Microgrid: Operation, Control, Monitoring and Protection

This book discusses various challenges and solutions in the fields of operation, control, design, monitoring and protection of microgrids, and facilitates the integration of renewable energy and distribution systems through localization of generation, storage and consumption.

It covers five major topics relating to microgrid i.e., operation, control, design, monitoring and protection. The book is primarily intended for electric power and control engineering researchers who are seeking factual information, but also appeals to professionals from other engineering disciplines wanting an overview of the entire field or specific information on one aspect of it. Featuring practical case studies and demonstrating different root causes of large power failures, it helps readers develop new concepts for mitigating blackout issues.

This book is a comprehensive reference resource for graduate and postgraduate students, academic researchers, and practicing engineers working in the fields of power system and microgrid.

Dr. Papia Ray is an Associate Professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering, Veer Surendra Sai University of Technology, Odisha, India. She completed her Ph.D. in the area of power system engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. Her current research area includes Power system protection, Power quality, Wide area measurement systems and application of soft computing techniques in power system protection. She is a senior member of IEEE, Life Member of Indian Society for Technical Education and Member of Institution of Engineer's India.She has published numerous papers in various international journals and conferences. She is the recipient of Young Scientist Award from DST-2015.

Dr. Monalisa Biswal an Assistant Professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering, National Institute of Technology, Raipur, India. She completed her Ph.D. at Sambalpur University. Her research interests include power system protection, smart grid protection, wide area protection, FACTS devices, adaptive relaying, and signal processing application to power system relaying. She is a member of IEEE and the Institution of Engineers, and a life member of the Odisha Bigyan Academy and ISTE. She has published numerous papers in various journals and conferences. She is also an active reviewer for several reputed journals and conferences. She is the recipient of Young Scientist Award from DST-2015, and Chhattisgarh Council of Science and Technoloy-2017. She won the POSOCO Power System Award in 2013 for her Ph.D. work.