KEC Faculty Profile

Membership in Professional Bodies

        IEEE Professional Member - 94167691

         ISTE Life Member - LM 65277

Journals Published (International)

1)      T.Guna Sekar and Dr.R.Anita, ‘Design and Implementation of solar PV for power quality enhancement in three-phase four-wire distribution system’, Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology(JEET), South Korea, vol.10. no.1, 2015.

2)      T. Guna Sekar and Dr.R. Anita, ‘Tuning of PI Controller for Power Quality Enhancement in Distribution System using GA and PSO’, International Journal of Applied Engineering Research, vol.9, no.24, 2014.

3)      T.Guna Sekar and Dr.R.Anita, “PI-Fuzzy Hysteresis Controller based Unified Power Quality Conditioner”, International Journal of Engineering Trends and Technology, vol. 8, no. 8, 2014.

4)      T.Guna Sekar and Dr.R.Anita, ‘Design of UPQC by Optimizing PI Controller using Genetic Algorithm and Particle Swarm Optimization for Improvement of Power Quality”, International Journal of Engineering and Technical Research, vol. 2, no. 4, 2014.

5)   T.Guna Sekar and Dr.R.Anita, “Fuzzy Controller based Neutral current harmonic suppression in distribution system “, International Journal of Engineering and Technology, vol.5, no.5, 2013.

6)    T.Guna Sekar and Dr.R.Anita, “Improvement of Power Quality in distribution System using Fuzzy-Unit Vector Controller”, International Review on Modelling and Simulations, vol. 6, no. 6, 2013.

7)      T.Guna Sekar and Dr.R.Anita, “A Novel Control Strategy for Series Active Filter in Distribution System using Unit Vector Control”, International Journal of Computer Applications, vol.65, issue no.19, March 2013.

8)      T.Guna Sekar and Dr.R.Anita, “Series active power filter for three phase four wire distribution system using artificial Neural Network”, European Journal of Scientific Research, vol.79, issue no.3, June 2012.

9)      T.Guna Sekar and K.Cibimuthu, “A Novel approach for Blood Tests based on Image Processing Techniques”, International Journal of Advanced Research in Electronics and Communication Engineering, vol.4, no.2, pp 314-317, February 2015.

10)  S.Shoba, T.Guna Sekar and A.Amuthaval, “Classification and Identification of Fault location and Direction by Directional Relaying schemes using ANN”, International Journal of Emerging Technology in Computer Science and Electronics, vol.20, n0.2, pp.29-33, February 2016.

11)  P.Tamilshankar and T.Guna Sekar, “Computer Aided Diseases Identification for Betal Leafs”, International Research Journal of Engineering and Technology, vol.02, n0.9, pp.2577-2581, December 2015.

12)  L.Karthikeyan and T.Guna Sekar, “Design of Low Power Pulse Triggered using Conditional Pulse Enhancement Scheme”, International Journal of Modern Communication Technologies & Research, vol.2, no.1, pp.5-8, January 2014.

13)  G.Prabhakaran and T.Guna Sekar, “Mitigation of Power Quality Problems with Reduced Switches Using Unified Power Quality Conditioner”, International Journal of Engineering Studies and Technical Approach, vol.2, no.2, pp.81-97, March 2015.

14)  K.G.Anurekha and T.Guna Sekar, “Simulation of Current Harmonic Compensation using series active filter in Distribution System”, International Journal of Engineering and Technical Research, vol.01, n0.10, pp.19-25, December 2013.

15)  T.Guna Sekar, G.Prabhakaran and S.JanaRanjini, “Power Quality Enhancement in Three-Phase Four-Wire Distribution System using Vector Fuzzy Controller”, International Journal of Applied Engineering Research, vol.10, no.01, pp. 1094-1100, March 2015

16)  S.Mahendra Kumar and T.Guna Sekar, “Cross-Layer Design for Energy Efficient Multicast video transmission over Mobile Ad-HOC Networks”, Asian Journal of Research in Social Sciences and Humanities, vol.6, no.9, pp.719-734, September 2016

17)  T.Guna Sekar, Dr.R.Anita and R.Chandrasekar, “A New Control method for Series Active Filter in Distribution System using Unit Vector Control”, International Journal of Computer Applications, vol.65, no.19, pp.8-14, March 2013.

18)  U.Jayalakshmi and T.Guna Sekar, “Optimization based Congestion Management using Price based Demand Response Programs”, Journal of Electrical and Power System Engineering, vol.03, no.01, pp-19-27, March 2017.

19)  K.Senthil Prakash and T.Guna Sekar, “Power Awar Qos Management in Nide-Disjoint Multipath Routing Protocol for Mobile Adhoc Networks”, Asian Journal of Research in Social Sciences and Humanities, vol.6, no.10, pp.524-534, October 2016.

20)  K.Senthil Prakash and Dr.T.Gunasekar, "A survey on End-to-End performance metrics of QoS-aware multicast routing protocols for mobile ad hoc networks", International Journal of Networking and Virtual Organizations, Vol.16, No.3, pp. 283-297, 2016.

21)  K.Mohanaprakash and T.Gunasekar, " Smart Alarm System for Women Security", International Journal of Engineering and Management  Research, 2019.

22)  Dr.T.Gunasekar, R.Sharmila, P.Sripavithra, M.Dhinesh, "Industrial Accident Prevention and Hybrid Pollution Control System", International             Journal for research in Applied Science & Engineering Technology, Volume-7, Issue-3, pp.81195-1201, March 2019.

23)  K.Senthil Prakash and Dr.T.Gunasekar, "Enhancing Network Duration by Secured node Disjoint Clustering for Mobile Adhoc Network", Applied Mathematics & Information Sciences, September  2019 .

24)  S.Mahendrakumar and Dr.T.Gunasekar, "An Analyzing of Cross Layer Design for Implementing Adaptive Antenna Technique in Mobile Ad-Hoc             Networks", Journal of Testing and Evaluation, Volume-47, Issue-6, pp.4128-4140, November 2019.

25)  P.Tamilarasu, V.Kumaresan, Dr.T.Gunasekar, Dr.T.Logeswaran, M.Suresh, "Design of Automated Vehicle Fueling System", International Journal of Recent Technology and Engineering, November 2019.   

26)  Dr.T.Gunasekar, C.Gopinath, N.Manoj, A.D.Naveena and T.Nandhini, "Smart Monitoring Vehicle for Bore Well Vehicle", International Journal of  Scientific and Technology Research, Feburary 2020.

27)  Mr.V.Kumaresan, Dr.T.Gunasekar, P.Tamilarasu and P.Karthikeyan, "Development of Autonomous Machine for Rice Planting", International  Journal of Scientific and Technology Research, Febuary 2020.        

28)  MS. P. Kokila, T. Mohana, D. Indumathi, A. Deepika, M. Mohanaselvi and Dr.T.Gunasekar, "Analysis of Gain and Directivity of 5.6ghz Microstrip  Patch Array Antenna", Bioscience Biotechnology Research Communications, Volume 13, No.04 (Special Issue), pp.146-149, June 2020.

29)  P.E Rubini, Dr.T.Guna Sekar, A.Selvi, V.Subhashini and Dr.R.Nagarajan, "Content Based Image Retrival method using Fuzzy Heuristics",  Annuals os RSCB, Vol.25, No.3, pp.2254-2263, 2021

30)  C.Kumar, D.Magnadlin Mary and Dr.T.Gun Sekar,"MOCHIO: A Novel multi-objective coronavirus Herd Immunity Optimization Algorithm for Solving Brushless direct current wheel motor design Optimization problem:, Automatika Journal of Control, Measurements Electronics, Computing and Communication, Vol.63, No.1, pp.149-170, 2022.   

31)  Attia, Mohammed El Hadi; Kaliyaperumal, Saravanan; Thangamuthu, Gunasekar; Rengaraju, “Impact of water depth on thermal efficiency, exergy efficiency, and exergy losses of finned acrylic solar still: an experimental study”, ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH, Vol. 29, No.15, pp.21839-21850, 2022.

32)  Vembu, Savithiri; Attia, Mohammed El Hadi; Thangamuthu, Mohanasundaram; Thangamuthu, Gunasekar, “Energy, exergy, and economic  analysis of solar still using coal cylinder fins: an experimental study”, ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH, 2022.

33)   S.K.Kabilesh, D.Mohanapriya, P.Suseendhar, J,Indra, T.Gunasekar and N.Sakthivel, “Research on Artificial Intelligence based Fruit Diseases Identification System (AI-FIDS) with Internet of Things (IoT), Journal of Intelligent and Fuzzy Systems,Vol.44, pp.6953-6608, 2023.

                                                                                                                      Papers Presented in National Conference

1. 1. T.Guna Sekar and B.Saranraj, ‘Efficient VLSI Architecture for FIR filters using GDI Techniques’, in National Conference on Advanced Telecommunication Technologies, during 17th March, 2010 at KST college of Engineering, Tiruchencode.

   2.  T.Guna Sekar, ‘Reduction of Harmonics in Distribution system using RUV Controller, in Applications of Emerging Technology in Electrical  Sciences (AETES), during 27th March, 2010 at Velalar college of Engineering and Technology, Erode.

   3. T.Guna Sekar and R.Chandrasekar, ‘Synchronous Reference Frame based series filter in three-phase four-wire distribution systems’, in National Conference on Recent Advancements and challenges in Electrical Engineering and Applications, during 29th Feb & 1st March 2012 at IRTT, Erode.

   4. T.Guna Sekar and N.Ananth, ‘Fuzzy Logic controller based Series Active Filter for Distribution Systems’, in the IEEE Student branch National Conference on Innovations in Electrical Engineering on 31st Jan 2013 at MPNMJ Engineering College, Erode.

   5. T.Guna Sekar, “Fault Location, Identification and Classification by Directional Relaying Schemes using ANN”, National Conference on Advanced Computational Intelligence Systems, Organized by Nandha Engineering College, on 19th March 2016.

   6. U.Jayalakshmi and T.Guna Sekar, “Optimization based Congestion Management using Incentive based Demand Response Programs”, National Conference on Emerging Technologies in Electrical Systems, Organized by Government College of Engineering, Salem, on 28th and 29th March 2017.

   7. Dr.T.Gunasekar, "Solar Power Automatic Turmeric Planting Machine", National Conference on Advanced in Computational Intelligence and Instrumentation Technology, Kongu Engineering College, March 2019.

Papers Presented in International Conference

1. T.Guna Sekar, R.Chandrasekar and Dr.R.Anita, “Harmonic Suppression in Three-Phase Four-Wire Distribution Systems Using Series Active Filter”, in International Conference on Computing and Control Engineering, 12th & 13th April 2012.

2. T.Guna Sekar, K.Prabhakaran and R.Janaranjini, ‘Power Quality Enhancement in three phase four wire distribution system using Vector Fuzzy Controller’, IEEE Sponsored International Conference on Intelligent Systems and Control, 9th January 2015 Coimbatore.

3. S.Shoba and T.Guna Sekar, “Classification and Identification of Fault location and Direction by Directional Relaying schemes using ANN”, International Conference on Advances in Electrical, Electronics and Computational Intelligence, Organized by K.S.R College of Engineering, on 22nd February 2016.

4. T.Guna Sekar and K.Rajavelu, “Fault Detection and Isolation in Low Voltage DC Bus Micro-Grid”, International Conference on Current Innovations in Engineering and Technology, Organized by RVS Technical Campus, on 27th December 2015.

5. S.JanaRanjini, T.Guna Sekar and S.Saravanan, “A Novel Four Phase Interleaved Boost Converter for a Standalone Hybrid Power System using Renewable Energy Sources”, International Conference on Innovative Strategies in Renewable Energies and its Applications, on 5th and 6th March, 2015.

6. U.Jayalakshimi, Dr.T.Gunasekar, "Congestion Management by Price based Demand Response Programs", International Conference on Innovations in Information Embedded and Communication Systems, March 2017.

7. Dr.T.Gunasekar, "Generation of Wealthout of Electronic Waste", International Conference on Recent Innovations in Engineering, Technology and Management, Nandha Engineering College, March 2018.

8. T.Gunasekar, P.Kokila, T.Mohanasundaram and D.Livinkumar, "Detection and Categorization of Transmission Line Faults using Artificial Neural Network", 2022 8th International COnference on Advanced Computing and Communication Systems (ICACCS) June 2022.

9. P.Tamilarasu, Dr.T.Gunasekar, J.Naveen Raj, K.Padmesh, P.Ranjith Lakshmanan and M.C.Vijayan, "A Novel Control Strategy for VOltage Sag, Swell mitigation in Distribution System using DSTATCOM for 14 bus System", 2023 9th International Conference on Electrical Energy Systems (ICEES) 2023.

10. T.Gunasekar, T.Mohanasundaram, K.S.Nishanthkumar, S.N.Arvind, S.Srikanth and L.Sudharsan, "Analysis of Lithium-ion Battery Degradation in V2G Integrated System", 2023 9th International Conference on Electrical Energy Systems (ICEES) 2023.

11. T.Gunasekar, T.Mohanasundaram, P.Kokila and R.Mathinraj, "Automatic Flood ALert System using IoT", 2023 9th Internatonal conference on Eletrical Energy SYstems (ICEES), May 2023.

Books and Laboratory Manual Prepared

• Prepared laboratory manual for the subject DC Machines and Transformers (Internal circulation only).

• Prepared laboratory manual for the subject Synchronous and Induction Machines (Internal circulation only

• Prepared laboratory manual for the subject Circuit Theory (Internal circulation only).

• Prepared laboratory manual for the subject Power System Simulation (Internal circulation only).

Journal Reviewer/Editorial Board Memeber

•               IET Power Electronics Journal

•               International Journal of Software and Hardware Research in Engineering

•               Journal of Computer Science

•               International Journal of Science, Technology and Society

•               International Journal of Modern Electrical & Electronics Engineering

•               International Journal of Modern Instrumentation and Control Engineering

•               International Journal of Modern Computer Science & Technology

•               International Journals of Modern & Advanced Engineering Research

Special Lectures/Chief Guest speech Delievered

1. Sponsored Seminar on Renewable Energy Sources, Institute of Road and Transport Technology, Erode on 22.03.2010.

2. Stress Management, Department of EEE, Kongu Engineering College, Erode on 21.02.2012

3. Interesting Facts, , Department of EEE, Kongu Engineering College, Erode on 24.08.2012

4. Session Chair for Paper Presentation, Kongu Polytechnic College on 22.09.2012.

5. Research Issues on Wide Area Minitoring Networks, Kongu Engineering College on 29.09.2012.

6. Modeling and Simulation of High Power Components using various software tools on 30.08.2014.

7. Matlab Applications on Power Systems, Department of EEE, Kongu Engineering College, Erode on 17.03.2015.

8. Power Systems Transients, Vivekanandha COllege of Engineering for Women on 06.01.2016.

9. Stability Analysis in Power System, Angel College of Engineering, Tirupur on 01.10.2016.

10.  Special Electrical Machines, Vivekanandha COllege of Engineering for Women on 18.02.2017.

11. Energy Auditing, Vivekanandha COllege of Engineering for Women on 16.08.2018.

12. Outcome Based Education, Nandha Engineering College on 23.05.2019.

Awards and Recognitions

Received Best Outstanding Researcher Award from Honorable Chief Minister of Pondicherry, Thiru.V.Narayanasamy (Top Engineers Students and Faculty Awards -TESFA 2017) during 26.03.2017.

             Received Best Faculty Award for the Academic Year 2016-2017 during Annual Day function held during                                  06.04.2017.

            Received P.K. Das Best Faculty Award from Nehru Group of Institutions, COimbatore, 15th December 2019.

            Received Ulavan Best Agri Innovator Award from News18 TamilNadu Channel during 17th January 2020.

P.hD Guidance

• • Recognized supervisor of Anna University, Chennai.

  • One Research Scholar, S.Mahendrakumar completed PhD under the guidance during 11th October 2019.

  • Currently guiding four Ph.D research scholars in the area of Electrical and Computer Networks under Anna University, Chennai

PG Project Guided

1.      R.Chandrasekar, ‘Harmonic Suppression in Distribution systems using Series Active Filter’ May 2012.

2.      N.Anand, ‘Fuzzy Logic Controller based design of Series Active Filter for harmonic Elimination in Neutral conductor’ May 2013.

3.      B.SaranRaj, ‘Design of High Speed Architecture for an LDPC Decoder’ May 2013.

4.      K.G.Anu Rekha, ‘Enhancement of Power Quality in Distribution System using Unified Power Quality Conditioner’ May 2014.

5.      L.Karthikeyan, ‘Design of Low-Power Pulse-Triggered Flip Flop using Conditional Pulse-Enhancement Scheme’ May 2014.

6.      K.Cibimuthu, ‘A Novel approach for blood analysis based on image processing techniques’, April 2015.

7.      S.JanaRanjini, ‘Energy Management in a micro grid using demand response management techniques’, April 2015.

8.      G.Prabhakaran, ‘Mitigation of Power Quality problems with reduced switches using Unified Power Quality Conditioner’, April                                  2015.

9.   S.Shoba, ‘Classification and Identification of Fault Location and Direction by directional Relaying Schemes using Intelligent   Techniques’,                        April 2016.

10.  P.Tamilsankar, ‘Computer Aided Diseases Identification for Betel Leaf’, April 2016.

11. K.Rajavelu, ‘Fault Detection and Isolation in Low Voltage DC Bus Micro-Grid’, April 2016.

12. U.Jayalakshmi, 'Optimization based Congestion Management using Price based Demand Response Program', April 2017.

UG Project Guided

1.      Design and Implementation of High Efficiency Switched Capacitor based Resonant Converter  April 2012.

2.      Design and Implementation of Boost Circuit for Wind Generator’ April 2012.

3.      Design and Development of prototype model for Distribution systems using Series active Filter’ April 2013.

4.      Control of Switchyard operations in Power Station using PLC’ April 2014.

5.      GSM Based Defence Locomotive Navigation’ August 2013.

6.      Mileage measurement based on speed maintenance of the vehicle using Embedded Controller’ April 2015.

7.      Static Var Compensation using ATMEL Controller’, April 2016.

8.    Dynamic Speed Control of DC Motor using Voice Recognition, April 2017.

9.   Electronic Waste Management Systems, November 2017.

10. Automatic Air Ventilation System using Arduino, April, 2018.

11. IoT Based Automatic Turmeric Planting Agribot, April 2019.

12. Smart Monitoring Vehicle for Bore Well Vehicle, November 2019.

13. Instant Surveiller for Bore Well Vehicle, April 2020.

Grants Received

Received a grant of Rs.85,995 towards ISTE-STTP on Electric Power System from IIT Kharagpur (Under NMEICT, MHRD, Govt. of India)

Course Materials:

1. https://drive.google.com/open?id=0Bx0jXvXEFYV6Y0VwTUc0dER5bGs (Circuit Breakers)

2. https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bx0jXvXEFYV6N2ZaT2tZMmk5MHM/view?usp=sharing (Contactors)

3. https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bx0jXvXEFYV6bXh5QkRpdTZuSUE/view?usp=sharing (Current Chopping)

4. https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bx0jXvXEFYV6UVExWkI3LVRtTG8/view?usp=sharing (Step and Touch Potential)

5. https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bx0jXvXEFYV6R05URVBoX01yWkU/view?usp=sharing (Earthing)

6. https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bx0jXvXEFYV6eEdTMWp4LXdPd28/view?usp=sharing (Faults in Power Systems)

7. https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bx0jXvXEFYV6ZFpVTGo5M2VtMTQ/view?usp=sharing (Generator Protection)

8. https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bx0jXvXEFYV6UnE0X1dqUVo3NGM/view?usp=sharing (Transformer Protection)

9. https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bx0jXvXEFYV6TUdIeXZWQUQ4SzQ/view?usp=sharing (Transmission Line Protection)

10. https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bx0jXvXEFYV6dnZXRzNzazV4aU0/view?usp=sharing (Isolators)

11. https://youtu.be/8bfAbEWxWXQ

12. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLUMRUIKOzk

13. https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bx0jXvXEFYV6RjBwTlUtQmFKUzQ/view?usp=sharing (Power System Stability)

14. https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bx0jXvXEFYV6UDE4dXFmX3ZKd1U/view?usp=sharing (Special Electrical Machines)

15. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1_IO8cILWa4ydeIvvbXM5_Z2JtnV7_Mfq/view?usp=sharing (Thermal Power Plant)

16. https://drive.google.com/file/d/116Ms56Arg3x_k0lCg56xw8WrhgDVuqhb/view?usp=sharing (Hydro Power Plant)

17. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1bNPQUn1xeoId2rOWsqp36i5XvS4w99gu/view?usp=sharing

18. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1AWJHQsjYdms02rp3ClPHiTX6JDpy9TB7/view?usp=sharing (Faults in Power systems)

19. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ZyCqRBsxlGU80Pf4wuS0c9JqPIrbB-AO/view?usp=sharing (Advanced relays)

20. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Tb6bisSRFKEqgrbXbWY1FFTmOq87JZA7/view?usp=sharing (Transformer)

Consultancy Projects

Funded Programmes Organized (Seminar/Conference/Workshop/FDP/STTP/Other)