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Dr. Hari Om Bansal

Professor, Department of EEE, BITS Pilani, Pilani Campus

Battery management system, EV charging, Energy Optimization in Hybrid/Electric Vehicles (XEVs), Hybrid Energy storage for XEV applications, Power Quality improvement
Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani- 333031, Rajasthan. India.

Projects

1.Title: Development of Renewable Energy Integrated Charging Grid with V2G facility: A Need of Smart Cities 

Role: Principal Investigator
Funding agency: Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani (CDRF Scheme)
Amount: 20 Lakhs
Duration: Two years (July 2024-June 2026)

Status: ongoing

2.Title: Photovoltaic Fed Microgrids: Integrated Intelligent Harmonic Control to Enable Electric Vehicle Charging
Role: Principal Investigator
Funding agency: Central power Research Institute, Bangluru
Amount: 20.55 Lakhs
Duration: Two years (Feb 2023-Jan 2025)
Status: Ongoing

3.Title:Modelling the Drivers and Barriers of Electric Vehicle Penetration in Emerging Economy: A study of Indian Market
Role: Principal Investigator
Funding agency: ICSSR-IMPRESS, New Delhi
Amount: 5.25 Lakhs
Duration: Two years (Sept 2019-2021)
Status: Completed

4. Title: Design and development of an efficient soft-switching converter with adaptive maximum power point tracking (MPPT) controller for a standalone photovoltaic power generation system
Role: Co-Principal Investigator
Funding agency: Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE), New Delhi
Amount: 29.39 Lakhs
Duration: Two years, 2014-2016
Status: Completed

5. Title: Inter-area oscillation control using embedded energy storage in interconnected power system with distributed generation

Role: Co-Principal Investigator

Funding agency: Seed Grant Scheme, BITS, Pilani

Amount: 11.15 lakhs

Duration: Two years, March 2011-2013

Status: Completed


Research Area

  • Energy Optimization in Hybrid/Electric Vehicles (XEVs)
  • Battery Modelling, SoC Estimation, Hybrid Energy storage System for XEV applications
  • Mitigation of Power Quality issues, Active power filters
  • Distributed Generation and controls of smart grid/Micro grids/Charging grids.
  • Applications of AI techniques to Power Systems and Control Systems