In restoring a power system after a major disturbance, system operators often encounter an excessive standing phase angle difference (SPA) between two buses of a circuit breaker when a transmission line is energized and results in a loop closure. Under such a condition, there is high risk of damage to nearby generators and other equipments for the breaker/loop closure operation. Since the SPA v...

Wireless sensor networks are emerging as a new computational platform consisting of small, low-power and inexpensive nodes used in a broad set of application areas including environmental monitoring, habitat monitoring and disaster recovery. Typically sensor nodes are deployed over a geographical area for the purpose of detecting, tracking and monitoring events of interest. Since sensor nodes a...

This paper considers the restoration of multiple interdependent infrastructures after a man-made or natural disaster. Modern infrastructures feature complex cyclic interdependencies and require a holistic restoration process. This paper presents the first scalable approach for the last-mile restoration of the joint electrical power and gas infrastructures. It builds on an earlier threestage dec...

Service restoration in power distribution system involves operating the line switches to restore as many loads as possible for the areas isolated by a fault. In case of partial restoration, the supply must be restored to highest priority customers (e.g. hospitals) and this fact should be reflected in the final solution of service restoration problem. Thus service restoration problem is formulat...

The ant colony algorithm is a new technique for combinatorial optimization borrowed from swarm intelligence. This paper outlines an ant colony algorithm to compute the optimal order of restoring sections in a power distribution system. Restoration of distribution feeders after long interruptions creates cold load pickup conditions due to loss of diversity among the loads. The distribution syste...

This paper considers the restoration of multiple interdependent infrastructures after a man-made or natural disaster. Modern infrastructures feature complex cyclic interdependencies and require a holistic restoration process. This paper presents the first scalable approach for the last-mile restoration of the joint electrical power and gas infrastructures. It builds on an earlier threestage dec...

This paper deals with the simulation and experimental confirmation of electromagnetic events that could interfere successful formation restoration path during power system procedure. The studied phenomena are more relevant for bulk systems characterized by a low short circuit as backbone. In particular, two case studies have been simulated analyzed: one related to transformer energization path,...