Gujarat Power Research & Development Cell
(A Govt. of Gujarat Initiative)
IITGn Research Park, IIT Gandhinagar, Palaj-382355, Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India
The GPRD Cell is engaged in Research and Development in Electricity area. The Cell has also taken up many activities which are related with energy efficiency of power network, Power quality and Power reliability, renewable energy for environmental benefits, improving customer services etc.
For achieving above conception, Total 52 (Fifty Two) Research Projects are ongoing which is listed as under:
| List of Ongoing Reserch Project | |
|---|---|
| 1 | On line Testing of metering set of HT consumer Installation |
| 2 | Common meter reading software using meter API_Universal Modem |
| 3 | Appointment of system developer for Energy Meter Data Accusation system and BI |
| 4 | LoRA WAN Communication Technology for existing DLMS meters |
| 5 | Pole Erection Device |
| 6 | Mobile App_GPS/GIS based _Connections Registration to Released [ Power Connect ] |
| 7 | Pilot Project for 11KV VAR compensation with Step less Voltage regulator |
| 8 | Pole Climbing device: |
| 9 | 33kV Distribution System: |
| 10 | Conductor Stringing Device (CSD) |
| 11 | On field Safety Improvement by Live line indicator |
| 12 | Effect of harmonics and its solution |
| 13 | Consumer supported metering and billing system |
| 14 | Smart Feeder Monitoring System for Power Distribution Network |
| 15 | Mobile App for vigilance Activity |
| 16 | To study effect of over voltage in Power Distribution Jointly with IITGn |
| 17 | Study of reasons of HT & LT Aerial bunch cable failure and life |
| 18 | LT AB Switch with Earth System ( LT ABES) |
| 19 | AL-59-Tech specs_P058 |
| 21 | Common Line Earthing for HT feeder |
| 22 | Best Practices of other utilities |
| 23 | Wide Parallel flange Beam (WPB-160)-P061 |
| 24 | Collaboration with IIT-EPSRC UK |
| 25 | Tool kit |
| 26 | Material testing Lab at each DISCOMs |
| 27 | Assessing impact of EV on power sector |
| 28 | Geo-Urja |
| 29 | Wind Turbine |
| 30 | Network Analysis Tool |
| 31 | Load Break Switch with Earth Blade-Communicable |
| 32 | Workshops in search of Innovative ideas |
| 33 | Ideal Transformer Center |
| 34 | GSECL-steam Turbine |
| 35 | Surya Shakti Kishan Yojana - SKY AG. Feeder Solarization Scheme |
| 36 | Ester Oil |
| 37 | Feeder Pillar |
| 38 | Electrical Over Head Sensor |
| 39 | Drone Survey |
| 40 | FRP Fencing |
| 41 | Project Management Tool-PMT |
| 42 | Integrated Solar Lighting System (ISLS) |
| 43 | Battery Storage -Challenges of RE integration, storage and load pattern stabilization |
| 44 | Micro inverters |
| 45 | Load Balancing of Transformer |
| 46 | Energy Efficient Pump set (EEPS) |
| 47 | Geo-Mapping of Earth resistivity measurement data of villages under Vijapur Division, UGVCL |
| 48 | Development of SMART Ecosystem for Energy Metering and communication for system reliability, quality control and revenue generation |
| 49 | Study for feasibility of reuse of cooling tower blow down water from bhavnagar lignite thermal power station in irrigation in nearby villages |
| 50 | Research project to study RS 485 Modbus Based AMR technology for Group Energy meter installations. |
| 51 | Feeder panel Relay- Snapping of Conductor |