Prof. Mainak Sengupta did his B.E (EE) from Jadavpur University in Calcutta in 1992. He did his M.Tech (Power Electronics and Machine Drives, Electrical Engg.) In january 1994 under Prof. K. Venkataratnam. In January 1994 he joined Ph D studies under Prof. K. Venkataratnam and Prof. Tapas K. Bhattacharya. He obtained his PhD degree in September 1999. In between, after completing the experimental work, he joined as a Lecturer in EE, in the then Bengal Engineering College (Deemed University) and is since teaching there. He is a Professor since June 2010.
He has supervised 9 PhD theses and 6 more PhD students are currently working under his supervision. He has supervised over 41 Master's theses and over 95 B.Tech students.Till date he has led in more than a dozen R&D projects as Principal/Chief Investigator, amounting to the tune of Rs. 8.61 Crores. He has 7 patents (filed/ registered/awarded) till date. He emphasises on analytical work and compulsory validation by experiments which are mostly developed from scratch.
His research areas majorly include experimental and analytical work in Electrical Engineering in areas like
1. Use of Power Electronic Converters for Power Systems applications
2. Special Electromagnetic applications viz., Induction Heating, Electromagnetic levitation (Attraction and Repulsion type), Electric Welding
3. State of the art Power Electronic Converters - Development , analysis, Fabrication and testing
4. Electrical machines like (i) Switched Reluctance Machines, (ii) Permanent magnet AC machines like PMSM, BLDC (iii) Linear machines (LIM, LPMSN, TLIM), (ii) - Design, develop,ment, fabrication, analysis and testing of radial flux, axial flux, rotary and liner varieties
5. Electrical Drives built around the above machines
6. Wide bang gap devices based Power Electronic Converters - Design, development, fabrication control and testing
7. Modelling, analysis and testing of Magnetic Components for use in PE converters at very high frequesnices in the range 2 00 kHz - 2 MHz
1. Power Electronic converters: Design, fabrication and testing of (a) IGBT, MOSFET, BJT and SCR based VSI, CSI, DC-DC converters, Rectifiers, (b) Generalised Power Converters, (c) SiC-based high frequency Power converters, (d) Power Converters for special applications like induction heating, welding, repulsion type levitation, (e) Power Converters for electric drives
2. Electrical Machines and Drives: Design, fabrication, analysis and testing of (a) conventional rotary, (b) axial flux type rotary versions of Switched reluctance motors, BLDC, PMSM, and Syn reluctance Motors, (c) linear motors like LIM, LPMSM, and (d) tubular linear induction motor - TLIM
3. Special Electromagnetics applications: Design, fabrication, analysis, and testing of (a) Electromagnetic attraction and repulsion type levitation systems (b) induction heating coils and (c) welding set-ups
4. Power systems applications of PE converters: Fabrication and testing of Power electronic converter based-FACTS devices - STATCOM and UPQC.
# | Patents | Year |
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1 | DEVELOPMENT OF TUBULAR LINEAR INDUCTION MOTOR STATORS FROM DISCRETE LINEAR STAMPINGS | 2024 |
2 | DOUBLE-SIDED AXIAL FLUX SWITCHED RELUCTANCE MOTOR | 2023 |
3 | A SYSTEM FOR ERROR-CORRECTION OF TRAPEZOIDAL EMF PMAC MACHINES HAVING SENSOR ASSEMBLY MECHANICAL MISALIGNMENT DEFECT | 2023 |
4 | A System Employing Mixed-Signal Platform For Parameter And Position Estimation Of A Switched Reluctance Motor | 2022 |
5 | An Electric Motor Apparatus For and An Application on Mechanical Loads Under Operational Modes Warranting High Torque At Low Speeds | 2017 |
6 | A Low Cost, Small in size and High Frequency Current sourced Converter for Induction Cooking Application and heat treatment in soft metals | 2013 |
7 | A novel position sensor using analogue electronic devices for application in a switched reluctance motor to eliminate the shaft mounted position encoder | 1999 |
Created: 23 November 2019