Experience

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  Tamil nadu electricity board

  Jun 2014 - Jun 2014

  Internship

  1) Intensive training in substation operation and maintenance of 220/110/33/11 kV distribution substations. 2) Trained in Substation Protection by the Metering and Relay Testing Department of TNEB.3) Understood the procedures involved in distribution transformer maintenance from my experience in Distribution transformer maintenance wing of TNEB.

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  Larsen & toubro

  Jul 2015 - Jun 2017

  • General Arrangement Drawing, Schematic diagram, Protection Scheme, Earth Mat designs, Power factor correction calculations etc. for 220kV/2x25kV and 132kV/2x25kV Traction Substations.• Coordinated with Site Engineers for proper implementation of designs and with Supply Chain Management Engineers for correct assessment of equipment quantity. • Trained in Overhead Electrification, Power Supply Installations, Signalling & Telecommunication of Indian Railways at L&T Construction’s Competency Development Centre (CDC)• Trained to prepare basic design drawings and design calculations for Traction Substations with compliance to relevant IEC, IEEE, IS and other Indian Railways Standards.

  • Senior Design Engineer (Electrical)

    Jul 2016 - Jun 2017

  • Graduate Engineer Trainee (Electrical)

    Jul 2015 - Jun 2016
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  Maschinenfabrik reinhausen

  Sept 2018 - Nov 2019

  Topic: Fault detection and localization scheme for Modular Multi-level Converter (MMC)• Quantitative analysis of fault types using closed-form computation and numerical simulation with MATLAB/Simulink, deterministic computation of thermal stresses at involved components.• Qualitative analysis of fault types using equivalent circuits, intuitive/empirical determination of fault current paths and stressed components.• Fault detection and localization based on analysis outcomes. Project: Laboratory scale Modular Multi-level Converter (MMC) Demonstrator• Developed a Graphical User Interface (GUI) using NI LabVIEW to operate and test MMC prototype and PXIe embedded controller. • Conducted design verification and end of line tests to validate MMC submodule PCBs and wrote test reports.• Assisted in construction and assembly of MMC laboratory-scale prototype.

  • Master Thesis Student

    Jan 2019 - Nov 2019

  • Research And Development Intern - Power Electronics

    Sept 2018 - Apr 2019
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  Maschinenfabrik reinhausen

  Jan 2020 - Mar 2020

  Voluntary intern - simulation

  • OLTC (On-Load Tap Changer) transient switching study with low and high frequency model of power transformer in EMTP/ATP simulation software for HVDC application. (EMTP: Electro-Magnetic Transient Program; ATP: Alternative Transient Program)• Time and frequency domain comparison of transient simulation results of particular transformer model with on-site measurement.• Estimation of worst-case transient recovery voltage (TRV) during OLTC switching using macro-modelling tool (MODELS) of EMTP/ATP with a statistical approach.• Documentation and presentation of results. Vis mindre

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  Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet (ntnu)

  Feb 2021 - now

  Phd candidate/research fellow

  Project: Modularized, Reconfigurable and Bidirectional Charging Infrastructure for Electric Vehicles with Silicon Carbide Power Electronics (MoReSiC)Responsibilities: Design, simulation and prototyping of Isolated DC/DC converter employing SiC MOSFETs for an Off-board EV charging system.