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The FREEDM Center: Development of a Smart Power Distribution System
Date: Thursday, November 19th, 2009
Location: SRP Information Services Building (ISB), 1600 N Priest Dr, Tempe, AZ 85281
Speaker: Dr. Gerald Heydt, ASU
Topic: "The FREEDM Center: Development of a Smart Power Distribution System"
This presentation describes a new National Science Foundation supported 'Engineering Research Center'. The center is named the FREEDM center with the acronym being the Future Renewable Electric Energy Distribution Management center. The center has as its mission the integration of renewable resources into power distribution systems. There are several main points of focus of the center, and most of these relate to power electronic solutions. The concept of a solid state transformer and a solid state circuit breaker shall be discussed. Also, the integration of renewable resources entails control and management of power flow – and this is done using advanced control theory. The essence of the control is the management of multiobjectives.
The mission of the center also includes a substantial educational component, and this effort will be described. The FREEDM center is a consortium of North Carolina State University, Arizona State University, the Missouri University of Science and Technology, Florida State University, and Florida A&M University.
Speaker Bio:
Dr. Gerald T. Heydt is a Regents' Professor at Arizona State University. His BSEE is from the Cooper Union in New York, and MSEE and PhD from Purdue in West LaFayette, Indiana. He has industrial experience with the Commonwealth Edison Co. in Chicago and E. G. & G. in Mercury, Nevada. He is a Fellow of the IEEE and member of the National Academy of Engineering. He is the 2010 recipient of the IEEE PES Kaufmann Award for Distribution Engineering.
