US-Egypt Planning Visit: Collaboration on Integration of Renewable Energy

0630145 ElSharkawi该奖项支持华盛顿大学电气工程系Mohamed El-Sharkawi博士计划访问埃及，与埃及科学家开展合作研究项目。 他的合作者是开罗电子研究所的Amal Zaki Mohamed博士和埃及Helwan大学的Radwan Abdel-Hamid博士。 该研究将解决可再生能源的网络整合问题。智力优点：随着世界范围内的能源短缺和持续的停电，新的电力来源，特别是使用可再生能源，如风能和太阳能，正在引入电网。 这就引入了与这些源的循环性质相关的特定类型的问题;这些问题需要研究人员确定电力系统规划、运行和控制的创新方法。这一领域对美国和埃及的研究人员非常感兴趣。这两个国家的可再生能源系统都在迅速发展，它们很快就会达到这样的水平，即必须仔细分析它们对现有网络的影响，以最大限度地发挥其效益，并确保它们与网络的其他部分协调一致。到目前为止，关于如何将这些可再生能源系统有效地整合到现有电网中的知识非常有限。这是市场和网络层面的优化问题。分析这个问题的一种方法是将可再生能源的经济和运营方面建模为多目标优化问题。更广泛的影响：可再生能源及其在现有化石燃料发电系统中的整合是处理化石燃料短缺及其环境影响的双重问题的一个非常重要的课题。美国研究人员和埃及研究人员在这一领域的研究将是互利的。PI希望埃及和美国研究人员在将风能和太阳能整合到现有电力网络领域开展联合项目。解决一些系统级问题有望将风能和太阳能提高到可接受的经济和网络性能水平，从而鼓励这些重要能源的进一步扩张。 该项目由国际科学和工程办公室以及电气和通信系统司资助。

0630145 ElSharkawiThis award supports a planning visit by Dr. Mohamed El-Sharkawi, Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Washington, to develop a cooperative research project with Egyptian scientists. His collaborators are Dr. Amal Zaki Mohamed, Electronic Research Institute, Cairo and Dr. Radwan Abdel-Hamid, Helwan University, Helwan, Egypt. The research will address network integration of renewable energy. Intellectual merit: With the shortage of energy worldwide and the lingering blackouts, new sources of power, especially using renewable power sources such as wind and solar, are being introduced in the electrical power grids. This introduces specific types of problems related to the cycling nature of these sources; such problems require researchers to identify innovative approaches for power system planning, operation and control. This field is of great interest to researchers in the USA and Egypt. The renewable energy systems in both countries are growing rapidly, they soon will reach the level when their impact on existing networks must be carefully analyzed to maximize their benefits and ensure their harmony with the rest of the network. So far, the knowledge is very limited on how to effectively integrate these renewable systems into existing power networks. This is an optimization problem at the market and network levels. One way to analyze this problem is by modeling the economic and operational aspects of the renewable energy as a multi-objective optimization problem. Broader impacts: Renewable energy and its integration in existing fossil fuel power systems is a very important topic in dealing with the dual problems of fossil fuel shortages and their environmental impacts. Research in this area by US researchers and their Egyptians counterpart would be mutually beneficial. The PIs expect to develop joint projects between the Egyptian and the US researchers in the area of integrating wind energy and solar energy into existing power networks. Solving some of the system-level problems is expected to raise wind and solar energy to acceptable levels of economic and network performance, thus encouraging further expansion in these vital sources of energy. This project is being funded by the Office of International Science and Engineering and the Division of Electrical and Communications Systems.