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Covering technology, modeling, field experience, installation and grid connection, this text offers a high-level technical overview of ocean renewable energy generation. It examines wave, tidal, current, salinity, and thermal energy generation and includes the novel technology of marine solar arrays.
This book presents a comprehensive introduction to the principals involved in the use of narrowband and broadband PLC technologies in the SG, and to using these technologies particularly when intermittent renewable energies sources are employed.
This book covers the development, modelling and simulation for high-voltage DC (HVDC) transmission systems. The title also covers the electromagnetic transient model, electromechanical transient model and the dynamic average model, with the electromagnetic transient model being emphasised.
Power Market Transformation is based on the most recent developments in the energy sector and brings together all the initiatives that interact physically through the common network and financially through the energy market.
This book describes the principles of solving various problems in power engineering via the application of selected metaheuristic optimization methods including genetic algorithms, particle swarm optimization, and the gravitational search algorithm.
This book describes the systems and equipment used for measuring and controlling boilers and heat-recovery steam-generators used in land and marine power plant and in process industries. It provides a practical guide to the design, installation, operation and maintenance of these systems.
With the rapid growth of wind energy worldwide, challenges in the operation and control of wind turbine systems are becoming increasingly important. This book conveys up to date theoretical and practical techniques applicable to the control of wind turbine systems.
This book provides an overview of most aspects of electrical protections. The emphasis is on distribution systems, but protection of generation and transmission systems are also treated. For this 4th edition, new topics are added, such as protection of renewable power plants and transient stability analysis.
Photovoltaic electricity generation is a rapidly growing industry, and a key pillar of a decarbonized energy system. Lasers are used to dope the semiconductor layers in solar cells, and it is necessary to passivate these laser-induced structures to prevent premature charge carrier recombination. This book conveys passivation techniques.
Microgrids use ICT to deliver energy, but they can be open to cyber-attacks. This reference provides an up-to-date framework for resilient control and protection of microgrids. It investigates cyber-attacks on smart grids, discusses vulnerabilities and solutions.
A hands-on, case study-backed reference of control strategies, fault classification mechanisms, and reliability analysis methods for PV modules, power electronic converters, and grid-connected PV systems. Written by an international team of researchers with excellent backgrounds in academia and industry.
Wind power is a pillar of low emission energy systems. Many recent advances have been achieved in multiple aspects of utility-scale wind power. This structured review conveys recent progress involving aerodynamics, layout, control, environmental concerns, forecasting and intermittency, combination with PV and offshore farms.
Deploying lithium-ion batteries depends on cost-effective materials with high energy and power density to facilitate lower weight. Si-based anode materials offer superior storage capacity. This reference presents current knowledge about the use of silicon and its derivates for Li-ion batteries.
Wide Bandgap semiconductor devices offer higher efficiency, smaller size, less weight, and longer lifetime, with applications in power grid electronics and electromobility. This book describes the state of advanced packaging solutions for novel wide-band-gap semiconductors, specifically silicon carbide (SiC) MOSFETs and diodes.
This expanded and updated second edition is an essential guide to technologies for operating modern flexible power systems. Additional content for this edition includes four new chapters on recent modelling, control and stability analysis of power electronic converters and electric vehicles.
This expanded and updated second edition covers advanced data-driven signal processing techniques for the analysis of power system data and transient oscillations in power grids. New content includes new architectures for smart grids and microgrids, multitemporal data fusion, deep learning, multichannel phasor measurement.
Model predictive control (MPC) is a method for controlling a process while satisfying a set of constraints. The use of MPC for controlling power systems has been gaining traction in recent years. This work presents the use of MPC for distributed renewable power generation in microgrids.
The comprehensive reference on synchronous reluctance machines, which offer high power density at low cost and support the electrification in the transport sector. This book, written by top academic and industry experts, covers all topics required to design these machines.
A structured research overview of techniques to manage microgrids with distributed energy resources (DERs). The focus is on coordination on both temporal and spatial scales. Chapters cover mathematical models, sizing and siting of DERs, robust optimisation, distributed coordinated control, and hardware-in-the-loop tests.
Small Wind and Hydrokinetic Turbines is a valuable summary for researchers involved with small wind turbines and SHKT development and deployment, both in academia and industry, for research on powering remote areas, as well as for advanced students and manufacturers of turbines.
This book presents an overview of formulas to model transients in cable systems based on complete solutions of Maxwell's equations. It presents solutions to particularly model important high frequency phenomena. The impedance and admittance at a very low frequency for HVDC systems are investigated.
A systematic overview of the state of Compressed Air Energy Storage (CAES) technology, covering the key components and principal types of systems in the order of technical maturity: diabatic, adiabatic, and isothermal. Existing major systems and prototypes and economics are also addressed.
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