Specialization

Power electronics

Email

santosh.sonar@thapar.edu

Biography

Dr. Santosh Sonaris an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Instrumentation Engineering. He received his Bachelor and Masters degree in Electrical Engineering from National Institute of Technology Durgapur, West Bengal. He has completed his PhD at Indian School of Mines, Dhanbad, Jharkhand in the year 2014.He has joined TU in August 2013. He has nine years of teaching and one year of Industrial experience till June 2019. His main research interests are in the areas of Power Electronics (z-source inverters, ac-ac converters, SMPS Design, PWM Techniques).

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Specialization: Power Electronics

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Research details

Research Area: Multilevel Inverters, SMPS Design, Z-Source Inverters, PWM Techniques

Reviewer: IET Power Electronics, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, IEEE journals of Emerging and Selected Topics of Power Electronics

Member of Prestigious Committee: IEEE Member, N0- 93340410

Projects Undertaken

Publications

Papers Published/Accepted

International Journal

• Santosh Sonar & Sanjoy Mondal (2023) An improved maximum boost control technique for CDBC-based three-level ZSI, International Journal of Electronics, DOI: 10.1080/00207217.2023.2235719
• Santosh Sonar, S. Mondal, J. Ghommam and S. Banerjee, "An Optimized Space Vector Based Switching Algorithm With Reduced Switching Transitions for Impedance Source Inverter," in IEEE Access, vol. 10, pp. 28965-28974, 2022, doi: 10.1109/ACCESS.2022.3153497.
• Santosh Sonar, N. Rana and S. Banerjee, "Improved Space Vector Based PWM Technique for Three Phase Z-Source Inverter," in IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Industrial Electronics, 2022, doi: 10.1109/JESTIE.2022.3198500.
• N. Rana, Santosh Sonar and S. Banerjee, "Performance Investigation of Closed Loop Dual Phase Interleaved Buck Boost Converter with Dragonfly Optimized Type III Controller,"2022, in IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs, doi: 10.1109/TCSII.2021.3131567.
• Satwant Singh and Santosh Sonar, "Improved Maximum Boost Control and Reduced Common-Mode Voltage Switching Patterns of Three-Level Z-Source Inverter," in IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, vol. 36, no. 6, pp. 6557-6571, June 2021, doi: 10.1109/TPEL.2020. 3040908..
• Satwant Singh and Santosh Sonar, "A New SVPWM Technique to Reduce the Inductor Current Ripple of Three-Phase Z-Source Inverter," in IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, vol. 67, no. 5, pp. 3540-3550, May 2020, doi: 10.1109/TIE.2019.2916298.
• Satwant Singh & Santosh Sonar (2020) “Controlled diode bridge clamped three level Z source inverter and its PWM control, EPE Journal”, DOI: 10.1080/09398368.2020.1725860 
• Satwant Singh and Santosh Sonar, “Novel SVPWM technique for three-level T-type Z-source inverters,” Journal of Power Electronics, vol. 21, no. 2. Springer Science and Business Media LLC, pp. 505–515, 16-Dec-2020.
• Satwant Singh,Santosh Sonar, “Design and Analysis of Space Vector Pulse Width Modulation Techniques for Z-Source Inverter” International Journal of Power Electronics, Inderscience,Vol-12,N0-2,2020.
• Sonar, S. A New Configuration of Three-Level ZSI Using Transistor Clamped Topology. 13, 1469, Energies 2020.
• Santosh Sonar, Tanmoy Maity “Single phase transformer less wide range ac boost voltage regulator based on z-source network”, International journal of Electrical power and energy system, Elsevier, vol 47,2013,193-197

International Conferences

• Satwant Singh,Santosh Sonar, “Space Vector Based PWM Sequences for Z-Source Principal Derived Inverter Topologies”-IEEE conference 2018 IEEMA Engineer Infinite Conference (eTechNxT)
• Santosh Sonar, Tanmoy Maity,” Z-source Inverter based control of Wind Power”, IEEE sponsored International Conference on Energy, Automation, and Signals(ICEAS-2011) , 2011, pages 1-6.
• Santosh Sonar, Tanmoy Maity, “Design and simulation of a novel single phase to three phase wind power converter”, (RAIT-2012) (IIT-ISM Dhanbad), vol-2, pp 725-730.
• Tanmoy Maity, Santosh Sonar, “A simple single phase ac voltage regulator cum booster based on z-source converter “Accepted, ICCESSE-2012 Zurich, Switzerland, January
• Tanmoy Maity, Santosh Sonar, “A new single phase to three phase buck-boost Converter cum Voltage Regulator suitable for Wind Power” International Journal of Arts & Sciences (IJAS) conference, Vienna, Austria, April, 2012.pp. VIE78
• Santosh Sonar, Tanmoy Maity, “A new low cost single phase ac-ac power line conditioner”, International conference on emerging electrical trends (Indore), December-2012, pp.284-289.
• Tanmoy Maity Santosh Sonar , “Selection of Suitable Topology and Switching Technique of ZSI for wind power application” International Conference on advance Computing and Communication ICACC-2013

National Conferences

• Santosh Sonar, Tanmoy Maity, Manisha Minu, “Closed Loop Control of Z-Source Inverter used for Wind Power Conversion” National conference on sustainable development in energy sector (UPES-Dehradun), April 2011. INS-2
• Santosh Sonar, Tanmoy Maity, “A z- network based new single phase push-pull inverter” FECIT-2011 (ISM Dhanbad), November 2011, INS-8.
• Tanmoy Maity Santosh Sonar, “A z- network based new single phase push-pull inverter” FECIT-2011 (ISM Dhanbad), November 2011, INS-4.
• *Santosh Sonar, Tanmoy Maity, “A z-source single phase push-pull inverter” IET-India-Summit_2012, September pp 92-95.
• Santosh Sonar, Tanmoy Maity, “A single phase wide range ac boost voltage regulator".” ICTEE-2014, January Thapar University Patiala.
• Santosh Sonar, Tanmoy Maity, “A Novel single phase push-pull Inverter” ICTEE-2014, January, Thapar University Patiala

List of awards and honors

Awarded A grade (Under performance Incentive Scheme Award -2016, TIET)

ME Thesis Supervised- 11 ,Nil Undergoing