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