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Fall 2017

Fakhari Moghaddam Arani, Mohammadreza

Clean and renewable energy resources such as wind power and photovoltaics, along with advanced environmentally-friendly loads like electric vehicles, will be significant components of future grids. These resources are rapidly increasing, but they have an inherent tendency to degrade system...

Spring 2016

Zhou, Yaxiang

Interconnection of two power systems is a common task. An example is to reconnect an islanded system to the main power grid. Synchronization condition must be satisfied when interconnecting these two systems. Traditionally, feedback-control based methods are used to adjust the generating units of...

Spring 2016

Radwan, Amr A A

This thesis addresses the integration of renewable energy resources into the grid-connected and isolated distribution systems using voltage- and current-source converters. Motivated by its promising potential and attractive features, a one-stage current-source converter (CSC) is selected as an...

Fall 2014

Kahrobaeian, Alireza

Derived by economic, technical and environmental reasons, the energy sector is moving towards a new era of “Smart Active Distribution Systems” where clusters of converter-based distributed generation (DG) units, local loads and other filtering devices form micro-grids (MG), which can be regarded...

Fall 2014

Ashabani, Seyed Mahdi

The energy sector is moving into the era of distributed generation (DG) and micro-grids (MGs). This research focuses on development of a new family of control and management strategies for integration of micro-grids with numerous voltage source converters and synchronous generators in smart...