Mohammad Ghiasi

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• PhD, SMIEEE, Electrical Engineering
• Researcher at University of Regina

Considering the development of artificial intelligence (AI) in various fields, especially the closeness of its function to the human brain in terms of perception and the understanding of sensory and emotional concepts, it can be concluded that this concept is cognitively evolving toward an artificial mind (AM). This article introduces the concept o...

Efficient energy management is crucial for optimizing greenhouse (GH) operations and promoting sustainability. This paper presents a novel multi-objective optimization approach tailored for GH energy management, aiming to minimize grid energy consumption while maximizing battery state of charge (SOC) within a specified time frame. The optimization...

This article introduces a novel method for efficiently and promptly operating protection relays within a power system, with a specific emphasis on adaptive overcurrent (OC) protection in a power grid. The approach utilizes SEL751 and SEL751A relays that communicate through the IEC-61850 GOOSE protocol, establishing connections using intelligent ele...

In the pursuit of sustainable and environmentally friendly energy solutions, the integration of hybrid renewable energy systems has emerged as a promising frontier. Hybrid solar-biomass systems, a captivating fusion of solar and biomass technologies, offer remarkable potential for addressing thermal energy requirements across diverse applications....

Controlling the temperature of office buildings plays an important role in optimal energy management. Using proper heating, ventilation, and airconditioning (HVAC) systems as well as construction material selection of the facility can help to reduce energy costs and CO2 emission. In this paper, we present an analysis of the heating and cooling syst...

In this paper, we develop a fast bus protection and automation strategy for adaptive overcurrent (OC) protection in an AC power network. The system includes the SEL751 and SEL751A relays communicating through IEC61850 generic object-oriented substation event (GOOSE) messages. The two relays can communicate with intelligent electronic devices (IEDs)...

This paper presents an enhanced control strategy for renewable energy resources connected to the grid through voltage-sourced converters (VSCs) in microgrids (MGs). The proposed scheme contains a voltage control loop with the minimum inverter switching, a power-sharing controller with the minimum inverter switching, a negative sequence current cont...

The nature of renewable energy resources (RERs), such as wind energy, makes them highly unstable, unpredictable, and intermittent. As a result, they must be optimized to reduce costs and emissions, increase reliability, and also to find the optimal size and location for RERs and energy storage systems (ESSs). Microgrids (MG) can be modified using E...

The use of plug-in electric vehicles (PEV) and their developing technology can create new challenges to the smart power system. The type, method, and time of charging electric vehicles are also other issues. Allocating and determining the optimal capacity of electric vehicle charging stations (EVCS) is related to the technical requirements of the d...

Due to the advancement in communication networks, metering and smart control systems, as well as the prevalent use of Internet-based structures, new forms of power systems have seen moderate changes with respect to several aspects of contradictory Cyber–Physical Power Systems (CPPSs). These structures usually have connections between power sections...

Vital energy infrastructures in today's evolving society are becoming more complex by distributed networks of cyber-physical systems (CPS). Although CPS provides a great deal of flexibility in the exploitation of critical infrastructure, they can also create other security-based threats which should be suitably addressed in the design and developme...

In an era characterized by severe climate change, dwindling resources, and a growing world population, the agricultural industry is facing unprecedented challenges. On the other hand, overuse of natural resources has emerged as a major concern worldwide. Greenhouses (GHs) have been developed as central environments capable of growing a diverse rang...

Emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence, wireless sensor networks (WSN), Internet of Things (IoT), cloud comput- ing, blockchain, computing algorithms, machine learning-based methods, and communication protocols are the keys for creat- ing new forms of smart energy systems. Smart energy systems and in particular smart grids can provid...

To achieve low‐carbon sustainable energy development, new technologies such as Internet of Energy (IoE), intelligent systems and Internet of Things (IoT) as well as distributed energy generations via smart grids (SG) are gaining attention. The interoperability between intelligent energy systems, realised through the web, enables automatic consumpti...

The limited fossil fuels and the problems associated with greenhouse gas emissions have made clear needs for more and more attention to renewable energies. The high growth of energy consumption in Iran and the exodus of major oil and gas exporters since the end of this century seriously affect the country’s development. Additionally, short-term pla...

To control a smart-island (which comprises three distributed generation (DG) units with their autonomous converters), based on a nonlinear backstepping control (BSC) scheme, an adaptive reference signal, and a state observer are designed to improve the steady-state performance of the system. An adaptive reference value has been designed and used in...

This paper presents a robust model predictive control (RMPC) method with a new mixed H2/H∞ linear time-varying state feedback design. In addition, we propose a linear parameter-varying model for inverters in a microgrid (MG), in which disturbances and uncertainty are considered, where the inverters connect in parallel to renewable energy sources (R...

Nowadays, the role of cyber-physical systems (CPSs) is of paramount importance in power system security since they are more vulnerable to different cyber-attacks. Detection of cyber-attacks on a direct current microgrid (DC-MG) has become a pivotal issue due to the increasing use of them in various electrical engineering applications, from renewabl...

Automation in power distribution systems and supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA), which perform network switching automatically and remotely, depending on the type of configuration, allows distribution companies to flexibly control distribution power grids. Cross-section switches also has a significant role in the automation in distrib...

Cyber-physical threats as false data injection attacks (FDIAs) in islanded smart microgrids (ISMGs) are typical accretion attacks, which need urgent consideration. In this regard, this paper proposes a novel cyber-attack detection model to detect FDIAs based on singular value decomposition (SVD) and fast Fourier transform (FFT). Since new research...

A group of distributed generators (DGs) systems including wind, solar, diesel, energy storage (ES), etc., that are under a central management and control is often considered as virtual power plant (VPP) concept. One of the components of a VPP is ES, whose presence and participation in the electricity market can create business opportunities. In thi...

Today, in various leading power utilities in developing countries, achieving optimal operational energy management and planning, taking into account the costs reduction of generation, transmission and distribution of electricity, and also reducing the emission of an environmental pollutant becomes more and more important. Optimal use of renewable e...

Unexpected natural disasters or physical attacks have various consequences, including extensive and prolonged blackouts on power systems. Energy systems should be designed to be resistant to unwanted events, and its performance is not easily affected by such conditions. Power system should also have sufficient flexibility so that it can adapt to se...

Due to the simultaneous development of DC-microgrids (DC-MGs) and the use of intelligent control, monitoring and operation methods, as well as their structure, these networks can be threatened by various cyber-attacks. Overall, a typical smart DC-MG includes battery, supercapacitors and power electronic devices, fuel cell, solar Photovoltaic (PV) s...

Today, due to the several benefits of using the subway as a clean transportation system and also its expansion in many cities around the world, electrification to urban and suburban railway systems is experiencing a very important development procedure. Optimal power supply and management of energy that is economically viable is one of the importan...

Since Smart Islands (SIs) with advanced cyber infrastructure are extremely vulnerable to cyber-attacks, there is an increasing attention on their cyber security. The False Data Injection attacks by manipulating measurements may result in wrong state estimation (SE) solutions or interfere with the central control system performance. There is a possi...

In this study, an auxiliary damping controller based on a robust controller considering the active and reactive power control loops for a doubly-fed induction generator for wind farms is proposed. The presented controller is able to improve the inter-area oscillation damping. In addition, the proposed controller applies only one accessible local si...

Using blockchain technology as one of the new methods to enhance the cyber and physical security of power systems has grown in importance over the past few years. Blockchain can also be used to improve social welfare and provide sustainable energy for consumers. In this article, the effect of distributed generation (DG) resources on the transmissio...

Due to the widespread use of electric motors in various industries, it is very important to have optimally designed motors in that they have high efficiency and lower negative effects on the quality of the power grid. Therefore, in this paper, the effects of winding type (wide and concentrated) on ripple torque in internal permanent magnet motor (I...

In Smart Island (SI) systems, operators of power distribution system usually utilize actual-time measurement information as the Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) to have an accurate, efficient, advanced control and monitor of whole their system. SI system can be vulnerable to complicated information integrity attacks such as False Data Injecti...

The use of information and communication technologies and computer-based software to enhance the quality, efficiency, and reliability of smart grids (SGs) have brought unwanted threats in these systems; one of the most important of such threats is cyber-attack. Understanding the ways to detect and deal with cyber threats in SGs will increase the re...

Due to the growing use of Renewable Energy Sources (RES) in many countries, the need for an accurate and detailed analysis from the technical and economic view point seems to be necessary. Power Quality (PQ) can also be another considerable matter that needs to be carefully evaluated. In this regards, in this article, an analytical and detailed app...

Distributed Generations (DGs) have a productive capacity of tens of kilowatts to several megawatts, which are used to produce electrical energy at close proximity to consumers, which of the types of DGs can be named solar cells and Photovoltaics (PVs), fuel cells, micro turbines, wind power plants, and etc. If such kinds of power plants are connect...

Renewable energy is investigated as a solution for environmental pollution and mitigating energy tension. Overall, there are two basic subjects in technical and economic evaluation of Renewable Energy Sources (RES) including lack of a general indicator for multi-criteria assessment and difficult to quantify analysis indicators. In this paper, an an...

This paper proposes a framework to extract appropriate locational marginal prices for each type of reserve (up-/down-going reserves at both generation- and demand-sides). The proposed reserve pricing scheme accounts for the lost opportunity of selling the convertible products (energy and reserve). The fair prices can be obtained for capacity reserv...

Minimizing total system failure could improve the reliability of power network in order to optimize power system operation. In this way, reliability analysis has been proposed by researchers to tackle the mentioned problem. This paper investigates an analytical methodology for reliability assessment and failure analysis techniques in an actual dist...

Overall, a power-flow study is a steady-state assessment whose goal is to specify the currents, voltages, and real and reactive flows in a power system under a given load conditions. This paper presents a comparison of common power flow techniques in the Tehran metro power distribution system at the presence of non-linear loads. Moreover, a modelli...

Load flow (LF) is one of the most important parts to study and analyze power system operation. In this research paper, a detailed study for load flow analysis in distributed power system (DPS) is presented. A case study of modeling and simulation of the actual power distribution network is implemented with the electrical transient analyzer program...

Ancillary services is used to refer to a variety of operations beyond generation and transmission which are requested to maintain grid stability, security and reliability of power system. These services generally consist, frequency control, Spinning Reserves (SR) and operating reserves. Accordingly, an accurate day ahead forecast of SR requirement...

in this paper, a new prediction model is introduced based on hybrid forecast engine and new feature selection. In this model, the load signal is filtered by feature selection to filter out the best candidates. Then the proposed forecast engine is predicted the output of feature selection. In this model, the weights of proposed forecast engine is op...

Most loads in the power distribution system of Tehran Metro (Subway) are inductive and lead to poor power factor (PF) especially in Lighting and Power Substation. One of the methods of PF correction is adding or producing the capacitive components within the circuit to eliminate the effect of inductive loads. Optimal capacitor placement (OCP), with...