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The 2017 IEEE Texas Power and Energy Conference
February 9-10, 2017
Memorial Student Center
Texas A&M University
College Station, Texas, USA
Table of Contents
p. 1 Howdy!
2 Conference Schedule
3-6 Keynote Speakers
7 Texas Research Panel
8-10 Paper and Poster Sessions
11 List of Committee Members
12 Sponsors and Supporters
Howdy!
Welcome to “Aggieland” and the 2017 IEEE Texas Power and
Energy Conference. The Texas A&M University IEEE PES/PELS/
IAS joint student chapter is pleased to present this year’s
program, the first ever of its kind. We trust you will find the
array of technical presentations, keynote speakers, and other
events valuable and interesting as we discuss together the future
of electric power technology for Texas and the beyond.
Please consult this booklet for information related to the
conference schedule, keynote speakers, panel discussion, and
paper and poster presentations. Also note the committee
members and sponsors who made this conference possible.
Please reach out to a TPEC 2017 committee member if you have
any questions. We hope you have a pleasant experience.
Wireless Internet Access
Campus guests should use the Texas A&M visitor Wifi network
and follow the instructions to have a passcode sent in a text
message. If you do not have a US phone, please see a TPEC
committee member for internet access.
Conference
Schedule
Thursday, February 9, 2017 7:30-8:45 Registration (continues all day) and Breakfast MSC 2400
8:45-9:15 Welcome from the TPEC 2017 Committee Chairs MSC 2400 Opening Remarks Prof. Glen A. Laine, Vice President for Research, Texas
A&M University 9:15-10:30 Keynote Speakers MSC 2400
Cheryl Mele, Sr. VP and Chief Operating Officer, Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT)
Dr. Robin Podmore, President, IncSys Corporation and Co-Founder of IEEE Smart Village
10:45-11:45 Texas Research Panel MSC 2400 Moderator: Prof. Le Xie, Texas A&M University
12:00-1:00 Lunch MSC 2400 Keynote Speaker Kenneth M. Mercado, Sr. VP, CenterPoint Energy
1:00-2:15 Keynote Speakers MSC 2400 Dr. Mark Laufenberg, CEO, PowerWorld Corporation Prof. Wei-Jen Lee, VP, IEEE Industry Applications Society
2:30-4:30 Paper Session 1 Protection Engineering MSC 2404
Paper Session 2 System Planning and Modeling MSC 2406-A
Paper Session 3 State Estimation MSC 2406-B
4:30-6:00 Poster Session, Job Fair, and Networking MSC 2400 6:00-8:00 Dinner, Entertainment, and Social Event MSC 2400
Friday, February 10, 2017 7:30-9:15 Registration and Breakfast MSC 2406 9:30-11:30 Paper Session 4
Machines, Drives, and Inverters MSC 2404
Paper Session 5 Data Analysis and System Stability MSC 2405
Paper Session 6 Economics and the Environment MSC 2500
12:00-1:00 Lunch MSC 2406 1:00-1:30 Best Paper and Poster Awards MSC 2406
Keynote
Speakers
Cheryl Mele
Cheryl Mele became ERCOT’s senior vice president and chief operating officer
(COO) in January 2016. She oversees Grid Operations and Planning,
Commercial Operations, and Governance, Risk and Compliance.
Prior to joining ERCOT, Ms. Mele served as deputy general manager and COO
for Austin Energy, where she led its power operations, compliance and
planning activities.
Ms. Mele brings 30 years of experience in the power industry to ERCOT. Her
management and executive roles included both power generation and energy
delivery before becoming COO at Austin Energy. Ms. Mele worked for General
Electric before joining Austin Energy in 1991.
A registered professional engineer in Texas, Ms. Mele has a bachelor’s degree
in mechanical engineering from Union College in Schenectady, New York, and
completed The Utility Executive Course at the University of Idaho.
While at Austin Energy, Ms. Mele served on the boards of the South Texas
Nuclear Operating Company, the Texas Public Power Association and the
RMEL, an electric industry education and networking trade group. She
continues to serve as a board member of the Austin Science Education
Foundation.
Dr. Robin Podmore
Dr. Podmore has been involved throughout his career in developing power
system applications and training power system operators with a focus on
large scale interconnected systems including the North American
interconnection which has around one Terawatt capacity.
Since 2010 he has been Co-Chair and Co-Founder of IEEE Smart Village. He
has been deeply involved in identifying, engaging and mentoring
entrepreneurs in Africa and India as they develop and apply technology that
enables electricity, education and employment for those in need.
Keynote
Speakers
The systems developed and installed by Smart Village Entrepreneurs vary in
size from several hundred watts to 25 kilowatts.
He has observed more and more, that the control, monitoring and
computational methods for solving large scale interconnected system problems
can be applied to village level micro-grids and vice versa. He has also observed
that IEEE Smart Village provides opportunities for leadership and
entrepreneurship which can help engineers advance their careers in both
developed and under-developed regions.
Kenneth M. Mercado
A more than 30-year veteran of CenterPoint Energy and predecessor
companies, Kenny Mercado has financial and operational responsibility of the
company’s electric utility, which consists of a 5,000 square-mile service
territory and power delivery to more than 2.3 million homes and businesses in
the Houston metropolitan area. Prior to his current position, he was division
senior vice president of Grid and Market Operations, responsible for
automating and integrating the company’s nearly 53,000 miles of electric
transmission and distribution grid to serve the Texas competitive market. He
led the deployment of the company’s smart grid system, which includes the
installation of smart meters and intelligent grid technology.
Mercado received a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering and a master’s
degree in industrial engineering from the University of Houston. He also
received an executive MBA degree from Mays Business School at Texas A&M
University.
A licensed professional engineer registered in the state of Texas, Mercado
serves on the boards of the March of Dimes in Houston, the American Red Cross
Greater Houston Area Chapter, the University of Houston Honors College and
Engineering Leadership Program, Southeastern Electric Exchange, Research
Advisory Council at Electric Power Research Institute, and Advisory Board at
Texas A&M Smart Grid Coalition.
Keynote
Speakers
Dr. Mark Laufenberg
Dr. Laufenberg has been the President of PowerWorld Corporation since co-
founding the company in 1996. PowerWorld, based in Champaign, Illinois,
develops and distributes software for the simulation, analysis, and visualization
of large scale electric power grids. Their customers include over 1,000 utilities,
regulatory agencies, consulting firms, trading firms, and universities in over 70
countries around the world.
Dr. Laufenberg received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical
Engineering in 1992, 1993, and 1997 from the University of Illinois at Urbana-
Champaign. He has been the Principal Investigator on several National Science
Foundation Small Business Innovation Research grants. He has previous
industry experience at Pacific Gas & Electric and the Jet Propulsion Lab, and has
taught a course on technical entrepreneurship at the University of Illinois as a
visiting professor.
Dr. Laufenberg has been a member of the Electrical and Computer Engineering
Alumni Board at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign since 2009, and
is currently serving as the chair of the Fundraising Committee. Since 2011 he
has been a board member of the State of Illinois’ Smart Grid Advisory Council
and Energy Foundry. From 2010-2016 he was a board member and Treasurer
of Countryside School.
Prof. Wei-Jen Lee
Wei-Jen Lee received the B.S. and M.S. degrees from National Taiwan
University, Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C., and the Ph.D. degree from the University of
Texas, Arlington, in 1978, 1980, and 1985, respectively, all in Electrical
Engineering.
In 1986, he joined the University of Texas at Arlington, where he is currently a
professor of the Electrical Engineering Department and the director of the
Energy Systems Research Center.
Keynote
Speakers
He has been involved in the revision of IEEE Std. 141, 339, 551, 739, 1584, and
dot 3000 series development. He is the Chair of the IEEE/IAS, Industrial &
Commercial Power Systems Department (ICPSD). He is an editor of IEEE
Transactions on Industry Applications and IAS Magazine, editorial board
member of Journal of Modern Power Systems and Clean Energy (MPCE) and
CSEE Journal of Power and Energy Systems, and guest editor of IEEE
Transactions on Smart Grid. He has been inducted as a member of Academy of
Distinguished Scholar at the University of Texas at Arlington since 2012. He is
the project manager of IEEE/NFPA Collaboration on Arc Flash Phenomena
Research Project.
Prof. Lee has been involved in research on utility deregulation, renewable
energy, smart grid, microgrid, energy internet and virtual power plants (VPP),
arc flash hazards and electrical safety, load and wind capacity forecasting,
power quality, distribution automation and demand side management, power
systems analysis, online real-time equipment diagnostic and prognostic system,
and microcomputer based instrument for power systems monitoring,
measurement, control, and protection. He has served as the primary
investigator (PI) or Co-PI of over one hundred funded research projects with
the total amount exceed US$12 million dollars. He has published more than one
hundred and thirty journal papers and two hundred and forty conference
proceedings. He has provided on-site training courses for power engineers in
Panama, China, Taiwan, Korea, Saudi Arabia, Thailand, and Singapore. He has
refereed numerous technical papers for IEEE, IET, and other professional
organizations.
Prof. Lee is a Fellow of IEEE and registered Professional Engineer in the State of
Texas.
Texas Research
Panel
TPEC 2017 is proud to introduce a panel of professors from across
the state of Texas to discuss new research initiatives in power and
energy and answer questions from students, industry members,
and other conference attendees.
Prof. Le Xie (moderator) is an associate professor of electrical
and computer engineering at Texas A&M University and faculty
advisor for TPEC .
Prof. Masoud Barati is an assistant professor of electrical and
computer engineering at the University of Houston.
Prof. Robert Hebner is the director of the Center for
Electromechanics and a research professor of mechanical
engineering at the University of Texas at Austin.
Prof. Mladen Kezunovic is the Eugene E. Webb professor of
electrical engineering and director of the Smart Grid Center at
Texas A&M University.
Prof. Wei-Jen Lee is a professor of electrical engineering at
the University of Texas at Arlington and the director of the Energy
Systems Research Center.
Prof. Annette Sobel is the director of the Global Laboratory
for Energy Asset Management and Manufacturing (GLEAMM) and
an adjunct professor of electrical and computer engineering at
Texas Tech University (TTU) in Lubbock.
Paper Sessions:
Thursday
Paper Session 1: Power System Protection Engineering Thursday, Feb. 9, 2:30-4:30, MSC 2404
Session Chair: Prof. Garng Huang “Fault Location Using a New Composite Control Technique, Multiple Classifier, and Artificial
Neural Network” A. Altaie, J. Asumadu “Busbar Protection Using a Wavelet Based ANN” A. Abdullah “Assesment of Fault Location Techniques in Voltage Source Converter based HVDC systems”
T. Peng, D. Tzelepis, A. Dysko, I. Glesk “Influences of temperature on the flashover performance of contaminated insulator” J. Chen,
L. Hu, Y. Zhang, Z. Xiao “High Impedance Fault Detection Utilizing Real-Time Complexity Measurement” F. Ferdowsi,
H. Vahedi, C. S. Edrington
Paper Session 2: Power System Planning and Modeling Thursday, Feb. 9, 2:30-4:30, MSC 2406-A
Session Chair: Dr. Maryam Kazerooni “Geomagnetically Induced Current Sensitivity to Substation Grounding Resistances” U. Bui, T.
J. Overbye, K. Shetye “Design and Visualization of the Central Eastern and Southern African Power Grid with Large
-Scale Generation in Tanzania” P. Panumpabi, I. Idehen, M. Backes “SVC-POD tuning methodology and application to a Colombian case” C. A. O. Medina, J. A. O.
Velez “Emerging Distribution Systems: Modeling Challenges in Faulted Conditions” L. Strezoski, M.
Prica, K. A. Loparo “Equivalent Line Limit Calculation Using Available Thermal Transfer Capability” W. Jang, T. J.
Overbye
Paper Session 3: State Estimation in Power Systems Thursday, Feb. 9, 2:30-4:30, MSC 2406-B
Session Chair: TBD “Power System State Estimation Accuracy and Observability Evaluation with Optimal PMU
Placement” A. A. Almehizia, F. S. Alismail “A Robust Techno-Economic Analysis of PMU-based Islanding Detection Schemes” R. S.
Biswas, A. Pal “Robust Phase Detection in Distribution Systems” M. S. Modarresi, T. Huang, H. Ming, L. Xie “A Recursive Bayesian Approach to Load Phase Detection in Unbalanced Distribution System”
H. Huang, Y. Hu, S. Liu, L. Xie “Identifying a Practical State Estimation Scheme Incorporating Substation Measurement
Dependencies” B. P. Wiseman, O. Bassey “Detection of Bad Data in Multi-area State Estimation” Y. Zhou and L. Xie
Paper Sessions:
Friday
Paper Session 4: Electric Machines, Drives, and Inverters Friday, Feb. 10, 9:30-11:30, MSC 2404
Session Chair: Dr. Mohammad Shadmand “Computational Fluid Dynamic Simulation and Modelling (CFX) of flow Plate in PEM Fuel
Cell Using Aluminum Open Cellular Foam Material” T. Wilberforce, A. A. Makky, A. Baroutaji, R. Sambi, A. G. Olabi
“Trajectory Training of Feedforward Neural Networks for DC Motor Speed Control” S. J. Plathotta, H. Salehfar
“Control Algorithm for port power imbalance in two-stage, N-port Modular Multilevel Cascaded Photovoltaic Inverters” S. Marti, H. Krishnaswami
“Novel Anti-Windup Scheme for Stator Flux Control in Surface Permanent Magnet Machines” S. A. Diaz, C. Silva, H. Miranda, J. Juliet, E. Gil
“Optimum Number of Cascaded Cells of Multilevel Inverters for High-Voltage Applications” A. Bashiareh
Paper Session 5: Data Analysis and System Stability Friday, Feb. 10, 9:30-11:30, MSC 2405
Session Chair: TBD “Convergence Characteristics of the Variable Projection Method for Mode Extraction” A. B.
Birchfield, T. J. Overbye “Phasor Estimation at off-nominal Frequencies using Frequency Domain Interpolation” V.
S. S. Kumar, G. M. Kumar, A. S. Kumar, D. Thukaram “Fuzzy Logic Controlled Power Balancing for Low Voltage Ride-Through Capability
Enhancement of Large-Scale Grid-Connected PV Plants” M. K. Hossain, M. H. Ali “An Interactive, Extensible Environment for Power System Simulation on the PMU Time
Frame with a Cyber Security Application” T. J. Overbye, Z. Mao, K. S. Shetye, J. D. Weber “Online and Offline Load Frequency Controller Design” A. Zaidi, Q. Cheng
Paper Session 6: Engineering Economics and the Environment Friday, Feb. 10, 9:30-11:30, MSC 2500
Session Chair: TBD “Analysis of ERCOT Regulation-Up and Regulation-Down Operational Reserves” J. Andrade,
R. Baldick, and Y. Dong “Microgrid Cost Optimization for a Mixed-Use Building” I. Aldaouab, M. Daniels, K. Hallinan “Non-Convex Optimization of Combined Enviromental Economic Dispatch through the
Third Version of the Cultural Algorithm (CA3)” A. Goudarzi, A. G. Swanson, F. Tooryan, A. Ahmadi
“The Prediction of Electrical Cars' Growth Rate and Management of Electrical Energy Demand in Turkey” M. Yılmaz
“Environmentally-Friendly Demand Response for Residential Plug-in Electric Vehicles” F. Rassaei, W. Soh and K. Chua
Posters and
Presenters
Poster Presentations Thursday, February 9, 4:30-6:00, MSC 2400-2401
“Optimization of Pre-treatment process to generation biofuel from microalgae
biomass using High pressure homogenizer” C. Onumaegbu, A.G. Olabi, A. Alaswad
“Computational Fluid Dynamic Simulation and Modelling (CFX) of flow Plate in PEM
Fuel Cell Using Aluminum Open Cellular Foam Material” T. Wilberforce, A. A.
Makky, A. Baroutaji, R. Sambi, A. G. Olabi
“Green Power Production from Pinnata” R. Venkatesan, A. Shankar, K. Dampuri, R.
Challoo
“Robust Phase Detection in Distribution Systems” M. S. Modarresi, T. Huang, H. Ming,
L. Xie
“Improving Tracking Efficiency of Two-axis Sun Tracking Systems” M. Yilmaz
“Detection of Bad Data in Multi-area State Estimation” Y. Zhou and L. Xie
“Optimal wind turbine sizing to mitigate power fluctuation at Al-Zawea refinery
power system in Libya” A. Gawedar
“Chaotically Electricity Demand Analysis and Prediction” H. Kılıç, B. Gu mu ş, M. Yılmaz
“Assesment of Fault Location Techniques in Voltage Source Converter based HVDC
systems” T. Peng, D. Tzelepis, A. Dysko, I. Glesk
“Microgrid Cost Optimization for a Mixed-Use Building” I. Aldaouab
“Modeling Monthly Insolation in Libya” Abdulmunim
“Application of Big Data to Power System Fault Detection and Protection” X. Dong, T.
Feng, H. Wang, L. Tang
“Analysis of ERCOT Regulation-Up and Regulation-Down Operational Reserves” J.
Andrade, R. Baldick, Y. Dong
“Lessons from U.S Frequency Regulation Policies in order to enhance the Chilean
Ancillary Services Market “ S. A. Dı az, D. Kirschen, E. Gil
“Novel Anti-Windup Scheme for Stator Flux Control in Surface Permanent Magnet
Machines “ S. A. Dı az, D. Kirschen, E. Gil
“Selection of wind turbine based on wind speed” S. Hasan
Industry Table Presentations Thursday, February 9, 2:30-6:00, MSC 2401
OSISoft, LLC and National Instruments
Texas A&M University—Texarkana school of business
2018 Future Integrated Network Systems (FINS) Conference
Committee
Members
Conference Student Chairs Payman Dehghanian
Adam B. Birchfield
Technical
Program Chairs Treasurer
Shijia Zhao
Hung-Ming Chou
Tamara Becejac
Webmaster Tatjana Dokic
Registration Chairs Swetha Sridharan
Jose Juan Sandoval
Event Coordinator Po-Chen Chen
Publicity Chairs Cheng Qian
Qin Yan
Other Committee Members
Mu Li
Benjamin Wiseman
Zhangxin Zhou
Xiao Li
Shunlong Xiao
Faculty Advisers Prof. Le Xie
Prof. Robert Balog
Prof. Thomas J. Overbye
Thank You to
our Supporters!
Primary Sponsor Texas A&M IEEE PES/PELS/IAS joint student chapter
Technical Co-Sponsors IEEE Power and Energy Society (PES) IEEE Power Electronics Society (PELS) IEEE Industry Applications Society (IAS)
Gold Supporters Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Texas A&M
University CenterPoint Energy IEEE PES Young Professionals Program Texas A&M University Relay Conference Student Activities, Texas A&M University Electric Power and Power Electronics Institute (EPPEI) at Texas
A&M University Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (TEES) Smart Grid Center at Texas A&M University Texas A&M Division of Research
Silver Supporters PowerWorld Corporation Bryan Texas Utilities Global Laboratory for Energy Asset Management and
Manufacturing (GLEAMM) Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Texas Tech
University
Electrical Power & Power Electronics Institute (EPPEI)
at Texas A&M University
IEEE Power &
Energy Society
Young Professionals
Program