Hybrid AC/DC Microgrids: Optimization, Energy Management, and Protection is a practical and holistic guide to the opportunities and challenges of this essential energy system technology. The book builds from fundamental concepts of design and operation management to recent advances and specific, practical scenarios. Combining both power management and quality control with real-world risk assessments, the book's chapters cover power generation options, including wind, solar, and hydrogen. Modeling techniques, fault detection, and protection via both physical and AI methods are included and demonstrated, along with clearly formatted case studies, objectives, and worked problems to support reader understanding.
Including guidance for protection and resilience in both normal and abnormal conditions, this book prepares students, researchers, and industry engineers to design and maintain energy grids that will weather climate change and support a clean energy future.
- Builds a foundational understanding of the key principles, challenges, and opportunities of this approach to microgrid design and maintenance
- Equips readers with practical skills through worked and workable problems, real-world case studies, and a holistic perspective
- Provides the first volume in the new Advances in Sustainable Microgrid Technologies series
Sayed Abulanwar (Senior Member, IEEE) – Currently with Electronic and Electrical Engineering Department, University of Strathclyde Bahrain. He is also, Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Mansoura University, Egypt. He is Guest Associate Editor of IET Renewable Power Generation, Process and Energy Systems Engineering, and Sustainable Energy Systems, and Associate Editor of Alexandria Engineering Journal. He is a Guest Editor for the IET Renewable Power Generation for Special Issue: Applications of Artificial Intelligence in Renewable Energy Systems. He is also Guest Editor for Special Issues: Planning and Operation of Hybrid Renewable Energy Systems, Volume II, III, Frontiers in Energy Research. He is co-author of the book AI for Power Electronics and Renewable Energy Systems, IET 2024. He delivered keynote speech in various international conferences and participated in various international research projects. His research includes hybrid AC/DC Microgrids, protection of AC and DC systems, wind energy conversion systems, transients in power systems and intelligent energy systems.
Zhe Chen has been a full Professor with the Department of Energy Technology at Aalborg University, Denmark, since 2002, where he also leads the Wind Power System Research team. His main research interests include renewable energy, power electronics, power systems, and multi-energy systems. He has led many research projects and published more than 1000 publications in these fields. Prof. Chen is an Associate Editor for the journal IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, a member of editorial boards for many international journals, a Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET, London, U.K.), and a Chartered Engineer in the U.K.
Weihao Hu is currently a Full Professor and the Director of the Institute of Smart Power and Energy Systems at the University of Electronics Science and Technology of China, China. Previously, he was an Associate Professor and the Vice Program Leader of Wind Power System Research Program at Aalborg University, Denmark. He is an Associate Editor for IET Renewable Power Generation, a Guest Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Modern Power Systems and Clean Energy Special Issue on 'Applications of Artificial Intelligence in Modern Power Systems', the Guest Editor-in Chief of the Transactions of China Electrical Technology Special Issue on 'Planning and operation of multiple renewable energy complementary power generation systems', and the Guest Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Power Systems Special Issue on 'Enabling very high penetration renewable energy integration into future power systems'. His research interests include artificial intelligence in modern power systems and renewable power generation.
Mohammad E.M. Rizk is currently an Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Mansoura University, Egypt, and has been a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Electrical Engineering and Automation of Aalto University, Finland, since 2017. His research interests include power system transients, lightning overvoltages in power systems, and transient electromagnetic fields. Dr Rizk received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Mansoura University, Egypt (2007 and 2011) respectively, and his doctorate degree from Aalto University, Finland (2016).
Abdelhady Ghanem is currently an Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering in the Faculty of Engineering at Mansoura University, Egypt. His research interests include electrical systems modeling, renewable power generation, power system analysis and control, grid-connected power electronics converters, fault diagnosis, and stability analysis.
