Faculty Profile

Dr R D Patidar

Professor & Vice Chancellor

Department of Electrical Engineering

School of Engineering

  rd.patidar@opju.ac.in

  •  Ph D in Electrical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee -2010.
  •  M.Tech in Power Electronics from SGSITS, Indore - 2004.
  •  BE in Electrical Engineering from Govt. Engineering College, Rewa- 1995
  •  OP Jindal University (OPJU), Raigarh, Chhattisgarh, India (January 2013 to till date) : Presently working as Vice Chancellor of the University, also worked as a Registrar, OPJU and Director, OP Jindal Institute of Technology (OPJIT), Raigarh, prior to Vice-Chancellor, OPJU.
  •  Mandsaur Institute of Technology, Mandsaur, Madhya Pradesh, India (March 1999 to December 2012): Worked as lecture to Professor and Head Department of EEE. Also worked as Dean Academics & officiating Director of the Institution.
  •  Jindal Steel and Power Ltd, Raigarh, Chhattisgarh, India (November 1996 to February 1999): Worked as an Electrical Engineer in its power generation division.
  •  Gajra Gears Ltd., Dewas, Madhya Pradesh, India (January 1996 to November 1996) : Worked as Graduate Engineer Trainee.
  •  Power Quality Improvement using Active Power Filter and STATCOM.
  •  Reactive Power Control.
  •  Distributed Generation System.
  •  DG-Grid Interfaced System.
  •  Power Electronics Application in Renewable Energy.
  •  R. D. Patidar and S. P. Singh, “DSP based shunt active filter controller for customer generated harmonics and reactive power compensation,” International Journal of Electric Power Components and Systems, vol. 38, no. 8, pp. 937-959, 2010.
  •  R. D. Patidar and S. P. Singh, “DSP based shunt active filter controller for customer and utility generated harmonics and reactive power compensation,” International Journal of Distributed Energy Resources, vol. 6, no. 3, pp. 229-252, 2010.
  •  R. D. Patidar and S. P. Singh, “Performance evaluation of different line current shaping controllers of shunt active power filters,” International Journal of Power Electronics (IJPELEC) vol. 3, no.4, pp. 417-435, 2011.
  •  R. D. Patidar and S. P. Singh, “Optimal controller for shunt active filter under unbalanced and distorted 3P4W distribution systems,” International Journal on Power System Optimization (IJPSO) vol. 1, no. 2, pp. 159-169, 2009.
  •  R. D. Patidar and S. P. Singh, “Active and reactive power control and quality management in DG-grid interfaced systems,” ARPN Journal of Engineering and Applied Science, vol. 4, no. 4, pp. 81-90, May, 2009.
  •  R. D. Patidar and S. P. Singh “Selective harmonic frequency based nonlinear load compensation using hybrid active power filter,” International Journal of Power Electronics (IJPELEC), vol. 4, no. 3, pp. 258-272, 2012.
  •  R. D. Patidar, “DG-Grid Interfaced System with Shunt Active Filter Functions”, International Journal of Engineering Innovation and Research (IJEIR), vol. 1, issue1, pp. 41-49, 2012.
  •  G. Mehta, S. P. Singh and R. D. Patidar, “Active, Reactive and Harmonic compensation control of grid interfaced fuel cell system,” International Journal of Emerging Electric Power Systems, vol. 13, issue 4, 2012.
  •  G. Mehta, S. P. Singh and R. D. Patidar, “Fuel Cell based Distributed Generation System with Power Flow and Power Quality Control,” International Journal of Power & Energy (IJPEC) vol. 4, no. 1, pp. 73-94, 2013.
  •  R. D. Patidar, S. P. Singh and D. K. Khatod, “Modeling, analysis and control of Grid-interactive photovoltaic system with active filter functions,” IEEE Transactions on Energy Conversion, (under review).
  •  R. D. Patidar and S. P. Singh “Harmonics estimation, and modeling of residential and commercial loads,” Proceeding of IEEE International Conference on Power Systems (ICPS), IIT Kharagpur, India, December 27-29, 2009.
  •  R. D. Patidar and S. P. Singh “A fast acting 1/z controller for shunt active filter operation for harmonics and reactive power compensation,” Proceeding of IEEE, International Conference on Industry and Information Systems (ICIIS), IIT Kharagpur, India, December 8-10, 2008.
  •  R. D. Patidar and S. P. Singh “Harmonic, reactive and neutral currents compensation and load balancing in 3P4W distribution systems,” Proceeding of IEEE, International Conference on Computer Engineering and Technology (ICCET), Singapore, vol. 2, pp. 512-526, January 22-24, 2009.
  •  R. D. Patidar and S. P. Singh “DG-grid interfaced with energy storage shunt active filter to improve power quality,” Proceeding of IEEE, International Conference on Computer Communication and Networking (ICCCN) Karur, India, December, 17-19, 2008.
  •  R. D. Patidar, S. P. Singh and D. K. Khatod, “Single-phase single-stage Grid-interactive photovoltaic system with active filter functions,” IEEE-PES General Meeting, USA, July, 2010.
  •  R. D. Patidar, S. P. Singh and J. D. Sharma, “Harmonics elimination and var compensation for 3P3W and 3P4W distribution systems using shunt active filters,” Proceeding of IASTED International Conference on Power and Energy Systems (PES), Baltimore, USA, paper no. 617-085, April16-18, 2008.
  •  R. D. Patidar, S. P. Singh “A new controller for var compensation and harmonics reduction using shunt active filter,” Proceeding of International Conference on Power System Analysis, Control and Optimization (PSACO), India, pp. 493-498, March13-15, 2008.
  •  R. D. Patidar and S. P. Singh, “A single-phase hybrid filter to improve power quality,” Proceeding of 32nd National System Conference (NSC), IIT Roorkee, India, pp. 83-88, December16-18, 2008.
  •  R. D. Patidar and S. P. Singh, “Performance evaluation of different line current shaping controllers using shunt active power filter,” Proceeding of International Conference on Electrical Energy Systems & Power Electronics in Emerging Economies (ICEESPEEE-2009), SRM University, Chennai, India, April 16-17, 2009.
  •  R. D. Patidar and S. P. Singh, “Selective harmonic frequency based non-linear load compensation using hybrid active power filter,” Proceeding of International Conference on Electrical Energy Systems & Power Electronics in Emerging Economies (ICEESPEEE-2009), SRM University, Chennai, India, April 16-17, 2009. pp. 584-589.
  •  R. D. Patidar and S. P. Singh, “Power quality management in DG-Grid interfaced systems with DSTATCOM,” Proceeding of International Conference on Energy and Environment(EnviroEnergy-2009), National Institute of Kurukshetra, Kurukshetra, India, March 19-21, 2009.
  •  R. D. Patidar and S. P. Singh, “Power quality management in DG-Grid Interfaced Systems with active power filter,” Proceeding of International Conference on Energy Engineering (ICEE-2009), Engineering College Pondicherry, Pondicherry, India, January7-9, 2009.
  •  R. D. Patidar and S. P. Singh, “Single-phase shunt active filter for customer generated harmonics and reactive power compensation,” IEEE International Power and Energy Conference (IPEC-2010), Nayung University Singapore, October 26-29, 2010.
  •  D. Govind, R. D. Patidar and S. P. Singh, “Harmonics measurement and Modeling of non-linear loads,” IEEE International Conference on Advanced Computing and Communication Technologies (ICACCT – 2010), Manipal, India, October 28-30, 2010.
  •  G. Mehta, R. D. Patidar and S. P. Singh, “Design analysis and implementation of DSP based single-phase shunt active filter controller,” International Conference on Emerging Trends in Electrical and Computer Technology (ICETECT-2011), Nagercoil, India, March 23-24, 2011.
  •  G. Mehta, R. D. Patidar and S. P. Singh, “Grid-Interactive fuel cell system with active filter functions,” National Conference on Sustainable Development in Energy Sector, Dehradun, India, April 8-9, 2011.
  •  G. Mehta, S. P. Singh and R. D. Patidar, “Non-linear load compensation in fuel cell grid interfaced system using active power filters”, IEEE International conference PEDS, Singapore, December 5-8, 2011.
  •  G. Mehta, S. P. Singh and R. D. Patidar, “Grid interconnection of distributed generation system with power quality improvement features”, IEEE International conference PEDS, Singapore, December 5-8, 2011.
  •  Nitin Panwar & R. D. Patidar, “An Optimal Controller for APF for Customer Harmonics and Reactive Power Compensation”, IEEE Conference on Engineering and Systems, March 16-18, 2012, NIT, Allahabad, India.
  •  Nitin Panwar & R. D. Patidar, “Hybrid Filter for Harmonics Reduction and Reactive Power Compensation”, IEEE Conference on Engineering and Systems, March 16-18, 2012, NIT, Allahabad, India.
  •  R. D. Patidar “Passive Filter in Conjunction with APF for Harmonics Elimination and Reactive Power Compensation”, Proceedings of National Conference Technology Advancement in Electrical & Renewable Energy Engineering EREECON, February 23-24, 2013, pp.1-6.
  •  R D Patidar “A New Topology of Hybrid Filter for Harmonics and Reactive Power Compensation”, Proceedings of AICTE Sponsored, International Conference on “Emerging trends in Instrumentation, Communication, Electrical & Electronics” ICE-ICEE-2014 during January 23-35, 2014, Indore, India.
  •  A UNDP-GOI-DST-TDC-TRC project as Principal Investigator, worth Rs. 40 lacs for educating & self-employment of rural people and set up of a Technology Resource Center at Manasa, Distt Neemuch (MP), India during 1999-2003.
  •  Established Remote center at MIT, Mandsaur in collaboration with IIT, Mumbai under NME-ICT, MHRD, Govt. of India and conduced 5+ two weeks ISTE workshops as RC- Coordinator.
  •  Established Remote center at OPJIT, Raigarh in collaboration with IIT, Mumbai under NME-ICT, MHRD, Govt. of India and conduced 15+ two weeks ISTE workshops as RC- Coordinator.
  •  Design and Development of a Bidirectional DC-DC Converter for energy management of worth Rs 4.5 Lacs funded by Chhattisgarh Council of Science & Technology, Raipur (C G) started from January 15 as Principal Investigator.
  •  Ministry of HRD Scholarship: Ministry of Human Resources and Development (MHRD), Govt. of India scholarship for Full Time Ph D. program at IIT Roorkee, INDIA (January 2007 to June 2010).
  •  Best paper award title “Selective Harmonic Frequency Based Nonlinear Load Compensation Using Hybrid Active Power Filter,” “International Conference on Electrical Energy Systems & Power Electronics in Emerging Economies (ICEESPEEE-2009), SRM University, Chennai, India, April 16-17, 2009.
  •  1st position obtained in subject SHGPA (Grade: 9/10) during Ph D Course work-2007 (including M.Tech students).
  •  1st position obtained in subject CAP (Grade: 9/10) during Ph D Course work -2006 (including M.Tech students).
  •  1st position in M. E. From SGSITS, Indore, in year 2004.
  •  2nd position in B. E. Course from Govt. Engg. College, Rewa (M. P.) in year 1995.
  •  1st position Diploma course Govt. Poly., Jaora (M.P.), India and 7th position in M. P. merit.
  •  Life Member of Indian Society for Technical Education.
  •  Life member of IAENG.
  •  Reviewer - Taylor and Francis, International Journal of Electric Power Components and Systems.
  •  Reviewer - IEEE, Transactions on Energy Conversion.
  •  Reviewer - IEEE, Transactions on Power Electronics.
  •  Reviewer - Science Direct-Elsevier, International Journal of Electrical Power and Energy System.
  •  Reviewer - Wiley publishers, International Energy Research Journal.
  •  Reviewer - Inderscience, International Journal of Power Electronics.
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