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Dr. M. Devesh Raj

B.E., M.E., Ph.D.

Associate Professor

Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering

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Dr. M. Devesh Raj, Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Electronics has 15 years of teaching, research and industry experience. He received his B.E (EEE) degree, first-class, from Anna University, Chennai and M.E. (Power Systems Engineering) degree, first class, from College of Engineering (CEG), Guindy, Anna University, Chennai. He received his Ph.D. degree from the College of Engineering (CEG), Guindy, Anna University, Chennai. He has published 11 research papers in refereed international journals and 8 research papers in proceedings of national and international conferences. He is a recognized Supervisor under the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Anna University from  December  2022. His current research interests are power systems, wind energy conversion systems, FACTS & HVDC. 

1. Title: Design of DSTATCOM for reactive power compensation of wind turbine systems

Funding Agency: SSN Trust

Principle Investigator: Dr. Ranganath Muthu.

Co-Investigator: Mr. K. Murugesan

International Journals

  1. Murugesan, K & Ranganath, M 2011, ‘Modelling and simulation of DSTATCOM using space vector pulse width modulation for load variation’, International Review on Modelling and Simulations (IREMOS), vol. 4, no. 6, December 2011, Part-A, pp. 2926-2937.
  2. Murugesan K, Vijayenthiran S, Mervin JB & Ranganath, M 2012, ‘SVM based hysteresis current controller for DSTATCOM using instantaneous reactive power theory’, International Review on Modelling and Simulations (IREMOS), vol. 5, no. 4, August 2012, Part-B, pp. 1710-1716.
  3. Murugesan, K, Sai Praveen, D, Tathagata, M &Ranganath, M 2012, ‘Performance study of DSTATCOM with PI controlled SVPWM and hysteresis current controller for power factor improvement’, ARPN Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences, vol. 7, no. 9, September 2012, pp. 1102-1110.
  4. Vishnuvardhan S, Sudarshan SS, Murugesan K & Ranganath M 2013, ‘Design of D-STATCOM for power factor correction in a medium transmission line using vector-based hysteresis current controller’, International Review on Modelling and Simulations (IREMOS), vol. 6, no. 2, pp. 498-503, April 2013.
  5. Murugesan K, Muthu R, Vijayenthiran S, Mervin JB 2015, “Prototype hardware realization of the DSTATCOM for reactive power compensation”, Electrical Power and Energy Systems vol.65 pp.169–178.
  6. M Kullan, S Mahadevan, AR Johnson, R Muthu 2018, “Decoupled indirect duty cycle PWM technique with carrier frequency adjustment for a matrix converter”, Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences 26 (1), 270-282.

International Conferences

  1. K Murugesan, M Senthil Kumaran, J Anitha Roseline, S Vijayenthiran, M Kubera Murthi, AC Maheswari, “Matrix Converter Based DSTATCOM for Reactive Power Compensation”, 2019, 5th International Conference on Electrical Energy Systems (ICEES 2019), February 2019, SSN College of Engineering, Kalvakkam, Chennai.
  2. M Poovizhi, MS Kumaran, JA Roseline, K Murugesan, “Adaptive Scalar PWM technique for 4S-3Φ VSI”, 2019 2nd International Conference on Power and Embedded Drive Control (ICPEDC-2019), 21-23, August 2019, pp.378-382. SSN College of Engineering, Kalvakkam, Chennai.
  3. Murugesan K & Ranganath M 2011, ‘Modelling and simulation of D STATCOM for voltage regulations’, Proceedings of IEEE- International Conference on Electrical Energy Systems (ICEES-2011), 3rd -5th, January 2011, pp 1- 6, 2011, SSN College of Engineering, Tamilnadu, India.
  4. Murugesan K & Ranganath M 2010, ‘Measurement of instantaneous active power and reactive power in a three-phase power system and voltage source converter’ Proceedings of International Conference on System Dynamics and Control (ICSDC-2010), 19th – 22nd, August 2010, Manipal Institute of Technology (MIT), Manipal, Karnataka, India.
  5. Murugesan K & Ranganath, M 2009, ‘Design of D-STATCOM using VSC for reactive power compensations’, ICEEPEEE-2009, April 2009, SRM University, Chennai, India.

National Conferences

  1. Murugesan, K &Ranganath, M 2009, ‘Performance study of D STATCOM under fault conditions’ Proceedings of the National Conference on Power Electronics and Renewable Energy Systems-2009 (PEARS-09).
  2. Murugesan, K, Ashwin Kumar Sahoo & Ranganath, M 2008, ‘Design of fuzzy based 48-pulse VSC STATCOM’ Proceedings of the National Conference on Computational Intelligence in Power Apparatus and Systems (CIPS-2008)’ April18-19,2008, pp. 238-243.