Synchronized Phasor Measurements for Smart Grids

Dusmanta Kumar Mohanta is a Professor at Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra, India. He is an IEEE senior member with 26 years of experience in teaching and the industry. He was an electrical engineer in the captive power plant of the National Aluminum Company (NALCO), Angul, India. His current research interests include the power quality analysis, soft computing applications, power system planning, phasor measurement unit placement and reliability analysis. He also serves as editor for Electric Power Components and Systems. M. Jaya Bharata Reddy is an Associate Professor at the National Institute of Technology (NIT), Tiruchirappalli, India. He has 12 years of experience in teaching and research in the area of digital relaying, power systems, transmission line protection, wide area protection (WAPs) and smart grid technology. He is a Senior Member of IEEE. He also serves as editor for Electric Power Components and Systems.

Chapter 1: Synchrophasors for improving the performance of power system
Chapter 2: An optimal redundancy criterion index (ORC) for optimal placement of phasor measurement units (PMU) for full observability of power grid
Chapter 3: Wide-area measurement-based power network protection
Chapter 4: Synchrophasor-assisted visualization and protection of power systems
Chapter 5: Using PMU measurements for enhanced power grid monitoring and protection
Chapter 6: Fault monitoring, detection, and correction using synchrophasor measurements in modern power systems
Chapter 7: Transmission line fault detection, classification, and localization in smart power grids using synchrophasor measurements
Chapter 8: PMU-based vulnerability assessment of power systems
Chapter 9: Synchrophasor applications for load estimation and stability analysis
Chapter 10: State estimation in the presence of synchronized measurement
Chapter 11: PMU-based wide-area security assessment