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Hassan Bevrani received PhD degree in electrical engineering from Osaka University in 2004. Currently, he is a full professor and the Program Leader of Micro/Smart Grids Research Center (SMGRC) at the University of Kurdistan. Over the years, he has worked as senior research fellow and visiting professor with Osaka University, Kumamoto University, Kyushu Institute of Technology, Doshisha University, Nagoya University (Japan), Queensland University of Technology (Australia), Centrale Lille (France), and Technical University of Berlin (Germany). He is the author/coauthor of 9 international books, 15 book chapters, and more than 500 journal/conference papers. Prof. Bevrani is a Fellow member of IEEE, and he was the gust editor of several volumes of Elsevier Energy Procedia and Energy Reports. His current research interests include Smart grid operation and control, power system stability, Microgrid dynamics and control, and Intelligent/robust control applications in power electric industry.  

 

Prof. Chul-Hwan Kim is an IEEE Fellow, KIEE Fellow and earned his B. S., M. S., and Ph. D. degrees in electrical engineering from Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul, Korea, in 1982, 1984, and 1990, respectively. In 1996, 1998, and 1999, he was a visiting academic at the University of Bath, U.K. Currently, he serves as a professor at School of Electrical and Electronics Engineering of Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul, Korea(South). Now, he is a Distingished Professor of Sungkyunkwan University. He was a Part-time Distinguished Professor of Shandong University in China(Mar. 2025 ~ Feb. 2026) also.
He was technical program committees co-chair of IPST(International Conference on Power System Transients) 2023 and the local program committee chair of IPST 2017. Also, he is a steering committee member of IPST. He was president of Power Engineering Society of KIEE and Korea Institute of Electrical Engineers(KIEE, 50th) in 2018 and 2021, respectively.
Furthermore, since 2008, he is a member of technical review panel of an international conference on Developments in Power System Protection (DPSP) organized by IET, U.K. Furthermore, he serves as an esteemed editorial board member for IEEE Power and Energy magazine, International Journal of Electrical Power & Energy Systems (IJEPES), and Protection and Control of Modern Power Systems. Additionally, he holds the role of editor in Electrical Power Systems Research (EPSR) at Elsevier. His research includes power system protection, transients analysis, renewable generation, and analysis & protection of MVDC, and LVDC systems.  

Title of Speech: Modelling and Protection of IBR Dominated Transmission Network: Recent Trend and Approaches 

Abstract: Rapid growth in interconnection of solar photovoltaic and Type III or IV wind energy conversion sources to the transmission network is creating new challenges for protection engineers. These resources have integrated converters which have different behavior during the fault than traditional resources. These resources are referred to as an inverter-based resource (IBR) for convenience. In order to develop the protection scheme, it need to analysis the fault response(fault characteractics) of the IBR. But, it is not easy and there are many research approach under progressing.
Thus, the traditional transmission network protection relays cannot be suitable for the IBR based facilities and require additional control strategies for fault detection and removal. Hence many countries adopt their own grid codes to connect and regulate the IBR based facilities. It need to develop the suitable protection scheme for the transmission network based on the IBR’s fault response. Through this keynote lecture, I would like to mention about the recent trends in modelling and protection algorithms for IBR-dominated transmission networks.  

 

Taku Noda was involved in the development of a power system simulation program at the Bonneville Power Administration which is under DOE of the United States, when he was a PhD student. Then, he obtained his PhD and joined the Central Research Institute of Electric Power Industry (CRIEPI). In 2006, he started developing a new power system simulation program called XTAP (eXpandable Transient Analysis Program) so as to meet simulation needs of utility companies in Japan. After the Great East Japan Earthquake, XTAP is heavily used for studies related to the incorporation of renewable energy sources, wide area hvdc interconnections and so on. XTAP is a computer program for the waveform-level simulations of power systems.