Sixth National Power Electronics Conference

The National Power Electronics Conference 2013 (NPEC 2013) is the sixth biennial conference of the Power Electronics community in India, focusing on the ongoing research in this area and seeking to find potential users of the laboratory-scale developments in industry. Launched in 2003 October at IIT Bombay, it was biennially held at IIT Kharagpur in December 2005, at IISc Bangalore in December 2007, at IIT Roorkee in June 2010 and at BESU, Shibpur in 2011. The sixth NPEC will be held in December 2013.
For Details:
http://brihsvn.iitk.ernet.in/NPEC13/dw/NPEC13.pdf

Power Converters
Topologies
Modeling & Control
EMI/EMC issues
Machines & Drives
Design & Optimization of conventional machines
Special machines & Drives
Advanced control of drives
Fault diagnostics
Power Electronics applications in Power systems
Power Quality conditioners
Design & control of FACTS devices
Solid-state breakers
HVDC converters & control
Distributed Generation interfaces
Solar PV and Wind energy interfaces and control
Nano & micro-grids: AC & DC
Storage system interfaces for SMES, battery, fuel cell, super/ultra capacitors, inertial storage
Semiconductor Power devices & control
Special applications
Lighting
UPS
Welding/arc furnace

30 June 2013 - Submission of Tutorial Proposals
31 July 2013 - Submission of Full Paper 30 September 2013 - Notification of acceptance
31 October 2013 - Submission of Camera-ready Paper

The conference will be held in the premises of IIT Kanpur. Kanpur is very well connected by rail. The closest airport is about 30 km from IIT Kanpur though air services are more frequent from Lucknow airport, about 150 min drive from IIT. Temperatures in Kanpur during December are expected to be moderate-low.