{"635560":{"#nid":"635560","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Xia Receives ORNL Seed Research Award","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EQianxue Xia received the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) Seed Research Award for her proposed research on \u0026ldquo;Large Scale Photovoltaic and Storage Integration with a Hybrid AC\/DC Power System.\u0026rdquo;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EXia is a Ph.D. student in the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), where she is advised by ECE Associate Professor Maryam Saeedifard. Suman Debnath from ORNL will serve as her project mentor.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAs the penetration of utility-scale solar power increases, the inertia in the power system is reduced, and thus, the grid primary frequency response needs to be enhanced. Grid-forming inverters connecting photovoltaics (PV) to the grid, including both AC and DC types and Energy Storage Systems (ESS), are an effective and promising solution.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EXia\u0026rsquo;s research proposal is aligned with the project \u0026ldquo;Multi-port Autonomous Reconfigurable Solar Power Plant (MARS),\u0026rdquo; funded by the U.S. Department of Energy; it focuses on the control and hardware in the loop simulation of such grid-forming inverters. The MARS is based on the concept of the modular multilevel converter that enables integration of large-scale PV+ESS systems. It can reduce the cost and losses, and most importantly, it can increase the system stability by providing inertial services and help improve the primary frequency response.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EECE Ph.D. student\u0026nbsp;Qianxue Xia received the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) Seed Research Award for her proposed research on \u0026ldquo;Large Scale Photovoltaic and Storage Integration with a Hybrid AC\/DC Power System.\u0026rdquo;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"ECE Ph.D. student\u00a0Qianxue Xia received the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) Seed Research Award"}],"uid":"27241","created_gmt":"2020-05-21 16:40:58","changed_gmt":"2020-05-21 16:55:34","author":"Jackie Nemeth","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2020-05-21T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2020-05-21T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"635561":{"id":"635561","type":"image","title":"Qianxue Xia","body":null,"created":"1590079333","gmt_created":"2020-05-21 16:42:13","changed":"1590079333","gmt_changed":"2020-05-21 16:42:13","alt":"photograph of Qianxue Xia","file":{"fid":"241857","name":"QianxueXia-cropped.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/QianxueXia-cropped.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/QianxueXia-cropped.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":1994205,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/QianxueXia-cropped.jpg?itok=b4hRBWgy"}}},"media_ids":["635561"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.ece.gatech.edu","title":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.gatech.edu","title":"Georgia Tech"},{"url":"https:\/\/www.ornl.gov","title":"Oak Ridge National Laboratory"},{"url":"https:\/\/www.energy.gov","title":"U.S. Department of Energy"}],"groups":[{"id":"1255","name":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"}],"categories":[{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"},{"id":"8862","name":"Student Research"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"},{"id":"144","name":"Energy"},{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"},{"id":"154","name":"Environment"}],"keywords":[{"id":"184866","name":"Qianxue Xia"},{"id":"1808","name":"graduate students"},{"id":"109","name":"Georgia Tech"},{"id":"166855","name":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"},{"id":"137611","name":"Maryam Saeedifard"},{"id":"172140","name":"Suman Debnath"},{"id":"108061","name":"Oak Ridge National Laboratory"},{"id":"953","name":"photovoltaics"},{"id":"184867","name":"hybrid AC\/DC power system"},{"id":"167364","name":"solar power"},{"id":"184868","name":"utility-scale solar power"},{"id":"85361","name":"grid"},{"id":"184869","name":"Energy Storage Systems"},{"id":"184870","name":"Multi-port Autonomous Reconfigurable Solar Power Plant"},{"id":"28931","name":"U.S. Department of Energy"},{"id":"184871","name":"grid-forming inverters"},{"id":"184872","name":"Multi-port Autonomous Reconfigurable Solar Power Plant (MARS)"},{"id":"184873","name":"Large Scale Photovoltaic and Storage Integration with a Hybrid AC\/DC Power System"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39451","name":"Electronics and Nanotechnology"},{"id":"39531","name":"Energy and Sustainable Infrastructure"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EJackie Nemeth\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESchool of Electrical and Computer Engineering\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E404-894-2906\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["jackie.nemeth@ece.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}