Dept & Faculty - Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology

Dr. Santosh Sonar

Designation:

Assistant Professor

Specialization:

Power electronics

Email:

santosh.sonar@thapar.edu

Biography

Dr. Santosh Sonaris an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Instrumentation Engineering. He received his Bachelor and Masters degree in Electrical Engineering from National Institute of Technology Durgapur, West Bengal. He has completed his PhD at Indian School of Mines, Dhanbad, Jharkhand in the year 2014.He has joined TU in August 2013. He has nine years of teaching and one year of Industrial experience till June 2019. His main research interests are in the areas of Power Electronics (z-source inverters, ac-ac converters, SMPS Design, PWM Techniques).

Academic Qualification:

Degree	Examination Passed	Year of Passing	Institute	Subject/ Discipline/ Specialization	Class/ Division
UG Degree	B.E	2004	NIT Durgapur,W.B,India	Electrical Engineering	1^st
PG Degree	M.Tech	2009	NIT Durgapur,W.B,India	Electrical Engineering/Power Electronics	1^st
Doctoral	Ph.D	2014	IIT(ISM) Dhanbad,India	Thesis Title
Doctoral	Ph.D	2014	IIT(ISM) Dhanbad,India	“Z-Source Inverter used for wind power conversion”

Professional Experience:

Teaching
Sl. No.	Period					Position Held	Organization
Sl. No.	From			To		Position Held	Organization
1.	13/03/2014			Till Date		Assistant professor	Thapar University, Patiala, Punjab ,India
2.	12/08/2013			12/03/2014		Lecturer	Thapar University, Patiala, Punjab, India
3.	12/08/2010			30/11/2010		Lecturer	Asansol Engineering College, W.B, India
4.	11/09/2008			11/08/2010		Lecturer	Bengal college of Engineering and Technology, W.B, India
5.	01/09/2005			31/08/2006		Lecturer	Govt Polytechnic Dhanbad, Jharkhand, India
Industry
Sl. No.		Period			Position Held			Organization	Nature of work
Sl. No.		From	To		Position Held			Organization	Nature of work
6.		21/07/2004	20/08/2005		Site Engineer			Test Metal Engineering Pvt Ltd	Dismantling,Errection,Commisioning of boiler and associated equipments.

Specialization: Power Electronics

Academic Details:

Courses taught:

S.No	UG Level	PG Level
1.	Power Electronics	Advanced Power Electronics
2.	Electrical Engineering	HVAC and HVDC Transmission Systems
3.	Electrical and Electronics Measurements	High Power Converters
4.	Flexible AC Transmission Systems	Electrical Drives and Control
5.	Digital and Analog Circuits	Digital Control Systems
6.	Electric Drives

Research details

Research Area: Multilevel Inverters, SMPS Design, Z-Source Inverters, PWM Techniques

Reviewer: IET Power Electronics, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, IEEE journals of Emerging and Selected Topics of Power Electronics

Member of Prestigious Committee: IEEE Member, N0- 93340410

Projects Undertaken

Title of the Project	Funding Amount(Rs)	Funding Agency	Status	Co-PI
Experimental Studies on the performance of Z-Source inverter	470,000.00	TIET Patiala (Punjab),India	Completed	Nil
Design and Development of an AC-AC Converter and BLDC Motor Controller	1200,000.00	Industry	Ongoing	Nil
Design and development of an isolated converter based 120- Watt battery Charging Card	600,000.00	Industry	Ongoing	Nil

Publications

Papers Published/Accepted

International Journal

Santosh Sonar, Tanmoy Maity “Single phase transformer less wide range ac boost voltage regulator based on z-source network”, International journal of Electrical power and energy system, Elsevier, vol 47,2013,193-197.
Satwant Singh,Santosh Sonar, “ A New SVPWM Technique to reduce the Inductor Current Ripple of Z-Source Inverter”Accepted, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics 2019.
Satwant Singh,Santosh Sonar, “Design and Analysis of Space Vector Pulse Width Modulation Techniques for Z-Source Inverter”-Accepted, International Journal of Power Electronics, Inderscience 2018
Santosh Sonar, Tanmoy Maity, “A single phase to three phase buck boost converter cum voltage regulator suitable for wind power, “International journal of energy and power (SAP),2012, 33-38.
Santosh Sonar, Tanmoy Maity, “A new low cost single phase ac-ac power line conditioner” International journal of advanced computer research, December-2012,284-289.
Tanmoy Maity Santosh Sonar, “Selection of Suitable Topology and Switching Technique of ZSI for wind power application” International journal of advanced computer research, March-2013,159-164.
Tanmoy Maity, Santosh Sonar, “A new single phase to three phase buck boost converter cum voltage regulator suitable for wind power,533-541,2012, Academic journal of science
Santosh Sonar, Tanmoy Maity, “performance analysis of the simple low cost buck-boost ac-ac converter, International Journal of Energy Engineering,june-2014,105-110
Santosh Sonar, Tanmoy Maity, “A new simple single phase ac-ac switching voltage regulator cum power conditioner, Asian Power Electronics Journal,Dec-2012,34-38.
Santosh Sonar, Tanmoy Maity,”Z-source converter for PMSM based grid connected wind power conversion”, 532-536, 2012, International journal of Advanced Renewable energy and research.

International Conferences

Satwant Singh,Santosh Sonar, “Space Vector Based PWM Sequences for Z-Source Principal Derived Inverter Topologies”-IEEE conference 2018 IEEMA Engineer Infinite Conference (eTechNxT)
Santosh Sonar, Tanmoy Maity,” Z-source Inverter based control of Wind Power”, IEEE sponsored International Conference on Energy, Automation, and Signals(ICEAS-2011) , 2011, pages 1-6.
Santosh Sonar, Tanmoy Maity, “Design and simulation of a novel single phase to three phase wind power converter”, (RAIT-2012) (IIT-ISM Dhanbad), vol-2, pp 725-730.
Tanmoy Maity, Santosh Sonar, “A simple single phase ac voltage regulator cum booster based on z-source converter “Accepted, ICCESSE-2012 Zurich, Switzerland, January
Tanmoy Maity, Santosh Sonar, “A new single phase to three phase buck-boost Converter cum Voltage Regulator suitable for Wind Power” International Journal of Arts & Sciences (IJAS) conference, Vienna, Austria, April, 2012.pp. VIE78
Santosh Sonar, Tanmoy Maity, “A new low cost single phase ac-ac power line conditioner”, International conference on emerging electrical trends (Indore), December-2012, pp.284-289.
Tanmoy Maity Santosh Sonar , “Selection of Suitable Topology and Switching Technique of ZSI for wind power application” International Conference on advance Computing and Communication ICACC-2013

National Conferences

Santosh Sonar, Tanmoy Maity, Manisha Minu, “Closed Loop Control of Z-Source Inverter used for Wind Power Conversion” National conference on sustainable development in energy sector (UPES-Dehradun), April 2011. INS-2
Santosh Sonar, Tanmoy Maity, “A z- network based new single phase push-pull inverter” FECIT-2011 (ISM Dhanbad), November 2011, INS-8.
Tanmoy Maity Santosh Sonar, “A z- network based new single phase push-pull inverter” FECIT-2011 (ISM Dhanbad), November 2011, INS-4.
*Santosh Sonar, Tanmoy Maity, “A z-source single phase push-pull inverter” IET-India-Summit_2012, September pp 92-95.
Santosh Sonar, Tanmoy Maity, “A single phase wide range ac boost voltage regulator".” ICTEE-2014, January Thapar University Patiala.
Santosh Sonar, Tanmoy Maity, “A Novel single phase push-pull Inverter” ICTEE-2014, January, Thapar University Patiala

List of awards and honors

Awarded A grade (Under performance Incentive Scheme Award -2016, TIET)

ME Thesis Supervised- 07 ,02 Undergoing

Name of the Student	Roll No	Thesis Title	Supervisor	Completed/Ongoing
Punit Kumar	801341016	Three Phase AC-AC Z-Source Converter	Sole	June2015
Nitish Kumar	801341011	Study and analysis of a series parallel Hybrid Electrical Vehicle	Sole	June 2015
Kanwarjeet Singh	801341007	Study and analysis of Z-Source connected to fuel cell	Sole	June2015
Jasandeep Singh	801441012	Analysis Of Series-Parallel Hybrid Electric Vehicle With Suitable Dc-Dc Converter For A Given Drive Cycle	Sole	June2016
Snehansu Panda	801542018	Analysis and Simulation of Three Phase Modified Hybrid Cascaded Multilevel Inverter for Induction Motor	Sole	June2017
Julakanti Santhosh Reddy	801543003	Performance Analysis Of A Dc-Dc Multilevel Boost Converter	Sole	July2017
Siddharth Pandit	801543005	Analysis And Modelling Of Matrix Converter As A Frequency Changer	Sole	July2017

PhD Thesis	Supervisor	Completed/Ongoing
01	Sole	Ongoing