Mr. Manmath Kumar Badapanda
Present Designation:
Scientific Officer (H) and Head, RF Power Supplies Section, Raja Ramanna Centre for Advanced Technology (Department of Atomic Energy, GoI)Areas of Interest:
Design and development of precession regulated high voltage dc power supplies
Low voltage high current dc and pulse power supplies
Power quality, Multipulsed converters and line harmonics filters
Control-interlock and protection Systems
High power RF system
Specialisation:
1. Precision regulated high voltage DC power supplies up to 100 kV, 25 A DC
2. Power electronics and control system
3. Transformers (converter, power and distribution transformers)
4. Power quality, Multipulsed converters and line harmonics filters
5. Low voltage, high current DC and pulse power supplies
6. Control, Interlock and Protection Systems
7. High power RF and microwave system
8. DC and RF Grounding
Major Professional Contributions:
1) Indigenous development and demonstration of DC-DC converter based solid state modular 36 kV, 24A DC power supply having full range 24-pulse and output ripple free capability, based on which US patent no. 10027122B2 and Indian patent no. 436206 are granted to him, as their sole inventor in the year 2018 and 2023 respectively.
2) Establishment of 1 MW, 352 MHz RF test stand having CW and Pulse Capability.
3) Indigenous development of AC-DC converter based solid state modular 100 kV, 25A DC power supply.
4) Design and indigenous development of 4 numbers of AC regulator based 25kV, 7A DC power supplies along with their detuned filters ad crowbars and 24 numbers of 50V, 700A DC power supplies with active redundancy and hot swapability features, which are in round the clock operations.
5) Design and development of one number of 50V, 40 x 80 A pulse power supply of pulsed solid state RF amplifiers.
6) Design & development of 50 V, 1950 A DC power supplies with high reliability≥ 99.997% for their development in India & deployment in Fermilab, USA
7) Design and development of various DC and pulsed power supplies for Indus I and Indus II Synchrotron Radiation Sources.
Consultancy Areas:
1) High voltage DC power supplies
2) Control-interlock protection system
3) Multi-pulse converters
4) Low voltage , high current DC and pulse power supplies
5) Transformers (Converter, power and distribution transformers)
6) Power electronics
Sector Associated With:
Power and Energy Sector
Electrical Engineering based R& D Sector
High Voltage Engineering Sector
Power Electronics Sector
Precission regulated DC power supply Sector
Sectors Interested to Offer Service:
Power and Energy Sector
Electrical Engineering based R& D Sector
High Voltage Engineering Sector
Power Electronics Sector
Precission regulated DC power supply Sector
Professional Experience
Scientific Officer-H and Head, RF Power Supplies Section at Raja Ramanna Centre for Advanced Technology (RRCAT), Indore [Department of Atomic Energy, Government of India] and looking after Research and Development of various types of power supplies and their subsystems.
Keywords
High voltage DC power supply
Low voltage high current DC and pulsed power supplies
Multi-pulse converters
DC-DC converter
AC-DC converter
Line filters
Transformers
Education
B.Sc. (Engg) [4-Year degree course], Electrical Engineering, University College of Engineering, Burla, Odisha, 1988
Master in Technology, Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, BHU, Varanasi, U.P, 1991
Post Graduate Diploma in Business Administration (Equiv to MBA), Marketing Management and International Trade, International Institute of Management Sciences, Kolkata, W.B, 1999
Awards and Recognitions
1. IEEE India Council Awards: Technologist of the Year-2023 by IEEE India Council, India.
2. IEI NMLC FCRIT Research Excellence Award, National Category- 2023 by The Institution of Engineers (India) Navi Mumbai Local Centre and FCRIT, Vashi, Navi Mumbai, India.
3. Group Achievement Award for excellence in science, engineering and technology for “Indigenous development of 60 kW, CW, 505.8 MHz circulator using in-house developed Indium doped calcium vanadium garnets” in 2017 and for “Design, development and commissioning of indigenous 505.8 MHz RF cavity in Indus-2” in 2016 by Secretary, Department of Atomic Energy, Government of India.
4. Group Achievement Award for excellence in science, engineering and technology for “Development of high power solid state amplifiers and their deployment in Indus-2, Synchrotron Radiation Source” to achieve beam current of 100 mA at 2.5 GeV” by Secretary, Department of Atomic Energy, Government of India in 2011.
5. Group Achievement Award for excellence in science, engineering and technology for “Design, subsystem development, assembly, installation, commissioning and operation of SRS Indus-2 at its full design energy of 2.5 GeV” by Secretary, Department of Atomic Energy, Government of India in 2008.
INAE Section Affiliated
V: Electrical Engineering
Year of Election to Fellowship
2022
Year of Birth
1966
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