Advances in Electric Power and Energy Infrastructure - Proceedings of ICPCCI 2019

This book gathers selected research papers presented at the International Conference on Power, Control and Communication Infrastructure 2019 (ICPCCI 2019), organized by the Institute of Infrastructure, Technology, Research and Management (IITRAM), Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India, on July 4-5, 2019. It highlights  the latest advances, trends and challenges in electrical power generation-integration-transmission-distribution-conversion-storage-control, electrical machines, power quality, energy management, electrical infrastructure of future grids-buildings-cities-transportation, energy conversion, plasma technology, renewable energy & grid integration, energy storage systems, power electronic converters, power system protection & security, FACTS and HVDC, power quality, power system operation & control, computer applications in power systems, energy management, energy policies & regulation, power & energy education, restructured power system, future grids, buildings, cities & resiliency,microgrids, electrical machines & drives, transportation electrification, optimal operation, electricity-gas-water coordination, condition monitoring & predictive maintenance of electric equipment, and asset management. The solutions discussed here will encourage and inspire researchers, industry professionals and policymakers to put these methods into practice.

List of contents

A New Objective Function for Optimal Coordination of Directional over Current Relays.- Symmetrical Fault - Swing Discrimination Using RMS Index Based Superimposed Current Signals.- Realization of Solid-State DC Circuit Breaker for HVDC System.- A Review on Approaches Employed for Solving Direc-tional over Current Relays Coordination Problems.- Reduction of Short Circuit Level of EHV Substation.- Recourse-based Stochastic Market Clearing Algorithm.- Generator Ranking Based on Singular Value Decomposition for Voltage Stability Assessment.- Optimal Power Flow in Power Networks with Tcsc Using Particle Swarm Optimization Technique.- Power Loss Minimization and Voltage Improvement with Small Size Distributed Generations in Radial Distribution System Using TOPSIS.- Applied Computational Intelligence in Power Electronic Inverter to Mitigate Harmonics.- Design and Analysis of Dc Power Supply for Solid State Power Amplifier.- Novel Current Source Multi-level Inverter for Efficient Electrical Arc Welding.- Design, Simulation and Development of Current Source Multilevel Inverter.

About the author

Axaykumar Mehta received his Bachelor of Engineering in Electrical Engineering (1996), M.Tech (2002) and Ph.D. (2009) degrees from Gujarat University, Ahmedabad, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, and Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, respectively. He is currently an Associate Professor at the Institute of Infrastructure Technology Research and Management (IITRAM), Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India. He has more than 20 years of teaching experience at the undergraduate and graduate levels at various premier institutions. He has published more than 75 research papers, book chapters in national/international conference proceedings, books and journals. He has authored three books with Springer Nature Singapore and also published five patents at the Indian Patent Office, Mumbai. His research interests include sliding mode controls, networked control systems, multi-agent systems, and control of smart grids/microgrids. Dr. Mehta received the Pedagogical Innovation Award from Gujarat Technological University (GTU) in 2014, Dewang Mehta National Education award (Regional) for best professor in Electrical Engineering in 2018. He is a senior member of the IEEE, member of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (IES) and Control System Society (CSS), and life member of the Indian Society for Technical Education (ISTE), Institute of Engineers India (IEI), Systems Society of India (SSI), and Society of Power Engineers (SPE).

Abhishek Rawat received his Bachelor of Engineering in Electronics and Communication Engineering (2001), from Rajiv Gandhi Technological University, Bhopal. He received his Master of Technology (2006) and Ph.D. (2012) from Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology Bhopal, India. He is currently an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Infrastructure Technology Research and Management (IITRAM), Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India. He has 16 years of research, academic and professional experience in the different premier institutions. Dr. Rawat is also senior member IEEE and published more than 50 articles in international journals, Book chapters, national and international conference proceedings. He received the Young Scientist Award from MPCOST Bhopal in 2007, involved in the field trails of the IRNSS receiver and published four Indian patents. His research interests includes Navigation systems, Satellite Communication and Peripheral security etc.

Priyesh J Chauhan is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering, Institute of Infrastructure, Technology, Research & Management (IITRAM), Ahmedabad, India. He received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering (Power Electronics & Electric Drives) from the IIT Delhi, New Delhi, in 2014. He has 17 years of research, academic and professional experience. Dr. Chauhan has published four papers in refereed international journals and 18 papers in international conference proceedings. His main research interests are in renewable energy-based off-grid and microgrid-interactive distributed generation, ship power systems architecture and optimization, energy storage integration, and power management systems.

Product details

• Assisted by: Priyesh Chauhan (Editor), Axaykumar Mehta (Editor), Abhishe Rawat (Editor), Abhishek Rawat (Editor)
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 29.01.2021
• EAN: 9789811502088
• ISBN: 978-981-1502-08-8
• No. of pages: 264
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 15 mm x 235 mm
• Illustrations: XII, 264 p. 149 illus., 109 illus. in color.
• Series: Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Technology > Electronics, electrical engineering, communications engineering