The 2017 IEEE Texas Power and Energy Conference

February 9-10, 2017

Memorial Student Center

Texas A&M University

College Station, Texas, USA

Table of Contents

p. 1 Howdy!

2 Conference Schedule

3-6 Keynote Speakers

7 Texas Research Panel

8-10 Paper and Poster Sessions

11 List of Committee Members

12 Sponsors and Supporters

Howdy!

Welcome to “Aggieland” and the 2017 IEEE Texas Power and

Energy Conference. The Texas A&M University IEEE PES/PELS/

IAS joint student chapter is pleased to present this year’s

program, the first ever of its kind. We trust you will find the

array of technical presentations, keynote speakers, and other

events valuable and interesting as we discuss together the future

of electric power technology for Texas and the beyond.

Please consult this booklet for information related to the

conference schedule, keynote speakers, panel discussion, and

paper and poster presentations. Also note the committee

members and sponsors who made this conference possible.

Please reach out to a TPEC 2017 committee member if you have

any questions. We hope you have a pleasant experience.

Wireless Internet Access

Campus guests should use the Texas A&M visitor Wifi network

and follow the instructions to have a passcode sent in a text

message. If you do not have a US phone, please see a TPEC

committee member for internet access.

Conference

Schedule

Thursday, February 9, 2017 7:30-8:45 Registration (continues all day) and Breakfast MSC 2400

8:45-9:15 Welcome from the TPEC 2017 Committee Chairs MSC 2400 Opening Remarks Prof. Glen A. Laine, Vice President for Research, Texas

A&M University 9:15-10:30 Keynote Speakers MSC 2400

Cheryl Mele, Sr. VP and Chief Operating Officer, Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT)

Dr. Robin Podmore, President, IncSys Corporation and Co-Founder of IEEE Smart Village

10:45-11:45 Texas Research Panel MSC 2400 Moderator: Prof. Le Xie, Texas A&M University

12:00-1:00 Lunch MSC 2400 Keynote Speaker Kenneth M. Mercado, Sr. VP, CenterPoint Energy

1:00-2:15 Keynote Speakers MSC 2400 Dr. Mark Laufenberg, CEO, PowerWorld Corporation Prof. Wei-Jen Lee, VP, IEEE Industry Applications Society

2:30-4:30 Paper Session 1 Protection Engineering MSC 2404

Paper Session 2 System Planning and Modeling MSC 2406-A

Paper Session 3 State Estimation MSC 2406-B

4:30-6:00 Poster Session, Job Fair, and Networking MSC 2400 6:00-8:00 Dinner, Entertainment, and Social Event MSC 2400

Friday, February 10, 2017 7:30-9:15 Registration and Breakfast MSC 2406 9:30-11:30 Paper Session 4

Machines, Drives, and Inverters MSC 2404

Paper Session 5 Data Analysis and System Stability MSC 2405

Paper Session 6 Economics and the Environment MSC 2500

12:00-1:00 Lunch MSC 2406 1:00-1:30 Best Paper and Poster Awards MSC 2406

Keynote

Speakers

Cheryl Mele

Cheryl Mele became ERCOT’s senior vice president and chief operating officer

(COO) in January 2016. She oversees Grid Operations and Planning,

Commercial Operations, and Governance, Risk and Compliance.

Prior to joining ERCOT, Ms. Mele served as deputy general manager and COO

for Austin Energy, where she led its power operations, compliance and

planning activities.

Ms. Mele brings 30 years of experience in the power industry to ERCOT. Her

management and executive roles included both power generation and energy

delivery before becoming COO at Austin Energy. Ms. Mele worked for General

Electric before joining Austin Energy in 1991.

A registered professional engineer in Texas, Ms. Mele has a bachelor’s degree

in mechanical engineering from Union College in Schenectady, New York, and

completed The Utility Executive Course at the University of Idaho.

While at Austin Energy, Ms. Mele served on the boards of the South Texas

Nuclear Operating Company, the Texas Public Power Association and the

RMEL, an electric industry education and networking trade group. She

continues to serve as a board member of the Austin Science Education

Foundation.

Dr. Robin Podmore

Dr. Podmore has been involved throughout his career in developing power

system applications and training power system operators with a focus on

large scale interconnected systems including the North American

interconnection which has around one Terawatt capacity.

Since 2010 he has been Co-Chair and Co-Founder of IEEE Smart Village. He

has been deeply involved in identifying, engaging and mentoring

entrepreneurs in Africa and India as they develop and apply technology that

enables electricity, education and employment for those in need.

Keynote

Speakers

The systems developed and installed by Smart Village Entrepreneurs vary in

size from several hundred watts to 25 kilowatts.

He has observed more and more, that the control, monitoring and

computational methods for solving large scale interconnected system problems

can be applied to village level micro-grids and vice versa. He has also observed

that IEEE Smart Village provides opportunities for leadership and

entrepreneurship which can help engineers advance their careers in both

developed and under-developed regions.

Kenneth M. Mercado

A more than 30-year veteran of CenterPoint Energy and predecessor

companies, Kenny Mercado has financial and operational responsibility of the

company’s electric utility, which consists of a 5,000 square-mile service

territory and power delivery to more than 2.3 million homes and businesses in

the Houston metropolitan area. Prior to his current position, he was division

senior vice president of Grid and Market Operations, responsible for

automating and integrating the company’s nearly 53,000 miles of electric

transmission and distribution grid to serve the Texas competitive market. He

led the deployment of the company’s smart grid system, which includes the

installation of smart meters and intelligent grid technology.

Mercado received a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering and a master’s

degree in industrial engineering from the University of Houston. He also

received an executive MBA degree from Mays Business School at Texas A&M

University.

A licensed professional engineer registered in the state of Texas, Mercado

serves on the boards of the March of Dimes in Houston, the American Red Cross

Greater Houston Area Chapter, the University of Houston Honors College and

Engineering Leadership Program, Southeastern Electric Exchange, Research

Advisory Council at Electric Power Research Institute, and Advisory Board at

Texas A&M Smart Grid Coalition.

Keynote

Speakers

Dr. Mark Laufenberg

Dr. Laufenberg has been the President of PowerWorld Corporation since co-

founding the company in 1996. PowerWorld, based in Champaign, Illinois,

develops and distributes software for the simulation, analysis, and visualization

of large scale electric power grids. Their customers include over 1,000 utilities,

regulatory agencies, consulting firms, trading firms, and universities in over 70

countries around the world.

Dr. Laufenberg received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical

Engineering in 1992, 1993, and 1997 from the University of Illinois at Urbana-

Champaign. He has been the Principal Investigator on several National Science

Foundation Small Business Innovation Research grants. He has previous

industry experience at Pacific Gas & Electric and the Jet Propulsion Lab, and has

taught a course on technical entrepreneurship at the University of Illinois as a

visiting professor.

Dr. Laufenberg has been a member of the Electrical and Computer Engineering

Alumni Board at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign since 2009, and

is currently serving as the chair of the Fundraising Committee. Since 2011 he

has been a board member of the State of Illinois’ Smart Grid Advisory Council

and Energy Foundry. From 2010-2016 he was a board member and Treasurer

of Countryside School.

Prof. Wei-Jen Lee

Wei-Jen Lee received the B.S. and M.S. degrees from National Taiwan

University, Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C., and the Ph.D. degree from the University of

Texas, Arlington, in 1978, 1980, and 1985, respectively, all in Electrical

Engineering.

In 1986, he joined the University of Texas at Arlington, where he is currently a

professor of the Electrical Engineering Department and the director of the

Energy Systems Research Center.

Keynote

Speakers

He has been involved in the revision of IEEE Std. 141, 339, 551, 739, 1584, and

dot 3000 series development. He is the Chair of the IEEE/IAS, Industrial &

Commercial Power Systems Department (ICPSD). He is an editor of IEEE

Transactions on Industry Applications and IAS Magazine, editorial board

member of Journal of Modern Power Systems and Clean Energy (MPCE) and

CSEE Journal of Power and Energy Systems, and guest editor of IEEE

Transactions on Smart Grid. He has been inducted as a member of Academy of

Distinguished Scholar at the University of Texas at Arlington since 2012. He is

the project manager of IEEE/NFPA Collaboration on Arc Flash Phenomena

Research Project.

Prof. Lee has been involved in research on utility deregulation, renewable

energy, smart grid, microgrid, energy internet and virtual power plants (VPP),

arc flash hazards and electrical safety, load and wind capacity forecasting,

power quality, distribution automation and demand side management, power

systems analysis, online real-time equipment diagnostic and prognostic system,

and microcomputer based instrument for power systems monitoring,

measurement, control, and protection. He has served as the primary

investigator (PI) or Co-PI of over one hundred funded research projects with

the total amount exceed US$12 million dollars. He has published more than one

hundred and thirty journal papers and two hundred and forty conference

proceedings. He has provided on-site training courses for power engineers in

Panama, China, Taiwan, Korea, Saudi Arabia, Thailand, and Singapore. He has

refereed numerous technical papers for IEEE, IET, and other professional

organizations.

Prof. Lee is a Fellow of IEEE and registered Professional Engineer in the State of

Texas.

Texas Research

Panel

TPEC 2017 is proud to introduce a panel of professors from across

the state of Texas to discuss new research initiatives in power and

energy and answer questions from students, industry members,

and other conference attendees.

Prof. Le Xie (moderator) is an associate professor of electrical

and computer engineering at Texas A&M University and faculty

advisor for TPEC .

Prof. Masoud Barati is an assistant professor of electrical and

computer engineering at the University of Houston.

Prof. Robert Hebner is the director of the Center for

Electromechanics and a research professor of mechanical

engineering at the University of Texas at Austin.

Prof. Mladen Kezunovic is the Eugene E. Webb professor of

electrical engineering and director of the Smart Grid Center at

Texas A&M University.

Prof. Wei-Jen Lee is a professor of electrical engineering at

the University of Texas at Arlington and the director of the Energy

Systems Research Center.

Prof. Annette Sobel is the director of the Global Laboratory

for Energy Asset Management and Manufacturing (GLEAMM) and

an adjunct professor of electrical and computer engineering at

Texas Tech University (TTU) in Lubbock.

Paper Sessions:

Thursday

Paper Session 1: Power System Protection Engineering Thursday, Feb. 9, 2:30-4:30, MSC 2404

Session Chair: Prof. Garng Huang “Fault Location Using a New Composite Control Technique, Multiple Classifier, and Artificial

Neural Network” A. Altaie, J. Asumadu “Busbar Protection Using a Wavelet Based ANN” A. Abdullah “Assesment of Fault Location Techniques in Voltage Source Converter based HVDC systems”

T. Peng, D. Tzelepis, A. Dysko, I. Glesk “Influences of temperature on the flashover performance of contaminated insulator” J. Chen,

L. Hu, Y. Zhang, Z. Xiao “High Impedance Fault Detection Utilizing Real-Time Complexity Measurement” F. Ferdowsi,

H. Vahedi, C. S. Edrington

Paper Session 2: Power System Planning and Modeling Thursday, Feb. 9, 2:30-4:30, MSC 2406-A

Session Chair: Dr. Maryam Kazerooni “Geomagnetically Induced Current Sensitivity to Substation Grounding Resistances” U. Bui, T.

J. Overbye, K. Shetye “Design and Visualization of the Central Eastern and Southern African Power Grid with Large

-Scale Generation in Tanzania” P. Panumpabi, I. Idehen, M. Backes “SVC-POD tuning methodology and application to a Colombian case” C. A. O. Medina, J. A. O.

Velez “Emerging Distribution Systems: Modeling Challenges in Faulted Conditions” L. Strezoski, M.

Prica, K. A. Loparo “Equivalent Line Limit Calculation Using Available Thermal Transfer Capability” W. Jang, T. J.

Overbye

Paper Session 3: State Estimation in Power Systems Thursday, Feb. 9, 2:30-4:30, MSC 2406-B

Session Chair: TBD “Power System State Estimation Accuracy and Observability Evaluation with Optimal PMU

Placement” A. A. Almehizia, F. S. Alismail “A Robust Techno-Economic Analysis of PMU-based Islanding Detection Schemes” R. S.

Biswas, A. Pal “Robust Phase Detection in Distribution Systems” M. S. Modarresi, T. Huang, H. Ming, L. Xie “A Recursive Bayesian Approach to Load Phase Detection in Unbalanced Distribution System”

H. Huang, Y. Hu, S. Liu, L. Xie “Identifying a Practical State Estimation Scheme Incorporating Substation Measurement

Dependencies” B. P. Wiseman, O. Bassey “Detection of Bad Data in Multi-area State Estimation” Y. Zhou and L. Xie

Paper Sessions:

Friday

Paper Session 4: Electric Machines, Drives, and Inverters Friday, Feb. 10, 9:30-11:30, MSC 2404

Session Chair: Dr. Mohammad Shadmand “Computational Fluid Dynamic Simulation and Modelling (CFX) of flow Plate in PEM Fuel

Cell Using Aluminum Open Cellular Foam Material” T. Wilberforce, A. A. Makky, A. Baroutaji, R. Sambi, A. G. Olabi

“Trajectory Training of Feedforward Neural Networks for DC Motor Speed Control” S. J. Plathotta, H. Salehfar

“Control Algorithm for port power imbalance in two-stage, N-port Modular Multilevel Cascaded Photovoltaic Inverters” S. Marti, H. Krishnaswami

“Novel Anti-Windup Scheme for Stator Flux Control in Surface Permanent Magnet Machines” S. A. Diaz, C. Silva, H. Miranda, J. Juliet, E. Gil

“Optimum Number of Cascaded Cells of Multilevel Inverters for High-Voltage Applications” A. Bashiareh

Paper Session 5: Data Analysis and System Stability Friday, Feb. 10, 9:30-11:30, MSC 2405

Session Chair: TBD “Convergence Characteristics of the Variable Projection Method for Mode Extraction” A. B.

Birchfield, T. J. Overbye “Phasor Estimation at off-nominal Frequencies using Frequency Domain Interpolation” V.

S. S. Kumar, G. M. Kumar, A. S. Kumar, D. Thukaram “Fuzzy Logic Controlled Power Balancing for Low Voltage Ride-Through Capability

Enhancement of Large-Scale Grid-Connected PV Plants” M. K. Hossain, M. H. Ali “An Interactive, Extensible Environment for Power System Simulation on the PMU Time

Frame with a Cyber Security Application” T. J. Overbye, Z. Mao, K. S. Shetye, J. D. Weber “Online and Offline Load Frequency Controller Design” A. Zaidi, Q. Cheng

Paper Session 6: Engineering Economics and the Environment Friday, Feb. 10, 9:30-11:30, MSC 2500

Session Chair: TBD “Analysis of ERCOT Regulation-Up and Regulation-Down Operational Reserves” J. Andrade,

R. Baldick, and Y. Dong “Microgrid Cost Optimization for a Mixed-Use Building” I. Aldaouab, M. Daniels, K. Hallinan “Non-Convex Optimization of Combined Enviromental Economic Dispatch through the

Third Version of the Cultural Algorithm (CA3)” A. Goudarzi, A. G. Swanson, F. Tooryan, A. Ahmadi

“The Prediction of Electrical Cars' Growth Rate and Management of Electrical Energy Demand in Turkey” M. Yılmaz

“Environmentally-Friendly Demand Response for Residential Plug-in Electric Vehicles” F. Rassaei, W. Soh and K. Chua

Posters and

Presenters

Poster Presentations Thursday, February 9, 4:30-6:00, MSC 2400-2401

“Optimization of Pre-treatment process to generation biofuel from microalgae

biomass using High pressure homogenizer” C. Onumaegbu, A.G. Olabi, A. Alaswad

“Computational Fluid Dynamic Simulation and Modelling (CFX) of flow Plate in PEM

Fuel Cell Using Aluminum Open Cellular Foam Material” T. Wilberforce, A. A.

Makky, A. Baroutaji, R. Sambi, A. G. Olabi

“Green Power Production from Pinnata” R. Venkatesan, A. Shankar, K. Dampuri, R.

Challoo

“Robust Phase Detection in Distribution Systems” M. S. Modarresi, T. Huang, H. Ming,

L. Xie

“Improving Tracking Efficiency of Two-axis Sun Tracking Systems” M. Yilmaz

“Detection of Bad Data in Multi-area State Estimation” Y. Zhou and L. Xie

“Optimal wind turbine sizing to mitigate power fluctuation at Al-Zawea refinery

power system in Libya” A. Gawedar

“Chaotically Electricity Demand Analysis and Prediction” H. Kılıç, B. Gu mu ş, M. Yılmaz

“Assesment of Fault Location Techniques in Voltage Source Converter based HVDC

systems” T. Peng, D. Tzelepis, A. Dysko, I. Glesk

“Microgrid Cost Optimization for a Mixed-Use Building” I. Aldaouab

“Modeling Monthly Insolation in Libya” Abdulmunim

“Application of Big Data to Power System Fault Detection and Protection” X. Dong, T.

Feng, H. Wang, L. Tang

“Analysis of ERCOT Regulation-Up and Regulation-Down Operational Reserves” J.

Andrade, R. Baldick, Y. Dong

“Lessons from U.S Frequency Regulation Policies in order to enhance the Chilean

Ancillary Services Market “ S. A. Dı az, D. Kirschen, E. Gil

“Novel Anti-Windup Scheme for Stator Flux Control in Surface Permanent Magnet

Machines “ S. A. Dı az, D. Kirschen, E. Gil

“Selection of wind turbine based on wind speed” S. Hasan

Industry Table Presentations Thursday, February 9, 2:30-6:00, MSC 2401

OSISoft, LLC and National Instruments

Texas A&M University—Texarkana school of business

2018 Future Integrated Network Systems (FINS) Conference

Committee

Members

Conference Student Chairs Payman Dehghanian

Adam B. Birchfield

Technical

Program Chairs Treasurer

Shijia Zhao

Hung-Ming Chou

Tamara Becejac

Webmaster Tatjana Dokic

Registration Chairs Swetha Sridharan

Jose Juan Sandoval

Event Coordinator Po-Chen Chen

Publicity Chairs Cheng Qian

Qin Yan

Other Committee Members

Mu Li

Benjamin Wiseman

Zhangxin Zhou

Xiao Li

Shunlong Xiao

Faculty Advisers Prof. Le Xie

Prof. Robert Balog

Prof. Thomas J. Overbye

Thank You to

our Supporters!

Primary Sponsor Texas A&M IEEE PES/PELS/IAS joint student chapter

Technical Co-Sponsors IEEE Power and Energy Society (PES) IEEE Power Electronics Society (PELS) IEEE Industry Applications Society (IAS)

Gold Supporters Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Texas A&M

University CenterPoint Energy IEEE PES Young Professionals Program Texas A&M University Relay Conference Student Activities, Texas A&M University Electric Power and Power Electronics Institute (EPPEI) at Texas

A&M University Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (TEES) Smart Grid Center at Texas A&M University Texas A&M Division of Research

Silver Supporters PowerWorld Corporation Bryan Texas Utilities Global Laboratory for Energy Asset Management and

Manufacturing (GLEAMM) Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Texas Tech

University

Electrical Power & Power Electronics Institute (EPPEI)

at Texas A&M University

IEEE Power &

Energy Society

Young Professionals

Program