Dr. Muhammad Yaqoob Javed, Assistant Professor, ECE, visited Power Engineering Lab of South China University of Technology, on 30th July to 19th August 2018, to participate in a jointly funded project of National Science Foundation of China and Pakistan Science Foundation.
Dr. Muhammad Yaqoob Javed, Assistant Professor, ECE, visited Power Engineering Lab of South China University of Technology, on 30th July to 19th August 2018, to participate in a jointly funded project of National Science Foundation of China and Pakistan Science Foundation. In order to ensure the progress of the project, China and Pakistan revised the itinerary after consultation with Professor Guan Lin, the person in charge of the power system operation analysis and planning team of the School of Electric Power, and more than 20 teachers and students of the project team gave up the summer holiday break and participated in the project discussion and Training work. The project title was “IMPLEMENTATION AND TESTING OF MICROGRID IN RURAL COMMUNITIES WITH MAXIMUM PEENETRATION OF RENEWABLE ENERGY RESOURCES IN PAKISTAN”
Initially, Dr. Yaqoob gave a detailed presentation on Pakistan electrical power system statistics to all the
Chinese project team members.Then, they finalized their research site for the microgrid construction in a rural community of Pakistan. In Pakistan, the electrical power system is divided into four types of electrical load i .e. industrial, commercial, residential and agricultural. So, the main idea is to simulate a complex microgrid which contains all types of load. Therefore, the site selected for simulation contained all types of load. The details of the selected site are illustrated in the fig below. Furthermore, they finalized all the design requirements according to the available resources in the selected site. In the selected site, there are five residential colonies with almost 20KW load, a hospital with 25KW load and an industry with the 850KW load. Thus, the total load wi ll be almost 975KW. For a generation, there are almost 150 cows in the selected site, so there will be enough animal manure available to generate electricity from Biomass. Thus, a total generation capacity of 1260KW will be produced by the Biomass. Moreover , a stand-alone photovoltaic system with a capacity of 200KVA and battery storage will also be used for generation. However, the research problem is divided into five subcategories. The details of the research problem are
- Modeling of the electrical system by using software like MATLAB, PSCAD/EMTDC, and DIGISILENT/PowerFactory
- Load forecasting and Energy Dispatch using techniques like Economic
- Dispatch and unit commitment,
- Voltage and Frequency regulation,
- Reactive power compensation
- SCADA system and communication
Subsequently, a four - day simulation software training for Dr. Yaqoob is conducted by two group of Chinese research team and cooperated with the DIGSILENT and PSCAD/EMTDC simulation platforms to build the microgrid model. Finally, they arranged a visit to their microgrid lab and gave a detailed presentation on the available microgrid facility. In order to develop a similar kind of microgrid lab in COMSATS Lahore. The two sides worked closely together within three weeks and completed the scheduled research work, laying a solid foundation for the next research work of the project.