B Venkatesa Perumal

Designation: 

Professor

Date of Joining at NITK: 

Wednesday, May 20, 2015

Professional Experience: 

Professional Experience: 20+ Years

         Industry experience  : 10+ Years

         Teaching experience: 10+ Years

Contact Details

E-mail: 

bvperumal@nitk.edu.in

Alternate E-mail: 

bvperumal@gmail.com

Telephone: 

+91-824-2473465

Mobile: 

+91-9980861389
Academic Background
  • Ph.D. IITD 2007
  • M.E. Bharathidasan University 2000
  • B.E Madras University 1999
Areas of Interest
  • Power electronics applications in PV renewable energy systems
  • Power electronics applications in power systems
  • Charger for Electric Vehicle applications.
Significant Projects

 

Sl.No

Title of the project

Funding Agency

Sanction order date

         Duration

          Responsibility

       Amount in Lakhs

1

Standalone Evaporative Air cooler – Pump flow and fan speed controller using solar energy

DST

15th May 2017

 2.5 years

Principal Investigator

38.698

2

Solar water pumping system in off-grid mode with changeover to grid

NITK- Institute sponsored

29th June 2017

             2.5 years

Principal Investigator

5

3

Smart PV Energy Harvesting

TI-DST

 

1 year

Mentor

5

4

Back to back converter development for solar water pumps application

Infineon Technology India Pvt. Ltd. (company)

5th May 2018

2 year

Principal Investigator

10

5

Android based home automation

Alumni NITK 1988 batch EEE

23rd March 2018

2 years

Principal Investigator

1.15

6

Voyager-“solar tracker automation

Raptor Design Technology Pvt. Ltd. (company)

22nd March 2018

1 Year

Principal Investigator

2

7

High Gain Single Stage Micro Inverter

Raptor Design Technology Pvt. Ltd. (company)

23rd January 2019

2 years

Principal Investigator

2

8

Switched Reluctance Motor - DHI Fame Project

Department of Heavy Industry

24th December 2018

2 years

Lien Principal Investigator

1700

9

Development of an Electric systems for Automatic Control of street lights

Alumni NITK

Mr.Ramachadra

Mr.Sukumar Hegde

6th June 2019

2 years

Principal Investigator

0.25

10

A Novel Bidirectional Converter for Electric Vehicle to grid Applications

Alumni NITK

Ms.Maitree.S

Ms.S.M Naik

MsNischita Kaza

6th June 2019

2 years

Principal Investigator

0.4

Consultancy:  

  1. Microtech stabilizer verification.
     
  2. Solar rooftop power plant design verification.
     
  3. Energy auditing for gasoline plant
Supervision of Ph.D
  • Completed - 03 + 01(Main Guide) - 04
  • On-going – 04 (02 Full-Time & 02 Part-Time)
Significant Publications

Patent:

  1. Indian Patent: 289453 “A Novel Closed Loop Amplitude and Frequency Control of Self Excited Induction Generator”– Granted
  2. US Patent: US8278927 B2 “System and method for controlling current in gradient coil of magnetic resonance imaging system ”- Granted
  3. Indian Patent: 498383 “A Solar water pumping system in grid tie or off grid mode with net zero energy from grid”. Application number 201641035575 dated on 18/10/2016 – Granted
  4. Indian Patent: 530230 “Method of Device for Sensorless PMSM drive”. Application number 201741000335 dated on 04/01/2017 – Granted
  5. Indian Patent: 525180 “A dynamic voltage restoration system for weak ac grids and a method thereof”. Application number 201741009197 dated on 16/03/2017- Granted
  6. Indian Patent filed on “A method and system for global peak detection under non-uniform insolation conditions”. Application Number 202141016770 dated on 29/09/2021- Published (Application Awaiting Examination)

Journals: 14 (IEEE Trans.) Conference: 19(IEEE conferences)

Google scholar link: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=jBnNWQoAAAAJ&hl=en

Achievements
  1. IETE Fellow & IE Fellow
  2. Best research paper award -2022- VGST, Karnataka.
  3. IEEE senior member
  4. IETE Student Project award -2018for project guided “smart Charger (An Add- on module to solar irrigation pump)”
  5. Innovative Students Project Award –2008 –Doctoral level for my PhD thesis from INAE (Indian National Academy of Engineers).
  6. Stood firstin M.E (Power Electronics and Drive) of Bharathidasan university examination.
  7. Landsteiner awardfor solving HFA control board issue   in GE Healthcare.
  8. Team Work award, Advanced solution –SunEdison – May 2014.
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