Overview
Current electrical power systems are in urgent need of modernisation in order to address many of the pressing issues that are faced in the world today. These issues include global warming, depletion of fossil fuels, growing global population and an ever increasing reliance on the reliable supply of electrical energy. Smart Grid technology is seen by many as the most appropriate solution to tackle these issues from the perspective of electrical power supply and utilisation.
Start Date: October 2010
Duration: 3 Years
Stipend: £17,667 per annum
The main aim of Smart Grid technology is to modernise current electrical power networks using state-of-the-art communication and control methodologies, often combined with new or modified hardware, in order to deliver environmentally friendly, efficient, reliable, resilient and responsive power systems for the future. In other words, Smart Grid is an electricity network that can intelligently integrate the actions of all users connected to it – generators, consumers and those that do both – in order to efficiently deliver sustainable, economic and secure electricity supplies.
This project will focus on the investigation of the impact that the smart grid technologies will have on the operation of the electrical power transmission system. In order to achieve this aim, the project will firstly focus on the dynamic modelling of smart grids at the distribution and consumer voltage level and their subsequent dynamic representation on the transmission level. The existing control and communication technologies, currently used in industry, will then be implemented and evaluated using representative, lower-power equivalent network systems and their equivalent software-based simulators that incorporate some aspects of smart grid technology. Any potential deficiencies of the existing control and communication technologies will be identified during this assessment. The project will then focus on proposing improvements to the existing control and communication systems in order to facilitate effective exploitation of the smart grid technology in the current electrical power networks.
This project will have a strong industrial focus with a PhD student expected to spend up to half of their time working in close collaboration with industrial partners, including National Grid. Therefore, this project offers outstanding opportunity for a graduate engineer to become a highly-skilled technical consultant in the emerging field of smart grid technologies.
Eligible candidates
Applicants must meet the requirements for an Industrial CASE award by being a UK resident (see http://www.epsrc.ac.uk/PostgraduateTraining/StudentEligibility.htm)
Essential knowledge, skills and experience
•Fluency in spoken/written English language
•Educated to at least BEng (Hons) level with a 2:1 or better in Electrical and Electronic Engineering.
•Desirable Knowledge, Skills and Experience
•Understanding of the power system dynamics and operation.
•Understanding of the standard control engineering technologies and dynamic system analysis techniques.
•Undergraduate project work related to either electrical power systems or control engineering.
Deadline for Applications: 9th of July 2010
Enquiries
Informal enquiries should be directed to Dr Ognjen Marjanovic (ognjen.marjanovic@manchester.ac.uk).
CVs should be submitted by e-mail to Ms Marie Davies (M.B.Davies@manchester.ac.uk).
Please kindly mention Scholarization.blogspot.com when applying for this scholarship
Current electrical power systems are in urgent need of modernisation in order to address many of the pressing issues that are faced in the world today. These issues include global warming, depletion of fossil fuels, growing global population and an ever increasing reliance on the reliable supply of electrical energy. Smart Grid technology is seen by many as the most appropriate solution to tackle these issues from the perspective of electrical power supply and utilisation.
Start Date: October 2010
Duration: 3 Years
Stipend: £17,667 per annum
The main aim of Smart Grid technology is to modernise current electrical power networks using state-of-the-art communication and control methodologies, often combined with new or modified hardware, in order to deliver environmentally friendly, efficient, reliable, resilient and responsive power systems for the future. In other words, Smart Grid is an electricity network that can intelligently integrate the actions of all users connected to it – generators, consumers and those that do both – in order to efficiently deliver sustainable, economic and secure electricity supplies.
This project will focus on the investigation of the impact that the smart grid technologies will have on the operation of the electrical power transmission system. In order to achieve this aim, the project will firstly focus on the dynamic modelling of smart grids at the distribution and consumer voltage level and their subsequent dynamic representation on the transmission level. The existing control and communication technologies, currently used in industry, will then be implemented and evaluated using representative, lower-power equivalent network systems and their equivalent software-based simulators that incorporate some aspects of smart grid technology. Any potential deficiencies of the existing control and communication technologies will be identified during this assessment. The project will then focus on proposing improvements to the existing control and communication systems in order to facilitate effective exploitation of the smart grid technology in the current electrical power networks.
This project will have a strong industrial focus with a PhD student expected to spend up to half of their time working in close collaboration with industrial partners, including National Grid. Therefore, this project offers outstanding opportunity for a graduate engineer to become a highly-skilled technical consultant in the emerging field of smart grid technologies.
Eligible candidates
Applicants must meet the requirements for an Industrial CASE award by being a UK resident (see http://www.epsrc.ac.uk/PostgraduateTraining/StudentEligibility.htm)
Essential knowledge, skills and experience
•Fluency in spoken/written English language
•Educated to at least BEng (Hons) level with a 2:1 or better in Electrical and Electronic Engineering.
•Desirable Knowledge, Skills and Experience
•Understanding of the power system dynamics and operation.
•Understanding of the standard control engineering technologies and dynamic system analysis techniques.
•Undergraduate project work related to either electrical power systems or control engineering.
Deadline for Applications: 9th of July 2010
Enquiries
Informal enquiries should be directed to Dr Ognjen Marjanovic (ognjen.marjanovic@manchester.ac.uk).
CVs should be submitted by e-mail to Ms Marie Davies (M.B.Davies@manchester.ac.uk).
Please kindly mention Scholarization.blogspot.com when applying for this scholarship
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