RAJEEV B R
Power System Engineer
Tumakuru India,KA
Summary
- Competent electrical engineer with Master’s degree in Power System Engineering over 6 years of Industry and 4 years of academic experience having the ability to initiate, execute & complete engineering processes for power system design and solutions.
- Innovative Electrical and Power Engineer with proven track record of evaluating electrical systems and applying the skills of Power System Engineering.
- Key areas of Expertise: System and Conceptual Design, Feasibility Study, Detailed Engineering, Equipment Sizing, Layouts, Power System Studies, FACTS & HVDC, Grid Code Compliance, FRT, LVRT, HVRT studies, Solar & Wind Energy Conversion Systems, ETAP, DIgSILENT, PSCAD, PSS/E, Simulink, Electrical operation and Maintenance.
Overview
3
3
Languages
12
12
Certifications
6
6
years of post-secondary education
11
11
years of professional experience
Work History
Assistant Professor of Power Systems
Siddaganga Institute of Technology
Tumakuru, Karnataka INDIA
08.2016 - Current
- Academic Teaching and research in a teaching-learning environment.
- Major courses offered: Basic Electrical Engineering, Electric circuit analysis, Transmission Distribution, Power System Analysis and stability, Electric Circuit analysis, High Voltage Engineering, Solar & Wind Energy Conversion Systems, FACTS & HVDC, Power System Laboratory courses using ETAP, PSCAD, PSS/E, PSPICE, and MATLAB/Simulink.
- Some independent significant works and also through guiding the PG Projects in the trending areas of Power Systems like ‘Solar and Wind Integration studies which includes Grid code compliance evaluation, FRT, LVRT, HVRT, Transient studies’, ‘System studies incorporating FACTS devices’ and ‘HVDC connecting off shore wind turbines’, some of these works have been published in peer reviewed conference proceedings and journals.
- Summer Faculty Research Fellowship at IIT Delhi on Evaluation of Protection attributes of compensated Transmission Line Protection in presence of FACTS devices using PSCAD.
- Faculty coordinator for various academic functions.
- Third party Electrical Inspection of Government Irrigation and utility projects.
- With the strong background of Industry experience, I have designed and implemented a new course ‘Hands on In-house Industrial Training’.
Electrical Engineer
M/s Aditya Birla Grasim Industries Ltd
Kumarapatnam , Karnataka INDIA
07.2011 - 08.2016
- Design & Engineering: Handling the projects on redesign and extensions to optimize the system in main control station and 66kV main receiving grid substations.
- Shift wise Electrical operation, monitoring & troubleshooting of power plant.
- Attending & troubleshooting of plant interruption reports without affecting to the plant production.
- TG Start-up, load monitoring, Synchronization with grid to manage the plant load
- Performing the maintenance and shut down jobs, why-Why analysis, RCA
- Implemented various kaizens to conserve the energy losses.
- Safety LOTO (Lock-out Tag-out) compliance.
- Preparation of Auxiliary Consumption, Daily plant reports such as Generation & Production Report, and Section wise power reports.
- Electrical Spares Management (Reservations, Purchase requisition, Purchase and Service orders in SAP).
- Associated in the project Power System studies of the plant assigned to ‘ABB power System consulting’ for the changes in the design for extending the loads.
- Proactively involved in various Kaizen implementation schemes and WCM activities, Energy saving implementation activities at Grasim Industries.
Engineer-Power
M/s BMM Ispat and Energy Ltd
Hospet, Karnataka INDIA
01.2010 - 07.2011
- Design & Engineering: Project coordination at various stages with various power consultants of Power Plant Projects (Supervising EPC work flow at owner’s site) of 1x70MW Captive Power Plant and 220kV Substation Extension projects.
- Reviewing Bidding Documents from consultants, Power Evacuation Study Report, drawings, Lay-outs, Documentation & preparation of all the project protocols and Standard operating Procedures (SOP’s).
- Associated in Power System Studies assigned to M/s Mecon India Ltd for the extension of 220kV Substation for the expansion of the plant for higher loads with the in-plant project team.
- Presented Seminar on “Electrical Equipment Basic Theory & Studies in 1x70MW CPP” an account of internal technical training at Power Plant at BMMIL prior to the newly commissioned 70MW CPP.
Graduate Apprentice
M/s Karnataka Power Transmission Corporation Ltd
Davanagere, Karnataka INDIA
11.2009 - 01.2010
- Preventive maintenance of Substation Equipment, daily reports, troubleshooting
- Energy Management System and Substation SCADA.
Education
Master of Technology - Power System Engineering
Visvesvaraya Technological University
Belgaum India 08.2012 - 08.2014
Bachelor of Engineering - Electrical & Electronics Engineering
University BDT College of Engineering
Davangere India 08.2005 - 08.2009
Skills
Power System Analysis And Stability
Electrical engineering
Schematics and Drawings
Transient & dynamic Stability Studies
IS, IEC , IEEE Standards
Power Plant Project
Substation Design
Load Flow Studies
Short Circuit Studies
Protection coordination Studies
Harmonic Studies
Arc Flash Studies
Motor Start Analysis
ETAP, DIgSILENT, PSCAD, PSS/E
Solar & Wind Integration Studies
Grid Code Compliance Evaluation
FRT, LVRT, HVRT Studies
EMT Studies
Power System Protection
FACTS & HVDC
Offshore and Onshore Wind Power Plant
Balance of Plant (BoP)
Electrical Operation And Maintenancece
Lock-out Tag-out (LOTO) safety compliance
Variable frequency drives(VFD)
PLC Controls and Substation SCADA
Industrial Safety
PM Module In SAP
Lean Six sigma-White Belt
C Programming
Python Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) skills
Microsoft Office Tools
Fluent English Language Proficiency
Strong Verbal And Written Communication Skills
Critical thinking and problem solving
Professional and Technical Report Writing
Excellent organization Skills
Project Management
Certification
Short term course on ‘Electric Power System’ , IIT Kharagpur
Accomplishments
- Industrial Training organizer at SIT Tumakuru.
- Summer Faculty Research Fellow at IIT Delhi
- Industry Coordinator for Power System Studies at ABG Grasim and BMM Ispat Ltd.
- Kaizen Champion at ABG Grasim.
- Part of a Successful Project Team of 70MW Power Plant and 220kV S/S.
Publications
- B R Rajeev, GN Madhu, " Voltage enhancement assessment using SVC FACTS controller" International Journal of Electrical, Electronics and Data Communication 2014/10, Volume 2, Issue 10 Pages 40-45
- Rashmi Y R, Rajeev B R "Design and power quality analysis of High Frequency series resonant inverter for induction furnace" International Conference on computation of power, Energy, Information and Communication(ICCPEIC-2017)"
- Pattar Gayatri Kallappa, BR Rajeev "Performance Study of DC–DC Resonant Converter Topologies for Solar PV Applications" Book Emerging Research in Electronics, Computer Science and Technology, Springer, Singapore, Pages 1295-1310 Publication date 2019
- Deepak Hebbalad, Rajeev B R “Interleaved Boost Converter with Coupled Inductor for Wide Conversion Range fed to DC Micro Grid”, 4th IEEE International Conference on Recent Trends in Electronics, Information & Communication Technology (RTEICT-2019)
- Rajeev B R, SIT, Tumakuru ‘Analysis and Evaluation of the Impacts of FACTS Devices on the Transmission Line Protection’ International Conference on Advances in Renewable Energy & Electric Vehicles (AREEV-2020) under the aegis of ICETE-2020 multi-conference platform
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Timeline
Electrical Distribution design with AUTOCAD, DIALux, and ETAP’, Online Udemy certification
12-2021
'Substation Earthing/Grounding Design’, Online Udemy certification
03-2021
Python Programming Master Class, Udemy Training Certification Course
03-2021
C++ Programming, Udemy Training Certification course
02-2021
Power flow analysis for Electrical Engineers, Online Udemy Training certification course
12-2020
Electrical Engineering Simulations with ETAP, Online Udemy Training certification course
12-2020
Arc flash fundamentals, Online Udemy Training certification course
12-2020
Summer Faculty Research Fellowship , IIT Delhi
07-2019
Introduction to Smart Grid’, online 8-week NPTEL AICTE approved FDP
10-2018
Modelling and Simulation of Power System Networks using PSCAD and ETAP, RVCE Bangalore
08-2018
Project Management’, Siddaganga Institute of Technology
04-2018
Short term course on ‘Electric Power System’ , IIT Kharagpur
07-2017
Assistant Professor of Power Systems
Siddaganga Institute of Technology
08.2016 - Current
Master of Technology - Power System Engineering
Visvesvaraya Technological University
08.2012 - 08.2014
Electrical Engineer
M/s Aditya Birla Grasim Industries Ltd
07.2011 - 08.2016
Engineer-Power
M/s BMM Ispat and Energy Ltd
01.2010 - 07.2011
Graduate Apprentice
M/s Karnataka Power Transmission Corporation Ltd
11.2009 - 01.2010
Bachelor of Engineering - Electrical & Electronics Engineering
University BDT College of Engineering
08.2005 - 08.2009