Montenegro Project

Faculty of Electrical Engineering

 

 

I N F O R M A T I O N

Within the Project "Piloting Solutions for Alleviating Brain-drain in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, and Serbia and Montenegro" organized through UNESCO - Hewlett-Packard-a  and University of Montenegro, prof. dr Dušan Raonić from Atomic Energy Canada Ltd., will perform three-days seminar and consultations on the topic:

 

Software in power systems and power electronics

(EMTP, PSpice, PSim, Power 4 5 6 ...)

 

First lecture will be in Monday, 18.10.2004

 at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering in 12:00h  

 

 

Professor Dusan Raonic was born in 1955. He was professor at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering at the department of applied automatic. Professor Dusan Raonic had left Montenegro in 1994 when he went in Canada. From 1994 to 1999 he was working in development center of Rockwell Automation. Since 1999 he has worked in AECL - Atomic Energy Canada Ltd., as consultant for Ontario Power Generation.

Professor Dusan Raonic has published several references, which are listed below.

References:

D. Raonic, SCR Self Powered Gate Driver for Medium Voltage Application with a Capacitor as  a Storage Element, IEEE Trans on IAS, January 2000

D. Raonic, Some experience with SCR Self Powered Gate Driver for Medium Voltage Application with  a Capacitor as  a Storage Element, IEEE IAS’98, St. Louis, October, 98

D. Raonic et al, Self Powered Gate Driver Board, U.S. Patent 5 796 599, August 18, 1998

D. MacLennan, D. Raonic, “Use of medium voltage solid state starters to limit peak starting kVA   demands and increase utilization of power system capacity”, PCIM’97, Baltimore, Sept. 97

D. Raonic, “Modeling of Medium Voltage Smart Motor Controllers (MV SMC) in PSPICE”, CCECE’96, Calgary, May 96

D. Raonic et al, “Adaptive Control System for Power Factor Compensation”, IECON 95, Orlando, Nov. 95, pp 423 - 428

N. Zargari, D. Raonic. “A Current Controlled Near Unity Power Factor Three-Phase PWM Buck Rectifier without Passive Damping Requirements”, CCECE’95, Montreal, Sept. 95, pp 987 – 990

D. Raonic, “Power Electronic Application in Power Delivery and Loads”, IEEE PES Summer Meeting 95, Panel Section - Industrial Research, Portland, Oregon, July 95

 

Within the his visit to Faculty of Electrical Engineering in Podgorica, which are realized through joint research project "Piloting Solutions for Alleviating Brain-drain in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, and Serbia and Montenegro" organized through the UNESCO - Hewlett-Packard partnership, professor Dusan Raonic has presented lectures the on the topic: "Applications of the software in power systems and power electronics". Lectures were divided into five days and they included theoretical overview of FACTS solutions and practical presentations of software (EMTP, PSpice, PSim, Power 456), which are used for simulations. Detailed schedule is given below. About 15-20 peoples (postgraduate and graduate students, and some professors) attended to these lectures every day.

In consultations and discussions with MS and PhD students professor Dusan Raonic has proposed some ideas for researches and creation of the joint project(s).

 

Schedule of lectures

 

FACTS : Course will provide FACTS overview  and how FACTS solution may benefit power system operation. The power electronics based controllers are generally more costly per unit of rating than similar conventional equipment, however they offer a number of unique function which cannot be achieved with conventional equipment. They will be justified where the application requires one or more of the following: rapid response, frequent variation of output or adjustable output. The most important devices, used in power electronics controllers, with respect to their properties, limiting parameters and measures for protection in actual application will be discussed. Also course will give understanding in topologies to ensure the optimum gate drive selection. Some FACTS Pspice models and experimental results will be presented and discussed. Familiarity with undergraduate power system and power electronics courses is assumed

 

Day one

FACTS overview: The need for FACTS in AC Systems, Shunt and series controllers, HVDC transmission,

Computer simulation-Pspice Introduction

FACTS Overview, IEEE Power Engineering Society, April 95

 

Day two

High Power Electronics Devices, Topology and Applications,

Device and topology simulation in Pspice. Pspice contains models for common circuit elements, active as well as passive. It is a versatile program and is widely used in both industry and academic institutions.

Independent work on circuit simulation. Start to develop some models for demonstrating the operations and characteristics of FACTs topology: Switch mode Static Var Control, Sinusoidal Current Rectifier at unity power factor,

Active Filter

E. Remezani, J. Waldmeyer, “ Semicoductor Devices for High Power Electronics”

H. I. Yunus, R. M. Bass, “ Comparison of VSI and CSI topologies for Single Phase Active Power Filters”

N. Zargari, D. Raonic. “A Current Controlled Near Unity Power Factor Three-Phase PWM Buck             Rectifier without Passive Damping Requirements”, CCECE’95, Montreal, Sept. 95, pp 987 – 990

D. Raonic, SCR Self Powered Gate Driver for Medium Voltage Application with  a Capacitor as  a Storage Element, IEEE Trans on IAS, January 2000

D. Raonic et al, Self Powered Gate Driver Board, U.S. Patent 5 796 599, August 18, 1998

 

Day three

Some industrial experience: MV smart motor starter-from Pspice model to lab prototype and  commercial device. Computer simulation/test result pro and con discussion.

Independent work on circuit simulation.

D. MacLennan, D. Raonic, “Use of medium voltage solid state starters to limit peak starting kVA   demands and increase utilization of power system capacity”, PCIM’97, Baltimore, Sept. 97

D. Raonic, “Power Electronic Application in Power Delivery and Loads”, IEEE PES Summer Meeting 95, Panel Section - Industrial Research, Portland, Oregon, July 95

D. Raonic, “Power Electronic Application in Power Delivery and Loads”, IEEE PES Summer Meeting 95, Panel Section - Industrial Research, Portland, Oregon, July 95

 

Day four

Pspice and other software in Electrical Utility Application. Haw software analysis provides evaluation and optimization in the design in terms of circuit parameters.

Independent work on circuit simulation.

D. Raonic, “Modeling of Medium Voltage Smart Motor Controllers (MV SMC) in PSPICE”, CCECE’96, Calgary, May 96

 

Day five

Independent work on simulation in group:

Switch mode Static Var Control, Sinusoidal Current Rectifier at unity power factor,

Active Filter

Day six

 If necessary,  Independent work on simulation in group will continue

 

 

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