Dr. Asha Rani M A

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Assistant Professor
Email: asharani@ee.nits.ac.in
Date of Joining: 12/07/2019
Academic/Industrial Experience: 15+ years
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AREA OF INTEREST AND SPECIALIZATION (INCLUDING RESEARCH AREA)

  • Grid Interfacing and Control of Renewable Energy Systems
  • Control of Wind Generators
  • Micro Grid
  • HVDC Systems
  • FACTS Controllers
  • Power Electronics

SHORT BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH

Dr. Asha Rani M. A. pursued B.Tech. in Electrical & Electronics Engineering from College of Engineering Perumon under Cochin University of Science and Technology (CUSAT), Government of Kerala, in 2004; M.Tech. in Industrial Drives & Control from Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Technology, Government Engineering College Kottayam, in 2008; and Ph D. in Electrical & Electronics Engineering from National Institute of Technology Tiruchirappalli, Tamil Nadu, in 2016. Currently, she is working as Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering, National Institute of Technology (NIT) Silchar.

PATENTS(S)

  1. “A Grid Tied-solar powered Pump” with Intellectual Property India / India (Status : Granted 26 August 2024) ; Inventor/Applicant : Dr. Asha Rani M. A.

SUBJECTS TAUGHT (INCLUDING SUBJECTS CURRENTLY TEACHING)

  • Power Electronics
  • Power Systems-II
  • Industrial Drives
  • Analog Electronics
  • Electrical Safety
  • Solar & Wind Energy Conversion Systems
  • Electrical Machines -I

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

  • Member, IEEE
  • Lifetime Member, ISTE
  • Secretary, IEEE Silchar Sub-section
  • Chair, IEEE IAS Joint Chapter, Silchar Sub-section

AWARDS & RECOGNITION’S

  • Received the Young Scientist award in the year 2016 from Centre of Advanced Research for the significant contributions in Renewable Energy

ADMINISTRATIVE RESPONSIBILITY

  • Board of Governors (BoG) Member, NIT Silchar
  • IEEE Silchar Subsection, Secretary (from Jan 2023)
  • Chair, IEEE Industry Applications Society (IAS) Joint Chapter, IEEE Silchar Subsection
  • IEEE Silchar Subsection Co-Chair, Newsletter Committee (NLC) (June 2021 to Dec 2022)
  • Coordinator, Centre for Sustainable Energy Studies & Technology
  • NBA Institute Level Committee, Member
  • NBA Department Coordinator
  • Associate Warden GH 1B
  • Spoken Tutorial Department Coordinator (from 2019)
  • Department Website Committee, Member
  • Virtual Laboratory Department Coordinator (2020-Nov 2022)
  • Department Time Table Coordinator (2020-2022)
  • Assistant Centre-in-Charge of WB JEE 2021
  • Deputy RO Gymkhana Elections 2022, 2023
  • Co-Convenor of NEGS 2021
  • Coordinator of NEGS 2020
  • Convenor – Department Civil Renovation Committee (from 2020)
  • Coordinator of AMCAT Employability Test for UG students 2020 (TEQIP-III)
  • Associate Professor & HoD EED, MITS (2017-2019)
  • Professor & Dean Academic, Caarmel Engg. College (2016-2017)
  • HoD EED, Caarmel Engg. College (2011-2017)
  • Junior Research Engineer & Assistant Training Coordinator, Fluid Control Research Institute (FCRI), Under Ministry of Heavy Industries, Govt. of India.

INTERNATIONAL JOURNALS

  1. Pydi Bala Krishna and Asha Rani M. A., “Power Harmonics Suppression Based Direct Vector Control for Robust DFIG Operation During Grid Voltage Distortions”, Wiley, International Journal of Circuit Theory and Applications, April 2024.
  2. Pydi Bala Krishna, Asha Rani M. A. and C. Nagamani, “An Improved Reference Current Generation Scheme using POD for Reliable DFIG Operation under Harmonically Distorted Grid Voltage”, Springer-Nature, Sadhana, April 2023.
  3. M A Asha Rani, M Chakkarapani, C Nagamani, and G Saravana Ilango, “An Improved Angular Stator Flux Frequency Computation Method for Robust MPPT Operation of DFIG under Unbalanced Grid Voltage”, IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications, vol. 59, pp. 1162-1174, October 2022.
  4. M. A. Asha Rani, S. Priyavarthini, C. Nagamani, G. Saravana Ilango, “An improved control for simultaneous sag/swell mitigation and reactive power support in a grid-connected wind farm with DVR”, Elsevier – International Journal of Electrical Power & Energy Systems, vol. 101, pp. 38-49, October 2018.
  5. Mohan Anitha Asha Rani, Chilakapati Nagamani, Ganesan Saravana Ilango, “Compensation of Magnetizing Current for Enhanced Operation of DFIG under Grid Unbalance”, IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, vol. 32, pp. 5214 – 5226, July 2017.
  6. M. A. Asha Rani, C. Nagamani, G. Saravana Ilango, “An Improved Rotor PLL(R-PLL) for Enhanced Operation of Doubly Fed Induction Machine”, IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy, vol. 8, pp. 117 – 125, January 2017.
  7. M. A. Asha Rani, C. Nagamani and G. Saravana Ilango, “A Versatile Method for Computation of Power pulsations in DFIG under Grid Imperfections”, Elsevier- Renewable Energy, vol. 88, pp. 143-153, April 2016.
  8. M. A. Asha Rani, Chilakapati Nagamani, Ganesan Saravana Ilango, “Natural flux minimization technique for enhanced operation of doubly-fed induction generator”, IET Electric Power Applications, vol. 9, pp. 467-476, January 2016.
  9. Mohan Anitha Asha Rani, Chilakapati Nagamani, Ganesan Saravana Ilango, Maddikara Jaya Bharata Reddy and Zachariah Varghese Lakaparampil, “Renewable Power Generation Indian Scenario: A Review”, Taylor & Francis, Electric Power Components and Systems, vol. 43, no. 8-10, pp. 1205-1213, May 2015.
  10. M. A. Asha Rani, C. Nagamani, G. Saravana Ilango and A. Karthikeyan, “An Effective Reference Generation Scheme for DFIG With Unbalanced Grid Voltage”, IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy, vol. 5, no. 3, pp. 1010-1018, July 2014.

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES

  1. Pydi Krishna, Asha Rani M. A., “Effect of HFM in Effective Minimization of Losses in Grid Integrated DFIGs”, 2024 IEEE 4th International Conference on Sustainable Energy and Future Electric Transportation (SEFET) (Accepted).
  2. Akkenaguntla Karthik, Chakkarapani M, and Asha Rani M. A., “Row Shifted PV Array Configuration Technique to Reduce Partial and Mutual Shading Effect in Existing PV Array”, 2024 IEEE 4th International Conference on Sustainable Energy and Future Electric Transportation (SEFET) (Accepted).
  3. Amit Kumar, Asha Rani M.A., Pydi Bala Krishna, and Rashmi Ranjan Patra, “Manetizing Current Harmonics Mitigation for Enhanced PMSG Operation Under Grid Voltage Imbalance”, 3rd International Conference on Power Electronics, Smart Grid, and Renewable Energy (PESGRE 2023).
  4. Pydi Bala Krishna and Asha Rani M. A., “A Harmonic Flux Mitigation Strategy Integrated with Coordinated Converter Control for Enhanced DFIG Operation under Grid Voltage Imperfections”, 3rd International Conference on Power Electronics, Smart Grid, and Renewable Energy (PESGRE 2023).
  5. Amit Kumar, Asha Rani M.A., Ayaz Anwar, Piyush Sonkar, Aman Dwivedi and Sauvik Neogi, “An Improved Direct Power Regulation Scheme for Reliable PMSG Power Control Under Grid Imbalance”, IEEE STPEC 2023.
  6. Amit Kumar and Asha Rani M. A., “An Improved Vector Control Integrated DPC Scheme for Effective Ride Through of PMSG during Grid Distortions”, 3rd IEEE SeFeT 2023, August 2023.
  7. Pydi Bala Krishna, Asha Rani M. A., Rashmi Ranjan Patra, M. Chakkarapani, M. Debbarma, “Magnetizing Current Harmonics Mitigation Technique for Robust DFIG Operation Under Grid Voltage Distortions”, 3rd IEEE SeFeT 2023, August 2023.
  8. Rashmi Ranjan Patra, Pydi Bala Krishna and Asha Rani M. A., “Active Power Control of Hybrid-HVDC Line Connected to Offshore DFIG-based Wind Farm During Mainland Grid Voltage Fluctuations”, IEEE IAS GlobConHT 2023, 11th- 12th March 2023, Maldives National University, Male City (Maldives).
  9. Amit Kumar, Pydi Bala Krishna and Asha Rani M. A., “A Robust Rotor Flux Based S-PLL for Permanent Magnet Synchronous Generator”, 10th IEEE International Conference on Power Electronics, Drives & Energy Systems (PEDES 2022), MNIT Jaipur, 14th -17th December 2022.
  10. Pydi Bala Krishna and Asha Rani M. A., “Power Harmonics Damping Based Reference Current Generation for Reliable DFIG Operation Under Grid Voltage Distortions” in the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society Annual On-Line Conference (ONCON), ONCON-2022, December 2022.
  11. Mamata Debbarma, Pydi Bala Krishna and M A Asha Rani, “Voltage Sag Mitigation in Distribution Network by placing Renewable sources with optimized capacity and location”, CIGRE 2022 Kyoto Symposium, Japan.
  12. Mamata Debbarma, Pydi Bala Krishna and M A Asha Rani, “A Robust Sensorless Speed Estimation Method for SCIG based WECS with Reduced Current Sensors”, IEEE 3rd International Conference on Energy, Power and Environment: Towards Clean Energy Technologies, March 2021.
  13. M A Asha Rani, M Chakkarapani, C Nagamani, G Saravana Ilango and M. Jaya Bharata Reddy, “Performance Evaluation of R-PLL for Robust Sensorless Operation of DFIG under Harmonics, DC Offset and Phase Jump in Grid Voltage”, IEEE International Conference on Power Electronics and Energy, ICPEE 2021
  14. Mohan Anitha Asha Rani, Manickam Chakkarapani, Chilakapati Nagamani and Saravana Ilango Ganesan, “An Improved Angular Stator Flux Frequency Computation Method for Enhanced MPPT Operation of DFIG under Unbalanced Grid Voltage”, IEEE INDICON 2020.
  15. M. A. Asha Rani, C. Nagamani and G. Saravana Ilango, “A Simple Speed Computation Method for DFIM Without Measurements on Rotor side”, IEEE International Conference on Twenty First Century Energy Needs – Materials, Systems & Applications, 17th – 19th November 2016, ICTFCEN-2016, IIT Kharagpur.
  16. M. A. Asha Rani, C. Nagamani, N. Prasannakumar and A. Karthikeyan, “Reference current generation schemes for DFIG with unbalanced grid voltage “, IEEE 2nd International Conference on Electrical Energy Systems, ICEES 2014, SSN College, Chennai, Tamil Nadu.
  17. M. A. Asha Rani, A. Karthikeyan and C. Nagamani, “Decoupled Control of Doubly- Fed Induction Generator under Unbalanced Grid Voltage with modified reference generation”, IEEE International Power, Energy and Control Conference, ICPEC 2013 , PSNA College, Dindigul, Tamil Nadu.

NATIONAL CONFERENCES

  1. Mathangi Lekhana Sri and Asha Rani M.A, “Review of Electric Machines For Electric Vehicle Operation”, 6th Edition of North East GREEN Summit 2021.
  2. Piyush Sonkar, Abhishek Kumar, Aman Dwivedi, Ayaz Anwar, Jajjalya Bikash Kashyap, and Asha Rani M A, “Rural Sustainability Using Solar PV System Based on Dual Output Flyback Converter”, 6th Edition of North East GREEN Summit 2021.
  3. A. Asha Rani, C. Nagamani, G. Saravana Ilango and Agilin Prasanthini, “Computation of rotor position of DFIM using Rotor side Phase Locked Loop”, 19th National Power Systems Conference NPSC-2016, 19th -21st December 2016, IIT Bhubaneswar.
  4. A. Asha Rani, C. Nagamani, G. Saravana Ilango and Nikhilesh Prasannakumar, “An Implicit Rotor Speed Computation Algorithm for Squirrel Cage Induction Motor”, 19th National Power Systems Conference NPSC-2016, 19th -21st December 2016, IIT Bhubaneswar.

BOOK CHAPTERS

  1. Asha Rani, C. Nagamani, G. Saravana Ilango, M. Jaya Bharata Reddy and A. Karthikeyan, Handbook of Distributed Generation-Electric Power Technologies, Economics and Environmental Impacts, “Sensor-Less Estimation of Rotor Position in a Doubly Fed Induction Machine” – Chapter 5, ISBN: 978-3-319-51343-0, Edition: 1, 2017, DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-51343-0, Publisher: Springer International Publishing.
  2. Asha Rani, Chakkarapani Manickam and Pranjit Barman, Book on Renewable Materials and Green Technology Products: Environmental and Safety Aspects, “GREEN ENERGY: RENEWABLE POWER GENERATION FROM SOLAR: Impact of Irradiation, Materials & & Aging on Solar Power Generation, and Green Materials for Solar Power Extraction” – Chapter 5, ISBN: 9781003055471, Edition: 1, 2020, DOI: 10.1201/9781003055471, Publisher: CRC Press of Taylor & Francis Group.

PROJECTS

  1. “An Effective Negative Sequence Flux Minimization Technique for Enhanced Operation of DFIG based Wind Power Plants under Grid Voltage Unbalance”, DST-SERB (SRG), Oct. 2020, Role-PI, Grant Amount – 19.99 Lakhs, Status: Completed.
  2. “Sustainable Energy Systems for Achieving Novel Carbon Neutral Energy Communities “SUSTENANCE””, DST-European Union (EU) under Mission Innovation(MI), HORIZON 2020, July 2021; Role-PI, Grant Amount – 1504.4 Lakhs, Status: Ongoing.
  3. “TOOFUN Labs”, Ministry of Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises (MSME), Role-C0-PI, Grant Amount – 4.33 Lakhs, Status: Completed.

WORKSHOPS ORGANIZED

  1. One week International STTP on “Power Electronics Applications for Industrial Systems” from 7th September 2020 to 11thSeptember 2020 under the aegis of TEQIP-III.
  2. One Day Webinar on “Global Renewable Power Generation Scenario and Challenges in Microgrids” on September 21, 2020 under the aegis of TEQIP-III.
  3. Five Days Online Faculty Development Programme on “Moodle Learning Management System” from 19th July 2021 to 25th July 2021.
  4. Five Days Online Faculty Development Programme on “Aurdino” from 26th July 2021 to 1st August 2021.
  5. One week AICTE approved Faculty Development Programme on ” Advances in Renewable Energy & Electric Vehicles” from 26th to 30th March 2022.

CONFERENCES ORGANIZED

  1. 5th Edition of North East Green Summit @ NIT Silchar from 16th to 18th November 2020 in association with IIT Guwahati and North East Foundation (National).
  2. 6th Edition of North East Green Summit @ NIT Silchar from 16th to 18th November 2021 and North East Foundation (National).
  3.  IEEE Silchar Subsection Conference, IEEE SILCON 2023, 3rd to 5th November 2023 (International).

PHD SCHOLARS

Sl. No. Name of the Scholar Status Research Area Supervision
1 Pydi Balakrishna Ongoing  Renewable Energy  Supervisor
2 Rashmi Ranjan Patra Ongoing HVDC Systems Supervisor
3 Amit Kumar Ongoing  Renewable Energy Supervisor (Part-Time)
4 Mamata Debbrama Ongoing  Renewable Energy Supervisor (Part-Time)
5 Udugula Malavya Ongoing Power Converters Supervisor (Part-Time)
6 Jagadish Pitambar Dholwani Ongoing FACTS Controllers Co-Supervisor
7 Nibedita Ghosh Ongoing Power System Protection Supervisor
8 Thiyam Stalin Singh Ongoing Power System Protection Co-Supervisor

M.TECH. SCHOLARS

Sl. No. Name of Scholar Status Thesis Title Supervision
 1  Aldonald Silki Shyla  Completed  Integration & Control of Hybrid Microgrid  Supervisor
 2  Kella Srinuprasad  Completed Simultaneous Mitigation of Torque & Power Pulsations in DFIG under Harmonically Distorted Grid Voltage Conditions  Supervisor
3 Surya Prakash Bharati  Completed Compensation of Voltage Sag/Swell by using Solar Dynamic Voltage Restorer (SDVR) at Wind Turbine terminals. Supervisor
4 Nithish Jangili Completed HVDC System Interfacing with Mainland Grid Supervisor