Dr. Mariesa Crow from Missouri University of Science and Technology will be on the UTK campus to give a presentation as part of the COE Distinguished Lecture Series on Monday, February 29, 2016 at 1:45 pm in the Science and Engineering Research Facility (SERF) Room 307. Her seminar is titled "VRB Energy Storage Performance Characterization for Microgrid Applications."
Abstract -Energy storage technology is a critical aspect of future development of portable, scalable microgrid technology. One of the most important parameters in microgrid operation is the ability to predict the power and energy characteristics of any energy storage system. To achieve optimal use of renewable energy resources and energy storage, the energy storage system must be modeled accurately and must include all parasitic and operational losses from environmental controls. Furthermore, the energy storage operation must be modeled in conjunction with the particular renewable resource with which it will be used.
This seminar will discuss recent efforts to characterize the Vanadium Redox Battery (VRB) for microgrid applications. An electrical model of the VRB will be developed including charge and discharge efficiencies, balance of plant parasitics, and integration with photovoltaic systems. The model will be validated via a field demonstration at Fort Leonard Wood Army Base in Missouri. This model will be used as a basis for the development of a microgrid control strategy for heterogeneous energy storage systems, on and off-grid operation, and renewable energy.
Biography - Mariesa L. Crow is the Fred Finley Distinguished Professor of Electrical Engineering at Missouri S&T. She received her BSE in Electrical Engineering from the University of Michigan and her PhD in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois - Urbana/Champaign. Her area of professional interest is computational methods and power electronics applications to renewable energy systems and energy storage. She has been PI or Co-PI on $21 million in externally funded research sponsored by the National Science Foundation, Department of Energy, Department of Defense, Department of Transportation, Department of Education, the State of Missouri, and several utilities. She has authored over 200 technical articles and several textbooks and book chapters. She is the IEEE Power & Energy Society VP of Publications. She is a Registered Professional Engineer in the State of Missouri and a Fellow of the IEEE.
If you cannot attend in person, here is a link to watch the live webcast at:
http://www.engr.utk.edu/distinguished_lecture/
Please join Dr. Crow for this informative talk.
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Thank you for your time.
