Thursday 30 January 2025 at 4:30 PM IST, 12:00 PM CET, 6:00 AM EST

By Chandan Kumar, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, India.

 

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Abstract:

Significant installation of renewable energy sources, storage, and electric vehicles can induce problems such as voltage and current limit violations, reverse power flow, absence of inertia and consequent stability problems, poor power quality, etc. Smart transformer (ST) is a promising solution for avoiding such a changing grid scenario leading to strong grid reinforcements. The ST is a power electronics-based transformer with effective control and communication functionalities with the capability to control the voltage and power flow in electric grid. The ST provides features of conventional power transformer in a distribution grid, and also other benefits such as voltage control, frequency control, load compensation, and interfacing link for various ac and dc infrastructures, thus improving the flexibility of the system. In this talk, different possibilities and capabilities of ST in distribution grid to develop and realize meshed and hybrid distribution grids will be highlighted.

Presenter’s bio:

Chandan Kumar received the B.Sc. (Engineering) degree from the Muzaffarpur Institute of Technology, Muzaffarpur, India, in 2009, the M. Tech. degree from the National Institute of Technology, Trichy, India, in 2011, and the Ph.D. degree from the IIT Madras, India, in 2014, all in electrical engineering. He is currently an Associate Professor with the Electronics and Electrical Engineering Department, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, Guwahati, India.
From Dec. 2016 to Nov. 2017, he was an Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow with the Chair of Power Electronics, University of Kiel, Germany. His research interests include power electronics application in power system, power quality, and renewable energy. He is an Associate Editor for IEEE Systems Journal, IEEE Open Journal of Power Electronics, IEEE Open Journal of the Industrial Electronics Society, and IEEE Access Journal. He is chair of Technical Committee on Renewable Energy Systems of IEEE Industrial Electronics Society since 2023.