The Research activities in the department are in the following areas:

Power Electronics, Development of Drives for Switched Reluctance Motor, Computer controlled AC and DC drives, PWM inverters, Active Power Filters, System power factor improvement.

Power Systems, FACTS, Optimization Techniques Distribution System automation.

Applications of Micro controllers/Embedded controllers.

Renewable Energy Sources.

Stability analysis using Artificial Neural Network Project/Consultancy work undertaken With the expertise in power electronics field the department has taken up consultancy projects from the industries related to the areas of design, testing and calibration.

Consultancy work is undertaken with the following industries.

Malabar Cements, Sharp Pumps, Apollo Tyres, Soliton, Pricol.

Research Scholars

DRDO Funded research project:
Development of energy saver for Induction motor - Rs 13.75 lakhs Principal Investigators

1. Dr T.N.P Nambiar

2. Dr T.B Isha

3. Prof A.T Devarajan

The following projects have been sanctioned for internal funding:

• “Static VAR Compensator for Active Power Control” by Ms.R.Jayabarathi and Ms.M.R.Sindhu

• “Control of a Switched Reluctance Generator” by Dr.T.B.Isha and Ms A.Vijayakumari

• “Development of a microwind electric generator through industrial collaboration” by Dr.K.K.Sasi and Prof.Joshi.C.Haran, Mechanical Engineering Department.

• “Power Quality Improvement” by Prof.A.T.Devarajan and Mr K.Venugopalan

• “Remote load management using wireless network” by Dr.T.N.P.Nambiar and
Ms P.Supriya

Project/ consultancy:

Project Work undertaken with Industry:
• Electrical Energy Auditing and Conservation:Malabar Cements, Kerala 2001.

• Computer based data acquisition for testing of pumps Sharp Pumps, Coimbatore 2002.

• Industrial Automation Extrusion Unit:Apollo Tyres, Kerala 2002.

• Motor Control Using PLC:Apollo Tyres, Kerala 2002.

• Character Recognition:Soliton, Coimbatore 2002.

• Design of improved Automatic Voltage Regulator: Pricol, Coimbatore 2003.