based on the problems caused by today conventional vehicles, much attention has been put on the fuel cell vehicles researches. however, using a fuel cell system is not adequate alone in transportation applications, because the load power profile includes transient that is not compatible with the fuel cell dynamic. to resolve this problem, hybridization of the fuel cell and energy storage device...

The smart-power-grid brings opportunity and challenges to the power system protection and control. In previous century, there has nothing variation in the fundamental structure of the electrical power grid and vehicle networks. Rapid progress in communication and measurement techniques sharpens progress of Wide area Protection depend on the wide area measurement system. Smart-power-grid is cons...

Power system protection in electrical power engineering aims at eliminating a faulted part in an electric network from an otherwise healthy power system. Protection coordination involves a process of best timing any faulted currents so as to reduce the extension of outage areas to a minimum after a fault clearance. In the paper, innovative protection methods and devices widely based on computer...

the renewable energy sources and plug-in electric vehicles (pevs) are becoming very popular because of the combination of high fuel costs and concerns about emission issues. this paper presents modelling and control of a building integrated fuel cell and plug-in electric vehicles (bifc-pev) in smart distribution systems. in bifc-pev system, conventional building elements could be replaced by sp...

Power systems should have acceptable reliability in order to operate properly. Highly available and dependable protective relays help to obtain the desirable reliability. The relays should be periodically evaluated during specific intervals to achieve the mentioned characteristics. The Routine Test Interval (RTI) should be optimized in order to economically maximize the reliability of the prote...

The declining reliability of the US electric power system is raising major concerns amongst both politicians and power engineers in the USA. One of the reasons put forward by the North Electric Reliability Council (NERC) is the detrimental role played by the protection systems during large disturbances, which tend to help the perturbations to propagate through over-tripping of fault free system...