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Deepak Parmar

2015 ICC Distinguished Service Award

Deepak ParmarDeepak Parmar has been an active member of the ICC for many years, contributing most extensively to Subcommittee C and working groups related to soil thermal characteristics.

Career Highlights

 Education

He holds a B.Sc. in Civil Engineering from Woolwich Polytechnic (1966, London, U.K.) and a Diploma in Management Studies from Slough Polytechnic (1972, U.K.).

 Employment

During undergraduate studies, he worked at Soil Mechanics Ltd., London, U.K. in the geotechnical laboratory conducting specialized geotechnical and rock mechanics testing. After graduating he joined the firm in the capacity of laboratory manager, in charge of soil and rock mechanical laboratories and specialized field (in-situ) testing. From 1973 to 1978, he worked with two civil engineering consulting firms in Canada specializing in geotechnical and material testing, and instrumentation of tunnels and shafts in soft ground and in rock.

 In 1978, he founded Geotherm Inc., specializing in underground cable-related soil and backfill testing. He was retained on-contract by Ontario Hydro Research for two years to assist in winter earth-work studies as well on thermal aspects of soils and backfills for underground power cable applications. During this time, he worked on EPRI-funded projects for the design and development of the Thermal Property Analyzer and thermal aspects of soil and backfills.

Since 1980, Geotherm have undertaken numerous research contracts for Canadian government agencies as well as for electric utilities and cable manufacturers in Canada, other areas in North America, and overseas. These include:

• Building a database of Canadian soils through field and laboratory testing to correlate geotechnical and thermal parameters
• Evaluation of thermal parameters of soil, backfill and various types of concrete for earth energy storage/utilization (ground and ground water coupled heat pumps)
• Study of buffer materials for the storage and containment of low-level nuclear waste.

 Since founding Geotherm, Deepak has overseen the performance of more than 400 route thermal survey projects for underground and submarine cable crossings. He was a member of the team of experts retained to investigate the well-known cable failures that occurred in Auckland, New Zealand in the late 1990s.

Deepak Parmar received the 2015 Technical Committee Distinguished Service Award with the following citation: For his leadership in the area of thermal resistivity of soils and backfill materials, and testing the properties of those materials.

 Affilations

·         Member of the IEEE Power Engineering Society

·         Member, Insulated Conductors Committee

·         Member, Canadian Society for Civil Engineers

·         Member, Canadian Geotechnical Society

·         Member, Tunneling Association of Canada

·         Member, Canadian Electrical Association

·         Member, CIGRÉ

 Presentations

He has authored and coauthored numerous papers on the application of thermal parameters of soils and backfills, and was the principal author for the IEEE Guide for Soil Thermal Resistivity Testing. He has conducted numerous seminars and courses on underground T&D cable ampacity and soil parameters. Many of these were presented to utilities in the United States, Australia, New Zealand, India, the Middle-East and the Far East.

·         Thermal Environment Design Considerations for Ampacity of Buried Power Cables at the April 2014 IEEE Transmission & Distribution Conference in Chicago

·         Native Soils and Thermal Backfills – Underground Cable Projects, Middle-East at the Spring 2014 Subcommittee C Cable Systems meeting in Kansas City

·         Submarine Cable Route Surveys Means & Methods - Soil Sampling and In-situ Testing at the Spring 2014 Working Group C11 Submarine Cable Systems meeting in Kansas City

·         Thermal Grouts for HDD Installations at the Fall 2010 Subcommittee C Cable Systems meeting in Fountain Hills

·         Importance of Soil Thermal Characteristic for Cable Rating at the Spring 2010 Subcommittee C Cable Systems meeting in Nashville

·         A Submarine Cable TR Survey on the West Coast (California) at the Fall 2007 Transnational Luncheon in Scottsdale

·         Land and Submarine Thermal Survey of the Saudi-Bahrain Link at the Spring  2007 Transnational Luncheon in Orlando

·         Thermal Testing and Soil Sampling for the 180 km, 141 kV DC Transmission Line in South Australia at the Spring 2000 Transnational Luncheon in Albuquerque

·         NZ Geothermal Data at the Fall 1999 Transnational Luncheon in St. Petersburg

 

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