Patents:
1. Indian Patent (Granted, Patent No. 349889, Grant date: 22th Oct 2020, Appli. No. 2908/MUM/2012 filed on 3rd October, 2012), Title: A METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SOLAR PV-WIND INTEGRATION SYSTEM WITH OPTIMAL NUMBER OF POWER CONVERTERS AND INHERENT SYSTEM STABILITY
Inventors: Rupesh Wandhare and Vivek Agarwal
2. Indian Patent (Granted, Patent No. 313686, Grant date: 03rd June 2019, Appli. No. 2409/MUM/2011 filed on 26th Aug. 2011 ), Title: AN OPTIMUM EMULATOR OF THE DYNAMIC CHARACTERISTICS OF A WIND TURBINE
Inventors: Vivek Agarwal, Rahul Patel, Bhavik Chaudhuri and Rupesh Wandhare
3. Indian Patent (Application No. 201821004618 A filed on 7th Feb. 2018), Title: SINUSOIDAL PUMP CONTROLLER WITH A MAXIMUM POWER POINT TRACKER (MPPT) FOR EFFICIENT WATER PUMPING
Inventors: Apoorva Bhatt, Nimesh Sheth, Rupesh Wandhare and Naresh Jotwani
4. Indian Patent (Application No. 202111023691 filed on 27th May 2021), Title: A HYBRID CHARGING SYSTEM
Inventors: Rupesh Wandhare, Vrishabh Randive, Kamlesh Yadav, Chandan Banarjee
Publications:
Journal papers:
1. Rupesh Wandhare and Vivek Agarwal, “Novel Integration of PV-Wind Energy System with Enhanced Efficiency”, IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, vol. 30, no. 7, pp. 3638 – 3649, July 2015.
2. Rupesh Wandhare and Vivek Agarwal, “Novel stability enhancing control strategy for centralized PV - grid systems,” IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, vol. 5, no. 3, pp. 1389 – 1396, Feb. 2014.
3. Rupesh Wandhare and Vivek Agarwal, “Reactive power capacity enhancement of a PV-grid system to increase PV penetration level,” IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, vol. 5, no. 4, pp. 1845 - 1854, April 2014.
4. Sushil Thale, Rupesh Wandhare and Vivek Agarwal, “A Novel Reconfigurable Microgrid Architecture with Renewable Energy Sources and Storage”, IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications, vol. 51, no. 2, pp. 1805 - 1816, March 2015.
5. K. Yadav, O. Sastry, R. Wandhare, N. Sheth, M. Kumar, B. Bora, R. Singh, R. Kumar, “Performance comparison of controllers for solar PV water pumping” Journal of Solar Energy, Science Direct- Elsevier, 119, pp. 195-202, June 2015.
6. K. Yadav, A. Kumar, O. Sastry, R. Wandhare, “Solar photovoltaics pumps operating head selection for the optimum efficiency” Journal of Renewable Energy, Science Direct- Elsevier, vol. 134, pp. 169-177, April 2019.
7. K. Yadav, A. Kumar, O. Sastry, R. Wandhare, “An assessment for the selection of weather profiles for performance testing of SPV pumps in Indian climate” Journal of Solar Energy, Science Direct- Elsevier, vol. 179, pp. 11-23, February 2019.
Conference Papers:
1. Rupesh Wandhare and Vivek Agarwal, “A Novel Technique for THD Control in Grid Connected Photovoltaic Systems using Step Variable Inductor Approach,” in 35th IEEE Photovoltaic Specialist Conference (PVSC-2010), Honolulu (HI), USA, June 2010.
2. Rupesh Wandhare and Vivek Agarwal, “Advance Control Scheme and Operating Modes for Large Capacity Centralized PV-Grid Systems to Overcome Penetration Issues,” in 37th IEEE Photovoltaic Specialist Conference (PVSC-2011), Seattle (WA), USA, June 2011.
3. Rupesh Wandhare and Vivek Agarwal, “Novel Control Scheme for High Power Centralized PV-Grid System to Realize Functionalities of AVR and Governor as in Conventional Generators,” in 37th IEEE Photovoltaic Specialist Conference (PVSC-2011), Seattle (WA), USA, June 2011.
4. Rupesh Wandhare and Vivek Agarwal, “A Low Cost Light Weight and Accurate Photovoltaic Emulator,” in 37th IEEE Photovoltaic Specialist Conference (PVSC-2011), Seattle (WA), USA, June 2011.
5. Rupesh Wandhare and Vivek Agarwal, “Novel control scheme to reduce the effect of intermittent solar radiation on the grid connected PV system power output without losing MPPT,” in 27th IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition (APEC-2012), Orlando (FL), USA, Feb. 2012.
6. Rupesh Wandhare and Vivek Agarwal, “A Modified Control Strategy for Centralized PV – Grid Systems for Assisting Dynamic Stability to Overcome Penetration Issues,” in 38th IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference (PVSC-2012), Austin (TX), USA, June 2012.
7. Rupesh Wandhare and Vivek Agarwal, “A Control Strategy to reduce the effect of Intermittent Solar Radiation and Wind Velocity in the Hybrid Photovoltaic/Wind SCIG System without losing MPPT,” in 38th IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference (PVSC-2012), Austin (TX), USA, June 2012.
8. Tejash Naik, Rupesh Wandhare, and Vivek Agarwal, “Three Level NPC Inverter with a Novel Voltage Equalisation For PV Grid Integration”, in IEEE Power and Energy Conference (PECI-2013), Urbana (IL), USA, Feb. 2013.
9. Rupesh G. Wandhare, Sachin Jain, and Vivek Agarwal, “Novel Multi-Input Solar PV Topologies for 1-Ph and 3-Ph Standalone Applications to Mitigate the Effects of Partial Shading,” in 28th IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition (APEC- 2013), Long Beach (CA) USA, March 2013.
10. Rupesh Wandhare, Sushi Thale, and Vivek Agarwal, "Reconfigurable Hierarchical Control of a Microgrid Developed with PV, Wind, Micro-hydro, Fuel Cell and Ultra-Capacitor,” in 28th IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition (APEC- 2013), Long Beach (CA) USA, March 2013.
11. Rupesh Wandhare and Vivek Agarwal, “A Large Photovoltaic Power Control Algorithm,” in 39th IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference (PVSC-2013), Tampa (FL), USA, June 2013.
12. Rupesh Wandhare and Vivek Agarwal, “Precise Active and Reactive Power Control of the PV-DGS Integrated with Weak Grid to Increase PV Penetration,” in 40th IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference (PVSC-2014), Denvor, (CO), USA, June 2014.
13. Rupesh Wandhare, Sushil Thale and Vivek Agarwal, “Design of a Photovoltaic Power Conditioning System for Hierarchical Control of a Microgrid,” in 40th IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference (PVSC-2014), Denvor, (CO), USA, June 2014.
14. Manmesha Patankar, Rupesh Wandhare and Vivek Agarwal, “A High Performance Power Supply for an Electric Vehicle with Solar PV, Battery and Ultracapacitor Support for Extended Range and Enhanced Dynamic Response,” in 40th IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference (PVSC-2014), Denvor, (CO), USA, June 2014.
15. Sushil Thale, Rupesh Wandhare and Vivek Agarwal, “A novel low cost portable integrated solar PV, fuel cell and battery emulator with fast tracking algorithm”, in 40th IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference (PVSC-2014), Denvor, (CO), USA, June 2014.
16. Kamlesh Yadav, Atul Kumar, O.S. Sastry, Rupesh Wandhare, Mithilesh Kumar, Rajesh Kumar, Arun Kumar Tripathi, “Commonly observed degradation and its mitigation in field-aged photovoltaic modules in India”, in Research Conclave-IIT Guwahati, March 2018.
17. Vrishabh Randive and Rupesh Wandhare, "Simplified State-Space Average Model and Control Strategy for Dual Active Bridge Power Converter," 9th IEEE Power India International Conference, March 2020.
18. Hritik N Chavan and Rupesh Wandhare, " High Voltage Gain DC-DC Non-Isolated Converter with Generalized Stages," 9th IEEE Power India International Conference, March 2020.