Hajime Urai, Dr. Eng. Takahide Matsuo Hiroaki Hashimoto Tatsuro Kato, Dr. Eng. OVERVIEW: The market for electric power transmission systems is expected to grow strongly, driven by growing demand for electric power in emerging economies and the adoption of renewable energy. Transformers, circuit breakers, and switchgear are important components of these electric power transmission systems. The e...

As the electric transmission system in the U.S. ages, mitigating the risk of high-voltage transformer failures becomes an increasingly important issue for transmission owners and operators. This paper addresses this issue by presenting an in-depth study of different policies to manage the acquisition and allocation of high-voltage transformers over time. We analyze PJM’s transmission system by ...

In the paper different approaches used for creation of electric power transformers are discussed and main types of their mathematical models and macromodels are described. Mathematical model of transformer is created in the hybrid coordinate basis, and macromodel of the power transformer is developed using the “black box” approach in the form of state space equations, the features of such type ...

As the electric transmission system in the U.S. ages, mitigating the risk of high-voltage transformer failures becomes an increasingly important issue for transmission owners and operators. This paper introduces a model that supports these efforts by optimizing the acquisition and the deployment of high-voltage transformers dynamically over time. We formulate the problem as a Markov Decision Pr...

A sustainable microgrid for supplying power to electric vehicles (EVs) is investigated in this thesis. The energy produced by the microgrid would be directly transferred to the electric vehicles via on-road charging systems. The proposed sustainable microgrid is located on the roadside and consists of wind turbines, solar panels and a stationary storage system. The optimum sizing, the topology ...

Plug-in Electric Vehicles (PEVs) are envisioned to be more popular during the next decade as part of Smart Grid implementations. Charging multiple PEVs at the same time within a power distribution area constitutes a major challenge for energy service providers. This paper discusses a priority-based approach for charging PEVs in a Smart Grid environment. In this work, ideas from the communicatio...

Experiments have been conducted on a dual electric grid thermionic device to investigate an alternative method of space charge mitigation in a thermionic energy convertor (TEC). Two electric grids, the attractor and deflector grids, provide opposing electric fields to overcome space charge while minimizing power losses to the attractor grid. Electron beams are formed in the electrode gap provid...