POWER SYSTEM CONSULTANTS

POWER SYSTEM CONSULTANT

NAME : DR. KRISHNAMURTI RAJAMANI

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DATE OF BIRTH : 1 November, 1946

QUALIFICATION : B.E (Elec.), Madras University – 1968

M.Sc (Eng.), Madras University – 1970
Ph.D. (Elec.), Indian Institute of Technology – 1975

WORKSHOPS : ‘Distributed Data Networks and protocol features’ Tata

Consultancy Services, Bombay, Jan 1980
‘Workshop on Power System Operation’, New Delhi,
April 1986

Computer Techniques for Analysis and Control of Power

Systems’, University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA, Jan 1990

EXPERIENCE : POWER SYSTEM CONSULTANTS, MUMBAI

1998 – TO DATE :
• System studies for Kuwait National Petroleum Company,
Kuwait for frequency conversion systems.

• System studies for KOC, Kuwait for network expansion

studies

• System studies, relay co-ordination, islanding & load

shedding, grounding and earthing review for Rourkela
Steel Plant.

• Relay setting & co-ordination exercise for: Reliance

Petrochemicals Ltd, Hazira, Tata Chemicals, Babrala,
Grasim Cement, Raipur

• System studies and relay coordination including PLC

based Islanding and Load Shedding, for Birla Copper,
Malco, ACC, Grasim.

• Power evacuation studies for 500 MW power plant at

Jamnagar for Reliance Petrochemicals Ltd
• Field measurement and loss evaluation studies for TELCO
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• Harmonics measurement & filter design for industries

• POWER ENGINEERING COURSES :

• Conducting training courses on: Parallel operation,

Islanding, Power system protection, Relay coordination,
Grounding, System studies, Operation & Maintenance
practices of transformer, switchgear and motor, Testing &
commissioning of electrical equipment.

1997-1998 : GENERAL ELECTRIC, POWER SYSTEM ENERGY

CONSULTING, SCHENECTADY, USA

• Feasibility of integrating new (30 to 500 MW) power

stations in Northeast Power Pool and South Western US
grids.

• System Studies for 450 MW Gas Turbine units for Steel

Plant, Posco, South Korea.

• Dynamic stability performance for Gas Turbine units at

Copesul, Brazil.

• Load Flow and Contingency Analysis for Power Station

sitting.

• Development of user defined software for GE’s software-

PSLF (Positive Sequence Load Flow)

1976 – 1996 : TATA CONSULTING ENGINEERS, MUMBAI

• Design and engineering of Load Despatch Centres at
Bokaro, Rourkela and Calcutta for Steel Authority of
India. These include in-plant and inter-plant
communications, development of advanced software like
State Estimation, Operator Guidance, Load
Management and Islanding.

• Design and engineering of Energy Management System

(EMS) and Security Management System (SMS) for Load
Despatch Centre at Trombay, Tata Electric Companies,
Mumbai...

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• Review of Electricity Demand Forecasting and investment
Planning in India, for World Bank

• Study on Demand Forecasting and Transmission

Planning for Orissa, Prepared for AEST (USA) and WB.

• Studies for wheeling of power from Hazira to Naroda and

Silvassa in Gujarat Electricity Board for Reliance
Industries.

• System studies for the following Utilities (Load Flow/ Short

Circuit / stability / Reactive Compensation / Under-
frequency Load shedding/ Switching Surge) :

• Northern Regional Electricity Board (NREB)

• Western Regional Electricity Board (WREB)

• Maharashtra State Electricity Board (MSEB)

• Gujarat State Electricity Board (GEB)

• Tamil Nadu Electricity Board (TNEB)

• Andhra Pradesh State Electricity Board (APSEB)

• Tata Electric Companies (TEC)

• Ahmedabad Electricity Company (AECo)

• Feasibility reports on incorporation of FACTs device on

TEC-MSEB tie for real and reactive power control.

• Design and engineering of 2 * 60 MW Captive Power Plant

for Rourkela Steel Plant including EHV switchyards.

• Design and engineering of Normal and Emergency

Auxiliary system and equipment for 500 MW power plant
of Nuclear Power Corporation .

• Study of synchronous and asynchronous starting of

150 MW pumped storage hydro set for Tata Electric
Companies

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• Design and engineering of 50 MVAR Static VAR System
for Rolling Mills in Rourkela Steel Plant.

• Study of abnormal loads like arc furnaces and rolling mills

and measures to mitigate these effects for Bhutan Ferro
Alloys and Rathi Alloys.

• Design of Harmonic Filters for DCM, Bharuch.

• Fast transfer studies for power station auxiliaries for

various power plants.

• Protective Relay co-ordination, df/dt and islanding

schemes for Nepa Nagar Paper Mills, KRIBCHO, RIL,
BPCL, IPCL, RCF, etc.

• Preparation of Design Guide for Diesel Generating Set.

• Development of software like Transtab, State Estimation,

Operator Guidance, etc.

1975 : INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, MUMBAI

Teaching experience at graduate and postgraduate level

PUBLICATIONS

• “Sensitivity comparison of differential, REF and Over

current protections’, K Rajamani, IEEMA Journal,
October 2002, pp 28 – 33.

• ‘Directional over current relay operation and tariff metering

under bi-directional power flow conditions’, K Rajamani,
IEEMA Journal, Aug 2002, pp 28 –36

• ‘Grounding transformer specification without ambiguity’,

K Rajamani and H C Mehta, IEEMA Journal, Aug 2001,
pp 52 – 54

• ‘Effect of tap changing on reactive flow’, K Rajamani and

H C Mehta, IEEMA Journal, June 2001, pp 40 – 44

• ‘System design for Custom Power solutions’, IEE

workshop on Custom Power, Mumbai, January 2001

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• ‘‘Reactive compensation at transmission level’,
K Rajamani, IEEMA Journal, October 1999, pp 26 – 30

• ‘Islanding and load shedding schemes for captive power

plants’, K Rajamani and U K Hambarde, IEEE (Power
Delivery), Vol.14, July 1999, pp 805 – 809

• Towards a better understanding of voltage stability’

P Nag, K Rajamani and M V Hariharan, International
Conference on Grid Stability and Load Management,
India, Jan 1996.

• ‘Synchronous staring of synchronous machine’,

K Rajamani and M V Hariharan, Electrical Machines and
Power Systems, Vol.21, Nov/Dec 1993, pp 647-661.

• ‘Induction motor performance during fast transfer’

K Rajamani and M V Hariharan, Proceedings of the VI
National Power System Conference, Bombay, June 1990,
pp 447-452.

• ‘Synchronous generators for furnace applications’

S K Chakraborty, K Rajamani and S G Menon, First
International Conference on Industrial Power Engineering,
IEE, London, Dec1986, pp 87-91.

• ‘Disaster control measures and restoration techniques, as

adopted in Tata Electric System’, A M Sahani,
R Narasimhan, C P Kulkarni, S K Vanvaria and
K Rajamani, Workshop on Power System Operation,
NTPC, New Delhi, April 1986.
• ‘Major system design aspects for acceptable quality and
reliability of supply’, K Rajamani and V N Manohar, IEE
Conf, Delhi, 1984

• ‘Cyclic sequential state estimator – a new approach to

power system state estimation’ S K Banerjee and
K Rajamani, IFAC Symposium Proceedings, Melbourne,
Australia, Feb 1977, pp 441-448.