ACTIVE ELECTRICAL DISTRIBUTION NETWORK
Discover the major issues, solutions, techniques, and applications of active electrical distribution networks with this edited resource
Active Electrical Distribution Network: A Smart Approach delivers a comprehensive and insightful guide dedicated to addressing the major issues affecting an often-overlooked sector of the electrical industry: electrical distribution. The book discusses in detail a variety of challenges facing the smart electrical distribution network and presents a detailed framework to address these challenges with renewable energy integration.
The book offers readers fulsome analyses of active distribution networks for smart grids, as well as active control approached for distributed generation, electric vehicle technology, smart metering systems, smart monitoring devices, smart management systems, and various storage systems. It provides a treatment of the analysis, modeling, and implementation of active electrical distribution systems and an exploration of the ways professionals and researchers from academia and industry attempt to meet the significant challenges facing them.
From smart home energy management systems to approaches for the reconfiguration of active distribution networks with renewable energy integration, readers will also enjoy:
*A thorough introduction to electrical distribution networks, including conventional and smart networks *An exploration of various existing issues related to the electrical distribution network *An examination of the importance of harmonics mitigation in smart distribution networks, including active filters *A treatment of reactive power compensation under smart distribution networks, including techniques like capacitor banks and smart devices *An analysis of smart distribution network reliability assessment and enhancement
Perfect for professionals, scientists, technologists, developers, designers, and researchers in smart grid technologies, security, and information technology, Active Electrical Distribution Network: A Smart Approach will also earn a place in the libraries of policy and administration professionals, as well as those involved with electric utilities, electric policy development, and regulating authorities.
Baseem Khan, PhD, is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Hawassa University Institute of Technology, Hawassa University, in Ethiopia. His research interest includes power system restructuring, power system planning, smart grid technologies, meta-heuristic optimisation techniques, reliability analysis of renewable energy system, power quality analysis and renewable energy integration. He is a member of IEEE and IEEE PES.
Josep M. Guerrero, PhD, received his Ph.D. degree in Power Electronics from the Technical University of Catalonia, Barcelona, in 2003. Since 2011, he has been a Full Professor with the Department of Energy Technology at Aalborg University, Denmark. In 2019, he became a Villum Investigator at The Villum Fonden, which supports the Center for Research on Microgrids (CROM) at Aalborg University, of which Prof. Guerrero is the founder and Director.
Sanjeevikumar Padmanaban, PhD, is SMIEEE'15, FIETE'18, FIE'18, FIET'19 and Chartered Engineer (CEng., India). He received his Ph.D Degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Bologna (Italy). He is on the Editorial Board or Associate Editor of the following: IEEE Systems Journal, IET PEL, subject editor of IET RPG, subject editor of IET GTD, IEEE Access, Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, Journal of Power Electronics (JPE-Korea), and FACETS (Canada).
Hassan Haes Alhelou, PhD, is a member in the Department of Electrical Power Engineering, Tishreen University, Lattakia, Syria and the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University College Dublin, Ireland.
Om Prakash Mahela, PhD, received his Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from IIT Jodhpur, India, in 2018. His research interests include power quality, power system planning, and grid integration of renewable energy sources, FACTS devices, transmission line protection, and condition monitoring.
Sudeep Tanwar, PhD, is an Associate Professor in the Computer Engineering Department at the Institute of Technology of Nirma University in Ahmedabad, India. He received his PhD in 2016 from the Faculty of Engineering and Technology at Mewar University in India.
