Books in the Power Systems series

This book evaluates the role of innovative machine learning and deep learning methods in dealing with power system issues, concentrating on recent developments and advances that improve planning, operation, and control of power systems.

This book introduces the concepts of more electric aircraft and aviation electrical appliances, as well as the aviation experimental platform of vacuum switches, the interruption characteristics, frequency characteristics and post-arc breakdown characteristics of intermediate frequency vacuum switches, etc.

This book focuses on building air conditioning demand response and power storage batteries as the resources that make up the virtual power plant.

This book investigates the control and optimization of grid-tied power converters, with a special attention attached to pulse width modulation, which determines the size and cost of power converters as well as switching harmonics.

This book provides an overview of power electronic converters for numerical simulations based on DIgSILENT PowerFactory. Exploring various current topics in the field of modelling power systems, this book will appeal to a variety of readers, ranging from students to practitioners.

This book presents innovative techniques and approaches to maintaining dynamic security of modern power systems that have a high penetration of renewable energy sources (RESs).

This book provides general guidelines for solving thermal problems in the fields of engineering and natural sciences. Written for a wide audience, from beginner to senior engineers and physicists, it provides a comprehensive framework covering theory and practice and including numerous fundamental and real-world examples.

Moreover, the book presents the fundamentals of electric circuits and develops circuit theorems, while also familiarizing readers with generalized equivalent circuits and using projective geometry to interpret changes in operating regime parameters.

This book presents essential methods and tools for research into the reliability of energy systems. It discusses the main operating conditions which affect the reliability of electric power systems, and describes corresponding computing tools which can help solve issues as they arise.

A comprehensive review of wide-area protection, control and monitoring systems.- Introduction to WAMS and Its Applications for Future Power System.- Information and communication infrastructures in modern wide-area systems.- Wide-Area Monitoring Systems and Phasor Measurement Units.- Optimal selection of Phasor Measurement Units.- Coordinated designs of fuzzy PSSs and load frequency control for damping power system oscillations considering wind power penetration.- Wide-area monitoring of electromechanical oscillations on large interconnected power systems based on simultaneous processing spatio-temporal data.- Electromechanical mode estimation in power system using a novel nonstationary approach.- Small Signal Stability Improvement of Pumped Storage Hydropower using Wide Area Signal Considering Wind Farm.- Impact Analysis and Robust Coordinated Control of low frequency oscillations in wind integrated power system.- Frequency Stability of Two-Area Interconnected Power System with Doubly Fed Induction Generator Based Wind Turbine.- Wide-Area Measurement-Based Voltage Stability Assessment by Coupled Single-Port Models.- Adaptive WAMS-Based Secondary Voltage Control.- Applications of Decision Tree and Random Forest Methods for Real-Time Voltage Stability Assessment Using Wide Area Measurements.- Superseding Mal-operation of Distance Relay Under Stressed System Conditions.- Real-time voltage stability monitoring using machine learning-based PMU measurements.- Wide Area Transmission System Fault Analysis Based on Three-phase State Estimation with Considering Measurement and Parameter Errors.- Data-driven Wide-Area Situation Analyzer for power system event detection and severity assessment.- Techno-economic analysis of WAMS based islanding detection algorithm for microgrids with minimal PMU in smart grid environment.- Independent Estimation of Generator Clustering and Islanding Conditions in Power System with Microgrid and Inverter-based Generation.- Resilience in Wide Area Monitoring Systems for the Smart Grid.- Cyber Kill Chain-based Intrusion Detection Systems for Cyber-Physical Security in Smart Grid.

Part I: Microgrid Architectures and Power Electronics.- Overview of Microgrid.- Microgrid Planning and Modelling.- AC and DC Hybrid Microgrid, Modelling and Operation.- Distributed Energy Resources and Microgrid Infrastructure.- Virtual Power Plants and Virtual Inertia.- Power Electronic Converters in DC Microgrid.- Power Electronic Converters in AC Microgrid.- Energy Storage Systems in Microgrid.- Design and Experimental Investigations of an Energy Storage System in Microgrids.- Energy Management in Microgrids: Challenges, Solutions.- Energy Management of PV Array Grid-Connected.- PV Microgrids Efficiency: From nanomaterials and semiconductor polymer technologies for PV Cells to Global MPPT Control for PV Arrays.- Part II: Microgrid Control Systems.- Control of Power Electronic Converters in AC Microgrid.- DC Microgrid Control.- Hierarchical Control in Microgrid.- Distributed Control of Microgrids.- Intelligent and Adaptive Control.- Load Shedding, Emergency and Local Control.- Smart Metering based Strategies for Improving Energy Efficiency in Microgrids.- Optimal Microgrid Operational Planning Considering Distributed Energy Resources.- Self-Healing: Definition, Requirements, Challenges and Methods.- Assessment of Various Droop Control Based Strategies in Microgrid.- Fuzzy PID Control of Microgrid.- Adaptive and Online Control of Microgrids Using Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning.- Part III: Microgrid Protection Systems.- Microgrid Protection.- Microgrid Protection and Automations.- Protective Systems in DC Microgrids.- Adaptive Protection Systems.- IEC 61850 Based Protection Systems.- Power Quality Issues and Mitigation Techniques in Microgrid.- Control and Protection of the Smart Microgrids using Internet of Things: Technologies, Architectures, and Applications.

This book presents the methodology and mathematical models for dual-fuel coal-gas power plants in two basic configurations: systems coupled in parallel and in series. Dual-fuel gas and steam systems, especially parallel systems, have great potential for modernizing existing combined heat and power (CHP) plants.

This book discusses stochastic dynamics of power systems and the related analytical methodology. Further, in addition to demonstrating the stochastic oscillation mechanism in power systems, it also proposes methods for quantitative analysis and stochastic optimum control in the field of stochastic dynamic security in power systems.

This book introduces advanced thyristor-based shunt hybrid active power filters (HAPFs) for power quality improvement in power grids, which are characterized by a low dc-link operating voltage and a wide compensation range.

This book introduces readers to two major sustainable applications of linear synchronous machines: wave energy conversion and magnetic levitation train technology.

This book offers a thorough insight into the study of electromagnetic transients and underground power cables, from the simplest lumped parameters circuits to complex cable-based high voltage networks. It explains and demonstrates the importance of modeling.

This book aims to offer a thorough study and reference textbook on electrical machines and drives. In the third part, electrical drives are discussed, combining the traditional (rotating field and DC commutator) electrical machines treated in the first part and the power electronics of part two.

This book presents a modified model reference adaptive system (MRAS) observer for sensorless vector control of a wind driven doubly fed induction generator (DFIG). Besides, grid synchronization of a wind driven DFIG under unbalanced grid voltage is also fully covered in this book.

This book presents various computationally efficient component- andsystem-level design optimization methods for advanced electrical machines anddrive systems.

This book covers the diagnosis and assessment of the various faults which can occur in a three phase induction motor, namely rotor broken-bar faults, rotor-mass unbalance faults, stator winding faults, single phasing faults and crawling.

This book provides electrical and electronic engineering undergraduate and graduate students and trainees with practical information on grounding-system parameters, and on different methods for measuring soil resistivity and ground resistance.

This book highlights the most important aspects of mathematical modeling, computer simulation, and control of medium-scale power systems.

The book collects new research ideas and achievements including adelay-dependent robust design method, a wide area robust coordination strategy,a hybrid assessment and choice method for wide area signals, a free-weightingmatrices method and its application, as well as the online identificationmethods for low-frequency oscillations.