Organized Conference / Workshops/ STTPs / SDPs / FDPs:

One day National Conference on "POWER CONVERTERS & ELECTRIC DRIVES (PCED – 2018) (1st November, 2018), EED NIT Warangal. Coordinators: Dr. B L Narasimharaju, Dr. N. Vishwanathan, & Dr. S. Porpandiselvi
Five Day Self-Finance Short Term Course " Resonant Converters and Applications", 02nd to 06 July 2018, EED NIT Warangal. Coordinators: Dr. B L Narasimharaju, Dr. N. Vishwanathan, & Dr. S. Porpandiselvi
TEQIP Phase-II Sponsored Two Day Workshop on " Model Based Digital PWM Control Techniques for Power Electronics Applications, 25 - 26 October 2013, EED NIT Warangal. with Dr. S. Srinivasa Rao
TEQIP Phase-II Sponsored Three Day Workshop on " Power Control and Energy Management" 09 - 11Th May 2013, EED NIT Warangal. with Prof. D. M Vinod Kumar

Workshop/SSTPs/Conference Attended:

AICTE course on Digital Signal Processing and Applications, UVCE Bangalore 29/70/2002 - 14/08/2002. (3 weeks)
AICTE STTP on Recent Trends in High Voltage Testing Techniques IIT Madras, Nov 2004. (1week)
QIP-AICTE short-term course on Control of Converters and Drives, IISc Bangalore, Dec 2004. (1 week)
National level workshop (under DST, Govt. Of India) on Recent Trends in Power Systems, SRKRCE Bhimavaram (AP), June 2005. (2 days)
National workshop on "Microsystems (MEMS) Technology" IISc Bangalore, November 16 -19,2005. (1 week )
National conf. on Power Conversion and Industrial Drives (PCID-2006), BIT Sathyamangalam, 24-25 March, 2006.
QIP-AICTE short-term course on "Electromagnetics"IISc Bangalore, Nov/Dec 2006. (1 week)
National Conf. on Advanced Energy Conversion and Technology (AECT-2007), MIT Manipal, March 2007. (3 days)
Staff Development Program on "Digital System Design Using FPGA", MIT, Manipal, June 2007 (2 weeks)
National Workshop on "Innovative Trends in Energy Efficient Building Lighting", 11^th August 2007 MIT Manipal.
Workshop on "Principle of Solar Photovoltaic and Thermal Energy Utilization", MIT, Manipal, 21/08/2007. (1 day)
Workshop on "Virtual Instrumentation and Data Acquisition", NITK, Surathkal, September 6^th-7^th 2007. (2 days)
National System Conference (NSC-2007), MIT, Manipal, Dec 14-15 2007.
National Seminar on"Excellence in Technical Education through Innovation", MIT, Manipal, 17-19, Dec 2007.
Staff Development Program on "Modern controllers Design Techniques", MIT, Manipal, June 9 - 13 2008 (1 week)
MHRD Summer School on "Digital Signal Processor Applications to Modern Industrial Drives", NIT Warangal, June 16 - 28 2008 (2 weeks)
TEQIP workshop on "Emerging Trends in Distribution System" NITK, Surathkal, 24^th to 26^th October 2008. (3 days)
IEEE workshop on "Recent Advances in Sustainable Energy", IIT Delhi on 15^Th to 16^Th December 2009.
International Conf. IC-AECT 2010, MIT Manipal, India, 07 - 10 , January 2010.
4^Th International Conf. CERA-2009, IIT Roorkee, 19 -21, February 2010
International Conf. ICSDC-2010, MIT Manipal, India, 19 -22, August 2010
4^ThIEEE International conference IC-ACCT2010, APIIT, Haryana, India, 30^th October 2010
IEEE Conf. on Control and Embedded Systems (ICPCES2010), 29^th Nov - 1^st Dec. 2010, MNIT Allahabad, India.
IEEE Conf. on Electron Devices and Solid-State Circuits (EDSSC2010), 15-17 Dec. 2010, University of Hong Kong.
IEEE Conf. on Power Electronics, Drives and Energy Systems (PEDES), 20-23Dec. 2010, IIT Delhi, India.
QIP course on Digital Design Techniques: Applications to Control Systems, 30^Th May to 3^rd June 2011, IIT Roorkee. (1 week)
MHRD ISTE Workshop on "Introduction to Research Methodologies", 25^th June to 4^th July 2012, IIT Bombay and NIT Warangal (RC), India. (2 Weeks)
Workshop on "Teaching and Learning for Excellence" 17^th - 19^th July 2012,NIT Warangal. (3 days)
Workshop on "Modelling, Analysis and Control of Mechatronic Systems", 27^Th - 29^Th July 2012, NIT Warangal.
National Conference AECT2013, MIT Manipal, India, 7^Th to 9^Th February 2013.
Workshop on "Teaching and Learning for Excellence" 15^th - 17^th July 2013,NIT Warangal. (3 days)
Workshop on "Good Laboratory Practice", 13^th September 2013, NIT Warangal.
Workshop on Open Source Softwares, 14-15, March 2014, NIT Warangal.
Workshop on " NI Training on LAB-VIEW Software", 26^thSeptember 2014, NI Team, Taj Hotel, Hyderabad.
Workshop on " Rapid Prototyping Systems" 27^th September 2014, NIT Warangal.
National Conference AECT-2015, MIT Manipal, India, 23rd - 24th January 2015.
NaMPET @ NITW Short term course on " Digital Signal Processor Controlled Power Electronic Converters & Drives (DSPEC-2015), 28-30th, September 2015, NITW.
7th IEEE conf. on Technology for Education (T4E-2015), 10-12 Dec, 2015, NIT Warangal.
Three Day TEQIP-II National Conference on " Sharing of achievements and Innovative ideas of CoEs" 21^st to 23^rd April 2016, Siddaganga Institute of Technology Tumkur & SPFU Bangalore, Karnataka.
National Systems Conference (NSC-2016), 4 - 6 Nov 2016, NIT Warangal.
Two-day National Workshop on "Developing OER-enabled e-Learning Courses Using Moodle" during 18^th - 19^th March 2017, NIT Warangal.
One Week GIAN Course High Voltage Gain Soft-Switching Advanced Current-Fed Technologies For Microgrid & Electric Transportation, Department of EEE, UCE, Osmania University, Hyderabad, from 18^th DEC to 23^rd DEC, 2017).

Projects

Awards and Honors

Fellowship / Awards:

Best Paper award, IEEE India Conf. INDICON-2015, for paper titled "Modeling and Analysis of Voltage Controlled Positive Output Synchronous buck-boost converter", JMI, Delhi, India, pp. 1 -5, 17 -20 December 2015
MHRD Fellowship for pursuing my Doctoral Study at IIT Roorkee
CSIR Young Scientist 2010 Fellowship

Professional body membership / Activities :

Senior Member IEEE (General Member, Power Electronics Society & Industrial Electronics Society)
Life Member, Indian Society for Technical Education
Life Member, System Society of India

Additional Responsibility

Contributions in Department Labs/Teaching :

Development of Circuits Laboratory
Development of Control Systems Laboratory
Preparation of Circuits Lab, Control Systems Lab and Power Electronics Lab Manuals

Additional Department/Institute Responsibility:

Institute Level:

Faculty In-charge, Maintenance of Lifts in institute, April 2018 to Till date
Member, Electrical Works Committee (EWC), Feb 2018 to Till date
Member, Grid Connected Solar PV Rooftop Project at NITW, MNRE-SPIN Under JNNSM, November 2015 to Till Date
Member, Center of Excellence in "Sustainable Energy Studies", under TEQIP, November 2014 to Till date

Department Level:
Faculty Advisor, Electrical Engineering Association (EEA), NIT Warangal AY-2018-19
Chairman, IV B.Tech(EEE) Project Works (A&B Parts) Evaluations, AY2018-19
Director Nominee, PG- Auto Mobile Engineering (MED), Project Evaluations, June 18th & 19th 2018.
Member, Dissertation Evaluations Part-A & B, II M.Tech (PED) AY-2017-18, Sem-I & II.
Department Coordinator, Training & Placement, July 2014 to Oct 2018
Faculty In-charge, Seminar-I, Evaluations, I M.Tech (PED) AY-2017-18, Sem-I
Faculty In-charge for Control System Lab, EED, June 2012 to 24/10/2018.
Faculty In-charge for Electrical Circuits Lab, EED, June 2012 to 24/10/2018
Faculty Advisor (S)- IV B.TECH (EEE), July 2014 to June 2015

Faculty In-charge for Power Electronics Lab, EED, September 2014 to March 2015
Member, IV BTech (EEE) Project Work Evaluation Committee, AY: 2013-14, AY: 2014-15
Member, DAC-UG, EED, NIT Warangal, June 2012 to June 2014, AY:2012-13, AY:2013-14
Treasurer, Electrical Engineering Association (EEA), NIT Warangal, June 2012 to June 2014 (EEA:2012-13, EEA:2013-14)
Faculty Advisor (S)- II B.TECH (EEE), June 2012 to June 2014

At Previous Employment Organizations :

Team member of ISO 9000:2001 implementation
University Representative for UGET and SMU distance education examinations
Committee member to Industry Institute Interactive Meet, Aug 2004
Teacher guardian at MIT Manipal, Since 2003 to 2008

Outreach Activities:

Advisor , M/s. Zunikenergies (Erstwhile M/s. Arka Energies), Pre-Incubated startup by IIT Roorkee. Since September 2017.
http://www.zunikenergies.com/
Member, Doctoral Scrutiny Committee, MIT, Manipal
Reviewer of IEEE Transactions (Power Electronics, Industrial Electronics, Industry Applications etc) & IET Power Electronics, Electric Power Applications etc.
PhD Thesis /PG Dissertation - VTU Karnataka, JNTUK AP, UCE-OU TS, KLU Guntur, ......

Project Title	Agency / Project No.	*Cost in Lakhs*	*Role*	*Status*	*Duration*
Design and Development of New High Gain Transformer-less Inverter Topology for PV Based Grid Tie Applications	SPARC	Rs.95.04 Lakhs	Principal Investigator	Approved	2 Years
Design and Development of High-Efficient PFC based AC-DC LED Driver for AC-Grid Fed LED Lighting System	CRG-SERB-DST-2018 EMR/2017/004913;	Rs.27.535	Principal Investigator	Ongoing	2018-21, 3 Years
Design and Development of High Efficient Switched Reluctance Motor based Solar Photovoltaic (SPV) Water Pumping System (WPS)	IMPRINT-India, Phase-I, MHRD; No: F4562	Rs. 70.98	Principal Investigator	Approved for Financial Sanction	3 Years from date of fund release
Solar Power Based Soft-Switched Power Converters For LED Street Lighting System	CPRI-RSOP,	*Rs. 43.00*	Principal Investigator	Submitted Revision, Result Awaited	2 Years
Investigation on Distributed Generation Resources with Energy Storage System in a Micro grid	RSM project funded by NITW-MHRD	Rs. 1.30	Principal Investigator	Completed	1 Year , 2013

Narasimharaju B. L

Associate Professor

Department of Electrical Engineering

National Institute of Technology, Warangal - 506004, Telangana, INDIA

Qualifications & Specializations:

Work Experience : 16 Years 10 Month ( Academic & Research Experience as on Feb 2019)

Institution/ Organization name

Date of joining

Date of leaving

Designation

Length of Experience

Areas of Research Interest: Power Electronics - Converters, PWM Techniques, Applications to Lighting System, Drives, Power Quality Issues etc.

Course Taught Previously

Course Taught Previously:

Courses Taught and Currently Being Taught:

Publications

Journal Publication Details:

SCI / SCI-E Journal: IEEE/IET/IETE etc.: 10

J09. Vijay Babu K, Narasimharaju.B.L, D. M. Vinod Kumar, (2017) "Performance Investigation of Simplified PWM MPPT Approach for Direct PV-fed Switched Reluctance Motor in Water Pumping System", IET Electric Power Applications, Vol.11, No.9, 2017, pp.1645 - 1655.

J08. Ramanjaneya Reddy U, Narasimharaju.B.L, Vijay Babu K "( Dec 2016) High step-down Dual output Light Emitting diode driver , Int., Journal Of Renewable Energy Research (IJRER), Vol.7, No.1, 2017, pp.157-169.

J07. Ramanjaneya Reddy U, Narasimharaju.B.L, (Nov 2016)"A Cost Effective Zero Voltage Switching Dual Output LED Driver", Trans. on IEEE Power Electronics, Vol.32 , No.10 , 2017, pp.7941-7953 , Oct 2017.

J06. Ramanjaneya Reddy U, Narasimharaju.B.L, (Sept 2016) "Single-Stage Electrolytic Capacitor less Non-Inverting Buck-Boost PFC Based AC-DC Ripple Free LED Driver", IET Power Electronics, Vol.10, No.1, pp. 38-46, Jan 2017.

J05. Ramanjaneya Reddy U, Narasimharaju.B.L, (July 2016) "Improved Efficiency Coupled Inductor-Buck AC-DC Light Emitting Diode (LED) Driver", IEICE Electronics Express (ELEX), Vol.13, No.16, 2016, pp.1-6.

J04. Vijay Babu K, Narasimharaju.B.L, D. M. Vinod Kumar, (2016) "Performance Evaluation of Switched Reluctance Motor PWM Control in PV-fed Water Pump System", Int., Journal Of Renewable Energy Research (IJRER), Vol.6, No.3, 2016, pp. 941-950.

J03.Vijay Babu K, Narasimharaju.B.L, D. M. Vinod Kumar, (2015) "Switched Reluctance Machine for Off-Grid Rural Applications: A Review", Taylors & Francis- IETE Technical Review , Vol.33, No 2, Dec 2015, pp. 1-13. IF:0.888, (date: 31 October 2015)

J02. Narasimharaju.B.L, S. P. Dubey, S.P.Singh, (2012) Design and Analysis of Coupled Inductor Bidirectional DC-DC Convertor for High Voltage Diversity Applications", IET Power Electronics, Vol. 5, Iss. 7, pp. 998-1007, 2012. IF :1.683.

J01. Narasimharaju B.L, et. al. (2015) " Space-vector pulse width modulation Scheme for Open-end Winding Induction Motor Drive Configuration", IET Power Electronics, Vol.8, No.7, pp. 1083-1094

Scopus & Non-SCI peer reviewed international / national Journals : 06

J6. Narasimharaju B. L, et. al., (2016)"Bidirectional AC-DC Converter and DC-DC Converter for Charge/Discharge Applications", (RIJEEE), Publishing India Group Vol.1, No.2, 2016, pp.11-17.

J5. Narasimharaju B.L., et. al. (2015), Space-vector Based Equal Switching Strategy for Three-level Open- end Winding Induction Motor Drive, The Journal of CPRI, Vol.10, No.2, June 2014.

J4. Narasimharaju B.L., et. al., A new alternate Fixed-bias inverter SVPWM scheme for open-end winding induction motor drive, International Review of Electrical Engineering, Vol.9, No.1, pp.1-6, Feb 2014. (IF - 0.57)

J3. Narasimharaju B.L., et. al., Investigation of Device Temperature on Power Electronics Switches used in open-end winding induction motor drive for Alternate fixed-bias inverter scheme, International Review of Electrical Engineering ,Vol. 9, No. 1, pp. 36 - 41, Feb 2014.

J2. Narasimharaju.B.L, S. P. Dubey, S. P. Singh, (2011) "Performance Evaluation of Fuzzy Logic Controlled Bidirectional DC to DC Converter", International Journal of Computing Science & Communication Technologies, Vol.3, No. 2, pp. 598- 603, January 2011.

J1. Narasimharaju.B.L, S. P. Dubey, S. P. Singh, (2010) "Analysis of PI controlled Bidirectional Converter for Discharge and Charge Applications", International Journal of Recent Trends in Engineering and Technology(IJRTET), Academic Publisher, Vol. 4, No. 3, pp. 7-11, November 2010.

International Conference Proceedings:

National Conferences:

PHDs Supervised

PhD/Research Guidance : 06

Scholar Name

Year of Reg.

Co-Supervisor

Topic

Year of Award

PG (PED) Dissertation / Project Works Guidance : 19

Workshops/Conferences

Organized Conference / Workshops/ STTPs / SDPs / FDPs:

Workshop/SSTPs/Conference Attended:

Projects

Sponsored/Funded Projects:

Project Title

Agency / Project No.

Cost in Lakhs

Role

Status

Duration

Design and Development of New High Gain Transformer-less Inverter Topology for PV Based Grid Tie Applications

SPARC

Rs.95.04 Lakhs

Principal Investigator

Design and Development of High-Efficient PFC based AC-DC LED Driver for AC-Grid Fed LED Lighting System

CRG-SERB-DST-2018

EMR/2017/004913;

Rs.27.535

Principal Investigator

Ongoing

2018-21, 3 Years

Design and Development of High Efficient Switched Reluctance Motor based Solar Photovoltaic (SPV) Water Pumping System (WPS)

IMPRINT-India, Phase-I, MHRD; No: F4562

Rs. 70.98

Principal

Investigator

Approved for Financial Sanction

3 Years from date of fund release

Solar Power Based Soft-Switched Power Converters For LED Street Lighting System

CPRI-RSOP,

Rs. 43.00

Principal Investigator

Submitted Revision, Result Awaited

2 Years

Investigation on Distributed Generation Resources with Energy Storage System in a Micro grid

^{Course Taught Previously:}

J01. **Narasimharaju B.L, et. al. (2015) " Space-vector pulse width modulation Scheme for Open-end Winding Induction Motor Drive Configuration", *IET Power Electronics,*** Vol.8, No.7, pp. 1083-1094

J1. Narasimharaju.B.L, *S. P. Dubey, S. P. Singh**, (2010)* "Analysis of PI controlled Bidirectional Converter for Discharge and Charge Applications", International Journal of Recent Trends in Engineering and Technology(IJRTET), Academic Publisher, Vol. 4, No. 3, pp. 7-11, November 2010.