Control Applications in Modern Power System

This book presents select proceedings of the Electric Power and Renewable Energy Conference 2020 (EPREC 2020). This book provides rigorous discussions, case studies, and recent developments in emerging areas of control systems, especially, load frequency control, wide-area monitoring, control & instrumentation, optimization, intelligent control, energy management system, SCADA systems, etc. The contents of this book will be useful to researchers and professionals interested in control theory and its applications to power grids and systems. The book can also be used by policy makers and power engineers involved in power generation and distribution.

Dr. Arun Kumar Singh is currently a Professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering, National Institute of Technology Jamshedpur, India. He received his B.Sc. (Engg.) from Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra; M.Tech from the Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi; and PhD degree in electrical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India. He has over 30 years of teaching experience and taught subjects like Control System, Control & Instrumentation, Power System Operation and Control, Non-Conventional Energy, Circuit & Network Theory. His major areas of research interests include control system, control system applications in different areas & non-conventional energy. Prof. Singh is a Life Member of ISTE and a life fellow member of Institute of Engineers. He has been the Dean of Student Welfare at National Institute of Technology. Dr. Manoj Tripathy received his B.E. degree in electrical engineering from Nagpur University, Nagpur, India, in 1999; M.Tech degree in instrumentation and control from Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India, in 2002; and PhD degree from the Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, Roorkee, India, in 2008. He is currently working as Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, Uttarakhand, India. His fields of interest are wavelets, neural network, optimization techniques, content-based image retrieval, digital instrumentation, digital protective relays and digital speech processing. Dr Tripathy is a reviewer for various international journals in the area of power systems and speech.