Electrical Seminar Topic: Smart Grid

Seminar Topic:

Seminar topics during under graduation course enhances the student to look beyond the textbooks and make them innovative. Seminar topics should be chosen in such a manner that the topic should be simple and explains about the present technology which can be find very little in text books and should be useful to audience. I am introducing a topic called SMART GRID so that  you can add the required resources and present in a seminar or can do a mini projects which helps during the placement.

Electric Grid:

Electrical Grid is an interconnection of power system constitutes generating plants, transmission network and distribution system ( to consumer ends). In normal grid, energy losses takes place due to the poor transmission and distribution networks including power thefts which results in loss in economy.No communication exist between the consumers and grid authorities. Power consumed is charged at same rate during all the day. So many flaws in today power grid makes it weak to sustain small disturbances.

Smart Grid:

Smart Grid is an an intelligent, future electricity system that connects all the generating systems (supply), grid and distribution systems ( consumer terminals) through an intelligent communication system.Smart Grid is a family of network control systems and asset management tools, empowered by sensors, communication pathways and information tools. Simply smart grid is an secure integration of electrical and information infrastructures.

Smart Grid at Consumer's side:

Major focus on the smart grid is on the distribution level or consumers. Demand is what drives the supply, so better management at consumer level helps the overall system. Important component of smart grid is 'smart metering'. Older meters connected to consumers just indicated the units consumed by the consumer. Smart meters evolved in to advanced metering system where the meter not only stores but also communicates loads and other power statistics in real time and even advice the consumers for better and optimal load control for reduction in prices. Smart grid explains and gives choice to the consumers to decide the timing and amount of power consumption based on the price per unit at that instant. Thus smart grid provides many wide features to the consumers for reducing the electricity bills and participating the consumers in improving the performance of the grid.

Smart Grid at Transmission side:

Smart grid helps the Generation and Transmission companies in dealing effectively with the power thefts and system losses through smart metering and advanced communication features. This also reduce in the reduction in the CO₂ emissions in to atmosphere.

Thus smart grid helps in reducing the losses, electricity bills and global warming and makes the electrical grid stronger to disturbances.

Please find some more sources related to this and i hope this can become a good seminar topic as it is the emerging technology and everybody talking about. Add some surveys, reports and case studies while presenting the seminar topic which makes the subject more informative and useful. 

 Resource link from Wikipedia Smart Grid

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How to Prepare Technical Paper for Presentation

Technical papers preparation:

How to prepare a technical paper for paper presentation? What should be the topic of the paper for presentation? What are the resources available for preparing a technical paper? These are some of the questions when you want to start preparing a technical paper when you are a beginner.

What is Paper Presentation?

Paper presentation is the abstract of the work which you have done. The ideas what you learned, observed and discovered when you are working on a particular topic is kept on a paper.

Different Types of Papers:

Technical papers are of three types

• Informative
• Modeling and Simulation
• Design and Manufacture

Informative: 

This type of papers will explain about the general information available. For eg: Consider latest trends and technologies used in Wind Power Generation. You can collect the information from different sources and organize them accordingly and can give your suggestions, comments on the topic and can make a paper.Technical papers of this type will be given less importance than the others because the direct work involvement which you do is less. However if you add a case study of your own then the quality of the paper will be improved. For eg: Energy Conservation or Audit, you do a case study for your University or big township and give your suggestions.

Modeling and Simulation: 

Many software tools available for simulation and carryout the studies and before designing simulation tests will be carried out  to study the design. Simulation tests will also be carried out for existing system to determine who it behaves during different operating conditions. Choose some IEEE or other journal technical papers, pick up the topic which will suit you the best. Model the system and try to simulate in different software tools (MATLAB,PSCAD, ETAP,EMTP,PSPICE..) and if possible do the experiment in your lab and analyse the results.

Design and Manufacture: 

This type of papers explains about designing and manufacturing an equipment. It explains about what are your requirements, who you design the equipment and manufacture it. What is the end result. For eg: you can take up designing SMPS based on your requirement and manufacture it accordingly.

Final Advice: Refer International Journals and Magazines and choose your topic. Do something different from the parent paper (what you taken up as reference). All the Best!

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ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING SEMINARS

       
     

  The are many electrical engineering seminar topic

• SELF-RECHARGEABLE PAPER THIN-FILM BATTERIES

• This paper reports on the use of cellulose paper simultaneously as electrolyte, separation of electrodes, and physical support of a rechargeable battery. The deposition on both faces of a paper sheet of metal or metal oxides thin layers with different electrochemical potentials, respectively as anode and cathode, such as Cu and Al, lead to an output voltage of 0.70 V and a current density that varies between 150 nA/cm2 and 0.5 mA/cm2, subject to the paper composition, thickness and the degree of OHx species adsorbed in the paper matrix. The electrical output of the paper battery is independent of the electrodes thickness but strongly depends on the atmospheric relative humidity (RH), with a current density enhancement by more than 3 orders of magnitude when RH changes from 60% to 85%. Besides flexibility, low cost, low material consumption, environmental friendly, the power output of paper batteries can be adapted to the desired voltage-current needed, by proper integration. A 3-V prototype was fabricated to control the ON/OFF state of a paper transistor.

• Reference: http://seminarprojects.com/Thread-self-rechargeable-paper-thin-film-  batteries#ixzz2Ld5PqXGE     

          LIST OF ELECTRICAL SEMINARS-

•  ADAPTIVE PIEZOELECTRIC ENERGY HARVESTING CIRCUIT   

•  COMPUTER CLOTHING

• CT SCANNING

• ANN BASED POWER SYSTEM RESTORATION

• BIOMETRICS

• SYNCHRONIZATION

• ROBOTICS AND ITS APPLICATION

• WAVELET TRANSFORMS

• TELE IMMERSION

• RENEWABLE ELECTRIC ENERGY SOURCES

• HYBRIDE POWER SYSTEM

• HVDC TRANSMISSION

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