Arjyadhara Pradhan
Dr. Arjyadhara Pradhan received the B.Tech degree in electrical engineering from KIIT University, Bhubaneshwar, India, in 2009, and the M.Tech in Power and Energy system from KIIT University in 2013. She has completed her Ph.D. degree in the area of Solar photovoltaic, maximum power point tracking in 2018. She is currently working as Associate Professor(I) at School of Electrical Engineering, KIIT Deemed to be University, Bhubaneswar, India. Her research interests include solar photovoltaic system, renewable energy, power converter, energy audit and management, Internet of things.
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Ph.D in Electrical Engineering
Research Interests
Renewable energy system and Energy audit and management
Projects
1.Completed one project titled" Performance improvement of Solar powered water pumping system for rural application by using fish search optimization MPPT Technique" from The Institute of Engineers, India for an amount of 20,000/ ,2019-2020.
Administrative Responsibility
- Alumni Co-ordinator,
- Website Co-ordinator
- Hostel Superintendent QC 8
Awards & Honours
Received "Innovative Technological Researcher & Dedicated Teaching Professional Award" 26th January 2022, Specialization: Electrical Engineering by The Society of Innovative Educationalist & Scientific Research Professional Chennai,India Accredited with Innovative Scientific Research Professional Malaysia Sdn.Bhd. 2022 Received 9th Academic Achievement awards as "BEST FACULTY" by Education Expo TV, on 12th September, 2021 Mumbai India. 2021 Received "EMERGING SCIENTIST AWARD" ,International scientist award on Engineering, Science and Medicine by VDGOOD Technology factory, 4-5th December, 2021Visakhapatnam, India. 2021 Received "BEST RESEARCH AWARD'' International Research Awards on Science , Health, Engineering SHEN 2021 , by SCIENCE FATHER for contribution and honourable achievement in innovative research. 2021 Received "Innovative Technological Researcher & Dedicated Teaching Professional Award" 18th October 2020, Specialization: Electrical Engineering by The Society of Innovative Educationalist & Scientific Research Professional Chennai,India Accredited with Innovative Scientific Research Professional Malaysia Sdn.Bhd. 2020 Received "Young Engineer Award" in the field of electrical Engineering from Venus International foundation ,Chennai, 2020 2020 Received "Young Scientist Award" by International Research Awards on New Science Inventions NESIN 2020 Awards, SCIENCE FATHER for contribution and honourable achievement in the field of innovation. 2020 Got Institution Award (State award) for the paper entitled “Study of MPPT Methods for water pumping system and comparing the system without MPPT” DURING THE 55TH Annual Technical session held on march 1st 2014 , Institute of Engineers India. 2014 Awarded with Vice Chancellor’s Silver Medal for securing highest CGPA in Power and Energy System, Master of Technology, 2013. 2013 Awarded with 1st Prize for paper presentation in National Conference on “Future of Renewable energy and related Technological development of Odisha”,19th-20th Dec,2012,KIIT University, Bhubaneshwar.“Solar Charge Controller by using Maximum Power Point Tracking” 2012
Memberships
Solar Energy Society of INDIA- Life member (LM/1583/2011)(SESI) Indian Society of Lighting Engineers - Life member(AL/1158)(ISLE) Indian Society for Technical Education - Life member(LM/82186)(ISTE) Indian science congress-Life member(ISC) L17384 Institute of Engineers(IE) AM150588-5 The Institute of Engineering and Technology (IET): MIE 1100829710 Services within the Institution Currently working as Sr.Superintendent of Queen’s Castle 8, KIIT from January 2023 till date. Faculty coordinator/FIC of Alumni ,School of Electrical Engineering, KIIT,DU. Faculty coordinator/FIC of Student Affair ,School of Electrical Engineering, KIIT, DU. Faculty coordinator/FIC of Patent ,School of Electrical Engineering, KIIT, DU. Committee member of K3 Ladies club. Worked as N.S.S Programme officer, School of Electrical Engineering, KIIT Deemed to University from January 10th, 2012 to 2016. Worked as Superintendent of Queen’s Castle 3, KIIT girl’s hostel , from Dec 2014 till january 2018 and QC -08 till 2022. Worked as Deputy Superintendent of Queen’s Castle 1, KIIT girl’s hostel since July 2012 till Nov 2014.
Outreach Activity
- Currently working as Superintendent of Queen’s Castle 8, KIIT girl’s hostel , from June 2019 till date.
- Alumni co-ordinator of School of Electrical Engineering, KIIT.
- Website Co-ordinator of the department.
- Worked as N.S.S Programme officer, School of Electrical Engineering, KIIT Deemed to University from January 10th, 2012 to 2016.2. As a NSS P.O co-ordinated various special camps, guided and accompanied N.S.S volunteers to Manali, adventure camp and various ongoing projects like Suryouday, Udaan, KISS-iitjee, Enlightnment. Co-ordinated “Target JEE” Project in KISS where the students are prepared for odisha JEE and other competitive exams.Co-ordinated “ Enlightnment” Project in KISS which aims at personality and communication skills development of the students, Organised Blood Donation camp, Co-ordinated Plantation drive, Organised Swacch Bharat Abhiyan.
- Worked as Superintendent of Queen’s Castle 3, KIIT girl’s hostel , from Dec 2014 till january 2018
- Worked as Deputy Superintendent of Queen’s Castle 1, KIIT girl’s hostel since July 2012 till Nov 2014
Research Contributions:
Journal publication
[1]Sayanti Chatterjee, Ranjith Kumar Gatla, Pampa Sinha, Chitralekha Jena, Shubhasri Kundu, Babita Panda, Lipika Nanda, Arjyadhara Pradhan,”Fault detection of a Li-ion battery using SVM based machine learning and unscented Kalman filter”,Materials Today: Proceedings,Volume 74, Part 4,2023,Pages 703-707,ISSN 2214-7853,https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matpr.2022.10.279.
[2]Arjyadhara Pradhan, Babita Panda, Lipika Nanda, Chitralekha Jena “Analysis of dust on the parameters of PV module and design of an effective solar dust cleaner”International Journal of Power Electronics and Drive Systems Vol 13, issue 2 ,June 2022.
[3]C. Jena et al., "Scenario-Based Fuel Constrained Short-Term Hydrothermal Scheduling," in IEEE Access, vol. 10, pp. 133733-133748, 2022, doi: 10.1109/ACCESS.2022.3230769.
[4]Sampurna Panda, Babita Panda, Chitralekha Jena, Lipika Nanda, Arjyadhara Pradhan,Materials Today: Proceedings,2022, ISSN 2214-7853, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matpr.2022.08.424.
[5]Lipika Nanda, Chitralekha Jena, Arjyadhara Pradhan, Babita Panda, “A proposed asymmetrical configuration of cascaded multilevel inverter topology for high level generation”, International Journal of Power Electronics and Drive Systems Vol 13, issue 1 pp.289-297,March 2022.
[6]Sampurna Panda, Manoj Gupta, Babita Panda, Chitralekha Jena, Lipika Nanda, Arjyadhara Pradhan, C.S. Malvi, “A review on advanced cooling techniques for photovoltaic panel”,Materials Today: Proceedings,Volume 62, Part 12, 2022,Pages 6799-6803,ISSN 2214-7853,https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matpr.2022.04.925.
[7]Chitralekha Jena, Pampa Sinha, Lipika Nanda, Arjyadhara Pradhan, Babita Panda,Optimal scheduling with opposition based differential evolution optimized fixed head hydro-thermal power system,Materials Today: Proceedings,Volume 58, Part1,2022,Pp: 227-232,ISSN 2214-7853,https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matpr.2022.01.470
[8]Panda, B., Panda, B., Khillo, A., Pradhan, A., Jena, C, PV based dc-dc converter design using MPPT for stand-alone system, International Journal of Scientific and Technology Research, 2020, 9(2), pp. 5075–5079.
[9]Arjyadhra Pradhan ‘Hardware Testing of New MPPT Method under Various Environmental Conditions’‘International Journal of Recent Technology and Engineering (IJRTE)’, ISSN: 2277-3878 (Online), Volume-8 Issue-4, November 2019. Pp: 12599-12605
[10]Babita Panda, Arjyadhara Pradhan, Bhagabat Panda, Nivedita pati, Chitralekha Jena, “Design and Implementation of PV Z source Inverter topology,International Journal of Innovative Technology and Exploring Engineering, 2019, 9(1), pp. 4391–4395,DOI: 10.35940/ijitee.A5075.119119.
[11]S.Mishra,S.C.Swain,P.Sinha, A.Pradhan,L.Nanda,Power Quality Assessment of Perturbed Power System Implementing Fuzzy Logic and Discrete Wavelet Transform,International Journal of Innovative Technology and Exploring Engineering (IJITEE) ISSN: 2278-3075, Volume-9 Issue-1, November 2019.
[12]Arjyadhara Pradhan, Bhagabat Panda, “A simplified design and modeling of boost converter for photovoltaic sytem”,International Journal of Electrical and Computer-Engineering,2018,8(1),pp.141–149.
[13]Arjyadhara Pradhan, Bhagabat Panda,Experimental analysis of factors affecting the power output of the PV module”International Journal of Electrical and Computer-Engineering,2017,7(6),pp.3190–3197.
[14]Arjyadhara Pradhan, S.M Ali “Analysis of solar PV performance with change in temperature” in SCOPUS Indexed Journal, International Journal of Applied Engineering Research Volume 11, Issue 7, 1 May 2016, Pages 5225-5227 , ISSN: 09734562.
[15]Arjyadhara Pradhan “Effect of Solar Panel orientation on the Performance of PV System”. Journal of Advancements in Material Engineering Volume 1 Issue 1 pp 1-6, April 2016
Conferences
1.L. Nanda, S. Mandal, A. Priya, A. Pradhan, C. Jena and B. Panda, "Solar Photo Voltaic Panel Interfaced Boost Converter with MPPT Algorithm at Various Climatic Conditions," 2023 International Conference on Power Electronics and Energy (ICPEE), Bhubaneswar, India, 2023, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/ICPEE54198.2023.10060750.
2.Arjyadhara Pradhan,Soubhagya Ranjan Prusty , Lipika Nanda, Babita Panda, Chitralekha Jena “Hardware Testing of the Effect of MPPT on the Performance of Photovoltaic Panels”1st International Conference on Smart Technologies for Power and Green Energy, STPGE 2022 Bhubaneswar12 February 2022,DOI:10.1007/978-981-19-2764-5_31
3.Arjyadhara Pradhan; Babita Panda; Lipika Nanda; Chitralekha Jena,Satyabrata Sahoo “Analysis of Various Types of Reflectors on the Performance of PV Panel”,International Conference for Advancement in Technology, ICONAT 2022, IEEE Bombay section, Jan 21-22, 2022, RIT, Sangli ,Maharashtra.DOI 10.1109/ICONAT53423.2022.9725825
4.Arjyadhara Pradhan; Babita Panda; Lipika Nanda; Chitralekha Jena; Sarita Samal, “Performance improvement of PV panel and its analysis with various types of oil coating”,International Conference for Advancement in Technology, ICONAT 2022, IEEE Bombay section, Jan 21-22, 2022, RIT, Sangli ,Maharashtra.DOI:10.1109/ICONAT53423.2022.9726053.
5.A. Pradhan, B. Panda, L. Nanda, C. Jena and S. Sahoo, "Analysis of requirement of load matching for photovoltaic-maximum power tracking system," 2022 International Conference on Smart Technologies and Systems for Next Generation Computing (ICSTSN), Villupuram, India, 2022, pp. 1-5, doi: 10.1109/ICSTSN53084.2022.9761345.
6.C. Jena, P. Sinha, L. Nanda, B. Panda, A. Pradhan and S. Mohapatra, "Opposition Based Group Search Optimized Optimal Scheduling of Fixed Head hydrothermal Power System," 2022 International Conference on Smart Technologies and Systems for Next Generation Computing (ICSTSN), Villupuram, India, 2022, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/ICSTSN53084.2022.9761362.
7.S. N. Tripathy, S. Kundu and A. Pradhan, "Modelling of Dynamic Fuzzy-PID based Speed Controller for BLDC Motor," 2022 1st IEEE International Conference on Industrial Electronics: Developments & Applications (ICIDeA), Bhubaneswar, India, 2022, pp. 110-115, doi: 10.1109/ICIDeA53933.2022.9970175.
8.L. Nanda, B. Panda, A. Sharma, A. Pradhan, C. Jena and S. Nandi, "Modeling a Series Topology for 27-Level Multilevel Inverter with reduced number of switches and voltage sources," 2022 International Virtual Conference on Power Engineering Computing and Control: Developments in Electric Vehicles and Energy Sector for Sustainable Future (PECCON), Chennai, India, 2022, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/PECCON55017.2022.9851167.
9.S. Panda, R. K. Dhaka, B. Panda, A. Pradhan, C. Jena and L. Nanda, "A review on application of Machine Learning in Solar Energy & Photovoltaic Generation Prediction," 2022 International Conference on Electronics and Renewable Systems (ICEARS), Tuticorin, India, 2022, pp. 1180-1184, doi: 10.1109/ICEARS53579.2022.9752404.
10.L. Nanda, P. Bharti, B. Panda, C. Jena and A. Pradhan, "The Development and Analysis of a Novel Multilevel Inverter Topology with Reduced Device Count," 2022 4th International Conference on Energy, Power and Environment (ICEPE), Shillong, India, 2022, pp. 1-5, doi: 10.1109/ICEPE55035.2022.9798190.
11.Jena C., Rajan A., Samal S., Panda B., Pradhan A., Nanda L. (2022) Intelligent Approach for Fuel-Constrained Economic Emission Dispatch Analysis Using Multi-objective Differential Evolution. In: Malik H., Ahmad M.W., Kothari D. (eds) Intelligent Data Analytics for Power and Energy Systems. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 802. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-6081-8_8
12.B. Panda, A. Sharma, S. Nandi, A. Pradhan, B. Panda and C. Jena, "Modelling and Control of PMSG based Wind Turbine," 2021 International Conference on Control, Automation, Power and Signal Processing (CAPS), Jabalpur, India, 2021, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/CAPS52117.2021.9730662.
13.Arjyadhara Pradhan, Babita Panda, Chitralekha Jena, and Lipika Nanda, “Energy conservation: A case study at KIIT Bhubaneshwar”,AIP Conference Proceedings, Volume 239628 September 2021 Article number 020014,ISSN: 0094243X, ISBN: 978-073544130-9 , DOI: 10.1063/5.0066417Babita Panda, Arjyadhara Pradhan,Analysis of Renewable Energy Integration on Radial Distribution Network,2021 1st International Conference on Power Electronics and Energy (ICPEE),2-3 Jan. 2021, School of Electrical Engineering, KIIT, deemed to be University, Bhubaneshwar India. DOI: 10.1109/ICPEE50452.2021.9358767
14.Arjyadhara Pradhan, B. Panda, S. Mohapatra, Performance analysis of proposed MPPT method with the conventional methods,2020 IEEE International Symposium on Sustainable Energy, Signal Processing and Cyber Security (iSSSC) , December 16 – 17,2020 IEEE Conference Record #50941, GIET University, Gunupur, India DOI:10.1109/iSSSC50941.2020.9358820
15.Arjyadhara Pradhan, Babita Panda, Bhagabat Panda, Aradhana Khilo,”An Improved MPPT Technique for improving efficiency of PV module”1st International Conference on Conference on advances in electrical control and signal systems (AECSS-2019),8th-9th November 2019 SOA | SIKSHA 'O' ANUSANDHAN vol 665, pp 633-644,2019, ,https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-5262-5.
16.Arjyadhara Pradhan, Bhagabat Panda,Sonalika Ghosh, Babita Panda “Efficiency Improvement of Photovoltaic system using Maximum power point tracking,” International Conference on Electrical, Electronics, Computers, Communication, Mechanical and Computing,(EECCMC) IEEE Madras Section 28th &29th January2018, Priyadarshini Engineering College, Tamil Nadu.
17.Arjyadhara Pradhan, Bhagabat Panda, “Analysis of Ten external factors affecting the performance of PV system", International Conference on Energy, Communication, Data Analytics and Soft Computing (ICECDS 2017),IEEE Madras Section 1st-2nd August, SKR Engineering college, Tamil Nadu. DOI: 10.1109/ICECDS.2017.8390025
18.Arjyadhara Pradhan, Bhagabat Panda, “Design of DC-DC Converter for load matching in case of PV system,” International Conference on Energy, Communication, Data Analytics and Soft Computing (ICECDS 2017),IEEE Madras Section 1st-2nd August, SKR Engineering college, Tamil Nadu.DOI: 10.1109/ICECDS.2017.8390025
19.Arjyadhara Pradhan, S.K.S Parashar, S.M.Ali, Priyanka Paikray," Water cooling method to improve efficiency of photovoltaic module", International Conference on Signal Processing, Communication, Power and Embedded System, SCOPES, IEEE, 2016,3-5 Oct. 2016DOI:1 0.1109/SCOPES.2016.7955600.
20.Bhol, R., Dash, R., Pradhan, A., Ali, S.M," Environmental effect assessment on performance of solar PV panel" IEEE International Conference on Circuit, Power and Computing Technologies, ICCPCT 2015.
21.Dash, R., Ali, S.M., Pradhan, A., Mohanta, A.K," Hybrid system for meeting global energy demand", Proceedings - 2015 IEEE International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Communication Technology, CICT 2015.
Books :
1.Arjyadhara Pradhan,Soubhagya Ranjan Prusty , Lipika Nanda, Babita Panda, Chitralekha Jena “Hardware Testing of the Effect of MPPT on the Performance of Photovoltaic Panels”Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, 2023, 443, pp. 377–387.
2.Babita Panda, Aman Sharma, Sudip Nandi, Arjyadhara Pradhan, Lipika Nanda & Sarita Samal ”Modeling Solar Photo-Voltaic Power Generation System with MPPT Controller”Lecture Notes in Electrical EngineeringVolume 946, Pages 901 - 9132023 3rd International Conference on Machine Learning, Image Processing, Network Security and Data Sciences, MIND 2021Raipur11 December 2021through 12 December 2021.
3.Lipika Nanda, Chitralekha Jena, Arjyadhara Pradhan, Babita Panda, Rudra Narayan Dash “Simulation Result Analysis of a Proposed Cross Connected Switch Capacitor Multi Level Inverter Topology”Lecture Notes in Networks and SystemsVolume 443, Pages 37 - 442023 1st International Conference on Smart Technologies for Power and Green Energy, STPGE 2022Bhubaneswar12 February 2022through 13 February 2022
4.Arjyadhara Pradhan, Babita Panda, “Energy Audit and Management for Green Energy” ,Intelligent Green Technologies for Sustainable Smart Cities, pp 89-109, , 2022, Wiley , https://doi.org/10.1002/9781119816096.ch6.
5.Arjyadhara Pradhan, Babita Panda, Bhagabat Panda, Aradhana Khilo,”An Improved MPPT Technique for improving efficiency of PV module”1st International Conference on Conference on advances in electrical control and signal systems (AECSS-2019) vol 665, pp 633-644,2019, ,https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-5262-5.Advances in Electrical Control and Signal Systems