Publications

JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS

  1. P. Adhikari and S. Brahma, “Source-Agnostic Time-Domain Directional Relay,” accepted for IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery, early access.
  2. P. H. Gadde, S. Brahma and T. Patel, “Real-Time Hardware-in-The-Loop Implementation of Protection and Self-Healing of Microgrids,” in IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications, vol. 59, no. 1, pp. 403-411, Jan.-Feb 2023.
  3. M. B. Gani and S. Brahma, “A Closed-Form Mathematical Model and Method for Fast Fault Location on a Low Voltage DC Feeder Using Single-Ended Measurements,” in IEEE Open Access Journal of Power and Energy, vol. 9, pp. 523-536, 2022.
  4. P. Adhikari, S. Brahma and P. H. Gadde, “Source-Agnostic Time-Domain Distance Relay,” in IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery, vol. 37, no. 5, pp. 3620-3629, Oct. 2022.
  5. P H Gadde and S. M. Brahma, “Topology-Agnostic, Scalable, Self-Healing, and Cost-Aware Protection of Microgrids,” in IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery, vol. 37, no. 4, pp. 3391-3400, Aug. 2022.
  6. Hany Habib, Sukumar Brahma, “Performance Testing and Assessment of Protection Scheme Using Real-Time Hardware-in-the-Loop and IEC 61850 Standard”, IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications, Vol. 57-5, pp. 4569-4578, Sept.-Oct. 2021.
  7. J. Reno, S. Brahma, A. Bidram and M. E. Ropp, “Influence of Inverter-Based Resources on Microgrid Protection: Part 1: Microgrids in Radial Distribution Systems,” in IEEE Power and Energy Magazine, vol. 19, no. 3, pp. 36-46, May-June 2021.
  8. Jeffrey Wischkaemper, Sukumar Brahma, “Machine Learning and Power System Protection -Viewpoint”, IEEE Electrification Magazine, 108-112, March 2021.
  9. Sijo Augustine, Matthew Reno, Sukumar Brahma, and Olga Lavrova, “Fault Current Control and Protection in a Standalone DC Microgrid Using Adaptive Droop and Current Derivative”, IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Power Electronics, Vol. 9-3, June 2021.
  10. Gelli Ravikumar, Dan Ameme, Satyajayant Misra, Sukumar Brahma, and Reza Tourani, “iCASM: An Information-Centric Network Architecture for Wide Area Measurement Systems” IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, Vol. 11, No. 4, pp. 3418-3427, July 2020.
  11. Hany Habib, Nevin Fawzy Kamel Habib, Mohammad Mahmoudian Esfahani, Osama A. Mohammed, and Sukumar Brahma, “An Enhancement of Protection Strategy for Distribution Network using the Communication Protocols”, IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications, Vol. 56, No. 2, pp. 1240-1249, July 2020.
  12. Yifan Hao, Huiping Cao, Abdullah Mueen, and Sukumar Brahma, “Identify Significant Phenomenon-specific Variables for Multivariate Time Series”, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, Vol. 33, No. 3, 2021, pp. 1019-1031.
  13. Dennis Ray, Nilanjan R Chaudhuri, and Sukumar Brahma “Trends in Electric Power Engineering Education: An Analysis of Future Challenges” IEEE Power and Energy Magazine, Vol. 16-5, pp. 32-41, August 2018.
  14. Adriano de Morais, Arturo Bretas, Sukumar Brahma, and Ghendy Cardoso Jr., “High-sensitivity stator fault protection for synchronous generators: A time-domain approach based on mathematical morphology”, Elsevier’s International Journal of Electrical Power & Energy Systems, Vol. 99, pp. 419-425, July 2018.
  15. Kaveri Mahapatra, Nilanjan Ray Chaudhuri, Rajesh Kavasseri, Sukumar Brahma, “Online Analytical Characterization of Outliers in Synchrophasor Measurements: A Singular Value Perturbation Viewpoint”, IEEE Transactions on power Systems, Vol. 33, No. 4, pp. 3863-3874, July 2018.
  16. Yinan Cui, Rajesh Kavasseri, and Sukumar Brahma, “Dynamic State Estimation Assisted Out-of-Step Detection for Generators Using Angular Difference”, IEEE Trans. Power Delivery, Vol. 32, No. 3, pp. 1441 – 1449, June 2017.
  17. S. Brahma, R. Kavasseri, Huiping Cao, N. R. Chaudhuri, T. Alexopoulos, and Y. Cui, “Real Time Identification of Dynamic Events in Power Systems using PMU data, and Potential Applications – Models, Promises, and Challenges”, IEEE Trans. Power Delivery – Special Issue on Innovative Research Concepts for Power Delivery Engineering, Vol. 32-1, pp. 294 – 301, Feb. 2017.
  18. P. H. Gadde, Milan Biswal, Sukumar Brahma, and Huiping Cao, “Efficient Compression of PMU Data in WAMS”, IEEE Trans. Smart Grid – Special Issue on Big Data Analytics for Grid Modernization, Vol. 7, No. 5, pp.2406 – 2413, September 2016.
  19. Milan Biswal, Sukumar Brahma, and Huiping Cao, “Supervisory Protection and Automated Event Diagnosis using PMU Data, IEEE Trans. Power Delivery – Special Issue on Frontiers of Power System Protection, Vol. 31, No. 4, pp. 1855 – 1863, August 2016.
  20. IEEE PSRC Working Group K15 (member), “Advancements in Centralized Protection and Control within a Substation,” EEE Transactions on Power Delivery – Special Issue on Frontiers of Power System protection,Vol. 31, No. 4, pp. 1945 – 1952, August 2016 – PES Technical Committee Prize Paper Award, and IEEE Transactions Best Paper Award, 2016.
  21. Swaroop Gajare, Ashok Kumar Pradhan, and Sukumar Brahma, Model Verification of Fixed Series Compensation Devices Using Synchronized Data, IEEE Trans. Power Delivery, Vol. 31-1, pp. 174-181, August 2015.
  22. Om Prasad Dahal, S. M. Brahma, and Huiping Cao, “Comprehensive Clustering of Disturbance Events Recorded by Phasor Measurement Units”, IEEE Trans. Power Delivery, vol. 29-3, pp. 1390 – 1397, May 2014.
  23. Suresh Gautam, Sukumar Brahma, “Detection of High Impedance Faults in Power Distribution Systems using Mathematical Morphology”, IEEE Trans. Pwr. Systems, Vol. 28-2, pp. 1226-1234, May 2013.
  24. Durgesh Manjure, Yateendra Mishra, Sukumar Brahma, and Dale Osborn, “Impact of Wind Power Development on Transmission Planning at Midwest ISO”, IEEE Trans. Susainable. Energy, Vol. 3-4, pp. 845-852, October 2012.
  25. Suresh Gautam, and Sukumar Brahma, “Out of Step Blocking Function in Distance Relay Using Mathematical Morphology”, IET Generation, Transmission & Distribution, Vol. 6-4, pp. 313-319, April 2012.
  26. Sravan Kumar Buggaveeti, S. M. Brahma, “Improved Overcurrent Protection of Capacitor Banks Using Mathematical Morphology”, IEEE Trans. Power Delivery, vol. 26-3, pp. 1972 – 1979, July 2011.
  27. S. M. Brahma, “Fault Location in Power Distribution System with Penetration of Distributed Generation”, IEEE Trans. Power Delivery, vol. 26-3, pp. 1545 – 1553, July 2011.
  28. S. Venkata, S. M. Brahma, J. Stamp, and P. Kundur, “Continue Your Learning,” IEEE Power and Energy magazine, Vol. 8-4, pp. 36-43, July 2010.
  29. S. M. Brahma, P. L. De Leon, R. G. Kavasseri, “Investigating the Option of Removing Anti-Aliasing Filter From Digital Relays,” IEEE Trans. Power Delivery, Vol. 24-4, pp. 1864-1868, October 2009.
  30. S. Brahma, J. De La Ree, J. Gers, A. A. Girgis, S. Horowitz, R. Hunt, M. Kezunovic, V. Madani, P. McLaren, A. G. Phadke, M. S. Sachdev, T. S. Sidhu, J. S. Thorp, S. S. Venkata, and T. Wiedman, “The Education and Training of Future Protection Engineers: Challenges, Opportunities, and Solutions,” IEEE Trans. Power Delivery, Vol. 24-2, pp. 538-544, April 2009 – A PSRC Working Group Paper.
  31. M. Brahma, “Protecting Distribution Systems with Distributed Generation – Are We There Yet?” Power Industry International – Volume 2 – Issue I, June 2008.
  32. S. M. Brahma, “Iterative Fault Location Scheme for a Transmission Line Using Synchronized Phasor Measurements,” International Journal of Emerging Electric Power Systems, Vol. 8-6, article 2, November 2007. Available at: http://www.bepress.com/ijeeps/vol8/iss6/art2.
  33. S. M. Brahma, “Distance Relay with Out of Step Blocking Function using Wavelet Transform”, IEEE Trans. Power Delivery, Vol. 22-3, pp. 1360-1366, July 2007.
  34. S. M. Brahma, “New Fault Location Method for a Single Multi-Terminal Transmission Line Using Synchronized Phasor Measurements,” IEEE Trans. Power Delivery, Vol. 21-3, pp. 1148-1153, July 2006.
  35. B. A. Oza, S. M. Brahma, Development of Power System Protection Laboratory through Senior Design Projects,” IEEE Trans. Power Systems, Vol. 20-2, pp. 532-537, May 2005.
  36. S. M. Brahma, “Fault Location Scheme for a Multi-Terminal Transmission Line Using Synchronized Voltage Measurements,” IEEE Trans. Power Delivery, Vol. 20-2, pp. 1325-1331, April 2005.
  37. S. M. Brahma, A. A. Girgis, “Fault Location on a Transmission Line Using Synchronized Voltage Measurements,” IEEE Trans. Power Delivery, Vol. 19-4, pp. 1619-1622, October 2004.
  38. S. M. Brahma, A. A. Girgis, “Development of Adaptive Protection Scheme for Distribution Systems with High Penetration of Distributed Generation,” IEEE Trans. Power Delivery, Vol. 19-1, pp. 56-63, January 2004.
  39. S. M. Brahma, A. A. Girgis, “Distribution System Protective Device Coordination in Presence of Distributed Generation,” International Journal of Power and Energy Systems, Vol. 24-1, pp. 32-37, January 2004.
  40. S. M. Brahma, “Accurate Calculation of Fault Current Phasors for Use in Fault Location,” International Journal of Power and Energy Systems, Vol. 27-3, pp. 299-304, August 2007.

PATENTS

  1. S. M. Brahma, P. De Leon, R. Kavasseri, “Eliminating the Use of Anti-Aliasing Filters in Digital Relays by Oversampling” U.S. Patent No. 7,948,420, May 24, 2011.

Book Chapters

  1. Book Title: Synchronized Phasor Measurements for Smart Grid, Chapter Title: Synchrophasor Assisted Visualization and Protection of Power Systems, Author: Sukumar Brahma, Publisher: IET, UK, 2017.

PEER REVIEWED CONFERENCE PUBLICATIONS

  1. A. Gujar and S. Brahma, “Comparison of Legacy Relay with Machine Learning Based Relay for Detecting Faults at Inverter Terminals in a Distribution System with Inverter Based Resources” 2023 North American Power Symposium (NAPS), Salt Lake City, UT, USA, 2023, pp. 1-6
  2. M. Jayamohan, S. Das and S. Brahma, “Impedance Trajectories during Stable and Unstable Power Swings in Presence of PQ Control based PV Generations”, IEEE PES General Meeting 2023, pp. 1-5. Best Conference Paper Prize.
  3. D. Zintsmaster, M. Gani, S. Brahma, “Hardware Implementation of dc Protection Algorithms”, undergraduate poster – IEEE PES General Meeting 2023. Best Conference Poster Prize.
  4. D. R. Kunwar and S. Brahma, “Analysis of the Impacts of Inverter Based Resources on the Impedance Matrix of Power System,” 2023 IEEE Power & Energy Society Innovative Smart Grid Technologies Conference (ISGT), Washington, DC, USA, 2023, pp. 1-5.
  5. T. Patel, S. Brahma and M. J. Reno, “Aggregation of Solar and Type 4 Wind Farms for Short Circuit Studies,” 2023 IEEE Power & Energy Society Innovative Smart Grid Technologies Conference (ISGT), Washington, DC, USA, 2023, pp. 1-5.
  6. S. M. Hossain and S. Brahma, “Resolving Sub-Cycle Overvoltage Issue in Solar Farms,” 2022 North American Power Symposium (NAPS), Salt Lake City, UT, USA, 2022, pp. 1-6 – Best Conference Paper Runner-up Prize.
  7. P. H. Gadde and S. Brahma, “Unbalance Compensation Using Single Phase Inverters in Inverter-Dominated Microgrids,” 2022 IEEE Industry Applications Society Annual Meeting (IAS), Detroit, MI, USA, 2022, pp. 1-7.
  8. H. F. Habib, T. Patel and S. Brahma, “Hardware in the Loop Testing of Main and Backup Protection Scheme for Systems with High Penetration of Inverter-Based Resources,” 2022 IEEE Industry Applications Society Annual Meeting (IAS), Detroit, MI, USA, 2022, pp. 1-8.
  9. P. H. Gadde, S. Brahma and T. Patel, “Scalable Protection and Self-Healing of Microgrids: Hardware In The Loop Co-Simulation,” 2022 IEEE Texas Power and Energy Conference (TPEC), College Station, TX, USA, 2022, pp. 1-6.
  10. Adhikari, S. Brahma and P. H. Gadde, “Addressing the Performance of Distance Relays in Presence of Inverter Based Resources,” 2021 North American Power Symposium (NAPS), 2021, pp. 1-6.
  11. Phani Harsha Gadde, Sukumar Brahma, “Comparison of PR and PI Controllers for Inverter Control in an Unbalanced Microgrid”, in  North American Power Symposium 2020, Tempe, AZ, April 2021.
  12. Trupal Patel, Phani Gadde, Sukumar Brahma, Javier Hernandez-Alvidrez and Matthew Reno, “Real-time Microgrid Test Bed for Protection and Resiliency Studies”, in  North American Power Symposium 2020, Tempe, AZ, April 2021.
  13. Trupal Patel, Sukumar Brahma, Javier Hernandez-Alvidrez and Matthew J Reno, “Adaptive Protection Scheme for a Real-World Microgrid with 100% Inverter-Based Resources”, in  IEEE Kansas Power and Energy Conference (KPEC), Manhattan, KS, July 2020.
  14. Nevin Fawzy, Hany F Habib, Osama Mohammed and Sukumar Brahma, Protection of Microgrids with Distributed Generation based on Multiagent System, in IEEE International Conference on Environment and Electrical Engineering and 2020 IEEE Industrial and Commercial Power Systems Europe (EEEIC/I&CPS Europe), September 2020.
  15. Habib, N. Fawzy and S. Brahma, “Hardware in the Loop Testing of a Protection Scheme for Microgrid using RTDS with IEC 61850 Protocol,” 2020 IEEE Industry Applications Society Annual Meeting, 2020, pp. 1-8.
  16. Phani Harsha Gadde, Sukumar Brahma, “Realistic Microgrid Test Bed for Protection and Resiliency Studies”, in Proc. NAPS 2019, Wichita, KS, October 2019 – Best Conference Paper Runner-up Prize.
  17. Sijo Augustine, Sukumar Brahma, and Matthew Reno, Fault Current Control for DC Microgrid Protection Using an Adaptive Droop, Proc. 2019 IEEE 28th International Symposium on Industrial Electronics (ISIE), pp. 2591-2596.
  18. Abhishek Banerjee, Rajesh Kavasseri, Munim Bin Gani, and Sukumar Brahma, “Towards Supervisory Protection Using Energy Functions for Relay Misoperations in a Stressed Power System During Blackout”,  Proc. IEEE PES PowerTech 2019, Milan, Italy.
  19. Sukumar Brahma, “Protection of Distribution System Islands Fed by Inverter-Interfaced Sources”, Proc. IEEE PES PowerTech 2019, Milan, Italy.
  20. Munim Bin Gani, and Sukumar Brahma, “Dynamic Simulation of the Arizona-Southern California Blackout to Develop a Wide Area Testbed”, Proc. 2018 North American Power Symposium, Fargo, ND, September 2018.
  21. Sukumar Brahma, Nataraj Pragallapati, and Mukesh Nagpal, “Protection of Islanded Microgrid Fed by Inverters”, Proc. IEEE PES General Meeting 2018, August 2018, Portland, USA.
  22. Gelli Ravikumar, Gelli Ramya, Satyajayant Misra, Sukumar Brahma, and S. A. Khaparde, “iPaCS: An integrative Power and Cyber Systems Co-simulation Framework for Smart Grid”, Proc. IEEE PES General Meeting 2017, July 2017, Chicago, USA.
  23. Theodoros Alexopoulos, Milan Biswal, Sukumar Brahma, and Mohamed El Khatib, “Detection of Fault using Local Measurements at Inverter Interfaced Distributed Energy Resources,” Proc. IEEE PES PowerTech 2017, Manchester, UK.
  24. Reza Tourani, Satyajayant Misra, Travis Mick, Sukumar Brahma, Milan Biswal, and Dan Ameme, “iCenS: An Information-Centric Smart Grid Network Architecture”, Proc. IEEE International Conference on Smart Grid Communications (SmartGridComm), November 2016, Sydney, Australia.
  25. Javier Alvidrez, Satish Ranade, Sukumar Brahma, Steve Bukowski, Cesar Silva-Monroy, and Abraham Ellis, An Analytical Model of a Single Phase DQ-Controlled Inverter for Power System Short Circuit Calculations, Proc. 2016 North American Power Symposium, September 2016, Denver, CO. .
  26. Milan Biswal, Yifan Hao, Phillip Chen, Sukumar Brahma, Huiping Cao, and Phillip De Leon, “Signal Features for Classification of Power System Disturbances using PMU Data”, Proc. IEEE PES Power System Computing Conference (PSCC) 2016, June 2016, Genoa, Italy.
  27. Michael Brown, Milan Biswal, Sukumar Brahma, Satish J Ranade, and Huiping Cao, “Characterizing and Quantifying Noise in PMU data,” Proc. IEEE PES General Meeting 2016, July 2016, Boston USA.
  28. Yinan Cui, Rajesh Kavasseri, Sukumar Brahma, “Dynamic State Estimation Assisted Posturing for Generator Out-of-step Protection,” Proc. IEEE PES General Meeting 2016, July 2016, Boston USA.
  29. Yifan Hao, Huiping Cao, Yan Qi, Chuan Hu, Sukumar Brahma, and Jingyu Han, “Efficient Keyword Search on Graphs using MapReduce.Proc. IEEE International Conference on Big Data 2015, November, 2015.
  30. Sukumar Brahma, Jonathan Trejo, Jason Stamp, “Insight into Microgrid Protection”, Proc. ISGT Europe, Istanbul, Turkey, October 2014.
  31. Om Prasad Dahal, Huiping Cao, Sukumar Brahma, Rajesh Kavasseri, “Evaluating Performance of Classifiers for Supervisory Protection using Disturbance Data from Phasor Measurement Units”, Proc. ISGT Europe, Istanbul, Turkey, October 2014.
  32. Yinan Cui, Rajesh Kavasseri, Sukumar Brahma, “A New Approach for Event Detection Based on Energy Functions,” Proc. IEEE PES General Meeting 2014, Washington, DC.
  33. Sukumar Brahma, Malati Chaudhary, and Satish Ranade, “Conservation over Frequency Transformation in Doubly Fed Asynchronous Generator”, Proc. IEEE PES General Meeting 2014, Washington, DC.
  34. Om Prasad Dahal, and S. M. Brahma, “Preliminary Work to Classify the Disturbance Events Recorded by Phasor Measurement Units”, Proc. IEEE PES General Meeting 2012, July 2012, San Diego, CA.
  35. Malati Chaudhary, Sukumar Brahma, and Satish Ranade, “Controlling and Interpreting the Short Circuit Behavior of Type 4 Wind Turbine Generator” Proc. 2014 IEEE Transmission and Distribution Conference & Exposition, April 2014, Chicago, IL.
  36. Malati Chaudhary, Sukumar Brahma, and Satish Ranade, “Validated Short Circuit Modeling of Type 3 Wind Turbine Generator with Crowbar Protection” Proc. 2013 North American Power Symposium, Manhattan, KS.
  37. Malati Chaudhary, Sukumar Brahma, and Satish Ranade, “Circuit Breaker Selection in a Wind Farm with Type 2 Wind Turbine Generators” Proc. IEEE PES General Meeting 2013, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
  38. Malati Chaudhary, S. M. Brahma, S. J. Ranade, “Short Circuit Analysis of Type II Induction Generator and Wind Farm,” Proc. 2012 IEEE Transmission and Distribution Conference & Exposition, April 2012, Orlando, Florida.
  39. Shiva Prasad Pokharel, Sukumar Brahma and Satish Ranade, “Modeling and Simulation of Three Phase Inverter for Fault Study of Microgrids”, Proc. 2012 North American Power Symposium, September 2012, Champaign, IL.
  40. Suresh Gautam, and S. M. Brahma, “Guidelines for Selection of an Optimal Structuring Element for Mathematical Morphology Based Tools to Detect Power System Disturbances” Proc. IEEE PES General Meeting, July 2012, San Diego, CA.
  41. S. M. Brahma, Malati Chaudhary, S. J. Ranade, “Some Findings about Equivalencing Wind farms with Type 1 and Type 2 Induction Generators,” Proc. 2011 North American Power Symposium, August 2011, Boston, MA.
  42. Om Prasad Dahal, and S. M. Brahma, “Investigation of Various Options to Avoid False Tripping of a Primary Distribution Feeder: Part II – Solution Techniques,” Proc. IEEE PES General Meeting, July 2011, Detroit, Michigan.
  43. Om Prasad Dahal, and S. M. Brahma, “Investigation of Various Options to Avoid False Tripping of a Primary Distribution Feeder: Part I – Modeling and Analysis”, Proc. 2010 North American Power Symposium, September 2009, Arlington, Texas.
  44. R. C. Dugan, R. F. Arritt, T. E. McDermott, S. M. Brahma, and K. Schneider “Distribution System Analysis to Support the Smart Grid”, Proc. IEEE PES General Meeting, July 2010, Minneapolis, MN.
  45. Suresh Gautam, and Sukumar Brahma, “Application of mathematical morphology based filters to detect a power swing”, Proc. IEEE PES General Meeting, July 2010, Minneapolis, MN.
  46. Karunakar Gampa, Srinaga A.C. Vemprala, and Sukumar M. Brahma, Errors in Fault Analysis of Power Distribution Systems Using Sequence Components Approach, Proc. 2009 IEEE Transmission and Distribution Conference & Exposition, April 2009, New Orleans, LA.
  47. Sravan K. Buggaveeti, and Sukumar M. Brahma, A Morphological Filter to Distinguish a Fault from Capacitor Switching, Proc. 2009 IEEE Transmission and Distribution Conference & Exposition, April 2009, New Orleans, LA.
  48. Suresh Gautam, Sukumar Brahma, “Properties of Mathematical Morphology Based Filter for Online Filtering of Power System Signals”, Proc North American Power Symposium, October 2009, Starkville, Mississippi.
  49. Shiva Prasad Pokharel, Sukumar Brahma, “Optimal PMU Placement for Fault Location in a Power System”, Proc. North American Power Symposium, October 2009, Starkville, Mississippi.
  50. Suresh Gautam, Sukumar Brahma, “Overview of Mathematical Morphology in Power Systems – A Tutorial Approach”, Proc. IEEE Power and Energy Society General Meeting, July 2009, Calgary, Canada.
  51. S. M. Brahma and R. Kavasseri, “Investigating the Performance of Discrete Wavelet Transform for Phasor Estimation in Digital Relays”, Proc. IEEE Power and Energy Society General Meeting, June 2008, Pittsburg, PA.
  52. S. Varadan, S. M. Brahma, “Transmission Planning – Load Flows and Beyond”, Proc. IEEE Power System Conference and Exposition, Atlanta, October 29- November 1, 2006.
  53. S. M. Brahma and A. A. Girgis, “Overview of the Effect of Distributed Generation on Protection in Power Distribution Systems”, Proc. EuroPES 2006- Sixth IASTED International Conference on European Power and Energy Systems, Rhodes, Greece, June 26-28, 2006, pp. 276-280.
  54. S. M. Brahma, “Use of Wavelets for Out of Step Blocking Function of Distance Relays”, Proc. IEEE Power Engineering Society General Meeting, June 2006, Montreal, Canada.
  55. S. M. Brahma, “New Fault Location Scheme for a Two- Terminal Transmission Line Using Synchronized Phasor Measurements”, Proc. 2006 IEEE Transmission and Distribution Conference & Exposition, May 2006, Dallas, USA.
  56. S. M. Brahma, “A New Method to Identify the Faulted Section in a Multi-Terminal Transmission Line”, Proc. 2004 North American Power Symposium, August  2004, Idaho, USA.
  57. S. M. Brahma and A. A. Girgis, “Effect of Fault Resistance on The Coordination of A Microprocessor-Based Recloser With a Fuse in the Presence of Distributed Generation” Proc. Ninth International Middle-East Power Conference MEPCON’2003, December 2003, Shebin El-Kom, Egypt.
  58. S. M. Brahma and A. A. Girgis, “Microprocessor-Based Reclosing to Coordinate Fuse and Recloser in a System with High Penetration of Distributed Generation,” in Proc. 2002 IEEE Power Engineering Society Winter Meeting, January 2002, vol. 1, pp. 453 –458
  59. S. M. Brahma and A. A. Girgis, “Impact of Distributed Generation on Fuse and Relay Coordination: Analysis and Remedies,” in Proc. 2001 IASTED International Conference on Power and Energy Systems, November 2001, Florida, pp. 384-389
  60. A. A. Girgis and S. M. Brahma, “Effect of Distributed Generation on Protective Device Coordination in Distribution System,” in Proc. 2001 Large Engineering Systems Conference on Power Engineering, July 2001, Canada, pp. 115-119.

NON-PEER REVIEWED CONFERENCE PUBLICATIONS

  1. Brett Pelkey, Stefan Ceballos, Milan Biswal, Huiping Cao, Sukumar Brahma: Phasor Measurement Unit Monitoring Tool, 17th Joint UTEP/NMSU Workshop on Mathematics, Computer Science, and Computational Sciences, El Paso, Texas, November 7, 2015. http://www.cs.utep.edu/vladik/ utepnmsu15.html.
  2. Sizhen Zhao, Rebecca Stevens, Nirmal-Kumar C Nair, Sukumar M. Brahma, Transient Playback Test Systems for Protective Relays,  Proc. Electricity Engineers’ Association (EEA) Conference and Trade Exhibition, June 2007, Auckland, New Zealand.
  3. S. M. Brahma, “Reduction of Current Transformer Error in Fault Detection”, Proc Power Systems 2004 Conference on Distributed Generation, Advanced Metering and Communication, March  2004, Clemson, USA.
  4. S. M. Brahma and A. A. Girgis, “Overview of Protection Issues in Distribution Systems with High Penetration of Distributed Generation” in Proc. Power Systems 2003 Conference on Distributed Generation and Advanced Metering, Clemson, March 2003, USA.
  5. S. M. Brahma and A. A. Girgis, “Impact of Distributed Generation on Fault Induced Transients: A Case Study” in Proc. Power Systems 2002 Conference on Impact of Distributed Generation, March 2002, Clemson, USA.
  6. S. A. Khaparde, S. M. Brahma, “Flexible AC Transmission System (FACTS): An Overview”, in Proc. 1996 Transmission and Distribution Conference, India.

IEEE PES PSRC TECHNICAL REPORTS/GUIDES

Completed:

  1. Working Group C6 – Relay Engineering in Power Engineering Curricula – IEEE Power System Relaying Committee (PSRC), “The Education and Training of Future Protection Engineers: Challenges, Opportunities, and Solutions”, IEEE Trans. Power Delivery, Vol. 24-2, pp. 538 – 544, April 2009.
  2. Performance of Relaying During Stressed Conditions – IEEE PSRC Report. Available online: http://www.pes-psrc.org/Reports/Performance_of_Relaying_During_Stressed_Conditions.pdf.
  3. Understanding Microprocessor-Based Technology Applied to Relaying – IEEE PSRC Report. Available online: http://www.pes-psrc.org/Reports/UNTAR-Ed2.pdf.
  4. Use of Time Synchronized Measurements in Protective Relaying Applications – IEEE PSRC Report. Available online:  http://www.pes-psrc.org/Reports/Use of Synchrophasor Measurements in Protective Relaying Applications_final.pdf – Best WG award, PSRC, 2015.
  5. Revision of C37.99 – IEEE Guide for the protection of Shunt Capacitor Banks.
  6. Communications Technology for Protection Systems – IEEE PSRC Report. Available online: http://www.pes-psrc.org/Reports/IEEE PSRC Subcommittee H9 Understanding Comm Tech for Protection -20130113 D8F.pdf
  7. Fault Current Contribution from Wind Plants – IEEE PSRC/Machinery/T&D Committees Report. Available online: http://www.pes-psrc.org/Reports/Fault  Current Contributions from Wind Plants.pdf – Best WG award, PSRC, 2016.
  8. Anomaly Checks for Relay Settings – IEEE PSRC Report. Available online: http://www.pes-psrc.org/Reports/WG_I18_report_final.pdf
  9. Working Group K15 – Centralized Substation Protection and Control. Available online: http://www.pes-psrc.org/kb/published/reports/IEEE_PES_PSRC_WG%20K15_Report_CPC_Dec_2015.pdf
  10. Working Group D26 – Revision of C37.114 Fault Location Guide.
  11. Working Group C2 – The Role of Protective Relaying in Smart Grid.
  12. Working Group C30 – Microgrid Protection Systems. PES Outstanding Technical Report Award.
  13. Working Group D9 – Revision of IEEE C37.113 – Guide for Protective Relay Applications to Transmission Lines – IEEE Guide.
  14. Working Group J5 – Application of Out-of-Step Protection Schemes for Generators.
  15. Working C24 – Modification of Commercial Fault Calculation Programs for Wind Turbine Generators – I chaired this WG.
  16. Working Group C32 – Protection Practices for Interconnecting Solar or Other Inverter Based Generation to Utility Transmission Systems.
  17. Working Group C25 – Protection of Wind Electric Plants.
  18. Working Group C43 – Practical   Applications   of Artificial Intelligence   and Machine Learning in Power  System  Protection and Control.

Ongoing:

  1. Working Group C38: P2030.12 – IEEE Guide for the Design of Microgrid Protection Systems.
  2. Working Group D39 – C37.104 – IEEE Guide for Automatic Reclosing on AC Distribution and Transmission Lines.
  3. Working Group C45– Protection and short-circuit modeling of systems with high-penetration of inverter-based resources.
  4. Working Group C44 – Prepare a paper on Short Circuit Models of Wind Turbine Generators. I chair this WG.