Advances in Smart Grid and Renewable Energy

Clustered Prosumer Penalty Framework on Smart Grid.- Critical Evaluation of Offline MPPT Techniques of Solar PV for Standalone Applications.- Design of Permanent Magnet Synchronous Generator for Wind Energy Conversion System using.- Design and Development Of Buck-Boost Regulator For DC Motor Used In Electric Vehicle For The Application Of Renewable Energy.- The Particle Swarm Optimization algorithm for maximum power extraction of solar PV array.- PV Fed Eleven Level Capacitor Switching Multi-Level Inverter for Grid Integration.- Daylight Harvesting Concepts and Its Application: A Review.- Smart Switching algorithm between IC and PO Algorithms for Grid connected PV System.- A Novel Educational Proposal and Strategies towards promoting Cloud Computing, Big-Data, and Human Computer Interaction in Engineering Colleges and Universities.- Annual energy, exergy and environmental benefits of N half covered concentrated photovoltaic thermal (CPVT) air collectors.- An Experimental Realizationof Grid Connected PV System with MPPT using dSPACE DS 1104 Control Board.- Study on the effect of tilt on the variation of aperture area shading in a linear Fresnel reflector field for two different configurations.- Design Analysis and Implementation of MPPT using PSIM.- A New Switching Pattern Scheme Based Com-pact Integrated 15-Level Smart Inverter for Mi-cro-Grid System using Fuzzy Controller.- Experimental Investigation of VFD fed scalar control of Induction Motor for Pumping Application.- Fuzzy Based Micro Grid Energy Management System using Interleaved Boost Converter and Three Level NPC Inverter with Improved Grid Voltage Quality.- Design and Implementation of Solar Powered Low Cost Model of Greenhouse System.- Energy Storage Considerations for High Renewable Power Penetration: A Case Study.- PEM Fuel Cell System Identification and Control.- Harvesting insolation using Mo-W-Sulfide compound nanoparticle semiconductor as photocatalyst: a pollution controlling material.-

Prof (Dr) Sabyasachi Sengupta received his undergraduate degree from Calcutta Univ. (B. E. College) in the year 1974 and his M. Tech & Ph.D degrees from IIT Kharagpur. He is currently working as Professor in the Dept. of Electrical Engineering, IIT Kharagpur. Prof. S. Sengupta was the Vice Chancellor, West Bengal University of Technology till June 2012. He is the Chairman, Eastern Regional Committee, AICTE and also member of All India Council for Technical Education. He has guided 6 Ph.D. students (3 ongoing) with more than 30 M.Tech students for their thesis work and taught different courses in UG and PG level.  His primary research focus is on Elementary Particle Physics and Newtonian Dynamics. He was also Past-Member of National Steering Committee of NaMPET, MoDIT. He convened Second National Power Electronics Conf (NPEC05) at IIT Kharagpur, Dec 2005 and performed as selection committee member of several IITs, NITs and several Government and private technicalInstitutes. He has published several research papers and attended invited lectures on various topics. Prof. S. Sengupta is engaged with several sponsored research and industrial consultancy projects as Principal Investigator. He has also filed two patents in connection with the SMES-UPS project. 

Ahmed Faheem Zobaa received his B.Sc. (Hons), M.Sc., and Ph.D. degrees in electrical power and machines from Cairo University, Egypt. Also, he received a Postgraduate Certificate in Academic Practice from University of Exeter, U.K. He was an instructor, a teaching assistant, and an assistant professor at Cairo University during 1992-2007. He moved to UK as a Senior Lecturer in renewable energy at University of Exeter in 2007. He was Associate Professor (on leave) at Cairo University during 2008-2013. He was promoted to Full Professor (on leave) at Cairo University in 2013. Currently, he is a Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in power systems, an MSc Course Director