Mainak Sengupta

About

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 8 PhD theses and 7 more PhD students are currently working under his supervision. He has supervised over 41 Master's theses and over 90 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. 8.4 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

Academic Qualifications

Ph.D (Machine Drives & Power Electronics/EE-1999, IIT Kharagpur, W.B. India).
M.Tech (Machine Drives & Power Electronics/EE-1994, IIT Kharagpur, W.B. India).
B.E. (EE-1992, Jadavpur University, Calcutta, W.B. India).

Research Statement

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.

Latest Publications

2 Mahapatra A., Seal M. and Sengupta M., An alternative analytical thermal model of a laboratory developed LPMSM prototype with its FEM analysis and experimental validation, Proc of NPEC 2023, NPEC 2023, 2023

3 Das S., Banerjee G. and Sengupta M, Design, Fabrication, Testing and Comparative analysis of different inductors in a high frequency Synchronous Buck Converter, Proc of NPEC 2023, NPEC 2023, 2023

4 Banerjee G., Das S., Kar A. and Sengupta M, Studies on Electromagnetic and Thermal Performance of GaN MOSFETs in an Isolated DC-DC converter, Proceedings of NPEC 2023, NPEC - 2023, 2023

5 Mukherjee P., Paitandi S. and Sengupta M., Sensorless speed control of a laboratory fabricated SPM-BLDC motor prototype, 48, 236-240, Sadhana - Academy Proceedings in Engg., 2023

6 Monojit Seal, Mainak Sengupta, An alternative approach for the determination of electromechanical parameters of a tubular linear induction motor and its experimental validation, 48, 175-185, Sadhana, Academy Proceedings , Indian Academy of Sciences, 2023

7 66. G. Banerjee, A. Dey, A. Kar and M. Sengupta, Current Mode Control of Interleaved Synchronous Buck Converter with Coupled Inductor, 2022 IEEE 1st Industrial Electronics Society Annual On-Line Conference ; ONCON 2022, 2022

8 Pal S., Roy D., Rahaman Md. W. and Sengupta M., Investigations on vibration studies of a 4-phase Double-sided Axial Flux Switched Reluctance Motor with different terminal connections, Proc. of PEDES 2022, 01-06, PEDES 2022, 2022

9 G. Banerjee, A. Kar and M. Sengupta, Design, Fabrication, Testing & Comparative Performance Study of two different WBG Device based High Frequency Synchronous Buck Converters, Proc. of PEDES 2022, PEDES 2022, 2022

10 Roy D. and Sengupta M, An Experimentally Validated Novel Analytical Model of a Saturated Switched Reluctance Motor, 58(12), 1-11, IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, 2022

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Research Areas

Analytical and experimental investigations on state-of-art high frequency power converters for welding application - PhD Thesis, 2024, by Dr Abhishek Kar under Prof M Sengupta
Design, Fabrication and experiments on Linear PMSM and Tubular LIM prototypes - PhD Thesis, 2024, by Dr Monojit Seal under Prof M Sengupta
"Fabrication, Analysis, Control and Experimental Investigations on DC attraction-type levitation prototypes - PhD Thesis, 2023, by Dr Janardan Kundu under Prof M Sengupta
Detailed Investigation on Designed and Fabricated Brushless DC Motor prototypes and their sensorless drives - PhD Thesis, 2022, by Dr Pinaki Mukherjee under Prof M Sengupta
Design, analysis, fabrication and implementation of statcom with robust control techniques in DSP platform for controlling of power system stability - PhD thesis, 2012 by Dr JayaKrushna Moharana under Prof M Sengupta and Aparajita Sengupta
Multi-sensor and multi-algorithm approach for in-process Induction Motor misalignment fault detection under harsh industrial environment - PhD Thesis, 2014, by Dr Subimal Bikas Chaudhury u nder Prof M Sengupta and Prof K Mukkherjee
Improved Performance Induction Heating System Prototypes and their Power converters - PhD Thesis, 2017, by Dr Molay Roy under Prof M Sengupta
Design, Analysis, Fabricaiton, Sensorless Control Implementation and Comparative studies of PMSM prototypes and their drives - PhD Thesis, 2021, by Dr Sourabh Paitandi under Prof M Sengupta

Teachings

PG Courses

1 Special Topics in Power Electronics and Drives applications (earlier called PE-III) 2 Generalised Theory of Elecrical Machines 3 Power Electronic Converter fed drives (earlier called PE-II) 4 Advanced Power Electronics (earlier called PE-I)

UG Courses

1 Classical Electrodynamics 2 Control Systems - I 3 Power Electronics 4 Electrical Machines II 5 Principles of AC Circuits 6 Solid State Devices and Applications - I 7 Electrotechnology (for Mining Engineering 2nd year) 8 Electromagnetic Field Theory 9 Basic Electrical Engg.

Publications

22 Moharana J.K. , Sengupta M. and Sengupta A, Design and Implementation of a PI- Controller on a 10kVA STATCOM prototype, International Journal of Power and Energy Conversion, Inderscience, 2014

23 Chaudhury S.B., Sengupta M. and Mukherjee K,, Vibration Monitoring of Rotating Machines Using MEMS Accelerometer, International Journal Of Scientific Engineering And Research (IJSER), 2014 24 Nanda S.K., Sengupta M. and Sengupta A.,, Modelling, Simulation, Fabrication, Experiments and Real-Time Linear State Variable Feedback Control of Cuk Converter using Pole Placement Technique, 95(2), JOURNAL OF THE INSTITUTION OF ENGINEERS (INDIA): SERIES B, 2014 25 Chaudhury S.B., Sengupta M. and Mukherjee K.,, An experimental study of induction motor misalignment and its online detection through data fusion, 7(1), 58-67, IET Electric Power Applications, 2013 26 Moharana J.K., Sengupta M. and Sengupta A.,, Design, Analysis and Implementation of a Small Signal Control Strategy on a 10 kVA STATCOM Prototype Connected to Inductive load, 94(1), 61-70, JOURNAL OF THE INSTITUTION OF ENGINEERS (INDIA): SERIES B, 2013 27 Roy M. and Sengupta M.,, Electro-magnetic investigations and power converter efficiency studies on a laboratory made induction heating prototype, 94(3), 153-160, JOURNAL OF THE INSTITUTION OF ENGINEERS (INDIA): SERIES B, 2013 28 Ratnam K.V., Bhattacharya T.K. and Sengupta M.,, Theory, performance prediction and indirect sensing of rotor position in a switched reluctance motor under bulk saturation, 39 (9), 667-677, IEE Proceedings , Part B, Electric Power Applications, 1999

29 Sengupta M., History of Radio Astronomy, 7, 2465-2475, Physics Education, 1997

37 Kar A. and Sengupta M., Design, Analysis, Fabrication and Testing of a 3 kW Power Factor Correction Boost Rectifier, IEEE International Conference on Power Electronics, Drives and Energy Systems (PEDES- 2016), 2016

38 Paitandi S. and Sengupta M, Design, Analysis of a Permanent Magnet Synchronous Motor and its Comparative study with 3-phase Induction Machine of Same Nominal Rating, 7th National Power Electronics Conference (NPEC- 2015), IIT Bombay, 2015

39 Roy M. and Sengupta M, Analysis, Converter Design and Testing of High Frequency Induction Heating Coil for Special Application, 7th National Power Electronics Conference (NPEC- 2015), IIT Bombay, 2015

40 Nanda S.K., Sengupta M. and Sengupta A.,“, Modelling , Real time simulation, Fabrication of and Experiments on a Boost-Buck (Cuk) Converter, 7th National Power Electronics Conference (NPEC- 2015), IIT Bombay, 2015

41 Mukherjee P. and Sengupta M.,, Design, Analysis, Fabrication and Testing of a Current Controller for a Isolated Full Bridge DC-DC Converter, 7th National Power Electronics Conference (NPEC- 2015), IIT Bombay, 2015

42 Kundu J., Sengupta M. & Sengupta A.,, Design, modelling, fabrication and testing of an electromagnetic coil system for a levitation, 7th National Power Electronics Conference (NPEC- 2015), IIT Bombay, 2015

51 Paitandi S. and Sengupta M.,, Design, Analysis of a Permanent Magnet Synchronous Motor and its Comparative study with 3-phase Induction Machine of Same Nominal Rating, Conf. Proc., 6th National Power Electronics Conference (NPEC- 2013), IIT Kanpur, 2013

52 Roy M. and Sengupta M.,, Analysis, Converter Design and Testing of High Frequency Induction Heating Coil for Special Application, Conf. Proc., 6th National Power Electronics Conference (NPEC- 2018), IIT Kanpur, 2013

53 Nanda S.K., Sengupta M. & Sengupta A, Modelling , Real time simulation, Fabrication of and Experiments on a Boost-Buck(Cuk) Converter, Conf. Proc., 6th National Power Electronics Conference (NPEC- 2013), IIT Kanpur, 2013

54 Chaudhuri S.B., Sengupta M. & Mukherjee K.,, Finite Element Air Gap Flux Analysis of Misaligned Induction Motor Under Different Load Condition, Conf. Proc., 6th National Power Electronics Conference (NPEC- 2013), IIT Kanpur, 2013

55 Mukherjee P. & Sengupta M.,“, Design, Analysis, Fabrication and Testing of a Current Controller for a Isolated Full Bridge DC-DC Converter, Conf. Proc., 6th National Power Electronics Conference (NPEC- 2013), IIT Kanpur, 2013

56 Kundu J., Sengupta M. & Sengupta A.,“, Design, modelling, fabrication and testing of an electromagnetic coil system for a levitation, Conf. Proc., 6th National Power Electronics Conference (NPEC- 2013), IIT Kanpur, 2013

57 Roy M. and Sengupta M.,, Practical test on novel series-connected CSI prototype for controlled induction heating application, Conf. Proc., IEEE International Conference on Power Electronics, Drives and Energy Systems (PEDES- 2012), Bangalore, 2012 58 Sengupta M. , Ahmed S.S. and Mukherjee D.,, Experimental investigations on a novel laboratory prototype of Axial Flux Switched Reluctance Motor, Conf. Proc., IEEE International Conference on Power Electronics, Drives and Energy Systems (PEDES- 2012), Bangalore, 2012 59 Tola S. and Sengupta M, Real-Time Simulation Of An Induction Motor In Different Reference Frames on a FPGA Platform, Conf. Proc., IEEE International Conference on Power Electronics, Drives and Energy Systems (PEDES- 2012), Bangalore, 2012

60 Sengupta M. , Sen S. and Ghosh S.S.,, Design, Fabrication and running of a double-sided axial-flux switched reluctance motor prototype, Conf. Proc., 5th National Power Electronics Conference (NPEC- 2011), BESU Shibpur, 2011

61 Sengupta M. , Paswan D. and Chanda A..,, Development and validation of off-line and real-time simulation models on a laboratory SR motor prototype, Conf. Proc., 5th National Power Electronics Conference (NPEC- 2011), BESU Shibpur, 2011

62 Moharana J.K., Sengupta M. and Sengupta A..,, Closed-loop Control of a lab-scale STATCOM prototype for reactive power compensation, Conf. Proc., 5th National Power Electronics Conference (NPEC- 2011), BESU Shibpur, 2011

63 Roy M. and Sengupta M.,, Comparison of start-up methods for a thyristorised current source inverter fed induction heating unit, Conf. Proc., 5th National Power Electronics Conference (NPEC- 2011), BESU Shibpur, 2011

64 Roy M. and Sengupta M.,, Comparison in performance between an IGBT-based and a thyristor-based current source inverter feeding a 2kW, 10kHz induction heating unit, Conf. Proc., 5th National Power Electronics Conference (NPEC- 2011), BESU Shibpur, 2011

65 Chaudhury S.B., Sengupta M. and Mukherjee K, Time-stepping finite element based study of eccentricity in a cage-induction motor, Conf. Proc., 5th National Power Electronics Conference (NPEC- 2011), BESU Shibpur, 2011

66 Roy M. and Sengupta M.,, FPGA based control of a self starting CSI fed 2kW, 9.8kHz induction heating unit, Conf. Proc., 4th National Power Electronics Conference (NPEC- 2010), IIT Roorkee, 2010

67 Dasgupta S., Mukherjee K. and Sengupta M.,, A Simplified Averaged Dynamic Model of a Permanent Magnet Synchronous Motor Driven By a Two-level, Three-phase, Self-Controlled Transistorized Voltage Source Inverter Under 1200 Conduction Mode, Conf. Proc., 727-731, 4th IET International Conference on Power Electronics, Machines and Drives (PEMD), 2008

68 Moharana J.K., Sengupta A and Sengupta M.,, Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of various control strategies for a 6 kVA STATCOM for reactive power compensation, Conf. Proc., 3rd National Power Electronics Conference (NPEC- 2007), IISc, Bangalore, 2007

69 Ray S., Sengupta M. and Mukherjee K.,, Design of a 2kW, 10 kHz Induction heating unit, Conf. Proc., 3rd National Power Electronics Conference (NPEC- 2007), IISc, Bangalore, 2007

70 Ray S., Bagchi S., Sengupta M. and Mukherjee K.,, Simulation and testing of a power converter for a 2 kW induction heating unit with real heating load, Conf. Proc., 3rd National Power Electronics Conference (NPEC- 2007), IISc, Bangalore, 2007

71 Mukherjee S., Dasgupta A., Sengupta M., Syam P. and Chattopadhyay A.K, Implementation of Indirect SVPWM Control for a 3-phase Matrix Converter using TMS320LF2407A platform in combination with FPGA EPIC6Q240CB, Conf. Proc., IEEE International Conference-ICIT 2006, 2006 72 Dasgupta A., Mukherjee S., Sengupta M., Syam P. and Chattopadhyay A.K, Implementation of Universal logic system of Generating Commutating Pulses in Matrix Converters using FPGAs, Conf. Proc., IEEE International Conference-ICIT 2006, 2006

73 Das Soumitra, Bala Susen and Sengupta M., Design, Performance and Finite Element Analysis of a 1kW Switched Reluctance Motor for Electric Vehicle, Conf. Proc., 2nd National Power Electronics Conference (NPEC- 2005), IIT, Kharagpur, 2005

74 Moharana J.K., Sengupta A and Sengupta M., Modeling Design and Simulation of Reactive Current and Voltage Controller for A STATCOM Application, Conf. Proc., 2nd National Power Electronics Conference (NPEC- 2005), IIT, Kharagpur, 2005

75 Mukherjee S., Adak G., Syam P. and Sengupta M, Review of the Architecture of TMS320LF2407A in order to develop a lab-based serial communication alternative to the JTAG link, Conf. Proc., 2nd National Power Electronics Conference (NPEC- 2005), IIT, Kharagpur, 2005

76 Nanda S.K., Ganguly D. and Sengupta M., Design, Torque Ripple Calculation, Weight Optimization and Finite Element Analysis of BLDC Motor Using Two Different Magnetic Materials, Conf. Proc., 2nd National Power Electronics Conference (NPEC- 2005), IIT, Kharagpur, 2005

77 Sengupta A., Mukherjee B.K., Maiti S. and Sengupta M.,, Design, Fabrication, DSP Implementation and Comparison of Simulated Performance of a Linear Induction Motor for P-I and H? Control Schemes, Conf. Proc., 2nd International MAGLEV Conference, MAGLEV 2004, Shanghai, China, 2004

78 Maiti S. , and Sengupta M., Design, Fabrication, DSP-based running of 4 a kW Switched Reluctance Motor, Conf. Proc., 2nd IICPE Conference, IEEE-IICPE 2004, Mumbai, India, 2004

79 Mukherjee B.K., Sengupta M., Das S. and Sengupta A, Design, Fabrication, Testing and Finite Element Analysis of a Lab-scale LIM, Conf. Proc., IEEE India Conference, Indicon 2004, IIT Karagpur, India, 2004

80 Maiti S., Sengupta M. and Sengupta S, Design, Fabrication, and testing of power converter and its associated circuits for a 4 kW Switched Reluctance Motor Drive, Conf. Proc., IEEE India Conference, Indicon 2004, IIT Karagpur, India, 2004

81 Moharana J.K., Sengupta A. and Sengupta M., A Nonlinear Control Modelling of A STATCOM for Reactive Power Compensation, Conf. Proc., 13th National Power Systems Conference (NPSC- 2004), IIT Madras, India, 2004

82 Ratnam K.V., Sengupta M., Chattopadhyay A.K. and Bhattacharjee R, Development and experimental validation of a novel analytical model for performance prediction of SR motors under saturation, Conf. Proc., 948-953, IEEE International Conference on Power Electronics and Drives (IEEE-PEDS 2003) NUS, Singapore, 2003

83 Sengupta M., Moharana J.K. and Sengupta A.,, Study on Advanced Static VAR Compensator switched from Space Vector PWM Inverter – analysis, simulation and comparison with Sinusoidal PWM, Conf. Proc., 1st National Power Electronics (NPEC- 2003), IIT Bombay, India, 2003

84 Sengupta A., Patra S. and Sengupta M.,, Design, Simulation and Comparison of a PI and H? optimal controller for a switched reluctance motor based variable speed drive, Conf. Proc., 27th National Systems Conference (NSC- 2003), IIT Kharagpur, India, 2003

85 Sengupta A., Saha A., Patra S. and Sengupta M., Design and performance of an Extended Luenberger Observer for indirect position estimation in a Switched Reluctance Motor, Conf. Proc., 270-273, 12th National Power Systems Conference (NPSC- 2002, 2002

86 Sengupta M., Sengupta A.,, Design, implementation and testing of an attraction type magnetic levitation system, Conf. Proc., 17-20, International Conference on Energy, Automation and Information Technology (EAIT-2001, 2001

87 Ratnam K.V., Bhattacharya T.K. and Sengupta M.,, A novel position sensor using analogue devices for an SR Motor without shaft mounted position encoder, Conf. Proc., 534-539, IEEE International Conference on Power Electronics, Drives and Energy Systems (IEEE- PEDES '98), Perth, Australia, 1998

88 Sengupta Mainak and Venkataratnam K.,, Prediction of steady state and transient performance characteristics of an SR Motor using semi-analytical methods, Conf. Proc., 60-64, 19th National Systems Conference (NSC- 1995), PSG College, Coimbatore, India, 1995

1 M. Sengupta, S. Das and A. Sengupta, Elements of Design, Fabrication and Analysis for a light SR Motor, VDM Verlag Dr. MullerISBN – 978-3-639-28685-4, 2010., , 2010

Patents

#	Patents	Year
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

Design and Development of Magnetic-core Power Inductor (HF-Mag), Sponsored
Ongoing
MEMS for Electric Machines and Drives (MEMS- MACHINES), Sponsored
Ongoing
Design and Development of WBG Device based High Current Converters for Industry Applications [WBG-Con (Wide Band Gap)], Sponsored
Ongoing
Design and analysis of IMs for submersible applications-Phase I, Consultancy
Ongoing
Design and development of P2 motor for hybrid EVs, Consultancy
Ongoing
Design of BLDC drive for ball-screw application, Consultancy
Completed
Design of 240kW, IGBT based buck – chopper, Consultancy
Completed
Implementation of Robust Control Techniques through a DSP Platform on a Lab-scale real time system, Sponsored
Completed
A Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) controller based real-time implementation of a commutatorless motor drive with selectable hard or soft characteristics, Sponsored
Completed
Fuel Cell Development, Sponsored
Completed
Centre of Excellence for Development of Micro-structurally designed materials., Sponsored
Completed
Development of high efficiency power electronic converter technology using next generation Si/SiC-based switching devices with integrated gate drivers for high frequency operation at reduced losses, Sponsored
Completed
Sensorless Switched Reluctance Motor Drive, Sponsored
Completed
Design and development of a 500W, 36 V, 300 RPM Hub Switched Reluctance Motor, and 650 watts, 48 volts, 750 RPM conventional SRM for application in a scooter and auto-rickshaw drive, Sponsored
Completed
Development and validation of SEQUEL and Real time model of various electric drives for a "Full Spectrum Simulator", Sponsored
Completed
Design, fabrications and implementation of Cascaded CSI-fed Induction Heating Units, Sponsored
Completed
Design, development and testing of 3-phase permanent magnet machines and their converters, Sponsored
Ongoing
Design, Analysis and Fabrication of 0.25 hp Double Sided Axial Flux Switched Reluctance Motor (SRM) Drives for manual assist electric bicycle, Sponsored
Ongoing
Development of motor eccentricity and vibration monitoring systems and control strategies for switched reluctance motor-based drives, Sponsored
Ongoing

Awards

Distinguished Academic Contribution Award - DACA 2016, Year: 2016
Fellow of the Institution of Engineers, India, Year: 2015
First Prize and Gold Medal for the best Indian M.Tech Thesis in Electrical and Electronics Engineering 1995, Year: 1995
INAE Young Engineer Award 2004, Year: 2004