COMPLETED & ON GOING PROJECTS

1. Title of the Project: UI-ASSIST: US-India collAborative for smart diStribution System wIth Storage

Coordinators: Dr. Mahesh Kumar, Dr. Srirama Srinivas

Amount: Rs. 185.5 lakhss

Sponsoring Agency: DST, India

Duration: 5 years (29.09.2017 to 29.09.2022)

2. Title of the Project: Control and Coordination of Microgrid System with Multiple Renewable Energy Resources and Storage

Coordinators: Dr. Mahesh Kumar, Dr. B. Kalyan Kumar and Dr. Lakshmi Narasamma

Amount: Rs. 48.82 lakhss

Sponsoring Agency: DST, India

Duration: 2 years (6.05.2015 to 5.05.2017)

3. Title of Project: Design, Fabrication and Testing of Programmable High Voltage Power Supply for Space Applications

Coordinators: Dr. Lakshi Narasamma N., Dr. Kamalesh Hatua, Dr. Mahesh Kumar

Amount: Rs. 41.08 lakhs

Sponsoring Agency: ISRO, India

Duration: 3 years (23-02-2015 To 22-02-2018)

4. Title of the Project: Development and Integration of Biomass and Concentrating Photovoltaic System for Rural and Urban Energy Bridge: BioCPV

Coordinators: Dr. K. Srinivas Reddy, Dr. Srirama Srinivas and Dr. Mahesh Kumar

Amount: Rs. 2.76 crores

Sponsoring Agency: INDO-UK Collaborative Research, DST

Duration: 3 years (06.06.2012 to 05.06.2015)

5. Title of the Project: Formation of PV based DC grid and its interaction with AC grid

Coordinator: Dr. Lakshmi Narasamma, Dr. Mahesh Kumar

Amount: Rs. 9.13 lakhs

Sponsoring Agency: Nissan India Pvt. Ltd.

Duration: 2 years (16.07.2012 to 15.07.2014)

6. Title of the Project: A 1MW re-synchronizable autonomous grid: Active power filters

Coordinators: Dr. Mahesh Kumar, Dr. B. Kalyan Kumar, Dr. Krishna Vasudevan

Amount: Rs.77.27 lakhs

Sponsoring Agency: DST

Duration: 3 years (31.01.2012 to 31.03.2015)

7. Title of the Project: National Mission for Virtual Laboratories - ELE 2

Coordinator: Dr. Krishna Vasudevan, Dr. Mahesh Kumar, Dr. B. Kalyan Kumar, Dr. S Krishna, Dr. K. S. Swarup

Amount: Rs. 53.00 lakhs

Sponsoring Agency: DST

Duration: 2.5 years (17.06.2010 to 31.03.2013)

8. Title of the Project: Algorithms and Switching Control Strategies of UPQC with minimum VA loading for handling power quality problems Control Strategies for UPQC

Coordinator: Dr. B. Kalyan Kumar and Dr. Mahesh Kumar

Amount: Rs. 28.19 lakhs

Sponsoring Agency: DST

Duration: 3 years (26.02.2009 to 25.08.2012)

9. Title of the Project: Load compensation and voltage regulation using DSTATCOM under non stiff voltage source

Coordinators: Dr. Mahesh Kumar, Dr. K. Vasudevan and Dr. K. S. Swarup

Amount: Rs. 27.35 lakhs

Sponsoring Agency: DST

Duration: 3 years (19.03.2008 to 18.05.2011)

10. Title of the Project: Design and Development of High Efficiency and High Frequency Response Injection Transformers for Power Quality Applications

Coordinators: Dr. Mahesh Kumar, Dr. B. Kalyan Kumar

Amount: Rs. 1.20 Lakhs

Sponsoring Agency: IIT Madras Alumni Fund

Duration: 1 year (25.01.2008 to 24.01.2009)

11. Title of the Project: Mitigation of unbalance and harmonics in distribution system using static compensator

Coordinators: 1. Dr. Mahesh Kumar 2. Dr. K. S. Swarup

Amount: Rs. 8.00 lakhs

Sponsoring Agency: MHRD

Duration: 3 years (01.03.2004 to 31.08.2007)

12. Title of the Project: Power Quality Improvement using Active Power Filters

Coordinator: Dr. Mahesh Kumar

Amount: Rs. 5.00 lakhs

Sponsoring Agency: I.I.T. Madras

Duration: 2 1/2 years (01.11.2003 to 30.04.2006)