Bio
Sreenivasa S jaldanki received the B.Tech. degree from Nagarjuna University, Guntur, India, the M.E. degree from the PSG College of Technology, Coimatore, India, and the Ph.D. degree from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India, in 2000, 2002, and 2013, respectively.
From 2002 to 2005, he was a research student at the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India, and from 2005 to 2006, he worked at the Vellore Institute of Technology, Vellore, India. From 2013 to 2014 he was a Postdoctoral Fellow at Ryerson University, Toronto, ON, Canada. From 2014 to 2022 he worked as a senior R&D engineer at Hitachi Energy in Chennai, India and Ludvika, Sweden. From 2022 he is working as a research staff at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
His research interests are High voltage dc systems, control of grid-connected converters and electrical drives.
Professional Experience
Sreenivasa Jaldanki has more than 15 years of research experience in the area of power electronics. He has completed his PhD in the area of modeling, modulation and control methods for high power grid connected converters. His industrial research experience includes modeling and control f High voltage DC converters, HVDC system studies, HVDC circuit breakers and control of multi-terminal DC systems.
Awards
- 1st Prize in ‘India Development Center (IDC) - Power Technologies Innovation Challenge’ for an Idea on ‘ABB Hybrid Breaker Technology’ by ABB GISPL, India.
Education
- PhD: Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India, 2013.
- M.E: PSG Collecge of Technology, Coimbatore, India, 2002.
- B.Tech: Nagarjuna University, Guntur, India, 2000
Professional Service
- Judge for HVdc prize award, Office of Electricity, DOE, USA, June 2023: reviewed 5 proposals.
- Reviewer for IEEE Transactions of Industrial Electronics, Power Electronics, Sustainable Energy, Power
- Around 40 journal papers reviewed till date
Professional Affiliations
- Senior member IEEE
- Current Member CIGRE working group (JWG C1/B4.49), Offshore transmission planning.
- Previous Member, CIGRE Working Group, B4.79, Hybrid LCC/VSC HVDC systems.
Trademarks and Patents
- Jaldanki Sivaprasad, Swakshar Ray, “Circulating current control in a modular multilevel voltage source converter” ABB Technology Ltd, Appl. No. PCT/EP2016/070639 https://patents.google.com/patent/US10924029B2/en.
- Jaldanki Sivaprasad, Arman Hassanpoor, “Current limiting device as well as a high voltage direct current arrangement and high voltage power system comprising such a current limiting device”, ABB Technology Ltd, Appl. No. PCT/EP2016/05575, https://patents.google.com/patent/WO2017157440A1/ja
- Jaldanki Sivaprasad, Subhashish Mukherjee, Praveen Barupati and Sasitharan. S, “Method of controlling operation of an interface arrangement in a power transmission system” ABB Technology Ltd, Appl. No. PCT/EP2015/068830. https://patents.google.com/patent/WO2017028890A1/un
Other Publications
Journal publications
1. J. S. Siva Prasad R. Ghosh and G. Narayanan, “Common-mode injection PWM for parallel converters”
IEEE Trans. Ind. Electron., vol. 62(2), pp. 789-794, Feb. 2015.
2. J. S. Siva Prasad and G. Narayanan, “Minimum switching loss pulse width modulation for reduced power
conversion loss in reactive power compensators” IET Journal of Power Electron., vol. 7(3), pp. 545-551,
Mar. 2014.
3. J. S. Siva Prasad and G. Narayanan, “Minimization of grid current distortion in parallel-connected
converters through carrier interleaving” IEEE Trans. Ind. Electron., vol. 61(1), pp. 76-91, Jan. 2014.
4. J. S. Siva Prasad and G. Narayanan, “Apparatus and method for heat-run test on high-power PWM
converters with low energy expenditure,” Sadhana Journal, Springer, vol. 38(3), pp. 359 – 375, June 2013.
5. A. C. Binoj Kumar, J. S. Siva Prasad and G. Narayanan, “Experimental investigation on the effect of
advanced bus-clamping pulsewidth modulation on motor acoustic noise,” IEEE Trans. Ind. Electron., vol.
60(2), pp. 433-439, Feb. 2013.
6. Kaushik Basu, J. S. Siva Prasad, G. Narayanan, Harish K. Krishnamurthy and Rajapandian Ayyanar,
“Reduction of torque ripple in induction motor drives using an advanced hybrid PWM technique,” IEEE
Trans. Ind. Electron., vol. 57(6), pp. 2085-2091, June 2010.
7. Kaushik Basu, J. S. Siva Prasad and G. Narayanan, “Minimization of torque ripple in PWM AC drives,”
IEEE Trans. Ind. Electron., vol. 56(2), pp. 553-558, Feb. 2009.
8. J. S. Siva Prasad, T. Bhavsar, R. Ghosh and G. Narayanan, “Vector control of three-phase AC/DC frontend
converter”, Sadhana Journal, Springer, vol. 33(5), pp. 591 – 613, Oct 2008.
Conference Publications
1. Sreenivasa S Jaldanki, Suman Debnath, Jiazi Zhang, Patrick Brown and Joshuua Novacheck, “Mixed Monopole and Bipole MTdc Architecture”, IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Expo, Oct. - Nov. 2023, Nashville, TN, USA
2. V. Rakesh Reddy, Y. Hafner, K. K. Nayak, S. R. Choudhury, Sivaprasad J, Vinothkumar K and S. Auddy, “Feasibility study of adding a third full bridge VSC-based HVDC terminal on an existing LCC based HVDC transmission system”, B4, DC systems and Power Electronics, CIGRE Session-2022, Aug. 2022, Paris.
3. Vishal Vekhande, J. Sivaprasad, Vinothkumar K, Sridhar Alapati, Jwala Rao, Saikat Karmakar, “A Generalized Procedure to Develop DC Switchyard for MTDC Grids”, Electric Power and Energy Conference (EPEC), Edmonton, Canada, Nov. 2020. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9320124
4. J. S. Siva Prasad, Kamisetty NV Prasad and G. Narayanan, “Experimental Comparison of Power Conversion Loss with Different PWM Strategies for STATCOM Application,” International Conference on Power Electronics, Smart Grid and Renewable Energy (PESGRE), Cochin, India, Jan. 2020. (NC-2)
5. J. S. Siva Prasad, Kamisetty NV Prasad and G. Narayanan, “Device loss and thermal characterization of high power PWM converters,” IEEE India International Conference on Power Electronics (IICPE), Jaipur, India, Dec. 2018.
6. J. S. Siva Prasad, Kamisetty NV Prasad and G. Narayanan, “Timer based digital implementation of advanced bus-clamping PWM techniques,” IEEE International Conference on Computing, Power and Communication Technologies (GUCON), Noida, India, Sep. 2018.
7. J. S. Siva Prasad and G. Narayanan, “Modeling and control of back-to-back connected PWM converters,” National Power Electronics Conference 2013, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India, Dec. 2013.
8. J. S. Siva Prasad and G. Narayanan, “Reduction of grid current distortion in parallel connected line-side converters using carrier interleaving,” National Power Electronics Conference 2011, Bengal Engineering & Science University, Howrah, India, Dec. 2011.
9. J. S. Siva Prasad and G. Narayanan, “Control of parallel-connected converters for load testing of highpower PWM converters”, National Power Electronics Conference 2010, Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee, India, June 2010. (NC-3)
10. J. S. Siva Prasad, T. Bhavsar, R. Ghosh and G. Narayanan, “Vector control of three-phase AC/DC frontend converter”, National Power Electronics Conference 2007, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India, Dec. 2007.
11. J. S. Siva Prasad and B. G. Fernandes, “A novel grid connected three phase current source active commutated thyristor inverter for photovoltaic applications,” National conference on Control, Communication and Information Systems, Goa Engineering College, Goa, India, Jan. 2004, pp. 95-99.
12. J. S. Siva Prasad and B. G. Fernandes, “Open loop control of active commutated SCR CSI for grid connected photovoltaic systems,” International Conference on Power Systems (ICPS-2004), Khatmandu, Nepal, pp. 810-814.
13. J. S. Siva Prasad and B. G. Fernandes, “Active commutated thyristor CSI for grid connected photovoltaic applications,” 4th Power Electronics and Motion Control Conference (IPEMC-2004), Jiaotong University, Xian, China, pp. 1767-1771. (NC-24)