Members of GIREI presented their reserch in IEEE - Sección Ecuador conference

Quito, martes 1 noviembre 2016
Ramón Pérez being awarded
Ramón Pérez being awarded

 

 

Ramón Pérez, Leony Ortiz, Esteban Inga and Edwin García, UPS professors and members of the Smart Electrical Networks Research Group- (Grupo de Investigación en Redes Eléctricas Inteligentes GIREI), were speakers at the "Primer Encuentro de Capítulos Técnicos IEEE Sección Ecuador, ETCM – 2016" which took place in Guayaquil from the 10th to the 14th of October. The papers presented in this event will be published and indexed in the IEEE data bases Xplore and Scopus.

Researchers from Ecuador, Venezuela, Colombia, Peru, Mexico, Spain, France and Paraguay attended this meeting. There were keynote speeches and presentations of research on electrical engineering, electronics, telecommunications and computing.

During the event, professor Ramon Perez was awarded the Best PES Session Award for his paper. There were about 65 projects in this conference and the university's research group, GIREI, presented four papers:

•    "Fault Location in Distribution Systems with Distributed Generation Using Support Vector Machines and Smart Meters" 

Ramón Pérez and Carmen Vásquez discuss the problem of the continuity of electricity service in distribution networks due to electrical failures that affect both electric service companies and users because electric power must be delivered with high quality standards, and the continuity of the electric service is one of the most important. It also affects users due to losses caused in their production. This research considers the presence of distributed generation sources (wind, hydro, photovoltaic, just to mention a few) in the distribution networks and takes advantage of the information provided by smart meters to improve the indices of continuity of electric service and therefore the quality of life of society.

•    "Reconfiguration Strategy for Fault Tolerance of Power Distribution Systems Using Petri Net" 

 Leony Ortiz and Jorge W. Gonzalez, presented a new heuristic strategy for the development of a model for the reconfiguration of the Fault Tolerant Distribution System (DSFT) using Petri nets. The researchers aim to facilitate the maintenance of power supply quality levels for a large majority of users in an intelligent distribution system.

•    "Optimal Geographic Placement of PMU for Wide Area Measurement System"). 

Esteban Inga, Roberto Hincapié, Carlos Paida and Santiago Espinosa, authors of the article, present a methodology to solve the problem of the optimal placement of Wide Area Measurement Systems (WAMS) in a transmission system of electric power. The aim is to make a preliminary analysis of optimal placement of PMUs in order to optimize the costs of the communications network by minimizing the connection distances between each node, at the same time it guarantees the complete observability of the system

•    "Demand response systems for integrating energy storage batteries for residential users"). Edwin Garcia and Idi Isaac, authors of the article, optimize the response to electricity demand in the residential sector, where the energy needed to supply demand is supplied by the electricity system, aiming to flatten the peak of the demand curve. The project promotes the conservation of energy by users without affecting its comfort. 

The projects were done with the cooperation of the Transmission and Distribution of Electric Energy Research Group and the Development and Application in Telecommunications and Informatics (GIDATI) Research Group from Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana, Medellín.