2013 Site Visit & Industry Conference List of Papers

A list of individual papers can be found below.

Power Electronics for Grid
  • Modeling and Control of an LCL Filter Based Three-phase Active Rectifier in Grid Emulator
  • Hardware Implementation and Control Design of Generator Emulator in Multi-Converter System
  • Power Converter-based Three-phase Induction Motor Load Emulator
  • Three-Phase Modular Cascaded H-Bridge Multilevel Inverter with Individual MPPT for Grid-Connected Photovoltaic Systems
  • Transmission Line Emulation Based on Bergeron Model and Power Electronics Converters
  • Arm Inductance Selection Principle for Modular Multilevel Converters with Circulating Current Suppressing Control
  • Analysis on Fault Current Stress for Power Switches in Modular Multilevel Converter Based DC System
  • Full-Converter Wind Turbine Emulator in Converter Based Power Grid Emulation System
  • Small-Signal Stability Analysis of Offshore Wind Farms with LCC HVDC
  • A Study of Offshore Wind HVDC System Stability and Control
  • HVDC Transmission Systems Achitectures and Control -A Survey
  • Adaptive PI Control of STATCOM for Voltage Regulation
  • PQ and PV Control of Photovoltaic Generators in Distribution Systems
Power Electronics Device, Gate Drives & EMI
  • A Fast Overcurrent Protection Scheme for IGBT Modules Through Dynamic Fault Current Evaluation
  • Analysis and Optimization of Buffer Circuits in High Current Gate Drive
  • Lifetime Prediction of IGBT in a STATCOM Using Modified-Graphical Rainflow Counting Algorithm
  • Active Gate Driver for Cross Talk Suppression of SiC Devices in a Phase-leg Configuration
  • Junction Temperature Measurement of IGBTs Using Short Circuit Current
  • Switching Performance Improvement of IGBT Modules Using an Active Gate Driver
  • A Study of Motor-end EMI Filter on Output Common-mode Noise Suppression in DC-fed Motor Drive System
  • Mixed-Mode EMI Noise in Three-Phase DC-Fed PWM Motor Drive System
  • A Study of the Unbalance in Noise Propagation Path and Its Implication to EMI Filter Design in Three-phase Motor Drive System
  • Variable Switching Frequency PWM Strategy for Inverter Switching Loss and System Noise Reduction in Electric/Hybrid Vehicle Motor Drives
Power Converters for Transportation & Data Centers
  • Impact of Planar Transformer Winding Capacitance on Si-based and GaN-based LLC Resonant Converter
  • Design and Modeling of Two Phase Interleaved Phase-Shift Full-Bridge DC/DC Converter with 1 V Output Voltage as Voltage Regulator
  • Paralleled Three-Phase Current Source Rectifiers for Data Center Power Supplies
  • Control of Three-phase Buck-type Rectifier in Discontinuous Current Mode
  • Compensation of Input Current Distortion in Three-Phase Buck Rectifiers
  • Application of genetic algorithm for the improved performance of boost converters
  • EV/PHEV Bidirectional Charger Assessment for V2G Reactive Power Operation
  • Development of a 30 kW Si IGBT Based Three-Phase Converter for Operation at 200 °C with High Temperature Coolant in Hybrid Electric Vehicle Applications
Emissions and Markets
  • An Empirical Test for Inter-State Carbon-Dioxide Emissions Leakage Resulting from the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative
  • Improved Emission Functions for Generators, and How They Help Resolve a Controversy about the Emission Effects of Wind Power
  • Probabilistic Model of Payment Cost Minimization Considering Wind Power and its Uncertainty
  • LMP Step Pattern Detection based on Real-Time Data
  • Hardware Design of Smart Home Energy Management System with Dynamic Price Response
  • Bidding Strategy for Wind Generation Considering Conventional Generation and Tranmission Constraints
  • Quantifying Spinning Reserve in Systems With Significant Wind Power Penetration
  • Security Constrained Unit Commitment with Demand Response
  • A Simultaneous Perturbation Approach for Solving Economic Dispatch Problems with Emission, Storage, and Network Constraints
  • Estimating the Long-Run Effects of Environmental Policies on the Electricity Grid: Prices, Investment, Demand Response and Resulting Carbon Dioxide Emissions
Control
  • Coordinated V-f and P-Q Control of Solar Photovoltaic Generators with MPPT and Battery Storage in Microgrids
  • Adaptive Controllable Demand Response Modeling Considering Critical Load Level
  • Flatness-based Adaptive Control of STATCOM
  • Sensitivity Analysis of Load-Damping Characteristic in Power System Frequency Regulation
  • Optimal Power Flow Control by Use of Magnetic Amplifier
  • Distributed Automatic Generation Control using Flatness-Based Approach for High Penetration of Wind Generation
  • Contribution of Variable-speed Wind Generation to Frequency Regulation and Oscillation Damping in Eastern Interconnection (EI)
  • Load Tap Changer position monitoring with time stamps using Phasor Measurement Units
  • RTDS Demonstration of the Effect of Communication Time Delay on Oscillation Damping Using HVDC
  • Reconfiguration of A Distribution System with Load Uncertainty
State Estimation & Cyber Security
  • An Attack-Resilient Fault-Location Algorithm for Transmission Grids Based on LAV Estimation
  • Strategic Placement of Phasor Measurements for Parameter Error Identification
  • LAV Based Robust State Estimation for Systems Measured by PMUs
  • Phasor State Estimation for Synchrophasor Data Quality Improvement and Power Transfer Interface Monitoring
  • A Mechanism for Detecting Gray Hole Attacks on Synchrophasor Data
  • Power System State Estimation using a Non-Iterative Direct State Calculation Method
  • PMU Data Compression in Smart Grid using Wavelet Packet Transform
Modeling
  • Dynamic Models of Wind Turbine Generators In Power System Toolbox
  • A MATLAB-based PMU Simulator
  • Exploration of Multifrontal Method with GPU in Power Flow Computation
  • Environmental Regulation Impacts on Eastern Interconnection Performance
  • Eastern Interconnection Model Reduction Based on Wide-Area Frequency Monitoring Network
  • Designing Wind Farms: A Hands-On STEM Activity for High School Students
  • Power System Transient Stability Analysis with High-order Derivatives of Angle Dynamics
Monitoring
  • Frequency Disturbance Detection and Oscillation Mode Identification of Sichuan-Chongqing Power Grid based on FNET
  • Online Electromechanical Mode Estimation Implementation Utilizing Measured Ambient Data
  • A New Method to Reduce Sinusoidal Error of Single-Phase Phase Angle Estimation in Power Systems
  • PMU Dynamic Performance Evaluation and Comparison of PMU Standards
  • Accuracy Study of Measurement-based Model in Power System Dynamic Response Estimation
  • Tampering Detection of Digital Recordings Using Electric Network Frequency and Phase Angle
  • Off Grid Detection in Power Grid Based on Frequency Measurement Of FNET
  • Source of ENF in Battery-Powered Digital Recordings