Modeling and Dynamic Behaviour of Hydropower Plants

Dr. Nand Kishor is presently serving as Associate Professor at Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology Allahabad, India. From August 2012 to October 2013, he worked as a Marie Curie Experienced Researcher in the Electrical Engineering Department, Aalto University, Finland. Dr. Kishor has been working in the area of renewable energy systems, wide area monitoring systems, and smart grid technologies for many years, and has published several research papers in international journals and proceedings. He has been working on several externally funded projects and collaborated with researchers globally. Jesus Fraile-Ardanuy is Associate Professor at Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain. He has been involved in several public research projects related to renewable energy (hydro, wind, photovoltaic and tidal power), fault diagnosis, electric vehicles and active demand side. He has collaborated with different global companies in the electric energy sector, studying the dynamic behaviour of real hydropower plants and developing advanced controllers for wind farms.

Part 1: Modeling and simulation of hydropower plants

Chapter 1: Analysis and modeling of run-off-type hydropower plant
Chapter 2: Time-domain modeling and a case study on regulation and operation of hydropower plants
Chapter 3: Reduced order models for grid connected hydropower plants
Chapter 4: Modeling and stability analysis of turbine governing system of hydropower plant



Part 2: Control of hydropower plants

Chapter 5: Dynamic simulation issues for hydropower generation control
Chapter 6: Methods of signal analysis for vibration control of hydropower plants



Part 3: Operation, scheduling, etc. of hydropower plants (including pumped storage)

Chapter 7: Island mode operation in hydropower plant
Chapter 8: Hydro generation scheduling: non-linear programming and optimality conditions
Chapter 9: A PV hydro hybrid system using residual flow of Guarita Hydro Power Plant, in southern Brazil
Chapter 10: A PV wind hydro hybrid system with pumped storage capacity installed in Linha Sete, Aparados da Serra, southern Brazil



Part 4: Small hydropower plants

Chapter 11: Modeling and simulation of a pico-hydropower off-grid network