DepartmentofElectricalandElectronicsEngineering BIRLAINSTITUTEOFTECHNOLOGY Mesra,Ranchi835215

AreaofResearch
DepartmentofElectrical&Electronics PowerSystem
I. II. III. IV. V. DistributionSystemDesign PowerSystemReliability DigitalRelaying PowerSystemDeregulation PowerSystemStability

ControlSystem
I. II. III. IdentificationofMIMOSystems NonlinearSystemmodeling&Control MultiObjectiveOptimizationforControllerdesign.

PowerElectronics
I. HybridElectricVehicle

DigitalSignalProcessing ImageProcessing

A. AvailableareasofresearchofcentreofBioMedicalInstrumentation
I. II. BioMedicalInstrumentation BiomedicalSignalAnalysisandPatternRecognition

DepartmentofElectricalandElectronicsEngineering BIRLAINSTITUTEOFTECHNOLOGY Mesra,Ranchi835215

SyllabusforPh.D.Admissiontest

1. PowerSystems
Different Power Plants, NonConventional Sources of Energy, Economics of Power generation. Line Parameters, Insulators, Underground cable, Mechanical design of transmission line, Corona,DistributionSystem,TransmissionSystem,VoltageControl Perunitrepresentation,Loadflowanalysis,Faultanalysis,PowerSystemStability. Circuit breakers, Relays, Protection of transmission line & feeder, Generator and TransformerProtection,MotorProtection.

2. ElectricalMachines&Drives
Electrostatic&MagnetostaticEnergy,ForcesandTorques. Basicconceptsandelementsofrotatingmachines. DC Motor, DC Generator, Winding, Transformers, Synchronous Generator, Synchronous Motor,3phaseInductionmotor,SinglephaseInductionMotor,Electricaldrives,Control of Electrical drives, Selection of motor and its power rating, Electrical traction, Heating & Welding,Illumination.

3. ControlSystems
Basic component of control system, Classification of control system, block diagram and Signal flow graph representation of control systems, Basic controller/ compensator types and its design, Time response of control systems, Stability; absolute, relative and conditionalstability. RootLocusconstruction,Frequencyresponseanalysisandspecifications,Bodeplot,Nyquist stabilitycriterion,Statespacemodeling.

DepartmentofElectricalandElectronicsEngineering BIRLAINSTITUTEOFTECHNOLOGY Mesra,Ranchi835215

4. ElectricalMeasurement&Instrumentation
AnalogInstruments,MeasurementofElectricalQuantity; Voltage,Current,Power,frequency,Powerfactor&energy. DC and AC Bridge, AC & DC Potentiometer. Measurement of Resistance, Inductance, Capacitance and mutual inductance. Iron loss measurement. Analog and digital Oscilloscope. Storage CRO. Digital Instruments and measurement, Transducers Resistive Inductive Capacitive,opticalandhalleffectandPiezoelectricmeasurementofnonelectricalquantity, DisplayDevicesandRecorders.Datatransmission&telemetry,ProcessMeasurement.

5. ElectricalNetworks&DSP
Network Theorems, Network Topology, Multiterminal Networks, Elements of Network Synthesis,Approximation,Bandpassfilterapproximation,ActiveNetworks&Filters. Signals & Systems, Analogous System, Fourier Transform Method, Laplace Transform Method. FrequencyDomainAnalysis, DigitalfilterStructures,FrequencyTransformations,DesignofIIRfilter,DesignofFIRfilters.

6.PowerElectronics
High power semiconductor switches , SCR; its operation & characteristics, single phase controlledhalfwave,fullwaverectifier,3phaseuncontrolledrectifier,3phasehalfwave, fullwaverectifier,Chopper,singlephaseinverter,ACvoltageregulator,cycloconverter,
ResonantConverter,ControlCircuitsforelectronicequipments,PulsewidthModulationTechniques, Invertercircuits.