RIMI: Enhancing Minority Power Research in the Development of Advanced Tools for the Emerging Needs of Power Systems

霍华德大学从事电力系统研究已有十多年，目前是美国电力研究排名前五的学校之一，吸引了来自全国各地和国外的少数民族学生（本科生和研究生）、教师和博士后研究助理。最近涉及高中和大学预科少数民族学生的外展计划已经建立了对电气工程概念的强烈认识和兴趣。加强少数民族电力研究开发先进的工具，以满足电力系统的新兴需求，旨在满足当今电力行业的挑战，提供经济可靠的电力供应，并加强少数民族学生和教师的研究教育。本提案中概述的以下任务建立在我们目前的优势之上：(a)制定一个计划，建立对美国经济当前感兴趣的研究。(b)制订一项方案，吸引、留住和接触少数民族学生（高中、大学、研究生和博士后研究员以及教员和客座教授）。(c)发展和维持一个拥有现代最先进设备的一流研究中心。(d)通过研讨会和其他活动为高中和大学预科学生开展外联方案。该提案的研究部分侧重于调查电力研究所（EPRI）、能源部（DOE）和国家科学基金会（NSF）确定的电力系统的两个最高国家需求。这两个主题是在发电和输电规划和配电自动化领域。在发电和输电规划领域，确定了两个主要的优先事项——在中期运营规划模型或生产成本模型中纳入机组承诺和输电约束，并在集成环境中结合机组承诺、最优潮流和电力经纪功能，以分析电力调度和交易。提出了一种基于多目标优化的动态安全约束重调度模型，以防止动态突发事件的潜在不稳定性。在配电自动化领域有两个关键问题：故障自动定位和电网重构。已被选中。研究的核心是采用混合专家系统/模糊逻辑方法设计和实现故障定位算法。网络重构建模包括使用基于内点的混合整数规划优化算法，结合人工神经网络和基于规则的系统来执行切换操作、VAR控制和减载。电气工程系的教育课程确保通过研讨会、访问科学家计划和短期课程适当地传播我们的发现。该提案将通过增加少数族裔学生进入研究生和本科课程的数量，帮助增加少数族裔工程师在电力工程领域的代表性。它将有助于发展基础设施，从而为研究生和本科生提供最先进的研究设备。它将协助少数民族研究教职员工开展和协助少数民族学生进行高水平的研究。最后，针对电力行业的重点研究需求提供解决方案。

Momoh Howard University HRD 9628655 Howard University has been involved in power systems research for over a decade and is now among the top five schools in the United States for power research, attracting minority students (both undergraduate and graduate), faculty and postdoctoral research associates from across the country as well as from abroad. Recent outreach programs involving high school and pre-college minority students have created a strong awareness and interest in electrical engineering concepts. The Enhancement of Minority Power Research in the Development of Advanced Tools for Emerging needs of Power Systems is designed to meet the challenges of today's power industry with the objective of delivering an economic reliable power supply and enhancing research education for minority students an faculty. The following tasks outlined in this proposal build upon our current strengths: (a) Develop a program to build research of current interest to the US economy. (b) Develop a program to attract, retain and expose minority students (high school, college, graduate and postdoctoral fellows and faculty and visiting professors. (c) Develop and maintain a first-class research center with modem state-of-the-art equipment. (d) Conduct an outreach program via seminars and other activities for high school and pre-college students. The research component of the proposal focuses on investigating two of the top national needs in power systems as identified by the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI), Department of Energy (DOE) and the National Science Foundation (NSF). The two topics are in the area of generation and transmission planning and distribution automation. In the generation and transmission planning area, two major priorities are identified- incorporating unit commitment and transmission constraints in the medium term operations planning models or the production costing mod els, and combining unit commitment, optimal power flow and power brokerage functions in an integrated environment for analysis of power scheduling and trading. A multi-objective optimization-based dynamic security-constrained rescheduling model is proposed as a means to guard against potential instability against dynamic contingencies. In the area of distribution automation two key problems, automatic fault location and network reconfiguration. have been selected. The core research involves designing and implementing fault location algorithms using a hybrid expert system/fuzzy logic approach. The network reconfiguration modeling involves use of the interior- point-based mixed-integer-programming optimization algorithms coupled with artificial neural network and a rule-based system for performing switching operations, VAR control and load curtailment. The Electrifcal Engineering department s educational curriculum ensures proper dissemination of our finds through seminars, visiting scientists program and short courses. This proposal will help increase the representation of minority engineers in the field of power engineering by increasing the number of minority students entering graduate and undergraduate programs. It will help develop the infrastructure, thereby providing graduate and undergraduate students state-of-the-art equipment for conducting research. It will assist minority research faculty and staff in conducting and assisting minority students in high level research. Finally, it will provide solutions to top priority research needs of the power industry.