Control Applications in Modern Power Systems (Paperback)

This book entitled "Control Applications in Modern Power System - Select Proceedings of EPREC-2023 provides rigorous discussions, case studies, and recent developments in the emerging areas of control systems, especially, load frequency control, wide-area monitoring, control & instrumentation, optimization, intelligent control, energy management system, SCADA systems, design of control strategies is essential for controlling the reactive power and maintains the voltage profiles, etc. The readers would benefit from enhancing their knowledge and skills in the domain areas. Also, this book may help the readers in developing new and innovative ideas. The book can be a valuable reference for beginners, researchers, and professionals interested in developments in control systems.

Shailendra Kumar is currently working as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bhilai. He received his B.Tech. degree in electrical and electronics engineering from Uttar Pradesh Technical University, Lucknow, India, in 2010, and the M.Tech. Degree in power electronics, electrical machine, and drives (PEEMD) from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India, in 2015. He completed his Ph.D. degree in the Department of Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, New Delhi, India in May 2019. He has worked as a postdoctoral research fellow at Petroleum Institute of Research Centre Khalifa University from May 2019 to November 2019. He has also worked as an Assistant Professor at Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology, Bhopal from June 2020 to May 2023. His research interests include charging stations for EVs, power quality, grid integration of renewable energy resources, custom power devices, and microgrids. Dr. Kumar was the recipient of the prestigious POSOCO power system award (in Master as well as Doctoral categories) in 2016 and 2019. He is also a recipient of Prof. Som Nath Mahendra's Student Travel Awards for the IEEE PEDES 2018 conference and the IEEE UPCON Best Paper Award in 2016 and 2018. Dr. Kumar is a senior member of the IEEE and a member of INAE Societies.

Dr. Manoj Tripathy received his B.E. degree in electrical engineering from Nagpur University, Nagpur, India, in 1999, the M.Tech. degree in instrumentation and control from Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India, in 2002, and the Ph.D. degree from the Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, Roorkee, India, in 2008. He is currently working as a Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, Uttarakhand, India. He is an IEEE senior member, a Member of the Institution of &Technology (IET), and a Life member of the Institution of Engineers (India). His fields of interest are Power System Protection, Automation, Cybersecurity, Smart Grid Protection, Microgrid Protection, Digital/Numerical Relays, Artificial Intelligence Relays, Relay Testing, Protection Scheme for a Line with FACTS devices, Testing of Electrical Equipment, Calibration of Meters, Signal and Image Processing problems, Speech Signal Enhancement Techniques. Dr. Tripathy is a reviewer for various international journals in the area of power systems and speech.

Dr. Premalata Jena is currently an Associate Professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, Uttarakhand, India. She received her B.Tech degree in electrical engineering from the Utkal University, Bhubaneswar, India, in 2001, her M.Tech degree in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, Kharagpur, India, in 2006, and her Ph.D. degree from the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, Kharagpur, India, in 2011.She has seven years of teaching experience. She is an IEEE member and INAE, Young Associate. She received many awards such as the the Women Excellence Award and Early Carrier Research Award, SERB, DST, Gov. of India, New Delhi, INAE Young Engineer Award, and POSOCO Power System Award, in 2013. She has published many papers in different reputed journals and conferences. Her fields of interest are Smart Grid, Smart grid technology, and protection, Microgrid, Microgrid Protection, Signal processing application to power system relaying, Power system Protection, Protection Issues with FACTS Devices, Protection Scheme Development for a line with FACTS devices, Disturbance localization, Signal processing application for disturbance localization.