Electric Power Engineering Research and Education - A festschrift for Gerald T. Heydt

This unique volume covers the most compelling areas of advance in electric power engineering, from distributed generation and dispatch to power quality improvement and energy storage. The authors particularly highlight the seminal contributions of Dr. Gerald T. Heydt in the development and teaching of these technological advances, which have impacted the power industry and academia over the last 4 decades in areas such as transmission and distribution engineering, power engineering education, and centers for power engineering research.

List of contents

Power system harmonics.- A meta-heuristic approach for optimal classification of power quality disturbances.- Synchrophasor measurements.- Renewable resource reliability and availability.- Geographical information systems and loop flows in power systems.- Introduction to transmission expansion planning in power systems.- Evolution of smart distribution systems.- Legacy of Professor G. T. Heydt to power engineering education, research and outreach.- The power engineering workforce in Washington and the Pacific Northwest: Opportunities and challenges.

About the author

Dr. Siddharth Suryanarayanan is currently Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Colorado State University. Dr. Elias Kyriakides is currently Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Cyprus. Dr. Vijay Vittal currently holds the Ira A. Fulton Chair in Arizona State University's School of Electronical, Computer and Energy Engineering, and is Senior Sustainability Scientist at the Global Institute of Sustainability.

Product details

• Assisted by: Elias Kyriakides (Editor), Siddart Suryanarayanan (Editor), Siddarth Suryanarayanan (Editor), Siddharth Suryanarayanan (Editor), Vijay Vittal (Editor)
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2016
• EAN: 9783319353074
• ISBN: 978-3-31-935307-4
• No. of pages: 253
• Dimensions: 168 mm x 12 mm x 237 mm
• Weight: 460 g
• Illustrations: XIII, 253 p. 79 illus., 28 illus. in color.
• Series: Power Electronics and Power Systems; Power Electronics and Power Systems
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Technology > Electronics, electrical engineering, communications engineering; B, ENERGY, Energietechnik, Elektrotechnik und Energiemaschinenbau, energy systems, Electrical Engineering, Energy Grids and Networks, Power electronics, Electrical Power Engineering, Power Electronics, Electrical Machines and Networks, Mechanical Power Engineering, Power Systems Research Center, Transmission Engineering