Tukaram Moger

Designation: 

Assistant Professor

Date of Joining at NITK: 

Tuesday, January 15, 2008

Professional Experience: 

15 Years (as on June, 2019)

Previous Experience:
• Assistant Professor in Department of Electrical & Instrumentation Engineering at Thapar University, Patiala, Punjab, India.
• Lecturer in Department of Electrical Engineering at J. S. S. Academy of Technical Education, Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India.
• Lecturer in Department of Electrical & Electronics Engineering at B. V. B. College of Engineering and Technology, Hubli, Karnataka, India.

Contact Details

E-mail: 

tukaramoger[AT]gmail[DOT]com
tukaram[AT]nitk[DOT]edu[DOT]in

Telephone: 

+91-824-2473451

Fax: 

+91-824-2474039

Google Scholar: 

https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=LjJ684kAAAAJ
Faculty (author) Identifiers

ORCID iD: 

0000-0003-4176-5125

Scopus Author ID: 

55315951300
Academic Background

• Ph.D., Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore, 2016
• M.Tech., Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (IITK), 2005
• B.E., SDM College of Engineering and Technology, Dharwad (affilated to Karnatak University, Dharward, Karnataka), 2001

Areas of Interest

• Grid Integration of Renewable Energy
• Solar Photovoltaic Systems
• Reactive Power and Voltage Control
• Power System Operation and Planning
• Power System Deregulation

Significant Projects

1) Institute (NITK) Seed money grant of Rs. 5.0 lakhs on project entitled “Reactive Power Planning and It’s Pricing Analysis in a Deregulated Electricity Markets: An Integrated Approach”

Supervision of Ph.D

On-going : 04

Significant Publications

Journals:
1) G. S. Krishna and Tukaram Moger, Enhancement of maximum power output through reconfiguration techniques under non-uniform irradiance conditions," Energy, pp. 115-917, 2019.
2) G. S. Krishna and Tukaram Moger, Optimal SuDoKu Reconfiguration Technique for Total-Cross-Tied PV array to Increase Power Output Under Non-Uniform Irradiance," IEEE Transaction on Energy Conversion (Early Access), 2019.
3) G. S. Krishna and Tukaram Moger, “Reconfiguration strategies for reducing partial shading effects in photo-voltaic arrays: State of the art," Solar Energy, vol. 182, pp. 429-452, 2019.
4) G. S. Krishna and Tukaram Moger, Improved SuDoKu reconfiguration technique for total-cross-tied pv array to enhance maximum power under partial shading conditions," Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, vol. 109, pp. 333-348, 2019.
5) Tukaram Moger and Thukaram Dhadbhanjan, “Impact of Different PQ Models of Wind Turbine Generating Units (WTGUs) on System Voltage Performance,” International Journal of Emerging Electric Power Systems, vol. 18, no. 4, 2017.
6) Tukaram Moger and Thukaram Dhadbhanjan, “Evaluation of Reactive Power Support and Loss Allocation in a Pool Based Competitive Electricity Market,” International Journal of Emerging Electric Power Systems, vol. 18, no. 2, 2017.
7) Tukaram Moger and Thukaram Dhadbhanjan, “Fuzzy Logic Approach for Reactive Power Coordination in Grid Connected Wind Farms to Improve Steady State Voltage Stability,” IET Renewable Power Generation, vol. 11, no. 2, pp. 351–361, 2016.
8) Tukaram Moger and Thukaram Dhadbhanjan, “A Novel Index for Identification of Weak Nodes for Reactive Compensation to Improve Voltage Stability”, IET Generation, Transmission & Distribution, vol. 9, no.14, pp. 1826-1834, 2015.

Book Chapter:
1) Tukaram Moger and Thukaram Dhadbhanjan, “Reactive Power Loss Index for Identification of Weak Nodes and Reactive Compensation Analysis to Improve Steady State Voltage Stability,” Book chapter in Novel Advancements in Electrical Power Planning and Performance, pp. 177-237, IGI Global, 2020 (DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-8551-0.ch007).
2) Tukaram Moger and Thukaram Dhadbhanjan, “Fuzzy Logic Based Reactive Power and Voltage Control in Grid Connected Wind Farms to Improve Steady State Voltage Stability,” Book chapter in Handbook of Research on Power and Energy System Optimization, pp. 1-54, IGI Global, 2018 (DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-3935-3.ch001).

Conferences:
1) Sai Krishna G. and Tukaram Moger, Comparative Study on Solar Photovoltaic Array Configurations under Irregular Irradiance Conditions.” 8th IEEE India International Conference on Power Electronics (IICPE), IEEE, 2018.
2) Sai Krishna G. and Tukaram Moger, SuDoKu and Optimal SuDoKu Reconfiguration for TCT PV array Under Non-Uniform Irradiance Condition.” 8th IEEE Power India International Conference (PIICON), IEEE, 2018.
3) Tukaram Moger, Teena Johnson and Thukaram Dhadbanjan. “Significance of Reactive Power Loss and Its Application to System Voltage Stability.” IEEMA Engineer Infinite Conference (eTechNxT), IEEE, 2018.
4) Shareeq MT Mohammed, Tukaram Moger, and Thukaram Dhadbanjan. ”Fuzzy logic approach to curtail number of controllers for voltage control in grid connected wind farms.” Eighteenth National Power Systems Conference (NPSC), IEEE, 2014.
5) Tukaram Moger, and Thukaram Dhadbanjan. ”An improved approach for evaluation of reactive power sources contribution to reactive load and loss.” Annual India Conference (INDICON), IEEE, 2013.
6) Tukaram Moger, and Thukaram Dhadbanjan. ”Reactive power loss allocation to consumers in a deregulated power system.” Fifth International Conference on Power and Energy Systems (ICPS), Nepal, 2013.
7) Ravi Brahmadevi, Tukaram Moger, and Thukaram Dhadbanjan. ”Approach for Online Short-term Hydro-Thermal Economic Scheduling”, National Power System Conference (NPSC), 2012.
8) Anurag Syal, Kumar Gaurav, and Tukaram Moger. ”Virtual laboratory platform for enhancing undergraduate level induction motor course using MATLAB/Simulink.” IEEE International Conference on Engineering Education: Innovative Practices and Future Trends (AICERA), IEEE, 2012.
9) Tukaram Moger, and Stanzin Dodjoo. ”A comprehensive analysis of reactive power pricing in a competitive electricity markets.” International Conference on Advances in Engineering, Science and Management (ICAESM), IEEE, 2012.
10) Tukaram Moger, and Siva Kumar Villuri. ”A Genetic Algorithm Based Approach to Optimal Power Flow Problem”, Second National Conference on Power Electronics and Renewable Energy Systems (PEARES), 2012.
11) Tukaram Moger, and Durga Prasad Gudavalli. ”Application of Genetic Algorithm to Reactive Power Optimization”, National Systems Conference (NSC), 2011.
12) Tukaram Moger. ”Reactive Power Pricing Analysis in a Restructured Electricity Market”, International conference on electrical energy systems & power electronics in emerging economics (ICEESPEEE), 2009.
13) Tukaram Moger. ”Optimal Reactive Power Planning in a Competitive Electricity Market”, NITK-KU Joint Seminar: Recent Advances in Engineering & Technology, Japan, 2008.

Achievements

Award/Prize/Achievements/Certificate/Memberships/Foreign visit:

• Senior Member of IEEE (USA) and IEEE Power & Energy Society (PES)
• Member of IEEE-Eta Kappa Nu (Mu Xi Chapter of IISc)
• Chartered Engineer (India)
• Member of International Council on Large Electric Systems (CIGRE)
• Member of IET (UK)
• Member of Institution of Engineers (India).
• Life Member of Systems Society of India (SSI)
• Life Member of Indian Society for Technical Education (ISTE)
• Life Member of Soft Computing Research Society (SCRS) of India
• Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) Scholarship for pursuing M.Tech. at IIT Kanpur
• Visited Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Curtin University, Perth, Australia, from 21st May to 29th May 2016 as a guest researcher under the research interaction scheme sponsored by TEQIP-II.
• Visited Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Kagoshima University, Japan from 16th, November to 6th December, 2008 as a guest researcher under the research interaction scheme sponsored by TEQIP-I.
• Received IEEE Publication Paper Award 2014 from IEEE Bangalore Section, India.
• Received Best Paper Award in Power and Energy track from 2013 Annual IEEE India Conference (INDICON), Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT Bombay), India.
• Completed certificate course on JAPANESE Language organized by Centre of Continuing Education (CCE), NITK Surathkal, Mangalore
• B. E. Project was Adjudged as the “Best Project” in Electrical and Electronics Engineering category for the year 2000-2001 during final year Project Exhibition.