Employee Name
Lekha Mandal Chowdhury
Official Address
Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre,
1/AF, Bidhannagar, Kolkata-700064, India.
lekha@vecc.gov.in
Contact Number
+91 33 23182213
Designation
Scientific Officer (G)
Qualifications
- PhD (1999, Reliability Engineering): IIT Mumbai, INDIA.
- B.E (Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering)
Field of Work
- Spectroscopy
- Nuclear Instrumentation
- Accelerator and Reactor safety analysis.
Publications
1. Evaluated Safety analysis of Liquid metal target facility for Medical cyclotron, Kolkata and mockup facility using FMECA , HAZOP, FTA, ETA. This involved identification, study and evaluation of important Hazards. Reports submitted to LHPPD – “PSA OF ADSS TARGET AT medical cyclotron “ with Appendix I – Fault trees and Appendix II – Accident Sequences. This was submitted in 2012 (BARC/HPD/VECC/12/01).
2. PSA of INDUS2 was done and submitted with required suggestions. A report for INDUS-2 titled – “Fault Tree analysis of Beamline Safety systems –2013” to the committee for Fault tree analysis of Beamline safety systems, RRCAT.
3. Report titled “Review of PSA for Material Science Beam line at DAE Medical Cyclotron Project” was submitted with detailed suggestions in 2014.
4. Submitted a Report titled – “Event Tree analysis of Indus 2 Beam line Front End systems –2015” to RRCAT as asked by the committee.
Work on PSA of Material Science Beam Line, Medical cyclotron, Kolkata is in progress. Qualitative analysis was done. Human Error aspects were analysed quantitatively