Dr. Parag Nijhawan

Associate Professor

Specialization

Power Systems

Email

parag@thapar.edu

Specialization

Power Systems

Email

parag@thapar.edu

Biography

Dr. Parag Nijhawan is working with Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology, Patiala since 2001. He has more than 23 years of academic experience. He obtained his Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from National Institute of Technology, Kurukshetra, and M.E. Electrical (Power Systems) from Punjab Engineering College, Chandigarh. His research interests include Power Quality, Custom Power, FACTS devices, Renewable Energy Solutions and Grounding. He has more than 100 publications in the national and international journals and conferences. He has guided around 50 M.E. students and 3 Ph.D. students. His vision statement is as follows:

“To be a good learner, a good teacher and above all, a good human being known for inspiring my students to be more than what they thought they could be; through my methodical, logical and analytical approach but of course, without compromising on the ethical and social values with an ultimate objective of contributing my bit towards sustainable environment.”

Education

  1. Ph.D. in Power Quality and Custom Power from / National Institute of Technology, Kurukshetra / in 2016
  2. M. Tech in Electrical (Power Systems) from / Punjab Engineering College, Chandigarh / in 2001
  3. B.E. in Electrical from /GZSCET, Bathinda / in 1999

Experience: Total Teaching Experience X years

  1. From August 2000 – September 2001: Lecturer, EE Department,  SSIET, Derabassi
  2. From September 2001 – December 2005: Lecturer, EIE Department,  TIET, Patiala
  3. From January 2006 – July 2019, Assistant Professor, EIE Department,  TIET, Patiala
  4. From August 2019 – Till date, Associate Professor, EIE Department,  TIET, Patiala

Teaching Interests:

  1. Network Theory and Design
  2. Electromagnetic Field Theory
  3. Power Quality and Custom Power
  4. FACTS Devices
  5. Power System Analysis
  6. Power System Operation and Control
  7. Transmission and Distribution of Power System

Research Interest:

  1. Renewable Energy Systems
  2. Power Quality
  3. Custom Power
  4. Grounding

Current membership in professional organizations

  • IEEE Member, IE(I) - Fellow and Chartered Engineer

Honors and awards

  • Runner’s up of BRICS YEA, 2020
  • Winners of BRICS YEA, 2019

Service activities (within and outside of the institution)

  • Chairman, Time-Table Committee, Thapar-Trinity Academic Fellow, NBA Coordinator, NSS Programme Coordinator, NSS Programme Officer, Laboratory Incharge (EE Lab, PSS Lab, HV Lab), Organized IEEE Conference IICPE-2016, 17 Expert Lectures Delivered, Organized National Conference ICTEE-2014

Publications:

Journals

  1. M. K. Singla, J. Gupta, M. Safaraliev, P. Nijhawan, and A. S. Oberoi, "Hydrogen storage in activated carbon for fuel cell-powered vehicles: A cost-effective and sustainable approach," Int. J. Hydrogen Energy, Elsevier, pp. 446-458, 2024.
  2. Singla M.K., Gupta J., Nijhawan P., Meymand H.Z. and Kamel 2023Application of RSAPSO Hybrid Optimizer for Parameter Extraction of Solar PV Cell Models under Temperature Variations, Electric Power Components and Systems, pp. 1-24, DOI: 10.1080/15325008.2023.2257701.
  3. Singla M.K., Gupta J., Nijhawan P., Oberoi A.S., Alsharif M.H. and Jahid A. 2023. Role of a Unitized Regenerative Fuel Cell in Remote Area Power Supply: A Review. Energies.; 16(15):5761, pp.1-21.
  4. Singla, M.K., Hassan, M.H., Gupta, J., Jurado, F., Nijhawan, P. and Kamel, S., 2023. An enhanced efficient optimization algorithm (EINFO) for accurate extraction of proton exchange membrane fuel cell parameters. Soft Computing, pp.1-20.
  5. Singla, M.K., Gupta, J., Singh, B., Nijhawan, P., Abdelaziz, A.Y. and El-Shahat, A., 2023. Parameter Estimation of Fuel Cells Using a Hybrid Optimization Algorithm. Sustainability, 15(8), p.6676, pp. 1-21.
  6. Nijhawan, P., Singla, M.K. and Gupta, J., 2023. A proposed hybrid model for electric power generation: a case study of Rajasthan, India. IETE Journal of Research, 69(4), pp.1952-1962.
  7. Sharma, M., Nijhawan, P. and Sinha, A., 2023. Techno-economic comparative analysis of hybrid renewable energy systems with and without battery energy storage system. International Journal of Green Energy, pp.1-27.
  8. Singla, M.K., Gupta, J., Nijhawan, P., Alsharif, M.H. and Kim, M.K., 2023. Sustainable development of fuel cell using enhanced weighted mean of vectors algorithm. Heliyon, 9(3), pp 1-36.
  9. Gupta, J., Hussain, A., Singla, M.K., Nijhawan, P., Haider, W., Kotb, H. and AboRas, K.M., 2022. Parameter Estimation of Different Photovoltaic Models Using Hybrid Particle Swarm Optimization and Gravitational Search Algorithm. Applied Sciences, 13(1), p.249, pp. 1-22.
  10. Singla, M.K., Gupta, J. and Nijhawan, P., 2022. Solid oxide fuel cell parameter estimation using enhanced LSHADE algorithm and Newton Raphson method. International Journal of Energy Research, 46(15), pp.23341-23352.
  11. Singla, M.K., Nijhawan, P. and Oberoi, A.S., 2022. Parameter estimation of three diode solar PV cell using chaotic dragonfly algorithm. Soft Computing, 26(21), pp.11567-11598.
  12. Sharma, M., Nijhawan, P. and Sinha, A., 2022. TS-Fuzzy Logic Based Power Quality Improvement of DG-BESS Based Standalone System. Journal of Electrical Engineering & Technology, 17(6), pp.3241-3262.
  13. Singh, B., Singla, M.K. and Nijhawan, P., 2022. Parameter estimation of four diode solar photovoltaic cell using hybrid algorithm. Energy Sources, Part A: Recovery, Utilization, and Environmental Effects, 44(2), pp.4597-4613.
  14. Singh, B., Nijhawan, P., Singla, M.K., Gupta, J. and Singh, P., 2022. Hybrid algorithm for parameter estimation of fuel cell. International Journal of Energy Research, 46(8), pp.10644-10655.
  15. Singla, M.K., Nijhawan, P. and Oberoi, A.S., 2022. A novel hybrid particle swarm optimization rat search algorithm for parameter estimation of solar PV and fuel cell model. COMPEL-The international journal for computation and mathematics in electrical and electronic engineering, 41, pp. 1-23.
  16. Gupta, J., Nijhawan, P. and Ganguli, S., 2021. Parameter extraction of solar PV cell models using novel metaheuristic chaotic tunicate swarm algorithm. International Transactions on Electrical Energy Systems, 31(12), p.e13244, pp. 1-43.
  17. Gupta, J., Nijhawan, P. and Ganguli, S., 2022. Parameter estimation of different solar cells using a novel swarm intelligence technique. Soft Computing, 26(12), pp.5833-5863.
  18. Gupta, J., Nijhawan, P. and Ganguli, S., 2021. Parameter estimation of fuel cell using chaotic mayflies optimization algorithm. Advanced Theory and Simulations, 4(12), p.2100183, pp.1-13.
  19. Gupta, J., Nijhawan, P. and Ganguli, S., 2022. Optimal sizing of different configuration of photovoltaic, fuel cell, and biomass-based hybrid energy system. Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 29(12), pp.17425-17440.
  20. Singla, M.K., Nijhawan, P. and Oberoi, A.S., 2022. Cost–benefit comparison of fuel cell–based and battery‐based renewable energy systems. International Journal of Energy Research, 46(2), pp.1736-1755.
  21. Gupta, J., Singla, M.K. and Nijhawan, P., 2021. Magnetohydrodynamic system—A need for a sustainable power generation source. Magnetohydrodynamics, 57, pp.251-272.
  22. Singla, M.K. and Nijhawan, P., 2021. Triple diode parameter estimation of solar PV cell using hybrid algorithm. International Journal of Environmental Science and Technology, pp.4265-4288.
  23. Gupta, J., Nijhawan, P. and Ganguli, S., 2021. Optimal parameter estimation of PEM fuel cell using slime mould algorithm. International Journal of Energy Research, 45(10), pp.14732-14744.
  24. Singla, M.K., Nijhawan, P. and Oberoi, A.S., 2021. Hydrogen fuel and fuel cell technology for cleaner future: a review. Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 28, pp.15607-15626.
  25. Singla, M.K., Nijhawan, P. and Oberoi, A.S., 2021. Hydrogen fuel and fuel cell technology for cleaner future: a review. Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 28, pp.34511-34526.
  26. Dhiman, S. and Nijhawan, P., 2020. An improved PV system with auto-protection to inject active power into the power grid of marine ships. Indian Journal of Geo Marine Sciences, 49, pp. 1132-1142.
  27. Kumar, A., Bhatia, R.S. and Nijhawan, P., 2020. Performance investigation of an innovative H-bridge derived multilevel inverter topology for marine applications. Indian Journal of Geo Marine Sciences, 49, pp. 441-449.
  28. Oberoi, A.S. and Nijhawan, P., 2020. A novel stand-alone proton battery-based power supply system for marine ships. Indian Journal of Geo Marine Sciences, 49, pp. 436-440.
  29. Dhiman, S. and Nijhawan, P., 2019. Design & analysis of improved bus-tied photovoltaic system for marine ships. Indian Journal of Geo Marine Sciences, 48, pp. 1963-1970.
  30. Kapoor, D., Oberoi, A.S. and Nijhawan, P., 2019. Hydrogen production and subsequent adsorption/desorption process within a modified unitized regenerative fuel cell. Processes, 7(4), p.238, pp. 1-19.
  31. Oberoi, A.S., Nijhawan, P. and Singh, P., 2018. A novel electrochemical hydrogen storage-based proton battery for renewable energy storage. Energies, 12(1), p.82, pp. 1-15.
  32. Nijhawan, P., Bhatia, R.S. and Jain, D.K., 2013. Improved performance of multilevel inverter‐based distribution static synchronous compensator with induction furnace load. IET Power Electronics, 6(9), pp.1939-1947.

Sponsored Project

  1. “A Smart Wearable Device for Cognitive Assessment”, supervised by (PI/CoPI) received a Grant of amount Rs 5.5 lacs by Priority Solutions, Mohali for the year 2018-2020.

International Conferences:

Rashmi Rai, R.S. Bhatia and Parag Nijhawan. Z-Source Inverter based DC-DC Converter using SPWM Technique for Fuel Cell Application. IEEE First International Conference on Power Electronics, Intelligent Control and Energy Systems (IEEE ICPEICES 2016) from July 04 – 06, 2016 at Delhi Technology University.

Parag Nijhawan, R.S. Bhatia and D.K Jain. Performance Analysis of 3-Phase 17-Level Inverter Based DSTATCOM Feeding Induction Furnace Load. IEEE 7th IICPE-2016 Conference, 17-19 Nov., 2016, Thapar University, Patiala. 

Achievement, Awards and Recognitions

  1. Adjudged winners in BRICS Youth Energy Agency Summit, 2019 in Moscow, Russia.
  2. Adjudged runners-up in BRICS Youth Energy Agency Summit, 2020 in Moscow, Russia.

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You are never a loser until you quit trying.

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