Thesis (M.Eng.)--Memorial University of Newfoundland, 2003. / Bibliography: leaves 148-151.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Canterbury, 2005. / Typescript (photocopy). Includes bibliographical references (p. 135-138). Also available via the World Wide Web.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Texas at Austin, 1999. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 157-163). Available also in a digital version from Dissertation Abstracts.

abstract: This thesis is focused on the study of wind energy integration and is divided into two segments. The first part of the thesis deals with developing a reliability evaluation technique for a wind integrated power system. A multiple-partial outage model is utilized to accurately calculate the wind generation availability. A methodology is presented to estimate the outage probability of wind generators while incorporating their reduced power output levels at low wind speeds. Subsequently, power system reliability is assessed by calculating the loss of load probability (LOLP) and the effect of wind integration on the overall system is analyzed. Actual generation and load data of the Texas power system in 2008 are used to construct a test case. To demonstrate the robustness of the method, relia-bility studies have been conducted for a fairly constant as well as for a largely varying wind generation profile. Further, the case of increased wind generation penetration level has been simulated and comments made about the usability of the proposed method to aid in power system planning in scenarios of future expansion of wind energy infrastructure. The second part of this thesis explains the development of a graphic user interface (GUI) to demonstrate the operation of a grid connected doubly fed induction generator (DFIG). The theory of DFIG and its back-to-back power converter is described. The GUI illustrates the power flow, behavior of the electrical circuit and the maximum power point tracking of the machine for a variable wind speed input provided by the user. The tool, although developed on MATLAB software platform, has been constructed to work as a standalone application on Windows operating system based computer and enables even the non-engineering students to access it. Results of both the segments of the thesis are discussed. Remarks are presented about the validity of the reliability technique and GUI interface for variable wind speed conditions. Improvements have been suggested to enable the use of the reliability technique for a more elaborate system. Recommendations have been made about expanding the features of the GUI tool and to use it to promote educational interest about renewable power engineering. / Dissertation/Thesis / M.S. Electrical Engineering 2012

abstract: In the future electrical distribution system, it can be predicted that local power generators such as photovoltaic panels or wind turbines will play an important role in local distribution network. The local energy generation and local energy storage device can cause indeterminable power flow, and this could cause severe protection problems to existing simple overcurrent coordinated distribution protection system. An accurate, fast and reliable protection system based on pilot protection concept is proposed in this thesis. A comprehensive protection design specialized for the FREEDM system - the intelligent fault management (IFM) is presented in detail. In IFM, the pilot-differential protective method is employed as primary protection while the overcurrent protective method is employed as a backup protection. The IFM has been implemented by a real time monitoring program on LabVIEW. A complete sensitivity and selectivity analysis based on simulation is performed to evaluate the protection program performance under various system operating conditions. Followed by the sensitivity analysis, a case study of multiple-terminal model is presented with the possible challenges and potential limitation of the proposed protection system. Furthermore, a micro controller based on a protection system as hardware implementation is studied on a scaled physical test bed. The communication block and signal processing block are accomplished to establish cooperation between the micro-controller hardware and the IFM program. Various fault cases are tested. The result obtained shows that the proposed protection system successfully identifies faults on the test bed and the response time is approximately 1 cycle which is fast compared to the existing commercial protection systems and satisfies the FREEDM system requirement. In the end, an advanced system with faster, dedicated communication media is accomplished. By verifying with the virtual FREEDM system on RTDS, the correctness and the advantages of the proposed method are verified. An ultra fast protection system response time of 4ms is achieved, which is the fastest protection system for a distribution level electrical system. / Dissertation/Thesis / M.S. Electrical Engineering 2012

The low-frequency electromagnetic compatibility (EMC) is an increasingly important aspect in the design of practical systems to ensure the functional safety and reliability of complex products. The opportunities for using numerical techniques to predict and analyze system’s EMC are therefore of considerable interest in many industries. As the first phase of study, a proper model, including all the details of the component, was required. Therefore, the advances in EMC modeling were studied with classifying analytical and numerical models. The selected model was finite element (FE) modeling, coupled with the distributed network method, to generate the model of the converter’s components and obtain the frequency behavioral model of the converter. The method has the ability to reveal the behavior of parasitic elements and higher resonances, which have critical impacts in studying EMI problems. For the EMC and signature studies of the machine drives, the equivalent source modeling was studied. Considering the details of the multi-machine environment, including actual models, some innovation in equivalent source modeling was performed to decrease the simulation time dramatically. Several models were designed in this study and the voltage current cube model and wire model have the best result. The GA-based PSO method is used as the optimization process. Superposition and suppression of the fields in coupling the components were also studied and verified. The simulation time of the equivalent model is 80-100 times lower than the detailed model. All tests were verified experimentally. As the application of EMC and signature study, the fault diagnosis and condition monitoring of an induction motor drive was developed using radiated fields. In addition to experimental tests, the 3DFE analysis was coupled with circuit-based software to implement the incipient fault cases. The identification was implemented using ANN for seventy various faulty cases. The simulation results were verified experimentally. Finally, the identification of the types of power components were implemented. The results show that it is possible to identify the type of components, as well as the faulty components, by comparing the amplitudes of their stray field harmonics. The identification using the stray fields is nondestructive and can be used for the setups that cannot go offline and be dismantled

Master of Science / Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering / Shelli K. Starrett / This thesis introduces a Vehicle to Grid (V2G) system which coordinates the charging, and discharging among the Electric Vehicles (EVs) and two-test systems, to help with peak power shaving and voltage stability of the system. Allowing EVs to charge and discharge without any control may lead to voltage variations and disturbance to the grid, but if the charging and discharging of the EVs is done in a smart manner, they can help the power network. In this thesis, fuzzy logic controllers (FLC) are used to control the flow of power between the grid and the electric vehicles. The presented work in this thesis mainly focuses on the control architecture for a V2G station that allows for using EVs batteries to help the grid’s voltage stability. The designed controllers sustain the node voltage, and thus also achieve peak shaving. The proposed architectures are tested on 16 -generator and 6-generator test systems to examine the effectiveness of the proposed designs. Five fuzzy logic schemes are tested to illustrate the V2G system’s ability to influence system voltage stability. The major contributions of this thesis are as follows: 
 • FLC based control tool for V2G station present at a weak bus in the system. • Investigate the effect of the station location and voltage sensitivity. • Comparison of chargers providing real power versus reactive power. • Simulation of controller and system interactions in a daily load curve cycle. Keywords: State of Charge (SOC), Electric Vehicle (EV), Fuzzy Logic Controller (FLC), Vehicle to grid (V2G), and Power System Voltage Stability.

abstract: The power system is the largest man-made physical network in the world. Performing analysis of a large bulk system is computationally complex, especially when the study involves engineering, economic and environmental considerations. For instance, running a unit-commitment (UC) over a large system involves a huge number of constraints and integer variables. One way to reduce the computational expense is to perform the analysis on a small equivalent (reduced) model instead on the original (full) model. The research reported here focuses on improving the network reduction methods so that the calculated results obtained from the reduced model better approximate the performance of the original model. An optimization-based Ward reduction (OP-Ward) and two new generator placement methods in network reduction are introduced and numerical test results on large systems provide proof of concept. In addition to dc-type reductions (ignoring reactive power, resistance elements in the network, etc.), the new methods applicable to ac domain are introduced. For conventional reduction methods (Ward-type methods, REI-type methods), eliminating external generator buses (PV buses) is a tough problem, because it is difficult to accurately approximate the external reactive support in the reduced model. Recently, the holomorphic embedding (HE) based load-flow method (HELM) was proposed, which theoretically guarantees convergence given that the power flow equations are structure in accordance with Stahl’s theory requirements. In this work, a holomorphic embedding based network reduction (HE reduction) method is proposed which takes advantage of the HELM technique. Test results shows that the HE reduction method can approximate the original system performance very accurately even when the operating condition changes. / Dissertation/Thesis / Doctoral Dissertation Electrical Engineering 2017

Orientador: Percival Bueno de Araujo / Co-orientador: Marcos Amorielle Furini / Banca: Anna Diva Plasencia Lotufo / Banca: André Luiz Silva Pereira / Resumo: O advento da energia elétrica e seu uso, ainda no final do século XIX, foram sem dúvida os grandes responsáveis pelo avanço tecnológico conquistado desde então. A oferta de energia para a população permitiu agregar maior conforto às pessoas e maior eficiência aos processos produtivos. Nos primórdios, os sistemas de energia eram compostos por unidades geradoras conectadas próximas aos consumidores. Essa proximidade era consequência direta do uso de transmissão em corrente contínua, o que naquela época inviabilizava a transmissão de energia elétrica através de longas distâncias. Com a invenção e utilização de máquinas de corrente alternada e transformadores, as características dos sistemas de energia passaram a ser de unidades geradoras cada vez mais distantes dos centros de consumo, sendo conectadas por longas linhas de transmissão de alta tensão. Pela metade do século XX, vislumbrou-se que a interligação de unidades geradoras, antes operando de maneira isolada, permitiria um melhor aproveitamento do potencial elétrico dos sistemas. Da mesma forma, a interligação dos consumidores permitiria maior confiabilidade no fornecimento de energia elétrica. Tais vantagens motivaram a interligação do sistema elétrico de potência. O que os visionários não poderiam imaginar era que a interconexão dos sistemas também traria novos problemas atrelados às oscilações de baixa frequência dos sistemas elétricos. Tais oscilações, em especial as relacionadas com os modos interárea, foram responsáveis por grandes blecautes ocorridos nos anos 1950 nos Estados Unidos e Canadá. Tornava-se evidente a necessidade de estudar e analisar tais oscilações, tal como o comportamento do sistema elétrico interligado como um todo quando submetido às contingências de grande e pequeno porte. Com as interligações os sistemas elétricos de potência se tornaram um dos mais complexos sistemas já desenvolvidos pelo homem. Tal ... / Abstract: The arising of electrical energy and its use in the end of 19th century are, for sure, one of the major responsible for the technology improvements conquered since then. The available of electrical energy for population also improved people's welfare and the production process efficiency. In the early days, electrical systems were composed by generator units connected close to consumers. This proximity was a straight consequence of DC (direct current) transmission, which one did not allow the transmission of power over large distances due to physical and economic constraints. With the development and use of AC (alternate current) machines and transformers, the electrical systems became composed of generator units far even more from consumer's centers, being connected to them by high voltage transmission lines. By the 1950's, it was noted that the interconnection of generators units, which was operating isolated from each other, would allow a better use of electric power system. From the same way, the interconnection of consumers allow more reliability in the electrical energy supply. Those advantages led to the interconnection of Electric Power Systems. What the visionaries could not imagine was that the interconnection would also bring to surface some new problems linked to the system's low frequency oscillations. Those oscillations, in special those related to the interarea mode, were responsible for big blackouts occurred in the 1950's in the USA and Canada. It was evident the necessity of study and analysis of those oscillations, also as the interconnected Power System behavior when under big and small contingencies. With the system's interconnection, Power Systems became one of the most complex systems already built by the man. Such complexity is extended for its analysis and study. Due to this, it was necessary create models to simplify the analysis without a loss in the results reliability. As regards to the study of small ... / Mestre

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