C. Venkataseshaiah

Dr. C. Venkataseshaiah was born in 1943. He obtained his B.E. in Electrical Engg. from S.V. University in 1964, M.E. in High Voltage Engineering from Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore in 1966 and Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engg. from IIT Madras in 1976. He joined the faculty of the Department of Electrical Engg. in 1966. Since 1993, he has been a Professor, working in the power systems and High Voltage Section. He has forty research papers. He has participated in a number of sponsored and consultancy projects. His current area of work are: Electrical power Quality, Flexible AC Transmission, Electromagnetic Compatibility, fault diagnosis and condition monitoring of high voltage power apparatus.

Journals

  • A. Kuppurajulu, P.C. Majhee and C. Venkataseshaiah: 'A fast response device for measurement of power, reactive power, voltamperes and power factor', Paper presented at the IEEE Winter Power Meeting, New York, N.Y., January 25-30, 1970 and published in IEEE Transactions on Power Apparatus and Systems, Vol. PAS-90, No. 1, January/February 1971, pp. 331-338.

  • C. Venkataseshaiah: 'Solid State instrument for three-phase testing', Electrical Times (U.K.), Vol. 153, June 1971, pp. 43-44.

  • S. Elangovan and C. Venkataseshaiah: 'Loadflow studies of a power system using linear graph technique', Journal of Institute of Engineers (India), Vol. 51, August/September 1971, pp. 324-326.

  • C. Venkataseshaiah: 'An improved thyristor firing circuit', Research and Industry (India), Vol. 16, No. 4, 1971, pp. 273-274.

  • C. Venkataseshaiah: 'A power factor measuring device for circuit breaker testing', Paper presented at the International Symposium o High Power Testing Portland, Ore, U.S.A., July 18-23, 1971 and published in IEEE Transactions on Power Apparatus and Systems, Vol. PAS-91, No. 3, May/June 1972, pp. 809-811.

  • A Kuppurajulu, T.K. Alex and C. Venkataseshaiah: 'Solid State power angle, frequency deviation and acceleration measuring device for power system control', Paper C72-130-8 presented at the IEEE Winter Power Meeting, New York, N.Y., January 30-February 4, 1972.

  • S. Elangovan, C. Venkataseshaiah and A. Kuppurajulu: 'Suboptimal control of power systems with measurable output state variables', Paper No. C73 490-0 presented at the IEEE PES Summer Meeting and EHV / UHV Conference, Vancouver, Candada, July 15-20, 1973.

  • A. Kuppurajulu and C. Venkataseshaiah: 'A solid state instrument for the measurement of frequency and phase angle in power systems', International Journal of Electronics, Vol. 39, No. 6, 1975, pp. 661-666.

  • C. Venkataseshaiah and A. Kuppurajulu: 'Improved solid state direction -sensitive phase-angle monitor', IEE Proc. Vol. 123, No. 4, April 1976, p. 363.

  • A. Kanakaratnam, C. Venkataseshaiah and A. Kuppurajulu: 'Laboratory Model for real time control of power systems', Report No. PSC / DST / 5-180 /H/ 3, 1980 Power Systems Laboratory, Department of Electrical Engineering, I.I.T., Madras, India.

  • C. Venkataseshaiah: 'Solid State instruments for power system monitoring', World Instrumentation Symposium, WISITEX-81, Bombay, India, April 15-18,1981.

  • C. Venkataseshaiah: 'An Improved method of measuring synchronous machine load angle with fast response', Paper no. M-71 (b) MECO'81, International Association of Science and Technology for Development - IASTED Symposium on Measurement and Control (MECO), September 1981, CAIRO.

  • T.D. Eish, C. Venkataseshaiah and Y.N. Rao: 'Anomalous Breakdown in synthetic solid insulating materials immersed in oil and subjected to switching surge voltages', Dielectric Phenomena (CEIDP) October 1981, Pennsylvania, U.S.A. and IEEE Trans. on Electrical Insulation Vol. EI-17, No. 4, pp. 368-372, 1982.

  • T.D. Eish, C. Venkataseshaiah and C.N. Reddy: 'Anomalous Breakdown in synthetic solid insulating materials immersed in oil and subjected to switching surge voltages', Dielectric Society Meeting, April 7-9, 1981, Oxford, England, IEEE Proc. Vol. 129, pt. A, No. 1, Jan. 1982, pp. 129-138.

  • T.D. Eish, C. Venkataseshaiah and C.N. Reddy: 'Anomalous Breakdown phenomena in PMMA immersed in transformer oil', Journal of Electronics (The Netherlands) Vol, 11, pp. 129-138, 1982.

  • C. Venkataseshaiah T.D. Eish, and C.N. Reddy: 'Anomalous Breakdown in PMMA under switching surges superimposed on Direct voltages', IEEE International Symposium on Electrical Insulation, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, June 7-9, 1982.

  • C. Venkataseshaiah and Ajit Shenoy: 'A digital frequency deviation measuring instrument for power system controls', MECO'82 IASTED Symposium on Measurement and Control, Sept. 1-3, 1982, ENIT TUNIS.

  • Thomas A and C. Venkataseshaiah: 'A microprocessor-based multifunction instrument for power system applications', World Instrumentation Symposium, WISITEX-84, New Delhi, India, Jan. 11-14, 1984.

  • K.V. Sundaresan and C. Venkataseshaiah: 'Eigenvalue sensitivities of a parallel AC/HVDC power system', National Seminar on Electrical Power Engineering, 20-21, June 1984, Central Power Research Institute, Bangalore, India.

  • K.V. Sundaresan and C. Venkataseshaiah: 'Parallel AC/DC System transfer functions and applications', IEEE Annual Convention and Exhibition (ACE'84), Calcutta, India, December 4-9, 1984.

  • C. Venkataseshaiah and K.V. Sundaresan: 'Parallel AC-DC System Control by aggregation', IEEE International Electrical Electronics Conference and Exposition, Electronicom '85, Metropolitan Toronto Convention Centre, Oct... 7-9, 1985.

  • K.V. Sundaresan and C. Venkataseshaiah: 'Suboptimal stabilization of a parallel AC-DC power system - simulation by BPA-EMTP', Modelling, Simulation and Control-A, AMSE press (France) Vol. 9, No. 3, 1987, pp. 40-49.

  • C. Venkataseshaiah and D.V.S.S. Siva Sarma: 'Evaluation of Impulse Voltage Generator Characteristics using a PC'. Paper No. 52-13, Proceedings of the International Symposium on High Voltage Engineering (ISH), 1991, Dresden, Germany.

  • S.S. Yegnanarayanan, C. Venkataseshaiah, G. Sridhara Rao and S.Narayanan: Central Board of Irrigation and Power (CBIP) Project report on - Reswitching transients and their effects on the design and operation of large induction motor drives for power station auxiliaries, I.I.T., Madras, July 1991.

  • C. Venkataseshaiah, D.V.S.S. Siva Sarma, S.S. Yegnanrayanan and G.Sridhara Rao: 'Comparison of different methods of estimation of surge impedance of a 3-phase H.T. induction motor', proceedings of International Conference on Electrical Rotating machines, Bombay, India, Jan. 1992.

  • S.S. Yegnanarayanan, C. Venkataseshaiah and D.V.S.S. Siva Sarma: 'A method of predicting the maximum possible switching-on overvoltages in three phase H.T. induction motors, Proceedings of the International Conference on Electrical Rotating Machines, Bombay, India, January 1992.

  • C. Venkataseshaiah, S.S. Yegnanarayanan and D.V.S.S. Siva Sarama: 'Switching overvoltages in large induction motors-Determination by simulation and verification by field tests'. Proceedings of the Seventh National Power Systems Conference, Calcutta, India, Jan. 1993, Tata McGraw Hill publication, pp. 583-589.

  • D.V.S.S. Siva Sarma, C. Venkateseshaiah and S.S. Yegnanarayanan: 'Modelling of internal voltage distribution of steep fronted surge voltages in large H.T. motor windings', Proceedings of International AMSE Conference on Signals, Data and Systems, Bangalore, December 8-10, Vol.2, pp.25-37, 1993.

  • C. Venkataseshaiah, S.S. Yegnanarayanan and D.V.S.S. Siva Sarma: Simulation of overvoltages in HT Induction motors due to non-simultaneous pole closure', Institution of Engineers (India) Journal - El, Vol. 75, Nov. 1994, pp 119-125.

  • D.V.S.S. Siva Sarma, C. Venkataseshaiah and S.S. Yegnanarayanan: 'Computation of maximum switching-on overvoltages in H.T. motors', Proceedings of the Eighth National Power Systems Conference, December 14-17, 1994, Vol. 2, pp. 605-610.

  • C. Venkataseshaiah, R. Sarathi, and M.V. Aleyas, 'Studies on the dielectric strength of transformer oil under oscillatory impulse voltages' - Paper presented at the 1996 IEEE International Symposium on Electrical Insulation, Montreal, Canada, 16-19, June 1996.

  • Jong-Heon Kim and C. Venkataseshaiah: 'Measurement of Permittivity of Printed Circuit Board Materials at RF' - Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Properties and Applications of Dielectric Materials (ICPADM '97) - May 25-30, 1997, Seoul, Korea, Vol.2, pp.1167-1169.

  • C. Venkataseshaiah, R. Sarathi and Himanngshu Roy: 'Breakdown strength of short airgaps under oscillatory impulse voltages' - Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Properties and Applications of Dielectric Materials (ICPADM '97) - May 25-30, 1997, Seoul, Korea, vol.1, pp.186-189.

  • R. Sarathi, C. Venkataseshaiah, and S. Muthukumar: 'Breakdown characteristics of short airgaps with artificial floating metals under oscillatory impulse voltages' - Proceedings of the 10th International Symposium on High Voltage Engineering (ISH-97), Aug.24-30, Montreal, Canada.

  • R. Sarathi, C. Venkataseshaiah and G. Krishnappa: 'Breakdown characteristics of short airgaps under composite voltages' Proceedings of the 10th International Symposium on High Voltage Engineering (ISH-97), Aug. 24-30, Montreal, Canada.

  • R. Sarathi, C. Venkataseshaiah and Himangshu Roy: 'Effect of barriers in short airgaps under transient voltages' - Proceedings of the 10th International Symposium on High Voltage Engineering (ISH-97), Aug. 24-30, Montreal, Canada.

  • R. Sarathi, C. Venkataseshaiah and Vivek Krishnana: ' Influence of barrier on breakdown characteristics of Transformer oil under different voltage profiles' - Proceedings of the 10th International Symposium on High Voltage Engineering (ISH-97), Aug. 24-30, Montreal, Canada.

  • Jong-Heon Kim, C. Venkataseshaiah and Joon-Ung Lee: ' A study on dielectric properties of Printed Circuit Board (PCB) materials in the frequency range of 1000MHz to 1 GHz,' Journal of Electrical Engineering and Information Science, Vol.2, No.5, 1997, pp. 40-44.

  • C. Venkataseshaiah, R. Sarathi and D.C. David: 'Transformer fault localization using fuzzified neural network approch' - paper accepted for presentation at the 4th Workshop and Conference on EHV Technology, Bangalore, India, July 15-18, 1998.

  • C. K. Rajnarayanan and C. Venkataseshaiah `Computer based Multifunction Relay for Transmission line protection' Proceeding of the Seminar on `Recent trends in Generation and Utilisation in Electrical Engineering' Jan 6-8, 1999 Kalpakkam, Madras, pp. 536-541.