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IEEE
Power & Energy Society
General Meeting, July 27-31, 2014
CURENT teams up with
ORNL to win R&D100
Award
Congratulations Faculty
At the 2014 IEEE Power and Energy Systems General
Meeting, several CURENT faculty were recognized for their
contributions.
IEEE PES Charles Concordia
Power Systems Engineering
Award
Joe Hong Chow
ORNL in partnership with SPX
Transformer Solutions Inc. and the
University of Tennessee have developed
the Continuously Variable Series
Reactor (CVSR), which recently won
the prestigious R&D100 Award.
The CVSR is a high power magnetic
amplifier that controls power flow in
power systems. In operation, where
conditions constantly change, a single
CVSR will provide smoothly variable
alternating current circuit impedance,
while a number of coordinated CVSR’s
installed throughout the power system
can provide full power system control.
CVSR’s unique design helps to ensure
full use of power system assets,
increased reliability and efficiency and
effective use of renewable resources.
For the development of analysis techniques and innovative
control and measurement systems to improve power system
performance and reliability
IEEE PES Outstanding Power
Engineering Educator Award
Ali Abur
For contributions to the instructional computer-based tools and
methods for teaching power
system state estimation
Kevin Tomsovic also received a
Distinguished Service Award
The research is funded by DOE’s
Advanced Research Project AgencyEnergy under the Green Electricity
Network Integration program. The
technology was developed by Dr.
Aleksander Dimitrovski and Dr. Burak
Ozpineci. Dr. Kevin Tomsoic and Dr.
Yilu Liu are part of the award wiinning
team from CURENT.
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