DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRICAL AND ELECTRONICS ENGINEERING

Dr. R.Zahira

Teaching

Educational Background

Work Experience

Research

Ph.D scholars guided/pursuing

• Number of PhD Scholars completed : 01
• Number of Ph.D Scholars Guiding : 01

Research

Area of Research Interest

• Power system
• Renewable energy system
• Electric Vehicle
• Power quality
• Active filters
• Microgrids and smart grid

Publications

International Journals
No. of International Journal Publications: 32

• R. Zahira, M.I.I. Hussain, S. Suresh, V. Bharanigha and V. Pramila, “Photovoltaic Charging Dock for Electric Mobility with G2V and V2G Technology”, Int. J. Vehicle Structures & Systems, 15(2), 171-175.doi:10.4273/ijvss.15.2.05. ISSN:0975-3060; E-ISSN:0975-3540;(Scopus and SCIE) Impact factor: 0.528
• Mohamed Iqbal. M, Senthilkumar M, Zahira. R, Ganesh. C, Balaji V and Vishalini G, “Power Quality Analysis of Fuzzy DVR based Hybrid Solar PV-PEMFC System Under Severe Disturbance”, International Journal of Electrical and Electronics Research (IJEER), Volume 11, Issue 1 | Pages 148-155 | e-ISSN: 2347-470X;pp148-155.(Scopus) Impact factor: 0.12
• K. Srinivasan, R. Zahira, D.Lakshmi, B. Partheeban, TKS. Sathyanarayan, “Four Switch three Phase Y Source Inverter Fed AC Drive Using Fopid Controller”, Journal of Data Acquisition and Processing ISSN: 1004-9037 Vol. 38 (1); 2023 pp:3012 -3022.(Scopus and SCIE) Impact factor: 0.444
• R. Zahira,Sumathy P, Divya Navamani J, Lavanya A,Jagabar Sathik Fadl A. Essa, “Switched Inductor/Switched Capacitor high voltage pulse converter based on PV system for Food processing application”, Energies, Jan 2023, 16(2), 1010; DOI: 10.3390/en16021010 ISSN: 1996-1073 (Scopus, WoS and SCI) impact factor: 3.252.
• Nithin.B, Zahira.R, Shaffeque Ahmed K, “Hybrid PV wind battery optimal sizing using horse-herd optimization”, International Journal of Vehicle Structures and Systems. (Scopus) ISSN:0975-3060;15(1) 2023 pp:127-132; E-ISSN:0975-3540,(Scopus and SCIE) Impact factor: 0.53
• Suresh, S., Zahira.R., Shaffeque Ahmed K, Bharanigha. V. and Mekhilef, S. (2022), “Heuristic design and modelling of modified interleaved boost converter for E-mobility control”, COMPEL – The international journal for computation and mathematics in electrical and electronic engineering, Vol. ahead-of-print No. ahead-of-print. https://doi.org/10.1108/COMPEL-05-2022-0171, (Scopus, WoS and SCI) ISSN: 0332-1649 ; Impact factor: 0.852.
• D Lakshmi* R Zahira V Pramila S Baskaran, S Satish Kumar, P Siva, “Graphical interface Fungal Disease Characterization in Farmlands”, NeuroQuantology, September 2022, Volume 20, Issue 11, Page 6358-6363, DOI: 10.14704/NQ.2022.20.11.NQ66634,(Scopus) ISSN:1303-5150 impact factor: 0.285Mohamed Iqbal. M, R. Zahira, D. Lakshmi, C. N. Ravi,”Voltage Stability Enhancement of SMIB System using Variable Structure Controller” Solid State Technology, Volume: 63 Issue: 6, 2020, pp: 22125- 22131, ISSN:0038-111X
• Mohamed Iqbal. M, R. Zahira, D. Lakshmi, C. N. Ravi,”Voltage Stability Enhancement of SMIB System using Variable Structure Controller” Solid State Technology, Volume: 63 Issue: 6, 2020, pp: 22125- 22131, ISSN:0038-111X
• S.Amirta Raj, D.Lakshmi, V.Madhan kumar and R.Zahira “Switching Loss Reduction and Simulation of Quasi Z-Source Inverter System Fed BLDC Motor”. International Journal of Advanced Science and Technology, Vol. 29, no. 04, Feb. 2020, pp. 1149-57
• Veerakumar.P, Sundar.R, D.Lakshmi, R.Zahira, “Automatic Temperature Control System for Ship’s Turbine Main Oil Cooler Using PIC Microcontroller”. International Journal of Advanced Science and Technology, Vol. 29, no. 04, Feb. 2020, pp. 1170-74
• Zahira, D.Lakshmi, Ravi.C.N, S. Sasikala, “Power Quality Enhancement Using Grid Connected PV Inverter”, Jour of Adv Research in Dynamical & Control Systems, (Scopus) Vol. 10, 05-Special Issue, pp 309-317, 2018.
• Zahira, S.Baskaran*, D.Lakshmi2, S.Benisha,”Arduino Based Intelligent Parking Assistance System” International Journal of ChemTech Research, Vol.11 No.04, pp 101-106, 2018.
• Zahira, Ravi.C.N., Lakshmi.D., Benisha.S,. “Steady State Optimal Power Flow” International Journal of ChemTech Research (Scopus), Vol.11 No.04, pp 153-157, 2018.
• Zahira S.Benisha, D.Lakshmi, “Dc – Dc Converter Integrated With Voltage Multiplier For High Voltage Gain”, IJARTET, pp 21-26, 2018.
• Zahira S. Baskaran, D. Lakshmi, , G. Ezhilarasi, “Hybrid Solar System Using Mppt Algorithm For Smart Dc House”, International Journal of Pure and Applied Mathematics, (Scopus), Vol.118, No.10, pp 407-417, 2018.
• Zahira, D. Lakshmi and G.Ezhilarasi,”Optimization of Unit Commitment Using Ant Colony Algorithm”, Australian Journal of Basic and Applied Sciences, 10(1) January 2016, Pages: 709-714.
• Zahira, D. Lakshmi, G. Ezhilarasi, and V. Balaji, “Design and Optimization of Battery Voltage Source to Use with PMDC Motor”, Middle-East Journal of Scientific Research 24 (3): 955-961, 2016,ISSN 1990-9233, IDOSI Publications, 2016.
• Zahira, A. Peer Fathima, Ranganath Muthu,”Harmonic Reduction in Wind Power Generating System Using Shunt Active Filter with SPWM Technique”, Circuits and Systems, 2016, 7, 157-165.(updated annexure-2016).
• Zahira, D. Lakshmi” Optimisation of Two Area Power System Using Differential Evaluation Algorithm”, International Journal of Innovative Research in Electrical, Electronics, Instrumentation and Control Engineering, Vol. 4, Special Issue 3, April 2016,pp-63-67.
• Zahira, N. Ramya and Sasikala, “A Noval Multi Input Grid Connected Bidirectional Converter for Hybrid Systems”, International Journal of Pure and Applied Mathematics(Scopus), Volume 119, No. 12, pp.2993-3004, 2018
• Zahira, S. PremKumar, “Different Types of Control Strategies For Shunt Active Filter” International Journal of Applied Engineering Research, ISSN 0973-4562 Vol. 9 No.22 (2014) pp. 6652-6658..(Annex-II,SCOPUSINDEXED)
• Zahira,S.Ramamoorthy, D.Lakshmi “Literature Survey of Standalone PV System Using MPPT    Techniques”, International Journal of Applied Engineering Research, ISSN 0973-4562 Vol. 9 No.22,(2014)pp.6787-6794..(Annex-II,SCOPUSINDEXED)
• Zahira, Mr.S.Prakash “Power Quality Improvement By Harmonic Reduction Technique”   International Journal of Applied Engineering Research, ISSN 0973-4562 Vol. 9 No.22 (2014) pp. 6795-6800..(Annex-II,SCOPUSINDEXED)
• Zahira, S.Ramamoorthy,” Hysteresis Control Based Shunt Active Filter For Harmonics Suppression” International Journal of Applied Engineering Research, ISSN 0973-4562 Vol. 9 No.22 (2014)pp.6855-6860.
• Zahira, A. Peer Fathima, and Ranganath Muthu , “Modelling, Simulation and Implementation of the Three-Phase Fuzzy Based Shunt Active Filter for Limiting the Total Harmonic Distortion”, Applied Mechanics and Materials Vol. 622 (2014) pp 121-126 doi:10.4028, .(Annex-II, SCOPUS INDEXED)
• Zahira, A.Peer Fathima, Ranganath Muthu, “Hardware and Simulation Modelling of Shunt Active Filter Controlled by Sliding Mode Technique”, International Journal of Applied Engineering Research, ISSN 0973-4562 Vol. 9 No.24 (2014) pp. 8229-8235. .(Annex-II, SCOPUS INDEXED)
• Zahira,P. Sheshathri ,M. Syed Shafiullah ,S. Vishnu ,Vishnu Prasad “Technical Investigation on Microgrid and Power Quality Impact” International Journal of Scientific & Engineering Research, Volume 5, Issue 4, April-2014,pg 183-187.

International Conferences:

No. of International Conference papers: 14

• S Sadia Ibrahim , R Zahira, ‘Power Quality Improvement in Grid using D-STATCOM”, DST SERB sponsored international conference on Emerging Technologies in power electronics for green and renewable energy systems(ICETPRS-May 2023), Bharath Institute of Higher Education and Research, Chennai.PP 41,ISSN:978-93-5777-514-4.
• Dr.Rajeswari Viswanathan, Dr. R. Zahira, Dr. D. Lakshmi, Dr. K. Srinivasan, “Electric Vehicle Charging With V2G Energy Transfer” Proceedings of 7th International conference on Recent Advances in Science, Engineering and Management, Tagore Engineering College, Rathinamangalam, ISBN: 978-81-943033-7-4, 25th January 2023.pg 82.
• R.K.Padmashini, D.Lakshmi, Dr. R. Zahira, Dr. K. Srinivasan, “Improved cascaded multilevel inverter for marine propulsion applications”, Proceedings of 7th International conference on Recent Advances in Science, Engineering and Management, Tagore Engineering College, Rathinamangalam, ISBN : 978-81-943033-7-4,25th January 2023, pg 83.
• D. Lakshmi, Sangeetha.M , Zahira. R, Padmashini.R.K., Ahmed Kabeel, Muthu manokar.A, “Design and Development of voice controlled solar powered electric bicycle with location tracking”, 1st International Engineering Conference on Research and innovation, organised by Faculy of Engineering , Delta University for science and technology, on 26th -27th November 2022 at Semiramis Intercontinental,Cairo, Eqypt.S. Suresh and R. Zahira, “Simulation Analysis of PV based two stage interleaved boost converter for EV applications”, International Conference on Smart Automation in Computer, Electrical, Electronics and Communication Engineering (Virtual Conference), Sri Valliammai Engineering College, Chennai, 10 April 2021, ISBN:978 -81- 953396- 0-0
• D. Lakshmi, R. Zahira, C. N. Ravi, G. Ezhilarasi and C. Nayanatara, “Flower Pollination Algorithm in DPS Integrated DFIG for Controlling Load Frequency,” 2020 International Conference on Power, Energy, Control and Transmission Systems (ICPECTS), 2020, pp. 1-7, IEEE doi: 10.1109/ICPECTS49113.2020.9337017
• D. Lakshmi, A. Peer Fathima, R. Zahira and M. Balamurugan, Load frequency control of a two-area deregulated power system integrated with DFIG using pollination algorithm, Second International Conference on Power Engineering Computing and Control (PECCON-2019), December 2019
• Zahira, A.Peer Fathima, Ranganath Muthu “Sine PWM Technique  For Reducing Harmonics In Three Phase Non Linear Load” has been selected in The Second International Conference on Electrical Energy Systems (ICEES 2014) will be held at SSN College of Engineering with the support of IEEE, during 7-9 January 2014 . same published in IEEE xplore 978-1-4799-3739-4/14/$31.00_c 2014 IEEE,pg 56-60.
• Zahira, J.Sandhiya, M.Samundeeswari,  S.Yamini, “ Power Quality Improvement In Wind Energy System”, Proceedings of International Conference on Electrical, Communication and Computing, ICECC – 2014, 13th & 14th March 2014 at Tagore Engineering College, pg :559-562.
• Zahira, A.Peer Fathima, “A Technical Survey on Control Strategies of Active Filter for Harmonic Suppression” has been Selected and Presented in International Conference on Communication Technology and System Design 2011  (ICCTSD 2011), & Published by Elsevier Ltd.,held on 7-9^th of December 2011 at Amrita University,Ettimadi, pg 706-713.Paper also available in Science Direct. Procedia Engineering, Elsevier vol 30 (2012) 686 – 693.

National Conferences
No. of National Conference papers:10

• S.Amirtharaj, Selvarani. M, Lakshmi.D, Zahira.R, “Design Of MOSFET Inverter For A Grid Connected Photovoltaic System” Proceedings of AICTE Sponsored National Conference on Recent Advances in On-Board Ship Automation (RAOBSA-2019), 26th – 27th, September, 2019, Chennai, ISBN: 978-93-85434-75-4.PP-253-256
• Zahira ,S.Vikraman,” A PFC Bridgeless Buck-Boost Converter Fed PMBLDC Motor Drive For Adjustable Speed Low Power Applications” published in National Conference on Recent Advances in Science, Engineering and Management, NCRASEM-2015, conducted by Tagore Engineering College on 20th March 2015.
• Zahira, A.Peer Fathima, Ranganath Muthu,”Wind Energy Conversion Using Shunt Active Power Filter” published in National Conference on Recent Advances in Science, Engineering and Management, NCRASEM-2015, conducted by Tagore Engineering College on 20th March 2015
• Zahira , V.Chitra, J.Banupriya, R.Janani, R.Nafeela,”Implementation Of Hybrid Active Power Filters With Renewable Energy For Power Quality” published in National Conference on Recent Advances in Science, Engineering and Management, NCRASEM-2015, conducted by Tagore Engineering College on 20th March 2015.
• Zahira ,Research paper titled “Different Types Of Control Strategies For Shunt Active Filter” has been selected & published in National Conference On Recent Trends in Electrical Science and Technology(NCRTEST’13) Conducted by IET-SSIET student chapter  held on  15^th  Feb 2013  at Sree Sastha Institute of Engineering and Technology ,Pg.No.53
• Zahira Research paper titled “A System to Detect Transformer Defects using GSM” has been selected & published in National Conference On Technological Advancements In Power Systems & Power Electronics Engineering (TAPSPEE‘13) held on 23^th April 2013 at Easwari Engineering College.
• Zahira, A.Peer Fathima, “Harmonic Suppression Using Active Filter Based On Hysteresis Controller” has been selected & published in National Conference On Recent Trends in Electrical & Electronics Engineering (JCECON’11) held on 8^th & 9^th March 2011 at Jerusalem College of  Engineering College ,Pg No: 32-36.
• Zahira, Dr. A. Peer Fathima, ”Control Scheme of Shunt Active Filter For Power Quality Improvement” has been selected & published in AICTE sponsored 1^st National Conference On Technological Advancements In Power Systems & Power Electronics Engineering (TAPSPEE‘11) held on 20^th & 21^st April 2011 at Easwari Engineering College ,Pg No: 194, ISBN NO:978-81-920490-8-3.
• Zahira” Mitigation of Harmonics Using Active Filter Based on P-Q Theory“published in national conference on Future challenges and budding intelligent techniques in electrical and electronics engineering ,at sathyabama university,Chennai on july 29^th and 30^th 2010.
• Zahira , M.Y. Ahamed Razeeka ,”Active Filters For Power Quality Improvement by Harmonic Suppression” ” has been selected & published in National Conference On Recent Trends in Electrical & Electronics Engineering (JCECON’06) at Jerusalem College of Engineering College.

Book/Book chapter

Book chapters: 09

• R. Zahira, D. Lakshmi, C.N. Ravi, Pramila V,Sivaraman P, Sharmeela C., “Application of Optimization Technique in Modern Hybrid Power Systems”, in edited book titled ‘IoT, Machine Learning and Blockchain Technologies for Renewable Energy and Modern Hybrid Power Systems’,Chapter 07, Pp-149 – 172 Book Editor(s):C. Sharmeela; P. Sanjeevikumar; P. Sivaraman; Meera Joseph, Publisher: River Publishers,Distributed exclusively by Routledge (Taylor & Francis Group) December 2022, ISBN: 9788770227247.
• Sivaraman P, Zahira R, Sharmeela C, “Introduction to Smart Power Systems”, in edited book titled ‘Artificial Intelligence-based Smart Power Systems,” 01, Pp-01-13 Book Editor(s): Sanjeevikumar Padmanaban, Sivaraman Palanisamy, Sharmeela Chenniappan, Jens Bo Holm-Nielsen, Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Inc, December 2022 https://doi.org/10.1002/9781119893998.ch1, ISBN: 9788770227247.
• R. Zahira,D. Lakshmi, C.N. Ravi, Pramila V, Sivaraman P, Sharmeela C., “Power Quality Conditioners in Smart Power System”, in edited book titled ‘Artificial Intelligence-based Smart Power Systems’,Chapter 12, Pp-233-258 Book Editor(s):Sanjeevikumar Padmanaban,Sivaraman Palanisamy,Sharmeela Chenniappan,Jens Bo Holm-Nielsen, Publisher:John Wiley & Sons, Inc,December 2022. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781119893998.ch12; ISBN: 9780128234464
• Zahira, R., Lakshmi, D., & Ravi, C. N. , Power Quality Issues in Microgrid and its Solutions. in Microgrid Technologies, Scrivener Publishing LLC (Wiley), Book Editor(s):C. Sharmeela, P. Sivaraman, P. Sanjeevikumar, Jens Bo Holm-Nielsen, pp 255-286, 2021, ISBN: 9781119710790, https://doi.org/10.1002/9781119710905.ch10
• Dr. Adhinarayanan Theerthamalai, Dr.R.Zahira, “Covid And Impacts On Energy And Power” Energy and Power 2021, ESN Publications, PP 44-49
• Zahira R., Peer Fathima A., Lakshmi D., Amirtharaj S. (2021) Modeling and Simulation Analysis of Shunt Active Filter for Harmonic Mitigation in Islanded Microgrid. In: Zhou N., Hemamalini S. (eds) Advances in Smart Grid Technology. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 688. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-7241-8_15.
• Dr. R. Zahira , Dr. D. Lakshmi , “Control Techniques for Improving Quality of Power – A Review”, Published by Bonfring , Holistic Research Perspectives [Volume 4], 2019, pg: 107-123, DOI: 10.9756/BP2019.1002/10, ISBN 978-93-87862-82-1.
• R. Zahira , Dr. D. Lakshmi , “Load Frequency Control in Deregulated Power System”, Published by Bonfring, Holistic Research Perspectives [Volume 4], 2019,Pg: 124-133, DOI: 10.9756/BP2019.1002/10, ISBN 978-93-87862-82-1.

Editor of book

• Energy and Power 2021, ESN Publications, ISBN: 978-81-947019-5-8, Price: Rs 500, Received Asian book of records and Indian book of record for being a editor and author in record book title “MOST AUTHORS CONTRIBUTING FOR A SINGLE BOOK COVID -19 AND ITS IMPACT”. The same is submitted to WORLD BOOK OF RECORDS, London (UK) as the thickest book in the world

Patent Publication:  04

Patent number: 202341034275

Title of the invention: A system for safe electric pole usage.

Date of filing of Application :16/05/2023

Patent details

• K.Srinivasan Dr.K.Vasudevan Dr.R.Zahira Dr.S.Sankar”Active Power Filters to Improve Power Quality Using PI and Fuzzy controllers” Application No.201941032289 A, The Patent Office Journal No. 36/2019 Dated 06/09/2019, Page:  40656.
• S.Sankar, Dr. C. Saravanan, Dr.K.Srinivasan and Dr.R.Zahira,” Modified Stator Winding Arrangement in Three Phase Induction Motor”, Application No.201941036842 A, The Patent Office Journal No. 41/2019 Dated 11/10/2019, Page: 47398.

Research supervisor:

Completed: 01, ongoing – 01

Events Organized

• Organized Five Day Online Faculty Development Programme on “Recent Trends in Electrical Engineering” during 01-05 June 2020
• Organized Three Day Short Term Training Programme on “Electric Vehicle and its Scenario in India” from July 1st to 3rd 2020
• Coordinated one day Training Programme on “Operation and Maintenance of Roof Top Solar PV Practices” (10 th February 2020)
• Organized Awareness programme on Energy, Oil & Gas Conservation– Saksham 2020- in collaboration with Energy & Fuel Users Association of India, 31st January 2020
• Coordinated a Guest lecture on Creative Teaching & Learning Pedagogies in UNSW Engineering in collaboration with School of Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications, UNSW SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA on 28/01/2020
• One Day National Level Seminar on Research Potential in Solar Energy and Storage Technologies in collaboration on 10th March 2020

Extension

Additional Responsibilities

Membership in Professional Bodies

• Life membership in IEI,ISSE, ISTE, IAENG
• Senior Member of HKCBEES
• Member SCIEI and ISRD

Acted as Technical committee member

• Technical Review Committee member of 4th International Congress 2020, 28 – 29, December 2020 conducted in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
• Organizing Committee Member of ESN International Conference on Multidisciplinary Research 6th to 9th February, 2020 conducted in Sri Lanka
• Technical Committee Member of 3rd International Conference on Multidisciplinary Perspectives In Engineering & Technology (ICMPET-2020), 27th – 28th March 2020 Chennai

Awards and recognition

• Dr. R. Zahira received an exclusive honor from WORLD BOOK OF RECORDS, London (UK) on 18th September 2020 for participating in a mass event being organized by ESN publication as one of the longest international conference following the duration of 150 hours continuously from 03-09 September 2020
• Women Researcher Award- IOSRD Researcher Awards December 2018.
• Innovative Technological Researcher & Dedicated Academician Award (October 2018)
• Outstanding scientist award- IOSRD Researcher Awards January 2019.
• Received Young Educator & Scholar Award in 10th National Teachers’ Day Awards 2019 from NFED Association (Coimbatore)
• Awarded as best academician at HANGOUT ’19 organised by BSA crescent alumni association

Reviewed research papers in

• IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, IET Generation, Transmission & Distribution,
• IETE Technical Review
• COMPEL
• Advances in Electrical and Electronic Engineering,

Resource person and Invited Lectures Delivered

• Dr. R. Zahira delivered a session on the topic “Power Quality Issues in Micro Grid” as guest speaker in the Three Day National Level Faculty Development Programme on “Overview of Issues and Challenges in Power Sector” organized by AMET Deemed to be University, Chennai on 12.07.2020
• Invited as keynote speaker on 6th September for ESN International Conference on Multidisciplinary Research and Innovation ICMRI 2020 held during 03rd September to 09th September 2020 at Hotel Turyaa, Chennai
• Invited as a Session Chair on 3rd, 6th and 7th for our World record ESN International Conference on Multidisciplinary Research and Innovation ICMRI 2020 held during 03rd September to 09th September 2020
• Delivered a guest Lecture on “Stability Analysis on Power System” at Tagore Engineering College, Chennai on 14.08.2019.
• Delivered guest lecture on Circuit Breakers at Prince Shri Venkateshwara Padmavathy Engineering College, Ponmar, Chennai on 14.09.2019.
• Invited as Key note speaker and session chair for AICTE sponsored Two days National Conference on “Recent Advances in On–Board Ship Automation” at AMET( Deemed to be University), Chennai on 27.09.2019.