Mladen Kezunovic

Professor

Key words:

Artificial Intelligence, Control systems, Power quality, Protection, EMTP applications and modeling,

Other key words: Power Engineering Education, Synchronized sampling,Wide area disturbance monitoring and control

Research description:

The following reasearch areas are of interest: Automated analysis of faults using recorded and simulated data;Advanced tools for Power Quality assessment;Application of synchronized sampling to fault location and system monitoring;New protective relaying algorithms;Real-time and open-loop digital power system simulators;Use of modeling and simulation in enhancing power engineering education;New monitoring, control and protection methods for wide area disturbances. As a result of the research, several commercial products were implemented in the past:Expert system software for automated analysis of Digital Fault Recorder (DFR)data, Real-time and open loop digital simulators for relay testing,fault locator based on synchronized sampling. The research covers both fundamental and application issues.

Laboratory facilities:

The Laboratory for Control and Protection of Power Systems is equiped with digital simulators for relay testing and evaluation, a number of protective relays and relaying systems, and advanced modeling and simulation tools for relay testing and evaluation. Details of the lab are given at http://ee.tamu.edu/~eppe/. Besides the control and protection lab, there is a Power Quality Lab equiped with a variety of recording and analysis instruments and software tools. In addition, a Voltage sag generator of high output power is available. Finally, a Power Engineering lab is also available for general power engineering education uses. The lab is equiped with 16 PCs, all connected via LAN to a server. The PCs and server are populated with a number of commercial and custom software packages for power system analysis and protective relaying studies.

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