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Pragasen Pillay
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Research
Latest funding
- $79,000
Development of Free-Piston Organic Rankine Cycle Systems for Waste Heat Recovery from Datacenters
NSERC · 2023 · Co-investigator
- $90,000
Design and Development of a Low-Cost Traction Motor Drive System for Electric Vehicles
NSERC · 2023 · Co-investigator
- $276,923
Design and Emulation of Electric Vehicle Permanent Magnet Machines
NSERC · 2021 · Principal investigator
Development of Free-Piston Organic Rankine Cycle Systems for Waste Heat Recovery from Datacenters
Principal investigators: Kiyanda, Charles Basenga CB
Keywords: cryptomining; datacenter; energy efficiency; free piston; organic rankine cycle; thermodynamics; thermofluids; waste heat recovery
Design and Development of a Low-Cost Traction Motor Drive System for Electric Vehicles
Principal investigators: Lai, Chunyan C
Keywords: electric machine design; electric vehicle traction drive; field excitation; improved energy efficiency; low cost electric drive; motor control; would field synchronous machine
Design and Emulation of Electric Vehicle Permanent Magnet Machines
Principal investigators: Pillay, Pragasen P
Keywords: automotive applications; dynamometer testing; electric machine design and modeling; electric machine emulation; electric vehicle drive testing; fault emulation; fault modeling; real time power hardware in the loop; thermal modeling
NOVEL ELECTRIC MACHINE DESIGN TOPOLOGIES FOR ELECTRIFIED TRANSPORTATION
Principal investigators: Pillay, Pragasen
Keywords: electric machine design; finite element analysis; electric vehicles; core losses; variable flux machine; soft magnetic composites; additive manufacturing; 3-d printing
Development of a 150 hp Dynamometer for Electric Vehicles, Micro-Grids and Renewable Energy Applications
Principal investigators: Pillay, Pragasen
Novel permanent magnet motor topologies using advanced magnetic materials
Principal investigators: Pillay, Pragasen
A TEMPLATE FOR THE SYNCHRONOUS RELUCTANCE MACHINE
Principal investigators: Pillay, Pragasen
Emulation and design of electric and hybrid electric vehicle motor drive systems
Principal investigators: Pillay, Pragasen
NSERC/Hydro-Québec Industrial Research Chair in Design and Performance of Special Electrical Machines
Principal investigators: Pillay, Pragasen
Core Losses and Machine Design for Electric/Hybrid Vehicles
Principal investigators: Pillay, Pragasen
From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.
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