Guest Editorial

The paper by C M Bhatia, Sangeeta Banga, Meenakshi Khurana, Sanjana Malhotra, Bhavna Juneja, Hanu Bhardwaj and Meena Kapahi describes the design of a stand alone SCADA based renewableenergy power station suitable for rural application. The paper describes a 20kW hybrid stand alone integrated power station consisting of a Wind Mill (20kWp), Solar PV (2kWp) and Biomass gassifier (20kWp). A Supervisory Controlled and Automatic Data Acquisition (SCADA) system has been designed using dedicated software in conjunction with the knowledge based Voltage Source PWM Inverter hardware.

The articles for the invited talks in the ICTIRD-06 cannot be published in the technical review since they are primarily broad area based rather than focusing on a specific technical topic of interest.

I would like to express my gratitude to the reviewers for spending their valuable time in reviewing these papers. I would also like to thank Cmdr.Sharma for his persistent effort in bringing out this special issue of Technical Review.

Professor Hiranmay Saha
Guest Editor
IC Design and Fabrication Centre
Department of ETCE, Jadavpur
University, Kolkata 700 032, India.
email: sahahiranmay@yahoo.com

GUEST EDITOR

Hiranmay Saha was born on January 5, 1946. He received his M. Tech degree in radio physics and electronics from University of Calcutta in 1967 and PhD degree in solar cells and systems from Jadavpur University in 1977. He is currently a Professor in the Department of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering, Jadavpur University and is the Coordinator of the IC Design and Fabrication Centre, Department of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India. His present research interests include silicon solar cells, smart sensors, VLSI design and embedded systems.