The transportation sector in the US consumes 28% of total energy consumption for transporting people and goods. Roughly 92% of transportation is fueled by gasoline, diesel and jet fuel, with electricity providing less than 1% of transportation energy…
The transportation sector in the US consumes 28% of total energy consumption for transporting people and goods. Roughly 92% of transportation is fueled by gasoline, diesel and jet fuel, with electricity providing less than 1% of transportation energy…
The seven papers included in this special section focus on reliability, resilience, and prognostics modeling of complex engineering systems. This topic has become very challenging due to factors such as complex physical interdependence and functional…
Until now, structured and unstructured networks have been considered in absentia of each other. We believe that next-generation P2P services would require both structured and unstructured algorithms, and that it therefore makes sense to consider a…
This chapter aims to acquaint the reader with the discipline of grid architecture as the basis for introducing a structural approach to the definition, characterization, and analysis of electric power system resilience. It provides the reader with an…
As extreme weather events have become more frequent in recent years, improving the resilience and reliability of power systems has become an important area of concern. In this paper, a robust preventive-corrective security-constrained optimal power…
This paper describes about an efficient control strategy applied to DC Microgrid based on various surveys conducted for this study. This DC microgrid is integrated with renewable energy sources. For any Microgrid structure, an efficient control…
Resilience is defined as the ability of the power system to maintain a desirable level of performance against severe turbulence and restore over an appropriate period of time. Adverse weather conditions and natural disasters have always led to…
WSNs are multihop networks, which depend on the intermediate nodes to relay the data packet to the destination. These nodes are equipped with lesser memory, limited battery power, little computation capability, small range of communication and need a…
An increasing number of large-scale distributed systems are being built by incorporating Cloud, Fog, and Edge computing. There is an important need of understanding how to ensure the resilience of systems built using Cloud, Fog, and Edge computing.…
Resilience is used to assess the ability to maintain and recover system performance in an extreme weather, which is one of the most important performance indicators of smart grid. A model for evaluating the hurricane resilience of distribution…
Underground cables are a distributed asset in the network which is hard to monitor and perform maintenance. The fault detection and asset management routine practiced by the power system industry are reliability-based but with an increase of extreme…
The increase in the number and scale of natural disasters in recent years poses a serious threat and damage to the power system. In turn, total abstinence from damage caused by natural disasters or emergencies is much more difficult and impossible…
Networked flying platforms can be used to provide cellular coverage and capacity. Given that 5G and beyond networks are expected to be always available and highly reliable, resilience and reliability of these networks must be investigated. This paper…
This paper is based on the premise that the principal purpose of science and technological development should be the well-being of society in harmony with environmental sustainability. Vaclav Smil [1] argues “commonly used measures of energy use – be…
In this paper, we develop a controller prototype of a hospital's microgrid energy management system, which integrates distributed energy resources to increase resilience and sustainability. We define the resilience objective as restoration of power…
The digital transformation brought on by 5G is redefining current models of end-to-end (E2E) connectivity and service reliability to include security-by-design principles necessary to enable 5G to achieve its promise. 5G trustworthiness highlights…
Microgrid (MG) is a small-scale, self-sufficient power system that accommodates various distributed energy resources (DERs), controllable loads, and future distribution systems. Networked microgrids (NMGs) are clusters of MGs, which are physically…
Batteries are increasingly becoming a more viable form of grid-level energy storage as time progresses. Among the different types of batteries present, Li-ion batteries have particularly gained widespread popularity due to their high energy density,…
Civil infrastructure provides the range of essential services generally necessary to support a nation's economy and quality of life - arguably entire economies rely on the ability to move goods, people, and information safely and reliably.…
Cloud computing becoming popular now day as, the world is moving towards vitalization and it provide resource to the users depending on their needs by using different resource allocation technique. Resilience and reliability is one of the major issue…
Power grids are cyber-physical systems and can be modelled as network systems where individual units (generators, busbars and loads) are interconnected through physical and cyber links. Network components (nodes/edges) may undergo intentional and/or…
Recent years have witnessed an increasing frequency of disasters, both natural and human-induced. This applies pressure to critical infrastructures (CIs). Among all the CI sectors, the energy infrastructure plays a critical role, as almost all other…
Recent years have seen the increasing complexity of engineered systems. Complexity and uncertainty also exist in engineered systems’ interactions with human operators, managers, and the organization. Resilience, focusing on a system’s ability to…
Infrastructure systems, including transportation, telecommunications, water supply, and electric power networks, are faced with growing number of disruptions such as natural disasters, malevolent attacks, human-made accidents, and common failures,…
Many systems on our planet shift abruptly and irreversibly from the desired state to an undesired state when forced across a “tipping point”. Some examples are mass extinctions within ecosystems, cascading failures in infrastructure systems, and…
This paper describes management practices of a model resilient electric utility that can serve as a framework for advancing planning and preparation for extreme weather and climate hazards. The framework focuses on practices grouped into eight…
The regional integrated energy system (RIES) is widely adopted from the viewpoints of energy saving, emissions reduction and resilience enhancement. Especially, in case of external energy supply interruption caused by extreme events, a RIES can…
The term resilience describes the ability to survive and quickly recover from extreme and unexpected disruptions. A high energy system resilience is of utmost importance to modern societies that are highly dependent on continued access to energy…
The world has been experiencing natural disasters and man-made attacks on power system networks over the past few decades. These occurrences directly affect electricity infrastructures, thereby resulting in immense economic loss. The electric…
A district integrated energy system characterized by multi-energy complementary and supply-demand interaction is a new idea to promote the resilience of urban energy systems. Compared with the post-disaster emergency response and rapid recovery,…
Modeling and evaluating the resilience of systems, potentially complex and large-scale in nature, has recently raised significant interest among both practitioners and researchers. This recent interest has resulted in several definitions of the…
In this paper, the multi carrier energy (MCE) systems are reviewed from different point of views including mathematical models, integrated components and technologies, uncertainty management, planning objectives, environmental pollution, resilience,…
Recent years have witnessed an increasing frequency of disasters, both natural and human-induced. This applies pressure to critical infrastructures (CIs). Among all the CI sectors, the energy infrastructure plays a critical role, as almost all other…
While power systems that can legitimately be called microgrids—locally controlled power systems that can function either as grid connected or as electrical islands—have existed since the dawn of the industry, their modern development has mostly…
Integrated energy system (IES) is the composite infrastructure system with subsystems such as electricity, natural gas, heat/cooling, etc. IES can improve efficiency, reduce pollution emission, and lower the dependence of economy on fossil fuels. IES…
Microgrids are being increasing deployed to improve the operational flexibility, resilience, coordinated-energy management capabilities, self-adequacy, and increased reliability of power systems. This strong market growth is also driven by advances…
The United States is affected by an average of almost seven severe weather events a year, often resulting in billions of dollars in physical and economic damages, a subset of which are related to grid outages. There is a need for power and energy…
Due to the spread of pandemic coronavirus disease (COVID-19), health care centers have been encountered an increasing number of infected patients. Therefore, the resilience of hospitals during unpredicted power outages would be a concerning issue…
Differentiation of resilience from reliability has been a heated topic ever since the emergence of the former upon the limitation, and as a complement, of the latter, while finding the common ground for both has been scarce. This study first picks…
Low-income households face long-standing challenges of energy insecurity and inequality (EII). During extreme events (e.g., disasters and pandemics) these challenges are especially severe for vulnerable populations reliant on energy for health,…
This paper is concerned with the resilient design and operations of process systems in response to disruption events. A general framework for resilience optimization is proposed that incorporates an improved quantitative measure of resilience and a…
As one of the most strategically important natural resources, crude oil can be dangerous to transport by sea. The resilience of a maritime transport network denotes the ability of the system to withstand damage and remain operational after…
Power systems are exceedingly faced with extreme events such as natural disasters and deliberate attacks. In comparison, the underground natural gas system is considered less vulnerable to such extreme events. We consider that the overhead power grid…
The proliferation of power-to-gas technology can propound a tailored platform to physically integrate power systems and natural gas grids. These integrated energy systems with different spatial-temporal properties not only could provide significant…
During the last several decades, energy supply systems (electric/gas/heat) have been threatened by the increasing and destructive natural disasters. When disasters happen, the system infrastructure implementations of the energy supply system are…
Microgrids are a promising alternative to the traditional distribution systems due to their highly desirable features, such as, reliability, resiliency, and efficiency. This paper covers the design, simulation, and economic analysis of a…
The microgrid operation is addressed in this paper based on a multi-carrier energy hub. Natural gas, electricity, heating, cooling, hydrogen (H2), carbon dioxide (CO2), and renewable energies are considered as the energy carriers. The purpose is to…
In the last decade, a number of severe urban power outages have been caused by extreme natural disasters, e.g., hurricanes, snowstorms and earthquakes, which highlights the need for rethinking current planning principles of urban energy systems and…