Assistant Professor

Educational Qualification

Ph.D NIT Kurukshetra, M.Tech (Power and Industrial Drives) JNTU Anantapur, B.Tech (EEE) Sri Sai Jyothi Engg. College Hyd.

Experience

Teaching & Research:   7 years

Industry : 3 Years

Area of Interest

Multi-level converters, High power factor converters, Grid connected renewable energy sources.

Date of Joining at RVCE

02/11/2022

Email

pnrao@rvce.edu.in

Publications:

International Journals: 04

International/National Conferences: 02

List of Papers Publications:
International Journals

[1] Rao, PN, Saini, LM. Photovoltaic-based grid-connected transformer-less three-phase cascaded diode-clamped multilevel inverter with reduced leakage current. Int J Circ Theor Appl. 2022; 1- 25. https://doi.org/10.1002/cta.3257. (Indexed in SCI) (Impact factor- 2.038)

[2] Rao, PN, Saini, LM. Power enhancement of single-phase transformer-less grid-connected cascaded half-bridge diode clamped inverter under partial shaded photovoltaic. Int Trans Electr Energ Syst. 2021;e12998. https://doi.org/10.1002/2050-7038.12998. (Indexed in SCIE) (Impact factor- 2.860)

[3] P. N. Rao, L. M. Saini, and J. Nakka, “Cascaded diode clamped inverter-based grid‐connected photovoltaic energy conversion system with enhanced power handling capability and efficiency,” IET Renew. Power Gener., vol. 15, no. 3, pp. 600–613, Feb. 2021, doi: 10.1049/rpg2.12046. (Indexed in SCIE) (Impact factor- 3.894)

[4] P. Narendra Rao and J. Nakka, “A Novel Hybrid Multilevel PWM Technique for Power Rating Enhancement in Improved Hybrid Cascaded Diode Clamped Multilevel Inverter,” Electr. Power Components Syst., vol. 47, no. 11–12, 2019, doi: 10.1080/15325008.2019.1659455. (Indexed in SCIE) (Impact factor- 1.071)

International Conferences:

[1] P. N. Rao and J. Nakka, “Three-Phase Four-Leg Four-Wire Topology in High Power Factor Converter addressing the problem of unbalanced source currents,” in 2018 IEEE 8th Power India International Conference (PIICON), 2018, pp. 1–6, doi: 10.1109/POWERI.2018.8704390.

[2] Avinash Pareek, Prashant Singh and P. N. Rao, “Analysis and Comparison of Charging Time between Battery and Supercapacitor for 300W Stand-Alone PV

System,” in 2018 IEEE International Conference on Current Trends towards Converging Technologies (ICCTCT), pp. 1–5. DOI: 10.1109/ICCTCT.2018.8551164.