[IEEE-KC PES/IAS] TECHNICAL SEMINAR 2 OF 4 - Smart Grid Topics
The IEEE-KC PES/IAS Joint Chapter is pleased to announce its Technical Seminar Series for Spring 2023!
The seminar series will once again be hosted virtually via WebEx in 2023.
Topics for this year are:
- March 28 (Tuesday) - Transformer Basics and Specifications
- April 4 (Tuesday) - Smart Grid Topics
- April 18 (Tuesday) - Electrical System Transient Protection
- May 2 (Tuesday) - Cables and Conductors***PLEASE NOTE CHANGE OF DATE!***
Date and Time
Location
Hosts
Registration
- Date: 04 Apr 2023
- Time: 06:00 PM to 09:00 PM
- All times are (UTC-05:00) Central Time (US & Canada)
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- Evergy: Jason Weil (jason.weil@evergy.com)
- Siemens: Chris Dyer (chris.dyer@siemens.com)
- Kiewit: Jason Ottens (Jason.Ottens@kiewit.com)
- Black & Veatch: Soham Ghosh (Soham.Ghosh@bv.com)
- Univ. of Central Missouri: Mohammad Sadi (sadi@ucmo.edu)
- Survey: Fill out the survey
- Starts 09 March 2023 12:00 AM
- Ends 04 April 2023 04:00 PM
- All times are (UTC-05:00) Central Time (US & Canada)
- Admission fee ?
Speakers
Dr. Sukumar Brahma, PhD, FIEEE of Clemson University
Protection of Microgrids
As distributed renewable generation proliferates in power distribution systems, existing distribution
feeders will convert to microgrids. This is different than building a microgrid from scratch. As a
distribution feeder evolves into a microgrid, the microgrid will inherit the unbalanced nature of the
feeder, as well as its protection systems that are primarily built with the assumption of a single strong
source feeding all faults. Due to penetration of the distributed renewable sources, there will be
bidirectional fault currents. Also, due to the nonlinear nature of the inverters that interconnect most
renewables, legacy protection schemes are very likely to either fail or underperform. This presentation
will provide a brief introduction to inverter’s working as applicable to the topic, bring out the challenges
in protecting microgrids in general, and discuss operation and protection of microgrids with high
penetration of inverter-based resources (IBRs), in particular.
Biography:
Dr. Sukumar Brahma received his Bachelor of Engineering from Gujarat University, India, Master of
Technology from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, and Ph.D. in from Clemson University,
USA; all in Electrical Engineering. He is Dominion Energy Distinguished Professor in Power Engineering
and director of Clemson University Electric Power Research Association (CUEPRA) at Clemson university.
Before joining Clemson he was William Kersting Endowed Chair Professor at New Mexico State
University, USA. Dr. Brahma has chaired the IEEE Power and Energy Society's Education Committee,
Distribution System Analysis Subcommittee, and is a member of the Power System Relaying and Control
Committee (PSRCC), where he has been contributing to and leading working groups that produce
reports, guides, and standards in the area of power system protection. He has been an editor for IEEE
Transactions on Power Delivery, where he also served as Guest Editor-in-Chief for the Special Issue on
Frontiers of Power System Protection. His research interests span across diverse areas of electrical
engineering and computer science to holistically approach the emerging problems in power system
analytics and protection. His current focus is on fault location and protection issues in integration of
renewables with power systems. Dr. Brahma is a Distinguished Lecturer and a Fellow of the IEEE.
Dr. Caisheng Wang of Wayne State University
Power Electronics and Motor Drives for Electric Vehicles
Biography:
Dr. Caisheng Wang received the BSEE and MSEE degrees from Chongqing University, China, in 1994 and 1997, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree from Montana State University (MSU), Bozeman, in 2006, all in electrical engineering. From 1997 to 2002, he worked as a research engineer and later the vice Chair of the Department of High Voltage Engineering at Zhejiang Electric Power Research Institute, Hangzhou, China. In August 2006, he joined Wayne State University (WSU), Detroit, MI, where he now is a Professor with the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department. Supported by NSF, DOE, Great Lake Protection Foundation (GLPF), WSU, and other sources with a total of over $12 million, he has been teaching and conducting research in the areas of renewable/alternative energy systems, power systems, power electronics, distributed generation, Microgrid and Smart Grid, and electric vehicles. He has authored/co-authored over 210 journal and conference papers with high citations, several book chapters, and two books.
He has served as an associate editor for several international journals, including IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, IEEE Electrification Magazine, IEEE Power Engineering Letters, Electric Power Components and Systems, SAE Journal of Electronic & Electrical System for Passenger Cars, and served as a grant review panelist for NSF and the Department of Energy. He has won awards including Excellence in Teaching of College of Engineering, Excellence in Teaching of the Division of Engineering Technology at WSU, IEEE PES EDPG Prize Paper Award, an MSU Foundation Graduation Achievement Nomination Award, and an Honorary Citizenship, City of Bozeman, MT, Award
Agenda
The evening's seminar will include two presentations and will begin promptly at 6:00pm CDT. Each presentation will include 1 break, as well as a short quiz and survey. Completion of the quiz will be required to receive a PDH certificate. A short break will be included between presentations.
Please contact Jason Weil (jason.weil@evergy.com) or Jason Ottens (jason.ottens@kiewit.com) for large group registrations (4 or more individuals).