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Control and Optimization of Distributed Generation Systems

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  • © 2015

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  • Illustrated throughout with technical examples and simulation studies
  • Extensive use of problems and exercises help the reader to assimilate content
  • Necessary mathematical background and fundamental analytical tools supplied in appendix for easy accessibility without cluttering the main text
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Power Systems (POWSYS)

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Modeling and Analysis

  2. Architectures and Integration

  3. Communication and Control

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About this book

This text is an introduction to the use of control in distributed power generation. It shows the reader how reliable control can be achieved so as to realize the potential of small networks of diverse energy sources, either singly or in coordination, for meeting concerns of energy cost, energy security and environmental protection.
The book demonstrates how such microgrids, interconnecting groups of generating units and loads within a local area, can be an effective means of balancing electrical supply and demand. It takes advantage of the ability to connect and disconnect microgrids from the main body of the power grid to give flexibility in response to special events, planned or unplanned.
In order to capture the main opportunities for expanding the power grid and to present the plethora of associated open problems in control theory Control and Optimization of Distributed Generation Systems is organized to treat three key themes, namely:
  • system architecture and integration;
  • modelling and analysis; and
  • communications and control.
Each chapter makes use of examples and simulations and appropriate problems to help the reader study. Tools helpful to the reader in accessing the mathematical analysis presented within the main body of the book are given in an appendix.
Control and Optimization of Distributed Generation Systems will enable readers new to the field of distributed power generation and networked control, whether experienced academic migrating from another field or graduate student beginning a research career, to familiarize themselves with the important points of the control and regulation of microgrids. It will also be useful for practising power engineers wishing to keep abreast of changes in power grids necessitated by the diversification of generating methods.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Department of Systems Engineering, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia

    Magdi S. Mahmoud

  • Systems Engineering Department, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia

    Fouad M. AL-Sunni

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Control and Optimization of Distributed Generation Systems

  • Authors: Magdi S. Mahmoud, Fouad M. AL-Sunni

  • Series Title: Power Systems

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-16910-1

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Energy, Energy (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-16909-5Published: 28 May 2015

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-36679-1Published: 13 October 2016

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-16910-1Published: 14 May 2015

  • Series ISSN: 1612-1287

  • Series E-ISSN: 1860-4676

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXVIII, 578

  • Number of Illustrations: 179 b/w illustrations, 184 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Energy Systems, Control and Systems Theory, Power Electronics, Electrical Machines and Networks

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