Sumana Chowdhuri

Full Name:  Dr. Sumana Chowdhuri 

Designation: Professor, Electrical Engineering 

Date of Joining the University: 31-Ooctober-2005

Contact information:

Electrical Engineering Section, Department of Applied Physics, 

92, APC Road, Kolkata-700009, West Bengal, India.

E-mail: scaphy@caluniv.ac.in

Mobile:9433123854 

Current research interests: 

Renewable Energy Sources Conversion, Power Electronics Converters and Electrical Machine Drives, Microgrid, Embedded System 

Education: 

PhD( Engineering) Jadavpur University 2002; M.E.E Jadavpur University 1997; B.E.E Jadavpur University 1993. 

Earlier Positions held: 

Lecturer: Leather Technology, Govt. of West Bengal 2005 

Lecturer: B. P. Poddar Institute of Technology 2002-2005 

Teaching assignments

(a) B.Tech. level :

Power Electronics (PCC-EE 502)

Electrical Machine-I

Electrical Drives

(b) M.Tech. Level

Power Electronics and grid integration ( EE1002/MET 42)

Electric Vehicle.

Funded Research Projects:

1. “Development of SMART Grid-interactive SPV Systems” from Department of Science & Technology, Ministry of Science & Technology, Government of India, vide. Memo No. DST/TM/SERI/D31(G) dtd: 10/08/2016, sanction amount: INR: 94,30,000.00 Consortium partners: University of Calcutta, Kalyani Govt. Engg. College, Jadavpur University, IIEST, Shibpur, St. Thomas College of Engg. and Technology, Statcon Energiaa Pvt. Ltd., Noida, U.P as Technical Collaborator. 

Completed:

1. 1. “Development of Compact and Efficient Grid Tied Solar Powered Inverter (SPI) Systems” from Department of Science & Technology, Ministry of Science & Technology, Government of India, Sanction Detail: DST/TMD/CERI/RES/2020/22(G) dtd: 03/09/2021, sanction amount: INR. 1,28,808.00 Consortium partners: University of Calcutta, Kalyani Govt. Engg. College, Jadavpur University, IIEST, Shibpur, St. Thomas College of Engg. and Technology, Statcon Energiaa Pvt. Ltd., Noida, U.P as Technical Collaborator.

   2. “Development of Remote Energy Metering System towards the Estimation of Zonal Energy Consumption with AMR”, CPRI, Ministry of Power, Sanction year 2011-2013 

Consultancy Works:

1. Design and Development of Train Speed measurement unit and relay testbed. Co: Indian Railway & M/SHilton Pvt.Ltb,2009. 

2. Design and development of Head code Display Co: Indian Railway & M/SHilton Pvt.Ltb,2009. 

Research Guidance: 

Awarded:

1. 1. 1. Dr. Ms Jinia Das, Principal, Camellia Institute of Engineering &Technology, West Bengal713403.Registration No.: 2086/PhD (Tech)/proceed 2012 awarded in 2015 Title: Development of PC based Remote Multi-Machine Monitoring System towards Preventive Maintenance Facility. 

Registered: 

1. 1. 1. Ms. Tista Banerjee : “Intelligent Control of Induction Motor Drive” , 2090 Ph.D. (Tech) Proceed/12 

      2. Mr. Jayanta Mukhopadhyay :“ Design and Performance Study of Adjustable Speed Smooth Torque Switch Reluctance Motor Drive”, 2065 Ph.D (Tech) Proceed/12 .

      3.  Mr. Dipak Kumar Mandal, “Development of an Efficient SPV System”, 2488/Ph.D.(Tech.)Proceed/2019 

      4.  Aurobindi Chandra,” Rotor Position Sensor-Less Vector Control of Surface PM Synchronous Motor for Standstill to Rated Speed Operation:, 02488/Ph.D.(Tech.)Proceed/2019 

      5. Soumyajit Datta, “Design and Implementation of Efficiency Optimized Advanced Sensorless V/Hz Controlled Surface PM Synchronous Motor Drive”, 02488/Ph.D.(Tech.)Proceed/2019 

      6. . Arkendu Mitra, “High Performance of a Three-Phase Active Front-End PWM Rectifier”02488/Ph.D.(Tech.)Proceed/2019 

      7. Sarbojit Mukherjee,” Improved Performance Soft-Switched DC/DC Converter Integrating SPV-MPPT controller and Battery Charger”, 

Patent

Patent/Copyright/Technology Transfer: “Development of Remote Energy Metering System towards the estimation of Zonal Energy Consumption with AMR”, Patent file no.967/KOL/2015dated09/09/2015, Prof. J.N.Bera, Dr. S. Chowdhuri with J. Sundara Rajan, CPRI Bangalore

Publications:

(A) Journal Publications 

1. “Sensor-less Vector Control of Surface PM Synchronous Motor by SMO-QPLL and HF Signal Injection based Hybrid Estimation Technique”, Arabindo Chandra, Soumyajit Datta and Sumana Chowdhuri, Journal of Electrical Engineering & Technology, Springer, March 2022, DOI:10.1007/s00202-022-01530-7 

2. “Sensorless vector control of PM synchronous motor by hybrid estimation technique considering effect of non-ideal physical attributes”, Arabindo Chandra, Soumyajit Datta, Sumana Chowdhuri, Journal of Electrical Engineering & Technology, Springer, march 2022. 

3. “High performance sensor-less V/f control of surface PMSM in voltage vector plane with ZVV injection and SMO-based position estimation method”, Soumyajit Datta, Arabindo Chandra and Sumana Chowdhuri, Springer, April 2022, DOI:10.1007/s00202-021-01325-2, Vol 104 , Issue 2, PP 657-666 

4. “High-Performance Control of Surface PM Synchronous Motor by Power Factor Angle-Based Control of Stator Voltage Vector”, Soumyajit Datta, Arabindo Chandra, Sumana Chowdhuri, Journal of Control, Automation and Electrical Systems, Springer US, 2021 Print ISSN 2195- 3880, Vol 32, Issue 3, June, 2021, pp 703-710 

5. “Performance Evaluation of CKF Based Sensorless Vector Controlled PM Synchronous Motor Drive”, A Chandra, S Datta, A Dey, S Chowdhuri, Journal of Electrical Engineering & Technology, Volume 16, Issue 2, Springer Singapore,March, 2021 , pp 889-897, SCIE 

6. “Active Cell Balancing of Lithium-ion Battery Pack Using Dual DC-DC Converter and Auxiliary Lead-acid Battery”, A Samanta, S Chowdhuri, Journal of Energy Storage, volume 33, Elsevier,2021, pp102-109 

7. “Design and Implementation of Hybrid Self-Control Scheme for PM Synchronous Motor Drive”, Arabindo Chandra, Soumyajit Datta, Sumana Chowdhuri, Journal of The Institution of Engineers (India): Series B, (), 1-7, DOI 10.1007/s40031-021-00580-y, pp-671-677 

8. “Machine Learning-Based Data-Driven Fault Detection/Diagnosis of Lithium-Ion Battery: A Critical Review”, Akash Samanta, Sumana Chowdhuri and Sheldon S. Williamson, Electronics 2021, MDPI, 10(11), 1309; doi:10.3390/electronics10111309 

9. “Solar PV Battery Charger Using MPPT-Based Controller”, Shreya Das, Avishek Munsi, Piyali Pal, Dipak Kumar Mandal, Sumana Chowdhuri, book: Advances in Control, Signal Processing and Energy Systems, Springer,pp 169-182, 

10. “Analysis of single phase PWM rectifier for different applications”, Arkendu Mitra, Sumana Chowdhuri, Journal of The Institution of Engineers (India): Series B, Volume 98, Issue 2, springer, 2017, pp 161-169 

11. “Channel Efficiency with Security Enhancement for Remote Condition Monitoring of Multi Machine System Using Hybrid Huffman Coding”, Jinia Datta, Sumana Chowdhuri, Jitendra nath Bera, Vol 47, Issue 4, Springer, PP 469-480 

12. “Remote monitoring of different electrical parameters of multi-machine system using PC”, Datta (Das), Jinia, S Chowdhuri, J Bera, G Sarkar, Measurement 45 (1), 118-125. 

13. “A simplified state-of-the-art Sample Shifting technique for microcontroller based single phase power measurement” R Saha, J Bera, G Sarkar, S Chowdhuri, A Deb, Measurement 58, 459- 467, pp 459-467, Measurement (Elsevier), Volume 58, Issue 1, 2014. 14. “A Novel Standalone and GRID-tied Single Phase SPWM Inverter”, D Bhattacharya, D Hazra, PP Das, S Chowdhuri, International Journal of Applied Engineering Research 9 (3), 267-274. 

(b) Conference Publications :

1. “Design of Duty-Ratio and Phase-Shift Control Circuits for MPPT of SPV Source using ZVZCS PSFB Converters”, Sarbojit Mukherjee, Shib Sankar Saha, Sumana Chowdhuri, 2021 Devices for Integrated Circuit (DevIC), DOI: 10.1109/DevIC50843.2021.9455893 

2. “A Soft-Switching DC-DC Boost Converter for Extracting Maximum Power from SPV Array”, Dipak Kumar Mandal; Sumana Chowdhuri; Sujit K Biswas; Shib Sankar Saha, 2020 IEEE 5th International Conference on Computing Communication and Automation (ICCCA), DOI: 10.1109/ICCCA49541.2020.9250818 

3. “ZigBee Based Real Time Energy Monitoring for Preventive Maintenance of Solar Photovoltaic System”, Dipak Kumar Mandal, Rakesh Das, Sumana Chowdhuri, 6th International Conference on Nanoelectronics, Circuits & Communication Systems 19th -20th December, 2020 

4. “Improved Droop Control Strategy for Single Phase Micro-Grid Inverters in Stand-Alone Mode”, Santanu Bera; Dipak Kumar Mandal; Sumana Chowdhuri, 2019 International Conference on Computing, Power and Communication Technologies (GUCON), 5. “Efficient Power Extraction from SPV system in Partially Shaded Condition: A Comparative Study between Classical and Fuzzy logic Control”, Dipak Kumar Mandal, Sumana Chowdhuri, Shib Sankar Saha, Biswajit Majumdar, Dipten Maiti, Sujit Kumar Biswas, Fifth IEEE International conference on Emerging Application of IT(EAIT),2018, DOI: 10.1109/EAIT.2018.8470408. 

6. “Solar PV Battery Charger Using MPPT Based Controller,” Shreya Das, Avishek Munsi, Piyali Pal, Dipak Kumar Mandal, Sumana Chowdhuri, National Conference on Control, Signal Processing and Energy systems (CSPES2018), November 16th -18th, 2018. 

7. “Performance Analysis of a Micro Grid VSI under Asymmetric Conditions,” Abhishek Majumder, Souvik Roy and Sumana Chowdhuri, published in IEEE Conference proceedings of 2018 Power Electronics, Drives and Energy System Conferences (PEDES2018), 2018 

Professional Activity 

Membership in professional bodies: 

Member, IAS, IEEE