Opportunities and Challenges in Power Flow Control in a Modern Grid
The power industry’s pressing need for the most economical ways to transfer bulk power along a desired path may be met by building new transmission lines, which is a long and costly process. Alternatively, it may be quicker and cheaper to utilize the existing transmission lines more efficiently. Power flow control in a transmission line is an art that is still being perfected. Three decades after demonstrating the last tool, Unified Power Flow Controller, we now have the latest tool, Sen Transformer, that promises to control active and reactive power flow independently at the lowest possible cost. The test results controlling power flow in a 33 kV line using world’s first, commercial-grade Sen Transformer will be presented. The presentation is designed to provide
- basic principles of power flow control theory,
- an overview of the most commonly used power flow controllers, and their merits and demerits, and
- future trends, including power electronics inverter-based Unified Power Flow Controller to transformer and load tap changers-based Sen Transformer.
The audience will hear from an expert who actually designed and commissioned a number of power electronics-based FACTS controllers since their inceptions in the 1990s.
Speaker Bio
Kalyan Sen is the President & Chief Technology Officer of Sen Engineering Solutions, Inc. (www.sentransformer.com) that specializes in developing SMART power flow controllers—a functional requirements-based and cost-effective solution. Kalyan worked for 33 years in academia and industry. He was a key member of the Flexible Alternating Current Transmission Systems (FACTS) development team at the Westinghouse Science & Technology Center for which he became a Westinghouse Fellow Engineer. He contributed to concept development, simulation, design, and commissioning of FACTS projects at Westinghouse. He conceived some of the basic concepts in power flow control technology for which he was elevated to the IEEE Fellow grade with the citation: for the development and application of power flow control technology. He is the Co-inventor of the Sen Transformer, which is commercially available to regulate ±6.5 MVA line power in a 33 kV line.
Kalyan received BEE (first class honors, 1982), MSEE (1983), and PhD (1987) degrees, all in Electrical Engineering, from Jadavpur University (India), Tuskegee University (USA), and Worcester Polytechnic Institute (USA), respectively. He also received an MBA (2012) from Robert Morris University (USA). He is a licensed Professional Engineer in Pennsylvania and New York.
Kalyan received BEE (first class honors, 1982), MSEE (1983), and PhD (1987) degrees, all in Electrical Engineering, from Jadavpur University (India), Tuskegee University (USA), and Worcester Polytechnic Institute (USA), respectively. He also received an MBA (2012) from Robert Morris University (USA). He is a licensed Professional Engineer in Pennsylvania and New York.
Kalyan has served many organizations. He has been serving as an IEEE Power & Energy Society (PES) Distinguished Lecturer since 2002. In that capacity, he has given presentations on power flow control technology almost two hundred times in twenty countries. He serves IEEE Board of Governors of Society on Social Implications of Technology (SSIT) as Life Members Chair. He also serves IEEE Region 2 as its Professional Activities Chair.
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- Date: 04 Jul 2025
- Time: 01:00 AM UTC to 02:00 AM UTC
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- The University of Queensland
- St Lucia , Queensland
- Australia 4072
- Building: Andrew N. Liveris Building 46
- Room Number: 914
- Starts 25 March 2025 03:16 AM UTC
- Ends 04 July 2025 01:00 AM UTC
- No Admission Charge