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Professor Emeritus

Missouri S&T Power Engineering Group

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Missouri S&T Power Engineering Group

Present	Professor Emeritus, Missouri University of Science and Technology ‐ Electrical and Computer Engineering
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Electrical and Computer Engineering

Comparison of Advanced Control Techniques for Grid Side Converter of ...

IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Power Electronics (2015)

Murali M. Baggu, Badrul H. Chowdhury and Jonathan W. Kimball

A doubly-fed induction generator grid side converter is studied under voltage disturbances. During voltage dips, conventional current control techniques involving ...

Identifying Techniques, Topologies and Features for Maximizing the Efficiency of ...

Proceedings of the North American Power Symposium (2010, Arlington, TX) (2010)

Karl Stefanski, Hengsi Qin, Badrul H. Chowdhury, Jonathan W. Kimball, et al.

The FREEDM grid utilizes solid state transformers (SST) and solid state fault interruption devices (FID) which may lead to unfavorable ...

Direct Power Control of Doubly-Fed Generator Based Wind Turbine Converters ...

Proceedings of the 25th Annual IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition (2010, Palm Springs, CA) (2010)

Murali M. Baggu, Luke Dale Watson, Jonathan W. Kimball and Badrul H. Chowdhury

A novel control technique using direct active and reactive power control called Direct Power Control (DPC) is discussed for Low ...

Application of STATCOM for Improved Reliability of Power Grid Containing ...

Proceedings of the Power and 2008 IEEE Energy Society General Meeting - Conversion and Delivery of Electrical Energy in the 21st Century, 2008 (2008)

Aditya P. Jayam, Badrul H. Chowdhury and Nikhil Kumar Ardeshna

Larger wind farms when integrated to the power system pose stability and control issues. This paper investigates the use of ...

Frequency Regulation with Wind Power Plants

Proceedings of the Power and 2008 IEEE Energy Society General Meeting - Conversion and Delivery of Electrical Energy in the 21st Century, 2008 (2008)

Badrul H. Chowdhury and Hong Tao Ma

A new frequency regulation scheme is developed for the wind turbine/generator/converter trio that will provide the capability to participate in ...

Performance Improvement of Power System Stabilizers Using Prony Analysis

International Journal of Power and Energy Systems (2008)

Srinivas Vemuri and Badrul H. Chowdhury

The Prony technique is used to improve the performance of power system stabilizers (PSS). A method for evaluating the performance ...

Cascading Line Outage Prevention with Multiple UPFCs

Proceedings of the 39th North American Power Symposium, NAPS '07 (2007, Las Cruces, NM) (2007)

Hong Tao Ma, Mariesa Crow, Badrul H. Chowdhury and Adam Lininger

Flexible AC Transmission System (FACTS) have been recognized to be effective in regulating network power flow and enhance system dynamic ...

Secondary Voltage Regulation for Improved Power Plant Reactive Power Coordination

Secondary Voltage Regulation for Improved Power Plant Reactive Power Coordination (2007)

F. Dong and Badrul H. Chowdhury

An inter-plant voltage control (IPVC) scheme is introduced for improving the voltage stability margin by coordinating reactive power reserves. The ...

Use of Max-Flow on FACTS Devices

Proceedings of the 39th North American Power Symposium, NAPS '07 (2007, Las Cruces, NM) (2007)

Adam Lininger, Bruce M. McMillin, Badrul H. Chowdhury and Mariesa Crow

FACTS devices can be used to mitigate cascading failures in a power grid by controlling the power flow in individual ...

A First Course in Power: Can a Single Course Serve ...

Proceedings of the IEEE Power Engineering Society General Meeting (2007, Tampa, FL) (2007)

Mariesa Crow, Badrul H. Chowdhury, Keith Corzine and Mehdi Ferdowsi

This paper is part of a panel entitled "Modernizing the First Course in Power Systems." In this paper the authors ...

A New Inverter for Improved Fuel Cell Performance in Grid-Tied ...

Proceedings of the IEEE Power Engineering Society General Meeting, 2007 (2007)

Nagasmitha Akkinapragada and Badrul H. Chowdhury

The interconnection of a solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) with the power conditioning units vis-à-vis a DC/DC converter and a ...

Concepts on Market-Oriented Transmission Investment

International Journal of Power and Energy Systems (2007)

David Lee Enke, Badrul H. Chowdhury, Gregory M. Gelles and Keith Stanek

For several years, much of the deregulated power industry has appeared to be in "repair mode; in other words, the ...

Dynamic Simulations of Cascading Failures

Proceedings of the 38th North American Power Symposium, 2006 (2007)

Hong Tao Ma and Badrul H. Chowdhury

Steady state analysis cannot provide the details of how system evolves in cascading failure. Dynamic response of generator plays an ...

Hybrid AC/DC Power Distribution Solution for Future Space Applications

Proceedings of the IEEE Power Engineering Society General Meeting, 2007 (2007)

Sushant Barave and Badrul H. Chowdhury

As NASA readies itself for new space exploration initiatives starting with a human return to the Moon by the year ...

Implementation of a Converter in Sequence Domain to Counter Voltage ...

Proceedings of the IEEE Power Engineering Society General Meeting, 2007 (2007)

Murali M. Baggu and Badrul H. Chowdhury

This paper demonstrates the basic problem of the conventional d-axis and q-axis control applied to a voltage source converter (VSC) ...

Performance of Doubly Fed-Induction Machine Wind-Generators During Grid and Wind ...

Proceedings of the 38th North American Power Symposium, 2006 (2007)

Badrul H. Chowdhury and Murali M. Baggu

A doubly fed induction generator is under study for application with a wind turbine. The operation of the Doubly Fed ...

SOFC-Based Fuel Cells for Load Following Stationary Applications

Proceedings of the 38th North American Power Symposium, 2006 (2007)

Nagasmitha Akkinapragada and Badrul H. Chowdhury

This paper presents a dynamic model of SOFC and the response of the fuel cell for sudden load changes. Slow ...

Sensorless Control of Inverter-fed Induction Motor Drives

Sensorless Control of Inverter-fed Induction Motor Drives (2007)

Anitha Paladugu and Badrul H. Chowdhury

Sensorless control is considered to be a lower cost alternative than the position or speed encoder-based control of induction motors. ...

Superconducting Magnetic Energy Storage System (SMES) for Improved Dynamic System ...

Proceedings of the IEEE Power Engineering Society General Meeting, 2007 (2007)

Dwaraka S. Padimiti and Badrul H. Chowdhury

A Superconducting Magnetic Energy Storage System (SMES) consists of a high inductance coil emulating a constant current source. Such a ...

AC/DC Power Systems with Applications in Future Human Habitat ...

American Institute of Physics Conference Proceedings (2006)

Badrul H. Chowdhury, Sabbir A. Hossain, James T. Lawrence and Sushant Barave

As NASA readies itself for new space exploration initiatives starting with a human return to the Moon by the year ...

Creating Cascading Failure Scenarios in Interconnected Power Systems

Proceedings of the IEEE Power Engineering Society General Meeting, 2006 (2006)

Badrul H. Chowdhury and Sushant Barave

The reported catastrophic failures of power systems from different geographical parts of the world often point to cascading outage events ...

Double-fed Induction Generator Control for Variable Speed Wind Power Generation

Electric Power Systems Research (2006)

Badrul H. Chowdhury and Srinivasa R. Chellapilla

Vector control of a doubly fed induction generator drive for variable speed wind power generation is described. A wound rotor ...

Improving Power Transmission Efficiency and Reliability through Hardware/Software Co-design

Proceedings of the Electricity Advanced Sensing and Control Conference (2006, Pittsburgh, PA) (2006)

Bruce M. McMillin, Daniel R. Tauritz, F. Liu, Badrul H. Chowdhury, et al.

The transmission systems of tomorrow must incorporate advanced hardware and software technologies to increase safe utilization of existing facilities to ...

Intentional Islanding and Adaptive Load Shedding to Avoid Cascading Outages

Proceedings of the IEEE Power Engineering Society General Meeting, 2006 (2006)

Badrul H. Chowdhury and H. Manjari Dola

Predetermined islanding scenarios along with automated load shedding schemes are applied once a prospective cascading outage condition is predicted. If ...

Operational Characteristics of Wind Plants and Windfarms

Proceedings of the IEEE Power Engineering Society General Meeting, 2006 (2006)

Badrul H. Chowdhury

A wide range of power generation technologies exist today, whose characteristics can vary significantly. Additionally, a diverse range of wind ...