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Mainak Sengupta

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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

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


  • 1 Chakraborty D., Chanda S., Banerjee G.and Sengupta M., On-load parameter estimation of inductors in DC-DC Buck converters, Proc. of ICCECE 2024, International Conference on Computer, Electrical & Communication Engineering, ICCECE-2024,February 2024,, 2024
  • 2 Dey S., Joarder A., Sengupta M and Dalapati S., Comparative study between Two modes of control on a lab developed BLDC motor prototype, Proc. of ICCECE 2024, 1-7, International Conference on Computer, Electrical & Communication Engineering, ICCECE-2024,February 2024, Kolkata, India., 2024
  • 3 Chanda S., Das S., Banerjee G. and Sengupta M, Design, Fabrication, Performance Comparison and studies on Buck Converters for determining frequency limits of soft commutation failure, Proc. of ICCECE 2024, 1-7, International Conference on Computer, Electrical & Communication Engineering, ICCECE 2024, February 2024, 2024
  • 4 Piri J., Sengupta M., Bandyopadhyay G., Grid Synchronised Three Phase VSI-based Hardware Emulator to Realise Low Frequency Electromechanical Oscillations in Power Systems and Their Effects on Physical Distance Relay, 49, 1 -14, Sadhana, Academy Proceedings in Engineering Sciences,, 2024
  • 5 Barman B., Sengupta M., Parameter Determination of a Multi?layered Induction Heating Coil: Analytical, Simulation and Experimental Studies, 1-19, Journal of the IE(I) , Series B, Springer, 2024
  • 6 Banerjee G., Dey A and Sengupta M, Analytical and Experimental studies on improved performance High Frequency Multiphase Synchronous DC-DC Converter using SiC MOSFETs and Coupled Inductors, 49 (28), 1-4, Sadhana - Academy Proceedings in Engineering Sciences, 2024
  • 7 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
  • 8 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
  • 9 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
  • 10 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
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    Research Areas


    • “Modelling, Analysis, Sensorless Operation, Converter Development and Experimental Studies on a SRM Drive Including Saturation Effects” - PhD Thesis, 2024, by Dr Devraj Roy under Prof M Sengupta
    • 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 Prof. 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

    Publications


    1 Piri J., Sengupta M., Bandyopadhyay G., Grid Synchronised Three Phase VSI-based Hardware Emulator to Realise Low Frequency Electromechanical Oscillations in Power Systems and Their Effects on Physical Distance Relay, 49, 1 -14, Sadhana, Academy Proceedings in Engineering Sciences,, 2024 2 Barman B., Sengupta M., Parameter Determination of a Multi?layered Induction Heating Coil: Analytical, Simulation and Experimental Studies, 1-19, Journal of the IE(I) , Series B, Springer, 2024 3 Banerjee G., Dey A and Sengupta M, Analytical and Experimental studies on improved performance High Frequency Multiphase Synchronous DC-DC Converter using SiC MOSFETs and Coupled Inductors, 49 (28), 1-4, Sadhana - Academy Proceedings in Engineering Sciences, 2024 4 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 5 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 6 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 7 Seal M. and Sengupta M, Optimised design, analysis, fabrication and experiments on a Tubular linear induction motor prototype, 47, 1-13, Sadhana - Academy Proceedings in Engineering Sciences, 2022 8 Seal M. and Sengupta M.,, Optimised design, analysis, fabrication and experiments on a Tubular linear induction motor prototype, 47, 01-20, Sadhana - Academy Proceedings in Engineering Sciences, 2022 9 Roy D. and Sengupta M.,, Investigations on current waveform unbalance in a conventional switched reluctance motor even under healthy operating conditions at steady state, 47, Sadhana - Academy Proceedings in Engineering Sciences, 2022 10 Kar A., Ghosh K., Sengupta M. and Barman B, Analysis and Design of Efficient SiC-Based Load Resonant Converter with advanced features for Arc Welding Applications, 46, Sadhana - Academy Proceedings in Engineering Sciences, 2021 11 Janardan Kundu, Mainak Sengupta, Detailed comparative investigations on levitation prototypes of a ball and a rectangular plate of same mass using a novel analytical model and experiments, 46 (81), Sadhana - Academy Proceedings in Engineering Sciences, 2021 12 Abhishek Kar, Mainak Sengupta, Design, Analysis and Experimental Validation of a Variable Frequency Silicon Carbide-based Resonant-Converter for Welding Applications, 46 (75), Sadhana - Academy Proceedings in Engineering Sciences, 2021 13 Kar A., Miura-Mattausch M., Sengupta M., Navarro D., Kikuchihara H., Takahiro Iizuka T., Rahaman H and Mattausch H.J., Simulation-based Power-Loss Optimization of General-Purpose High-Voltage SiC MOSFET Circuit under High-Frequency Operation, Access-2021-01898, IEEE-Access, 2021 14 Paitandi S. and Sengupta M, Implementation of a novel and versatile initial rotor position estimation method on surface mounted permanent magnet synchronous motor prototype at zero speed, 45, 23, Sadhana - Academy Proc. in Engg. Sc., 2020 15 Mukherjee P. and Sengupta M, Comparative analytical and experimental study of fabricated identical Surface and Interior Permanent Magnet BLDC motor prototypes, 45, Sadhana - Academy Proc. in Engg. Sc., 2020 16 Paitandi S. and Sengupta M, Analysis,  fabrication and detailed comparative study of Surface and Interior Rotor PMSM Prototypes of Identical Nominal Ratings and Stator, 45, 24, Sadhana - Academy Proc. in Engg. Sc., 2020 17 Kundu J. and Sengupta M, Design, analysis, fabrication, control and comparative study of two different shaped plate levitation prototypes, 45, 23, Sadhana - Academy Proc. in Engg. Sc., 2020 18 Mukherjee P., Paitandi S. and Sengupta M, Comparative analytical and experimental study of fabricated identical Surface and Interior Permanent Magnet BLDC motor prototypes, 45, 23, Sadhana - Academy Proc. in Engg. Sc., 2020 19 Roy D. and Sengupta M.,, A novel and precise on-line digital measurement of unsaturated phase inductance of a switched reluctance motor, 44, Sadhana - Academy Proceedings in Engineering Sciences, 2019 20 Seal M. and Sengupta M, Design, analysis and fabrication of a linear permanent magnet synchronous motor, 42, Sadhana - Academy Proc. in Engg. Sc., 2017 21 Paitandi S. and Sengupta M., Analysis, Design and Implementation of Sensorless V/f control in a Surface Mounted PMSM without damper winding, 42, Sadhana - Academy Proc. in Engg. Sc., 2017 22 Roy M. and Sengupta M, Design, real-time modelling, simulation and digital implementation of phase-locked loop-based auto-sync current sourced converter for induction heating application, 42, Sadhana - Academy Proc. in Engg. Sc., 2017 23 Roy M. and Sengupta M, A commutation strategy for IGBT-based CSI-fed parallel resonant circuit for induction heating application, 42, Sadhana - Academy Proc. in Engg. Sc., 2017
  • 24 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
  • 25 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 26 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 27 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 28 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 29 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 30 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
  • 31 Sengupta M., History of Radio Astronomy, 7, 2465-2475, Physics Education, 1997
  • 1 Chakraborty D., Chanda S., Banerjee G.and Sengupta M., On-load parameter estimation of inductors in DC-DC Buck converters, Proc. of ICCECE 2024, International Conference on Computer, Electrical & Communication Engineering, ICCECE-2024,February 2024,, 2024 2 Dey S., Joarder A., Sengupta M and Dalapati S., Comparative study between Two modes of control on a lab developed BLDC motor prototype, Proc. of ICCECE 2024, 1-7, International Conference on Computer, Electrical & Communication Engineering, ICCECE-2024,February 2024, Kolkata, India., 2024 3 Chanda S., Das S., Banerjee G. and Sengupta M, Design, Fabrication, Performance Comparison and studies on Buck Converters for determining frequency limits of soft commutation failure, Proc. of ICCECE 2024, 1-7, International Conference on Computer, Electrical & Communication Engineering, ICCECE 2024, February 2024, 2024 4 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 5 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 6 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 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 Pal S. and Sengupta M, Performance comparison of two soft starting schemes of Power converter for a Switched Reluctance Motor lab prototype, Proc. of IEEE-IAS GlobConET 2022, IEEE-IAS GlobConET 2022, 2022 11 Dey A., Ghosh K., Kar A., Sengupta M., Design, Fabrication, Analysis and Testing of a Planar Inductor on a High Frequency Buck Converter using SiC Device, Proc. of the IEEE-SPICES 2022, IEEE-SPICES 2022, 2022 12 Das. S, Roy D. and Sengupta M.,, Detailed FEM-based Analysis of Vibration in a 3-phase Switched Reluctance Motor and its Experimental Validation, Proc. of the IEEE-SPICES 2022, 525-530, IEEE-SPICES 2022, 2022 13 Pal S. and Sengupta M.,, FEM analysis and experiments of a Double-sided Axial Flux Switched Reluctance Motor for two alternative phase winding terminal connections, Proc. of IEEE-SPICES 2022, 418-424, IEEE-SPICES 2022, 2022 14 Sengupta S., Dey S., Roy D., Sengupta M.,, Real Time Simulation of a Switched Reluctance Motor on a Miniature Full Spectrum Simulator, NPEC 2021, 01-06, Proc. Of the 10th National Power Electronics Conference NPEC-2021, 2021 15 Kar A.., Manna S., Sengupta M., Banerjee G.,, Design, Fabrication and Testing of gate driver and Double Pulse Test board for SiC MOSFETs, NPEC 2021, 01-06, Proc. Of the 10th National Power Electronics Conference NPEC-2021, 2021 16 105. Kar A., Manna S., Banerjee G. , Sengupta M, Design, Analysis, Fabrication & Testing of SiC Device based High Frequency Synchronous DC-DC Converters, NPEC 2021, 01-06, 10th National Power Electronics Conference NPEC-2021, 2021 17 104. Paitandi S., Dey S., Mukherjee P., Sengupta M., Investigations on losses and temperature rise in PMAC machines with distributed and concentrated windings and different rotor locations, NPEC 2021, 01-06, 10th National Power Electronics Conference NPEC-2021, 2021 18 103. Piri J., Sengupta M., Bandyopadhyay G., A Voltage Source Inverter based Hardware Emulator to Realise Low Frequency Electromechanical Oscillations in Power Systems, NPEC 2021, 01-06, 10th National Power Electronics Conference NPEC-2021, 2021 19 Barman B. and Sengupta M.,, Detailed analytical and experimental investigations on voltage source inverter fed Induction Heating Prototype, 9th National Power Electronics Conference (NPEC- 2019), NIT Trichy, 2019 20 Sarkar S. and Sengupta M., Design, Finite Element Based Validation of a Multi-channel Axial Flux Double Sided Switched Reluctance Motor and Its Fabrication, 9th National Power Electronics Conference (NPEC- 2019), NIT Trichy, 2019 21 Raj A., Paitandi S. and Sengupta M, Design Validation and Performance Evaluation of a BLDC of Commercial Electric Bike and Its Performance Comparision with Different Probable Designs, Conf.Proc., 9th National Power Electronics Conference (NPEC- 2019), NIT Trichy, 2019 22 Debnath T., Paitandi S., Mukherjee P. and Sengupta M, Design, Fabrication and Testing of a Fractional-Slot Non-Overlapping Winding Permanent Magnet Synchronous Generator, 9th National Power Electronics Conference (NPEC- 2019), NIT Trichy, 2019 23 Ghosh K., Kar A., Sengupta M. and Barman B., Design, Analysis, Fabrication and Testing of a 30 W, 300 kHz, Closed-Loop ZCS Buck Converter in Voltage-Mode Control, 9th National Power Electronics Conference (NPEC- 2019), NIT Trichy, 2019 24 Dey S., Roy D. and Sengupta M., Real Time Simulation of a Switched Reluctance Motor on a Miniature Full Spectrum Simulator, 9th National Power Electronics Conference (NPEC- 2019), NIT Trichy, 2019 25 Bhandari A., Debnath T., Paitandi S. and Sengupta M.,, Comparative Study of Two Different PMSGs with Different Slot Pole Combination Having Non-Overlapping Winding Configuration, 9th National Power Electronics Conference (NPEC- 2019), NIT Trichy, 2019 26 Barman B. and Sengupta M.,, Detailed analytical and experimental investigations on voltage source inverter fed Induction Heating Prototype, 9th National Power Electronics Conference (NPEC- 2019), NIT Trichy, 2019 27 Kar A., Dey S. and Sengupta M., Design, Analysis and Development of a SiC based 15 kVA General Purpose Inverter Stack for High Frequency Applications, IEEE International Conference on Power Electronics, Drives and Energy Systems (PEDES- 2018), 2018 28 Nanda A., Kar A. and Sengupta M., Design, Analysis, Simulation, Fabrication and Experiments on a Voltage Source Inverter Fed Induction Heating Prototype, IEEE International Conference on Power Electronics, Drives and Energy Systems (PEDES- 2018), 2018 29 Mukherjee P., Paitandi S. and Sengupta M., Parameter estimation and performance evaluation of laboratory developed Interior Permanent Magnet Motor, IEEE International Conference on Power Electronics, Drives and Energy Systems (PEDES- 2018), 2018 30 Seal M. and Sengupta M., Parameter estimation and performance evaluation of a Linear Permanent Magnet Synchronous Motor prototype, IEEE International Conference on Power Electronics, Drives and Energy Systems (PEDES- 2018), 2018 31 Sarkar S., Roy D. and Sengupta M., Design and FEM validation of Double Sided Axial Flux Switched Reluctance Motor, IEEE International Conference on Power Electronics, Drives and Energy Systems (PEDES- 2018), 2018 32 Piri J., Bandyopadhyay G. and Sengupta M.,, Effects of Including SVC & TCSC In An Existing Power System Under Normal Operating Condition – A Case Study, IEEE International Conference on Power Electronics, Drives and Energy Systems (PEDES- 2018), 2018 33 Kar A., Ahmed S.S., Narayanan G. and Sengupta M.,, Design, Performance Evaluation, Fabrication and Testing of a SiC MOSFET Gate Driver, IEEE International Conference on Signal processing, Informatics, Communication and Energy Systems (IEEE-SPICES- 2017), 2017 34 Paitandi S. and Sengupta M.,, Design and Implementation of Sensorless Vector Control of Surface Mounted PMSM using Back EMF Estimation and PLL Based Technique, 8th National Power Electronics Conference (NPEC- 2017), CoEP Pune, 2017 35 Roy D., Mainuddin Sk. and Sengupta M, Design, Analysis, FEM Validation and Fabrication of a Switched Reluctance Motor, 8th National Power Electronics Conference (NPEC- 2017), CoEP Pune, 2017 36 Kar A., Nanda A and Sengupta M., Design, Analysis, Fabrication and Practical Testing of a Lab Developed Power Converter Prototype in Electric Arc Welding, 8th National Power Electronics Conference (NPEC- 2017), CoEP Pune, 2017 37 Mukherjee P. and Sengupta M., Closed Loop Speed Control of A Laboratory Fabricated Brush-less DC Motor Drive Prototype Using Position Sensor, 8th National Power Electronics Conference (NPEC- 2017), CoEP Pune, 2017 38 Kundu J. and Sengupta M, Design, Modelling, Fabrication and Control of A Single-axis Attraction type Levitation Prototype, 8th National Power Electronics Conference (NPEC- 2017), CoEP Pune, 2017 39 Seal M. and Sengupta M.,, Design, Analysis, Fabrication and Comparison of Linear Induction Motor and Linear Permanent Magnet Synchronous Motor, Proc. of  Progress In Electromagnetics Research Symposium (PIERS 2016), Shanghai, China, 2016
  • 40 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
  • 41 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
  • 42 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
  • 43 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
  • 44 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
  • 45 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
  • 46 Roy M. and Sengupta M., Application of FPGA based PLL in a CSI fed induction heating prototype, IEEE International Conference on Power Electronics, Drives and Energy Systems (PEDES- 2014), IIT Bombay, 2014 47 Barman B. and Sengupta M., Design, fabrication, simulation and testing of an repulsion type levitation prototype, IEEE International Conference on Power Electronics, Drives and Energy Systems (PEDES- 2014), IIT Bombay, 2014 48 Nanda S.K. and Sengupta M.,, Design, Fabrication and Analytical Investigations on a Permanent Magnet Synchronous Generator for different renewable energy applications, IEEE International Conference on Power Electronics, Drives and Energy Systems (PEDES- 2014), IIT Bombay, 2014 49 Paitandi S. and Sengupta M.,, Design, Fabrication and Parameter Evaluation of a Surface Mounted Permanent Magnet Synchronous Motor, IEEE International Conference on Power Electronics, Drives and Energy Systems (PEDES- 2014), IIT Bombay, 2014 50 Mukherjee P. and Sengupta M.,, Design, Fabrication and Parameter Calculation of a Brush-less DC Motor, IEEE International Conference on Power Electronics, Drives and Energy Systems (PEDES- 2014), IIT Bombay, 2014 51 Kundu J., Sengupta M. and Sengupta A, Design, modelling, fabrication and control of an attraction type levitation prototype, IEEE International Conference on Power Electronics, Drives and Energy Systems (PEDES- 2014), IIT Bombay, 2014 52 Kar A., Sengupta M. and Barman B.,, Design, Fabrication, Simulation and Testing of A Phase Modulated Resonant Transition Converter, IEEE International Conference on Power Electronics, Drives and Energy Systems (PEDES- 2014), IIT Bombay, 2014 53 Banerjee R., Sengupta M. and Dalapati S.,, Design and implementation of Current Mode Control in a Switched Reluctance Drive, IEEE International Conference on Power Electronics, Drives and Energy Systems (PEDES- 2014), IIT Bombay, 2014
  • 54 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
  • 55 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
  • 56 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
  • 57 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
  • 58 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
  • 59 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
  • 60 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 61 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 62 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
  • 63 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
  • 64 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
  • 65 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
  • 66 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
  • 67 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
  • 68 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
  • 69 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
  • 70 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
  • 71 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
  • 72 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
  • 73 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
  • 74 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 75 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
  • 76 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
  • 77 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
  • 78 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
  • 79 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
  • 80 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
  • 81 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
  • 82 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
  • 83 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
  • 84 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
  • 85 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
  • 86 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
  • 87 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
  • 88 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
  • 89 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
  • 90 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
  • 91 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

    Projects


    • 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

    Research Groups


    Sourabh Paitandi
    Ph. D
    sourabh.rs2013@ee.iiests.ac.in / sourabh350@gmail.com

    Monojit Seal
    Ph. D
    seal.monojit@gmail.com

    Pinaki Mukherjee
    Ph. D
    pinaki.mukherjee.besus@gmail.com

    Devraj Roy
    Ph. D
    devraj1990@gmail.com

    Abhishek Kar
    Ph. D.
    abhishekkar1986@gmail.com

    Gourab Banerjee
    Ph. D.
    banerjeegourab0@gmail.com

    SUBHAJIT DEY
    Ph. D.
    subhajitdey289@gmail.com

    SABARNI PAL
    Ph. D.
    sabarni.nitd@gmail.com

    Jayanta Piri
    Ph. D.
    jayanta.piri@gmail.com

    Created: 23 November 2019