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Improving Industrial Equipment Health: The Next-Generation Power Quality Monitoring
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Mr. Rajat Kumar*
Email: rajatkumar972@gmail.com
As a science student, whenever I travelled by road or train, I always preferred a window seat as I loved gazing at the outer world. Being a keen observer, while travelling, I always observed lots of transmission towers carrying electricity, transformers, substations, etc., and I was always eager about every phenomenon related to it. Being a 90’s kid, because of long power cuts in my area, I always reminisce about spending lots of nights on the roof of my house along with my relatives and colleagues, playing antakshari, gossiping, counting stars in the sky, etc. Despite of all the trouble caused due to those power cuts, I still remember that era as one of my life’s best moments of my childhood. Then, on one fine day my father brought a big electrical device (inverter) and
I became quite excited to know the function and utility of that device. In fact, I just sat beside the electrician throughout the entire fixing process of the inverter, watching all the electrical connections. Owing to my growing interest in electrical appliances, I decided to elect this particular area as my career, and this whole passion for electrical devices turned out to be a path decider in my life. In 2009, I got admission in Electrical Engineering (my dream branch) for Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech) programme. After studying 40–45 subjects during my graduation period, I decided to go for my Master’s (M.Tech) degree in the field of Power Electronics and Drives (core electrical field) in order to gain more in-depth knowledge of my specialty and career focus. Moreover, the idea of master’s degree allowed me to
* Mr. Rajat Kumar, PhD Scholar from Sant Longowal Institute of Engineering and Technology, Punjab, is pursuing his research on “Assessment of Power Quality Disturbances in a Distribution System”. His popular science story entitled “Improving Industrial Equipment Health: The Next Generation Power Quality Monitoring” has been selected for AWSAR Award.