Stillingstittel:
PhD position at Department of Electric Power Engineering within "Power system protection in a smartgrid perspective".

Stillingsbeskrivelse:

The Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) creates knowledge for a better world and solutions that can change everyday life. On 1 January 2016, NTNU will merge with the University Colleges of Ålesund, Gjøvik and Sør-Trøndelag. The merger will give us more comprehensive educational offerings and larger research environments. Together, our four institutions will create Norway's most exciting, innovative and largest university.

Jobbnorge ID: 120369

The Faculty of Information Technology, Mathematics and Electrical Engineering, http://www.ntnu.edu/ime at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) has a vacancy for a 100% position as a Research fellow at Department of Electric Power Engineering http://www.ntnu.edu/elkraft .

 

Information about the department of Electrical Power Engineering

Currently there are 13 professors and 4 associate professors at the department. In addition

there are 6 adjunct associate professors, 4 postdoctoral researchers, approx. 40 active PhD students, and 15 technical/administrative staff. Research activities are organized into two groups; Electric Power Apparatus and Electric Power systems.

 

The department has a wide range of teaching responsibilities, ranging from fundamental education in electric power engineering for other engineering students, Master's programs in Energy and Environment, International MSc programs within Electric Power Engineering and Wind Energy, as well as PhD education and continuing education.

 

 

Work description

Within the KPN project "Power system protection in a smartgrid perspective - ProSmart" at NTNU there is one vacant PhD positions.

 

The ProSmart project addresses power system protection challenges in the future power system. The core of the project will be to utilize communication technology to improve autonomous protection of distributed sources and wide-area monitoring to reduce the risk of blackouts. The project will address the areas of distributed sources, wide-area protection, communication, system robustness, security and performance, and demonstration labs. The project will fund four PhD project in total. Three other PhD positions are recently occupied. These are 1) Protection with distributed generation, 2) Wide-area protection, and 3) Communication for protection purposes.

 

PhD project: Protection system integration and performance

This forth project will deal with the integration of relaying and communication in a protection system. The project has established a real-time simulation environment (OPAL-RT) with process and station bus capabilities (IEC 61850), and part of the work can be practical hardware in loop testing. The project will also investigate beneficial system information structures and algorithms from optimal data sharing. Data overload is occurring and the "big data" problem needs solutions. Possible elements;

• Instrument transformers, sensors, transducers, and merging units

• Data concentrators, protocol converters, and vector processors

• Effects of time delays on wide-area performance

• Algorithms centralized/distributed/hierarchical

• Real-time computing performance (algorithms and data mining)

• Correct power system protection and control performance - Security

• Optimization of high-speed wide area control calculations

• Synchrophasor bad data identification and state estimation

 

 

Qualifications

Applicants must hold a M.Sc. degree

Minstelønn: 0

Maksimal lønn: 0

Arbeidsgiver Navn: NTNU - Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelig

Arbeidsgiver adresse: O.S. Bragstads plass 2E 7491 TRONDHEIM

Job kort beskrivelse: University and higher education teachers

Land: Norge

Region: Sør-Trøndelag

Kilde til jobbtilbud: NAV, Offentlige arbeidsformidlinger, Norge

Lønn valuta: NOK

Lønn periode: Pr. år