RESUME

1 Name : Dr. Nilesh G. Chothani

Designation : Associate Professor

Phone No. : 09426421425

2 Age as on date : 35-year

3 Name of the Institution : A D Patel Institute of Technology

4 Department : Department of Electrical Engineering

5 Field of Specialization : Power system Protection/Power System

6 Academic Qualifications

Examination University / Board Year of Percentage Subjects /

Passed Passing Discipline
BE (Electrical) Saurashtra 2001 DIST Electrical
University
ME Sardar Patel 2004 FIRST Power System
University
PhD Sardar Patel 2013 - Electrical
University Engineering

7 Technical Qualifications

Proficiency (Computer skills and Software Packages)

• Tools : PSCAD, MATLAB, MIPOWER, EMTP,
• Operating System : MS-DOS, Windows
• Programming skills : Fortran 77, C, C++, JAVA, Assembly language
• Software known : Neural Network (NN), Fuzzy Logic, S-transform, Support Vector
Machine, Wavelet Transform (WT)

Experience with Scientific Equipments

• Standard relay testing kit: CFB and ZFB for testing of numerical relay
• Digital/Numerical relays setting and testing
• Modeling of Power System Network in PSCAD, Designing of algorithm in MATLAB
software.

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8 Academic/Research/Professional Experience

Name & Address of the Designation of Period of Service

Nature of Service
Employer the post held From____ To
Gujarat State Electricity July 2002- June Operation and
Junior Engg.
Board (TR Division) 2004 Maintenance
Field Marshal Pvt Ltd.
Maintenance July 2004- January Operation and
Rajkot
Engg. 2005 Maintenance
January 2005- Teaching
SPCE, Visnagar Adhoc
May 2005
A.D. Patel Institute of Assistant 20-07-2005 To Teaching,
Technology Professor 30-06-2015 Lab Development
A.D. Patel Institute of Associate 01-07-2015 To Teaching,
Technology Professor Till date Lab Development

• During July 2002- June 2004, I have been involved in the operation and maintenance of 220KV
substation of Gujarat State Electricity Board at savarkundla, Gujarat, India. I have been also
appointed as in charge of 4 numbers of 66/11 KV substation for operation and maintenance
purpose.

• 4 years of experience on research and development of the project in “Developments in Digital

Protection of Electrical Busbar”.

• Also involved in the project of “Relay-Relay and recloser coordination of Distributed

Generation”.

• After joining ADIT in 2005, I have been asked to develop the Power System and Digital
Protection Laboratory. Based on IEEE standards, a state of art laboratory was designed, which
could not only be used as a regular laboratory for the existing and future courses of the institute
but which could come up as a professional relay testing and high voltage testing facility.
The laboratory is designed to be used for illustrating the fundamentals of Power System &
Digital Protection. All the experiments in this laboratory are conceived, designed and
implemented through senior design projects. This helped in cutting down the cost tremendously
as the grant was used only in purchasing high quality professional grade equipment for the
laboratory, instead of buying expensive integrated systems from vendors. This also meant that a
complete freedom to design the laboratory, and this indeed led to a very innovative design,
similar to a panel in an actual substation. This gave the students, who subsequently performed the
experiments as a part of their coursework, a real-life feel of a power system
Using the above developed set up along with the standard ALSTOM make CFB test kit and
ZFB test kit many existing Digital relays were also tested. Following relay panels have been
developed in the said laboratory.
• Digital Protection of Busbar using MICOM P-122
• Feeder Protection using MICOM P-127
• Digital Protection of Transmission Line using MICOM P 430
• Digital Protection of Generator using MICOM P 341
• Digital Protection of Induction Motor using MICOM P220
• Digital Protection of Power Transformer using MICOM P-632

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09 Awards/ Prizes/ Certificates etc.

Professional recognition, awards, fellowship received

1. Got Best IEEE conference paper award for the paper titled “A New Dual Slope Differential
Relaying Scheme for the Protection of Various Busbar Arrangement” presented at IEEE
conference on ICCPCT, Kumarcoil, Tamilnadu, 20-21 march 2014.
2. Working as a Reviewer of
(i) International Journal of Electrical Power Components and Systems, Elsevier Science
(ii) IEEE Power and Energy Society, Transaction on Power Delivery
(ii) IET Power and Energy Society, IET Generation, Transmission & Distribution
3. Working as a (1) Life Member IE (INDIA) and (2) Life Member ISTE
4. Selected as an In-charge of HT centre of ADIT at Institute level since 2011.
5. In-charge of Power System lab and Simulation lab.
6. Developed many panels for digital relays in power system laboratory.
7. Remained as a co-investigator in the research project of “Digital Protection of Busbar”
funded by GUJCOST.
8. I have prepared about 15 practical of subjects: Electrical Power, Power system Protection,
Power System Simulation and Switchgear laboratory.
9. I have prepared laboratory manual for subjects: Element of Electrical Engineering, Power
System Protection and Power System Simulation.
10. A field oriented practical developed on “Digital Protection of Synchronized Generator” in
power system laboratory.
11. One of my international conference papers is selected as best IEEE paper and awarded
with work of excellence.
12. I have guided more than 40 projects at UG level.
13. I have organized a national level workshop on “Recent Trends in Power System Protection”
for Researchers and Engineers of Gujarat state in march-2014.
14. I have delivered various expert lectures at different engineering colleges of Gujarat state on
recent innovation and technology trends in Electrical Engineering.
15. I have attended more than 20 numbers of STTP and workshop.

• Invited Lectures

S Title of Lecture / Title of Conference / Organized by

r. Academic Session Seminar etc.

1 Various Protection aspect Application of PSCAD in Parul Institute of Engineering

of power system using
PSCAD
2 Application of Simulation
software in power system
protection
Electrical Engineering
Emerging Trends in
Power system and
Protection
and Technology, Vadodra,
Gujarat
Vadodra Institute of
Technology, Vadodra,
Gujarat

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 3 Application of PSCAD in
Power Electronics and
Power System
4 Protection of various
busbar Schemes
5 Recent Trends in
Transmission Line
Protection
6 Power system stability
7 Voltage Collapse and
Black Out
Recent technological
innovations in field of
electrical engineering
Recent Trends in Power
System Protection
Invited Lecture on expert
talk
Advance in power system
Keynote Speaker in
national conference
Vadodra Institute of
Technology, Vadodra,
Gujarat
A D Patel Institute of
Technology, Vidhyanagar,
Gujarat
Vadodra Institute of
Technology, Vadodra,
Gujarat
Parul Institute of Engineering
and Technology, Vadodra,
Gujarat
Vadodra Institute of
Technology, Vadodra,
Gujarat

• Trainings/Seminars

Sr. TITLE DURATION PLACE

st st
1 “Communication skill through technology” 1 Dec – 31 Dec CDC
2 Pollution: Anthropogenic Disaster” 2005 2006
4th March BBIT
th
3 “Impact of mathematics on live industrial 19 Aug 2006 GCET
4 problems”
“Getting mileage through industrial tours th
14 Sept 2006 ADIT
5 &visits”
“enhancing student satisfaction” 29th
Sept 2006 ADIT
th
6 “Energy conservation awareness” 26 Feb 2007 ADIT
th
7 “MATLAB ” 17 March 2007 ADIT
th
8 “Recent advance in power system” 4 April 2007 ADIT
th
9 “Innovative laboratory practices for Subject 8 August2007 ADIT
10 EE151” program for Mi-Power software”
“Training th
6-8 Sept 2007 ADIT
th
11 “ Enhancing teaching Skill” 10 Sept. 2007 ADIT
th
12 “Excellence in technical education thorough 20 Oct 2007 BVM
13 innovation”
“Power Quality Problems & their solution” th
7 July to 20 July th
NIT,
14 “Energy audit –Best practices & lesion 20082008
4th Oct Srinagar
ADIT
15 learning” electrical power system”
“Advance 26th Jan to 30th Jan SVNIT,
16 ISTE Regional Seminar on “XXI Century: 2009 2011
3rd August Surat
ADIT
Priorities in Technical and Higher Education” 25th June to 4th July MBICT,
17 ‘Introduction to Research Methodologies’
2012 VV nagar

10 No. of Projects completed as Co-Investigator.

Sr. Name of the funding Name of the Programme Year of Durati Amount Status:
No. agency Scheme Title Funding on Sanction Completed
ed / Ongoing
GUJCOST/ Digital
GUJCOST
1 MRP/201409/ Protection of 2012 3-year Completed
(Govt. of Gujarat)
2009-10 Busbar

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11 Publications:

Sr. Title of Name & Vol. of

Author(s) Page No.
No Paper/Report/Book Journal & Year
From To
International book publication
N. G.
Chothani, B. September 2011
PROTECTION AND
A R. Bhalja,
SWITCHGEAR (OXFORD university press)
R. P
Maheshwari
International Journal Paper(11)
N. G.
New fault zone identification Chothani, B.
IET Gener. Transm. Distrib.,
1 scheme for bus bar using support R. Bhalja 1073 1079
2011, Vol. 5, Iss. 10
vector machine and Urmil
Parikh
N. G.
Development of a new bus zone Chothani,
IET Gener. Transm. Distrib.,
2 identification algorithm using B.R. Bhalja 710 718
2012, Vol. 6, Iss. 7
support vector machine and U.B.
Parikh
A Novel Approach to Tackle N. G.
Miscoordination of Protective Chothani, B. Int. Jr. of Emerging Electrical
3 Device in Radial Distribution Bhalja, P. Power System, vol. 12, iss. 1 21
Network during DG Shah and 4,2011
Interconnections Ravi Patel
N. G.
Chothani,
A Review on Busbar Protection Journal of Institution of
Bhavesh
4 Philosophy: Past, Present and Engineers, India, vol. 91, 1 16
Bhalja and
Future September 2010
R. P.
Maheshwari
N.G.
A New Support Vector Machine
Chothani, IET Gener. Transm. Distrib.,
Based Digital Relaying Scheme
5 B.R. Bhalja Volume:8 , Issue: 1 , Jan. 17 25
for Discrimination between Power
and U.B. 2014
Swing and Fault
Parikh
A New Algorithm for CT
N.G.
Saturation Detection based on
Chothani IET Gener. Transm. Distrib.,
6 Derivatives of Secondary 841 850
and B.R. Vol. No.8,Issue-5 , May-2014
Currents and Newton’s Backward
Bhalja
Difference Formulas
International Journal of
N. G.
A New Algorithm for Busbar electrical power component
Chothani
7 Fault Zone Identification using and system, Tailor and
and B.R.
Relevance Vector Machine” Francis (accepted for
Bhalja
publication)
Development of a New Bus Zone
Identification Algorithm based on Int. Jr. of electrical power
N. G.
Phase Angle Comparison using component and system,
8 Chothani, 215 226
Sequence Components of Elsevier Science, Volume 42,
B.R. Bhalja
Currents Issue 2, January 2014

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 Int. Jr. of Advance Research
Development of Generator in Electrical, electronics and
Nilesh G
9 Protection using Multifunction Instrumentation 8569 8575
Chothani
Numerical Relay in Laboratory Engineering, vol. 3, Issue 4,
April 2014
Development and Testing of a Conditionally Accepted in
New MDFT based Algorithm for N. G. Int. Jr. of electrical power
10 - -
the Protection of Synchronous Chothani component and system,
Generator Elsevier Science
N.G.Chotha
International Journal of
Distance Relaying with Power ni, Ujjaval
Emerging Electric Power
11 Swing Detection based on Voltage Patel, - -
System (Accepted for
and Reactive Power Sensitivity Pragnesh
Publication)
Bhatt
National Journal(5)
N. G.
Journal of Engineering and
Effect of Two-phase Supply on Chothani,
Technology, Sardar Patel
12 Three-phase Distribution A. M. Shah 60 65
University, Vol. 22,
Transformer and D. U.
December 2009
Shah
N. G.
Electrical Busbar Protection Chothani
The magazine of Electrical
13 Philosophy: Past, Present and and 122 129
India, January 2010
Future Bhavesh
Bhalja
N. G.
Philosophy of Installation,
Chothani The magazine of Electrical
Maintenance and Protection of
14 and India, vol. 52, no 3, March 72 77
Power Capacitors in Distribution
Bhavesh 2012
System
Bhalja
Ujjaval J.
Phasor Estimation Using modified
Patel,
Discrete Fourier transform for VIER journal, Volume-1,
15 Pragnesh 82 86
Determination of Impedance Issue-2, August-2015
Bhatt, N. G.
Reach of Numerical Relay
Chothani
A novel approach for transformer Dharmesh
differential protection using Patel, Nilesh
CPRI-2015 journal (Under
16 sequence component based Chothani, - -
Revision)
algorithm Khyati
Mistry

International Conference paper(10)

IEEE International
N. G. Conference on Advances in
A Real Time DSP based
Chothani, B. Power Conversion and
17 Differential Protection of Low 1 5
R. Bhalja, Energy Technologies,
Voltage Busbar
U. J. Patel APCET, Vijayawada, August
2-4, 2012.
N. G.
IEEE International
Chothani
A new differential protection Conference on CCECE,
and B.R.
18 scheme for busbar considering Niagara Falls, Canada, 2011 7 11
Bhalja
CT saturation effect

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 N. G. International conference on
Chothani, Innovative Science and
Digital Differential Relaying
Bhavesh R. Engineering Technology
19 Scheme for the Protection of 338 342
Bhalja and (ICISET) at V.V.P.
Sectionalized Bus using PSCAD
Kuldeep Engg. College, Rajkot on 8-9
Ruparelia April 2011
N. G.
A new digital differential relaying Chothani, 4th International Conference
20 scheme for the protection of bus B.R. Bhalja on CERA-09, February 19- 1 4
bar and R. P. 21, 2010.IIT Roorkee.
Maheshwari
A New Algorithm for N. G.
accepted for publication in
Coordination of Relay and Auto- Chothani
21 INDICON,13-15 December, 1 6
Recloser in 220 kV Transmission and B.R.
2013, IIT Bombay.
System Bhalja
A New Dual Slope Differential N. G. IEEE conference on
Relaying Scheme for the Chothani ICCPCT, Kumarcoil,
22 102 107
Protection of Various Busbar and A. K. Tamilnadu, 20-21 march
Arrangement Desai 2014.
12-13, March 2015, IEEE
N. G.
A New Method for CT Saturation International Conference,
Chothani
23 Detection using Secondary RDCAPE-15, Amity 1 6
and Vimal
Current Envelope Detector University, Noida, UP.
Sharma
N. G. 12-13, March 2015, IEEE
A New Relaying Method to
Chothani International Conference,
24 Discriminate between Fault and 332 337
and Vimal RDCAPE-15, Amity
Power Swing condition
Sharma University, Noida, UP.
Common Differential Relaying
N. G. 5th IEEE NUICON-15
Scheme for The Protection of
Chothani, Conference 26-28 Nov-2015,
25 Various Transformer - -
Devyani Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India
Configuration
Chaudhri
Dharmesh IEEE 12th international
Sequence component of current Patel, Nilesh conference INDICON-15,
26 based differential protection of Chothani, Jamia Millia University,(17- - -
power transformer Khyati 20 December-2015) New
Mistry Delhi