Joe H. Chow
周祖康
Joe H. Chow, PhD, PE, FIEEE, NAE, FCSEE
Institute Professor of Engineering
Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering
Campus Director, NSF/DOE CURENT ERC
(Center for Ultra-wide-area Resilient Electric Energy Transmission Networks)
Editor, Springer Power Electronics and Power Systems Series
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
JEC 7012, 110 Eighth Street, Troy, New York 12180-3590, USA
Office: JEC 7012
Phone: 518-276-6374
Fax: 518-276-8715
E-Mail: chowj@rpi.edu
Classes
Spring 2021
ECSE 6420: Nonlinear Control Systems (remote instruction)
Texts: Hassan Khalil, Nonlinear Systems,
third edition, Prentice Hall, 2002
3 credits
Tuesday/Friday 8:30-9:50 am
Instructor: Prof. Joe Chow
Office hours: Monday 3-5 pm
Fall 2020
ECSE 6180 Advanced Power System Modeling and Control
Text: Chow and Sanchez-Gasca, Power
System Modeling, Computation, and Control, Wiley-IEEE, 2020
3 credits
Tuesday/Friday 08:30-09:50 am
Location: TBD
Fall 2020
ECSE 6180 Advanced Topics in Large Power
Systems
3 credits
Wednesday 06:30-09:15 pm
Location: TBD
Spring 2020
ECSE 6460:
Multivariable Control Systems
Texts:
Kemin Zhou and John C. Doyle, Essentials
of Robust Control, Prentice Hall, 1998
Geir E. Dullerud and
Fernando Paganini, A Course in Robust
Control Theory, Springer 2000
3 credits
Tuesday/Friday 10:00-11:50 am
Location: TBD
Office hours: Monday/Thursday 3-5 pm
Fall 2019
ECSE 6140: Power Generation,
Operation, and Control
Text: Wood, Wollenberg,
and Sheble, Power Generation,
Operation, and Control, 3rd edition
3 credits
Tuesday/Friday 10:00-11:50 am
Location: JEC 4314
Office hours: Monday/Thursday 3-5 pm
Other learning resources:
Joe H. Chow and Juan Sanchez-Gasca, Power
System Modeling, Computation and Control, Wiley-IEEE Press, 2020.
Peter W. Sauer, M. A. Pai, and Joe H. Chow, Power System Dynamics and Stability with
Synchrophasor Measurement and Power System Toolbox, second edition, Wiley,
2017.
Student resources: http://bcs.wiley.com/he-bcs/Books?action=index&itemId=111935577X&bcsId=10905
J. H. Chow, editor, Power System Coherency and Model
Reduction, Springer, 2013. Table
of contents
Download MATLAB Files for Frederick and Chow book (Continuous-Time Systems)
Download MATLAB Files for Chow, Frederick, and Chbat book (Discrete-Time Systems)
Wind Farm Design Activity:
A. C. Worcester, V. M. Hickox, J. G. Klimaszewski, F. Wilches-Bernal, J. H. Chow, and C.-F.
Chen, `Designing Wind Farms as a Hands-on Activity for High School Students,` IEEE
Power and Energy Magazine, vol. 11, no. 1, pp. 18-29, 2013. Download from
IEEE Explorer: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6400333.
Download Wind Farm Design Activity Files WindFarmDesign.zip.
NASPI Voltage Stability Analysis video – integration of wind energy into power grid: Max Liehr, Felipe Wilches, Joe Chow, and Scott Ghiocel
Power System Toolbox - this
is a suite of MATLAB®-based power system simulation code originally developed
by me and Dr. Kwok W. Cheung in the early 1990s. It has been substantially
upgraded by Dr. Graham Rogers at Cherry Tree Scientific Software. Note that
this is a free software and not supported.
A user can read the manual or see the textbooks listed above.
Download PST software
Download PST
Manual
LODF and PTDF functions for PST - compute these sensitivity factors as described in Wood-Wollenberg text. A user manual is provided with the
functions. Download LODF/PTDF functions
Sample recent papers and publications:
(also see Goggle Scholar http://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=Ep0kNGAAAAAJ
)
S. G. Ghiocel and J. H.
Chow, “A Power
Flow Method using a New Bus Type for Computing Steady-State Voltage Stability
Margins,” IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, vol. 29, no. 2, pp. 958-965, 2014.
S. G. Ghiocel, J. H. Chow,
G. Stefopoulos, B. Fardanesh, D. Maragal, M.
Razanousky, and D. B. Bertagnolli, “Phasor State Estimation for Synchrophasor Data Quality
Improvement and Power Transfer Interface Monitoring,” IEEE
Transactions on Power Systems, vol.
29, no. 2, pp. 881-888, 2014.
Y. Xia, S. G. Ghiocel, D.
Dotta, D. Shawhan, A. Kindle, J. H. Chow, “A Simultaneous Perturbation Approach
for Solving Economic Dispatch Problems with Emission, Storage, and Network
Constraints,” IEEE Transactions on Smart
Grid, vol. 4, no. 4, pp. 2356-2363, 2013.
Prasanna Kumar Muralimanohar, Advanced
Power Plant Modeling with Applications to the Advanced Boiling Water Reactor
and the Heat Exchanger, MS Thesis, RPI, 2009
T. D. Younkins,
P. K. Muralimanohar, and J. H. Chow, Advanced
Power Plant Modeling with Applications to the Advanced Boiling Water Reactor
and the Heat Exchanger, unpublished paper, September 2010.
A. Armenia and J. H.
Chow, "A Flexible Phasor Data
Concentrator Design Leveraging Existing Software Technologies," IEEE
Transactions on Smart Grid, vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 73-8, June 2010.
X. Jiang, J. H. Chow,
A.-A. Edris, B. Fardanesh, and E. Uzunovic,
"Transfer Path Stability Enhancement
by Voltage-Sourced Converter-Based FACTS Controllers," IEEE
Transactions on Power Delivery, vol. 25, no. 2, pp. 1019-1025, April 2010.
B. H. Chang, B. Lee, and
J. H. Chow, "A Novel Operation
Strategy for Shunt Type FACTS Controllers in KEPCO System," IEEE
Transactions on Power Systems, vol. 24, no. 3, pp. 1639-1640, August 2009.
X. Fang, J. H. Chow,
A.-A. Edris, X. Jiang, B. Fardanesh, and E. Uzunovic, "Sensitivity
Formulation in a Multi-Functional FACTS Controller Training Simulator," IEEE
Transactions on Power Systems, vol. 24, no. 2, pp. 713-720, 2009.
X. Jiang, X. Fang, J. H.
Chow, A.-A. Edris, E. Uzunovic,
M. Parisi, and L. Hopkins, "A Novel Approach for Modeling Voltage-Sourced
Converter Based FACTS Controllers," IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery,
vol. 23, no. 4, pp. 2591-2598, Oct. 2008.
J. H. Chow, A. Chakrabortty, L. Vanfretti, and M.
Arcak, "Estimation of Radial Power
System Transfer Path Dynamic Parameters using Synchronized Phasor Data," IEEE
Transactions on Power Systems, vol. 23, no. 2, pp. 564-571, May 2008.
J. H. Chow, A. Chakrabortty, M. Arcak, B. Bhargava, and A.
Salazar, "Synchronized Phasor Data Based Energy Function Analysis of Dominant
Power Transfer Paths in Large Power Systems," IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, vol. 22, pp. 727-734, May 2007.
J. H. Chow, R. W. de Mello, and K.-W. Cheung, "Reliability in
Deregulated Power Systems," Proceedings
of IEEE, vol. 93, no. 11, pp. 1956-1969, Nov. 2005.
X. Wei, J. H. Chow, B.
Fardanesh, and A.-A. Edris, "A Dispatch Strategy for a Unified Power-Flow
Controller to Maximize Voltage-Stability-Limited Power Transfer," IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery, vol. 20, no.
3, pp. 2022-2029, July 2005.
J. H. Chow, F. F. Wu, and J.
A. Momoh, editors, Applied Mathematics
for Restructured Electric Power Systems: Optimization, Control, and
Computational Intelligence, Springer, 2005.
J. H. Chow, G. E. Boukarim, and A. Murdoch, "Power System Stabilizers as Undergraduate Control
Design Projects," IEEE
Transactions on Power Systems, Special Issue on Power Engineering
Education, vol. 19, pp. 144-151, 2004.
R. M. Johnson, J. H. Chow, and M. V. Dillon, "Pelton Turbine Deflector Overspeed
Control in Small Power Systems," IEEE
Transactions on Power Systems, vol. 19, pp. 1032-1037, 2004.
X. Wei, J. H. Chow, B. Fardanesh, and A.-A. Edris, "A Common Modeling Framework of Voltage-Sourced
Converters for Loadflow, Sensitivity, and Dispatch
Analysis," IEEE Transactions on
Power Systems, vol. 19, pp. 934-941, 2004.
N. Lu, J. H. Chow, and A. A. Desrochers, "Pumped-Storage Hydro-Turbine Bidding Strategies in a
Competitive Electricity Market," IEEE
Transactions on Power Systems,
Luigi Vanfretti,
"A Virtual Laboratory for Teaching Power System Dynamics and Control at
Undergraduate Level in Developing Nations," Student Poster Presentation, Third Prize. IEEE Power System Conference and Exposition, Atlanta, October 30 -
November 1, 2006. download
poster
X. Wei, J. H. Chow, B. Fardanesh, and
A.-A. Edris, "A Dispatch Strategy for a
Unified Power Flow Controller to Maximize Voltage-Stability Limited Power
Transfer," Best student poster presentation, IEEE General Power
Meeting, Denver, June 7-10, 2004.
R. M. Johnson, J. H. Chow, and M. Dillon, "Hierarchical Pelton Turbine Control in a Small Power
System," 25th North
American Power Symposium, University of Missouri-Rolla, October 20-21, 2003. (Best student paper prize)
N. Lu, J. H. Chow, and A. A. Desrochers,
"A Multi-layer Petri Net Model for Deregulated Electric Power
Systems," Proc. of American Control Conference, pp. 513-518, 2002.
(finalist, best student paper contest.)
Recent PhD Theses:
Xia Jiang, Operating Modes and their Regulations of
Voltage-Sourced Converter Based FACTS Controllers, May 2007
Xinghao Fang, Rated-Capacity Dispatch,
Sensitivity Analysis, and Controller Design of VSC-Based FACTS Controllers,
May 2008
Aranya Chakrabortty, Estimation, Analysis and
Control Methods for Large-Scale Electric Power Systems using Synchronized
Phasor Measurements, July 2008 – co-supervised with Prof. Murat Arcak.
Luigi Vanfretti,
Phasor Measurement-Based State Estimation
of Electric Power Systems and Linearized Analysis of Power System Network
Oscillations, December 2009
Scott G. Ghiocel, Application of Synchronized
Phasor Measurements for State Estimation, Voltage Stability, and Damping
Control, May 2013
Xinyu Tony Jiang, A
Non-Iterative Method for Power System State Estimation and a PMU-based Method
for Assessing Generator Damping Contribution, May 2014
Felipe
Wilches-Bernal, Applications of Wind Generation for Power System Frequency Control,
Inter-area Oscillations Damping and Parameter Identification, August 2015
Yu Xia, A
Game-Theoretic Analysis of Wind Power Generator Bidding Strategies in
Electricity Markets, December, 2016
Stephen Burchett, Modeling and Analysis of High Renewable Penetration in New York,
December 2018.
Christoph Lackner, Controls in Power Systems with
Renewable Energy Penetration, August 2019.
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