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Date of Birth :06 October 1960 Fields of Research interest Modeling, simulation
and real-time control of large-scale power and energy systems; Digital
protection; Demand side management; Smart Grid; Renewable
energy; Impact studies on
integrating utility scale renewable sources, nuclear power plantand
non-linear loads in the grid; Energy efficiency and conservation;
Superconducting magnetic energy storage; Flexible AC transmission
systems (FACTS) using power electronics devices; Wireless power
transmission; Planning regional power grid. Academic
Qualifications PhD (UMIST, UK)-1987; M.Sc.Eng.
(BUET)-1984; B.Sc.Eng.(BUET)-1982 * UMIST-University of Manchester Institute of
Science & Technology ** BUET-Bangladesh University of Engineering
and Technology Employment Records
Other
positions held 1)Director, Centre for Energy Studies,
BUET from 1 July 2003 - 1 July 2005. 2)Head, Dept. of Electrical &
Electronic Engineering, BUET from 1 June 2005 - 31 May 2006. 3)Dean, Faculty of Electrical and
Electronic Engineering, BUET from 20 June 2007 -19 June 2009. 4)Director,
Directorate of Planning and Development, BUET from 3 June 2017- 10 June 2018; 5) Government of Bangladesh (GoB)
nominated Director (as generation, transmission and distribution expert) in
the Board of Dhaka Electric Supply Co. Ltd. (DESCO): July 1997- March 2000. 6)GoB
nominated Director (as generation, transmission and distribution expert) in
the Board of Power Grid Company of Bangladesh (PGCB) Ltd.: Feb 2008- Dec 2010. 7)GoB
nominated Director (as generation, transmission and distribution expert) in
the Board of Dhaka Power Distribution Company (DPDC) Ltd.: April 2008- Nov.
2009. 8)Chairman of
Electrical and Electronics Divisional Committee (EEDC) of Bangladesh
Standards and Testing Institution (BSTI), the Govt. organization for national
standards; March 2007- December 2009. 9)
Member in the Technical Advisory Group (TAG) for UNDP-GEF (Global
Environmental Facility) funded and BSTI administered project BRESL (Barrier
Removal to the cost effective development and implementation of Energy
Standards and Labeling) for the period 2010-2014. 10) GoB
nominated Director (as generation, transmission and distribution expert) in the Board of Dhaka Electric Supply Co. Ltd. (DESCO): 5
October 2017- 31 January 2022. Major Scholarships and Awards
1. Commonwealth
scholarship by the Commonwealth Scholarship Commission,
U.K., for doing Ph.D. at UMIST, England; 1985-1987. 2. “2nd
Annual Research Excellence Award; 1998” by the Southern California Chapter of American Association of Bangladeshi
Engineers & Architects for the paper "Development of a Three -
Part Time-of-Day Electrical Energy Tariff " that was adjudged as the
best one in the 1998 contest on refereed publications received from
Bangladeshi researchers. 3.“Laureate of the annual (2002) competition” by
the Royal academy of Overseas Sciences, Belgium for the study
“Photovoltaic Supplement to Diesel Generator Based Supply in an Off-grid
Location of East Malaysia” that was adjudged as the best one among the
studies received under the category of Technical Sciences from international
researchers. 4.“BAS-M.O.
Ghani Gold Medal 2003” by Bangladesh Academy of Sciences in
recognition of contributions in the field of electrical and electronic
engineering. Patent: S. Shahnawaz
Ahmed, Mohammad Zunaidur Rashid, Kamruzzaman Khan and A.N.M. Wasekul
Azad, “A Device for Multi-Criteria Load Management in a Power System”,
Bangladesh Patent No.1005480, Filing date: 01 August 2012. Publications Over 65 publications. (below is the list ofonly the
refereed journal papers and book chapters published in or after the year
2000): 1)S. Shahnawaz
Ahmed, S. Bashar,
A.K. Chatterjee, M.A. Salam and H.B.Ahmad
: "Use of superconducting magnetic
energy storage device in a power system to permit delayed
tripping", IEE (U.K.)
Proceedings- GTD, Vol. 147, No.5, September 2000, pp.269- 273. 2) S. Shahnawaz Ahmed, Rezaul Haque, A.K.M.Rashidul Hasan , Md. Aminul Haque Siddiqui, Md. Abdus Salam and Hussein Bin Ahmad: "On the Concern
about the Effects of Transmission Line Electromagnetic Fields on Man and his
Dwellings", Journal of the
Institution of Engineers Singapore, M&E section, Vol.40, No.6, 2000,
pp.23-26. 3) S. Shahnawaz Ahmed and Md. Mizanur Rahman : "Use of base case Jacobians in power
flow solution under topological
changes", Computers & Electrical Engineering International Journal,
(U.K.), Vol 28, No.1, January 2002, pp 17-23. 4)
S. Shahnawaz Ahmed, MahesRajaratnam, Hussein Ahmad
and Abu Bakar
Sidik : “Potential Benefits of Using
Distributed Parameter Model for Transmission Lines in Power System Analysis”,
IEEE (USA) Power Engineering Review, Vol. 22, No.10, October 2002, pp.53-56. 5)
S. Shahnawaz
Ahmed Mohammad Tawrit,
Mohd Wazir b. Mustafa,
Hussein b.Ahmad, MohdRuddinb.Abd
Ghani and Abdullah Asuhaimi
b. Mohd Zin: "Novel
adaptation of the critical clearing angle formula for faults on a three phase
and a six phase line",Electric
Power Systems Research, (U.K.), Vol.
61, No. 2, March 2002, pp.119-126. 6)
S. Shahnawaz
Ahmed, Narayan
Chandra Sarker, Azhar b. Khairuddin, MohdRuddin b. Abd Ghani and Hussein Ahmad:
"A
Scheme for Controlled Islanding to Prevent Subsequent Blackout",IEEE
(USA) Transactions on Power Systems,Vol.18, No.1, February 2003,
pp.136-143. 7)
S. Shahnawaz
Ahmed, Tiow Wei Yeong,and Hussein Ahmad, "Wireless
Power Transmission and its Annexure to the Grid System", IEE (U.K.)
Proceedings- GTD, Vol.150, No.2, March 2003, pp.195-199. 8)
Christopher W. Ajan,
S. Shahnawaz Ahmed, Hussein B.Ahmad, Faridah Taha and Abdullah Asuhaimi B. Mohd Zin : “On the policy of photovoltaic and diesel generation
mix for an off-grid site: East Malaysian perspectives”, Solar Energy (U.K.), Vol. 74, No. 6, June 2003,
pp.453-467. 9)Azhar
B. Khairuddin, S. Shahnawaz
Ahmed, Wazir b. Mustafa, Abdullah Asuhaimi b. Mohd
Zin, and Hussein Ahmad: “A Novel Method for
ATC Computations in a Large-Scale Power System”, IEEE (USA) Transactions on
Power Systems, Vol.19, No.2, May 2004, pp.1150- 1158. 10)
S. Shahnawaz
Ahmed, Mahbubul
Hasan, Md. E. H. Khondker,
A.K.M. Moniruzzaman, and Azhar
B. Khairuddin: ”Prospects of Using Time Series to
Find the Maximum Power Point of a Photovoltaic Array from its Load Currents
and Voltages”, Journal of Energy & Environment (Bangladesh), Vol. 3, May
2004, pp.81-90. 11)
A.S. Ahmad, P.S. Ghosh, S. Shahnawaz Ahmed, S.A.K. Aljunid:
"Assessment of ESDD on high-voltage insulators using artificial neural
network", Electric Power Systems Research, (U.K.), Vol. 72, No. 2,
December 2004, pp.131-136. 12)
Md. Abdus
Salam and S. Shahnawaz Ahmed: “A New Method
for Screening the Contingencies before Dynamic Security Assessment of a Multimachine Power System”, European Transactions on Electrical Power,
(U.K.), Vol. 16, No.4, July/August 2006, pp. 393 - 408. 13) Z.
Salam, J. Aziz and S. Shahnawaz Ahmed: “Digital
Implementation of a New PWM Switching Scheme for Modular Structured
Multilevel Voltage Source Inverter”, Journal of Energy &
Environment, (Bangladesh), Vol. 5, May
2006, pp. 57 - 76.
14)
S. Shahnawaz
Ahmed, Md. Shah Majid,
HendriNovia, and HasimahAbd
Rahman: “Fuzzy Logic Based Energy Saving Technique
for a Central Air Conditioning System”, Energy –the International Journal
(U.K.), Vol. 32, No. 7, July 2007, pp.1222-1234. 15)
S. Shahnawaz Ahmed and Azhar B. Khairuddin: "Fuzzy Logic in Evaluating the Impacts
of MVAR Supports on ATC in a Deregulated Electricity Market" in Fuzzy Logic: Theory, Programming and
Applications, Nova Science
Publishers, 2009, New York, pp.355-377. 16) S. Shahnawaz
Ahmed and Md. Mohsin: “Analytical
Determination of the Control Parameters for a Large Photovoltaic Generator
Embedded in a Grid System”, IEEE (USA) Transactions on Sustainable Energy,
Vol.2, No.2, April 2011, pp.122-130. 17) Md. Q. Ahsan, A. Hasib Chowdhury, S. Shahnawaz Ahmed, I.H. Bhuyan,
A. Haque and H. Rahman: “Technique to Develop Auto
Load Shedding and Islanding Scheme to Prevent Power System Blackout”, IEEE
(USA) Transactions on Power Systems, Vol.27, No.1, February 2012, pp.198-205. 18)
S. Shahnawaz Ahmed : "Battery for
Solar System" in Solar Home System, a book published by GIZ GmbH, (a German Govt. concern for
collaboration in international development activities), 2013, Dhaka,
pp.55-75. 19)S. Shahnawaz
Ahmed, Shah Muhammed Abid
Hussain and Md. Sayeed Salam: “A Novel Substitute
for the Meter Readers in a Resource Constrained Electricity Utility”, IEEE
(USA) Transactions on Smart Grid, Vol.4, No.3, September 2013, pp.1615-1616. 20)S. Shahnawaz Ahmed, Asif Iqbal, Rashed
Sarwar and Md. Sayeed Salam: “Modelling the energy
consumption of a lift”, Energy and Buildings (UK),Vol.71, March 2014,
pp.61-67. 21)Arafat Mahmud, Ehsan Ahmed Dhrubo, S. Shahnawaz
Ahmed, Abdul Hasib Chowdhury,
Md. Farhad Hossain, Hamidur Rahman and Nahid-Al Masood: “Energy
conservation for existing cooling and lighting loads”, Energy –the
International Journal (UK), print copy to appear in Vol. 255, September 2022,
on-line version No.124588. Countries visited USA, UK, South Africa, Saudi
Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Pakistan, India, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore,
China. Major Contributions towards the Advancementof Engineering Education and
Profession a)
International Level: Reviewer for a number of international
journals such as: IET GTD (formerly IEE Proc.GTD),UK IET
Power Electronics, UK IET Science, Measurement & Technology , UK IEEE Transactions
on Industry Applications, USA IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, USA IEEE Transactions on Energy
Conversion, USA IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery,
USA IEEE Transactions on Sustainable
Energy, USA IEEE Power Engineering Letters International Journal of Electrical Power and
Energy Systems, UK Energy- the International Journal, UK Computers and Electrical Engineering International
Journal, UK International Journal of Power and Energy
Systems, Canada Building andEnvironment Journal, UK Energy and Buildings Journal, UK International Transactions on
Electrical Energy Systems (Formerly European Transactions on
Electrical Power),
UK, Elektrika- Journal of Electrical
Engineering, Malaysia Journal Teknologi- D: Electronics, Control,
Telecommunications and IT, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering &
Computer Science; Turkey Iranian Journal of Electrical and Computer
Engineering , Iran Reviewer for Australasian Universities
Power Engineering Conference (AUPEC2006), 10-13 December 2006,
Melbourne, Australia; Students’ Conference on Research &
Development (SCORED) for the Asia-Pacific region, 20-21 February 2001, Kuala
Lumpur, Malaysia; 11th IEEE
International Multitopic Conference (INMIC)at
COMSATS Institute of Information Technology (CIIT), Lahore, Pakistan,
December 28-30 December 2007. Global Selection Panelist for the Discovery Scholarship
program of King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi
Arabia, 2007, 2008. Participated in the meeting of the selection panel
for applicants from the South and the South-East Asia held on 12 December
2007 in Thailand. Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Energy &
Environment (ISSN:1563-1362) an international journal published by Centre for
Energy Studies, BUET, Bangladesh, 2004,2005. External Examiner for a PhD thesis
submitted (July 2005) to Multimedia University, Malaysia. Member, Technical Committee of the International Seminar
and Tutorial ‘Power Transmission –
Research Interests and Challenges’ , 20 – 22nd December 2005, Bangalore, India. Chair, Technical Committee of the 3rd
International Conference on Electrical & Computer Engineering
(ICECE2004), 28-30 December 2004, Dhaka, Bangladesh; Chair (served from June 05 - May 06),
Organizing Committee of the 4th International Conference on Electrical
& Computer Engineering (ICECE2006), 19-21 December 2006, Dhaka,
Bangladesh. Member in the International Advisory
Committee for the 2nd IEEE international Power & Energy
Conference (PECon 2008), Johor Bahru, Malaysia, 1-3 December 2008. Invited Speaker in the 3rd Seminar/Workshop organized by Saudi
Electricity Company Chair for Demand Side Management and Energy Efficiency at
King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia on
25 April 2012. b) National Level in
Bangladesh: Reviewer
of the Journal of the Institution of Engineers (Electrical Engineering
Division) Bangladesh. Member of
Electrical Switches, Plugs and Socket outlet adapters Subcommittee (ET-6) of
Bangladesh Standards and Testing Institution, (the Govt. organization for national
standards),1992-1996; Expert member
in the selection boards of various public and private sector organizations of
Bangladesh for employing graduate
electrical engineers at junior, senior and managerial level, 1989-1998; Member of the
Sub-subcommittee for developing course curriculum of Electrical and
Electronic Engineering Dept. of
Bangladesh Military Institute of Science and Technology, Dhaka, 1997; Chairman
of Electric Fan and other appliances Subcommittee (ET-5) of Bangladesh
Standards and Testing Institution, 1997-1999; Member in the
expert committee formed by Power Grid Company of Bangladesh Ltd. (PGCB) to facilitate effective
transfer of technology for the National Load Despatch
Centre Project financed by World Bank and Asian Development Bank, September 1999 – March 2000; Coordinatorand a resource person in the National TrainingWorkshop on Renewable Energy
Education in Bangladesh, Dhaka, 3-8 August 2003, organized by Centre for Energy Studies of Bangladesh University of
Engineering and Technology with financial assistance from UNESCO, New Delhi; Member in the
Expert Committee formed by the Power Division of Ministry of Power, Energy
and Mineral Resources for standardization of the technical specifications of
transformers purchased through bids invited by the public utilities and their
subsidiaries such as BPDB, DESA, REB, PGCB and DESCO, October 2003; Expert member
in the 3-members committee formed by BUET at the directives of the office of
the Prime Minister, Government of Bangladesh (GOB) for investigation into the
causes for long shut-down of the 4th and 5th units
(each 50 MW) at Kaptai Hydroelectric Power Station
of Bangladesh Power Development Board, May-June 2005; Member in an
Inspection Committee formed by University Grants Commission of Bangladesh for
assessing the adequacy of laboratory facilities, infrastructure and teaching
strength of a private university, October 2006; Member in the
Tender Evaluation Committee formed by the Power Division of Ministry of
Power, Energy and Mineral Resources of GOB for evaluation of the bids for
supply, installation and commissioning inter utility programmable
energy meters communicable from a central server under the World Bank financed
project for Bangladesh Power Sector Reform, November-December 2006; Member of the
national committee (November - December 2007) formed by the Power Division of
Ministry of Power, Energy and Mineral Resources of GOB for finding facts and
making recommendations in relation to the blackouts in the Bangladesh grid
system twice on 16 November 2007 following a devastating cyclone named SIDR; Member of the national committee (December 2007- February 2008)
formed by the Power Division of Ministry of Power, Energy and Mineral
Resources of GOB for investigations into the cause of grid failure on 15
December 2007; Member of
the committee (May - September 2008) formed for witnessing the
performance of the 5th unit (150 MW steam turbine-generator) after its rehabilitation
with the finance of KfW (Germany) at Ashuganj Power Station Company Limited; Member of
the steering committee (April - October 2008) formed by the
Implementation, Monitoring and Evaluation Division (IMED) of the Ministry of
Planning, GoB (Government of Bangladesh) on the
evaluation of Greater Rajshahi Power Distribution
system up gradation Project accomplished by Bangladesh Power Development
Board with the finance of KfW and OPEC; .Member
in the Working Group (2010-2014) formed by the Ministry of Science and Technology,
GoB for the planned 2x1200 MW VVR Nuclear Power
Plant under Russian Finance at Rooppur, Pabna Project. c) Consultancy Services for Industry: Served as a consultant/expert member in a large number of
projects. Some of those are as follows. 1)
"Study
on Effects of Flicker Voltage and Harmonics on Bangladesh Grid System at the
Point of Common Coupling (PCC) Due to the Planned 18 MVA Electric Arc Furnace
at Chittagong Steel Mills", 1990. 2)
Advisory
service on "Internal Electrification Works of the 2nd Annexe High Rise (30 storied) Building of Bangladesh Bank
Head Office, Dhaka", 1992. 3)
Conducting
heat cycle test of the indigenous H and T type connectors for use in the
distribution lines of Rural Electrification Board, Bangladesh, 1993–1996. 4)
Evaluating
the technical proposals submitted by various International Consortiums in
response to the tender floated by Bangladesh Power Development Board for
appointing consultant in its Haripur (near Dhaka) Power Station Extension
Project through installing a 109 MW combined cycle power plant, 1997. 5)
Evaluating
the technical proposals submitted by various bidders in response to the
tender floated by Jalalabad Gas Transmission & Distribution Systems
Limited, Bangladesh for "Supply, installation, testing and commissioning
of a 1000 kVA substation together with BBT system" for its 10 storied
Head Office Building at Sylhet, 1998. 6)
Conducting
standard tests of a variety of electrical power apparatus and appliances such
as cables, fans, bulbs, switches, circuit breakers, motors, transformers,
large sized AVRs etc. sent to BUET by various private and public sector
industries and organizations, 1988-date. 7)
Team
Leader in BUET experts’ Team for review
, correction and updating of the
technical specifications in the Bid Documents prepared by M/S. Worley
International Ltd., New Zealand for design, manufacture, supply,
installation, testing and
commissioning of a SCADA , an EMS and a Communication backbone
system covering 101 sites by about
2250 km optical fibre cable under a new National Load Despatch Centre Project
for the grid system to be owned by Power Grid Company of
Bangladesh Ltd. (PGCB), 1999. 8)
“Study
of the Trends and Status in the Research and Technology on Lightning Surge
Propagation, Damages and Protection in relation to Telecommunication
Buildings and Subscribers” completed at UTM for NTT SDN.BHD, Malaysia, July-December 2000. 9)
Resource
person in the short course “Recent
Trends in Power System Operation” organised for the
professionals in the academic/industrial sector by the Faculty of Electrical
Engineering, UTM at Johor Bahru, Malaysia, 17-19
September 2001. 10)
Assessing
the power quality of utility supply to British American Tobacco Company
factory in Dhaka; April- May 2003. 11)
Evaluating
the technical proposals submitted by various bidders in response to the
tender floated by Dhaka Electric Supply Co (DESCO) Ltd. for procurement of
distribution system hardware and accessories under Asian Development Bank
loan, 2003. 12)
Resource
person in evaluating reports on cross-border
power trading in South Asia prepared by “Nexant”
under South Asia Regional Initiative in Energy (SARI/E) Program of USAID
(June-July 2003). 13)
Resource
person and organizerin the
Course 1.7: “Strengthening Regional
Energy Linkages in South Asia” sponsored and organized by AED (Academy
for Educational Development) in Dhaka (19-23 July 2003). 14)
Resource
person and organizerin the
short term training “Reliability and Operational
Aspects of a Regional Grid” sponsored by Winrock
International and organized by BUET in Dhaka (15-17 July 2004) under SARI/E
Program of USAID. 15)
Resource
person in “Long Electrical Course” for
the officers of Bangladesh Navy, 2003 and 2004, Dhaka, sponsored by
Directorate of Naval Training, Bangladesh Navy. 16)
Preparing
the complete bid documents (technical and financial) for supply,
installation, testing and commissioning of 1MW and 2MW standby diesel
generators for Dhaka Water Supply and Sewerage Authority (DWASA);2004. 17)
Organizer
and/orResource person
in the short course “Applied
Energy Saving Technologies for Industrial, Commercial and Residential Sectors”,
Centre for Energy Studies, BUET, 2004, 2005 and 2006; 18)
Assessment
of the quality of under-construction 10 storied Headquarters Building for the
Dept. of Forestry financed by Asian Development Bank (ADB) ;2006. 19)
Resource
person
in a series of Training on Solar Lighting Systems for the technical personnel
working with various organizations in rural areas of Bangladesh organized by
the German Technical Assistance (GTZ), Phocos AG
Germany and BUET, 2007. 20)
Assessment
of the effects on the control, operation and protection of an IPP (Pendekar Energy Ltd.)
owned 450 MW Combined Cycle Power Plant (at Meghnaghat
near Dhaka) due to proposed fibre optic cable (FOC)
laying alongside the control and power cables in the same trench at the power
plant premises and switchyard by Grameen Phone Ltd.
to connect its optical backbone with the OPGW (Optical Ground Wires) of PGCB
transmission lines, May 2007. 21)
Conducting
transient stability study to identify the exact causes of blackouts in
the Bangladesh grid system on 16 November 2007 following a devastating
cyclone named SIDR as requested by Power
Grid Company of Bangladesh Ltd. (PGCB). 22)
Conducting
electromagnetic transients and stability studies to identify the root cause
of blackouts in the Bangladesh grid system on 15 December 2007 as
requested by Power Grid Company of Bangladesh
Ltd. (PGCB). 23)
Review
and supervision (March 2008 - May 2009) on behalf of Bangladesh Water
Development Board (BWDB) for its Japanese grant aided rehabilitation
and commissioning work in the Ganges -Kabodakh
Irrigation (GKI) Project that involved replacement of three large
pumps each driven by a 3 MW synchronous motor by the new ones by the Japanese
contractor EBARA. 24)
Determination
( January - December 2009) of under frequency settings for the feeders for
auto load shedding and the frequency ranges for the generators in
Bangladesh Power System to avert blackout as requested by Power Grid Company of Bangladesh Ltd. (PGCB). 25)
Evaluation
of the impacts of large scale installation of Compact Fluorescent Lamps and
Electronic Ballasts in the DPDC distribution system (December 2009). 26)
Evaluation
of the impacts of large scale installation of Compact Fluorescent Lamps in
the REB and DESCO distribution system under World bank financed “Efficient
Lighting Initiative for Bangladesh i.e. ELIB (Phase-I ) Project” ;
June-July 2010. 27)
Resource
person in GTZ sponsored “International
Short Course on Solar Photo Voltaic Systems”, BUET; 2-6 October 2010. 28)
Team leader in the BUET expert teams
for a series of impact studies on Bangladesh Grid System through load flow,
contingency, stability, fault, motor starting, harmonic and/or flicker
analyses due to the following proposed arcing/nonlinear loads and their
mitigations: 1)46 MW load (including 33
MW induction heating furnace) of H-Steel Re-rolling Mills Ltd. at Baraulia, Chittagong ;
(August-November 2009). 2)40 MW load (including 36
MW electric arc furnace) of M/S. AbulKhair Steel
Products (AKSP) Ltd. Chittagong; (April-June 2010). 3)18 MW load (including
induction heating furnace) of Sitalpur Steel Mills
Ltd. Chittagong; (November 2010-December 2010). 4)150 MW load
(including electric arc furnace) of BSRM Steel Mills Ltd. Chittagong ; (January 2011-June 2011). 5)20 MW load
(including DC drives and cold rolling equipment) of KYCR Coils
Industries Ltd. Chittagong; (October 2013-November 2013). 6)16 MW load
(including DC drives and resistive heating furnace) of BFL Ltd. Dhamrai, Dhaka; (September-October 2015) 7) Additional
75 MW load (induction heating/electric arc furnaces, wire and re-rolling
mills) of BSRM Steel Mills Ltd. Chittagong ;
(June 2017-October 2017). 8)30 MW load (including
DC drives and cold rolling equipment) of PHP group’s proposed industry
near Feni; (July 2017-October 2017). 9)40 MW load
(including multi-level converter fed variable frequency AC drives) of Seven
Circle Cement factory at Kalignaj, Gazipur; April 2019-October 2019. 10) 60 MW load ( including AC and DC drives, induction heating and arc
furnaces) of Rahim Still Mills Limited, Sonargaon, Narayanganj; July 2019-December 2019. 11)13 MW load
(including converter fed servo motors and variable frequency AC drives, soft
start induction motors) of Bashundara Food and
Beverage Industries Limited at Sonargaon, Narayanganj; December 2020-June 2021. 29)
Team leader in the BUET expert team for design,
installation, testing and commissioning of SCADA system in 67 Nos. of 33/11
kV substations in Rangpur, Rajshahi,
Mymensingh and Sylhet
distribution zones of Bangladesh Power Development Board (BPDB); April 2010
–December 2011. The project involved installing and interfacing RTUs for
monitoring substation feeders and their breaker control, and polling of the
RTUs from zonal servers using VPN network of Grameen
Phone Ltd. (a cell phone operator).
30)
Senior Consultant (Electrical
Specialist) to Bangladesh Small and Cottage Industries Corporation under the
Ministry of Industries for assistance in design vetting, construction
supervision, quality control and quality acceptance of materials in the
project "Construction and Implementation of a Common Effluent Treatment
Plant and associated systems" at Savar, Dhaka
with a capacity to treat 20,000 cubic meter effluent /day from 150
tannery industries (in the process of relocation from Hazaribagh
to Savar of Dhaka); March 2014-August 2017. The
project involved installation of 7 substations and 7 stand by generators,
laying cables for a large number of pump-motors and installation of complete
metering, instrumentation, protection and SCADA based control system. 31)
Member
of BUET expert team for review of scope and
technical specifications for a G to G (GoB-China)
financed project titled “Expansion and Strengthening of Power System Network
under DPDC Area” a proposal submitted by TBEA, China; June 2015-July 2015. 32)
Member of the BUET expert team for Impact Study (load flow,
contingency and dynamic stability with turbine modeling, UF and ROCOF relay
simulations) for recommending reserve margins, AGC, islanding and Blackout
prevention schemes in Bangladesh grid considering existing cross border power
trade with India through a back-to-back HVDC link and the grid scenarios up
to the year 2017, (September 2015-October 2016). 33)
Member
of BUET expert team for independent assessment of
the
price ofelectrical power, distribution, control and communication equipment
negotiated for the Contract to be signed with TBEA,
China under the G to G (GoB-China) financed project
titled “Expansion and Strengthening of Power System Network under DPDC Area”;
February 2016-March 2016. 34)
Team leader in BUET consulting
team engaged by the Power Division of Ministry of
Power, Energy and Mineral Resources, GoB for auditing
the technical, managerial and financial performance (in the FY 2014-15) of 5
entities belonging to different power distribution utilities in Bangladesh; April –June 2016. 35)
Team leader in BUET
consulting team for providing assistance to CEGIS (Center for Environment and
Geographic Information Services), a Govt. concern under Ministry of Water
Resources, on feasibility studies for PGCB’s transmission network expansion
in Chittagong area, Barisal-Patuakhali area and
construction of Bogra-Rahanpur 400 kV transmission
line; February 2017-May 2017 andOctober 2017-January 2018. 36)
Team leader in BUET
consulting team for providing assistance to RICARDO and TNEI, UK in preparing
a series of technical papers on transmission planning and load dispatching in
Bangladesh power sector under CBISP project (Capacity Building and Implementation
Support in Power sector of Bangladesh) funded by European Investment Bank
(EIB); April 2017-February 2018. 37)
Team leaderin BUET consulting team for prefeasibility
studies of a furnace oil based 50 MW power plant by BCIC at Shyampur (Formerly Uzala Match
Factory premises); January 2018-March 2018. 38)
Team leader in BUET
consulting team for providing assistance to IIFC (Infrastructure Investment
Facilitation Company), a Govt. concern under Economic Relations Division, Ministry
of Finance, on feasibility studies for PGCB’s transmission network expansion
in DPDC Area,October 2018 - February 2019. 39)
Team leader in BUET
consulting team for providing assistance to CEGIS (Center for Environment and
Geographic Information Services), a Govt. concern under Ministry of Water
Resources, on feasibility studies for PGCB’s grid network development in Southern
zone; May 2018-March 2019. 40)
Team leader in BUET
consulting team for providing assistance to CEGIS (Center for Environment and
Geographic Information Services), a Govt. concern under Ministry of Water
Resources, on the impacts of a 100 MW peak Photovoltaic Plant proposed to be
set up and 230 kV grid tied by EGCB at Sonagazi, Feni; October 2019- April 2020. 41)
Team leader in BUET
consulting team for evaluating the impacts of a Photovoltaic Plant (35 MW at
AC side) proposed to be set up and 33 kV grid tied by Spectra Solar Park Ltd. at Shibalay, Manikganj; March 2020
- November 2020. 42)
Team leader in BUET
consulting team for evaluating the impacts of a Photovoltaic Plant (30 MW at
AC side) proposed to be set up and 132 kV grid tied by Karotoa Solar Ltd., (a Concern of Beximco Group) at Shekhgach
of Tetulia, Panchaghar;
January 2022 – October 2022. Professional Societies'
Memberships Senior Member, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
(IEEE), U.S.A.; Life Fellow, Institution of Engineers, Bangladesh
(IEB); Life Fellow, Bangladesh Computer Society Postgraduate
Research : Supervision
of Masters’ theses 1)Md. Shahjahan : "Development of a State
Estimator for BPDB ( 2) Mohammad Tawrit : "Study of Six Phase Power Transmission
Network", M.Sc.Engg. Thesis, September 1992,
BUET. 3)Md. Mizanur Rahman : "An
Interactive Power Flow Analyzer", M.Sc.Engg.
Thesis, November 1993, BUET. 4)Md. Abdus Salam : "Transient Stability Analysis of a Multimachine Power System by Identifying the Region
Containing the Dominant Root of the Characteristic Equation", M.Sc.Engg.
Thesis, February 1994, BUET. 5)Md. AbulKalam : "Space
Decoupled Load Flow Analysis", M. Engg.
Thesis, April 1994, BUET. 6)A.K.M.Tofazzal Hossain:
"Development of a Three-part Time-of-Day Electrical Energy Tariff for
Industrial Consumers in Bangladesh", M.Engg.
Thesis, June 1997, BUET. 7) Narayan Chandra Sarker: "A methodology for islanding a
vulnerable power grid to prevent wide area outage", M.Sc.Engg.
Thesis, August 1999, BUET. 8) Cristopher Wesley Ajan:
“Photovoltaic supplement to diesel generator based supply in an off-grid
location”, M.Eng.Thesis, June 2001, UTM. 9) Md. Abul
Bashar: "A Comaprative
Technical Study on Local Generation versus Power Import in Bangladesh
Perspectives", M.Engg. Thesis, October 2005,
BUET. 10) Md. Mohsin,
“Operating Strategies of a Photovoltaic Generator Embedded High Voltage Power
System”, M.Sc.Engg. Thesis, December 2008, BUET. 11)Syed ImranulIslam,“Development
of an algorithm for switching distribution feeders to avoid frequent under
frequency trips in a power system”, MSc Engg. Thesis, December 2010, BUET.
12) Md. Jahid Hasan, "Tracing the
Contribution from Each generator to Loads and Transmission Loss in a Large
Power system", MSc Engg. Thesis, October 2012, BUET. Supervision of PhD Theses 1)Azhar b. Khairuddin:
“Determination of available transfer capability for a deregulated power
system using fuzzy logic”, PhD Thesis, April 2003, UTM. 2) Md. FaridAhmmed, "Development
of a Methodology for Voltage Sensitive Generation Scheduling", PhD Thesis, December 2015,BUET. 3)Md. Mohsin, “Control of a
Utility scale Photovoltaic generator for Frequency response and Fault ride
through Capability”,PhD Thesis, March 2019, BUET. Co-supervision: 1) HendriNovia,“Fuzzy
Logic Based Energy Saving Technique for a Central Air Conditioning System”, M.Eng. Thesis, March 2003, UTM. 2) Muhammad Abu Bakar Sidik, “Design
and Development of an Indigenous Mobile Artificial Contamination Chamber
Prototype for Glass and Polymeric Insulators Performance Test”, M.Eng. Thesis, March 2003, UTM.
3) Abdul Hasib
Chowdhury, “A Methodology for Planning Tie-Lines in
an Interconnected Power System”, PhD Thesis, September 2008, BUET. Doctoral Committee/Board of Examiners Member: For 7
PhD theses and approximately 40 MSc Eng. theses. Undergraduate Project Supervision at BUET, UTM, BRAC
University Supervised around
107 projects. Subjects Taught: at undergraduate level at BUET,UTM, and BRAC
University: Electrical
Circuits (AC), Energy Conversion I and II,Control System, Power System I,
Power System II (includes HVDC transmission, FACTS), Power System Protection,
Power System Reliability, Power Plant Engineering, Power System Operation and
Control (includes electricity market
operation), Smart Grid, Nuclear Power Engineering. at graduate level at BUET, UTM, and BRAC
University: Advanced
Power System Control, Modern Power System Modeling, Advanced Power System, Power System Stability,
HVDC Embedded Power System. Laboratory Development/Up
gradation and Maintenance/Capacity build up ·
Set
up the Control Systems Laboratory of EEE Dept. BUET and served as the Lab
In-charge (1994-1999). The lab was equipped to provide experimental
facilities on, among others, Microprocessor based temperature control,
Conveyor system controlled by Programmable Logic Controller (PLC), Digital
control of DC servomotor's speed and position, Digital simulation using MATLAB
package for verifying Control Systems theories, AC servo systems, and Process
control simulation. ·
Served
as the Lab In-charge (August 2003- July 2007) of Switchgear and Protection
Laboratory in EEE Dept., BUET. The lab was equipped with PC based digital
relays having interfaces with air and vacuum circuit breakers. ·
Team
leader in the development of a Building Energy Management System (BEMS) Lab
at EEE Dept., BUET with funding from Energy and Power Research Council (EPRC)
of Ministry of Power, Energy and Mineral Resources, GoB;
February 2018-February 2020. The lab is focused on energy conservation
through occupancy and ambient weather sensitive real-time control of any
brand of cooling and lighting loads. ·
Team
leader in the capacity build up for power and energy systems research and teaching
at BUET with funding from Energy and Power Research Council (EPRC) of
Ministry of Power, Energy and Mineral Resources, GoB;
November 2019- April 2021. |