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Electrical and Computer Engineering

University of Tennessee, Knoxville

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Renewable energy

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Hardware-Based Solutions For Improving Situational Awareness In Power Systems With High Renewable Integration, Yuru Wu Aug 2024

Hardware-Based Solutions For Improving Situational Awareness In Power Systems With High Renewable Integration, Yuru Wu

Doctoral Dissertations

This doctoral dissertation addresses the evolving challenges in power system frequency dynamics as the penetration of renewable energy sources increases, leading to a decrease in system inertia. The integration of these renewable sources, particularly those involving electronic inverters, introduces high-frequency harmonics and oscillations, necessitating enhanced accuracy and wideband measurement capabilities for effective monitoring and situation awareness in power systems.

The dissertation makes several significant contributions to this field. In Chapter 2, the dissertation introduces a review of the related literature, detailing the development and application of monitoring devices in modern power systems. Chapter 3 proposed a variety of hardware devices …


Impacts Of High Renewable Power Grids On System Planning And Monitoring, Zhihao Jiang Aug 2023

Impacts Of High Renewable Power Grids On System Planning And Monitoring, Zhihao Jiang

Doctoral Dissertations

To achieve the goal of a carbon pollution-free electricity sector by 2035 proposed by Biden’s Administration, the U.S. power grids are expecting a dramatic transformation in the resource mix of electricity generation. This dissertation will present related research in several different aspects that will be largely affected by the clean energy transition.

The increasing size and complexity of the bulk power systems have made it more computationally burdensome to simulate the power system in full-size. As an alternative to traditional model-based methods, Chapter 2 proposes a measurement-based model reduction approach using system identification techniques. Chapter 3 presents a parameter fine-tuning …


Wide-Area Measurement And Applications In Power System Dynamic Modeling And Control, Yong Liu Dec 2013

Wide-Area Measurement And Applications In Power System Dynamic Modeling And Control, Yong Liu

Doctoral Dissertations

Synchrophasor has been becoming the foundational element of power grid wide-area measurement system (WAMS) since first developed in 1980s. By utilizing global positioning system (GPS) time synchronization technique, synchrophasors offer highly accurate time-synchronized phasor measurements that can provide system operators with real-time information of operation status.

Frequency disturbance recorders (FDRs) are installed on the distribution level to measure power system dynamics and considered as a type of single-phase synchrophasors. In this dissertation, a detailed procedure for the FDRs’ calibration is summarized and a preliminary test of their dynamic performance is carried out. Moreover, this dissertation investigates the impact of GPS …