J. Turunen, J. Seppanen, Antti-Juhani Nikkila, L. Haarla
{"title":"Using spectral analysis and modal estimation for identifying electromechanical oscillations: A case study of the power system in northern Norway and northern Finland","authors":"J. Turunen, J. Seppanen, Antti-Juhani Nikkila, L. Haarla","doi":"10.1109/POWERENG.2015.7266305","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/POWERENG.2015.7266305","url":null,"abstract":"This paper analyses electromechanical oscillations in the northern area of the Nordic power system. Both spectral analysis and modal identification methods are used to analyze signals received from the phasor measurement units (PMU) installed in the system. Spectrograms are used to analyze the characteristics of electromechanical oscillations and to support the interpretation of the modal identification methods. The results indicate that these methods are effective in presenting the oscillatory characteristics of the system. In addition, the results show that the spectrograms help in interpretation of the modal estimates.","PeriodicalId":334135,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE 5th International Conference on Power Engineering, Energy and Electrical Drives (POWERENG)","volume":"123 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-05-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127051961","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Tiago Cardoso, P. Pereira, Vitor Fernaao Pires, J. Martins
{"title":"Android-based m-learning remote system for mobile power quality assessment in large buildings with renewable energies","authors":"Tiago Cardoso, P. Pereira, Vitor Fernaao Pires, J. Martins","doi":"10.1109/POWERENG.2015.7266356","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/POWERENG.2015.7266356","url":null,"abstract":"Power Quality is a generic term focusing on several issues, going from reliability to the quality of service provided by the energy supplier. It addresses limiting aspects such as harmonic distortion, flicker, sags, swells and transients... It is important for the students to understand the differences between the large amounts of events that fit into poor power quality category. Moreover it is important for them to analyze real time non-laboratory events. To provide this experience to the students this paper presents a remote m-learning experimental system where several types of poor power quality events can be tested. The developed system is based on a power quality analysis distributed network and can be remotely accessed from a remote computer or smart phones.","PeriodicalId":334135,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE 5th International Conference on Power Engineering, Energy and Electrical Drives (POWERENG)","volume":"75 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-05-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127943854","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
S. Favuzza, M. Ippolito, F. Massaro, G. Paternò, A. Puccio, G. Filippone
{"title":"A new approach to increase the integration of RES in a mediterranean island by using HTLS conductors","authors":"S. Favuzza, M. Ippolito, F. Massaro, G. Paternò, A. Puccio, G. Filippone","doi":"10.1109/POWERENG.2015.7266332","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/POWERENG.2015.7266332","url":null,"abstract":"Today, in many countries, it is very difficult to build new power lines, especially because of right of way authorization problems. Furthermore, the production of electricity from renewable sources is growing more and more. For these reasons Terna S.p.A. (Italian TSO) has to take advantage of existing overhead transmission lines. In order to increase the transmission capacity and the exportation of RES (Renewable Energy Sources) from Sicily to the mainland, the existing high-voltage power grid in Sicily has been studied and analysed by Neplan®, which is a powerful software tool able to analyze, plan, optimize and simulate electrical power grids. This paper, after a description of existing power grid in Sicily and HTLS (High Temperature Low Sag) Conductors, shows how it is possible to increase the active power exportation from RES to the mainland, under certain load conditions during the summer and winter.","PeriodicalId":334135,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE 5th International Conference on Power Engineering, Energy and Electrical Drives (POWERENG)","volume":"73 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-05-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122963831","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
A. D. Mello, M. Sperandio, D. Bernardon, L. L. Pfitscher, L. Canha, M. Ramos, D. Porto, R. Pressi
{"title":"Intelligent system for automatic reconfiguration of distribution network with distributed generation","authors":"A. D. Mello, M. Sperandio, D. Bernardon, L. L. Pfitscher, L. Canha, M. Ramos, D. Porto, R. Pressi","doi":"10.1109/POWERENG.2015.7266347","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/POWERENG.2015.7266347","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a new methodology to perform the automatic reconfiguration of distribution networks incorporating distributed generation in normal operation. The power generation availability of wind turbines, solar photovoltaic panels and small hydropower are considered in the reconfiguration process. The real-time reconfiguration methodology is based on a heuristic method to determine the best settings. The method assumes that only remote controlled switches are considered in the analysis. The multicriteria analysis AHP (Analytic Hierarchy Process) method is employed to determine the best sequence of switching. The developed algorithms are integrated into a supervisory system, which allows real-time measurements and commands to the equipment. The methodology is tested in a real network of a power utility with different typical daily demand curves and distributed generation scenarios.","PeriodicalId":334135,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE 5th International Conference on Power Engineering, Energy and Electrical Drives (POWERENG)","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-05-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116592260","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Impact of wind farms capacity factor and participation in frequency support — Reliability analysis","authors":"A. Attya, B. Subramanian","doi":"10.1109/POWERENG.2015.7266294","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/POWERENG.2015.7266294","url":null,"abstract":"Expanded integration of wind energy implies technical confronts to maintain system reliability. Thus, comprehensive reliability models for wind turbines and related features are required. Composite and precise wind farms (WFs) reliability analysis includes wind turbine generator (WTG) detailed models besides wind speed (WS) probabilistic variations considering wake effects. This paper is considered as an extension to the proposed multi-state duration sampling model to asses WTG reliability integrated with a comprehensive representation for WF [1]. The paper investigates the impacts of two WTG frequency support operation algorithms on capacity factors and first hierarchical level indices. LOEE is evaluated using a novel method to emphasis the chronological coordination between load and WS attitudes. System and load points' reliability indices are estimated at moderate penetration levels of wind energy using a simplified technique. Results insure the feasibility of the composite WTG reliability model and provide reasonable indicators for WFs integration influence.","PeriodicalId":334135,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE 5th International Conference on Power Engineering, Energy and Electrical Drives (POWERENG)","volume":"104 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-05-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132837395","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Trends of smart grids development as fostered by European research coordination: The contribution by the EERA JP on smart grids and the ELECTRA IRP","authors":"L. Martini","doi":"10.1109/POWERENG.2015.7266291","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/POWERENG.2015.7266291","url":null,"abstract":"Smart Grids play a central role in order to accommodate the levels of renewable energy sources penetration foreseen in the SET-Plan of the European Commission for the future “low-carbon” energy system. In the field of electricity grids the European Electricity Grid Initiative, the EERA JP on Smart Grids, and the ETP on Smart Grids coordinate their activity in order to promote the evolution of the present power system. This work summarizes their goals, objectives and activities, highlighting the existing links and interactions.","PeriodicalId":334135,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE 5th International Conference on Power Engineering, Energy and Electrical Drives (POWERENG)","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-05-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124492469","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
N. Paterakis, M. F. Medeiros, J. Catalão, A. Siaraka, A. Bakirtzis, O. Erdinç
{"title":"Optimal daily operation of a smart-household under dynamic pricing considering thermostatically and non-thermostatically controllable appliances","authors":"N. Paterakis, M. F. Medeiros, J. Catalão, A. Siaraka, A. Bakirtzis, O. Erdinç","doi":"10.1109/POWERENG.2015.7266348","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/POWERENG.2015.7266348","url":null,"abstract":"In this study, a home energy management system structure is developed in order to determine the optimal commitment of a smart-household. Two types of loads are explicitly modeled: non-thermostatically controllable (electric vehicle, shiftable appliances) and thermostatically controllable loads (air conditioner, electric water heater). Furthermore, small-scale self-production is considered by means of a photovoltaic system. A test case using realistic data is presented in order to investigate the combined effect of the aforementioned assets under real-time pricing demand response.","PeriodicalId":334135,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE 5th International Conference on Power Engineering, Energy and Electrical Drives (POWERENG)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-05-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134619255","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Overview of the power transformer park and diagnostic methods in Latvia","authors":"Gints Poišs, S. Vītoliņa","doi":"10.1109/POWERENG.2015.7266301","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/POWERENG.2015.7266301","url":null,"abstract":"Reliability of a power system depends on its equipment. As power transformers are essential elements in substations, reliability of power transmission system largely depends on their operating and technical conditions. Therefore complicated maintenance strategies are applied including various diagnostic methods and a thorough evaluation of the acquired results. Although diagnostic tests aid the evaluation of the technical condition, the risk assessment of a particular transformer is the next step in order to ensure certain reliability level. The risk assessment approach applicable for transformers in power transmission system in Latvia is proposed in this paper.","PeriodicalId":334135,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE 5th International Conference on Power Engineering, Energy and Electrical Drives (POWERENG)","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-05-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121462917","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
M. Rivera, M. Perez, V. Yaramasu, B. Wu, L. Tarisciotti, P. Zanchetta, P. Wheeler
{"title":"Modulated model predictive control (M2PC) with fixed switching frequency for an NPC converter","authors":"M. Rivera, M. Perez, V. Yaramasu, B. Wu, L. Tarisciotti, P. Zanchetta, P. Wheeler","doi":"10.1109/POWERENG.2015.7266389","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/POWERENG.2015.7266389","url":null,"abstract":"Advances in power electronic converters technology along with the wide range of applications require sophisticated digital control schemes. In the recent years Finite Control Set Model Predictive Control (FCS-MPC) has been successfully proposed as an alternative to the traditional control techniques, due to its fast dynamic response, easy inclusion of nonlinearities and constraints in the control algorithm and the ability of incorporate several control requirements in one cost function. However, FCS-MPC is characterized by a variable switching frequency which can cause a degradation in system performance, or demand higher output filtering. In this paper a Modulated Model Predictive Control (M2PC) strategy is proposed for constant switching frequency operation and verified with a neutral-point-clamped (NPC) converter for load current regulation and DC-link capacitor voltages balancing. The aim of this control technique is to obtain a modulated waveform at the output of the converter, whilst maintaining all the desired characteristics of FCS-MPC. The feasibility of this strategy is evaluated using simulation and compared to the classical FCS-MPC strategy.","PeriodicalId":334135,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE 5th International Conference on Power Engineering, Energy and Electrical Drives (POWERENG)","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-05-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120953411","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
S. Favuzza, M. Ippolito, F. Massaro, G. Paternò, A. Puccio
{"title":"2015–2020. Sicily and Italy as electricity hub in the mediterranean area for the development of the European power grids interconnections","authors":"S. Favuzza, M. Ippolito, F. Massaro, G. Paternò, A. Puccio","doi":"10.1109/POWERENG.2015.7266376","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/POWERENG.2015.7266376","url":null,"abstract":"Falling demand and explosion of Renewable Energy Sources (RES) are redesigning the criteria for planning the power grids interconnections by ENTSO-E. In particular, the interconnections between networks of different countries have been acquiring importance more and more, in view of an unique European market for electricity and an increase of RES. Italy and Sicily, placed in the centre of the Mediterranean Sea, play a fundamental role as a bridge between Central Europe, North Africa area and Mediterranean islands (electricity hub). This paper aims to show how power system exchanges tend to follow the direction from South to North, and how the impact of North-African power - mainly generated by RES - on the Italian system is relevant. Furthermore, the present work wants to explain how the future interconnections with the Sicilian power grids will allow a higher transmission capacity from North Africa to North Europe, and an improvement of the European electricity system.","PeriodicalId":334135,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE 5th International Conference on Power Engineering, Energy and Electrical Drives (POWERENG)","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-05-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115249779","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}