Dr.Ravindra Kollu
professor & head| Department | : | Electrical and Electronics Engineering |
| Qualification | : | P.hD |
| Phone(Office) | : | |
| Mobile | : | 9703976874 |
| : | ravikollu@jntucek.ac.in | |
| Date of Birth | : | |
| Date of Joining | : | 07/06/2003 |
| Subjects Taught | : | Power Electronics, Electrical machines, Control systems, Analysis of Power Electronic Converters, Switched mode Power Converters, HVDC Transmission, Electrical Drives, Evolutionary Algorithms and Applications, Basic Electrical Engineering |
| Research Area | : | Power converters, Renewable energy systems, Distributed Generation, Soft computing techniques |
| Teaching Experience | : | 18 |
| Research Experience | : | 13 |
| Industry/Professional Experience | : | NIL |
| Google Scholar link | : |
Major Publications in International Journals:
1. K. R. K. V. Prasad, V. Srinivasa Rao, P. Harini, Ratna Raju Mukiri, K. Ravindra et al., “Machine Learning Algorithms are Applied in Nanomaterial Properties for Nanosecurity”, Journal of Nanomaterials Volume 2022
2. Jayaram, K., Ravindra, K., Prasad, K.R.K.V. et al. A multi-objective approach for renewable distributed generator unit’s placement considering generation and load uncertainties. Int J Energy Environ Eng (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40095-021-00438-5 (Springer-ESCI)
3. Patibandla, A, Kollu, R, Rayapudi, SR, Manyala, RR. A multi-objective approach for the optimal design of a standalone hybrid renewable energy system. Int J Energy Res. 2021; 45( 12): 18121– 18148. https://doi.org/10.1002/er.6957 (Wiley-SCIE-Impact factor 5.164)
4. Pavankumar, Y, Kollu, R, Debnath, S. Multi-objective optimisation of photovoltaic/wind/biomass/battery-based grid-integrated hybrid renewable energy system. IET Renew Power Gener. 2021; 15: 1528– 1541. https://doi.org/10.1049/rpg2.12131 (Wiley-SCIE-Impact factor 3.93)
5. Bhimaraju. P. S. D., Ravindra. K, K V S Ramachandra Murthy, “Effect of Installing Hybrid Solar and Wind Power Dgs on Transient Stability of Captive Power Generation Units”, Design Engineering, pp. 11568-11589, Sep. 2021.
6. Bhimaraju. P. S. D., K V S Ramachandra Murthy, Ravindra. K, “Optimal Distributed Generator Placement - A Bibliometric Survey”Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal), pp. 1-30, 2021.
7. K.R.K.V.Prasad, K.Ravindra, “Multi-Objective Approach For Optimal Placement Of DG And Capacitor Along With AVR In Distribution Network”, Journal of Advanced Research in Dynamical and Control Systems, vol. 12, no.2, pp.25-34, 2020
8. Ravindra Kollu, Srinivasa Rao Rayapudi, Narasimham S V L, “A novel method for optimal placement of distributed generation in distribution systems using HSDO”, International Transactions on Electrical Energy Systems, vol.24, no.1, pp.547-561, April 2014. (Wiley-SCIE-Impact factor 2.86)
9. Rao, R. S.; Ravindra, K.; Satish, K.; Narasimham, S. V. L., “Power Loss Minimization in Distribution System Using Network Reconfiguration in the Presence of Distributed Generation”, IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, vol.28, no.1, pp.317-325, 2013. (SCI-Impact factor 6.074)
10. Ravindra Kollu, Srinivasa Rao Rayapudi, Narasimham S V L, Krishna Mohan Pakkurthi, “Mixture probability distribution functions to model wind speed distributions”, International Journal of Energy and Environmental Engineering, 3:37, 2012, doi:10.1186/2251-6832-3-27 (Springer-ESCI).
11. M. Ramalinga Raju, K.V.S. Ramachandra Murthy, K. Ravindra, “Direct Search Algorithm for Capacitive Compensation in Radial Distribution Systems”, International Journal of Electrical Power and Energy Systems, vol.42, no.1, pp. 24-30, November 2012. (Elsevier-Impact factor 4.63)
12. G Naresh, M Ramalinga Raju, SVL Narasimham, K Ravindra, “Robust Power System Stabilizer Design Using Bacterial Foraging Optimization Algorithm”, The Indian Journal of Technical Education, vo. 35, no.1, pp.76-83, 2012
13. G.Naresh, M.Ramalinga Raju, K.Ravindra, S.V.L.Narasimham , “Optimal Design of Multi-Machine Power System Stabilizer Using Genetic Algorithm”, Innovative Systems Design and Engineering, vol.2, no.3, pp. 54-70, 2011
14. G Naresh, M Ramalinga Raju, SVL Narasimham, K Ravindra, “Tuning of power system stabilizers in multi-machine systems using particle swarm optimization”, International Review on Modelling and Simulations, vol. 4, no. 5, 2011
| Workshops/Courses Attended | : | 1. Attended 40-hour Online Faculty Development Programme (MeitY-GoI) on “Sustainable Energy Systems: Topology, Control and Policy during 28th March – 6th April 2022 organized by E&ICT Academy, NIT Warangal & GRIET 2. Attended Five-day online short term course (TEQIP-III) on “Sustainable Energy Systems: Topology, Control and Policy during 12th – 16th October 2020 organized by MNIT Jaipur. 3. Attended Two Week Faculty Development Programme (AICTE) on “Recent Advances in High Voltage Engineering”from 30th December-11th January, 2020at EEE Department, UCEK 4. Attended One day workshop on ”Quality Enhancement, Assessment and Accreditation of Engineering Colleges” on 11th November, 2019 at JNTU Kakinada 5. Attended One Week QIP Short Term Course (CCE, IISC-Bangalore) on “FPGA based Controller design for Power Electronic Converters” during 10th -14th June 2019 at IISc Bangalore 6. Attended One Week QIP Short Term Course (CCE, IISC-Bangalore) on “Power Semiconductor Devices for Power Electronic Converters” from 23rd -27th July 2018 at IISc Bangalore 7. Attended One Week Faculty Development Programme(GIAN, MHRD) on “Multiobjective Optimization using Metaheuristics”during 03rd -07th March, 2018at IIT Kanpur 8. Attended One Week FDP (GIAN, MHRD) on “Integration of Electronically-Coupled Energy Resources and Apparatus in Electrical Power Systems” during 19th - 23rd February, 2018 at IIT Bhubaneswar 9. Attended One Week QIP Short Term Course (CCE, IISC-Bangalore) on “Real-Time Simulation for Power Electronics and Power Systems” during 10th -14th July 2017 at IISc Bangalore 10. AttendedOne Week National Training Program on “Wind Energy Technology” during 20th – 24th March 2017 at NIWE, Chennai 11. Attended One Week Interdisciplinary Short term Course (TEQIP-II) on “Smart Electric Power Grid with Emphasis on Embedded Systems and Cyber Security” during 21st – 25th February, 2017 at JNTU Kakinada 12. Attended One Week National workshop (TEQIP-II) on “21st Century Teaching Methodologies” during 24th -28th October, 2016 at JNTU Kakinada 13. Participated in One day Workshop on “Improving the Presentation Skills in Teachings on 17-09-2016 at JNTU Kakinada 14. Attended Workshopon “Demand side management” for course structure creation during 7th – 8th July 2016 at IIT Bombay 15. Attended Two Week Refresher Course on “Intellectual Property Rights and Patents” during 16th – 30th May, 2016 at JNTU Kakinada 16. Attended Continuing Professional Development Programme on “Formulation of Research & Development Initiatives for Scientists and Technologists”, during 08th – 11th February, 2016 at ESCI Hyderabad 17. Attended Educational Tutorial Workshop on “Nature Inspired Computing for Engineering Applications” during 6th -8th April, 2015 at CCE, IISc Bangalore 18. Attended Two day National Workshop course on “Recent Advances in Power And Industrial Drives” during 13th -14th March, 2015 at EEE, UCEK, JNTU Kakinada 19. Attended Two week refresher course on “Research Methodologies” during 1st -15th May 2014 at JNTU Kakinada 20. Attended Two week Short term course (MHRD) on “Soft Computing Techniques in Electrical Engineering” during 7th -19th December, 2009 at NIT Warangal 21. Attended One week Short term course (AICTE) on “Application of Renewable Energy Sources” during 11th -17th December, 2013 at IIT Delhi 22. Attended Five day Workshop (TEQIP-II) on “Power Electronic Applications” during 14th -18th October, 2013 at NIT Warangal 23. Attended Continuing Professional Development Programme on “Recent Trends and Practical Applications of Power Electronics in Power Systems” during 28th -31st January, 2014 at ESCI Hyderabad 24. Attended Three-day National Workshop (AICTE) on “Recent Advances in Control of Power Electronic Drives” during 29th -31st January, 2009 at AU College of Engineering 25. Attended three-week refresher course on “Advances in Power Electronics and their Applications to Drives and Power Systems” during 10-11-2008 to 29-11-2008 at Academic Staff College, JNT University, Kukatpally, Hyderabad |
| Workshops/Conferences Organized | : | Workshops organized: 1. A One-day Workshop(TEQIP-III) on "FPGAcontrollers for Power Electronic Applications” at EEE Department, UCEK, on 22-01-2020 as coordinator 2. A Two-Week Faculty Development Programme (AICTE) on “Recent Advances in High Voltage Engineering”EEE Department, UCEK during 30th December-11th January, 2020 as co-cordinator 3. A Two-day National Workshop (IITB and JNTU Kakinada) on “Simulation of Power Electronic Circuits” at EEE Department, UCEK during 28th – 29th December, 2015 as coordinator 4. A Two-day National Workshop (TEQIP-II) on “Multilevel Inverters and Microgridsduring 30th – 31st December, 2015”at EEE Department, UCEKas coordinator 5. A Two-day National Students Technical Symposium “ENCURSO-2K11” during 17th-18th March 2011 at EEE Department, UCEK as coordinator 6. A Two-day National workshop on “Advances in High Voltage Engineering” during 20th& 21st March 2009 at EEE Department, UCEK as coordinator 7. A Two-day National Students Technical Symposium “ENCURSO-2K9” during9th-10thMarch 2009 at EEE Department, UCEK as coordinator Conferences organized: 1. One day National conference on “Power system planning, operation & optimization” at EEE Department, UCEK on 17th June, 2011 as coordinator |
| Conferences | : | 1. A. Sridhar, K. Ravindra and S. Affijulla, "A Review on Architecture of Electricity Markets," 2022 4th International Conference on Energy, Power and Environment (ICEPE), 2022, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/ICEPE55035.2022.9798158. 2. S. N. R. Vonteddu, R. Kollu and P. K. Nunna, "Energy Based PMSM Drive Electric Vehicle to Eliminate High Frequency Switching," 2021 IEEE Electrical Power and Energy Conference (EPEC), 2021, pp. 390-395, doi: 10.1109/EPEC52095.2021.9621431 3. Prasad K.R.K.V., Ravindra K. (2021) Optimal Allocation of AVR and DGs in Distribution Systems Using HSA. In: Nath V., Mandal J.K. (eds) Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Microelectronics, Computing and Communication Systems. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 673. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-5546-6_45 4. Ravindra K., Sulthana S.M. (2021) Comparative Study of Parameter Estimation Methods for a Single Diode PV Module. In: Nath V., Mandal J.K. (eds) Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Microelectronics, Computing and Communication Systems. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 673. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-5546-6_59 5. Sriram M., Ravindra K, “Backtracking Search Optimization Algorithm Based MPPT Technique for Solar PV System”, 2020, Advances in Decision Sciences, Image Processing, Security and Computer Vision, Learning and Analytics in Intelligent Systems, vol 4. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-24318-0_59 6. V. Kona and R. Kollu, "A Multi-Objective Approach For DG And Capacitor Placement Using Harmony Search Algorithm," 2017 Ninth International Conference on Advanced Computing (ICoAC), Chennai, 2017, pp. 320-325, doi: 10.1109/ICoAC.2017.8441380. 7. K. Ravindra and K. Jayaram, "Multi-Objective approach for capacitor placement considering uncertainty using point estimate method," 2017 IEEE Region 10 Symposium (TENSYMP), Cochin, India, 2017, pp. 1-5, doi: 10.1109/TENCONSpring.2017.8070098. 8. K. Ravindra, M. N. Rao and V. S. N. K. Chaitanya, "Renewable energy source allocation of air-conditioner using fuzzy logic," 2017 International Conference on Intelligent Computing and Control (I2C2), Coimbatore, India, 2017, pp. 1-5, doi: 10.1109/I2C2.2017.8321813. 9. M. N. Rao, K. Ravindra and V. S. N. K. Chaitanya “Placement and Optimal Sizing of DG using Bifurcation Analysis and Dynamic Programming Search Method” International Conference on Advances In Computing ,Electrical and Communication Engineering, ICACECE-2017 10. S.Poornima, K.Ravindra, “Comparison of CWT and DWT algorithms in combination with ANN for Protection of Power Transformer”, International Conference on Signal Processing, Communication, Power and Embedded System –SCOPES-2016, pp.485-489, October 2016 11. Raju, M.R.; Murthy, K.V.S.R.; Ravindra, K.; Rao, R.S., "Optimal conductor selection for agricultural distribution system - a case study," Intelligent and Advanced Systems (ICIAS), 2010 International Conference on, vol., no., pp.1,6, 15-17 June 2010. 12. Ravindra, K.; Rao, R.S.; Narasimham, S.V.L., “Optimal Distributed Generation Allocation in Distribution system using ABC algorithm”, International Conference on Advancements in Engineering & Management, pp. 188-193, 27th & 28th February, 2013. 13. Ravindra, K.; Rao, R.S.; Narasimham, S.V.L., “Wind distribution analysis incorporating Artificial Bee Colony Algorithm”, Advances in Power Conversion and Energy Technologies (APCET), 2012 International Conference on, pp.1-6, 2-4 Aug. 2012. 14. Ravindra, K.; Rao, R.S.; Narasimham, S.V.L., “Wind generator allocation in distribution systems considering uncertainty in generation and time varying load profile”, International conference on Power and Energy Systems-ICPES-2012, 13-15th Dec. 2012. 15. Ravindra, K.; Rao, R.S.; Narasimham, S.V.L., “Allocation of distributed generators and capacitors in distributed systems for maximum loss reduction”, International conference on Ameliorations in Communications & Power Engineering, 2nd-3rd March 2012. |
| Session Chair/Keynote Speaker/Guest Lecture | : | 1. Delivered guest lecture (Topic- Design and Performance Optimization of Stand –Alone and Hybrid Energy Systems) inPhase-I of the AICTE-ISTE sponsored online one week Induction/Refresher program on “Hybrid Energy Storage Systems-DPE” from 24-03-2021 to 31-03-2021 organized by Department of EEE, Pragati Engineering College. 2. Delivered guest lecture (Topic- Design and Performance Optimization of Hybrid Energy Systems) in Phase-II of the AICTE-ISTE sponsored online one week Induction/Refresher program on “Hybrid Energy Storage Systems-DPE”from 24-04-2021 to 04-05-2021 organized by Department of EEE, Pragati Engineering College. 3. Delivered guest lecture (Topic- Optimaldesign of hybrid renewable energy system ) for one week AICTE Training and Learning (ATAL) sponsored FDP on"Need for Artificial Intelligence in Energy Storage Systems"during September 2020 organized by KallamHaranadhareddy Institute of Technology. 4. Resource person for Online GATE Coaching classes on “Control systems” subject during 26-05-2020 to 06-06-2020 which is sponsored by JNTUK, JNTUA 5. Delivered guest lecture (Topic- HVDC transmission (Line commutated Converters) ) for theTwo week AICTE Sponsored FDP “Recent Advances in High Voltage Engineering and Its Applications”during 30th December 2019 -11th January 2020organized by EEE department, UCEK 6. Delivered guest lecture (Topic- VSC converters ) for the Two week AICTE Sponsored FDP “Recent Advances in High Voltage Engineering and Its Applications” during 30th December 2019 -11th January 2020 organized by EEE department, UCEK 7. Resource person for Faculty development programmeon “Power Electronics” subject during 25th May -1st June 2019 organized by JNTUK 8. Resource person for Faculty development programme on “Control systems” subject during 2nd – 8th May 2019 organized by JNTUK 9. Acted as Judge for National Level Student Technical Symposium during 26th -27th September 2019 organized by Pragathi Engineering College 10. Delivered guest lecture on the topic “Inverters and their Applications” on 5th October 2018 in University College of Engineering, Narasaraopeta 11. Delivered guest lecture (Topic- Renewable Energy Resources) for the One day Workshop on “Renewable Energy” on20th August 2018 organized by Ideal College of Arts and Sciences, Kakinada 12. Delivered guest lecture on the topic “Switched mode Converters” on 07th October 2017 inAvanthi Institute of Engineering & Technology 13. Invited Speaker (Topic- Distributed Generation Allocation: Benefits and Challenges) in International conference on Recent Trends in Science, Technology and Management ICRTSTM – 2017 during 27th -28th February 2017 organized by V.S.Lakshmi Engineering College for Women 14. Acted as Session Chair in 2nd International Conference on Smart Electric Grid organized by Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, KL University 22nd -23rd December, 2016 15. Delivered guest lecture on the topic “SVPWM for Two Level Inverter and Three Level Inverters” in One week National Level FDP on “Advances and Applications of Power Electronic Converters” organized by Shri Vishnu Engineering College during 3rd -8th October 2016 16. Delivered guest lecture on the topic “Selective Harmonic Elimination in Inverters using HSA” in Two day FDP on “Soft Computing Techniques and their Applications to Electrical Engineering”organized by Pragathi Engineering College during 19th -20th February 2016 17. Delivered guest lecture on the topic “A Multi-Objective approach for Optimal Distributed Generation Placement using evolutionary techniques“ in One day FDP on “Recent trends in Electrical Engineering “organized by Aditya Engineering College on 26th June, 2015 18. Acted as Session Chair in National Conference on “Contemporary Techniques in Power Systems Control and Drives” organized by Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, University College of Engineering Vizianagaram, during 26th -27th March 2015 19. Delivered guest lecture on the topic “Distributed Generation“ in A two day National Level Workshop on “Recent Advances in Electrical Engineering”organized by Vishnu Institute of Technologyduring 9th – 10th February 2015 20. Acted as Session Chair in National Conference “Contemporary Techniques in Power Systems Control and Drives” organized by Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, UCEV, JNTU Kakinada on 27th March, 2015. |
| Ph.D Scholars guided | : | 1- Completed 7-Ongoing |
| PG Scholars guided | : | 43 |
| Memberships in Professional bodies | : | MIEEE, Member Institute of Engineers |
| Positions held | : | (i) Served as Deputy warden-Hostels from December 2009 to June 2013 (ii) Served as Project Engineer (elec.) for the university from 02-07-2013 to 18-08-2017 (iii) Served as Additional Controller of Examinations for the University from 09-03-2016 to 05-12-2019 |