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High Voltage Maintenance, Safety, Expert Consultant
Expertise in high voltage equipment testing, high voltage equipment maintenance and condition monitoring, electrical power equipment, insulation diagnostics, 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, high voltage equipment training, 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, DP electrical testing data of large power transformers, 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, on-line condition monitoring system for load tap changers, high voltage safety, DGA & Furan report analysis, power plant operating manual development, power plant simulators, power frequency wet and dry test, heat cycle test, partial discharge test, and water penetration test.

Has conducted numerous studies in areas including 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, and partial discharge in XLPE cables.

Extensive knowledge regarding 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.

Additional areas of related expertise include 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, and condition monitoring of electrical plants.

Highly experienced in areas including 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.

This KKAI Associate offers expertise specific to 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, and motor current signature acquisition system for on-line condition monitoring of OLTC

PRINCIPAL INDUSTRIES SERVED
Cable Manufacturing, Electrical, Environmental, Occupational Safety, Power Utilities

EDUCATION
Ph.D., High Voltage Engineering, Jadavpur University
M.E., High Voltage Engineering, Jadavpur University
One Year Special MBA Program, Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta
B.E., Electrical Power systems, R.E. College, Durgapur, Burdwan University

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Consultant, 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.

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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 EXPERIENCE

TNB 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 Canada

Designed 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

HONORS AND AWARDS
Honored for overall performance by University Tenaga Nasional
High Performance Award from Calcutta Electric Supply Corporation Limited, India
Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya Memorial Gold Medal for the best paper published in the Electrical Engineering Division
Gold Medal from Indian Society for Training & Development
P&T Merit Scholarship from Ministry of Post & Telepgraph, India

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
Member, IEEE
Member, Power and Energy Community, IEEE
Member, IEEE Standard Association
Member, IEEE/PES Power Transformer Working Group
Member, Technical Advisory Committee for T & D Asset Management Conference, organized by CIRED (Malaysia)
Member, Technical Advisory Committee for PEITSICON, organized by IEE, UK (Calcutta Chapter)
Member, Syllabus Review Committee for the Industrial Training Institutes of India, CSTARI, India
Technical Advisor, TNB Research Sdn. Bhd., Malaysia
Chairman, Distribution Unit on The Industry Day organized by TNB Research, Malaysia
Chairman, Technical Sessions of Asia-Pacific Conference & Exhibition on Medium Voltage Underground Cables, organized by CIRED (Malaysia)
Reviewer of technical papers published in PECON
Rapporteur, Technical Session VB in 7th NPSC, Calcutta, India
Reviewer, Technical Paper for peer reviewed International Conferences
Coordinator of tReview Committee
Member of the Course Review Committee at Universiti Tenaga Nasional , Malaysia

PUBLICATIONS
Published 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.

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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