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EXPERTLY ORCHESTRATED GENIUS
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Resume of KJE, Ph.D.
Consultant
PRINCIPAL INDUSTRIES SERVED
- Cable Manufacturing
- Electrical
- Environmental
- Occupational Safety
- Power Utilities
EDUCATIONThis expert has a Ph.D. and M.E. in High Voltage Engineering from Jadavpur University.
This expert has a B.E. in Electrical Power systems from R.E. College in Durgapur, Burdwan University EXPERTISE AND SERVICESHigh Voltage Maintenance and Safety Expert Consultant ResumeThis expert specializes in high voltage equipment testing, high voltage equipment maintenance and condition monitoring, electrical power equipment, and insulation diagnostics. Further expertise includes power transformer condition assessment, condition based maintenance, high voltage transformers, switchgear, and cable troubleshooting and maintenance.
Specialization includes high voltage transformers, switchgear and cable commissioning tests, transformers and cables failure analysis, and high voltage equipment training. Other specialties include partial discharge activities in transformers and GIS, acoustic emission technique, IEC and IEEE Standards, HV insulating materials diagnostic tests, and overhead transmission line insulators diagnostic tests.
Additional experience includes control room operation of pulverized fuel thermal power station, interpretation of DGA, Furan, and DP electrical testing data of large power transformers. Other experience entails interpretation of cable diagnostics data, risk based maintenance policy for transformers, switchgear and cables, reliability centered maintenance policy for fuel oil and lube oil systems in power stations, ISO and quality assurance procedures.
This associate is an expert in areas including remaining life of power transformers software development, switchgear and outdoor insulator maintenance, ANN software for function estimation and classification tasks, and on-line condition monitoring system for load tap changers. Further expertise includes high voltage safety, DGA & Furan report analysis, power plant operating manual development, and power plant simulators. Other specialties include power frequency wet and dry test, heat cycle test, partial discharge test, and water penetration test.
This expert has conducted numerous studies in areas including pollution and electrolytic surfaces, insulators, flashover voltage, and arc propagation over electrolytic surfaces. Other studies have entailed impulse stresses and polluted high voltage insulators, pollution flashover studies, artificial neural network for high voltage insulator contamination assessment, and salt contamination of high voltage insulators. Further studies include conical spacer electric stress control, soil thermal resistivity and underground power cables, partial discharges in power transformers, monitoring transformer insulating oil, and partial discharge in XLPE cables.
This expert has extensive knowledge regarding polymer insulated power cables, transformer frequency response, power transformer paper insulation age estimation, and winding deformity in distribution power transformers. Further knowledge and skill includes partial discharge signal measurement in simulated transformer tank, partial discharge and acoustic wave propagation, aged power transformer insulation condition monitoring, and mechanical movement in the winding of transformers. This expert also has experience with distribution cable diagnostic testing, electric stress in medium voltage cable joints, air gap and air voids effects on electrical field distribution in tape resin cable joint, and PILC cable assessment.
Additional areas of related expertise include advanced power system protection, artificial intelligence, electrical machines, and electrical circuit theory. Other specific emphasis includes engineering diagnostics tools, high voltage engineering, logic system and process control, and power system protection. This expert also specializes in power systems, power electronics, process control and instrumentation, power system steady state analysis, and condition monitoring of electrical plants.
This expert is highly experienced in areas including condition monitoring of aged power transformers, condition monitoring of underground power cables, high voltage insulation diagnostics, and pollution flashover studies of outdoor insulators. Other relevant experience includes reliability centered maintenance, concepts & application, risk based maintenance strategy, and concepts. This expert's other related specialties entail high voltage safety, sheath voltage and sheath current, power system protection laboratory design, development and commissioning, condition monitoring & diagnostics laboratory design and development.
This associate offers expertise specific to condition monitoring of power transformers, on-line condition monitoring of electrical plants, electrical transmission systems, and safe operational practices for distribution engineers. Other specific expertise includes manpower planning, artificial neural network software, statistical pattern recognition software, and frequency and time-frequency spectral analysis software. This expert also offers skills in multiple linear regression analysis software, leakage current detection system for on-line pollution severity studies of insulators, and motor current signature acquisition system for on-line condition monitoring of OLTC.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCEConsultant, Kevin Kennedy Associates Inc. Providing electrical engineering consulting, high voltage engineering consulting, electrical power engineering consulting, high voltage maintenance and safety training consulting, testing engineering, failure analysis, forensic engineering, and related expertise to a wide variety of clients. Director of Training and Consultancy Responsibilities included:
Training need assessment and designing training courses,
Conducted training on high voltage equipment,
Providing consulting services to various clients on condition assessment of high voltage equipment,
Provided consulting services to various clients on condition based maintenance & risk based maintenance policies. Consulting client list includes: Canadian Navy CFB Esquimalt (Victoria, BC), INCO Limited Thompson (Manitoba), Physical Plant Department of University of Manitoba, Tenaga Nasional Berhad (Malaysia), TNB Research Sdn. Bhd. (Malaysia), BP Chemicals (Malaysia), Protek Engineers (Malaysia), TAMCO (Malaysia), VI Power Sdn. Bhd. (Malaysia), Cekal Harapan Sdn. Bhd. (Malaysia), Kalabumi Networks Sdn. Bhd. (Malaysia), Jojobera Power Company Limited (India) Manager/Electrical Services, Canada Training Group, Sasketchewan, Canada Responsibilities included:
Conducted training on high voltage safety,
Conducted training on high voltage maintenance,
Training need assessment & designing training courses,
Developed questionnaires at Neta Level III standard,
Provided consulting services to various clients on condition based maintenance & reliability centered maintenance policies. Senior Lecturer/Electrical Power Engineering, Universiti Tenaga Nasional, Malaysia Responsibilities included:
Taught Courses at the undergraduate and postgraduate level,
Supervised 15 Master and 3 Ph.D. thesis in the research areas of insulation condition Assessment of Transformer, Switchgear, Cable and Insulators,
Conducted short courses in the areas of condition monitoring, maintenance and testing for TNB Engineers,
Provided consulting to TNB subsidiaries in the areas of insulation condition assessment of transformers, switchgear, cable and insulators,
Designed courses at the undergraduate and postgraduate level,
Set up laboratories for postgraduate research. Senior Executive, CESC Limited, Calcutta, India Responsibilities included:
Operation of DCS controlled 2x 67.5MW coal fired pulverized fuel generating station,
Performed commissioning tests on substation equipment,
Development of operating manuals dealing with 2x67.5 MW plant operating procedures, guidelines for planned maintenance, emergency strategies and concepts of automatic digital control systems,
Development and setting up of 2x67.5MW power plant simulator for on-job training of power station personnel,
Development of quality manual for the Implementation of ISO 9002 procedures in 2x67.5MW southern generating station,
Conducted training for engineers and supervisors (as per ISO 9002 requirement),
Development of manuals on operating procedures and condition-based maintenance techniques of high voltage equipment.
Setting up light current laboratory to carry out on-job training for substation and distribution department personnel Testing Engineer, Fort Gloster Cables, Howrah, India Responsibilities included:
Carry out power frequency wet and dry test for 132kV XLPE cables,
Carry out heat cycle test using induction CT,
Carry out partial discharge test on XLPE cables using Haefly PD Analyzer,
Carry out water penetration test as per IEC standard. Senior Research Fellow, High Tension Laboratory, Jadavpur University, India Responsibilities included:
Carry out high voltage testing of transformers, switches, switchgears and capacitors,
Taught courses at the undergraduate level and part-time BEE course,
Carried out research leading towards masters & Ph.D.,
Member of the Consulting team for providing academic solutions to industrial problems of various industries and power utilities. ADDITIONAL EXPERIENCETNB Research, Malaysia
Designed, developed and commissioned testing rig for medium voltage cable joints
CESC Limited, India
Designed, developed, and commissioned Light Current laboratory
Upgrade and maintenance of 67.5 MW Power Plant Simulator
International experiences in the field of Insulation Diagnostics for electrical power equipment in India, Germany, Malaysia and Canadaigned and Conducted Short Courses on operation, maintenance, testing and protection of high voltage equipments
Designed and taught Power Engineering Courses at undergraduate and postgraduate levels in Universities
Designed, developed and maintained Laboratories for teaching and research purposes PUBLICATIONSThis expert has been published in more than 50 technical articles in reputed international journals on topics related to pollution and electrolytic surfaces, insulators, flashover voltage, arc propagation over electrolytic surfaces, impulse stresses and polluted high voltage insulators, pollution flashover studies, artificial neural network for high voltage insulator contamination assessment, salt contamination of high voltage insulators, conical spacer electric stress control, soil thermal resistivity and underground power cables, partial discharges in power transformers, monitoring transformer insulating oil, partial discharge in XLPE cables, polymer insulated power cables, transformer frequency response, power transformer paper insulation age estimation, winding deformity in distribution power transformers, partial discharge signal measurement in simulated transformer tank, partial discharge and acoustic wave propagation, aged power transformer insulation condition monitoring, mechanical movement in the winding of transformers, distribution cable diagnostic testing, electric stress in medium voltage cable joints, air gap and air voids effects on electrical field distribution in tape resin cable joint, and PILC cable assessment.
This expert has extensive experience in training, lectures, software development, and product development related to advanced power system protection, artificial intelligence, electrical machines, electrical circuit theory, engineering diagnostics tools, high voltage engineering, logic system and process control, power system protection, power systems, power electronics, process control and instrumentation, power system steady state analysis, condition monitoring of electrical plants, condition monitoring of aged power transformers, condition monitoring of underground power cables, high voltage insulation diagnostics, pollution flashover studies of outdoor insulators, reliability centered maintenance, concepts & application, risk based maintenance strategy, concepts, high voltage safety, sheath voltage and sheath current, power system protection laboratory design, development and commissioning, condition monitoring & diagnostics laboratory design and development, condition monitoring of power transformers, on-line condition monitoring of electrical plants, electrical transmission systems, safe operational practices for distribution engineers, manpower planning, artificial neural network software, statistical pattern recognition software, frequency and time-frequency spectral analysis software, multiple linear regression analysis software, leakage current detection system for on-line pollution severity studies of insulators, motor current signature acquisition system for on-line condition monitoring of OLTC.
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