Pramod Patil

*Over 27++ years’ experience in the areas of Project Management and end-to-end Project / Product Development in the field of Industrial Automation, Process automation ,Renewable Energy field with Embedded Systems and Electricals and Power Electronics. *15 Year Practical experience in all type of wind turbine technologies With Gear AND Asynchronous Generator +fluid coupling / rotor resistance adjustment/full converter AND Doubly fed Induction Generator .
*8 Years experience in Gear Less turbine with Ring type synchronous generator and full converter , PMG type generator with full converter.
*18 Years practical experience in Power Electronics design A.C Drives,Soft starters , DC drives , Buck and boost convertors , MPPT charge controllers, SMPS power supply , Un interruptible power Supply , Grid tied full converter system for solar and wind, Air condition converter for Railways operated on batteries , Electric car controller using super capacitors etc. Experience in Power Transister , Thyristor , IGBT and Diode ,Inductor ,Capacitor design for Power Electronics applications. Power factor panel with power factor controller binary switching algorithms .
*15 ++ Year experience in Design and development of Wind turbine and selection of wind turbine sub components and technologies and system integration.
*Manufacturing factory setup ( Sahany-Kirkwood Pvt Ltd –Process plant and PowerWind ltd – Wind Turbine Manufacturing, Cut to length project –Godrej , PUC Foam factory – Durafoam ) including layout ,capacity planning , programming in IEC 61131 PLC languages , installation and commissioning activities and pilot production.
*Technology Transfer from Prototype stage to serial production with documentation such as Work procedures ,Instructions, test protocols ,final acceptance protocols etc.
*5 years experience in Wind farm & Solar farm development : wind resource , land acquisition , sub station and transmission line planning , wind turbine installation and commissioning team and OMS team formation.
? 15 Years experience in Printed Circuit Board design for microprocessor based boards C167,C517,80C88 etc. and flash memory ,Dual port static RAMS for two controllers on one board ,RTC, Analog and digital control circuits for control and power electronics applications like PLC and SCADA ,AC –DC drives and converters at M/s Wobben Research Centre Aurich ( Enercon GmbH Germany),Crompton Greaves etc.
? C-language and Assembly language programming for Microprocessors for Control and Instrumentation and Power electronics applications using compilers like Keil ,Tasking and RTOS development for application at M/s Wobben Research Centre Aurich ( Enercon GmbH Germany) , Crompton Greaves Ltd , Sivananda Electronics.
? 10 Years experience in Design assessment [DFMEA] , Implementing Design related requirement in Production , Installations and commissioning and operation & Maintenance by defining processes & Quality Plans for Manufacturing ,Testing , Commissioning & O & M activities [PFMEA] & Root Cause Analysis of failures( major failure incident) and improvement plans in existing designs with retrofits.
? Setting of R & D ,projects and OMS departments with formation of team by selection , classroom and on job training in Enercon India Ltd ,PowerWind Ltd and Suzlon Energy Ltd. Performance Management by defining KRAs and job profiles of team members.
? Approx. 8 Years experience in Life Time management of Wind Turbines [ Performance , Improvement ,Change of rules and regulation safety , electricity ( Harmonics ,LVRT ) & Obsolance Management ]
? 20 Years in New product development process: Documented success in Project Management activities with depth ness in conceptualising, designing, developing and prototyping products for seeking client approvals, prior to developing the product and state gate Reviews.
? 8 Years in development of Graphic User Interface software using Visual Pro compiler from Agilent Technology for Test System applications.
? Type certification ( Design validation) as per IEC 61400-1 , 2005 ed.3 A :2010 of 900KW and 2.5MW wind turbines for PowerWind Ltd.( certification Agency : TuV Rhineland Germany) and and Type Testing prototype as per IEC 61400-22 ( certification agency DEWI Germany).
? Equivalent components selection for vendor development for major components like converter and generator and control system , cables ( Aluminium cables) ,Transformer and modification in system specification.
? HT yard layout for 33KV unit substation for wind turbine.(VCB ,CT,PT and Control Relay Panel ,Transformer specification ,Transmission line layout and G59 Grid code testing for UK utility operator.
? Solar project 150KW off grid : Sizing of Panels , batteries and MPPT charger and inverter and execution.
? Solar Wind Hybrid project using Thin Film and Crystalline solar modules (540KVAx3 ) and two wind turbines 900KW
? 2 years Management Representive for ISO 9000 for PowerWind Ltd. And 15 years total experience for ISO 9000 activities for R & D , Engg and Project departments.
? Preparation and delivery of training programs for Programmable logic controllers , Wind turbine technologies ,operations , renewable energy etc.
? At Pune University Syllabus setting and visiting lecture for M.Tech ( Renewable energy) for year 2005-07.
? Design of Security Access control system from concept to prototype 1st time in India.
? Technical writer for preparation of troubleshooting manuals ( operation), Installation and commissioning manuals ,application technical notes , work instructions and procedures and technical presentations for training programs , design basis.
? Setting of Repair centre for Industrial electronics product for Crompton Greaves Ltd , wind turbine sub assemblies and PCB repair for Enercon GmbH ,Suzlon Energy Ltd with designing GO/No Go test system and repair guide Graphical User interface in test system program.
? Troubleshooting manuals with system error for wind turbine for Enercon ,Suzlon Energy Ltd and PowerWind Ltd for Wind turbine.