PRUTHIRAJ SWAIN

pruthiswain@gmail.com, +91-9740658825

PROFILE SUMMARY
• A result-oriented collaborative professional with 6+ years of experience in Product
EDUCATION Management, Operations with expertise in Application Engineering of Battery Energy
• National Institute of Technology (NIT) Storage Systems (BESS) and Renewable Energy Systems (RES)
Surathkal, 2015
• Spearheading data-driven performance validation & operational optimization of
M. Tech in Power & Energy Systems
Battery Energy Storage System in Microgrid and EV Infrastructure application
CGPA: 8.41
• Collaborating various tasks & deliverables as required by stakeholders for renewable
Mangalore, KA
energy technology application in stationary and automotive domain
• Biju Patnaik University of Technology TECHNICAL SKILL SET
(BPUT), 2011 • Technical feasibility evaluation, integration & commissioning of renewable energy
B. Tech in Electrical & Electronics sources such as Solar PV, Li-Ion battery, and Fuel Cell for backup power applications
CGPA: 8.63 • Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA) of BESS
Bhubaneswar, OD • Analytical tool development for the BESS design & IEC/IEEE/UL standard Compliance
• Mathematical modeling, system design & simulation in MATLAB/Simulink along with
• Kendriya Vidyalaya, 2006 performance validation through data analytics and technology feasibility evaluation
CBSE Board • Market research (competitor analysis, SWOT analysis, safety standard, grid code
SSC: 77.6% and HSC: 73.4% compliance and support for product positioning) of BESS projects globally
Bhubaneswar, OD • Mentoring R&D projects from inception to the execution phase
• Application engineering of the alternate energy system for efficiency improvement
KEY COMPETENCIES • HSE analysis and preparation of checklist for Battery Energy Storage System
• Problem Solver • Project management related to energy management for telecom and UAV sector
• Leadership • Managing projects within cost & time parameters; providing technical inputs and
• Team Player engineering support to the team from conception to completion stage of the product
• Adaptability management
• Critical Thinking • Technical paper presentations at conferences/seminars and white paper publications
• Mentoring • Applied Lean Six Sigma (Yellow Belt) & Kaizen activities for the product and process
improvements
• BoQ optimization, vendor team finalization & overall cost reduction of the project
POSITIONS OF RESPONSIBILITY • Test Automation of BESS and MG control application testing
• Member, IEEE • Intellectual Property support to product management team
• ExCom Member, IEEE Young
Professionals • Project Management tool: MS Suite package (Teams, Project, Planner, SharePoint,
• Reviewer, IJRER (Scopus Indexed) Outlook, Skype, Azure DevOps)
• Disruptive Thinking Member (DTM) • Modeling & Simulation tools: MATLAB, Simulink, P-Spice, ETAP
• Volunteer, SMILE Foundation • Automation tool: Azure DevOps Pipeline, Multiprog, RTUtil & Python
• Volunteer, REDCROSS Society • Professional documentation & Data analysis tool: Python, GitHub, MS Office (Excel,
Word, PowerPoint, Visio, Power BI), Latex (MiKTeX), AutoCAD
HOBBIES/INTERESTS WORK EXPERIENCE
• Solving Rubik’s Cube, Sudoku • Jul’20 - Present
Hitachi ABB Power Grids, Bangalore as Business R&D Engineer
• Playing Table Tennis & Cricket
(Grid Edge Solutions, Power Grids BU)
• Traveling
• Volunteering
• Oct’17 – Jun’20
• Philately & Numismatics ABB India Limited and ABB GISPL, Bangalore as Business R&D Engineer
(Microgrids & Distributed Generation, Power Grids- Grid Automation BU)

• Jun’15 - Sept’17
Intelligent Energy (India) Pvt. Ltd. as Assistant Manager-Engg. & Operations
(a wholly owned subsidiary of Intelligent Energy Holdings plc)
 KEYS PROJECTS AND RESULTS ACHIEVED
• Apr’19 – Ongoing | ABB GISPL and ABB Italy
Title: Data-Driven Performance Evaluation & Validation of BESS projects in Microgrid and EV Infrastructure Application
Role: Project Lead - Data analytics of site data and its validation of the BESS operation philosophy in MS-Excel and
MATLAB/Simulink platform. Identified and evaluated 08 KPIs and 06 KPPs and improved the overall reliability of the
application by ~30%. Assisted Business Development team in techno-commercial feasibility evaluation of energy storage
system application for Microgrid & EV infrastructure development & prepared assessment reports for stakeholders

Apr’20 – Ongoing | Hitachi ABB Power Grids

Title: Test Automation of Microgrid application testing framework
Role: Automation Lead - Performing and analyzing Unit and System Integration testing of BESS & MG Control application
with comprehensive test cases. Streamlining automation of test case execution using Python platform (Pytest framework)
through Azure DevOps Pipeline execution. Enhanced system testing time by 40% and reduced ~80% of the manual testing
errors.

• Apr’18 – Mar’19 | ABB India Limited

Title: Failure Mode & Effects Analysis (FMEA) of ABB Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) product- AU/EU region
Role: Project Lead - Identified 650+ potential failure modes (365 for AU&NZ design, 211 for EU region design) and
evaluated corresponding 431 RPNs for different subsystems, based on its cause and severity, reliability evaluation of the
overall product and circulation of recommended product design changes with internal/external stakeholders for
implementation. Compliance with region-wise applicable international standards for the design validation.

• Oct’17 – Apr’18 | ABB India Limited

Title: Sizing and optimization of Energy Storage for ABB Microgrid application
Role: Design Engineer - Accountable for feasibility evaluation, system engineering, calculation of energy balance, proper sizing
of the system and its balance of system (Bi-directional inverter, coupling transformer, FDAS and HVAC) for a given application.
Stationary application - An increase of ~20% and ~34% of energy storage in 20ft. and 40ft. ISO HC container respectively and
provide technical support for overall system integration and commissioning.
Automotive application - Proposed an increase in energy density by ~25% by disruptive design in battery casing design within
the stipulated dimensions. Identified 23 safety-critical components, their standard & non-standard operating condition and
derating evaluation of the system based upon the deployment region. Recommended protection devices for safe operation at
higher altitudes.
Title: Competitor Analysis of Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) products
Role: Performed rigorous market research, SWOT analysis and identified applicable compliance of the international standards,
assisting marketing/sales team in positioning the product application-wise as well as region-wise globally.

• Jan ‘17 – Sep’17 | Intelligent Energy Holdings plc, UK, INOX-Air Products & IE India, Bangalore, KA
Title: Methanol based Fuel Cell Reformer (Hydrogen production) test bench set up in India
Role: Project management - Scope of work and budget preparation, detailed internal requirement formulation, finalizing
technical specifications, risk assessment and vendor finalization, technical support for overall system integration with Fuel Cell
system and coordination with stakeholders about the completion of project activities within the timeline
(Evaluating different Hydrogen (H2) production methodologies from the different feedstock, its techno-commercial validation
and setting up the H2 ecosystem for the mass rollout of the Fuel Cell system in the Indian market
Title: Hydrogen (H2) Fuel Cell powered UAV/Drone System– Operation and Infrastructure requirement analysis
Role: Performed extensive market research, customer requirement formulation, & provided a suitable solution based on the
customer requirement. Assisted UK team in re-fueling ecosystem development, and operational condition test conduction,
resulted in extended flight time by 100 % to ~ 90 minutes)

• Dec’15 –Dec’16 | Intelligent Energy (I) Pvt. Ltd., Bangalore, KA, IN

Title: Deployment of Hydrogen Fuel Cell (HFC) technology in Indian Telecom market
Role: Site survey planning, resource allocation, feasibility criteria evaluation and evaluation of different Fuel handling solution
at site (100% safety compliance, savings in execution time by ~30%, an overall increase in site feasible count by 40%)
Route optimization for telecom sites w.r.t pan India Hydrogen sources for telecom Infrastructure Providers (IPs) resulted in
Hydrogen logistics efficiency improvement (Hydrogen Ecosystem Development)
Site engineering: 67% savings in civil footprint, 57% reduction in civil expenditure, total acquired area savings ~7%
 Development of online survey tool for data management automation of telecom site’s passive assets (MS-Excel & Google
Web analytics-based tools for 27000+ sites data analytics leads to improved productivity of field team by 35%).
Title: Sizing and optimization of PV system with battery for backup power application in the Telecom sector
Role: Accountable for planning site survey, feasibility evaluation, system engineering, calculation of energy balance, proper
sizing of the PV system and its balance of plant (VRLA battery, DC/DC converter, charge controller). Savings of ~500 Liters
of diesel, per site per month and reduced pilferage scope to 20%. Technical support for overall system integration and
commissioning followed by coordination with stakeholders about the completion of project within timeline

• Apr’13 – May’15 | NITK Surathkal, KA

Title: Modelling, simulation & optimal control of PEM Fuel Cell in distributed generation application (02 IEEE Publications)
Role: Nonlinear Multiple-Input-Multiple-Output (MIMO) system modeling in MATLAB/Simulink environment and design of
different linear and nonlinear controllers for the optimal control of the unique transit behavior of the system corresponding
to abrupt change in load current condition
Optimization of parameters for the controllers such as Linear Quadratic Regulator (LQR), Sliding Mode Controller (SMC) using
Genetic Algorithm (GA) corresponding to defined objective function for the system design robustness to external disturbances.

PUBLICATIONS
Conferences:
• Swain, P., & Kashyap, K. (2019). Energy Storage Technologies: A Qualitative analysis. International Conference on Energy
Storage (Including Pumped Storage), New Delhi, India.
• Swain, P., Bhale, P. & Shyamaprasad, A. (2019). Power consumption analysis of Battery Energy Storage System.
International Conference on New Technologies in Renewable Integration, Smart Grid and Communication, GRIDTECH-2019
• Swain, P., & Shyamaprasad, A. (2022). Energy storage technologies: Past, present and future. In ISUW 2019 (pp. 179-195).
Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-1299-2_18
• Swain, P., & Jena, D. (2015). PID control design for the pressure regulation of PEM fuel cell. International Conference on
Recent Developments in Control, Automation and Power Engineering (RDCAPE), Noida, India.
https://doi.org/10.1109/rdcape.2015.7281411
• Swain, P., & Jena, D. (2015). Modeling, simulation & optimal control of non-linear PEM fuel cell with disturbance input.
International Conference on Innovations in Information Embedded and Communication Systems (ICIIECS), Coimbatore,
India. https://doi.org/10.1109/iciiecs.2015.7193163
Journals:
• Swain, P., Sanal, A., & Shyamaprasad, A. (2020). Analysis of Black Start of a Microgrid with PV, DG, and BESS. International
Journal of Recent Technology and Engineering, 8(6S), 1–8. https://doi.org/10.35940/ijrte.f1001.0386s20

ACHIEVEMENTS & EXTRA CURRICULAR ACTIVITIES

• Reviewer of International Journal of Renewable Energy (IJRER, Online ISSN: 1309-0127), SCOPUS indexed
• Finalists in Top 9 out of 155 teams (Team Name: MicroGrid Miners) in ABB Hackathon 2019
• Winner of Global Safety Week’19 in Poster and Slogan writing competition in ABB
• Presented technical papers at ISGF’19 & GridTech’19 conference organized by Ministry of Power, GoI and PGCIL respectively
• Runners-up in Table tennis tournament at ABB Karnataka Rajyotsava Cup’18 and ABB Union Cup’19
• Certified Lean Sigma Yellow Belt accredited by IACET
• Completion of Energy Storage Systems Safety Training by NFPA, United States
• Completion of Person In-Charge of Works (PICW) training of ABB India Limited
• Certification in Swagelok fitting installation by Bangalore Fluid System Components Pvt. Ltd.
• Scholarship from TEQIP-II (central sponsored scheme of MHRD, Govt. of India) during M. Tech at NITK Surathkal.
• Winner of E2-Table Tennis Topflight’16 tournament in IE
• Chairperson of ISTE Student’s chapter (2010-11), Bhubaneswar, OD

DECLARATION
I hereby declare that the above-mentioned are true to best of my knowledge. I hereby agree for my personal data, included in my
job application, to be processed in line with the needs of recruitment, in accordance with the Law on Personal Data Protection of
29th August 1997 (Law Gazette from 2002, No.101, heading 926, as amended)

Place: Bangalore Pruthiraj Swain