Research Projects and Consultancy Work

Actively involved in providing consultancy services to many large industrial organizations and small entrepreneurs for their product development and problems with high voltage insulation . I have been member of the Technical Advisory Committee of Industrial Cables (India) Ltd., Rajpura (Punjab) for more than a decade . I have provided consultancy services to National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC), Bharat Heavy Electricals ltd. (BHEL), U P State Electricity Board (UPSEB), Power Grid Corporation, India Insulators Ltd., Cawnpore Woollen Mills, Indian Railways R & D Organization RDSO, Oil and Natural Gas Corporation of India Ltd. (ONGC). A considerable amount of testing work of transformers, cables, electrical instruments and dielectric materials is undertaken in our high voltage laboratory under my guidance.

Major Project Involvment:

  1. Project Coordinator of the project “Review of electrical clearance in air for 25 kV, 50 Hz, ac traction system for Indian Railways". sponsored by RDSO. Started in Jan 2003, this project is at its final stage of completion by March 2005.
  2. Project Coordinator of , “Development of remote operated 11 kV Load Break Switch and Low Voltage Moulded Case Circuit Breakers”. This is a part of the Technology Development and Transfer Mission Project on “Distribution Automation”. The aim is to develop efficient and reliable management of distribution of power . The technology development and its field implementation of this project was accomplished in 2002.
  3. The consultancy project on the feasibility study and design of “Lightning Protective System for Crude Oil Tank and Slop Tank” with Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Ltd. of India (ONGC), Panvel, Navi Mumbai was completed in 1999.
  4. Member of the Standing Committee on Engineering and Communication for Indian Antarctic Expeditions, Department of Ocean Development of Government of India.

 





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