Premila Manohar

Date of Birth : 18-05-1958

email: premilakrvh@yahoo.com

Education
  B.E. (Electrical Engg.) (Karnataka University), 1981

  M.E. (Power Systems) (Mysore University), 1985

  Ph.D. (High Voltage Engg.) (Indian Institute of Science), 1991

Areas of interest
  HVDC Systems, Applications of Superconductivity to Power Systems

Conferences/Seminars/Winter/Summer Schools attended

1. Attended seminar on “Emerging trends and challenges in Technical Education” on 9^th – 10^th Nov 2004.

2. Attended seminar on “Women in Science and Engineering towards gender equity” on 24^th Nov 2004.

3. Attended Three day workshop on Power System Simulation laboratory on 29^th, 30^th Sep 2005 & 1^st Oct 2005.

4. Attended the Pre-conference workshop on Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems(MEMS) Technology, Devices & Applications conducted on July 27^th 2005.

   5.  Workshop on Real  Time Simulation of Power Systems on 24^th Jan 2005 at CPRI

   6.  15^th EEE Bangalore section annual symposium- November 2006. on    

        “Technological Advances and IT Applications for Indian Power 

        Sector” CPRI,   Bangalore on 24^th & 25^th Nov 2006.

   7.  Attended one day workshop on “Recent trends in automation using PLC’s and

        Microcontrollers” at MSRIT on 11^th April 2007

   8.  Delivered lecture on “HVDC Principles, Technology and Economics” and “HVDC

        operation and control” at Power System Training Institute, Bangalore during

        November 2006 (six lecturers)

Research Publications

1. Premila Manohar and H.S. Chandrashekaraiah, 1989, forced commutated inverter for HVDC transmission inverting into weak AC systems, Proceedings of 2^nd workshop and conference on EHV technology, Bangalore, 1989. pp. 55-58.

2. R. Jayakrishna, Premila Manohar and H.S. Chandrashekaraiah, 1989, Performance evaluation of adaptive controllers for HVDC systems, Proceedings of 2^nd workshop and conference on EHV technology, Bangalore.November 1993

3. Premila Manohar and H.S. Chandrashekariah, 1991, Application of ZnO varistor protection to capacitors of artificially commutated inverter in MTDC systems, IEEE transactions on power systems, Vol. 6, No. 1, pp. 356-363.

4. Premila Manohar and H.S. Chandrashekariah ,Performance evaluation of MTDC systems in New concepts in EHV/UHV AC/DC transmission system, Proceedings of the Ninth National convention of Electrical Engineering, Bangalore November 1993.

5. Premila Manohar and H.S. Chandrashekariah ,A Study of  A Critical appraisal of the location of back to back HVDC station in AC system, in Emerging trends in power systems. Proceedings of the Eighth National Power System Conference, Delhi, December 1994

6. Premila Manohar& Wajid Ahmed 2006 of  Modeling and Simulation of SMES Coil for  HVDC applications. A Comparison,  15^th EEE Bangalore section annual symposium on Technical advances and IT applications for Indian Power sector- November 2006 CPRI, Bangalore.

7. Premila Manohar and H.S.Chandrasekhariah, 1990, Artificial commutation for inversion into weak ac system is MTDC system, Electrical Power Systems Research Vol.19, No.2, pp 95 – 104.

   8.  Premila Manohar & Wajid Ahmed and Mihir Naik “Dynamic modeling and simulation of

        superconducting fault current limiter for HVDC application”, paper submitted to 3^rd

         National Power Electronics Conference, Dec 2007 Bangalore