Dr. Swapna Mansani

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Assistant Professor
Email: swapna@ee.nits.ac.in
Date of Joining: 29/07/2019
Academic/Industrial Experience: 

  • July 2019 to Present: Assistant Professor Grade-I in Dept. of Electrical Engineering, National Institute of Technology Silchar (NITS), Assam, India.
  • Aug 2017 to Nov 2018: Assistant Professor in Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, The National Institute of Engineering (NIE), Mysuru, Karnataka.
  • Dec 2009 to May 2012: Assistant Engineer (AE) in Northern Power Distribution Company of Telangana Limited (TSNPDCL), Telangana, India.

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AREA OF INTEREST AND SPECIALIZATION (INCLUDING RESEARCH AREA)

  • Energy Management, Power Distribution System, Power Quality, Smart Grid.

SHORT BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH

SUBJECTS TAUGHT (INCLUDING SUBJECTS CURRENTLY TEACHING)

  • Energy Science and Technology
  • Circuit Theory/Network Analysis and Synthesis
  • Basic Electrical Engineering
  • Distribution System Planning and Automation
  • Measuring Instruments and Measurement
  • Distribution Automation

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

  • Member, IEEE

AWARDS & RECOGNITIONS

PATENTS

ADMINISTRATIVE RESPONSIBILITY

  • Associate Lab in charge of Power Hardware Simulation Laborartory from Nov 2020
  • DPC Committee Member from June 2021
  • Member of Departmental Maintenance and Cleanliness Committee from Nov 2020
  • Document Verifying Officer in CCMT Counselling (2020 and 2021)

INTERNATIONAL JOURNALS

  • Deepa B , Santoshkumar Hampannavar, Swapna Mansani, “Analysis of Microgrid Integrated Renewable Energy-Powered Electric Vehicle Charging Station using Synchrophasor Technology for Smart Monitoring”, World Electric Vehicle Journal, 2024 (Accepted).
  • Vahini Komanapalli, Swapna Mansani, ”Evaluation of the electrical energy potential of biowaste with methane production kinetics and environmental impact for northeastern region of India”, Computers and Electrical Engineering,Volume 120, Part A,2024,109713,ISSN 0045-7906, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compeleceng.2024.109713.
  • Pappu Kumar Saurav, Swapna Mansani, Partha Kayal, “ Multi-objective planning for optimal location, sizing, and power factor of distributed generators with capacitor banks in unbalanced power distribution networks”,Electrical Engineering (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00202-024-02612-4.
  • Vahini Komanapalli, Swapna Mansani, Santoshkumar Hampannavar, Deepa Bobbakunte, “Source forecasting and economic/environmental assessment of hybrid renewable energy system in North Eastern State of India”,  Electrical Engineering (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00202-024-02567-6
  • Santoshkumar Hampannavar, Omowunmi Mary Longe, Himabindu N, Deepa B, Swapna M, “Reliability modeling and assessment of a community microgrid with electric vehicle charging station as a critical load”, e-Prime – Advances in Electrical Engineering, Electronics and Energy, Volume 8, 2024, 100610, ISSN 2772-6711, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.prime.2024.100610.
  • Srijani Mukhopadhyay, Swapna Mansani, Sreejith S, “Torque Ripple Minimization and Speed Control of Switched Reluctance Motor Employing Model Predictive Controller”, Electrical Engineering, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00202-024-02425-5
  • Himabindu N, Santoshkumar Hampannavar,Deepa B,Omowunmi Mary Longe,Swapna Mansani,Vahini Komanapalli, “Assessment of Microgrid integrated Biogas-Photovoltaic Powered Electric Vehicle Charging Station (EVCS) for Sustainable Future”, Energy Reports, Volume 9, Supplement 12, 2023, Pages 139-143.
  • Pappu Kumar Saurav, Swapna Mansani, Partha Kayal, ” Optimal Allocation and Assessment of Distributed Generation Unitswith Multi-Objective Planning in Unbalanced Distribution Networks”, Electric Power Components and Systems, 51:15, 1664-1683, DOI: 10.1080/15325008.2023.2202666, 2023.
  • Debasis Kumar Patel, Swapna Mansani, and Arup Kumar Goswami, ” Fast Flexible Direct Power Flow for Unbalanced and Balanced Distribution Systems”, International Journal of Electrical Energy Systems, Vol.8, 2022.
  • Sagar B S., Santoshkumar Hampannavar, Swapna M, ” Modeling and Experimental Validation of Equivalent Circuit Model of Lithium Ion Battery for Sustainable Transportation”, SEYBOLD Report, Vol.17, issue 7, 10-29 ,2022. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.6850778. 
  • Himabindu N., Santoshkumar Hampannavar, Deepa B, Swapna M, ” Analysis of microgrid integrated Photovoltaic (PV) Powered Electric Vehicle Charging Stations (EVCS) under different solar irradiation conditions in India: A way towards sustainable development and growth “, Energy Reports – Elsevier, 8534-8547 ,2021.
  • Swapna Mansani, Santoshkumar Hampannavar, Udaykumar R Yaragatti , “Backward Sweep Phase Balancing Algorithm for Smart Active Distribution System”, International Journal of Advanced Science and Technology, vol. 29, no. 10(S), 4288–4300, 2020.
  • Himabindu N,Swapna Manasani , K N Patil, Santoshkumar Hampannavar, Rajashekar P Mandi, VenkateshMurthy BS, ” Wind Potential Assessment of Central Dry Zone of Indian State of Karnataka for Micro Power Generation”, International Journal of Advanced Science and Technology, vol. 29, no. 10(S), 4277–4287, 2020.
  • Santoshkumar Hampannavar, Suresh Chavhan, Swapna Mansani and Uday Kumar RY, ” Electric vehicle traffic pattern analysis and prediction in aggregation regions/parking lot zones to support V2G Operation in smart grid: A cyber-physical system entity”, International journal of emerging electric power systems (DeGruyter), 21 (1), 2020.
  • Swapna M, and Udaykumar R. Y, ” An Improved Phase Balancing Algorithm for Secondary Distribution System with Consumer Load Patterns”, Journal of Advanced Research in Dynamical & Control Systems, 10, 605-612, 2018.
  • Swapna M, and Udaykumar R. Y,” A Novel Approach for Phase Balancing of Secondary Distribution Power System”, Indian Journal of Science and Technology, 9, 1-6,2016.
  • Santoshkumar, Udaykumar R. Y and Swapna M, ” Modeling and Architectural FrameWork of Off-Board V2G Integrator for Smart Grid”, International Journal of Renewable Energy Research (IJRER), 4, 826-831, 2014.

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES

  • Pappu Kumar Saurav, Swapna Mansani, Partha Kayal, “A Simplified Multi-objective Technique for Placement of RESs and Capacitor Banks in Unbalanced Radial Distribution Network” 2024 IEEE International Conference on Power Electronics, Drives and Energy Systems (PEDES), NITK Surathkal, India, 18-21 December 2024.
  • Vahini Komanapalli1, Swapna Mansani, Santoshkumar Hampannavar, Deepa B, “Techno-Economic Feasibility Assessment of Hybrid Renewable System in Barak Valley, Northeastern State of India”,International conference on ‘Climate Change and Environmental Sustainability in Mountainous and Hilly Landscapes’ on Sep 30 – Oct 1, Assam University, India,2024.
  • Debasis Kumar Patel, Swapna Mansani, and Arup Kumar Goswami, “Active load flow analysis for balanced distribution system”, IEEE 4th International Conference on Sustainable Energy and Future Electric transportation (SEFET), Hyderabad, 31st July 2024 to 3rd August 2024. 
  • Pappu Kumar Saurav, Swapna Mansani, Partha Kayal, “Allocation of PV, wind, and biomass units with the multiobjective approach in an unbalanced power delivery network considering load and power generation uncertainty”, IEEE 4th International Conference on Sustainable Energy and Future Electric transportation (SEFET), Hyderabad, 31st July 2024 to 3rd August 2024. 
  • Srijani Mukhopadhyay, Swapna Mansani, Sreejith S, “Modeling and speed control of solar-battery-SC powered switched reluctance motor drive”, IEEE 4th International Conference on Sustainable Energy and Future Electric transportation (SEFET), Hyderabad, 31st July 2024 to 3rd August 2024. 
  • Deepa B, Santoshkumar Hampannavar, Swapna Mansani “Estimation of Phasor using Micro Phasor Measurement Unit (μPMU) in Smart Distribution Network for Situational Awareness”, IEEE 4th International Conference on Sustainable Energy and Future Electric transportation (SEFET), Hyderabad, 31st July 2024 to 3rd August 2024. (Accepted). 
  • Pappu Kumar Saurav, Swapna Mansani, Partha Kayal, “Integration of Hybrid Renewable Energy System with multi-objective Criteria in Power Delivery Network Considering Demand and Power Generation Uncertainty”, International Conference on Sustainable Power and Energy Research (ICSPER) NIT Warangal, India,March 2024.
  • Vahini Komanapalli, Swapna Mansani, Santoshkumar Hampannavar “Assessment and Analysis of PV-Wind-MSW based Microgrid: A Case Study”, 3rd International Symposium on Sustainable Energy And Technological Advancements (ISSETA), National Institute of Technology, Meghalaya, India, February, 2024
  • Pappu Kumar Saurav, Jahidul Islam, Plabita Borah, Swapna Mansani, Partha Kayal, “Allocation and Performance Assessment of Dispatchable DG with Multi-objective Planning Criteria”, 3rd International Conference on Smart Technologies for Power, Energy, and Control (STPEC 2023), KIIT University, Bhubaneswar, India December 2023.
  • Srijani Mukhopadhyay, Swapna Mansani, Sreejith S, “Position Sensorless Speed Control of SRM using ANFIS “, 2nd International Conference on Smart Grid Energy Systems and Control (SGESC-2023), 2023.
  • Debasis Kumar Patel, Swapna Mansani, Arup Kumar Goswami, “Impact of the Electric Vehicle Charging on the Power Systems” 2022 IEEE International Conference on Power Electronics, Drives and Energy Systems (PEDES), Jaipur, India, 2022, pp. 1-3, doi: 10.1109/PEDES56012.2022.10080817.
  • Rahul Gautam, Debasis Kumar Patel, Swapna Mansani, “A Flexible Two Stage Weakly Meshed Load Flow using Multi-Port Compensation Technique,” 2022 4th International Conference on Energy, Power and Environment (ICEPE), Shillong, India, 2022, pp. 1-5, doi: 10.1109/ICEPE55035.2022.9798195. 
  • Debasis Kumar Patel, Swapna Mansani, “Fast and Flexible Load Flow Solution for Balanced and Unbalanced Radial Distribution System,” 2022 4th International Conference on Energy, Power and Environment (ICEPE), Shillong, India, 2022, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/ICEPE55035.2022.9798102. 
  • Swapna Mansani, Santoshkumar Hampannavar, K. N. Patil, K Venkata Lakshmi Narayan, Bansilal Bairwa and Endalew Ayenew, “Wind Speed Assessment of Three Climate Zones of Ethiopia,” 2021 Innovations in Power and Advanced Computing Technologies (i-PACT), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 2021, pp. 1-4, doi: 10.1109/i-PACT52855.2021.9696756. 
  • Santoshkumar Hampannavar, B Deepa, M Swapna, “Micro Phasor Measurement Unit (μPMU) Placement for Maximum Observability in Smart Distribution Network,” 2021 IEEE PES/IAS PowerAfrica, Nairobi, Kenya, 2021, pp. 1-5, doi: 10.1109/PowerAfrica52236.2021.9543234. 
  • Himabindu N Santoshkumar H Swapna M, “Wind Speed Assessment and Techno-Economic Analysis of a Community Microgrid in Warm and Humid Climate Zone of India,” IEEE EUROCON 2021 – 19th International Conference on Smart Technologies, Lviv, Ukraine, 2021, pp. 531-536, doi: 10.1109/EUROCON52738.2021.9535543. 
  • Santoshkumar Hampannavar, K N Patil, Swapna Mansani, Udaykumar R.Y, Endalew Ayenew, ” Wind Potential Assessment of a Station Located in Warm and Humid Climate of India”, International Conference on Trends and Recent Advances in Civil Engineering (TRACE), Amity University, Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India, 2020.
  • Santoshkumar Hampannavar, C.Bhanu Teja, Swapna M, Uday Kumar R.Y, “Performance Improvement of M-Class Phasor Measurement Unit (PMU) using Hamming and Blackman Windows,” 2020 IEEE International Conference on Power Electronics, Smart Grid and Renewable Energy (PESGRE2020), Cochin, India, 2020, pp. 1-5, doi: 10.1109/PESGRE45664.2020.9070382.
  • Asha Rani M A, Chakkarapani Manickam, Sreejith S and Swapna Mansani, ” Maximum Power Extraction from a Wind Driven DFIG under Unbalanced Grid Voltage”, 2nd International conference on power engineering computing and control (PECCON 2019), Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India, 2019.
  • Swapna M, and Udaykumar R. Y, “Backward sweep technique-based phase balancing algorithm for secondary distribution system,” 2017 IEEE PES Asia-Pacific Power and Energy Engineering Conference (APPEEC), Bangalore, India, 2017, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/APPEEC.2017.8308968. 
  • Swapna M, and Udaykumar R. Y, “An optimal phase balancing technique for unbalanced three-phase secondary distribution systems,” 2016 IEEE 7th Power India International Conference (PIICON), Bikaner, India, 2016, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/POWERI.2016.8077172. 
  • Swapn, M, and Udaykumar R. Y, “An algorithm for optimal phase balancing of secondary distribution systems at each node,” 2016 IEEE PES 13th International Conference on Transmission & Distribution Construction, Operation & Live-Line Maintenance (ESMO), Columbus, OH, USA, 2016, pp. 1-5, doi: 10.1109/TDCLLM.2016.8013241. 
  • Swapna M, Peddi Reddy, Udaykumar R, ” Performance Study of Secondary Distribution Feeder for Phase Balancing at each Candidate Node”, 2nd IEEE International Conference on Innovations in Information, embedded and Communication systems (ICIIECS 2015), Coimbatore, Tamilnadu, India, 2015.
  • Swapna M, and Udaykumar R. Y, ” Phase Balancing Techniques”, 4th International Engineering Symposium (IES 2015), Kumamoto University, Japan, 2015.

BOOK CHAPTERS

  • Sanjeeva Kumar, Santoshkumar Hampannavar, Abhishek Choudhary, Swapna Mansani (2023) “Short-term Load Forecasting: A Recurrent Dynamic Neural Network Approach Using NARX”, Advances in Data-Driven Computing and Intelligent Systems.
  • Hampannavar S., Swapna M., Deepa B., Yaragatti U. (2022) “Micro Phasor Measurement Unit (μPMU) in Smart Distribution Network: A Cyber Physical System”, Algorithms for Intelligent Systems. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-7136-4_1.
  • Hampannavar S., Mandi R., Swapna M., Udaykumar R.Y., Naik A., Komanapalli V. (2021) “Optimal Placement of GEV Aggregation in Smart Grid: An Evolutionary Computation Algorithm Approach”, Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 700. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-8221-9_294.
  • Hampannavar S., Rajashekar M., Swapna M., Udaykumar R.Y., Komanapalli V. (2021) “Agent-Based Wireless Sensor System for V2G Aggregation in Smart Grid”, Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 700. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-8221-9_292.
  • Santoshkumar, K.N.Patil, Swapna Mansani Udaykumar R Y, Rajashekar Mandi, Nandakumar C (2020), “Wind Potential Assessment for Micro Power Generation in Tropical Wet Climate of India”, Springer-Recent advances in power systems.
  • Swapna Mansani, Udaykumar R Y, Santoshkumar Hampannavar, Asha Rani Ma and Sreejith S (2020), “Phase Balancing of DG Integrated Smart Secondary Distribution Network”, Springer-Advances in smart grid technology.
  • Sreejith S, Asha Rani M A, Swapna Mansani (2020), “Estimation of Pay Back Period Incorporating SVC and TCSC in SCUC Problem”, Springer-Advances in smart grid technology.
  • N Himabindu, Rajashekhar P Mandi, Swapna Mansani (2020), “Wireless Access Support for Distribution Management System (DMS) to Microgrid Communication in Power Network”, Springer-Electronic Systems and Intelligent.

PROJECTS

WORKSHOPS ORGANIZED

Sl.No Name of the Workshop Date From Date To
1 Department of Electrical Engineering in Association with Institute’s Innovation Council organized A 2 days’ workshop on “Women Empowerment through Entrepreneurship: Opportunities and Challenges” 12-08-2022 13-08-2022
2 Department of Electrical Engineering in Association with Institute’s Innovation Council organized an online workshop on “Sustainable Energy Research, Innovation & Business Plan” 21-03-2022 25-03-2022
3 AICTE Training And Learning (ATAL) sponsored ONE WEEK Faculty Development Program on Green Technology for Sustainable Life: Indian Perspective 19-07-2021 23-07-2021
4 Department of Electrical Engineering in Association with TEQIP III organized an webinar on ” The Smart City Building Blocks and Their Synergy with Smart Villages” 21-09-2020 21-09-2020
5 TEQIP III sponsored Five days online Workshop on “Advancements in Electrical Engineering: An Academic & Industrial Approach” 03-08-2020 07-08-2020

CONFERENCE ORGANIZED

PHD SCHOLARS

Sl. No. Name of the Scholar Status Research Area Supervision Full Time/Part Time
1  Debasis Kumar Patel Awarded  Development of Balanced and Unbalanced Load Flow Algorithms for Passive and Active Distribution Systems Sole Supervisor Full Time
2  Pappu Kumar Saurav Ongoing  Distributed Energy Resources Integration in Unbalanced Microgrid Main Supervisor Full Time
3  Komanapalli Vahini Ongoing  Energy Management System for Microgrid Sole Supervisor Full Time
4  Srijani Mukhopadhyay Ongoing  Sensor Less Position Control of Switched Reluctance Motor based Electric Vehicle Main Supervisor Full Time
5 Nandakumara C Ongoing Sole Supervisor Part Time

M.TECH. SCHOLARS

Sl. No. Name of Scholar Status Thesis Title Supervision
 1  Vikas Kumar  Completed Optimal DG Allocation in Balanced and Unbalanced Distribution System  Sole Supervisor
 2  Rahul Gautam  Completed Load Flow Analysis of Balanced and Unbalanced Weakly Meshed Distribution System using Two Stage Backward Forward Sweep Multi-Port Compensation Technique  Sole Supervisor