Biju K

Faculty Profile 

Dr. Biju K.

Assistant Professor & HoD
Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering
Mob : 9446808243
email : bijuk@ieee.org

Multilevel inverters

PWM techniques for multilevel inverters

Control of grid connected multilevel inverters

Filter design for grid connected inverters

Power quality issues in grid connected inverters

Details of Courses offered

Under Graduate courses (B.Tech)

1. Power Electronic Drives
2. Digital Signal Processing
3. Electrical Machines
4. Network theory
5. Linear Control Systems
6. Advanced Control Theory
7. Basics of Electrical Engineering

Post Graduate courses (M.Tech)

1. Advanced Power Electronics
2. Advanced control of Drives

Laboratory courses

1. Power Electronics Lab
2. Systems & Control Lab
3. Electrical Machines Lab

Fellowship/Memberships in professional bodies

• Secretary, IA/IE/PELS Jt. Chapter, IEEE Kerala section (January 2018 –current)
• Secretary, Power& Energy Society (PES), IEEE Kerala section (January 2016- December 2017)
• Member, Executive committee, IEEE Kerala section
• Member, Executive committee, IEI Kollam Local Centre
  Counselor, IEEE Student branch, College of Engineering Munnar (2014-17)
• Advisor, IEEE IAS, PELS &PES SB Chapters, College of Engineering Munnar (2015- current)
• Senior Member, IEEE
• Member, Institution of Engineers India (IEI)
• Member, Society for Energy Engineers and Managers (SEEM)
• Member, Quilon Management Association (QMA)
• Member, IEEE Power& Energy Society
• Member, IEEE Industry Applications Society
• Member, IEEE Power Electronics Society
• Member, IEEE Industrial Electronics Society
• Responsibilities in APJ Abdul Kalam Technological University:
• Academic auditor, APJ Abdul Kalam Technological University, Kerala.
• Member, Question paper scrutiny committee

a) International Journals

1. Aniket Joshi, Sukumar Kamalasadan and Biju K ‘Inverter-Angle-Induced Optimized Frequency Regulation Approach for AC–DC Microgrids Using Consensus-Based Identification’ IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications, vol.58, No.5, pp. 6780-6792, 2022. 
2. Biju K, Rijil Ramchand, ‘An Adaptive Control Strategy for Single Phase Cascaded H-bridge Multilevel Inverter under Distorted Load Conditions’, Springer Journal of Electrical Engineering, vol.102, No.2, pp.1051-1062, Feb. 2020, SCI indexed, Impact Factor: 1.296. 
3. Biju K, Rijil Ramchand, ‘A new space vector pulse width modulation technique for single phase seven level inverter with reduced number of switches’, IETE Journal of Research, Sep. 2019, SCI indexed, Impact Factor: 0.829, https://doi.org/10.1080/03772063.2019.1664339.  
4. Biju K, Rijil Ramchand ‘Control strategy for single phase cascaded nine level inverter with sinusoidal pulse width modulation using LPC 1769 ARM Cortex-M3 microcontroller’ International Journal of Power Electronics, Inderscience publishers, Vol.9, No.4, pp.349-365, 2018, SCOPUS indexed.
5. Biju K, Rijil Ramchand ‘Control strategy for single phase cascaded nine level inverter with sinusoidal pulse width modulation using LPC 1769 ARM Cortex-M3 microcontroller’ in International Journal of Power Electronics, Inderscience publishers, Vol.9, No.4, pp.349-265, 2018.
6. Automatic solar tracking system using MPPT with mirror booster, International Journal of Innovative Research in Electrical, Electronics, Instrumentation and Control Engineering, vol.4, issue.4, 2016.
7. Fast charging Electric Vehicle, International Journal of Innovative Research in Electrical, Electronics, Instrumentation and Control Engineering, vol.4, issue.4, 2016.
8. Closed loop operation of solar PV inverter with PI controller using dsPIC, International Journal of Advanced Research in Electrical, Electronics and Instrumentation Engineering, vol.5, issue.4, 2016.

b) International Conferences

1. Olalekan Ogundairo, Sukumar Kamalasadan and Biju K ‘Integrated Transmission and Distribution Optimal Power Flow Simulation Using Linear Decision Approach’ in the 10th   International Conference on Power Electronics, Drives and Energy Systems (PEDES) held at MNIT Jaipur, Rajasthan, India from 14-17 December 2022.
2. B Belmont, Biju K ‘A Multi-Input Switched Capacitor Bidirectional DC-DC Converter with Triple Closed Loop Control for Electric Vehicle Application’ in the 2021 IEEE International Power and Renewable Energy Conference (IPRECON) held at Kerala, India from 24-26 September 2021.
3. Aniket Joshi, Sukumar Kamalasadan and Biju K ‘Control Uncertainty Based LQR for Frequency Regulation Using Distributed Energy Resources’ in the 9th   International Conference on Power Electronics, Drives and Energy Systems (PEDES) held at MNIT Jaipur, Rajasthan, India from 16-19 December 2020.
4. Biju K, Rijil Ramchand ‘A modified Lyapunov function based control strategy for single phase cascaded H bridge multilevel inverter with nonlinear loads ’ in the IEEE Industry Applications Society Annual Meeting held at Baltimore, USA, from 29 September-03 October 2019.
5. Biju K, Rijil Ramchand ‘A new control strategy for single phase cascaded H bridge multilevel inverter in stationary frame with nonlinear loads ’ in the 8th International Conference on Power Electronics, Drives and Energy Systems (PEDES) held at Chennai, Kerala, India from 18-21 December 2018.
6. Pratheesh K J, Rijil Ramchand, Jagadanand G, Biju K ‘Generalized charge balancing scheme for symmetrical CHB multilevel inverters’ in the 8th International Conference on Power Electronics, Drives and Energy Systems (PEDES) held at Chennai, Kerala, India from 18-21 December 2018.
7. Biju K, Rijil Ramchand ‘Modeling and Simulation of novel solar/PV hybrid energy system with a Single phase five level inverter ’ in Proc. of the IEEE International Conference on ‘SPICES 2015’ held at Calicut, Kerala in February 2015.
8. Biju K, Rijil Ramchand ‘Control of a novel single phase grid connected solar/PV hybrid energy system’ in Proc. of the IEEE International Conference on ‘Asian control conference 2015’ held at Malaysia in May 2015.
9. Biju K, Rijil Ramchand ‘Modeling, Simulation and implementation of Single phase five level inverter fed from renewable energy sources’ in Proc. of the IEEE International Conference ISIE 2014, held at Turkey from 01 to 03 June 2014.
10. iju K, Rijil Ramchand ‘Modeling and Simulation of Single phase five level inverter fed from renewable energy sources’ in Proc. of the IEEE International Conference on ‘Microelectronics, Communication &Renewable energy’held at Amal Jyothi College of Engineering,Kanjirapally,Kottayam,Kerala from 04 to 06 June 2013.
11. Biju K ‘A Novel Maximum Power Point Tracking Technique for solar panel using SEPIC converter’, in Proc. of the International conference on ‘Renewable Energy Technologies’ at PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore in December 2011.
12. Biju K, Jagadanand G, Saly George ‘Fault detection of Induction motor using Energy and Wavelets’ in Proc. of the International conference on ‘Control, Communication and Power Engineering’ organized by ACEEE at Chennai in July 2010.

Achievements/ Awards

1. Received the outstanding volunteer award from IEEE Power&Energy society Kerala chapter for the year 2018.
2. Received the outstanding branch counsellor award of the IEEE Kochi sub section for the year 2015.
3. Received the Best Paper award in the International Conference on ‘Control, Communication and Power Engineering’ organized by ACEEE at Chennai in July 2010.

Funded projects received

1. Co-Principal Investigator of the funded project with an amount of Rs 15000/- from Kerala state science Technology and Environment (KSCSTE) for the project ‘Dynamic wireless power transfer for Electric vehicles’ in 2023.

2. Principal Investigator of the funded project with an amount of Rs 10000/- from Kerala state science Technology and Environment (KSCSTE) for the project ‘A multi-input switched capacitor DC-DC converter with closed loop for electric vehicle applications’ in 2021.

3. Received a fund of Rs 15000/- from Kerala state science Technology and Environment (KSCSTE) for the project ‘Capacitance welding’ in 2016.
4.  Received a fund of Rs 11.5 Lakhs for modernization of Electrical machines lab under MODROB scheme from AICTE in 2011.

Keynote talks delivered in International Conferences: 

1. .Delivered a keynote session in the 5th International Conference on ‘Systems, Energy, and Environment (ICSEE 2022)’ organized by Govt. College of Engineering, Kannur, Kerala, India from 5-6 August 2022. 
2. Delivered a keynote session in the 2nd International Conference on ‘Computational Systems and Communication (ICCSC 2023)’ organized by LBS Institute of Technology for Women, Trivandrum, Kerala, India from 3-4 March 2023.

International conferences as chair of a session:

1. Chaired a session in the ‘5th International Conference on ‘Control, Communication and Computing (ICCC 2023)’ organized by College of Engineering Trivandrum, Kerala, India from 19-21 May 2023.    

2. Chaired a session in the 2nd International Conference on ‘Computational Systems and Communication (ICCSC 2023)’ organized by LBS Institute of Technology for Women, Trivandrum, Kerala, India from 3-4 March 2023.    

3. Chaired a session in the 5th International Conference on ‘Systems, Energy, and Environment (ICSEE 2022)’ organized by Govt. College of Engineering, Kannur, Kerala, India from 5-6 August 2022. 

4. Chaired a session in the International Conference on ‘Recent Advances in Intelligent Computational Systems (RAICS 2021)’ organized by IEEE Kerala Section from 3-5 December 2021. 

5. Chaired a session in the International Conference on ‘Communication, Control and Information Sciences (ICCISc 2021)’ organized by Govt. College of Engineering, Idukki, Kerala, India from 16-18 June 2021.

Lectures delivered outside:

1. A talk on ‘IEEE membership benefits’ organized by NIT Silchar in association with IEEE Silchar sub-section on 14th June 2023. 

2. A talk on ‘IEEE Conference application process and the financial management of a conference’ organized by IEEE Kerala Section on 25th March 2023 at CUSAT, Kochi. 

3. A talk on ‘Power Electronic converters for Electric vehicles’ jointly organized by KSEBL Officer’s Association and College of Engineering Munnar on 09 March 2022. 

4. A talk on ‘IEEE membership benefits’ organized by SNIT Adoor on 30 January 2022. 

5. A talk on ‘Power Electronic converters for Electric vehicles’ organized by IEI Kollam Local Centre on 11 December 2021. 

6. A talk on ‘Power Electronics for e-mobility’ organized by Energy Management Centre Kerala on 24 November 2021.

7.  A talk on ‘Mitigation of power quality problems using power electronic circuits’ in College of Engineering Adoor on 13th January 2017.
8. A talk on ‘ Modelling and Design of DC-DC converters’ in the Faculty Development Programme conducted at College of Engineering Kidangoor from 12-18 January 2017
9. A talk on ‘ Multilevel inverters and their control strategies’ in the Faculty Development Programme conducted at College of Engineering Adoor from 19-23 December 2016.
10. A talk on ‘IEEE student membership benefits, student branch operations and awards’ at Mangalam College of Engineering Ettumanoor on 29th August 2016.
11. A talk on ‘Circuit Analysis’ in College of Engineering Kidangoor on 12th August 2016.
12. A talk on ‘IEEE PES student branch operations, contests and awards’ in Face2Face meet of the IEEE PES Kerala chapter held at Thiruvananthapuram on 6th August 2016.
13. A talk on ‘Power Electronics’ in College of Engineering Thrikkaripur on 10th March 2016 under expert talh scheme of TEQIP-II.

Editorial board member of International Journal of Engineering Research in Electrical and Electronics Engineering (IJEREEE).
Reviewer of International Journals:

1. Reviewer of IEEE Access
2. Reviewer of International Journal of Electronics published by Taylor&Francis

Reviewer of International conferences

1. IEEE International Conference on Technological Advancements in Power and Energy (TAP Energy 2015) held at Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Amritapuri Campus, Kollam, Kerala from 24th to 26th June, 2015.
2. IEEE International Conference on Next Generation Intelligent Systems to be held at Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Technology Kottayam, Kerala from 01-03 September 2016.
3. IEEE International Conference on Power Electronics, Drives and Energy systems (PEDES 2016) held at Trivandrum, Kerala from 14-17 December 2016.
4. IEEE TENSYMP 2017, organized by IEEE Kerala section from 14-16 July 2017 at Kochi.
5. IEEE International Conference on Power Electronics, Drives and Energy systems (PEDES 2018) held at IIT Madras, Kerala from 18-21 December 2018.
6. IEEE Industry Applications Annual Meeting Baltimore, MD, USA, September 29 – October 3, 2019.

International conferences as chair of a session
1. Chaired a session on ‘Smart Energy’ in IEEE TENSYMP 2017, organized by IEEE Kerala section from 14-16 July 2017 at Kochi.
2. Chaired a session at IEEE International conference on ‘Signal Processing, Informatics, Communication and Energy Systems (IEEE SPICES 2017), organized by IEEE Kerala section from 8-10 August 2017 at TKM College of Engineering Kollam