Dr. Dexin Wang, Pacific Northwest National Lab & Sajan Sadanandan, Washington State University

Tuesday, September 15 •  11:00 AM – Noon (PT)

Overview

As part of the efforts of the WS-PNNL Advanced Grid Institute (AGI), this proposed work aims to develop our core capabilities and tailor this research to provide additional interaction between WSU and PNNL to further nurture joint capabilities in areas of strategic importance to the electric power grid research at both institutions. The objective of the GridSandbox project is to develop an open-access modeling and co-simulation environment based on HELICS, named GridSandbox, for grid architecture design and all-hazard assessment. The initial efforts focus on developing an early-stage GridSandbox for testing, evaluating, and demonstrating the competing architectures of the power system applications with substantial engineering rigor by leveraging many existing research efforts from both PNNL and WSU. In this presentation, we will show a use case of the GridSandbox on wide-area power system stabilizer. 

Bio

Dr. Dexin Wang is an Electrical Engineer in the Optimization and Control Group at PNNL. He received his PhD in Electrical Engineering with a focus on telecommunications systems from Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO (2019). Since joining PNNL, he has been working on projects related to grid resilience and transactive systems, with a special focus on communication-dependent grid functions and co-simulations.

K S Sajan is currently a Postdoc Researcher in the Energy System Innovation Center at Washington State University. His research focus encompasses power system engineering, transmission and distribution system analysis, and cyber-physical resilient design of the smart grid. He received his MTech and PhD degrees from the Department of Electrical Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology in Roorkee, India, 2010 and 2016, respectively. Previously, he worked as a Software Engineer Specialist in GE India Industrial Private Limited, Hyderabad, India as a key developer working on GE’s new technology initiative (NTI) to integrate Phasor data from the WAMS system with conventional GE’s E-terra Real-Time Energy Management Platform (EMP).