DEPARTMENT.FACULTY
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- DEPARTMENT_STAFF.QUALIFICATION
Ph.D
- DEPARTMENT_STAFF.DESIGNATION
Professor
- DEPARTMENT_STAFF.THRUST_AREA
Smart Grid, Synchrophasor Measurements, Control System, Virtual Instrumentation
- DEPARTMENT_STAFF.ADDRESS
Nishat Apartment Badar Bagh Aligarh
- DEPARTMENT_STAFF.MOBILE
- DEPARTMENT_STAFF.EMAIL
m.rihan.ee@amu.ac.in
- DEPARTMENT_STAFF.TIME_TABLE
Dr. Mohammad Rihan is currently serving as the Director general of national Institute of Solar Energy (NISE), Ministry of New and renewable energy, Government of India. He has been appointed on this position for three years on deputation on the approval of Appointments Committee of cabinet, government of India.
Before joining as DG, NISE Dr. Rihan has served as a Professor of Electrical Engineering with experience of about 22 years with significant contributions in the areas of smart grid and Solar Energy; both areas under National missions. He Is also the Founder Director and Coordinator of the centre for Grid Integrated Green and Renewable Energy in the campus to address the research challenges presented by high penetration of renewable energy in the grid.
He has successfully guided 06 Ph.D. scholars in the areas of smart grid, solar energy, and synchrophasors measurement. He is guiding 06 PhD scholars at present as supervisor. Two of his present PhD scholars have been awarded the prestigious and highly competitive Prime Ministers’ Research Fellowship (PMRF).
Dr. Rihan has authored a textbook on ‘Green Energy and Sustainable Development’ to be published by Cambridge University Press (UK). He has authored a book on Green Energy Transition in India-Including the success story of AMU and another book on Advanced Control Systems also. He has contributed an invited chapter on Applications and Requirements of Smart Grid in a book published by Springer Nature.
He has led the integration of 6.5MWp solar PV plants in the AMU campus distribution grid; the largest such installation in any academic institution in the country. It includes a project of Rs. 20 Cr. for 3.3 MWp solar farm; a unique installation in any academic institute in the country. He has conducted training programs for senior engineers of electricity distribution companies, engineers and entrepreneurs under the MNRE-USAID PACE D initiative. He has also completed sponsored research projects of UPCST, MNRE and UGC.
He has conceptualized and started a Joint M.Tech program on Green Energy and Sustainable Development with the National Institute of Solar Energy. The program is in line with the national requirements for green energy transition and the National Education Policy. He has established a new Virtual Instrumentation and Smart Systems lab in the department.
He is a recipient of Gold Medal for securing first position in B.Tech. (Electrical Engineering). He is an elected Fellow of the IET(UK), IE(India), and IETE. He is Senior Member of IEEE and Chair-Elect of the executive committee of IEEE UP Section for 2024. He is elected vice chair of executive committee of Delhi local network of IET(UK) for 2023 and 2024.
Dr. Rihan headed the entire electricity setup; both conventional and renewable of the university during Dec 2015 to Apr 2024 as Member Incharge. The campus has a huge electricity network of 8.5MVA capacity. In this role he served as the technical, financial, and administrative head of the department.
Dr. Rihan has also served as the member secretary of Central Project Implementation and Monitoring Committee of the university which is responsible for allocation, evaluation and execution of consultancy work related to projects of national importance like smart city. He has, in addition, provided technical consultancy to various projects of smart city, Agra, Aligarh and Bareilly and to the UP-Power Transmission Corporation Limited.
He has delivered keynote and invited talks on climate change, solar energy and smart grid at numerous organizations, industry, and institutes.
- Key Publication
"Real-time coordinated control of voltage regulation devices in a high PV penetrated weak distribution network", Elsevier Journal on Computers and Electrical Engineering, 2023
Exploratory Data Analytics and PCA-Based Dimensionality Reduction for Improvement in Smart Meter Data Clustering, IETE Journal of Research, 2023
"Voltage fluctuation mitigation with coordinated OLTC and energy storage control in high PV penetrating distribution network", Elsevier Journal on Electric Power Systems Research, 2022Decarbonizing the Aligarh Muslim University Campus: An Experiential Analysis of Initiatives, their Impact and Lessons Learned, 7th International Workshop on UI GreenMetric World University Rankings (IWGM), 2021Chapter 2 “Applications and Requirements of Smart Grid” by Springer Nature as a part of the book “Smart Grids and Their Communication Systems” ISBN: 978-981-13-1767-5, 2020
“In What Ways I Can Contribute to Academic Excellence at AMU” for the Essay competition organized by HRD Centre for Academic Leadership and Education Management, AMU under the centenary celebration of AMU. The essay was awarded the First prize in the competition, 2021“Case Study on Grid Connected Solar PV Plants at AMU- Helping India’s Climate Change Pledge” AkshayUrja, Journal of Ministry of New and Renewable Energy, vol. 11 no. 1 and 2, Aug-Oct 2017“Phasor Measurement Units in the Indian Smart Grid” Digital Object Identifier: 10.1109/ISET-India.2011.6145392, Print ISBN: 978-1-4673-0316-3). (Power and Energy Society Publication), 2011” Implementation of PMU Based Distributed Wide Area Control in Smart Grid “IEEE Access Part A ,Q1: Manuscript Number Access-2021-31785, DOI 10.1109/ACCESS.2021.3119583, 2021“Identification of Low-Frequency Oscillation Modes from Synchrophasors Measurements Using Improved Dynamic Mode Decomposition Algorithm” IEEE Access, vol. 9., pp. 49434-49447, 2021"Analysis of varying PV penetration level on harmonic content of active distribution system with a utility scale grid integrated solar farm", Taylor and Francis-Australian Journal of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, 2021" A novel method for locating the source of sustained oscillation in power system using synchrophasors data", Springer Journal on Protection and Control of Modern Power Systems 5, 30 (2020)“Performance Analysis of a Utility Scale Grid Integrated Solar Farm Considering Physical and Environmental Factors”, Springer Journal of Institution of Engineers (India), Series B.“Multi-Domain Feature Extraction for Improved Clustering of Smart Meter Data”, Springer’s Journal on Technology and Economics of Smart Grids and Sustainable Energy, vol. 5, 2020Performance Analysis of a Utility Scale Grid Integrated Solar Farm Considering Physical and Environmental Factors, Springer Journal of Institution of Engineers (India), Series B, Oct 2020“An Investigation of the Impact of Synchrophasors Measurement on Multi Area State Estimation in Active Distribution Grids”, Taylor and Francis-Australian Journal of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 2020