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Prof. B L Narasimharaju

PhD (Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee (IITR E1847))

Professor

Department of Electrical Engineering

Room No: C-356/4 +91-870-2462247
blnraju@nitw.ac.in
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Research Areas

 Bidirectional Power Converters and Control

 Electric Drives Control (SRM, SynRM, BLDC, PMSM)

 EV Charging & Propulsion Systems.

 High Gain Solar PV inverters for EV/UPS/Grid Applications

 Multi-stage, Two-level and Multilevel Inverters for E-drives

 Power Drivers for Energy Efficient LED Lighting Systems

 Power Electronics & Drives

  • Courses Handled
  • Research IDs
  • Selected Publications
  • Project/Consultancy
  • Current PhD Students
  • Awards and Accolades
  • Additional Responsibilities
  • Basic Electrical Engineering Laboratory(EE233)
  • Dissertation Work Part - A(EE6149)
  • Basic Electrical Engineering(EE131)
  • Electrical Machines Lab - I(EE305)
  • Fundamentals of Electrical Engineering(EE232)
  • Basic Electrical Engineering Lab(EE1164)
  • Basic Electrical and Electronics Engineering(EE1162)
  • Dissertation Work Part - B(EE6199)
  • Design Thinking(EE1102)
  • Basic Electrical Engineering(EEI131)
  • Electrical Machines and Controls(EE281)
  • Electrical Network Analysis(EE151)
  • Analysis of Power Converters(EE5101)
  • Power Electronic Simulation Lab(EE5106)
  • ORC ID: http://www.orcid.org/0000-0002-3033-5712
  • SCOPUS ID: http://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.url?authorId=36976087500
  • Google Scholar ID: http://scholar.google.co.in/citations?user=s3DkP5sAAAAJ


  • A Wide Voltage Range Bidirectional High Voltage Transfer Ratio Quadratic Boost DC-DC converter for EVs with Hybrid Energy Sources, By M. F Baba, A. V Giridhar, B. L Narasimharaju, IEEE, IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Industrial Electronics, vol.5 (2), pp.521-530, 2024
  • Implementation of Dual Control MPPT-based DC-DC Converter fed Solar PV Power Application, By Vijaya Vardhan Reddy P, Narasimharaju B L, Suryavamshi H. M, IEEE, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, vol.70(9), pp.9016 -9024, 2022
  • A Non-Isolated Wide Input Series Resonant converter for automotive LED Lighting System, By V V K Satyakar, SPSelvi, Narasimharaju B.L, IEEE, IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, vol.36, 5, pp.14, 2021
  • A Cost Effective Zero Voltage Switching Dual Output LED Driver, By Ramanjaneya Reddy U, Narasimharaju.B.L, IEEE, IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, vol.32(10), pp.13, 2017
  • Single-phase Boost DC-link Integrated Cascaded Multilevel Inverter for PV Applications, By S. Madhu Babu, Narasimharaju B. L,, IET, IET Power Electronics, vol.13(10), pp.9, 2020
  • Design and Analysis of Voltage Clamped Bidirectional DC-DC Converter for Energy Storage Applications, By Narasimharaju.B.L, Ramanjaneya Reddy U, Raveendra Dogga, IET, Wiley, IET Journal of Engineering, vol.2018(7), pp.8, 2018
  • Single-Stage Electrolytic Capacitor less Non-Inverting Buck-Boost PFC Based AC-DC Ripple Free LED Driver, By Ramanjaneya Reddy U, Narasimharaju.B.L, , IET, Wiley, IET Power Electronics, vol.10(1), pp.9, 2017
  • Performance investigation of simplified PWMMPPT approach for direct PV-fed switchedreluctance motor in water pumping system, By Vijay Babu K, Narasimharaju.B.L, D. M. Vinod Kumar, IET, Wiley, IET Electric Power Applications, vol.11(9), pp.10, 2017
  • Design and Analysis of Coupled Inductor Bidirectional DC-DC Convertor for High Voltage Diversity Applications, By Narasimharaju.B.L, S. P. Dubey, S.P.Singh, IET, Wiley, IET Power Electronics, vol.5(7), pp.10, 2012
  • Switched Reluctance Machine for Off-Grid Rural Applications: A Review, By Vijay Babu K, Narasimharaju.B.L, D. M. Vinod Kumar, Taylors & Francis- IETE, IETE Technical Review , vol.33 (2), pp.13, 2015

Construction of permanent campus for Indian Institute of Petroleum and Energy (IIPE), Visakhapatnam

  • Role Principal Investigator
  • Type Consultancy
  • Sponsor KPC Projects Ltd, Hyderabad.
  • Duration 21 Months
  • Project Cost (INR) 826826
  • Status Ongoing

Development of low-cost, open-hardware enabled watershed monitoring system for India

  • Role Co-Principal Investigator
  • Type SPARC Project
  • Sponsor SPARC/2019/1814, SPARC-MoE-GoI
  • Duration 24 Months
  • Project Cost (INR) 9161770
  • Status Ongoing

Non-invasive Fault Diagnosis of Propulsion Motors used in Electric Vehicles (Course ID: 2412132) (17th – 21st Feb 2025)

  • Role Co-Coordinator
  • Type GIAN Course
  • Sponsor GIAN program :: Ministry of Education :: Government of India
  • Duration 0 Months
  • Project Cost (INR) 608000
  • Status Completed

Design and Development of New High Gain TransformerLess Inverter Topology for PV Based Grid Tie Applications

  • Role Principal Investigator
  • Type SPARC Project
  • Sponsor SPARC/2018-2019/P1392-SL, MoE-GoI
  • Duration 54 Months
  • Project Cost (INR) 6899172
  • Status Completed

Medium Voltage Multilevel Inverters for High Power Industrial Drives for Manufacturing and Solar Generation Applications

  • Role Coordinator
  • Type GIAN Course
  • Sponsor Global Initiative on Academic Network (GIAN), MoE-GoI-IITKgp
  • Duration 0 Months
  • Project Cost (INR) 608000
  • Status Completed

Design and Development of High Efficient Switched Reluctance Motor based Solar Photovoltaic (SPV) Water Pumping System (WPS)

  • Role Principal Investigator
  • Type Research
  • Sponsor IMPRINT-India Phase-IIC.1,MoE(MHRD)-GoI :: IMP/2019/000295
  • Duration 36 Months
  • Project Cost (INR) 7984520
  • Status Completed

Development of High PF Grid connected Induction Cooker with Direct AC-AC Conversion for Vessels of Different Material

  • Role Co-Principal Investigator
  • Type Research
  • Sponsor SERB-DST-GoI, CRG/2018/004568, Dt.9-5-2019
  • Duration 36 Months
  • Project Cost (INR) 3289264
  • Status Completed

Design and Development of High-Efficient PFC based AC-DC LED Driver for AC-Grid Fed LED Lighting system

  • Role Principal Investigator
  • Type Research
  • Sponsor SERB-DST-GoI, File No.: EMR/2017/004913.
  • Duration 39 Months
  • Project Cost (INR) 2753500
  • Status Completed

Design and Development of Efficient Induction Cooker suitable for Vessels of Different Materials.

  • Role Co-Principal Investigator
  • Type Research
  • Sponsor CPRI-GoI, Bangalore, MoP-GoI, RSOP/2019/GD/12.
  • Duration 10 Months
  • Project Cost (INR) 1428000
  • Status Completed


K Ashok Kumar

  • Area of Research: Grid Fed LED Power Drivers for Smart Lighting Systems

P Raviteja

  • Area of Research: High-Gain DC-DC converters for Grid Integration

V Krupakar

  • Area of Research: Power Conversion and control Techniques.
  • Best Paper award
  • CSIR Young Scientist 2010 Fellowship
  • Member :: SPGC (Continuing from July, 2024)
  • Professor In-charge : Institute Electrical Maintenance (Continuing from July, 2024)
  • Head, Department of Electrical Engineering (November, 2022 - June, 2024)
  • Coordinator, Moodle Training Courses, EE (May, 2020 - June, 2021)
  • Programme Coordinator (Section Head), M.Tech (Power Electronics & Drives), EE (January, 2020 - July, 2022)
  • Faculty Advisor, Electrical Engineering Association (EEA) (July, 2018 - June, 2019)
  • PhD Program Coordinator :: EE (July, 2016 - June, 2019)
  • Department Coordinator :: Training & Placement (July, 2014 - October, 2018)