Publications de Faran Ahmed Qureshi

Ancillary Services Provision Utilizing a Network of Fast-Charging Stations for Electrical Buses

Colin Neil Jones, Faran Ahmed Qureshi, Altug Bitlislioglu

Fast-charging stations that supply energy to electrical vehicles at high power rates may incorporate energy storage to avoid high currents to the grid and reduce peak-demand costs. We demonstrate the potential for utilizing such infrastructure for the prov ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2020

System and method for operating a combination of heterogeneous energy resources for fast grid services

Colin Neil Jones, Tomasz Tadeusz Gorecki, Faran Ahmed Qureshi, Ioannis Lymperopoulos, Luca Fabietti

The present invention concerns a method of controlling a set of electrical power resources in an electrical power grid managed by a power grid operator. The set comprises a first electrical power resource with a first electrical power response frequency an ...

2019

Multi-time scale coordination of complementary resources for the provision of ancillary services

Christophe Salzmann, Colin Neil Jones, Tomasz Tadeusz Gorecki, Faran Ahmed Qureshi, Luca Fabietti

This paper presents a predictive control scheme for coordinating a set of heterogeneous and complementary resources at different time scales for the provision of ancillary services. In particular, we combine building thermodynamics (slow), and energy stora ...

2018

Hierarchical control of building HVAC system for ancillary services provision

Colin Neil Jones, Faran Ahmed Qureshi

2018

Experimental Implementation of Frequency Regulation Service Using Commercial Buildings

Colin Neil Jones, Tomasz Tadeusz Gorecki, Faran Ahmed Qureshi, Ioannis Lymperopoulos, Altug Bitlislioglu, Luca Fabietti

Frequency control reserves are a fundamental mechanism in the current electric power system to preserve the balance between demand and generation of active power at all times. The traditional approach is to exploit conventional power plants for frequency r ...

2018

Economic Advantages of Office Buildings Providing Ancillary Services with Intraday Participation

Ali Ahmadi Khatir, Colin Neil Jones, Faran Ahmed Qureshi, Ioannis Lymperopoulos

Controlling the consumption profile of office buildings can be used to provide balancing services to the power grid at a financial benefit without violating its thermal comfort constraints. The economic advantage of such a service is a reduction in the tot ...

2018

Provision of Ancillary Services utilizing a Network of Fast-Charging Stations for Electrical Buses

Colin Neil Jones, Faran Ahmed Qureshi, Ioannis Lymperopoulos, Altug Bitlislioglu

We demonstrate how charging infrastructure for electrical vehicles can be utilized for the provision of Ancillary Services to the Power Grid. Fast- charging stations that supply energy to vehicles at high power rates in- corporate energy storage to prevent ...

2018

Experimental Demonstration of Buildings Providing Frequency Regulation Services in the Swiss Market

Colin Neil Jones, Tomasz Tadeusz Gorecki, Faran Ahmed Qureshi, Luca Fabietti

This paper investigates the potential of commercial buildings to offer ancillary services to the grid. We consider a tracking procurement inspired by secondary frequency control, where the resource needs to commit to a nominal consumption profile ahead of ...

2017

Experimental Implementation of Frequency Regulation Services Using Commercial Buildings

Colin Neil Jones, Tomasz Tadeusz Gorecki, Faran Ahmed Qureshi, Ioannis Lymperopoulos, Altug Bitlislioglu, Luca Fabietti

IEEE2017

Predictive Control of Buildings for Demand Response and Ancillary Services Provision

Faran Ahmed Qureshi

This thesis develops optimization based techniques for the control of building heating, ventilation, and air-conditioning (HVAC) systems for the provision of demand response and ancillary services to the electric grid. The first part of the thesis focuses ...

EPFL2017

OpenBuildNet Framework for Distributed Co-Simulation of Smart Energy Systems

Colin Neil Jones, Tomasz Tadeusz Gorecki, Faran Ahmed Qureshi, Altug Bitlislioglu, Xuan Truong Nghiem

The complexity and diversity of future energy systems will require co-simulation solutions that enable the integration of tools from multiple domains for research and development. We introduce an open-source framework, OpenBuildNet, for distributed co-simu ...

2016

Providing ancillary service with commercial buildings: the Swiss perspective

Ali Ahmadi Khatir, Colin Neil Jones, Faran Ahmed Qureshi, Ioannis Lymperopoulos, Xuan Truong Nghiem

Ancillary services constitute the cornerstone of the power grid. They allow for an efficient system operation, provide resilience to uncertainties and establish safeguards against unprecedented events. Their importance is growing due to the rise of grid de ...

2015

OpenBuild : An Integrated Simulation Environment for Building Control

Colin Neil Jones, Tomasz Tadeusz Gorecki, Faran Ahmed Qureshi

This paper introduces the OpenBuild toolbox for MATLAB. OpenBuild is a toolbox for advanced controller design for buildings heating ventilation and air conditioning systems, with emphasis on Model Predictive Control. It pro- vides researchers in the contro ...

IEEE2015

Model Predictive Control for Market-Based Demand Response Participation

Colin Neil Jones, Tomasz Tadeusz Gorecki, Faran Ahmed Qureshi

In this study, we investigate the maximum possible profit for a commercial office building participating in New York’s Day-Ahead Demand Response (DADR) program. We formulate an optimal control problem, assuming perfect knowledge of future weather, occupanc ...

2014

A real-time control system architecture for industrial power amplifiers

Faran Ahmed Qureshi

Power amplifiers are a highly important component in a range of industrial applications, such as, servo-drives, magnetic resonance imaging, energy systems, and audio. The control system for power amplifiers should satisfy a range of requirements, e. g., of ...

Ieee2013