Title: CENTRE FOR SUSTAINABLE POWER DISTRIBUTION
1CENTRE FOR SUSTAINABLE POWER DISTRIBUTION
This is widely recognised as a Centre of research
excellence within the area of electrical power
energy systems.
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- The Centre has substantial co-operative research
grants and contracts from the Research Councils,
manufacturing and the utilities and welcomes many
Visiting Fellows from overseas institutions and
companies. - Members of the Centre are heavily involved in the
EPSRCs Supergen programmes dealing with issues
of sustainable power generation and supply.
3gt Staff
- Prof Raj Aggarwal (Director of Centre)
- Dr Rod Dunn (Senior Lecturer)
- Dr Furong Li (Senior Lecturer)
- Dr Miles Redfern (Senior Lecturer)
- Dr Haifeng Wang (Senior Lecturer)
- one new academic appointment
3 Research Officers 15 PhD Research Students
2 Senior visiting fellows (Dr Aslan Erinmez Dr
David Tolley)
4gt Sponsors
5gt Research Areas
- Numeric protection fault location
- Condition monitoring asset management
- Power systems control, planning operation
- Dynamic stability security analysis
- Market design operation
- Flexible AC Transmission Systems
- Power Quality
- Sustainable renewable electrical power systems,
including integration
6gt Tools
- Artificial Intelligence
- Wavelets
- Multi-agent theory
- Monte Carlo
- Chaos theory
- Bayesian analysis
- Real-time dynamic simulation
7gt Applications
- Transmission/distribution systems
- Embedded generation
- Renewable energy integration
- Electrical energy storage systems
- Sustainable power systems
- Semi-conductor switched power systems
- Network charging structures
8gt Facilities
- RTDS, real-time digital transient simulator
- Multi-machine power system simulator
- Chemical and kinetic energy storage
- Software ATP, EMTDC, ERACS, ANSYS
- Electrical power market simulator
9gt Novel techniques for power system protection/
fault location / condition monitoring (1)
- Type of network / plant
- Overhead lines/ Underground cables
- Power transformers, Gas Insulated Switchgear,
Generators - High voltage transmission systems / low voltage
distribution systems, power system networks with
distributed generation (including renewables) - High voltage systems with Thyristor-controlled
Flexible AC Transmission, multi-ended lines
10gt Novel techniques for power system protection/
fault location / condition monitoring (2)
- Methods employed
- Advanced signal processing including Chaos
Theory, Wavelet Transform - Pattern recognition / classification using
Artificial Intelligence including Fuzzy Logic,
Artificial Neural Networks Self Organising Map,
Multilayer Feedforward Perceptron
11gt Protection of systems with FACTS devices
Challenge correct protection relay operation
under rapidly changing system parameters
Solution
Voltage current signals
Trip signal
Fault Identification - AI
Feature extraction - DWT
FACTS System
12gt Future electrical power technologies
Challenge Sustainable electrical energy
generation
Solutions
- Decentralised control
- New market structures
- Novel energy storage
- Security
13gt Supergen 1 - Future network technologies
Challenge Enhanced operation of power networks
Projects
- Microgrids control and protection
- Multi-agent control decentralised networks
- Ideal energy mix technical ideal
- System security intermittent sources
14gt Supergen 3 Energy storage
Challenge Recovering unused electrical power
- Mobility
- Smoothing
- Time shift
Projects
- New electrical energy storage devices
- Control management of storage devices
- Integration into microgrids
- Hybrid energy storage
15Challenges for future power systems
- Significant wind generation will be introduced
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- 10GW 2010 26GW - 2020
- Characteristics intermittent and unpredictable
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18gt Development of network charging methodologies
for use of Western Power Distribution Network
19Problems and Objectives
- Distribution Reinforce Model is economically
inefficient - Postage stamp2. DRM does not
acknowledge the benefit of embedded generators
3. Introducing more efficient distance based
charging methodology - Investment Cost
Related Pricing (ICRP)
20Assessing the benefits of moving to an
economically efficient distribution charging
compared to the existing approach based on the
Distribution Reinforcement Model ----- DRM-----
Investment Cost Related Pricing ----- Long-run
Incremental Cost Pricing
gt Cost-benefit analysis of network charging
methodologies
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22FUTURE OPPORTUNITIES-
- Greater use of the assets,
- Exploitation of renewable resources,
- Accountability of operations.
23AREAS OF INTEREST-
- Open Access of Systems.
- Quality of Supply.
- Improved Protection
24OPEN ACCESS OF SYSTEMS-
- Ability to accept a diversity of sources.
- Wind,
- Solar,
- Domestic CHP,
- Fuel Cells,
- Storage.
25QUALITY OF SUPPLY-
- Supply Parameters.
- voltage
- frequency
- continuity of supply
- How and where can/should these be controlled?
26IMPROVED PROTECTION-
- New equipment requires more sophisticated
protection. - Increased complexity of network design.
- New concepts in protection.
27COLLABORATION -
- new sources of renewable energy.
- new control strategies.
- new processing techniques.
- condition monitoring.
- economics.
- etc., etc., ..
28COLLABORATION -
- Engineering Mechanical, Chemical, Civil,
Architecture. - Science Physics, Chemistry, Biology.
- Humanities Sociology, Psychology,
- Management, Economics.