mkj | IIT Palakkad

Biosketch

Dr. Manas Kumar Jena received his Ph.D. in Power System Engineering from the Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India. Before joining IIT Palakkad, he served as a Subject Matter Expert (SME), at General Electric (GE-Power). He is a Senior Member of IEEE and holds the position of IEEE PES SB Advisor at IIT Palakkad. He is the recipient of the Indian National Academy of Engineers (INAE) Innovative Student Projects Award 2018- Doctoral Level, POSOCO Power System Award (PPSA)-2019, GE-Impact Award-2019 for the development and delivery of PhasorAnalytics Software Solution to ONS-Brazil and Indian National Academy of Engineers (INAE) Young Engineer Award 2021.

His major research interests include the application of Synchrophasor Technology to enhance Power Grid Monitoring, Control, and Protection, Development of WAMS Grid Stability Solutions, Adaptive protection of transmission system, etc.

Research

International Journal Publications (Citations:504, h-index:13, i10-index:14, Ref:GS)

[J19] Gayathri. K and M. K. Jena, "A Practical Approach to Inertia Distribution Monitoring and Impact of Inertia Distribution on Oscillation Baselining Study for Renewable Penetrated Power Grid," in IEEE Systems Journal, doi: 10.1109/JSYST.2022.3228966.

[J18] A. Anshuman, B. K. Panigrahi and M. K. Jena, "Enhanced Visualization and Characterization of Low-Frequency Oscillations in Power System," in IEEE Systems Journal, doi: 10.1109/JSYST.2022.3169491.

[J17] P. Shaw and M. K. Jena, "A Novel Event Detection and Classification Scheme Using Wide-Area Frequency Measurements," in IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, vol. 12, no. 3, pp. 2320-2330, May 2021, doi: 10.1109/TSG.2020.3039274.

[J16] V. Nougain, M. K. Jena and B. K. Panigrahi, "Decentralised wide-area back-up protection scheme based on the concept of centre of reactive power," in IET Generation, Transmission & Distribution, vol. 13, no. 20, pp. 4551-4557, 22 10 2019.

[J15] M. K. Jena and B. K. Panigrahi, "Event-Triggered Vulnerable Relay Identification and Supervision to Prevent Zone-3 Mal-Operations," in IEEE Systems Journal, vol. 13, no. 3, pp. 3368-3375, Sept. 2019.

[J14] V. Nougain, M. K. Jena and B. K. Panigrahi, "Synchro-phasors Assisted Back-up Protection of Transmission Line," IET Generation, Transmission & Distribution, vol. 12, no. 14, pp. 3414-3420, 14 8 2018.

[J13] M. K. Jena and B. K. Panigrahi, "Transient Potential Power Based Supervisory Zone-1 Operation During Unstable Power Swing," IEEE Systems Journal, vol. 13, no. 2, pp. 1823-1830, June 2019.

[J12] M. K. Jena, B. K. Panigrahi and S. R. Samantaray, "A New Approach to Power System Disturbance Assessment Using Wide-Area Postdisturbance Records," IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, vol. 14, no. 3, pp. 1253-1261, March 2018.

[J11] M. K. Jena, B. K. Panigrahi and S. R. Samantaray, "Online detection of tripped transmission line to improve wide-area SA in power transmission system," IET Generation, Transmission & Distribution, vol. 12, no. 2, pp. 288-294, 30 1 2018.

[J10] M. K. Jena, S. R. Samantaray and B. K. Panigrahi, "A New Adaptive Dependability-Security Approach to Enhance Wide Area Back-Up Protection of Transmission System," IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, vol. 9, no. 6, pp. 6378-6386, Nov. 2018.

[J9] M. K. Jena, S. R. Samantaray and B. K. Panigrahi, "A New Decentralized Approach to Wide-Area Back-Up Protection of Transmission Lines," in IEEE Systems Journal, vol. 12, no. 4, pp. 3161-3168, Dec. 2018.

[J8] M. K. Jena, S. R. Samantaray and B. K. Panigrahi, "Variational mode decomposition-based power system disturbance assessment to enhance WA situational awareness and post-mortem analysis," IET Generation, Transmission & Distribution, vol. 11, no. 13, pp. 3287-3298, 7 9 2017.

[J7] M. K. Jena, S. R. Samantaray and B. K. Panigrahi, "A New Wide-Area Backup Protection Scheme for Series-Compensated Transmission System," IEEE Systems Journal, vol. 11, no. 3, pp. 1877-1887, Sept. 2017.

[J6] M. K. Jena and S. R. Samantaray, "Data-Mining-Based Intelligent Differential Relaying for Transmission Lines Including UPFC and Wind Farms," in IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, vol. 27, no. 1, pp. 8-17, Jan. 2016.

[J5] M.K.Jena, S.R Samantaray, “Intelligent Relaying Scheme for Series-Compensated Double Circuit Lines using Phase Angle of Differential Impedance”,Electrical Power and Energy Systems,2015, 70, pp. 17–26 (doi: 10.1016/j.ijepes.2015.01.035).

[J4] M.K. Jena , S.R Samantaray, L N Tripathy, “ A DT- Induced Fuzzy Rule-based Differential Relaying for Transmission line including UPFC and Wind-farms”, IET Gener. Transm. Distrib., 2014, Vol. 8, Iss. 12, pp. 2144–2152.

[J3] M.K. Jena and S.R Samantaray (2014), “Real time digital simulator implementation of data-mining-based integrated impedance relay for compensated lines”,International Transactions on Electrical Energy Systems. doi: 10.1002/etep.1920.

[J2] M.K. Jena and S.R Samantaray , “Synchrophasors assisted IPII based Intelligent Relaying for Transmission lines including UPFC”,International Journal of Emerging Electric Power Systems, Volume 16, Issue 1, Pages 47–57, February 2015.

[J1] L.N. Tripathy, M.K.Jena, S.R Samantaray, “Differential Relaying Scheme for Tapped Transmission line connecting UPFC and Wind farm” ,Electrical Power and Energy Systems 60 (2014) 245–257.

International Conference Publications:

[C18] T. K. K et al., "BigSync: Big Data Analytics For Synchrophasors," 2023 5th International Conference on Power, Control & Embedded Systems (ICPCES), Allahabad, India, 2023, pp. 1-5, doi: 10.1109/ICPCES57104.2023.10075932.

[C17] G. K, M. K. Jena and A. K. Moharana, "Critical Clearing Time Revisited in an Inverter Dominated Power Systems," 2023 5th International Conference on Power, Control & Embedded Systems (ICPCES), Allahabad, India, 2023, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/ICPCES57104.2023.10075983.

[C16] A. Anshuman, B. K. Panigrahi, A. Mishra and M. K. Jena, "An Adaptive Basis Technique Applied to Mode Extraction of Non-Stationary Low Frequency Oscillations," 2022 22nd National Power Systems Conference (NPSC), New Delhi, India, 2022, pp. 866-871, doi: 10.1109/NPSC57038.2022.10069983.

[C15] S. L. Chukkaluru and M. K. Jena, "Revisiting Reference Angle Selection for WAMS-based Control Room Applications," 2022 22nd National Power Systems Conference (NPSC), New Delhi, India, 2022, pp. 142-147, doi: 10.1109/NPSC57038.2022.10069795.

[C14] S. Dash, M. K. Jena, P. Shaw and P. D. Achlerkar, "Revisiting Performance of Negative Sequence Directional Relay (32Q) in the Presence of Inverter Based Resources," 2022 22nd National Power Systems Conference (NPSC), New Delhi, India, 2022, pp. 679-684, doi: 10.1109/NPSC57038.2022.10069274.

[C13] S. Mishra, M. K. Jena and A. Kumar Tripathy, "Towards the Development of Disaster Management Tailored Machine Learning Systems," 2022 IEEE India Council International Subsections Conference (INDISCON), 2022, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/INDISCON54605.2022.9862877.

[C12] S. Sahoo, P. D. Achlerkar and M. K. Jena, "Rethinking Grid Codes from Protection Perspective: A Case Study on Negative Sequence Directional Relay," 2021 IEEE 2nd International Conference on Smart Technologies for Power, Energy and Control (STPEC), 2021, pp. 1-6.

[C11] G. K, M. K. Jena and A. K. Moharana, "Impact of Different Penetration Level of Type-IV Renewable Energy Resources on Power System Dynamics," 2021 9th IEEE International Conference on Power Systems (ICPS), 2021, pp. 1-6.

[C10] A. S. Tarun Papa, K. Gayathri, and M. K. Jena, "Detailed Investigation of Mode Information based System Inertia Estimation using Synchrophasor Measurements," 2021 9th IEEE International Conference on Power Systems (ICPS), 2021, pp. 1-6.

[C9] A. Anshuman, B. K. Panigrahi and M. K. Jena, "A Novel Hybrid Algorithm for Event Detection, Localisation, and Classification," 2021 9th IEEE International Conference on Power Systems (ICPS), 2021, pp. 1-6.

[C8] Shriram Ganeshan, M.K.Jena, B.K Panigrahi “Improved Setting free Power Swing Blocking Scheme using Local Information”, Engineer Infinite e-TechNxt-2018,13-14 Mar,2018.

[C7] M.K.Jena, B.K Panigrahi “Dynamic Stress Assessment in Power Transmission Network to Support Wide Area Early Warning System”, IEEE INDICON 2017, IIT Roorkee,19-21 Dec,2017.

[C6] M.K.Jena, S.R Samantaray, B.K Panigrahi“Supervisory Control Based Wide Area Back-Up Protection Scheme for Power Transmission Network”,IEEE,19th National Power System Conference(NPSC-2016),IIT Bhubaneswar,19-21Dec,2016.

[C5] M.K.Jena, B.K Panigrahi, S.R Samantaray, Sayari Das,“Exposing Zone-2 and Zone-3 Mal-operations in Thyristor-Controlled Series Capacitor Compensated Transmission System”,IEEE,19th National Power System Conference(NPSC-2016),IIT Bhubaneswar,19-21Dec,2016.

[C4] M.K.Jena, S.R Samantaray, “IPII based Intelligent Relay for TCSC Compensated Transmission Lines: Tested on Real time Platform”,IEEE, 18th National Power System Conference(NPSC-2014),IIT Guwahati,18-20 Dec,2014.

[C3] M.K.Jena, S.R Samantaray, “Synchrophasor Measurement based Smart Relays for UPFC Compensated Transmission System" IEEE, Power Engineering Conference (AUPEC-2014),Curtin University, Perth, Australia”, 28 September – 1 October 2014.

[C2] L.N. Tripathy ,M.K.Jena,S.RSamantaray, Differential Relaying Scheme for Tapped Transmission line connecting UPFC and Wind farm ",IEEE conference,Techsym-2014,IIT Kharagpur.

[C1] M.K.Jena, L.N. Tripathy, S.R Samantaray, “Intelligent Relaying of UPFC based Transmission Lines Using Decision Tree”,IEEE, International conference on emerging trends and applications in computer science(ICETACS-2013).

Teaching

EE5514: Renewable Energy System (Aug-Nov 2022)

EE3040: Power Systems (Jan- April 2020, Feb-May 2021)

EE5513: Power System Protection (Sep 2020- Jan 2021)

EE5017: Power System Analysis and Operation (Sep 2020 to Jan 2021)

EE2010: Basic Electrical Engineering (July- Nov 2019)

EE3170: Electrical Machine Laboratory (July- Nov 2019)

EE4120: Power Systems Laboratory (July- Nov 2019)

Research Group

Gayathri K (PhD Student)- Research Area: Power System Monitoring, Power System Dynamics

Gayathri

Suvadipa Sahoo (MS Student)-Research Area: Power System Protection

suvadipa

Thoufeer K K (PMRF, PhD student)-Research Area: Power System Protection, Cyber Security

Arup Anshuman (Ph.D. Student, IIT Delhi)-Research Area: Power system stability

Additional Information

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Professional Services

Description

Reviewer for the following peer-reviewed journals:

(i) IEEE Transcations on Power Systems

(ii) IEEE Transcations on Power Delivery

(iii) IEEE Transcations on Smart Grid

(iv) IEEE Transcations on Industrial Electronics

(v) IET Generation, Transmission and Distribution

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Invited Talks

Description

1. " Synchrophasor Technology in Smart Grid" AICTE sponsored six day online Short Term Training Programme (STTP) on “Novel Design & Control Strategies and Innovative Technical Practices in LV/HV Modern Switch Gear, 23 - 29 July 2020 at  Saranathan College of Engineering, Tiruchirapalli,India.

2. "Grid operation using Synchrophasor technology", The Institute of Engineers (India) Online Seminar Series on Recent Trends in Electrical Engineering, 22 - 26 June 2020 at PSG Institute of Technology and Applied Research, Coimbatore, India.  

3. " Wide area monitoring, protection and control in future smart grid", CSIR sponsored one day national seminar, Amrita College of Engineering and technology, Nagercoil,11th Jan 2020. 

4. “Operationalizing WAMS in the Control Room” , IIT Kharagpur,Feb 2019.

5. “Wide Area Monitoring, Control and Protection” Short Term Training Programme (STTP-2019) on “Recent Advances in Modern Power Technologies”, NIT Raipur,2019.

6. “Data-Mining Based Integrated Impedance Relay for Compensated Lines”, RTDS UGM-2014, IIT Kanpur.

7. "Real Time Digital Simulation”, National Workshop on Recent Developments in Smart Grid Technologies, 2014(NWSGT-2014), IIT Bhubaneswar.

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Awards Received by Students

Description

[1] Bhavana Sharma- POSOCO Power System Award (Masters Category)- 2023

Publications

BigSync: Big Data Analytics For Synchrophasors

Thoufeer K K; Gayathri K; Harsh Anand; Manas Kumar Jena; Satyajit Das; Vikas Bharti; Mutyala Rupesh; Surendra Baskey; Guntreddi Nithin

2023 5th International Conference on Power, Control & Embedded Systems (ICPCES), Allahabad, India, 2023 (2023)

Critical Clearing Time Revisited in an Inverter Dominated Power Systems

Gayathri. K, Manas Kumar Jena and A. K. Moharana

2023 5th International Conference on Power, Control & Embedded Systems (ICPCES), Allahabad, India, 2023 (2023)

An Adaptive Basis Technique Applied to Mode Extraction of Non-Stationary Low Frequency Oscillations

A. Anshuman, B. K. Panigrahi, A. Mishra and Manas Kumar Jena

2022 22nd National Power Systems Conference (NPSC), New Delhi, India (2023)

Revisiting Reference Angle Selection for WAMS-based Control Room Applications

S. L. Chukkaluru and Manas Kumar Jena

2022 22nd National Power Systems Conference (NPSC), New Delhi, India (2023)

Revisiting Performance of Negative Sequence Directional Relay (32Q) in the Presence of Inverter Based Resources

S. Dash, Manas Kumar Jena, P. Shaw and P. D. Achlerkar

2022 22nd National Power Systems Conference (NPSC), New Delhi, India (2023)

A Practical Approach to Inertia Distribution Monitoring and Impact of Inertia Distribution on Oscillation Baselining Study for Renewable Penetrated Power Grid

Gayathri. K, M. K. Jena

IEEE Systems Journal (2023)

Towards the Development of Disaster Management Tailored Machine Learning Systems

S. Mishra, M. K. Jena and A. Kumar Tripathy

2022 IEEE India Council International Subsections Conference (INDISCON) (2022)

Enhanced Visualization and Characterization of Low Frequency Oscillations in Power System

Arup Anshuman, Bijaya Ketan Panigrahi, Manas Kumar Jena

IEEE Systems Journal (2022)

Rethinking Grid Codes from Protection Perspective: A Case Study on Negative Sequence Directional Relay

S. Sahoo, P. D. Achlerkar and M. K. Jena

2021 IEEE 2nd International Conference on Smart Technologies for Power, Energy and Control (STPEC) (2022)

Detailed Investigation of Mode Information based System Inertia Estimation using Synchrophasor Measurements

A. S. Tarun Papa, K. Gayathri and M. K. Jena

9th IEEE International Conference on Power Systems (ICPS), 2021 (2021)

Impact of Different Penetration Level of Type-IV Renewable Energy Resources on Power System Dynamics

Gayathri. K, M. K. Jena and A. K. Moharana

2021 9th IEEE International Conference on Power Systems (ICPS), 2021 (2021)

A Novel Hybrid Algorithm for Event Detection, Localisation and Classification

A. Anshuman, B. K. Panigrahi and M. K. Jena

2021 9th IEEE International Conference on Power Systems (ICPS) (2021)

A Novel Event Detection and Classification Scheme Using Wide Area Frequency Measurements

P Shaw, Manas Kumar Jena

IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid (2021)

Event-Triggered Vulnerable Relay Identification and Supervision to Prevent Zone-3 Mal-Operations

M. K. Jena and B. K. Panigrahi

IEEE Systems Journal 13 (3) 3368-3375 (2019)

Decentralised wide-area back-up protection scheme based on the concept of centre of reactive power

V. Nougain, M. K. Jena and B. K. Panigrahi

IET Generation, Transmission & Distribution 13 (20) 4551-4557 (2019)

Transient Potential Power Based Supervisory Zone-1 Operation During Unstable Power Swing

M. K. Jena and B. K. Panigrahi

IEEE Systems Journal 13 (2) 1823 - 1830 (2019)

Event Triggered Vulnerable Relay Identification and Supervision to Prevent Zone-3 Mal-Operations

M. K. Jena and B. K. Panigrahi

IEEE Systems Journal (2019)

A New Decentralized Wide Area Back-up Protection Scheme based on the Concept of Centre of Reactive Power

V. Nougain, M. K. Jena and B. K. Panigrahi

IET Generation, Transmission & Distribution (2019)

A New Decentralized Approach to Wide-Area Back-Up Protection of Transmission Lines

M. K. Jena, S. R. Samantaray and B. K. Panigrahi

IEEE Systems Journal 12 (4) 3161-3168 (2018)

A New Adaptive Dependability-Security Approach to Enhance Wide Area Back-Up Protection of Transmission System

M. K. Jena, S. R. Samantaray and B. K. Panigrahi

IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid 9 (6) 6378-6386 (2018)

Online detection of tripped transmission line to improve wide-area SA in power transmission system

M. K. Jena, B. K. Panigrahi and S. R. Samantaray

IET Generation, Transmission & Distribution 12 (2) 288-294 (2018)

A New Approach to Power System Disturbance Assessment Using Wide-Area Postdisturbance Records

M. K. Jena, B. K. Panigrahi and S. R. Samantaray

IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics 14 (3) 1253-1261 (2018)

Synchro-phasors Assisted Back-up Protection of Transmission Line

V. Nougain, M. K. Jena and B. K. Panigrahi

IET Generation, Transmission & Distribution 12 (14) 3414 - 3420 (2018)

A New Wide-Area Backup Protection Scheme for Series-Compensated Transmission System

M. K. Jena, S. R. Samantaray and B. K. Panigrahi

IEEE Systems Journal 11 (3) 1877-1887 (2017)

Variational mode decomposition-based power system disturbance assessment to enhance WA situational awareness and post-mortem analysis

M. K. Jena, S. R. Samantaray and B. K. Panigrahi

IET Generation, Transmission & Distribution 11 (13) 3287-3298 (2017)

Data-Mining-Based Intelligent Differential Relaying for Transmission Lines Including UPFC and Wind Farms

M. K. Jena, S. R. Samantaray

IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems 27 (1) 8-17 (2016)

Synchrophasors assisted IPII based Intelligent Relaying for Transmission lines including UPFC

M. K. Jena, S. R. Samantaray

International Journal of Emerging Electric Power Systems (2015)

Real time digital simulator implementation of data-mining-based integrated impedance relay for compensated lines

M. K. Jena, S. R. Samantaray

International Transactions on Electrical Energy Systems (2015)

Intelligent Relaying Scheme for Series-Compensated Double Circuit Lines using Phase Angle of Differential Impedance

M. K. Jena, S. R. Samantaray

Electrical Power and Energy Systems (2015)

Differential Relaying Scheme for Tapped Transmission line connecting UPFC and Wind farm

L N Tripathy, M. K. Jena, S. R. Samantaray

Electrical Power and Energy Systems (2014)

A DT- Induced Fuzzy Rule-based Differential Relaying for Transmission line including UPFC and Wind-farms

M. K. Jena, S. R. Samantaray and L N Tripathy

IET Generation, Transmission & Distribution (2014)