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- Title
- A Post-Processing Approach for Solar Power Combined Forecasts of Ramp Events
- Author
- Abuella, Mohamed
- Date Created
- 2018
- Subjects--Topical
- Electrical engineering
- Description
- The growing integration level of wind and solar energy resources introduces new regulating and operating challenges in the electric grid. Ramp-rate limits of conventional power plants in the generation mix impose an operating constraint on renewab...
- Title
- AN IMPROVEMENT OF THE LOAD REDUCTION EVALUATION METHODOLOGIES EMPLOYED IN DEMAND RESPONSE (DR) PROGRAMS OFFERED TO RESIDENTIAL CUSTOMERS
- Author
- Mohajeryami, Saeed
- Date Created
- 2017
- Subjects--Topical
- Engineering, Economics
- Description
- In current electricity market, demand side buys power indirectly through electric utilities, and it makes the demand side inelastic to market's price volatility and significantly affects the efficiency of the market. To fix the problem, it is esse...
- Title
- AN INVESTIGATION INTO THE PERFORMANCE OF A FLUX CONCENTRATION MAGNETIC GEARBOX AND MAGNETICALLY GEARED MOTORS
- Author
- Som, Debarupa
- Date Created
- 2020
- Subjects--Topical
- Electrical engineering, Electromagnetism
- Description
- In today’s world, renewable energy sources like wind and ocean energy have come more into prominence as a source of sustainable energy. The energy conversion devices used in these cases, utilize mechanical gearboxes to match the speed of the input...
- Title
- APPLICATION OF SYSTEM IDENTIFICATION BASED METHODS ON POWER SYSTEM OSCILLATION CHARACTERIZATION AND MITIGATION
- Author
- Hossain, Sheikh Jakir
- Date Created
- 2019
- Subjects--Topical
- Electrical engineering
- Description
- This dissertation presents measurement-based system identification methods that help to improve the reliability and operational stability of modern power systems. One of the important factors in maintaining stability is to know the damping and fre...
- Title
- An Integrated Hybrid Thermal Dynamics Model and Energy Aware Optimization Framework for Grid-Interactive Residential Building Management
- Author
- Ariwoola, Raheem
- Date Created
- 2023
- Subjects--Topical
- Electrical engineering, Engineering
- Description
- This dissertation focuses on developing an integrated hybrid model for studying the thermal dynamic operations of passive buildings considering active power management. For this, the following methodology is designed. First, the hybrid model,inclu...
- Title
- Approaches for Power Grid Management and Ancillary Services with DC-AC Micro-grids Comprising of PV Farm and Hybrid Energy Storage System
- Author
- Joshi, Aniket
- Date Created
- 2021
- Subjects--Topical
- Electrical engineering
- Description
- The emergence of the concept of DC grids comes from the fact that there is an increasing number of power grid components that naturally operate with DC power. The combined trend of DC sources and loads in power grids is an important player in the ...
- Title
- Approaches for Real-Time Frequency Dependent Reduced Order Modeling and Wide-Area Control of Modern Power Grid
- Author
- Thakallapelli, Abilash
- Date Created
- 2018
- Subjects--Topical
- Electrical engineering
- Description
- In this dissertation, approaches for measurement based real-time wide-area damping controllers (WADC), are studied for renewable energy integrated power grid. For this, first, a model-free algorithm for multi-input-multi-output (MIMO) transfer fun...
- Title
- Control of wind integrated power grid using voltage controllability and vulnerability detection
- Author
- Maharjan, Rabindra
- Date Created
- 2016
- Subjects--Topical
- Electrical engineering, Engineering, Renewable energy sources
- Description
- Modern power grids are the largest and most complex engineered systems. Integration of distributed resources like wind farms and economic constraints push power grids to operate close to their limits. Due to this, power system is subject to variou...
- Title
- DATA-DRIVEN DIAGNOSTICS OF ISSUES RELATED TO POWER SYSTEM DYNAMICS USING PMU MEASUREMENT
- Author
- Arefi, Mahmoodreza
- Date Created
- 2018
- Subjects--Topical
- Electrical engineering, Engineering
- Description
- This work investigates the use of data driven techniques to diagnose issues related to power system dynamics. The source behind the data are simulated Phasor Measurement Unit (PMU) measurements. First, this study examines the application of Weight...
- Title
- Data-driven control and optimal management of electric distribution grid with high penetration of distributed energy resources (DERs) based on spectral clustering
- Author
- Patel, Shyamal
- Date Created
- 2022
- Subjects--Topical
- Electrical engineering
- Description
- Motivated by the government's clean energy targets, the penetration of Distributed Energy Resources (DER) is increasing. These DERs interconnections bring the added generation and storage capacity at the distribution level. Also, with the increasi...
- Title
- Developing Data-Driven Approaches for Analyzing, Identifying, and Predicting Power System Outages
- Author
- Doostan, Milad
- Date Created
- 2019
- Subjects--Topical
- Electrical engineering, Statistics
- Description
- Outages that occur in power distribution systems can seriously endanger system operation in different ways. In recent years, with the explosion in data gathering within the smart grid framework, data analytics has emerged as a desirable tool in he...
- Title
- ENERGY STORAGE SYSTEM OPERATION AND CONTROL FOR GRID RESILIENCY AND ENHANCING RENEWABLE ENERGY PENETRATION
- Author
- Abdelrazek, Sherif
- Date Created
- 2015
- Subjects--Topical
- Electrical engineering, Engineering, Power resources
- Description
- This research aims to examine the potential value of Energy Storage Systems (ESSs) to different sects of the electrical power system through the various applications in which it could be utilized. The different storage technologies are reviewed in...
- Title
- ENHANCING DISTRIBUTION PLANNING METHODS USING STATE OF THE ART MODELING TECHNIQUES TO FACILITATE HIGH GROWTH DISTRIBUTED ENERGY RESOURCES
- Author
- Davis, Wesley
- Date Created
- 2020
- Subjects--Topical
- Electrical engineering, Power resources
- Description
- Climate change is one of the most pivotal issues for the world in which we live today. The power grid transformation to become, smarter sustainable and carbon-free, has been a primary emphasis in recent times. This includes the integration of Dist...
- Title
- Grid-friendly Services of Smart Inverter and Battery Energy Storage System for Solar PV Integration in Advanced Distribution Networks
- Author
- Shuvra, Mahfuz Ali
- Date Created
- 2018
- Subjects--Topical
- Electrical engineering
- Description
- Solar Photovoltaic (PV) power plants are changing the landscape of the electric power industry. The smart inverter is well-known for its versatility to integrate PV resources into the utility in a ‘grid-friendly’ manner. BESS deployment on the pow...
- Title
- Hierarchical decentralized optimal control and reconfiguration of networked microgrids in the power distribution system
- Author
- Ingalalli, Aravind
- Date Created
- 2023
- Subjects--Topical
- Electrical engineering
- Description
- Advancements in information and communication technology, decentralized digital economic structures, and data-driven learning-based technology have transformed distribution networks as a system of systems in recent decades. With the rapid integrat...
- Title
- Implementation and Assessment Techniques for the Applications of Advanced Distribution Management System
- Author
- Hossan, Md Shakawat
- Date Created
- 2018
- Subjects--Topical
- Engineering
- Description
- In recent years, massive numbers of distributed energy resources are being installed in distribution feeders at both the utility and customer levels. These integrations are creating bi-directional power ow complexities in all the existing applicat...
- Title
- Increasing hosting capacity of distribution systems for renewable distributed generation by means of network reconfiguration
- Author
- Ghiafeh Davoudi, Masoud
- Date Created
- 2017
- Subjects--Topical
- Electrical engineering
- Description
- This work aims at allowing for increased penetration of renewable distributed generation (DG) in the power distribution system (DS). The means to achieve this goal is changing the DS topological structure, i.e. by network reconfiguration (NR). In ...
- Title
- Integrated Active and Reactive Power Management of Power Distribution System Considering Distributed Energy Storage and PV Farms
- Author
- Ahmed, Muhammad
- Date Created
- 2018
- Subjects--Topical
- Electrical engineering
- Description
- Modern electric distribution system with distributed Photo-Voltaic (PV) farms and energy storage units have been facing technical challenges due to the difficulty in managing them collectively. This dissertation presents new solutions for energy m...
- Title
- Methods for Spatiotemporal Power Profile from Marine Hydro-kinetic Energy and Wind Energy for a Proposed U.S.-Caribbean-South America Super Grid under Hurricanes
- Author
- Itiki, Rodney
- Date Created
- 2023
- Subjects--Topical
- Electrical engineering, Atmospheric science
- Description
- Global warming and climate change keep causing a catastrophic impact on the natural, social, economic, and political environment in many parts of the world. The urgency for the transition to a low-carbon economy through CO2 emissions reduction cal...
- Title
- Modeling and Optimization of Demand-Side and Supply-Side Energy Management in Electricity Markets
- Author
- Vatani, Behdad
- Date Created
- 2018
- Subjects--Topical
- Electrical engineering, Power resources, Operations research
- Description
- An energy management system (EMS) is a system designed for owners of generation companies (GenCos), operators of electricity markets and electric utility grids, as well as consumers and aggregators to monitor, control, and optimize the performance...