Dr Nilanjan Mukherjee BTech, MEng, PhD, MIEEE

Dr Nilanjan Mukherjee

Department of Electronic, Electrical and Systems Engineering
Research Fellow

Contact details

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+44 (0) 121 414 7573
Email
n.mukherjee@bham.ac.uk
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Address
Gisbert Kapp Building
University of Birmingham
Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
UK

Dr. Nilanjan Mukherjee is a Research Fellow in Power Electronics within the School of Electronic, Electrical, and Systems Engineering at the University Of Birmingham. He is also the member of Birmingham Centre for Railway Research and Education.

His main research interests include the role of power electronics in energy storage, hybrid energy system integration for transport and utility grid applications with a particular attention to multi-modular and modular multilevel type of power electronic converters.

Qualifications

  • PhD, in Power Electronics, The University of Aston, Birmingham, UK , 2014
  • MEng. (First Class) in Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore, India, 2009
  • BTech. (First Class) in Electrical Engineering, West Bengal University of Technology, India, 2007

Biography

Dr. Nilanjan Mukherjee received MEng. Degree (First Class) in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore, India in 2009.

From 2009 to 2011 he was the Engineering Research Centre (ERC) of Tata Motors Ltd as a development manager where he was involved in power electronic converter and control strategy development for energy storage integration in Hybrid Electric Vehicle (HEV) drive train.

He joined the Power Engineering and Power Electronics (PEPE) group at the University of Aston, Birmingham, in 2011 where he completed his PhD in Power Electronics in 2014.

He was a Postdoctoral Research Associate at Aston University following his PhD. He is currently working as a Research Fellow in Electrical Power & Control group within the School of Electronic, Electrical, and Systems Engineering at the University Of Birmingham.

He is a member of IEEE and the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (IES).

Postgraduate supervision

Available to supervise students.

Research

RESEARCH AREAS

  • Multi-modular and modular multilevel power electronic interfaces for rapid transportation such as, Railway, Locomotive, Electric/Hybrid Vehicle (EV/HEV) traction systems, and utility grid systems          
  • Power conversion systems, energy management strategies to integrate energy storage and hybrid energy systems such as, hybrid batteries, battery with ultra-capacitor (super-capacitor), fuel cells
  • Converter control methods and associated stability studies in hybrid energy systems and energy storage integrations
  • Rapid prototyping systems, hardware-in-loop (HIL) systems and real time simulations for power electronic applications

Other activities

  • Member IEEE
  • Member IET
  • Reviewer of IEEE Transaction papers
  • Review of IET journal papers
  • Reviewer of Elsevier Journals

Publications

PUBLISHED ARTICLES

Year 2015 –

  1. Mukherjee, N.; Strickland, D.; “Control of Cascaded DC-DC Converter Based Hybrid Battery Energy Storage Systems – Part I: Stability issue” IEEE Trans. on Industrial Electronics, vol. PP, no. PP, pp 1.1, 2015 (in press) 
  2. Mukherjee, N.; Strickland, D.; “Control of Cascaded DC-DC Converter Based Hybrid Battery Energy Storage Systems – Part II: Lyapunov Approach” IEEE Trans. on Industrial Electronics, vol. PP, no. PP, pp 1.1, 2015 (in press) 
  3. Mukherjee, N.; Strickland, D.; “Analysis and Comparative study of Different Converter Modes in Modular Second Life Battery Energy Storage Systems” IEEE Journal of Selected and Emerging Topics in Power Electronics, vol. PP, no. PP., pp 1.1, 2015 (in press).
  4. Mukherjee, N.; Strickland, D.; "Control of Second Life Hybrid Battery Energy Storage System based on Modular Boost-Multilevel Buck Converter," IEEE Trans. on Industrial Electronics, vol. 62, no.02, pp. 1034 – 1046, February 2015.
  5. Mukherjee, N.; Strickland, D.; “Adaptive Control of Hybrid Battery Energy Systems under Capacity Fade” Journal of European Power Electronics (EPE) and Drives, vol.25 pp. 04, 2016.

Year 2013

  1. Mukherjee, N.; De, D., "Analysis and improvement of performance in LCL filter-based PWM rectifier/inverter application using hybrid damping approach," IET Power Electronics, vol.6, no.2, pp. 309,325, Feb. 2013.

Year 2012

  1. Mukherjee N; John V; “ Hybrid Damping in Higher Order Line Side Filter in Active Front-end Operation” International Journal of Computer and Electrical Engineering, vol.4, no.2, April 2012.
  • PUBLISHED PROCEEDINGS/CONFERENCES 

Year 2015 – present

  1. Mukherjee N, Tricoli P, Hillmansen S; “A Comparative Study of Different Converter-fed 25kV 50Hz Railway Feeder Substations” in Proc. 7th IET International Conf. on Power Electronics, Machines and Drives (PEMD 2016), April 2016 (Accepted and to be presented).
  2. Mukherjee N.; Tricoli P; “A New State-of-Charge Utilisation Control of Super-capacitor Energy Storage Systems based on Modular Multilevel Converter for Traction Applications” in Proc. IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition (ECCE), pp. 1‑8, Sep. 2015.
  3. Mukherjee N.; Tricoli P; “Modular Multilevel Converter Based Super-capacitor Integration Strategies and their Comparative Evaluation for Railway Traction Drive Systems” in Proc. 17th European. Conf. on Power Electron. Applications, pp. 1‑10, Sep. 2015.
  4. Mukherjee N.; Tricoli P; “A State-of-Charge Equalisation Technique of Super-capacitor Energy Storage Systems Using Sub-module dc-dc Converter Control within Modular Multilevel Converter (MMC) for High Speed Traction Drive” in Proc. 50th International Universities. Power Eng. Conf., pp. 1‑6, Sep. 2015.
  5. Ivan K, Mukherjee N, Tricoli P, Hillmansen S; “New Modular Hybrid Energy Storage System and its Control Strategy for a Fuel Cell Locomotive” in Proc. 17th European. Conf. on Power Electron. Application (EPE), pp. 1‑10, Sep. 2015. 
  6. Mosley I, A Middleton, Strickland D, Mukherjee N, D Stone, D Taylor, D Gladwin, M Foster; “Practical Design Considerations of Cascaded Hybrid Battery Storage Systems” in Proc. 17th European. Conf. on Power Electron. Application (EPE), pp. 1‑10, Sep. 2015.
  7. Mukherjee N; “Distributed Control Structures and their Comparison in Modular dc-dc Converter based Hybrid Second life Battery Energy Storage Systems” in Proc. 50th International Universities. Power Eng. Conf., pp. 1‑6, Sep. 2015.   

Year 2014

  1. Mukherjee, N.; Strickland, D.; "Adaptive Control of Hybrid Battery Energy Storage systems under Capacity Fade," in Proc. 16th European. Conf. on Power Electron. Application (EPE), pp. 1‑10, Aug. 2014.
  2. Mukherjee, N.; Strickland, D.; "Second life Battery Energy Storage System: Converter Topology and Redundancy Selection," in Proc. 7th IET International Conf. on Power Electronics, Machines and Drives (PEMD 2014), April 2014.

Year 2012

  1. Mukherjee, N.; Strickland, D., "Modular ESS with second life batteries operating in grid independent mode," in Proc. 3rd IEEE International Conf. on Power Electronics for Distributed Generation Systems (PEDG), pp.653 – 660, June 2012.
  2. Mukherjee, N.; Strickland, D.; Cross, A.; Hung, W., "Reliability estimation of second life battery system power electronic topologies for grid frequency response applications," in Proc. 6th IET International Conf. on Power Electronics, Machines and Drives (PEMD 2012), March 2012.
  3. Strickland, Dani; Cross, Andrew and Mukherjee, N ; “Battery energy storage on the smart grid future or fad?”: in Proc. Zaytoonah University International Engineering Conf. on Design and Innovation in Infrastructure, Jordan, Amman, 2012.

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