Faculty at School of Engineering

Himanshu Sekhar Sahu

Himanshu Sekhar Sahu

Assistant Professor


Contact Information

Integration of Renewable Sources with the Grid, Photovoltaic Power System, Distributed Generation, and Power Quality

2017, Ph.D., Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati

2010, M.Tech., Veer Surendra Sai University of Technology, Burla (Formerly University College of Engineering, Burla), Odisha

2006, B.E., Biju Pattnaik University of Technology, Rourkela, Odisha

08/18-Present

Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, School of Engineering, Shiv Nadar University, Delhi-NCR

09/17-07/18

Institute Post Doctoral Fellow, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai

07/10-12/11

Assistant Professor, Hi-Tech College of Engineering, Bhubaneswar

2015, Best paper award in the student section for the presented paper titled "Extraction of Maximum Power from a PV Array Under Partial Shading Conditions" in Global Energy Technology Summit (GETS-2015), NTPC, Power Management Institute (PMI) Noida, India

1. S. Tripathi, H. S. Sahu, S. Kumar, S. K. Nayak and M. K. Mishra, "Maximum Energy Harvest from a TCT Connected PV Array under Non-homogeneous Irradiation Conditions," IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Power Electronics, DOI:10.1109/JESTPE.2023.3307734. (Published in Early Access on 23 August 2023). 

2. S. Tripathi, S. Chopra, H. S. Sahu, M. K. Mishra, S. Kumar and S. K. Nayak, "A Novel MPP Estimation Technique for DDM PV Array Under Different Solar Irradiance Conditions," IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy, DOI: 10.1109/TSTE.2023.3294809. (Published in Early Access on 12 July 2023).

3. S. Kumar, S. K. Nayak and H. S. Sahu,"A novel GMPP estimation technique for series parallel connected partially shaded PV array," Solar Compass, Volume 7, 2023.

4. H. S. Sahu, Mahesh K. Mishra, S. Kumar and S. K. Nayak, "A Novel Approach for Direct MPP Estimation of a PV Module Under Different Irradiation Conditions," IEEE Transactions on Energy Conversion, vol. 36, no. 4, pp. 3127-3136, Dec. 2021.

5. S. Kumar, H. S. Sahu and S. K. Nayak, "Estimation of MPP of a Double Diode Model PV Module from Explicit I-V Characteristic," IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, vol. 66, no. 9, pp. 7032-7042, Sept. 2019.

6. H. S. Sahu and S. K. Nayak, "Estimation of Maximum Power Point of a Double Diode Model Photovoltaic Module", IET Power Electronics, vol. 10, no. 6, pp. 667-675, May 2017.

7. H. S. Sahu and S. K. Nayak, "Extraction of Maximum Power From a PV Array Under Nonuniform Irradiation Conditions", IEEE Transaction on Electron Devices, vol. 63, no. 12, pp. 4825-4831, December 2016.

8. H. S. Sahu and S. K. Nayak, "Numerical Approach to Estimate the Maximum Power Point of a Photovoltaic Array", IET Generation Transmission & Distribution, vol. 10, no. 11, pp. 2670-2680, August 2016.

9. H. S. Sahu, S. K. Nayak and S. Mishra, "Maximizing the Power Generation of a Partially Shaded PV Array", IEEE Journal of Emerging Selected Topics in Power Electronics, vol. 4, no. 2, pp. 626-637, June 2016.

Invited Talk:

  1. Delivered a talk in QIP sponsored Short Term Course on "Renewable Energy and Grid Integration (REGI)" at Veer Surendra Sai University of Technology Burla, India on 3rd April 2018.

Conference Presentations:

  1. S. Tripathi and H.S.Sahu, 'A novel Z-rearrangement scheme for improving performance of partially shaded PV array' IEEE International Conference on Power Electronics, Drives and Energy System (PEDES 2022) (Accepted for presentation).
  2. S. Kumar, H. S. Sahu, S. K. Nayak and P. Changmai, "Parameter estimation of a DDM PV module using a simplistic novel method," 2022 IEEE 2nd International Conference on Sustainable Energy and Future Electric Transportation (SeFeT), pp. 1-6, 2022.
  3. S. Chopra and H. S. Sahu, "MPP estimation of a DDM PV module using explicit I-V expression," IEEE International Conference on Power Electronics, Smart Grid and Renewable Energy (PESGRE2020), pp. 1-6, Jan 2020.
  4. H. S. Sahu and Mahesh. K. Mishra, "Maximum power output from a solar PV array under partially shaded conditions," 2018 IEEE Transportation Electrication Conference and Expo, Asia-Pacific (ITEC Asia-Pacific), Bangkok, pp. 1-5, June 2018.
  5. H. S. Sahu, S. Kumar and S. K. Nayak, "Maximum power point estimation of a PV array by using improve bisection method," 2018 IEEE Transportation Electrication Conference and Expo, Asia-Pacfiic (ITEC Asia-Pacific), Bangkok, pp. 1-5, June 2018.
  6. H. S. Sahu and S. K. Nayak, "Extraction of maximum power from a PV array under partial shading conditions," Presented in Global Energy Technology Summit (GETS-2015), NTPC, Power Management Institute (PMI) Noida, PP. 1-11, Nov. 2015 (Best paper award).
  7. H. S. Sahu and S. K. Nayak, "A novel approach to extract maximum power from partially shaded PV array," IEEE Power, Communication and Information Technology Conference (PCITC), Bhubaneswar, PP. 337-342, Oct. 2015.
  8. P. Saha, S. Kumar, S. K. Nayak and H. S. Sahu, "Parameter estimation of double diode photo-voltaic module," Power, 1st Conference on Dielectric and Energy Management at NERIST (ICPDEN), Itanagar, pp. 1-4, Jan. 2015.
  9. H. S. Sahu and S. K. Nayak, "Improvement in the power generation of a PV array under partial shading conditions," Eighteenth National Power Systems Conference (NPSC), IIT Guwahati, PP. 1-6, Dec. 2014.
  10. H. S. Sahu and S. K. Nayak, "A novel approach to improve power output of PV array under dierent shading conditions," 6th IEEE Power India International Conference (PIICON), Delhi, PP. 1-6, Dec. 2014.
  11. H. S. Sahu and S. K. Nayak, "Power enhancement of partially shaded PV array by using a novel approach for shade dispersion," IEEE PES Innovative Smart Grid Technologies - Asia (ISGT ASIA), Kuala Lumpur, pp. 498-503, May 2014.
  12. H. S. Sahu, S. Roy and S. K. Nayak, "Estimation of maximum power point of PV array using datasheet values for microgrid integration," IEEE PES Innovative Smart Grid Technologies - Asia (ISGT ASIA), Kuala Lumpur, pp. 754-759, May 2014.