This book covers the proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Energy Systems, Drives, and Automations (ESDA2021). It comprises interesting topics in renewable energy, power management, drives of electrical machines, and automation. It also discusses different tools and techniques to match the conference theme. This book also comprehensively discusses related tools and techniques and is a valuable resource for researchers and professionals in electrical and mechanical engineering disciplines.
Jerzy R. Szymanski is working as a professor in the Faculty of Transport, Electrical Engineering, and Computer Science at the University of Technology and Humanities in Radom, Poland. He graduated with Ph.D. in the Electrical Faculty at the Warsaw University of Technology. His research areas include power electronics converters in drive applications, application of power converters in renewable sources and battery electric vehicles, EMC compatibility in power converters systems, hybrid power systems in electric industry drives, energy storage for BEV, active power filters, etc. He has about 80 scientific publications and 03 patents to his credit. He has also supervised 5 doctoral students.
Chandan Kumar Chanda is working as a professor with the Department of Electrical Engineering, IIEST, Shibpur, India. He has earned a Ph.D. degree from the Department of Electrical Engineering, B.E. College (DU), Shibpur, India. Dr. C. K. Chanda has over 30 years of teaching and research experience in the diverse field of power systems engineering. His areas of interest include smart grid, resiliency, stability, and renewable energy. He is actively involved in various research projects funded by Centrally Funded Organizations like DST and UGC. He has published 135 research articles in journals and conferences of national and international repute.
Pranab K. Mondal is an associate professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati since May 2015. He received his undergraduate and postgraduate degrees from Jadavpur University, Kolkata, and completed his Ph.D. from the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur in 2015. His principal research interest, encompassing the broad area of microfluidics, covers various facets of micro-scale multiphase transport, electro-kinetics, and micro-scale transport of heat. He is currently working on stability analysis of flows with free surfaces, capillary filling of bio-fluids. He has co-authored more than 100 refereed journals conference publications.
Kamrul Alam Khan is a professor in the Department of Physics at the Jagannath University, Dhaka. Prof. Khan completed his B.Sc., M.Sc., and Ph.D. from Dhaka University, Bangladesh. Prof. Khan has got over 175 papers in journals and conferences, 07 book chapters, and 04 patents published to his credit. His research interest lies in renewable energy, electricity generation from Pathor Kuchi (Bryophyllum) leaf/biomass energy, wave and tidal energy, environmental science, and medical physics.
