Dr. Nidul Sinha

Professor

Electrical Engg

Research Interests: Soft Computing techniques and applications, SCADA, Power System optimization, Deregulation, power system control, Wind energy and induction generators, wavelet transforms/networks.

Email-ID: nidulsinha@nits.ac.in

Phone no: +919954083589

Publications

Papers published International journals:
1. Nidul Sinha, R. Chakrabarti and P. K. Chattopadhyay: “Evolutionary programming techniques for economic load dispatch”, IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, Vol.7, No.1, February 2003, pages 83-94.
2. Nidul Sinha, R. Chakrabarti and P. K. Chattopadhyay: “Fast evolutionary programming techniques for short-term hydrothermal scheduling ”, IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, Vol.18, No.1, February 2003, pages 214-220.
3. Nidul Sinha, R. Chakrabarti and P. K. Chattopadhyay: “Fast evolutionary programming techniques for short-term hydrothermal scheduling”, Electric Power System Research, Vol. 66, Issue 2, August 2003, pages 97-103.

.Papers communicated for publication International journals:
(i) “GA Tuned Improved Differential Evolution for Economic Load Dispatch with Non-convex Cost Function”, IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation. Nidul Sinha, Loi Lei Lai
(ii) “GA Tuned Differential Evolution for Economic Load Dispatch with Non-convex Cost Function” IEEE Transactions on Power Systems. Nidul Sinha, Loi Lei Lai
Hybrid PSO/Self-adaptive Evolutionary Programming for economic load dispatch with non-smooth cost curves” International journal of Electrical Power and Energy Systems. Nidul Sinha, Bipul Syam Purkayastha, and Biswajit Purkayastha.
(iv) “NSGA-II for Optimal Combined Economic and Emission Load Dispatch with non-convex curves” Electric Power Systems Research. Nidul Sinha, Bipul Syam Purkayastha, and Biswajit Purkayastha
(v) “NSDE for Optimal Combined Economic and Emission Load Dispatch with non-convex curves” IEEE Transactions on Power Systems. Nidul Sinha, Bipul Syam Purkayastha, and Biswajit Purkayastha
Papers published/accepted in International Conferences:
i) “Design of a microprocessor based novel braking of three phase induction motor”, IEEE International Conference on Energy Management and Power Delivery (EMPD), Singapore, 21-23 Nov.,1995. Nidul Sinha, S.H. Laskar, K. Goyal, and P.K. Nair.
(ii) “Automatic generation control of an interconnected power system under deregulated environment”, IEEE International Conference on Power Quality’98, Hyderabad, 19-20 June, 1998. Nidul Sinha, M.L. Kothari and Mohd. Rafi.
(iii) “Improved Fast Evolutionary Algorithm for Security Constrained Nonconvex Economic Load Dispatch” International Power Engineering Conference-IPEC2003, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. R. Chakrabati, S. Choudhury, P. K. Chattopadhyay, Nidul Sinha and G. Ravi.
(iv) “PSO embedded evolutionary programming technique for non-convex economic load dispatch”, Accepted for presentation in IEEE PES Power System Conference & Exposition 2004, 10-13 Oct. 2004, in New York, USA. Nidul Sinha, B. Purkayastha.
(v) “Particle swarm optimization technique for non-convex economic load dispatch”, IEE International conf., PEITSICON2005 during 28-29 Jan 2005. at Science City, Kolkata. Nidul Sinha.
(vi) “Meta-heuristic search algorithms for short-term hydrothermal scheduling”, International Conference of Machine Learning and Cybernetics (ICMLC), Dalian, China, 13-16 August, 2006. Nidul Sinha, Loi Lei Lai.
(vii) “Optimal Combined Economic and Emission Load Dispatch using NSGA-II” IEEE Symposium, IEEE Bangalore section, CPRI, Bangalore, Dec. 2006. Nidul Sinha, Bipul Syam Purkayastha, and Biswajit Purkayastha.
(viii) “Hybrid PSO/Self-adaptive improved EP for economic load dispatch with non-smooth cost curves” IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, Singapore, 25-28 Sept. 2007. Nidul Sinha, Bipul Syam Purkayastha, and Biswajit Purkayastha
(ix) “Hybrid wavelet-ANN based load forecasting under deregulated environment”. The 14th International Conference on “Intelligent System Applications to Power Systems (ISAP 2007)- Toward an Intelligent Grid with Distributed Resources” Kaohsiung, Taiwan, November 4-8, 2007. Nidul Sinha, Loi Lei Lai. Palas Ghosh.
(x) “GA Optimized PID controller for automatic generation control of two-area reheat thermal systems under deregulated power systems”. (Accepted) The Third International Conference on Electric Utility Deregulation and Restructuring and Power Technologies (DRPT 2008), 6-9 April 2008, Nanjing, China. Nidul Sinha, Loi Lei Lai., Venugopal Rao.
(xi) “GA Based Algorithm for Optimum Allocation of Reactive Power under Deregulated Environment”. (Accepted) The Third International Conference on Electric Utility Deregulation and Restructuring and Power Technologies (DRPT 2008), 6-9 April 2008, Nanjing, China. Nidul Sinha, Loi Lei Lai., Palash Ghosh
Papers published in National Journal
i) “Self-adaptive improved fast evolutionary program for economic load dispatch with non-smooth cost curves” IE(I) Journal-EL Vol.84 March, 2004, pp.178-182. Nidul Sinha, R. Chakrabarti and P. K. Chattopadhyay
(ii) “Improved fast evolutionary program for economic load dispatch with non-smooth cost curves” IE(I) Journal-EL Vol.85 Sept. 2004, pp.110-114. Nidul Sinha, R. Chakrabarti and P. K. Chattopadhyay
Papers published in National Conferences:
(i) “Analysis of automatic generation control of two-area reheat thermal system considering dual rate sampling”, 14th National Systems Conference, 26-28 Dec.,1990, Aligarh Muslim University. Nidul Sinha and M.L. Kothari.
(ii) “Analysis of automatic generation control of two equal-area reheat thermal system considering dual rate sampling”, 15th National Systems Conference, 13-15 March,1992, at University of Roorkee. Nidul Sinha, D.P. Kothari and M.L. Kothari.

Reviewer of the following International Journals:
1. IEEE Transactions on Power Systems
2. IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery
3. IEEE transactions on Evolutionary Computation
4. IEEE Power Engineering Society Letters
5. IEE Proceedings Part-C
6. Electric Power Systems Research (Elsevier Science Direct)
7. International journal of electrical power and energy (Elsevier Science Direct)
8. International journal of Reliable and Safety