Microgrids Design and Implementation

ISBN-13: 9783319986869 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 538 str.

Antonio Carlos Zambroni de Souza; Miguel Castilla

Opis

This book addresses the emerging trend of smart grids in power systems.

Spis treści

Chapter 1: Electrical power systems: Evolution from traditional configuration to distributed generation

 

Chapter 2: Renewable energy technologies for microgrids

 

Chapter 3: Control of power converters for AC microgrids

 

Chapter 4: Communication in microgrids

 

Chapter 5: Smart metering technology

 

Chapter 6: Secondary control for islanded microgrids

 

Chapter 7: Energy management in microgrids

 

Chapter 8: Procedures for emergency situations

 

Chapter 9: Stability issues in microgrids

 

Chapter 10: Protection schemes

 

Chapter 11: Design and optimal sizing of microgrids

 

Chapter 12: Electricity markets and their implications

 

Chapter 13: Microgrid demonstration projects and pilot sites

 

Chapter 14: Design and implementation of rural microgrids

 

Chapter 15: Reflections about the philosophy of technology in the emerging power systems

O autorze

- Prof. Dr. Antonio Carlos Zambroni de Souza received the B.Eng. degree in electrical engineering in 1987 from the State University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, the M.Sc. degree in electrical engineering in 1990 from the Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering in 1995 from the University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada. He is currently a full Professor at the Federal University of Itajubá, Brazil. In 2000, he was a visitor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA. In 2008 he was a visiting professor at the University of Strathclyde, Scotland. In 2014 he was a visiting professor at the Polytechnic University of Cataluña, Spain.

- Prof. Dr. Miguel Castilla is an Associate Professor in the Department of Electronic Engineering, Technical University of Catalonia, Spain, since 2002. He has written 49 journal articles and more than 100 conference articles. The quality factors associated to these publications are (source Scopus): 1) total number of citations: 5896; 2) average number of citations per year during the last 10 years: 571; 3) h-index: 26. He is the editor of the book Control Circuits in Power Electronics: Practical Issues in Design and Implementation, IET, 2016.

Blurb

This book addresses the emerging trend of smart grids in power systems. It discusses the advent of smart grids and selected technical implications; further, by combining the perspectives of researchers from Europe and South America, the book captures the status quo of and approaches to smart grids in a wide range of countries. It describes the basic concepts, enabling readers to understand the theoretical aspects behind smart grid formation, while also examining current challenges and philosophical discussions.

Like the industrial revolution and the birth of the Internet, smart grids are certain to change the way people use electricity. In this regard, a new term – the “prosumer” – is used to describe consumers who may sometimes also be energy producers. This is particularly appealing if we bear in mind that most of the distributed power generation in smart grids does not involve carbon emissions.