Mohamadreza Baradar
About me
Mohamadreza was born in Iran. He received his M.Sc. and Licentiate degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Tehran and Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in 2010 and 2013, respectively. He is currently working towards a Ph.D. degree.
Licentiate Thesis: Modeling of Multi Terminal HVDC Systems in Power Flow and Optimal Power Flow Formulations
Nowadays, due to lack of a strong interconnection between electric power systems within EU, there is a concern about the restricted power exchange. On the other hand, one of the factors which results in necessity of improving the level of power exchange is development of renewable energy sources such as offshore wind farms. Multi-terminal HVDC (MTDC) systems are supposed to be one of the cost-effective ways to aggregate a huge amount of renewable energies on one side and on the other side connect it to the main AC system through a common DC network.
Possibility of such connections has led to the proposition of a meshed DC grid which connects several renewable energy sources and large AC systems In order to fully take advantages of such AC-DC systems in the realsize power systems, extensive research has to be carried out to reveal their steady state and dynamic behavior. This thesis addresses different steady state aspects of such hybrid AC-DC systems.
Licentiate Thesis: Modeling of Multi Terminal HVDC Systemsin Power Flow and Optimal Power Flow Formulations, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden 2013, isbn: 978-91-7501-606-1.
PhD Thesis : Pricing voltage control ancillary services and design of its trading arrangements in the presence of large amounts of wind power in the AC-DC transmission systems
The penetration of huge amounts of renewable energies into the power systems has changed the operation and investment in the electric power systems. One of these changes is the wind power impact on the voltage stability of the system. The wind power injection to the system might jeopardise the voltage stability of the power system. In this situation, there should be some mechanisms to recover the voltage stability of the system.
Aim of this PhD project is to investigate the pricing mechanisms for voltage stability services in the AC-DC transmission systems with large amounts of renewable energies such as wind power.
Courses:
Power System Analysis, part 2, fall 2010, Teacher Assistant.
FACTS and HVDC in Electric Power Systems, spring 2011, Teacher Assistant.
FACTS and HVDC in Electric Power Systems, spring 2012, Course coordinator and Teacher Assistant .
Students:
1- Reinhard Kaisinger "Electrical Modelling of a Thermal Power Station" Master thesis, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), graduated in September 2011 .
2- Ali Erbay “Parameter Study of Ferro-resonance with harmonic balance method”, Master thesis, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), graduated in August 2012.
3- David Petesch “Modelling and analysis of the stability of an electric power system in case of DC current links’ insertion”, Master thesis, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), graduated in January 2013.
4- Shan Huang "Large Scale Application of the Conic Optimal Power Flow" , Master thesis, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), ongoing.
Publications:
Journal Papers:
1- Baradar, M.; Hesamzadeh, M. R. ; Ghandhari, M. ; , ” Second-Order Cone Programming for Optimal Power Flow in VSC-type AC-DC Grids," Power Systems, IEEE Transactions on, In Press.
2- Baradar, M.; Ghandhari, M.; , "A Multi-Option Unified Power Flow Approach for Hybrid AC/DC Grids Incorporating Multi-Terminal VSC-HVDC," Power Systems, IEEE Transactions on , vol.28, no.3, pp.2376,2383, Aug. 2013.
3- Baradar, Mohamadreza; Hesamzadeh, Mohammad R, "AC Power Flow Representation in Conic Format ", Power Systems, IEEE Transactions on, 2014 (In Press) .
4- Baradar, M; Hesamzadeh, M. R, " A SOCP Approach for Optimal Tuning of Shunt FACTS Devices and VSC-MTDC Systems", submitted to International Journal of Electrical Power & Energy Systems, 2014, March.
5- Baradar, M; Hesamzadeh, M. R, "Market Power on Ramp-Rate Caused by Wind Power Contingencies: Analysis and Prediction", submitted to Power Systems, IEEE Transactions on.
Conference Papers:
1- Baradar, M.; Ghandhari, M.; Van Hertem, D., "The modeling multi-terminal VSC-HVDC in power flow calculation using unified methodology," Innovative Smart Grid Technologies (ISGT Europe), 2011 2nd IEEE PES International Conference and Exhibition on , vol., no., pp.1,6, 5-7 Dec. 2011.
2- Baradar, M.; Hesamzadeh, M.R.; Ghandhari, M., "Modelling of multi-terminal HVDC systems in optimal power flow formulation," Electrical Power and Energy Conference (EPEC), 2012 IEEE , vol., no., pp.170,175, 10-12 Oct. 2012.
3- Baradar, M.; Ghandhari, M.; Van Hertem, D.; Kargarian, A., "Power flow calculation of hybrid AC/DC power systems," Power and Energy Society General Meeting, 2012 IEEE , vol., no., pp.1,6, 22-26 July 2012.
4- Baradar, M.; Hesamzadeh, M.R.; Ghandhari, M., "Ohmic loss minimization in AC transmission systems with embedded DC grids," Industrial Electronics Society, IECON 2013 - 39th Annual Conference of the IEEE , vol., no., pp.2117,2120, 10-13 Nov. 2013.
5- Baradar, M.; Afsharnia, S.; Sanaye-Pasand, M., "A fast method for fault section identification in series compensated transmission lines," Environment and Electrical Engineering (EEEIC), 2010 9th International Conference on , vol., no., pp.483,486, 16-19 May 2010.
6- Baradar, M. ; Hesamzadeh, Mohammad R, "Calculating Negative LMPs from SOCP-OPF", submitted to ENERGYCON 2014, May.
7- Baradar, M. ; Hesamzadeh, Mohammad R , "A Stochastic SOCP Optimal Power Flow With Wind Power Uncertainties", accepted for publication in Power and Energy Society General Meeting, 2014, July.
8- Baradar, M. Hesamzadeh, Mohammad R, "Voltage Stability Margin Affected by High Wind Power Penetration", accepted for publication in AORC-CIGRE Technical Meeting 2014, May.
9- Kargarian, A.; Falahati, B.; Yong Fu; Baradar, M., "Multiobjective optimal power flow algorithm to enhance multi-microgrids performance incorporating IPFC," Power and Energy Society General Meeting, 2012 IEEE , vol., no., pp.1,6, 22-26 July 2012.
10- Siavashi, E.M.; Baradar, M.; Afsharnia, S.; Bina, M.T., "Novel method for fault section identification," Power Electronics and Intelligent Transportation System (PEITS), 2009 2nd International Conference on, vol.1, no., pp.179,184, 19-20 Dec. 2009.
11- Siavashi, E.M.; Afsharnia, S.; Bina, M.T.; Zadeh, M.K.; Baradar, M., "Frequency estimation of distorted signals in power systems using particle extended Kalman filter," Power Electronics and Intelligent Transportation System (PEITS), 2009 2nd International Conference on , vol.1, no., pp.174,178, 19-20 Dec. 2009.
Presentations:
1- Baradar, M. Hesamzadeh, Mohammad R, "Optimal Network Operations using a SOCP-OPF model", to be presented in IFORS 2014.