Power Electronics and High Voltage in Smart Grid (eBook)

The book contains select proceedings of the International Conference on Smart Grid Energy Systems and Control (SGESC 2021). The proceedings is divided into 03 volumes, and this volume focuses on power electronics, machines, systems integrations, and high voltage engineering. This book is a unique collection of chapters from different areas with a common theme and will be immensely useful to academic researchers and practitioners in the industry.

Dr. Atma Ram Gupta received his B. Tech. in Electrical Engineering from C.V. Raman College of Engineering, Bhubaneshwar, M. Tech. in Electrical Engineering from National Institute of Technology (NIT), Durgapur, and Ph.D. in Power Systems from NIT Kurukshetra. He is a senior member of IEEE and IEEE Power & Energy Society. He is an Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering at NIT Kurukshetra. Dr. Gupta's research interests are renewable energy-based D.G. and D-FACTS allocation in the distribution system and high voltage engineering. He has 50 research publications in various reputed international journals, book chapters, and conferences.

Dr. N.K. Roy is a Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering, National Institute of Technology, Durgapur, India. He obtained his M.E. (Elect.) from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, and a Ph.D. (Elect.) from the University of South Australia, Australia. He has 80 publications in journals and conferences of international repute. His research interests include high voltage engineering, magnetic fields in power lines, ICT & IoT enabled high voltage laboratories and lab facilities, rural e-Governance, power quality & energy audit, digital e-Learning, and renewable energy.

Dr. Sanjoy Kumar Parida works as an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Patna, India.  He did his Ph.D. in electrical engineering from IIT Kanpur, India. His research areas are optimal operation and control of power systems, power system dynamics, wide-area monitoring, control and protection, and micro-grid operation. He is a member of the IEEE, IEEE Power & Energy Society, IEEE Control System Society, and IEEE Power Electronics Society. He has got several publications in various journals and conferences.