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Rajinda Senaratne

Electrical Engineer
Power Networks
Asia, Australia-Pacific Power
Parsons Brinckerhoff

Level 4, Northbank Plaza
69 Ann Street
Brisbane QLD 4001
Australia
Tel. : +61 7 38546582
Website: http://www.pbworld.com/
 
Residence: Red Hill, Queensland, Australia
E-mail: rajinda_s@hotmail.com
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Biography


Profile

Rajinda is an electrical engineer with over 3 years of work experience in power transmission and distribution. He has been involved with several projects supplying power to mine sites and gas fields, which include designing substations and reticulation, and preparing specification. He has prepared power and protection single line diagrams for substations up to 132 kV, prepared general arrangement and elevation drawings, and drafted several using AutoCAD.

 

Rajinda has been involved with concept design and option analysis for different substation configurations and comparing approaches for connecting transmission lines to substations. He has assessed the condition of 110 kV power cables and ancillary equipment, and has also been involved with low voltage reticulation designs for mine sites and road lighting.

 

He is interested in substation primary system and protection detailed design, high voltage cable circuit design, and other closely related areas.

Education

• Ph.D. in Engineering, The University of Melbourne, Australia (2008)
• M.Eng. in Electronics and Telecommunication, University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka (2004)
• B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering, University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka (2002)

Electrical Engineering Projects

• Burgos Wind Farm Due Dillegence (2012), Philippine, Energy Development Corporation. Reviewed and modified 115 kV transmission line and tower design review report.
• Wandoan Coal Project (2012), Surat Basin, Qld., Australia, Wandoan Coal Pty Ltd. Calculated short circuit forces on the span between 132 kV transmission line terminal structure and substation gantry.
• Point Vernon to Toogoom 66 kV Power Line (2012), Hervey Bay, Qld., Australia, Ergon Energy. Calculated electromagnetic field to check corona formation, and revised final report.
• Merredin Energy Power Station Project (2012), Merredin, WA, Australia, Merredin Energy. Checking the compliance of wiring identification method in motor control centre with Australian Standards.
• Diamantina D 132 kV Switchyard (2011), Mount Isa, Qld., Australia, APA Group. Prepared specification for a 132 kV switchyard and associated transmission lines, power and protection SLD, GA and elevation drawings.
• Power Development Concept Select Study (2011), Surat and Bowen Basin, Qld., Australia, Arrow Energy. Developed options for supplying power to gas fields. Tasks included analysing options for different substation configurations, comparing approaches for connecting 275 kV and 330 kV transmission lines to substations, preparing single line diagrams, cost estimates and multi-criteria options assessment.
• Rate 3 Road Lighting Electrical Remedial Works (2010–2011), Qld., Australia, Department of Transport and Main Roads. Designed low voltage switchboard and reticulation.
• RCR Energy Diamantina Project (2010), Mica Creek, Qld., Australia, RCR Energy. Prepared concept design for a new combined-cycle power plant. Tasks included designing generator, transformer and feeder protection.
• Alpha Hancock Coal Feasibility Study (2010), Galilee Basin, Qld., Australia, Hancock Coal. Prepared single line diagrams and general arrangement layouts of 132/22 kV substations, and designed power reticulation of mine infrastructure area.
• Cable Condition Assessment (2010), Ashgrove, Qld., Australia, Powerlink. Assessed condition of 110 kV underground power cables and ancillary equipment.
• South Pine to Hays Inlet 110 kV Overhead Line (2010), Strathpine, Qld., Australia, Transfield Services. Visited site and measured earth resistivity for earthing study.
• Nebo Road Water Treatment Plant (2010), Mackay, Qld., Australia. Mackay Infrastructure Alliance. Assisted in cable layout design for switchroom entry and specification preparation, Mackay, Queensland, 2010
• United Project Pre-feasibility Study (2010), Singleton, NSW, Australia, United Collieries Pty Ltd. Involved power supply study into proposed expansion of existing mine site. Tasks included reviewing existing electrical loads, estimating required power capacity and preparing single line diagrams and general arrangement layouts of 66/22 kV substations and reticulation.
• North West Queensland Electricity Demand Supply (2009), Qld., Australia, NWQ Major Energy User Group. Assisted in proposal preparation. Tasks included calculating electric field to check corona formation, and reviewing 275 and 330 kV transmission line systems study results.
• Hidden Valley Project (2009), Morobe Province, Papua New Guinea, PNG Power. Reviewed    132/11 kV substation design, and prepared project correspondence.
• Adelaide Central Reinforcement (2009), Adelaide, SA, Australia. Electranet. Involved designing 275/66 kV city west substation. Assisted in preparing scope and estimate report.
• Smart Grid Blueprint Development (2008), Vic., Australia, SP AusNet. Assisted in developing blueprint. Tasks included designing the integration of smart grid modules, and preparing documents detailing the benefits achieved by different smart grid modules towards electricity distribution functions.

Computer Vision and Image Processing Research Projects

• Driver Fatigue Detection Using Facial Features
• Face Recognition

Publications

     Journal papers:

• Rajinda Senaratne, Budi Jap, Sara Lal, Arthur Hsu, Saman Halgamuge, Peter Fischer, "Comparing Two Video-Based Techniques for Driver Fatigue Detection: Classification versus optical flow approach", Machine Vision and Applications, SpringerLink, vol. 22, no. 4, pp. 597-618, 2011. (available online in SpringerLink)
• Rajinda Senaratne, Saman Halgamuge, Arthur Hsu, "Face Recognition by Extending Elastic Bunch Graph Matching with Particle Swarm Optimization", Journal of Multimedia, Academy Publisher, vol. 4, no. 4, pp. 204-214, 2009. (available online here) 
• Rajinda S. Senaratne, Saman K. Halgamuge, "Optimal Weighting of Landmarks for Face Recognition", Journal of Multimedia, Academy Publisher, vol. 1, no. 3, pp. 31-41, 2006. (available online here)

     Conference papers:

• N. C. Maddage, R. Senaratne, L-S. A. Low, M. Lech, N. Allen, "Video-Based Detection of the Clinical Depression in Adolescents", Proceedings of the 31st Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, IEEE, pp. 3723-3726, Minneapolis, September 2009. (available online in IEEE Xplore)
• I. Saeed, A. Wang, R. Senaratne, S. Halgamuge, "Using the Active Appearance Model to Detect Driver Fatigue", Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Information and Automation for Sustainability, IEEE, pp. 124-128, Melbourne, December 2007. (available online in IEEE Xplore) 
• Rajinda Senaratne, David Hardy, Bill Vanderaa, Saman Halgamuge, "Driver Fatigue Detection by Fusing Multiple Cues", Proceedings of the 4th International Symposium on Neural Networks, Nanjing, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, vol. 4492, part II, pp. 801-809, June 2007. (available online in SpringerLink)
• R. Senaratne, S. Halgamuge, "Optimised Landmark Model Matching for Face Recognition", Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition, IEEE Computer Society, Southampton, pp. 120-125, April 2006. (available online in IEEE xplore)
• R. Senaratne, S. Halgamuge, "Face Localisation for Driver Fatigue Recognition", Proceedings of International Conference on Information and Automation 2005, IEEE, pp. 13-18, Colombo, December 2005. (available online here)
• R. Senaratne, S. Halgamuge, "Using Particle Swarm Optimisation for Elastic Bunch Graph Matching to Recognise Faces", Proceedings of IEEE TENCON, IEEE, Melbourne, November 2005. (available online in IEEE Xplore)

     Above papers have been cited by other researchers in the following articles: click here

 
 
 

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