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Faculty Profile

Dr. Niraj Kumar Dewangan

Assistant Professor

Department of Electrical Engineering

School of Engineering

  niraj.dewangan@opju.ac.in

  •  PhD in Power Electronics (Electrical Engineering) from National Institute of Technology Raipur - 2020.
  •  M.Tech in Digital Communication from RGPV, Bhopal – 2015.
  •  B.Tech in Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering from BPUT, Rourkela, Odisha - 2008.
  •  Working as an Assistant Professor in OP Jindal University, Raigarh (C.G), from Aug. 2022 to till date.
  •  Worked as an Assistant Professor (Adhoc) National Institute Of Technology Raipur from July 2020 to July 2022.
  •  Worked as an Assistant Professor in GH Raisoni Institute of Engineering & Technology Nagpur from July 2019 to June 2020.
  •   Worked as Sr. Lecturer, Sagar Group of Institutions (SISTec-R), Bhopal from June 2009 to Aug.2012.
  •  Multilevel inverters (MLIs)
  •  Switched capacitor MLIs
  •  Real-time controllers for power electronic systems and modulation strategies for power converters
  •  Application of Fuzzy Logic Controller
  •  Machine Learning (ML)
  •  Application of MLI for Electric Vehicle (EV) Drives
  •  Application of Multilevel Converters for Electric Vehicle (EV) Charging.
  •  Niraj Kumar Dewangan, Shubhrata Gupta, Krishna Kumar Gupta, “Fault‐tolerant operation of some reduced‐device count multilevel inverters with improved performance,” Wiley International Transactions on Electrical Energy Systems, vol. 29, no. 2, e2731, 2019.
  •  Niraj Kumar Dewangan, Shubhrata Gupta, Krishna Kumar Gupta, “Approach to synthesis of fault tolerant reduced device count multilevel inverters (FT RDC MLIs),” IET Power Electronics, vol. 12, no. 3, pp. 476-482, 2019.
  •  Pallavee Bhatnagar, Rekha Agrawal, Niraj Kumar Dewangan et al. “Switched-Capacitors 9-level Module (SC9LM) with Reduced Device Count for Multilevel DC to AC Power Conversion,” IET Electric Power Applications, vol.13, no. 10, pp. 1544-1552, 2019.
  •  Niraj Kumar Dewangan et al. “Modified reduced device multilevel inverter structures with open circuit fault-tolerance capabilities” Wiley International Transactions on Electrical Energy Systems, vol. 30, no. 1, e12142, 2020.
  •  Niraj Kumar Dewangan et al. “Open Switch Fault Tolerance Capabilities of Some Reduced Device Count Multilevel Inverter Topologies,” Iranian Journal of Science and Technology, Transactions of Electrical Engineering, vol. 44, no. 1, pp. 253-264, 2020.
  •  Pallavee Bhatnagar, Rekha Agrawal, Niraj Kumar Dewangan et al. “Nine-level Voltage-Doubler Bi-polar Module for Multilevel DC to AC Power Conversion," IET Power Electronics, vol. 12, no. 15, pp. 4079-4087, 2019.
  •  Niraj Kumar Dewangan et al. “Open-Circuit Fault-Tolerance in Multilevel Inverters with Reduced Component Count,” Springer Electrical Engineering, vol. 102, no. 1, pp. 409-419, 2020.
  •  Pallavee Bhanagar, Niraj Kumar Dewangan et al. “A methodology for even-power-distribution within single time-blocks of power-frequency in CHB MLIs for PV systems,” Wiley International Transactions on Electrical Energy Systems. vol. 31, no. 1, e12591, 2021.
  •  Nagendra Singh, K K Gupta, S K Jain, Niraj Kumar Dewangan et al. “A Flying Squirrel Search Optimization for MPPT under Partial Shaded Photovoltaic System,” IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Power Electronics, vol. 9, no. 4, pp. 4963-4978, Aug. 2021.
  •  Niraj Kumar Dewangan et al. “A Multilevel Inverter Structure with Open Circuit Fault Tolerant Capability,” Springer Electrical Engineering, vol. 103, no. 3, pp. 1613-1628, 2021.
  •  D. Kumar, R. K. Nema, S. Gupta, and Niraj K. Dewangan “A Fault-Tolerant Sensorless Approach in Five-Level Packed U Cells (Puc5) Multilevel Inverter,” International Journal of Power and Energy Systems, vol. 42, no. 10, pp. 203-365, 2022.
  •  D. Kumar, R. K. Nema, S. Gupta, and Niraj K. Dewangan “Development of Open Switch Fault-Tolerant Capability of CCS-MLI Topology,” The ECTI Transactions on Electrical Engineering, Electronics, and Communications, vol. 20, no. 2, pp.197-205. 2022.
  •  K. Jena, C. K. Panigrahi, K.K. Gupta, D Kumar, Niraj K. Dewangan “Generalized Switched-Capacitor Multilevel Inverter Topology with Self-Balancing Capacitors,” Journal of Power Electronics, 2022. (in Early Access) DOI: 10.1007/s43236-022-00456-4.
  •  D. Kumar, R. K. Nema, S. Gupta, and Niraj K. Dewangan “An Open Circuit Fault-Tolerant Multilevel Inverter Topology with Enhance Reliability for PV application,” Arabian Journal for Science and Engineering, 2022. (in Early Access)
  •  Niraj Kumar Dewangan, V. Gurjar, S. U. Ullah and S. Zafar, “A level-doubling network (LDN) for cross-connected sources based multilevel inverter (CCS-MLI),” IEEE International Conference on Power Electronics, Drives and Energy Systems (PEDES), Mumbai, 2014.
  •  Niraj Kumar Dewangan, Shubhrata Gupta and Krishna Kumar Gupta, “A Novel Topology for Multilevel Inverter based on Asymmetric Source Configuration,” National Conference on Recent Trends in Power Engineering (for Research Scholars), 29-30 Dec. 2015, IIT Madras, Chennai, India.
  •  Niraj Kumar Dewangan, Shubhrata Gupta and Krishna Kumar Gupta, “Hybridization of Diode-clamped and T-type Multilevel Inverters: Synthesis and Analysis,” International Conference on Electrical, Electronics, Computers, Communication, Mechanical and Computing (EECCMC), Jan. 28-29, 2018, Vellore, India.
  •  Niraj Kumar Dewangan, Dhananjay Kumar, Rajesh Kumar Nema, Krishna Kumar Gupta, “A Bipolar Multilevel Structure for DC/AC Conversion with Reduced Device Count,” 2021 IEEE 2nd International Conference On Electrical Power and Energy Systems (ICEPES), 2021, pp. 1-5, doi: 10.1109/ICEPES52894.2021.9699788.
  •  Dilip Kumar Patel, Dhananjay Kumar, Krishna Baitha, Niraj Kumar Dewangan, “A Novel Switched Capacitors Based Multilevel Boost Inverter With Single DC Source For Three Phase Applications,” 2022 4th International Conference on Energy, Power and Environment (ICEPE), 2022. Pp.1-6, doi: 10.1109/ICEPE55035.2022.9798205.
  •  Short Term Training Programme on “Digital Signal Processing and Processors”, (DSP-2012) 31 Dec. 2012-04 Jan. 2013, Department of Electrical Engineering, MANIT Bhopal, India.
  •  Two-Weeks ISTE workshop on “Signals & Systems” conducted by IIT Kharagpur under National Mission on Education through ICT (MHRD), 02-12 Jan 2014, SISTec-E, Bhopal, India.
  •  Short Term Training Programme on “Recent Trends in Power Electronics Converters and Real Time Control”, under TEQIP-II 14-18 Dec. 2015, Department of Electrical Engineering, NIT Raipur, India.
  •  Short Term Training Programme on “Advanced Power Electronics & Electrical Drives”, 03-07 Jan. 2016, Department of Electrical Engineering, MANIT Bhopal, India.
  •  Short Term Training Programme on “Power Electronics for Green Energy”, under TEQIP-II 08-12 Aug. 2016, Department of Electrical Engineering, NIT Raipur, India.
  •  Short Term Training Programme on “PSIM and CYME Platform for Power Electronics and Power System”, 06-10 Mar. 2017, Department of Electrical Engineering, NIT Raipur and Trident Techlabs Pvt. Ltd, Pune, India.
  •  Faculty Development Programme on “Advanced Power Electronics and Real Time Digital Controllers (APEDEC-2017)”, 18-22 Dec. 2017, Department of Electrical Engineering, MANIT Bhopal and Electronics and ICT Academy, PDPM IIITDM, Jabalpur, India.
  •  Short Term Training Programme on “Recent Advances in Modern Power Technologies”, 12-16 Jan. 2019, Department of Electrical Engineering, NIT Raipur, India.
  •  AICTE QIP STC on “Smart Grid Technology” 10-15 January 2022. Department of Electrical and Instrumentation Engineering, SLIET, Longowal, Punjab, India.
  •  SERB Sponsored Faculty Development Programme on “Solar PV Partial shading Mitigation Techniques and Its Applications”, July 04-08, 2022, Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, NIT Goa.
  •   Expert talk on the topic “Modulation and Control of Multilevel Inverters” in the webinar held on 22nd June 2021, organised by Department of Electrical Engineering, Lakhmi Chand Institute of Technology [LCIT], Bilaspur, Chhattisgarh.
  •  Guest speaker at Research Talk-2022 on the topic “Approach to the synthesis of fault-tolerant reduced device count multilevel inverters” held on 25th March 2022, organised by the Department of Electrical Engineering in association with IET Nashik Local Network, K K Wagh Institute of Engineering Education & Research, Nashik. Maharastra.
  •   Expert talk on the topic “Design & Simulation of Circuits using MATLAB/Simulink Tool” in the webinar held on 26th May 2022, organised by Department of Electrical Engineering, Lakhmi Chand Institute of Technology [LCIT], Bilaspur, Chhattisgarh.
  •   TEQIP-II Scholarship: During full-time Ph. D. program in Electrical Engineering, NIT Raipur
  •   Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) USA, Member
  •  Reviewer- IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics
  •  Reviewer- IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery
  •  Reviewer- IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Power Electronics (JESTPE)
  •  Reviewer- International Journal of Power Electronics and Drive Systems (IJPEDS).
  •  Reviewer- International Transactions on Electrical Energy Systems (ITEES-Wiley)
  •  Reviewer- International Journal of Circuit Theory and Applications (IJCTA-Wiley)
  •  Reviewer- International Journal of Energy Research (IJER-Wiley)
  •  Reviewer- Electrical Engineering, Springer (ELEN)
  •  Reviewer- IETE Journal of Research - Taylor & Francis
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