School of Electrical and Computer Sciences

School of Electrical and Computer Sciences, IIT Bhubaneswar

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IIT Bhubaneswar

Sankarsan Mohapatro

Dr. Sankarsan Mohapatro

Head of Department EE, Associate Professor
  • Room No: 216, SECS
  • +91 674-7135744
  • sankarsan@iitbbs.ac.in
  • School of Electrical and Computer Sciences
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High Voltage Engineering; Industrial Application of High Voltage for Air Pollution Control; High Voltage Modular Power Supply; Non-thermal plasma application to agriculture; DC Microgrid; Renewable Energy
Sl No Title Funding Agency Role
 Amount (in Lakh) Status
1 Diesel engine Emission Control using Electrical Discharge based Technique for Clean Environment: A Non-Conventional Approach DST PI 52.58 Completed
2 Solar Powered DC System for Domestic Electrification and Rural Application Executive Summary Project Report Planning & Coordination Dept., Odisha Co-PI 21.66 Completed
3 NOx Removal study by Electrical Discharge: Experimental and Theoretical Validation IIT Bhubaneswar PI 10.00 Completed

Electrical Technology
Basic Electronics
Network Theory; Power System
HVDC and FACT Devices
Advanced High Voltage Engineering
Utilization of Electric Power
Electric Power Transmission and Distribution
Control System Technology

Electrical Technology Lab
Basic Electronics Lab
Power System Lab
Power Electronics & Drives Lab
Energy Systems Lab

PhD (Completed)
1. Dr. Srikanth Allamsetty (Now Assistant Professor at NIT Silchar)
2. Dr. Malyala Venkata Satya Sai Chandra (Now at Hitachi, Bangalore)
PhD (Continuing)
1. Sarbesh Bhattacharjee
2. Tanikonda Nishanth Kumar
3. Niranjan Behera
MTech: 19 (Completed); 02 (Continuing)
BTech: 36 (Completed); 01 (Continuing)
 
  1. Sarbesh Bhattacharje and Sankarsan Mohapatro, “Efficient Electrode Configuration for NOX Treatment from Diesel Engine Exhaust at Low Applied Voltage”, Emission Control Science and Technology. (Under Review)
  2. Satya Sai Chandra, M.V., Mohapatro, S. “Sensor Fault Tolerant Control in Modern and Green Power Applications: A Review”, IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation & Measurement. (Accepted)
  3. Tanikonda Nishanth Kumar, Sankarsan Mohapatro, and Rajesh Roshan Dash, “Removal of dyes from aqueous solutions using non-thermal plasma: A review”, Int. J. Environ. Sci. Technol. (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13762-024-05557-0
  4. Satya Sai Chandra, M.V., Mohapatro, S. “Improved Solar Photovoltaic Performance in Standalone Low Voltage DC Microgrids using Sensor Fault Tolerant Control”, Int J Circ Theor Appl. Wiley, 2024; 1-28. doi:10.1002/cta.4020
  5. Sarbesh Bhattacherjee, and Sankarsan Mohapatro, “Spike Electrode based DBD Reactor for Improved Electric Discharge Power towards better Diesel Engine Exhaust Treatment at Low Applied Voltage”, IEEE Tran. on Plasma Science, vol. 52, no. 1, pp. 58-66, 2024.
  6. Satya Sai Chandra, M.V., Mohapatro, S. “Hybrid Sensor Fault Tolerant Control of Low Voltage DC Microgrid”, IEEE Trans. on Industrial Application, vol. 60, no. 1, pp. 1705-1715, Jan.-Feb. 2024, DOI: 10.1109/TIA.2023.3315276.
  7. Satya Sai Chandra, M.V., Mohapatro, S. “Active sensor fault tolerant control of bus voltage in standalone low voltage DC microgrid”, Electrical Engineering (Springer) 105, 1079–1092, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00202-022-01716-z
  8. Srikanth Allamsetty, S. Mohapatro, and Pushpendra Kumar” Prediction of Voltage Required for Non-Thermal Plasma based Diesel Exhaust treatment for Removal of Nitrogen Oxides”, Environmental Science and Pollution Research, vol. 27, pp.11195-11201, 2020.
  9. Srikanth Allamsetty, S. Mohapatro, and N. B. Puhan “Regression-based Models for Prediction of Oxides of Nitrogen in Diesel Exhaust with Electric Discharge-based Treatment”, International Journal of Environmental Science and Technology, vol. 17, pp. 2731-2742, 2020.
  10. Srikanth Allamsetty and Sankarsan Mohapatro, “Feasibility of Artificial Neural Networks and Fuzzy Logic Models for Prediction of NOx Concentrations in Non-Thermal Plasma Treated Diesel Exhaust”, IEEE Tran. on Plasma Science, vol. 47, No. 5, pp. 2637-2644, May 2019.
  11. Srikanth Allamsetty and Sankarsan Mohapatro, “Prediction of NO and NO2 Concentrations in Ozone Injected Diesel Exhaust after NTP Treatment Using Dimensional Analysis”, Energy Procedia, vol. 158, 2019, pp. 4579-4585, Feb, 2019.
  12. Srikanth Allamsetty and Sankarsan Mohapatro, “Prediction of NO and NO2 Concentrations in NTP Treated Diesel Exhaust Using Multilayer Perceptrons”, Energy Procedia, vol. 158, pp. 4566-4571, Feb, 2019.
  13. Srikanth Allamsetty, and Sankarsan Mohapatro, “Response Surface Methodology Based Model for Prediction of NO and NO2 Concentrations in Non-Thermal Plasma Treated Diesel Exhaust”, SN Applied Science (Springer), Vol. 1, Issue. 2, Article 189, 2019.
  14. Srikanth Allamsetty, and Sankarsan Mohapatro, “Prediction of NOx Concentration in Nonthermal Plasma Treated Diesel Exhaust Using Dimensional Analysis”, IEEE Tran. Plasma Science, Vol. 46, Issue. 6, pp. 2034-2041, June, 2018.
  15. Sankarsan Mohapatro, Nikhil Kumar Sharma, and Apeksha Madhukar, “Abatement of NOx using Compact High Voltage Power Supply: Towards Retrofitting to Automobile Vehicle”, IEEE Tran. on Dielectric and Electrical Insulation, vol. 24, Issue 5, pp. 2738-2745, 2017.
  16. Sankarsan Mohapatro, and Srikanth Allamsetty, “NOx Abatement from Filtered Diesel Engine Exhaust Using Battery Powered High-Voltage Pulse Power Supply”, IET High Voltage, Vol. 2, Issue. 2, pp. 69-77, 2017.
  17. Sankarsan Mohapatro, Srikanth Allamsetty, Apeksha Madhukar, and Nikhil Kumar Sharma”Study of Nano Second Pulse Discharge Based Nitrogen Oxides Treatment Using Different Electrode Configurations”, IET High Voltage, Vol. 2, Issue. 2, pp. 60-68, 2017.
  18. Sankarsan Mohapatro and A. Bhattacharya, NOx Removal from Diesel Engine Exhaust using Low Voltage DC Powered High Voltage Power Supply” International Journal of Plasma Environmental Science & Technology, vol. 11, no. 1, pp. 18-25, 2017.
  19. Sankarsan Mohapatro and B S Rajanikanth, Studies on NOx removal from diesel engine exhaust using duct type DBD reactor, IEEE Trans. Industry Applications, Vol. 51, Issue 3, pp. 2489-2496, 2015.
  20. Sankarsan Mohapatro and B S Rajanikanth, Online NOX Removal from Stationary Diesel Engine Exhaust by Barrier Discharge Plasma,” International Journal of Plasma Environmental Science & Technology, vol. 6, no. 2, pp. 177-182, 2012.
  21. Sankarsan Mohapatro and B S Rajanikanth, Dielectric Barrier Discharge Cascaded with Red Mud Waste to Enhance NOx Removal from Diesel Engine Exhaust, IEEE Trans. Dielectrics and Electrical Insulation, vol. 19, Issue 2, pp. 641-647, 2012.
  22. Sankarsan Mohapatro and B S Rajanikanth, Portable HV AC and Pulsed Plasma Sources for Abatement of NOx in Filtered Diesel Engine Exhaust, IEEE Trans. Dielectrics and Electrical Insulation, vol. 18, Issue 6, pp. 1821-1828, 2011.
  23. Sankarsan Mohapatro and B S Rajanikanth, Pulsed Plasma Studies in a Crossed Flow Dielectric Barrier Discharge Reactor for Improvement of NOx Removal in Raw Diesel Engine Exhaust, Plasma Science and Technology, vol. 13, No. 1, pp. 82-87, 2011.
  24. Sankarsan Mohapatro and B S Rajanikanth, Cascaded Cross Flow DBD-Adsorbent Technique for NOX Abatement in Diesel Engine Exhaust, IEEE Trans. Dielectrics and Electrical Insulation, vol. 17, Issue 5, pp. 1543-1550, 2010.
  25. B S Rajanikanth, Sankarsan Mohapatro and L Umanand, Solar Powered High Voltage Energization for Vehicular Exhaust Cleaning: A Step towards Possible Retrofitting in Vehicles, Fuel Processing Technology, vol. 90, pp. 343-352, 2009.
  1. Sarbesh Bhatacharje and Sankarsan Mohapatro, “Experimental Comparison of High Voltage Pulse and AC Excited DBD Reactor Configurations for Diesel Exhaust Treatment”, 5th IEEE GCAT, Bangalore, 4-6th October 2024. (Presented)
  2. Sarbesh Bhattacherjee, and Sankarsan Mohapatro, “Enhancement of NOx Removal Efficiency from Real Diesel Engine Exhaust using Cascaded Voltage-Efficient DBD Reactor and Adsorbent Reactor”, International Conference on Pollution Control for Clean Environment, IIT Bhubaneswar 15-16, December 2023.
  3. Tanikonda Nishanth Kumar, Sankarsan Mohapatro, and Rajesh Roshan Dash, “Congo red dye removal from aqueous solution using non-thermal plasma”, International Conference on Pollution Control for Clean Environment, IIT Bhubaneswar 15-16, December 2023.
  4. K. Sai Venkat, M.V. Satya Sai Chandra and Sankarsan Mohapatro, “Pulse Charging Scheme for Multiple Battery Charging in Electric Vehicle Applications”, 3rd IEEE International Conference on Smart Technologies for Power, Energy and Control (STPEC 2023), Bhubaneshwar, 10 – 13 December, 2023. (Accepted)
  5. Himanshu Pathak, Malyala Venkata Satya Sai Chandra, and Sankarsan Mohapatro” Cost-Driven Energy Management Framework for Standalone Low Voltage DC Microgrid”, IEEE IAS Global Conference on Renewable Energy and Hydrogen Technologies, Male City, Maldives, 11-12 March 2023.
  6. Malyala Venkata Satya Sai Chandra, and Sankarsan Mohapatro” Hybrid Sensor Fault Tolerant Control of Low Voltage DC Microgrid”, 2022 IEEE Global Conference on Computing, Power and Communication Technologies (GlobConPT), New Delhi, 23-25 Sept. 2022.
  7. Alan Sankar B, M V Satya Sai Chandra and Sankarsan Mohapatro, “Fast Terminal Sliding Mode Control for Low Voltage DC Microgird to Mitigate the Effect of Pulse Power Load”, IEEE TENSYMP 2022, July 1-3.
  8. Malyala Venkata Satya Sai Chandra, Badatya Deepak Balkrushna, Lankipalli Vinod Kumar and Sankarsan Mohapatro, “Voltage Control and Energy Management of Solar PV fed Stand-alone Low Voltage DC Microgrid for Rural Electrification”, 21st National Power System Conference (NPSC-2020), IIT Gandhinagar, Gujrat, 17-19 Dec, pp. 1-6, 2020. doi: 10.1109/NPSC49263.2020.9331911
  9. Chakilam Bharath and Sankarsan Mohapatro, “Modified Direct Torque Control Scheme for Induction Machine using Space Vector Modulation”, Proceedings of Symposium on Power Electronic and Renewable Energy Systems Control (PERESC 2020), Bhubaneswar, 4-5 December, India, vol. 616, pp. 135-144, 2021.
  10. Nitesh Kumar, Satya Sai Chandra M V and Sankarsan Mohapatro, “f-Score Feature Selection Based Support Vector Regression for Solar Power Forecasting”, Proceedings of Symposium on Power Electronic and Renewable Energy Systems Control (PERESC 2020), Bhubaneswar, 4-5 December, India, vol. 616, pp. 249-259, 2021.
  11. N C Sahoo and S Mohapatro, “Feasibility of Solar-PV Powered DC System for Residential Electrification ” A Comparative Study”, Proceedings of Symposium on Power Electronic and Renewable Energy Systems Control (PERESC 2020), Bhubaneswar, 4-5 December, India, vol. 616, pp. 171-183, 2021.
  12. Geeth Nischal Gottimukkala, M V Satya Sai Chandra and Sankarsan Mohapatro, “Estimation of Fault Location Using PPU for Bolted and Non-bolted Faults in an LVDC Microgrid”, 15th IEEE International Conference on Industrial and Information Systems (ICIIS), IIT Ropar, 26-28 November, 2020.
  13. Srikanth Allamsetty and Sankarsan Mohapatro, “Prediction of NO and NO2 Concentrations in NTP Treated Diesel Exhaust Using Multilayer Perceptrons”, 10th International Conference on Applied Energy (ICAE2018), Hong Kong, China, Aug 22-25, 2018.
  14. Srikanth Allamsetty and Sankarsan Mohapatro, “Prediction of NO and NO2 Concentrations in Ozone Injected Diesel Exhaust after NTP Treatment Using Dimensional Analysis”, 10th International Conference on Applied Energy (ICAE2018), Hong Kong, China, Aug 22-25, 2018.
  15. Sankarsan Mohapatro and Srikanth Allamsetty, “Effect of duty cycle and pulse frequency on nitric oxide removal efficiency for a DBD based exhaust treatment”, ISNTP-11 International Symposium on Non-Thermal/Thermal Plasma Pollution Control Technology & Sustainable Energy, Italy, July 1-5, 2018.
  16. Srikanth Allamsetty, Sankarsan Mohapatro, “Prediction of NOx concentrations in diesel exhaust with NTP treatment using different types of FLANNs”, ISNTP-11 International Symposium on Non-Thermal/Thermal Plasma Pollution Control Technology & Sustainable Energy, Italy, July 1-5, 2018.
  17. Sankarsan Mohapatro, Srikanth Allamsetty, Manish Kumar Pradhan “Enhancement of NOx removal efficiency of non thermal plasma based diesel exhaust treatment with cost effective ozone injection”, ISNTP-11 International Symposium on Non-Thermal/Thermal Plasma Pollution Control Technology & Sustainable Energy, Italy, July 1-5, 2018.
  18. Srikanth Allamsetty, and Sankarsan Mohapatro, “Prediction of NO to NO2 Conversion Efficiency with NTP Based Diesel Exhaust Treatment Using Radial Basis Functions” Proceedings of 7th International Conference on Soft Computing for Problem Solving – SocProS 2017, Vol. 817, pp. 299-310, 2017. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-1595-4_24
  19. Sankarsan Mohapatro, Srikanth Allamsetty, Apeksha Madhukar and Nikhil Kumar Sharma ” Study on the Effect of Electrode Configurations on NOx Removal from Diesel Engine Exhaust”, 18th Asian Conference on Electrical Discharge (ACED 2016), IIT Madras, India, Dec 8-10, 2016.
  20. N. C. Sahoo, S. Mohapatro, Ajit Kumar Sahoo and Bindu Sagar Mohapatro, “Loss and Cost Evaluation of Typical DC Distribution for Residential House” 6th International Conference on Power an Energy, PECON 2016, Malaysia, 28-29 November 2016.
  21. N. C. Sahoo, S. Mohapatro and M. Senapati, “A SoC Based Voltage Control Strategy for DC Microgrid”, Electrical Power and Energy Conference, London, Ontario, Canada, Oct. 26-28, 2015.
  22. Sankarsan Mohapatro and A. Bhattacharya, “NOx Removal from Diesel Engine Exhaust using Low Voltage DC Powered High Voltage Power Supply,” 3rd ISNPEDADM, Saint Gilles Les Bains, R-union island (Indian Ocean), Oct. 26-29, 2015.
  23. Sankarsan Mohapatro and B S Rajanikanth, “Studies on NOx removal from diesel engine exhaust using duct type DBD reactor,” IEEE IAS Annu. Meet., Florida, USA, Oct-6-11, 2013.
  24. Sankarsan Mohapatro and B. S. Rajanikanth, “Online NOX Removal from Stationary Diesel Engine Exhaust by Barrier Discharge Plasma,” Proceedings of the 2012 Electrostatics Joint Conference, Ontario, Canada, June 12-14, 2012
  25. Sankarsan Mohapatro, and B S Rajanikanth, “A core study on NOX removal in diesel exhaust by pulsed/ac/dc electric discharge plasma,” 4th International Conference on Power and Energy Systems (ICPS), Chennai, India, pp. 1-6, Dec 22-24, 2011.
  26. S Mohapatro, B S Rajanikanth, R B Rajkumar, C Ramadas and Ansuman Mishra, “Treatment of NOx from Diesel Engine Exhaust by Dielectric Barrier Discharge Method” Proc. of Int. Conf. on Advances in Electrical & Electronics, Trivendrum, Kerala, INDIA, pp. 110-113, 2010.
  27. Sayantani Das, P V S Manaswini, Pooja Kumari, S Mohapatro and B S Rajanikanth, “Application of Solar Powered High Voltage Discharge Plasma for NOX Removal in Diesel Engine Exhaust,” Proc. of Int. Conf. on Advances in Electrical & Electronics, Trivandrum, Kerala, INDIA, pp. 106-109, 2010.
  28. Sankarsan Mohapatro and B S Rajanikanth, “Studies on Compact Discharge Plasma Source for NOX Treatment in Engine Exhaust,” IEEE IA Annu.meet., Houston, USA, Oct-2010.
  29. A D Srinivasan, B S Rajanikanth and Sankarsan Mohapatro, “Corona treatment for NOx reduction from stationary diesel engine exhaust: Impact of nature of energization and exhaust composition,” Electrostatics joint conference, Boston, June 2009.
  30. B. S Rajanikanth and Sankarsan Mohapatro, “Progress in the control of NOx from diesel driven vehicular exhausts using electric discharge technique: A laboratory perspective,” Symposium on Environmental Engineering, JSME, Tokyo, 2008, pp301-304.
  1. Smruti Ranjan Mohapatra and Sankarsan Mohapatro, “Non-Isolated Bidirectional Multiport Converter for LVDC Microgrid”, 10th IEEE National Power Electronics Conference (NPEC)-2021, 15-17 December.
  1. Sankarsan Mohapatro, and Jonathan Kimball, “Proceedings of Symposium on Power Electronic and Renewable Energy Systems Control”, Springer, 2020.
  2. Rajesh Roshan Dash, Sankarsan Mohapatro and Manaswini Behera, “Pollution Control for Clean Environment – Volume 1”, Springer, 2024.
  3. Rajesh Roshan Dash, Sankarsan Mohapatro and Manaswini Behera, “Pollution Control for Clean Environment – Volume 2”, Springer, 2024.
Degree Discipline Year School
  Ph. D. Electrical Engineering (High Voltage Lab) 2011 IISc, Bangalore
  MSc (Engg.) Electrical Engineering (High Voltage Lab) 2008 IISc, Bangalore
  BTech Electrical & Elecctronics Engg. 2005 NIST, Berhampur (BPUT, Odisha)
  Diploma Electrical Engg. 2001 Nilachala Polytechnic (SCTEVT, Odisha)

 

 

1) Associate Professor (IIT, Bhubaneswar), Feb, 2020 – till date

2) Assistant Professor (IIT, Bhubaneswar), Feb, 2014 – Feb, 2020

3) Assistant Professor On Contract (IIT, Bhubaneswar), July, 2012 – Feb, 2014

4) Research Associate (IISc, Bangalore), Dec, 2011 – June,2012

5) Junior Research Associate (IISc, Bangalore), July, 2011 – Dec, 2011.

6) Member Technical Staff (D&E), (SMCEL, Gurgaon), July, 2008 – Dec, 2008

  • Senior Member IEEE, USA, 2020
  • Commendable Teaching Proficiency Award, IIT Bhubaneswar, 2020
  • Odisha Young Scientists Award in the category of Engineering & Technology for the year 2018.
  • National Award for Best Master Thesis by ISTE, India, 2008.
Portfolio

  1. Faculty Advisor (BTech 2013-17 Batch)

  2. Assistant Warden (2014-16)

  3. Chairman (2015), Co-Chairman (2016), Alma Fiesta (Socio Cultural Fest)

  4. PIC, Time Table (2014-2017)

  5. Faculty Advisor (Sports & Games) (2014-16)

  6. UG Coordinator (School of Electrical Sciences) (2016-17)

  7. Coordinator (2018), Member (2019), Member (2020), Open Day & Grand Science and Technology Exhibition

  8. President, Students’ Gymkhana (Feb 2017 to Nov 2021)

  9. Member, WGRC (2017 to Nov 2021)

  10. Member, Alumni Cell (2017-2021)

  11. UG Coordinator (BTech EE, School of Electrical Sciences) (2018-2019)

  12. PG Coordinator (MTech (PSE) School of Electrical Sciences) (2019-2022)

  13. Convenor, 54th Inter IIT Sports Meet, 2019

  14. Convenor, Symposium on Power Electronic and Renewable Energy System Control-2020 (PERESC-2020)

  15. PG Coordinator (MTech (PED) School of Electrical Sciences) (2022-2022)

  16. PhD Coordinator (EE, School of Electrical Sciences) (2022-till date)

  17. Convenor, Committee for Implementation of NEP 2020 and revision of curriculum at IIT Bhubaneswar

  18. PIC, Timetable (2022-till date)

  19. Member, Committee for Guideline/Policy for PhD admission

  20. Member, Space allocation Committee, Curriculum Committee for SES

  21. Associate Head, SES (EE) (Apr 2022-till date)

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