Advanced Power Technologies APT Center

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Advanced Power Technologies (APT) Center

• Chen-Ching Liu
• Director
• June 29, 2004

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APT Center

• Started in 1997 with Arizona State, Iowa State,
  and Virginia Tech.
• Awarded DoD / EPRI Program Strategic Power
  Infrastructure Defense (SPID) about 3 M in
  1999-2001.
• Awarded NSF Curriculum Development Grant (w/ ASU)
  450K, 1998-2001
• APT Industry Sponsored Projects Started in 1998

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APT Members So Far

• AREVA TD
• Bonneville Power Administration
• CESI, Italy
• LG Industrial Systems, Korea
• Mitsubishi Electric, Japan
• PJM Interconnection
• RTE, France

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APT Industry Advisory Board

• Selection of APT projects
• Approval of budgets
• Technical contact at members companies
• Review of project progress
• Two Board meetings per year

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Selection of Projects

• Value to APT industry members
• Contribution to state-of-the-art
• Suitable for graduate student research
• Attractive to potential APT members

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Student Accomplishments

• Jiang and Wistort 2nd Place, Int. Student Paper
  Contest, IEEE PES TD Conference, Dallas, 2003
  (Advisor Alex Mamishev)
• Jewell-Larson, Pendergrass and Parker 1st
  Place, Int. Poster Contest, IEEE PES General
  Meeting, 2003, Toronto (Advisor Alex Mamishev)
• Stina Brock, 2nd Prize, Int. Student Paper/Poster
  Contest, IEEE PES General Meeting, 2004, Denver
  (Advisor Kai Strunz)
• Sung Kwan Joo, Min Wang, Hao Li, M. Gibescu and
  R. Dahlgren completed Ph.D.s.
• Sung Kwan Joo to join North Dakota State
  University as an Assistant Professor.

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• Faculty Awards
• K. Strunz, UW Department of Electrical
  Engineering Outstanding Teaching Award for
  2003-2004
• C. C. Liu, IEEE Power Engineering Society 2004
  Outstanding Power Engineering Educator Award,
  for the integration of advanced concepts into
  power engineering educational curricula and the
  mentoring of students.

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2003 APT Projects

• Energy Markets and Dergulation
• Project 1Economic Analysis of Congestion
  Management Rules, Electricity Price Forecasting
• Project 2 Evaluation of FACTS
• Transmission and Distribution
• Project 3 Infrastructure Security
• Project 4 Predictive Maintenance

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2004 APT Projects

• Congestion management and price forecasting
• Interdependency of IT, protection, power and
  communication infrastructures
• Active and reactive power allocation in market-
  oriented flexible AC transmission systems
• RFID

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Publications Update

• Power Economics
• R. Dahlgren, C. C. Liu, J. Lawarree, Risk
  Assessment in Energy Trading, IEEE Trans. Power
  Systems, May 2003.
• S. K. Joo, C. C. Liu, Y. Shen, Z. Zabinsky and J.
  Lawarree, Optimization Techniques for Available
  Transfer Capability (ATC) and Market
  Calculations, accepted for publication in IMA
  Journal Special Issue, 2004.

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Publications Update

• Power Quality
• M. Wang and A. V. Mamishev, "Classification of
  Power Quality Events Using Optimal Time-Frequency
  Representations -- Part 1 Theory," IEEE Trans.
  Power Delivery, in press (accepted).
• M. Wang, G. I. Rowe, and A. V. Mamishev,
  "Classification of Power Quality Events Using
  Optimal Time-Frequency Representations -- Part 2
  Application," IEEE Trans. Power Delivery, in
  press (accepted).
• B. Jiang, A. V. Mamishev, Robotic Monitoring of
  Power Systems, IEEE Trans. Power Delivery, in
  press (accepted).

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Publications Update

• System Modeling and Infrastructure Security
• S. K. Joo, C. C. Liu, L. Jones and J. W. Choe,
  Coherency and Aggregation Incorporating Rotor
  and Voltage Dynamics, IEEE Trans. Power Systems,
  May 2004.
• H. Li, G. Rosenwald, J. Jung and C. C. Liu,
  Strategic Power Infrastructure Defense, Invited
  by Proceedings of the IEEE, 2004.
• K. Schneider, C. C. Liu, A Proposed Method of
  Partially Decentralized Power System Protection,
  submitted to Symp. on Securing Critical
  Infrastructure, Grenoble, France, Oct. 2004.

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Publications Update

• System Dynamics and Security
• M. Gibescu, C. C. Liu, H. Hashimoto, H. Taoka,
  Energy Based Stability Margin Computation
  Incorporating Effects of ULTCs, submitted to
  IEEE Trans. Power Systems.
• M. Gibescu, C. C. Liu, Modeling of Energy
  Transactions and Ancillary Services for Dynamic
  Security Assessment, Proc. IEEE PES General
  Meeting 2004, Denver.

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New NSF Grants

• Analysis of Complex, Multiple Electricity Markets
  (with J. Lawarree, Economics and Z. Zabinsky,
  Industrial Engr) 165K, with letters of support
  from PJM and BPA.
• U.S.-African University Collaboration, 40K

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Collaboration with APT Members

• LGIS visit by Mamishev and Roy
• Liu attended AREVA summit in Feb 2004
• Liu, Nye and Schneider visited BPA relaying labs
• Provided price forecasting techniques to CESI
• PJM Workshop on June 28
• LGIS and Melco visits by Liu in July 2004
• Planned RTE and CESI visits in Summer 2004 by Liu
  and Strunz

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Development Activities

• Visited Tractebel
• Contacted CAISO
• NSF Engineering Research Center proposal planning
  with Virginia Tech and Howard University
• Pacific Northwest Energy Institute proposal
  through UW Liaison in Washington DC.