Energy Research Centre

Energy Research Centre Activities


i) External: Grants/Funds Received

Project Title/Activity Funding Agency Funds Sanctioned/ Received Faculty Coordinator
Faculty development program(FDP) on “Energy –IoT” . (Completed) AICTE Rs. 93,000/- Dr. U.B. Mujumdar Dr. P. V. Kapoor Dr. G. N. Goyal
Development of Solar Powered Eggs Incubator with Battery backup for Backyard Poultry Farming. (Completed) National Coordinating Institute Unnat Bharat Abhiyan 2.0 (IIT Delhi). Rs. 1,00,000 /- Dr.(Mrs) P. V. Kapoor Dr. U. B. Mujumdar Dr. G. N. Goyal
Designing of PV system integrated with Grid Tied Inverter for Indian Grid and Operating Environmental Condition (Ongoing) RGSTC Scheme, RTMNU, Nagpur Rs. 2,00,000/- Dr. (Mrs) M. V. Palandurkar Dr.(Mrs) V. A. Huchche
Iinvestigation, development and verification of energy management strategies for hybrid energy storage system in an electric vehicle drive. (Ongoing) AICTE (RPS) Rs. 25,00,000/- Dr. S. B. Bodkhe Dr. G. N. Goyal


ii) Research Internships

Sr. No. Project Title No. of interns Faculty Mentor
2023-24
1 AI Companion: Enabling Text and Voice chat with LLM enhanced personas 01 Dr.G.N.Goyal
2 Analysis of Power sharing between Hybrid Energy Storage Systems for motor load. 01 Dr.G.N.Goyal
3 Implementations of Wireless Energy monitoring and Database System using PLC 02 Dr(Mrs) P.A.Salodkar
2022-23
1 Parameter Monitoring and Machine Learning based Fault Diagnosis of Three Phase Induction Motor 02 Dr. (Mrs.) P. V. Kapoor
2 Design of Front-End Power Converter for Fuel Cell Applications 01 Dr. (Mrs.) P. V. Kapoor
3 Revolutionizing rural Electrification with PV Integrated Energy Storage System: The DC House Solution 02 Dr. (Mrs.) V. A. Huchche
4 Comparative study of Power Electronic Converter Topologies for Switched Reluctance Motor 02 Prof. (Mrs) M. B. Gaikwad
5 Implementation of Distance Protection Algorithms in Transmission Line using Python 02 Dr. G. N. Goyal
6 Multiport Bidirectional Isolated DC/DC Converters for EV Applications 02 Dr. (Mrs.) S. C. Rangari
7 Energy Theft Detection in the Distribution Network by using PLC 02 Dr. (Mrs.) P. A. Salodkar
8 State of Charge Estimation of Li-Ion Battery using Machine Learning Algorithms 02 Dr. U. B. Mujumdar
2021-22
1 Development of Control algorithm for Grid Connected PV System. (Six Months) 02 Dr. V. A. Huchche
2 Hydrogen Fuel Cell Modelling. (Three months Online) External (Student from VNIT, Nagpur) 01 - Dr. (Mrs) P. V. Kapoor
3 Development of DSP based hardware setup for DC-DC Boost converter (Six Months) 02 Dr. V. A. Huchche
4 To implement steady state model, dynamic model and thermodynamic model of Hydrogen fuel cell in MATLAB Simulink Model. (Six Months) 02 Dr. (Mrs) P.A. Salodkar
5 Design of Control Circuit of Inverter for the Extraction of Maximum Power from Solar PV Panel Integrated with Grid. (Six Months) 02 Dr. (Mrs) M. V. Palandurkar
6 Modelling of BLDC Motor Using Python and MATLAB Simulink (Six Months) 02 Dr. G. N. Goyal
7 Health monitoring and estimation of Li-Ion battery. (Six Months) 01 Dr. U. B. Mujumdar
8 Development of Interface and Power Converter for Hydrogen Fuel Cell (Six Months) 02 Dr. (Mrs) P.V. Kapoor


iii) Details of Research Publications under Energy Research Centre

Sr. No Paper Title Journal/Conferences Authors
1. Heuristics EMS for HESS of Electric Vehicle to Extended Battery Operation Using Rate Limiter Advances in Electrical and Computer Engineering Volume 22, November 2022. Alok Ranjan, S. B. Bodkhe, G. N. Goyal, M. V. Aware
2. Development of low complexity open circuit voltage model for state of charge estimation with novel curve modification technique. Electrochemical Acta Volume 429, 10 October 2022, 140944 (SCI Indexed) Ujwal N.Jibhkate Uday B. Mujumdar
3. Development of Grid Tied Inverter for Indian Grid and Operating Environmental Condition ECS Transaction, IOP Science Journal – Scopus Indexed, April 2022 M.V. Palandurkar, Mohan M Renge
4. Fuzzy Logic Controller Based Modified Energy Management Strategy for Battery and UC with Improved Battery Performance ECS Transaction, IOP Science Journal – Scopus Indexed, April 2022 Alok Ranjan, S. B. Bodkhe
5. Numerical Investigation on Thermal Characteristics of a liquid-cooled lithium-ion battery pack with cylindrical cell casings and a square duct Journal of Energy Storage (Elsevier) Volume 48, April 2022, 104041 January 21, 2022- SCI Indexed Pranjali Tete, Mahendra Gupta, Sandeep Joshi
6. Developments in Battery Thermal Management Systems for Electric Vehicles: A Technical Review Journal of Energy Storage (Elsevier) Volume 35, March 2021, 102255 January 19, 2021- SCI Indexed Pranjali Tete, Mahendra Gupta, Sandeep Joshi
7. Comparative Analysis of MPPT Techniques for Grid connected Three Phase Solar PV system. Journal of East China University of Science and Technology, 65(4), 207–216. Mohammad Ashar, Apeksha Jamodkar, Manjusha Palandurkar, Piyush Ambekar, Sahil Singh
8. Energy Management Strategy for Hybrid Energy Storage Systems in Electric Vehicle –A Review International Journal of Electrical and Electronics Engineering & Telecommunications, April 2022, ISSN: 2319-2518, vol. 11, no.02 (SCOPUS) Alok Ranjan, S. B. Bodkhe
9. Development of Integrated Test Set for SoC-SoH Estimation of Lithium-Ion Battery Advances in Renewable Energy and Its Grid Integration. ICAER 2022. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 1041. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-2283-3_6 In: Doolla, S., Rather, Z.H., Ramadesigan, V. (eds) U. B.Mujumdar, Ujwal Jibhkate
10. Interface Design and Performance Analysis of Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cell using Python Advances in Clean Energy and Sustainability, Proceedings of ICAER 2022. Book Series: Green Energy and Technology Publisher: Springer Nature Singapore, 2023 P. V. Kapoor, U. B. Mujumdar, Aniket Lanjewar, Siddhi Chauhan
11. Communication Between Energy Meters and PLC Based on MODBUS Protocol The 14 th International Conference on Computing, Communication and Networking Technology (ICCCNT), IIT Delhi, Delhi, 6-8 July 2023 (Accepted) P. A. Salodkar, Siddesh Nanadanwar, Saurabh Sawarkar
12. Bearing Fault Detection in Induction Motor using Ensemble Learning 5th International Conference on Energy, Power and Environment: Towards Flexible Green Energy Technologies (ICEPE), NIT Meghalaya., 15-17 June 2023 P. V. Kapoor, Tejas B. Sawai Suryakant Mudke
13. Power Converter Design for Fuel Cell Applications 5th International Conference on Energy, Power and Environment: Towards Flexible Green Energy Technologies (ICEPE), NIT Meghalaya., 15-17 June 2023 P. V. Kapoor, Siddhi Chauhan, Aniket Lanjewar,
14. State of Charge Estimation of Li-Ion Batteries using Random Forest Regression Model with Modified Parameters for Multiple Cycles International Conference on Power Engineering and Intelligent Systems (PEIS2023), 24-25 June 2023 U. B. Mujumdar, Vedant V Ajane
15. Modelling and Simulation of BLDC Electric Drive System for Hydrogen Powered E-Rickshaw 4 th International Conference on Electronic Systems, Signal Processing and Computing Technologies (ICESC-2022) RCOEM, Nagpur, 20-21 Dec. 2022. P. A. Salodkar, Tanu Gupta, Om Hari, Ritesh Jaiswal, Mohit Nagpure
16. Design and Evaluation of Hydrogen Based Fuel Cell as a Green Energy Source. International Conference on Computer, Electronics and Electrical Engineering and their Applications, NIT Utarakhand, 8-9 June 2023. P. A. Salodkar, Omhari B. Shrivastava, Mohit Nagpure
17. Revolutionizing Rural Electrification with PV integrated Energy Storage System: The DC House Solution. International Conference on Computer, Electronics and Electrical Engineering and their Applications, NIT Utarakhand, 8-9 June 2023. V. A. Huchche, U. B. Mujumdar, Poorva Virulkar, Deepti Sinha
18. Review of Hydrogen Fuel cell as an emerging field in Green Technology. National Institute of Technology, Raipur 1 st – 3 rd March 2022 Shraddha Meshram, Shouvik Dey, Prachi Salodkar
19. Study PEMFC Model Simulation and Demonstrate the working with Converter. IEEE, International Conference ICEFEET 2022, NIT Raipur 24th- 25th June 2022. Received “Best Paper Award” Shraddha Meshram, Shouvik Dey, Prachi Salodkar
20. Heuristic Approach Based EMS for Effective Power
Sharing in HESS of Electric Vehicle.
IIT BOMBAY, 2022 IEEE Region 10 Symposium (TENSYMP) , 1-3 July 2022 Alok Ranjan, S. B. Bodkhe
21. Numerical Analysis of Battery Thermal Management System using Natural Convection and Different Phase Change Materials. International Conference ASREEM-2021, SVNIT, Surat, Gujrat August 06 – 08, 2021 Pranjali Tete, Puneet Kedar, Mahendra Gupta, Sandeep Joshi
22. Numerical Simulation of a finned-surface prismatic lithium-ion battery thermal management system. International Conference ICSTEESD-20, G. H. Raisoni College of Engineering, Nagpur, Maharashtra, December 4-5, 2020 Pranjali Tete, Puneet Kedar, Mahendra Gupta, Sandeep Joshi

iv) Patents

Sr. No. Name of Faculty Member Title of Project Patent Application Number Status
1 Dr. V. T. Barhate A System and Method for Generator Protection Against Power Swing 202121001826 Granted
2 Dr. U. B. Mujumdar Mr. R. Shendre Mr. M. Mahale Solid State Devices Based Secondary Current Injection Technique for Testing of Earth Leakage Relay 201921021939 Granted
3 Dr. V. T. Barhate False Trip Prevention of Transformer Due to Inrush Current 202021001464 Granted


v) Value added Courses Conducted

S. No. Title Duration and Hours Industry Association/ Resource Person No of Students successfully completed /Registered
01 Roof-top Solar Photovoltaic System Design and Installation 30 Hours 1 st to 15 September 2022 B.Algo Solar, Nagpur. Mr. Sudhir Budhay, CEO, 14
02 Python programming for Electrical Engineers. 50 Hours 5/02/2024 to 30/3/2024 Mr.Aman Batra, Ph.D Scholar ,IIT Mumbai 35