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IEI–TSC–News Bulletin, March 2020 1

Vol. 18 : No. 12 March 2020

Er. R. Ramdoss, FIE

Chairman

Er. P. Gomathi Nayagam, MIE

Honorary Secretary

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From the Chairman’s Desk....

Dear Fellow Engineers,

Greetings to all of you.

I am very happy to inform you that

the IEI Tamilnadu State Centre is

celebrating the World Engineering

Day for Sustainable Development on

14, March 2020 at IEI TNSC,

auditorium. I invite all the corporate

members to participate in this celebration.

It is my pleasure to inaugurate the Students' Chapter

in SRM Institute of Science and Technology in

Vadapalani Campus and SSN College of Engineering.

It is my desire to increase the membership strength of

IEI, Tamilnadu State Centre to a considerable level

and to establish Students' Chapter in the Engineering

Colleges and Polytechnic Colleges in Tamilnadu.

I request all the corporate members to bring in more

and more new members into the IEI with slogan

“EVERY MEMBER INDUCT NEW MEMBER” to

double the strength of IEI Tamilnadu.

Er R Ramdoss

Chairman – TNSC

World Engineering Day for

Sustainable Development

14th March 2020 – 6.00 p.m.

Chief Guest:

Thiru K Pandiarajan, Hon’ble Minister for

Tamil Official Language, Tamil Culture and

Archaeology, Government of Tamilnadu

IEI–TSC–News Bulletin, March 20202

Panel Discussion “Transformation of Electric Vehicles with Normal Vehicles”

12.02.2020

A panel discussion was held on 12 th February 2020 at

6.00 pm in IE(I), Tamilnadu State Centre auditorium. The topic of

the day was “Transformation of Electric Vehicles with Normal

Vehicles”. Er. R Ramdoss FIE, Chairman, IE(I), TNSC welcomed

the gathering and introduced the guest speakers

Dr J Balamurugan, Committee Member, Electrical Engineering

Division, IEI-TNSC, Dr P S Kumar, Managing Director,

ETAsmart Pvt. Ltd., Er S Selvakumar, CEO, Power Projects, Dr

E Bhaskaran, Joint Director, Department of Industries and

Commerce, Government of Tamil Nadu and Er P S Praveen,

Blockchain Head, Chennai.

Dr. J Balamururgan has started the event addressing why this

theme has been selected. Er S Selvakumar has talked about the need

of hour to convert the conventional vehicles to Electric Vehicles

and highlighted the paths to be travelled before we reach the goal.

He has touched the base of just not the advantage of EV but also

the challenges to be faced during the transformation. He has stressed

the Two-wheeler, Three Wheeler, Charging Infrastructure, Life of

Battery, Effect of Temperature on Battery etc., He has presented few

case studies and Statistics.

In Dr PS Kumar's opinion EV Vehicles are only one of the

NEV Vehicles - New Energy Vehicles which are transforming the

automotive industry. NEV Vehicles consists Electric Vehicle,

Hybrid Electric Vehicle, Plug-in Hybrid Vehicle, Fuel Cell Vehicles

etc. Without high safety system like Pyrofuse these electric vehicles

will not assure the buyers higher safety standards. Charging -

Different types of Charging sockets, Charging Systems,

Rechargeable Batteries and Convenience of Charging are another

barrier the EV Vehicles needs to overcome. EV Vehicles should

ensure the buyers the lower operating cost and longer life of the

batteries. People in India will migrate to NEV In a phased manner

provided the cost economics are justified.

Er P S Praveen pointed out that India has missed out on first

two opportunities of going green that is ethanol and jatropha which

was supposed to be used by the Railways and diesel vehicles

.Sugarcane producers are now offering the ethanol as a by product

to various alcohol Industries but they are not providing it for vehicle

addition of 20% in petrol . It's been legal for the last four five years

but there is a lot of resistance in implementing this ethanol process

in the petrochemical industry and the government is also taking it

very easy on this particular subject.

We know the green aspect of EV, but there is lot of

standardization in terms of charging interfaces that needs to be

looked into because if a person has the first generation charging

interface he is not able to charge into the modern are the modified

charging interfaces of II and III generation. Charging as a business

also has to be seen as an enabler for this EV Revolution as without

the charging stations available in public and long distance Highways

EV may not be successful at all. The automobile companies are

looking for more policy support from the government in terms of

bringing EV Technology into India and they are looking at tax

breaks and land allotment for EV launch in India. But I am not sure

if the new policies which are released are attracting the auto sector

enlarge.

IOT is also playing a big role in the EV sector because it will

help communication between vehicles and from the vehicle to the

manufacturer and from the manufacturer to the service companies

to support EV vehicles on big platforms which are driven by AI.

So that is a very important advantage of EV because they can be

managed using IOT remotely.

Dr.E.Bhaskaran talked about Electrical Vehicle Manufacturing

Entrepreneurs need 10 STEPS to start their industry.

1. For Conception of project the websites like indcom.tn.gov.in,

stand up India, skill India

may be approached.

2. For preparing project report PMEGP portal may be used.

3. Formation constitution like proprietary, partnership, company

etc., for which online registration may be followed.

4. For Land and building SIDCO or SIPCOT. may be approached

5. For raw material or machineries Government E- Market (gem)

may be searched.

6. For single window clearance from DTCP, Heal Department

Pollution Control, DISH, Fire Services etc., easy of doing

business website may be contacted to get clearance within one

month.

7. To get loan a credit linked capital subsidy like UYEGP,

PMEGP, NEEDS etc., may be approached on addition to

Mudra, Standup India etc.

8. To get EDP training EDII may be approached.

9. IT, GST, ESI, EPF, EP may be obtained by visiting respective

site.

10. Final step is get Udyog Aadhaar Memorandum for

manufacturing or service sector through Government of India

website.

Er R Ramdoss, Chairman, IE(I),TNSC honoured the guest

speakers with a gift.

Honorary Secretary Er P Gomathi Nayagam proposed the

vote of thanks with a new thought that How Human will choose

to “Travel” in Future? Whether Travel will transform to essential

travel and non essentialtravel or as per Pareto principle?

Participant Engineers welcomed the panel discussion approach with

open mind and enjoyed the discussions.

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Talk on “Experiences in Grid Operation with Integration of Renewable Power”

26.02.2020

A lecture meeting was held on 26th February 2020 at 6.00 pm in

IE(I), Tamilnadu State Centre auditorium. The topic of the day was

“Experiences in Grid Operation with Integration of Renewable Power”.

Er. R Ramdoss FIE, Chairman, IE(I), TNSC welcomed the gathering

and introduced the guest speakers Er S Selvakumar, CEO, Power

Projects, Chennai, Er S Senthilkumar, AEE/ATC, O/o. SE/LD&GO,

TANTRANSCO, Chennai, Er Y Srinath, Assistant Director, National

Institute of Wind Energy. Er Babu Sidramappa More FIE, Chairman,

IEI Kalaburagi Local Centre was participated in the lecture meeting as

a Special Guest.

Er Y Srinath has talked that the penetration of wind generation

(infirm power) is increasing day by day on interconnected power

systems; hence system operators are facing increased levels of

variability and uncertain power in the grid. The Indian wind industry

/ utility faces several hurdles including transmission, scheduling and

forecasting problems, resulting in wind turbines being backed down

from the grid because grid mangers could not accurately predict the

wind power to be accommodated in the grid.

Indian Wind Power Association (IWPA) highlighted that in the

state of Tamil Nadu, 2-3 billion units of electricity were lost during

the year 2013 and 2014 because of wind farm downtime (500-1000

Crore Revenue loss for Producers) which is mainly due to non-

availability of proper forecasting mechanism to predict wind power

generation. The integration of increasing amounts of wind into

generation mix requires new tools and practices to ensure the continued

reliable operation of the grid. In order to utilize the maximum of wind

energy resources and to increase the penetration and evacuation of wind

power generation, and for managing the grid effectively an accurate

wind power forecasting technique is needed.

In this regard, NIWE has developed an Indigenous wind power-

forecasting model with the help of high-resolution NWP model data

from the NCMRWF and ISRO-SAC. NIWE has established an

automated system to predict the wind power up to 7 days ahead so as

to support all the State Load Despatch Centre (SLDC) in the country

to evacuate wind power / manage the grid effectively and efficiently.

NIWE has developed a dedicated forecasting dashboard for viewing

the Day-ahead wind power schedule and intraday wind power schedule.

Any public can view the aggregated forecast for the next 7 days using

NIWE's Wind Power Forecasting dashboard by signing in as a guest

user. The respective SLDCs are provided with username and password

to view the forecast, actuals and Error analysis report. In addition to

that, NIWE is also sharing the forecast results to SLDCs through FTP,

E-mail and WhatsApp.

Major achievements

• The forecasting project viz, "Wind Power Forecasting services for

the Whole State of Tamil Nadu" has been awarded National

Awards for eGovernance 2018-2019(GOLD) under Category-IV

"Outstanding research on Citizen Centric Services by Academic

Research Institutions".

• The same wind power forecasting project has also been awarded

SKOCH Smart Technology award 2015.

• In Tamil Nadu, due to NIWE's forecast, Evacuation has been

improved from 80 Million Units to 100+ Million Units in a day

this would reduce the usage of fossil fuel and shall increase the

usage of renewable energy resources optimally and sustain a

secure energy policy for India.

• The NIWE's forecast is largest single regional forecast with 22.1

GW (65%) of Wind across India is operational.

• Wind power forecasts increases the reliability and stability of

power systems by reducing operating reserve shortfalls.

Er.S.Senthilkumar briefed about the Presentation of Integration

of Renewable Energy. Tamil Nadu demand of around 15000 - 16500

MW and Installed capacity of 32,000 MW in conventional and non-

conventional generation is being handled with the existing State Load

Despatch Center (SLDC) i.e. One MLDC and three Sub - LDCs.

Integration of Renewable power into the grid :- The Renewable

Power from Wind/Solar is around 13,000 MW and a monitoring and

scheduling & forecasting is difficult in the existing system conditions

and more additional developments and infrastructure is essential for

load despatch centres.

The Central Government is planning to implement,

• Out of 175 GW, 60 GW Rooftop Solar Plant to be proposed to

establish in Decentralised environment.

• Electric Vehicles/Hybrid Electric Vehicles in India by 2020/2030

with the demand around 1000 - 5000 MW. Before on

implementation lot of requirement for infrastructure development

and monitoring is highly essential for State/Sub-Load Despatch

Centres and Area Control Centres in Grid Management.

This SLDC ensures integrated operation of the power system. It

is responsible for optimum scheduling and dispatch of electricity within

the state in accordance with the contracts entered into with the licensees

or the generation companies operating in that state.

It monitors grid operation, exercises supervision and control over

the inter-state transmission system and is responsible for carrying out

real-time operation for grid control and dispatch of electricity within

the state through secure and economic operation of the state grid in

accordance with the grid standards and state grid code.In future

prospects, Renewable power play a major role in the power system.

Finally S Selvakumar, Head - Engineering and Design has talked

about "Role of Energy Storage and Load Dispatch Center in Converting

175 GW RE dream to Reality". He has touched the based on present

installed capacity, Renewable Penetration, Renewable Contribution,

Transmission Network Strength etc.

In his talk he has highlighted the challenges in increased

renewable penetration and mitigation measures required to ensure the

enhanced renewable penetration. He has also touched the base on

Blackout in UK in August 2019. He has stressed significance of Load

forecasting, Renewable Forecasting and Energy Storage in converting

the 175 GW Renewable Penetration to Grid. He has also touched the

challenges faced by load dispatch centres while running with increased

renewables.

Er R Ramdoss, Chairman, IE(I),TNSC honoured the guest

speakers with a gift. Er P Gomathi Nayagam, MIE, Honorary

Secretary, IE(I), TNSC proposed the voteof thanks.

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TECHNICAL PROGRAMME FOR MARCH 2020

Lecture: 6.00 p.m. Venue: IE (I) Auditorium (Unless mentioned otherwise) Tea: 5.45 p.m.

14th March 2020 World Engineering Day for Sustainable Development

19th March 2020 Free Health Camp for Heart10.00 AM to 2.00 PM

23rd March 2020 World Water Day on “Water and Climate Change”