Browsing Academic by Author "Saad, Maarouf"
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A fast sensitivity analysis method for voltage control applications with distributed generation
Alzaareer, Khaled; Saad, Maarouf; Mehrjerdi, Hasan; Lefebvre, Serge; Asber, Dalal ( IEEE Computer Society , 2020 , Conference Paper)Sensitivity Analysis has been widely used for voltage control of power grids. Typically, the sensitivity coefficients of network voltages are extracted from the inverse of Jacobian matrix. However, updating these coefficients ... -
A Monitoring Technique for Reversed Power Flow Detection with High PV Penetration Level
Mortazavi, Hashem; Mehrjerdi, Hasan; Saad, Maarouf; Lefebvre, Serge; Asber, Dalal; Lenoir, Laurent... more authors ... less authors ( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2015 , Article)The integration of renewable energy resources (RESs) in power systems poses many research challenges. Research shows that the RES output may exceed the consumed power during the day. Consequently, the direction of the power ... -
A new sensitivity approach for preventive control selection in real-time voltage stability assessment
Alzaareer, Khaled; Saad, Maarouf; Mehrjerdi, Hasan; Ziad El-Bayeh, Claude; Asber, Dalal; Lefebvre, Serge... more authors ... less authors ( Elsevier , 2020 , Article)Voltage instability is one of the serious problems in power networks due to the growing demand. Sensitivity analysis has been widely hailed as an effective method for voltage stability prediction and control. However, the ... -
A secondary voltage regulation approach for Hydro-Québec in transmission level
Mezquita, Jeffrey; Mehrjerdi, Hasan; Lefebvre, Serge; Saad, Maarouf; Lagacé, Pierre Jean; Asber, Dalal... more authors ... less authors ( Elsevier , 2015 , Article)This paper presents a secondary voltage control that applies discrete controllers to regulate the voltage in the Hydro-Québec power network. Firstly, an artificial intelligence methodology is presented for partitioning the ... -
An impedance-based method for distribution system monitoring
Mortazavi, Hashem; Mehrjerdi, Hasan; Saad, Maarouf; Lefebvre, Serge; Asber, Dalal; Lenoir, Laurent... more authors ... less authors ( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2018 , Article)This paper presents a new approach in monitoring of a power distribution system. It uses the bus voltage and injected current to extract the apparent impedance seen from the measuring unit location. Then the apparent ... -
Application of distance relay for distribution system monitoring
Mortazavi, Hashem; Mehrjerdi, Hasan; Saad, Maarouf; Lefebvre, Serge; Asber, Dalal; Lenoir, Laurent... more authors ... less authors ( IEEE Computer Society , 2015 , Conference Paper)The traditional distribution network is primarily composed of radial feeders, designed for unidirectional power flow. Therefore, many operation regulation, protection and control system, in distribution network, are based ... -
Development of an Index for Preventive Control Ranking and Selection for Voltage Stability Analysis
Alzaareer, Khaled; Saad, Maarouf; Mehrjerdi, Hasan; Lefebvre, Serge; Asber, Dalal ( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2020 , Conference Paper)Preventive control selection for voltage stability concerns with determining the preventive controls that have to be activated, and finding a coordination between these preventive controls. This work develops an index, ... -
Development of New Identification Method for Global Group of Controls for Online Coordinated Voltage Control in Active Distribution Networks
Alzaareer, Khaled; Saad, Maarouf; Mehrjerdi, Hasan; Asber, Dalal; Lefebvre, Serge ( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2020 , Article)The incorporation of distributed generation (DG) units in distribution network voltage control may create operational conflicts with other conventional voltage control devices. Structural changes of networks can also ... -
Efficiency-Resilience Nexus in Building Energy Management under Disruptions and Events
Mehrjerdi, Hasan; Saad, Maarouf; Lefebvre, Serge ( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2022 , Article)The efficiency and resilience have a negative correlation and they move in opposite directions. Both of them cannot be simultaneously enhanced and improving one of them deteriorates the other one. This article studies the ... -
New voltage sensitivity analysis for smart distribution grids using analytical derivation: ABCD model
Alzaareer, Khaled; Saad, Maarouf; Mehrjerdi, Hasan; Al-Masri, Hussein M.K.; Al-Shetwi, Ali Q.; Asber, Dalal; Lefebvre, Serge... more authors ... less authors ( Elsevier , 2022 , Article)Sensitivity Analysis plays a significant role in voltage prediction and control of power networks. However, the classical sensitivity methods require significant computation time. As active distribution networks require ... -
Realtime control of distributed generation for voltage stability improvement and HV side support
Alzaareer, Khaled; Saad, Maarouf; Mehrjerdi, Hasan; Lefebvre, Serge; Asber, Dalal ( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2020 , Conference Paper)As distribution networks continue in integrating Distributed Generation (DG) units, voltage stability problem becomes an important issue. On other hand, future distribution networks have the ability to support the transmission ... -
Sensitivity Analysis for Voltage Stability Considering Voltage Dependent Characteristics of Loads and DGs
Alzaareer, Khaled; Saad, Maarouf; Mehrjerdi, Hasan; Salem, Qusay; Harasis, Salman; Aldaoudeyeh, Al-Motasem I.; Al-Masri, Hussein M. K.... more authors ... less authors ( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2021 , Article)The sensitivity analysis becomes particularly critical for voltage stability analysis due to the fluctuation in power outputs of renewable energy resources. Besides, impacts of different load modeling and the operation ... -
Top-down/bottom-up method for identifying a set of voltage stability preventive controls
Alzaareer, Khaled; Saad, Maarouf; Mehrjerdi, Hasan; Lefebvre, Serge; Asber, Dalal ( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2020 , Conference Paper)In this work, a novel method for choosing a global set of preventive controls for voltage stability analysis is developed. The method depends on top-down and bottom-up approaches to obtain the set of controls according to ... -
Voltage and congestion control in active distribution networks using fast sensitivity analysis
Alzaareer, Khaled; Saad, Maarouf; Mehrjerdi, Hasan; El-Bayeh, Claude Ziad; Asber, Dalal; Lefebvre, Serge... more authors ... less authors ( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2020 , Conference Paper)Active distribution networks will meet new challenges in voltage and congestion control due to the high penetration levels of distributed generations (DG). Optimal voltage control techniques are mainly based on the relation ...