Microgrids for Rural Areas

Rajeev Kumar Chauhan is working as Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering, Dayalbagh Educational Institute, Agra, India. He was associated with University of Texas at Austin, United States, and University of Manchester, United Kingdom, as a visiting scientist and a research scientist, respectively. He is a senior member of IEEE and a member of IE (India). He has received some reputed national and international awards for his research contributions in the area of microgrid systems. Kalpana Chauhan is Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering, Central University of Haryana, Mahendragarh, India. She was associated with University of Texas at Austin as a visiting scientist. She is a senior member of IEEE, WIE, IAS and an associate member of IE (India). She has received some reputed national and international awards for her research contributions in electrical engineering. Sri Niwas Singh is Vice-Chancellor at MMMUT Gorakhpur and on leave from Professor (HAG), Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Kanpur, India. He is an IEEE Region 10 (Asia-Pacific) Vice-Chairman, Technical Activities 2019-2020. Prof. Singh is Fellows of IEEE, INAE, IET(UK), IE(I), IETE and life member of ISCEE. He has received various reputed national and international awards for his research contributions in electrical engineering and services.

Part I: Fundamentals

Chapter 1: Overview of microgrids for rural areas and low-voltage applications
Chapter 2: Microgrid architectures
Chapter 3: The microgrid investment and planning in rural locations



Part II: Optimization, control and storage

Chapter 4: Assessment of energy saving for integrated CVR control with large-scale electric vehicle connections in microgrids
Chapter 5: Application of energy storage technologies on energy management of microgrids
Chapter 6: Control technique for integration of smart dc microgrid to the utility grid
Chapter 7: Energy management system of a microgrid using particle swarm optimization (PSO) and communication system
Chapter 8: Reconfiguration of distribution network using different optimization techniques
Chapter 9: Intelligent optimization scheduling of isolated microgrids considering energy storage integration, traditional generation, and renewable energy uncertainty costs
Chapter 10: ADMM-based consensus droop control and distributed pinning droop control of isolated AC microgrids



Part III: Converters

Chapter 11: Extendable multiple outputs hybrid converter for AC/DC microgrid
Chapter 12: Multi-input converters for distributed energy resources in microgrids
Chapter 13: Modeling and control of DC-DC converters for DC microgrid application



Part IV: Case studies

Chapter 14: Case studies of microgrids systems
Chapter 15: Smart grid road map and challenges for Turkey
Chapter 16: Nanogrids: good practices and challenges in the projects in Colombia
Chapter 17: Distributed generation deployment in the Libyan MV network: adverse impacts on practised protection scheme in the DN
Chapter 18: Conclusions and future scopes