Dr. Kai Sun to Give Power and Energy Seminar on Jan. 18th
Dr. Kai Sun will give the first CURENT Power & Energy Seminar (ECE 496 and 691) of this semester on Jan.18 from 12:20 pm to 1:10.
What: CURENT Power and Energy Seminar
Where: MHK 622
When: Jan. 18, 12:20 pm to 1:10 pm
Who: Dr. Kai Sun, EECS Associate Professor
Title: Nonlinear Modal Decoupling for Stability Analysis of Multi-Machine Power Systems
Abstract: Nonlinear oscillations or vibrations are general phenomena of real-life dynamical systems such as power grids, mechanical systems and biological systems. Such systems can be modeled as large multi-oscillator systems and their global stabilities and behaviors away from equilibria are fundamentally difficult to analyze. For nonlinear multi-oscillator systems, we propose a new methodology named Nonlinear Modal Decoupling (NMD) that inversely constructs as many decoupled nonlinear oscillators as the system’s oscillation modes of interests. These decoupled oscillators together provide a fairly accurate representation of the original system’s behaviors within an extended region about the equilibrium under small and large disturbances. Every individual decoupled oscillator has only one degree of freedom and hence can easily be analyzed as a two-body problem, yet inferring dynamics and stability of the original system associate with the corresponding mode. This talk will present the NMD methodology in detail and use multi-generator power systems as examples to demonstrate NMD-based stability analysis and control. This new methodology can also be applied to nonlinear, multi-oscillator systems from other fields.
Bio: Kai Sun is an Associate Professor with the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science in the University of Tennessee, Knoxville (UTK). He is also a member with the NSF/DOE Engineering Research Center for Ultra-Wide-Area-Resilient Electric Energy Transmission Networks (CURENT). He received his Bachelor’s Degree in automation in 1999 and his Ph.D. degree in control science and engineering in 2004 both from Tsinghua University in Beijing. Before joining UTK, Dr. Sun was a project manager with the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) in Palo Alto, California from 2007 to 2012 for R&D programs in the area of grid operations, planning and renewable integration. Earlier, he worked as a research associate at Arizona State University in Tempe and a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Western Ontario in Canada. Dr. Sun currently serves in the editorial boards of IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, IEEE Access and IET Generation, Transmission and Distribution. He received the EPRI Technology Innovation Excellence Award in 2008, EPRI Chauncey Award (the highest honor) in 2009, NSF CAREER Award in 2016 and CRSTT Most Valuable Players Award by DOE/NASPI in 2016. His research areas include power system dynamics, stability and control.
