Collection of selected, peer reviewed papers from the 3rd International Conference on Materials Engineering and Automatic Control (ICMEAC 2014), May 17-18, 2014, Tianjin, China. The 182 papers are grouped as follows: Chapter 1: Advanced Materials Engineering and Materials Proces…
Collection of selected, peer reviewed papers from the 2014 International Conference on Energy Research and Power Engineering (ERPE'14), May 17-18, 2014, Dalian, China. The 477 papers are grouped as follows: Chapter 1: Semiconductors, Materials and Processing Technologies in Ener…
This book has 25 chapters and discusses the following topics: lightning electromagnetics; electromagnetic theory; electromagnetic fields; accelerating charge; propagating current pulse; discharge process in the atmosphere; nonthermal electrical discharges in air; charging proces…
We present an application of a robust and fast parallel algorithm to power system state estimation with minimal amount of modifications to existing state estimators presently in place using the Auxiliary Problem Principle. We demonstrate its effectiveness on IEEE test systems, t…
The state-of-the-art restructuring of power industries is changing the fundamental nature of retail electricity business. As a result, the so-called Integrated Resource Planning (IRP) strategies implemented on electric utilities are also undergoing modifications. Such modificati…
Flexibility describes the system ability to cope with events that may cause imbalance between electricity supply and demand while maintaining the system reliability in a cost-effective manner. Flexibility has always been present in the power system to cater for unplanned generat…
The penetration of renewable energy sources has increased significantly in recent years due to the ongoing depletion of conventional resources and the transition to a low carbon energy system. Renewable energy sources such as wind energy are highly intermittent and unpredictable…
With the evolution of energy and power systems, the emerging Smart Grid (SG) is mainly featured by distributed renewable energy generations, demand-response control and huge amount of heterogeneous data sources. Widely distributed synchrophasor sensors, such as phasor measuremen…