Workshop on Smart Microgrids

INTRODUCTION
Distributed power generation systems, comprising of small generation and storage units, are gaining popularity due to increasing energy demand. Low distribution losses, high reliability, reduced chances of blackout, easy scalability, and remote electrification are the key advantages of the distributed systems. To interconnect sources and storage elements of dissimilar electrical characteristics, power electronics converters (PEC) (such as ac-dc, ac-ac, etc.) are included between each source/storage and the microgrid. Microgrid includes the control and coordination of distributed generation and storage units to achieve various control objectives. Key objectives are power scheduling, power sharing among sources, voltage regulation, frequency regulation, and stable operation of the microgrid. To achieve the aforementioned objectives, hierarchal structure of controllers is used. In the recent years, depleting fossil fuels, ever-increasing energy demand, and concern over climate change necessitate a substantial percentage of the power to be generated by renewable sources. Coordinated control of renewable source, conventional sources, storage, and loads brings various research challenges in the area of Microgrids. Other important issues are protection within microgrid and interaction of various microgrids to form a Smart Grid / Microgrid. Inclusion of communication, coordination of distributed energy sources, and monitoring of system parameters to address the operational and stability issues makes it a Smart Microgrid.

AIM
The aim of this workshop is to provide exposure to faculty members, practising engineers, and students to the concepts of Smart Microgrids. This course begins with an overview of Microgrids. Recent advancements in the area of microgrids will be provided. Some of the focus areas of the workshop will be the power electronic converters for nanogrid applications, various control challenges, possibility of using advanced control techniques, such as coordinated control, transient stability of the microgird, protection issues, and solutions for interconnection of microgrids. In addition, this workshop will include various laboratory demonstrations. Use of Real Time Digital Simulation (RTDS) for control and protection of Smart Microgrids will be demonstrated. Further, power electronic converters to interface various sources with microgird will be demonstrated in laboratory.

TARGET AUDIENCE

• Faculty members
• Practising engineers
• Students

TOPICS
Topics planned to be covered in this course are:
1. Concept and Implementation of Smart City Project at IIT Kanpur
2. Overview of Converter Controls in Microgrid
3. Stability of Microgrids
4. Hierarchical Control of DC Microgrids
5. Cooperative Control and Application to DC Microgrids
6. Converters for Nanogrid
7. Communication Technologies in Smart Grid Systems
In addition, laboratory visits to Real Time Digital Simulator and Power Electronics Labs. are planned in this workshop.

SPEAKERS

Biswarup Das, has obtained his B.E and M.E in Electrical Engineering from Jadavpur University, Kolkata and subsequently, earned his Ph.D from IIT Kanpur in Electrical Engineering in the year 1998. Since 1998, he has been with Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Roorkee. He is a senior member, IEEE.

Santanu K. Mishra, (S'00-M'04-SM'12) received a B.Tech. degree in electrical engineering from the College of Engineering and Technology, Bhubaneswar, India, in 1998, an M.Tech. degree in Energy Systems Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Chennai, India, in 2000, and the Ph. D. degree from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA, in 2006. He worked as a senior application engineer with the International Rectifier Corporation in Rhode Island, USA, from 2004 to 2008. Currently, he is an Associate Professor at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India. His research interests include Nanogrids, renewable power conversion and control, and based power distribution in rural houses.

Ketan Rajawat, received his B. Tech and M. Tech degrees in Electrical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, in 2007; and his Ph. D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from University of Minnesota, in 2012. Currently, he is assistant professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Kanpur. His research interests lie in the areas of Signal processing and Communication Networks. His current research focuses on cross-layer network optimization, network coding, and real-time network monitoring.

Saikat Chakrabarti, (S'06-M'07-SM'11) received the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada, in 2006. Currently he is working as an Associate Professor in the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India. His research interests include power system dynamics and stability, state estimation, and synchrophasor applications
Soumya Ranjan Sahoo, completed his B.Tech in Electrical Engineering from University College of Engineering, Burla, Odisha in 2008. After that he joined IIT Bombay for his Masters and Ph.D. He completed his Ph.D. in 2013. He is currently a faculty member of the Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Kanpur. His research interests are control of autonomous vehicles, cooperative control and its application to aerospace and electrical systems.

Sandeep Anand, received the B.Tech. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India, in 2007 and 2013, respectively. From 2007 to 2008, he was with Emerson Network Power, India, where he was involved in the development of uninterruptible power supply systems. During 2012-13, he was with Cosmic Circuits Pvt. Ltd, India. He worked on new product development for solar photovoltaic systems. He is currently an Assistant Professor at Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India. His research interests include dc microgrids and converters for solar photovoltaics.

About IIT Kanpur

Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur was established by an Act of Parliament in 1959. On August 9, 1960, in borrowed buildings of the HBTI campus, IITK started with about 100 students studying for degrees in ChE, CE, EE, ME, MetE and the pure sciences. In 1963, the institute moved to its present location, on the Grand Trunk Road near the village of Kalyanpur in Kanpur district. The aim of the Institute is to provide meaningful education, to conduct original research of the highest standard and to provide leadership in technological innovation.

 

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Others Details

Participants would be provided accomodation inside IIT Kanpur campus. Accomodation will on twin sharing basis in Visitor Hostel (Guest House). For student participants, accomodation will be in student hostels. Accomodation fee is already included in registration and will not be charged extra.