Fault Locations for Smart Grids

Dear Colleagues,

This is my pleasure to announce a Special Issue of Energies on “Fault Locations for Smart Grids” and invite you to contribute your recent results.

Smart grids have facilitated the interconnection of the different units in the power system, and the intelligence of the grid system has been improved by the multidirectional flow of information from the consumer to the substation and from the generation unit toward the distribution and consumption. Therefore, the security and efficiency of smart grids are expected to be superior to those of traditional power systems and the robustness and resiliency of services are expected to increase.

However, on the dark side of the distributed platform of the smart connection of consumer sensors to substations, there is a risk of propagating faults to neighbors via communication paths, connection ports, circuit breakers, etc. Therefore, fault diagnosis, system monitoring and management are crucial for the secure performance of smart grids as well as safe service provision.

This Special Issue is intended to focus on the Fault Locations for Smart Grids and explore the fault universe of the various components in smart grids. Moreover, the state-of-the-art diagnosis methods will be studied in terms of both model-based and data-based approaches.

Researchers and contributors are invited to submit novel solution methods to address the different aspects of fault diagnosis. Potential topics include but are not limited to:

• Fault monitoring technologies;
• Communication infrastructure;
• Physical models for the fault diagnosis;
• Data measurement for fault diagnosis in smart grids;
• Control methodologies for fault mitigation;
• System-wide impacts of component faults in smart grids;
• Cascading failure of components in smart grids;
• Identification of sensor gaps for faults minimization;
• Decentralized control for fault mitigation;
• Observer design for data measurement;
• State-estimation-based methods;
• Classification-based methods;
• Resilient power generation;
• Data feature extraction for fault localization;
• Domain transformation for fault localization;
• Chemical diagnosis of components;
• Thermal diagnosis of components;
• Mechanical diagnosis of components;
• Optimization methods for fault impairment in smart grids;
• Robust control methods for fault tolerance;
• Intelligent methods for fault detection and minimization;
• Reliability of power distribution networks;
• Attack-resilient control in micro grids;
• Fault locations in low-voltage and DC smart grids;
• Local and nonlocal measurement-based techniques.

Kind Regards,

Dr. Ebrahim Navid Sadjadi
Dr. Farhad Shahnia
Dr. Behrooz Vahidi
Prof. Dr. Josep M. Guerrero
Guest Editors

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