Jitender Kaushal

Jitender Kaushal

Designation:

Assistant Professor (Contractual-I)

Specialization:

Power System and Electric Drives

Email:

jitender.kaushal@thapar.edu

Contact No.

+91-8437-218-023

Biography

Jitender Kaushal is working as an Assistant Professor (C-I) in Electrical and Instrumentation Engineering Department of Thapar Institute of Engineering & Technology since July, 2013. He has submitted his Ph.D. thesis in January, 2020 to the Thapar Institute of Engineering & Technology, Patiala, Punjab, India. He received his Master of Engineering in Power System and Electric Drives from Thapar Institute of Engineering & Technology, India and Bachelor of Technology in Electrical Engineering from Himachal Pradesh University, India in the year 2012 and 2008 respectively. From the year 2008 to 2010, he had served as Trainee Engineer in M/s Aartech Solonics Limited in the field of automatic bus transfer system. His research interest is on microgrid, renewable energy resources, distributed generation technology, power quality monitoring index and its control.

Education

  • Ph.D. (TIET, Patiala) in Electrical Engineering with specialization in design and control of microgrid system for optimum operation
  • M.E. in Power System and Electric Drives, Thapar University, Patiala, First class (CGPA: 8.05)
  • B.Tech. in Electrical Engineering, Himachal Pradesh University, Shimla, First class (67.77%)

Experience: Total Teaching Experience: 07 years 08 month, Total Industrial Experience: 02 years

  • July 2013 to till date: Assistant Professor (C-I), Electrical & Instrumentation Engineering Department, TIET, Patiala.
  • July 2012 to June 2013: Assistant Professor, Electronics Engineering Department, Maharishi Markandeshwar University, Solan.

Teaching Interests:

  • Power System
  • DC Machines and Transformers
  • Renewable Energy System
  • Flexible AC Transmission Systems
  • Power System Operation and Control

Research Interest:

  • Operation and Control of Microgrid System
  • Power Quality Monitoring Index and its Control
  • Distributed Energy Resources
  • Power System Compensation Devices

Publications:

Journals

  1. Jitender Kaushal and Prasenjit Basak, “A Decision Making Methodology to Assess Power Quality Monitoring Index of an AC Microgrid Using Fuzzy Inference Systems”, Electrical Power Components and Systems, Taylor & Francis, vol. 47, issue 14-15, pp. 1349-1361, 2019. [Impact Factor: 0.888].
  2. Jitender Kaushal and Prasenjit Basak, “A Novel Approach for Determination of Power Quality Monitoring Index of an AC Microgrid Using Fuzzy Inference System”, Iranian Journal of Science and Technology, Transactions of Electrical Engineering, Springer, vol. 42, issue 4, pp. 429-450, 2018. [Impact Factor: 0.60].
  3. Amandeep Kaur, Jitender Kaushal and Prasenjit Basak, A review on microgrid central controller, Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews – Elsevier, vol. 55, pp. 338-345, 2016. [Impact Factor: 10.556].
  4. Jitender Kaushal and Prasenjit Basak, “Frequency control of islanded microgrid using fuzzy-PI and autotuned controllers”, International Journal of Advances in Applied Sciences (IJAAS), vol. 8, issue 1, pp. 64-72, March 2019.
  5. Jitender Kaushal and Prasenjit Basak, “The Deployment of Microgrid as an Emerging Power System in India and its Simulation using Matlab-Simulink”, International Journal of Advanced Research in Electrical, Electronics and Instrumentation Engineering, vol. 3, issue 4, pp. 9163-9170, April 2014..

International Conferences

  1. Sahil Mehta, Jitender Kaushal and Prasenjit Basak, “Tariff calculation using hybrid smart energy meter and fuzzy inference system”, in 2018 IEEMA Engineer Infinite Conference (eTechNxT), IEEE, New Delhi, India, pp. 1-6, 2018.
  2. Jitender Kaushal and Prasenjit Basak, “A typical layout of microgrid and scope of its industrial application”, 7th India International Conference on Power Electronics (IICPE), Patiala, pp. 1-5, 2016.

National Conferences

  1. Jitender Kaushal and Prasenjit Basak, “Microgrid: An Emerging Power System and its Deployment in Indian Power Scenario”, in National Conference on Integrated Computational Techniques in Electrical Engineering (ICTEE 2014), Patiala, 2014.
  2. Jitender Kaushal and Souvik Ganguli, “Recent Development in Ant Colony Optimization: A Critical Review”, in 4th National Conference on Recent Trends & Technologies in Soft Computing, St. Peter's University, Avadi, Chennai, 2012.
  3. Jitender Kaushal and Souvik Ganguli, “Recent Development in Artificial Bee Colony Algorithm with PID Controller: Review”, in 1st National Conference on Innovative Ideas in Engineering & Management, Manav Bharti University, Solan (H.P.), 2012.

Achievement, Awards and Recognitions

  • Achieved ‘distinction’ in the assignment as a part of CAPSL "New Directions in Teaching & Learning" programme organised by TIET in collaboration with the Trinity College of Dublin in the session 2019-2020.

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