IITKGP
Suman Maiti, IIT Kharagpur

Suman Maiti

Ph.D., autonomous body

Associate Professor

Electrical Engineering

+91-3222-203222-283090

suman.maiti@ee.iitkgp.ac.in

Responsibilities

  • Warden, Atal Bihari Vajpayee Hall of Residence - 1

Research Areas

  • High Performance Industrial Drives
  • Solar power integration and microgrid
My research focuses on "Modular Multilevel Converters & Drives", which includes the following sub-areas.
- Electric Drives (for Medium Voltage and Electric Vehicles applications)
- High-Power EV charging station, and
- Solar power integration at high-power level using MMC
  • Chapter-18: Multilevel Converter-based STATCOM with Hybrid Storage System by Maiti S., Bharadwaj A. , Maiti S. Emerging Trends in Energy Storage Systems and Industrial Applications 521-534 (2023)
  • Model Reference Adaptive controller based rotor resistance and speed estimation techniques for vector controlled induction motor drives utilizing reactive power by Suman Maiti , Chandan Chakraborty, Yoichi Hori and Minh-C Ta IEEE Trans on Industrial Electronics 55 594-601 (2008)
  • Chapter 10 - E-STATCOM (energy storage + STATCOM): a solution to integrate large-scale wind farms into the grid at medium and high power levels by Bharadwaj A., Maiti S. , Dhal N. , Chakraborty S. , Pillai S. K. Power quality in modern power systems 283-310 (2021)
  • ANPC-Waveshaper based Medium Voltage STATCOM with Natural Capacitor Voltage Balancing during Negative-Sequence Current Compensation by Sreekesh K., Maiti S. IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics - (2024)
  • A Soft-switched Multi-port Converter for Distributed PV Application with Energy Storage by Siva Krishna K., Maiti S. IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics - (2024)
  • A Soft-Switched Multi-Port Converter for PV/Supercapacitors Hybrid Systems Enabling Frequency Response Services by Karpana S., Batzelis E., Kampitsis G., Maiti S., Chakraborty C. IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications 1-15 (2024)
  • Control of a Waveshaper-MMC with Thyristor-based Front-end Converter for Open-end Winding Variable Speed Medium Voltage Induction Motor Drive by Chakraborty S., Maiti S. IEEE Transaction on Industry Applications 58 6203-6216 (2022)
  • Performance Improvement of PV-Fed Hybrid Modular Multilevel Converter under Partial Shading Condition by Basu T. S., Maiti S. , Chakraborty C. IEEE Transaction on Industrial Electronics 68 9652-9664 (2021)
  • Active Power Flow Control Between DC Microgrids by Vuyyuru U., Maiti S. , Chakraborty C. IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid 10, no. 5, pp. 5712-5723 5712-5723 (2019)
  • A Hybrid Modular Multilevel Converter for Solar Power Integration by Basu T. S., Maiti S. IEEE Transaction on Industry Applications 55 5166-5177 (2019)

Principal Investigator

  • Capacity Building for Sustainable Renewable Energy Management in SC communities of West Bengals Ghoramara in Suderban area and ST Community of Odishas Ranipada village in Keonjhar District Department of Science and Technology (DST)
  • Development of high power grid friendly conductive and static wireless chargers for Electric Vehicles- Megatherm contribution MEGATHERM INDUCTION LIMITED
  • Development of high-power Grid-friendly Conductive and Static Wireless Chargers for Electric Vehicles Anusandhan National Research Foundation (ANRF)
  • Development of high-power Grid-friendly Conductive and Static Wireless Chargers for Electric Vehicles Anusandhan National Research Foundation (ANRF)
  • Renewable Energy Empowering European and Indian Communities (Re-Empowered) Department of Science and Technology

Co-Principal Investigator

  • Centre of Excellence on Energy Aware Urban Infrastructure Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB)

Ph. D. Students

Bikram Kumar Samanta

Area of Research: Islanded Local Energy System using PV, wind, BESS

Sagar Kumar Dash

Area of Research: Power Electronics and Drives

Saswat Ranjan Panda

Area of Research: Electric Drives for Electric Vehicles

Sayak Karmakar

Area of Research: Groundwater Hydrology

Shuvam Chakraborty

Area of Research: Modular Multilevel Converter Fed Medium Voltage Induction Motor Drive

Sourav Das

Area of Research: Applications of Power Electronics in Power Systems

Subhojit Das

Area of Research: AC/DC Microgrid

MS Students

Sujoy Jana

Area of Research: Renewable Energy Integration and Microgrid