K.Swaminathan Designation - Sri Sai Ram Engineering College in

Name: K.Swaminathan
Designation:
Qualification :
Area of Specialization :
Professor
B.Tech (ECE),IIT,Madras
M.S (Software Systems),BITS, Pilani
M.E (Electronics & Control),Satyabhama
Univ.Chennai
Registered for Ph.D in the year 2010
Electronics & Instrumentation
Experience : Teaching : UG: 4 years and 6 months
PG : 1 year and 6 months
Industry : - 36 yrs
No. of workshop / Conferences / FDP attended : 10
Publication : Journal
International : 2
National : 1
Conference /seminars
International : 2
National : 28
Research Guidance :
General : -
Staff Achievements: -
-
Professional Society Memberships:
Fellow of Institution of Engineers(India)
(I.E(I)),
Life member of Indian Nuclear Society(INS),
Life member of Indian Society for Nondestructive
Testing(ISNT)
Felicitated by M/s Control
Technology,Bengaluru for having provided
the consultancy right from the beginning of
the technology transfer(from IGCAR) of
SODIUM LEVEL SENSORS which has
led to their successful manufacture and
supply recently of 9.5m long level sensor
(the longest one ever fabricated)and its
electronics to Prototype Fast Breeder Reactor
(PFBR) at Kalpakkam.

Experience :( Details)
At IGCAR: He Joined IGCAR (Indira Gandhi Center for Atomic Research) in the year
1970 and the progress in his position over the years was as follows: He started as a
development engineer and over the period of around 36 years held positions of growing
responsibilities such a Head, Instrumentation Development & Services Section and Head,
Component and Instrumentation Development Division. He retired from the govt. service on 30 th
June, 2006.
At SEC: He joined Sri Sairam Engineering College, Chennai in July 2006 and since then serving
as Professor in the Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering.
Journals/Conferences/ Workshop /FDP: (List)
Journals
International Journals
1. “The development and deployment of an Ultrasonic Under-sodium viewing system in the
Fast Breeder Test Reactor”
K.Swaminathan, A.Rajendran & G.Elumalai
IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science, Vol.37, No.5, Oct’1990
2. “An Ultrasonic Scanning Technique for In-Situ ‘Bowing’ Measurement of prototype Fast
Breeder Reactor Sub-Assembly”
K.Swaminathan, C.Asokane, J.I.Sylvia, P.Kalyanasundaram, and P.Swaminathan,
IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science, Vol.59, No.1, February 2012.
SEC Technical reviews
1. “Development of Sodium Immersible High Temperature Ultrasonic Transducer”,
C.Asokane, J.I.Sylvia, K.Swaminathan and G.Vaidyanathan
SEC Tech Review-2006, volume 5, 2006
Conferences / Seminars:
International Conferences
1. “Sodium testing of reactor components”
R.D.Kale, K.Swaminathan, R.Prabhakar, A.Sur, K.Balachander & R.Veerasamy
3 rd International conference on Liquid Metal Energy and Technology (LIMET), April 9-
13, 1984, Oxford, UK
2. “Development of an Ultrasonic Scanner for the Fast Breeder Test Reactor”
A.Rajendran, C.Asokane, G.Elumalai & K.Swaminathan
14 th World Conference on NDT, Dec 8-13 ’96, pp349-352, New Delhi

National Conferences/Seminars
1. “Determination of Response time of core thermocouples of FBTR”
K.Swaminathan & B.Prahlad
6 th National heat & mass transfer conference, IIT Madras,HMT-38-81, 1981
2. “Electromagnetic Flowmeters for Liquid Metal Fast Breeder Reactors”
R.Prabhakar,K.K.Rajan, R.Veerasamy, K.Swaminathan and R.D.kale
Proc. Of Global conference on Flow Metering and Control, FCRI, 2000.
3. “A Personal computer – controlled ultrasonic imaging under water”
A.Rajendran & K.Swaminathan
National symposium on Personal computers in Science & Engg. BARC, 3-5, Feb.,’88
4. “Ultrasonic under sodium viewing in Fast Breeder Test Reactor”
A.Rajendran, G.Elumalai & K.Swaminathan
National symposium on Ultrasonics (NSU-IV-89), NPL, New Delhi ,21-22 Sep.89
5. “A Sensitive Sodium Leak Detector for LMFBRs”
K.Swaminathan and R.D.Kale
Nuclear India, Department of Atomic Energy, Volume No.28/Issue No.1, 1992
6. “Application of Programmable Logic Controller to Sodium Loop operation”
J.I.Sylvia and K.Swaminathan
Proc. Of the Workshop on Computers in Real time Applications, Dec. 1990, Kalpakkam.
7. “A distributed Data Acquisition and Control system for Sodium rigs”
A.Rajendran, J.I.Sylvia, G.Elumalai & K.Swaminathan
National Symposium on Advances in Computer applications and Instrumentation
(SACAI-95), Jan. 4-6, 1995, IGCAR
8. “Development of an Ultrasonic Under-sodium viewer”
A.Rajendran, G.Elumalai & K.Swaminathan
National symposium on Advances in Computer applications and Instrumentation, Jan. 4-
6, 1995, IGCAR
9. “PLC Based Automation and control of Sodium Rigs”
Sylvia.J.I, Rajan.K.K and Swaminathan.K
Seminar on Automation in Process Engineering & Manufacture, Nov.’97, Kalpakkam
10. “PLC as a Test Sequence Controller”
Sylvia.J.I, Balachander.K & Swaminathan.K, ibid
11. “A Survey on Sensors in Industry”
Seminar on Automation in Process Engineering and Manufacture (SAPREM-97),
IGCAR, Nov’1997
K.Swaminathan

12. “Sensor Research at IGCAR”
Dr.Baldev Raj, Dr. S.M.Lee, R.D.Kale, P.Kalyanasundaram, Dr. T.S.Radhakrishnan,
G.Periaswami, K.Swaminathan, R.Prabhakar, Dr.B.Saha, Dr.T.Gnanasekaharan and
Dr.C.K.Mathews
8 th National seminar on Physics and Technology of Sensors (SENSORS-8),
IGCAR, Feb.27-March 1, 2001
13. “Development of special sensors and transducers in high temperature liquid sodium
environment”- ibid, Invited talk
K.Swaminathan
14. “Eddy current flow meter for in-core flow measurements in Fast Reactors” ibid
R.Veerasamy, C.Asokane, K.Narayanan, R.Dhanasekaran, K.Rajesh, K.Swaminathan
and R.Prabhakar
15. “Development of Ultrasonic transducer for flow measurement” ibid
J.I.Sylvia, C.Asokane, K.Swaminathan
16. “Improving the response time of FBTR core thermo well” ibid
C.Samuel Devanesan, J.I.Sylvia, K.Swaminathan
17. “Development of mutual inductance type multi-level detector for sodium” ibid
P.Vijayamohana Rao, G.Elumalai, K.Swaminathan
18. “Development of liquid sodium-proof ultrasonic transducer" ibid
C.Asokane, G.Elumalai, K.Swaminathan
19. “A feasibility study on the use of ultrasonic wave-guide for diverse safety rod drop time
measurement” ibid
C.Asokane, V.Kavitha, K.Swaminathan
20. “Under-Sodium Viewing System”
K.Swaminathan
Workshop on In-service inspection of Nuclear plants, Jan 22-24, 2002, IGCAR,
Kalpakkam
The following papers were presented at National Seminar on Nuclear
Instrumentation (NSNI) 2004.
21. “A Feasibility study on the use of Ultrasonic Wave-Guides for the Diverse Safety Rod
(DSR) Drop time measurement”
C.Asokane, V.Kavitha, J.I.Sylvia & K.Swaminathan
22. “Augmentation of LCTR Data Acquisition System”
J.I.Sylvia & K.Swaminathan.
23. “Development of Mutual Inductance type Sodium Leak Detector (MILD)”
Sudhir T.Ninawe, P.Vijayamohana Rao & K.Swaminathan

24. “Development of safety related instruments for sodium systems”
K.Swaminathan & M.Rajan
25. “Distributed Data Acquisition and Control System for SOWART Loop”
M.Anbuchelian, V.Kavitha, J.I.Sylvia & K.Swaminathan
26. “Experimental Determination of Diverse Safety Road (DSR) Drop-Time”
Using ultrasonic Pulse-Echo Technique,
C.Asokane, V.Kavitha, J.I.Sylvia & K.Swaminathan
27. “Ultrasonic Wave-Guide for High Temperature Sodium Applications”
C.Asokane, V.Kavitha, J.I.Sylvia & K.Swaminathan
28. “Under-Water Ultrasonic Scanning Experiments for sub-assembly Viewing and Ranging”
C.Asokane, J.I.Sylvia & K.Swaminathan