Faculty Profile

Dr. Ankireddy Narendra

Assistant Professor

Department of Electrical Engineering

School of Engineering

  ankireddy.narendra@opju.ac.in

  •   PhD in Power Electronics and Drives from National Institute of Technology, Rourkela.
  •  M.Tech in Power Systems and Automation from SRKREC, Andhra University, Vishakhapatnam– 2015.
  •  B. Tech in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Lakireddy Bali Reddy College of Engineering, JNTU Kakinada - 2011.
  •  Working as an Assistant Professor in OP Jindal University, Raigarh (C.G), from Aug 2022 to till date.
  •  Worked as a Teaching Assistant in National Institute Of Technology, Rourkela from Jul 2017 to April 2019.
  •  Worked as an Assistant Professor in Narasaraopeta Engineering College, Guntur from Jun 2015 to Jul 2016.
  •  Worked as an Assistant Professor in AMRCE, Guntur from Jun 2011 to May 2012.
  •  Solar PV applications
  •  Power Electronics Converters
  •  Electrical Vehicle Charging Applications
  •  A Narendra, Venkataramana Naik N, and Anup Kumar Panda, “Design of Power Electronic Device in the domain of Energy Storage” in Emerging Trends in Energy Storage Systems and Industrial Applications, Elsevier (In Press).
  •  Tiwary N, Panda A K, Naik Venkataramana Naik N, A Narendra, Lenka R K, “Isolated Bidirectional Dual Active Bridge (DAB) Converter for Photovoltaic System- An Overview” P. Satish Kumar, Peter Virtič (eds) Technological Challenges and Advances in Wind and Solar Energy Applications. CRC Press. (In Press).
  •  A. Narendra, Venkataramana Naik N, Anup Kumar Panda, and Nishit Tiwary, “A Comprehensive Review of PV Driven Electrical Motors,” Solar Energy, Elsevier, Vol. 195, pp 278 – 303, 2020, doi: 10.1016/j.solener.2019.09.078.
  •   A. Narendra, Venkataramana Naik N, Anup Kumar Panda, and Nishit Tiwary, “PV fed IVC Induction Motor Drive using Clamping Sequence Duty Ratio Control,” Int. Trans.Electr.Energy Syst., Wiley, e13064, 2021, doi: 10.1002/2050-7038.13064.
  •  A. Narendra, Venkataramana Naik N, Anup Kumar Panda, Nishit Tiwary, and Amit Kumar “A Single-Stage SPV fed Reduced Switching Inverter based Sensorless Speed Control of IM for Water Pumping Application,” Int. Trans.Electr.Energy Syst., Wiley, 2022.
  •  Nishit Tiwary, Venkataramana Naik N, Anup Kumar Panda, Rajesh Kumar Lenka, and A. Narendra, “Sliding Mode and Current Observer- based Direct Power Control of Dual Active Bridge Converter with Constant Power Load,” Int. Trans.Electr.Energy Syst., Wiley, e12879, 2021, doi: 10.1002/2050-7038.12879.
  •  Nishit Tiwary, Venkataramana Naik N, Anup Kumar Panda, Rajesh Kumar Lenka, and A. Narendra, “ Integral Sliding Mode Based Direct Power Control of Isolated DC-DC Converter for Improved Voltage Regulation,” Int. Jour.of Circuit Theory and Application., Wiley, 2022 doi:10.1002/cta.3342.
  •  A. Narendra, M Sai Veerraju, “A Modified Fuzzy Logic Controller Based Maximum Power Point Tracking under Partial Shading for PV systems,” i-manager’s Journal on Instrumentation and Control Engineering, vol. 2, Feb-Apr 2014.pp 31-38.
  •  A. Narendra, Venkataramana Naik N, and Nishit Tiwary, “PV fed Separately Excited DC Motor with a Closed Loop Speed Control,” in PIICON 2018 The 8th IEEE Power India International conference, Kurkshetra, India, doi: 10.1109/POWERI.2018.8704449, pp. 1-4.
  •  A. Narendra, Venkataramana Naik N, “An Experimental Validation of Single-Phase AC generation from PV using H-bridge Inverter,” in 2018, The 8th IEEE International Conference on Power Electronics Drives and Energy Systems (PEDES), IIT Madras, India, 2018, pp. 1-4, doi: 10.1109/PEDES.2018.8707637.
  •  A. Narendra, Venkataramana Naik N, Anup Kumar Panda, and Nishit Tiwary, “A Real-time Implementation of PV Driven DC Motor along with Wireless Control,” in 2019, The 10th IEEE International Conference on Communication and Network Technology (ICCCNT), IIT Kanpur, India, 2019, pp.1-4, doi: 10.1109/ICCCNT.2019.8944779.
  •  A. Narendra, Venkataramana Naik N, Anup Kumar Panda, and Nishit Tiwary, “Modelling and Analysis of Grid-Tied Solar PV System,” in 2019 1st IEEE International Conference on Power Electronics, Control and Automation (ICPECA), JIM, India, 2019, pp.1-6, doi: 10.1109/ICPECA.2019.8975394.
  •  Nishit Tiwary, Venkataramana Naik N, Anup Kumar Panda, and, A. Narendra “Direct Power Control of Dual Active Bridge Bidirectional DC-DC Converter,” in 2019 1st IEEE International Conference on Power Electronics, Control and Automation (ICPECA), JIM, India, 2019, pp.1-4, doi: 10.1109/ICPECA.2019.8975575.
  •  Nishit Tiwary, Venkataramana Naik N, Anup Kumar Panda, Rajesh Kumar Lenka, and, A. Narendra “Super Twisting Sliding Mode Control of Dual-Active Bridge DC-DC Converter,” in 2020 9th IEEE International Conference on Power Electronics Drives and Energy Systems (PEDES), MNIT Jaipur, India, 2020, pp.1-5, doi: 10.1109/PEDES49360.2020.9379589.
  •  Nishit Tiwary, Venkataramana Naik N, Anup Kumar Panda, A. Narendra, and Rajesh Kumar Lenka, “Fuzzy Logic Based Direct Power Control of Dual-Active Bridge Converter,” in 2021 1st IEEE International Conference on Power Electronics and Energy (ICPEE), KIIT Bhubaneswar, India, 2021, pp.1-5, doi: 10.1109/ICPEE50452.2021.9358536.
  •  Attended one-week short term training on “Renewable Energy Sources and Emerging Technologies” organized by NITTTR, Kolkata.
  •  Attended Webinar series on “Resiliency & Reliability of Power Electronics Converters” under the Indo-Denmark SPARC R&D Project.
  •  Completed short term training program on “Challenges in Electric Vehicular Battery Charging & Grid Integrating Issues” organized by RGM Kurnool (AICTE Sponsored).
  •  Qualified GATE in 2011, 2013, 2016, 2017, & 2018.
  •  Received MHRD fellowship for M.Tech and Ph.D.
  •  Member, IEANG.
  •  IEEE Student member
  •  Reviewer- International Journal of Power Electronics and Drive Systems (IJPEDS).
  •  Reviewer- International Journal of Emerging Electric Power Systems (IJEPS).
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