UK-China Joint Research Consortium on Sustainable Electric Power Supply

提交该提案的财团来自于英中清洁能源研究网络，该网络由王海峰教授于2007年1月建立，由EPSRC根据其INTERACT 4计划提供202k的财政支持。该网络的目标是在中国传播和推广EPSRC SUPERGEN联盟在英国开展的研究。因此，拟议的联盟将网络的范围扩展到英国SUPERGEN研究人员与国家资助研究项目的中国领先科学家之间的联合研究组织。因此，它是建立在网络成员、中国大学和中国科学院之间现有联系的基础上的。该项目还将这种合作扩展到中国两个最大的电力工程研究所：中国电力科学研究院（EPRI）和南京自动化研究所（NARI）。所有9名英国研究人员都在EPSRC赞助的六个SUPERGEN联盟中的一个或多个中发挥主导作用，以开展可持续能源系统各个方面的重点合作研究计划。尽管英国和中国的电力系统处于不同的发展阶段，如何在满足日益增长的可再生能源发电能力的同时保持安全性，是两国的一个重要关切。为了实现可持续的经济增长，这些电力系统需要变得更加灵活和强大。英国和中国的工程师和科学家在这一领域具有互补的专业知识。近年来，英国的研究人员在可再生能源及其与电网的整合方面做了大量工作。另一方面，安全分析和安全增强技术一直是中国研发的中心问题。因此，将这些专门知识结合起来，促进双向知识转让，显然会加快对共同关心的问题的研究步伐。因此，我们建议将来自英国SUPERGEN财团和中国国家资助项目的领先电力系统科学家聚集在一起，组成一个合作研究团队，研究电力系统的可持续安全性。能够评估和提高电力系统的安全性是可持续电力系统发展的关键问题。它也是一个长期存在且复杂的科学和工程问题，具有相当的广度和深度。该提案整合了8个联合研究项目，从四个最重要的角度解决问题，即，安全分析（联合方案1和2）、可再生能源发电（联合方案7和8）、保护（联合方案3和4）和控制（联合方案4、5和6）。两个核心项目JP 1和JP 2将开发新的模型和分析方法，以更好地了解电力系统的可持续安全性。它们需要JP7和JP8在可再生能源发电方面的投入和支持，并为JP3、JP4、JP5和JP6提供指导方针和工具，以通过电力系统保护和控制提高可持续安全性。中国合作者的贡献将非常重要，因为他们在工程实践方面拥有丰富的经验，并且可以使用英国没有的先进实验设施。他们已承诺4名博士后研究人员和13名博士生从事联合项目。这些研究人员的资金全部来自中国。中国合作者还承诺，如果申请成功，将在中国寻求进一步的财政支持，为该联盟做出贡献。拟议中的联合体设计了3个方案，以确保通过这种合作实现英中双向知识转移。它们是主要的传播活动、中英培训交流和项目会议。该项目将于2008年10月1日开始，为期4年。

The consortium submitting this proposal stems from the UK-China Network on Clean Energy Research that was setup by Prof. Haifeng Wang in January 2007 with 202k of financial support from EPSRC under its INTERACT 4 scheme. The goal of the Network is to disseminate and promote in China the research that the EPSRC SUPERGEN consortia have carried out in the UK. The proposed consortium thus extends the scope of the Network to the organisation of joint research between the UK SUPERGEN researchers and leading Chinese scientists of nationally funded research programmes. It is thus built on the basis of an existing link between members of the Network, Chinese universities and the Chinese Academy of Sciences. It also expands this collaboration to the two largest research institutes in power engineering in China: the China Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) and the Nanjing Automatic Research Institute (NARI). All of the 9 UK investigators play a leading role in one or more of six SUPERGEN consortia that are sponsored by EPSRC to carry out focused collaborative programmes of research on various aspects of sustainable energy systems.Even though the power systems of the UK and China are at different stages of development, the issue of how to maintain security while accommodating an increasing amount of renewable generation capacity is an important concern in both countries. To achieve sustainable economic growth, these power systems will need to become more flexible and more robust. Engineers and scientists in the UK and China have complementary expertises in this area. Researchers in the UK have done a significant amount of work in recent years on renewable energy sources and their integration with the grid. On the other hand, security analysis and security enhancements techniques have been central R&D issues in China. Combining these expertises and facilitating a two-way transfer of knowledge would therefore clearly accelerate the pace of research on problems of common interest. We therefore propose to bring together the leading power system scientists from the UK SUPERGEN consortia and from the Chinese nationally funded projects to form a collaborative research team to study the sustainable security of power systems. Being able to assess and enhance the security of power systems is a key issue in the development of sustainable power systems. It is also a long-standing and complicated scientific and engineering problem with considerable breadth and depth. This proposal integrates 8 joint research projects that tackle the problem from the four most important perspectives, i.e., security analysis (JP1 and 2), renewable generation (JP7 and 8), protection (JP3 and 4) and control (JP4, 5 and 6). Two core projects, JP1 and 2, will develop new models and analytical methods for gaining a better understanding of power system sustainable security. They require input and support from JP7 and 8 on renewable generation and provide guidelines and tools to JP3, 4, 5 and 6 to enhance the sustainable security through power system protection and control. The contribution of the Chinese collaborators will be very significant as they have a strong experience with engineering practice and they have access to advanced experimental facilities that are not available in the UK. They have committed 4 post-doctoral researchers and 13 PhD students to work on the joint projects . These researchers are fully funded from sources in China. The Chinese collaborators have also pledged to seek further financial support in China to contribute to the Consortium if this application is successful. The proposed consortium has designed 3 schemes to ensure a two-way UK-China knowledge transfer through this collaboration. They are major dissemination events, UK-China training exchange and project meetings. The project will start on the 1st Oct. 2008 and run for 4 years.