Table of Contents

Revisiting and generalizing the Barkhausen’s equality.- State space energy conservation principle as a tool for design and simulation of linear and nonlinear systems.- Power systems stability analysis based on advanced techniques and optimaloperation.- Optimal Tuning of UPFC Based Damping Controller Using PSO and QPSO.- Application of PSO and GA for Transmission Network Expansion Planning.- Nonlinear Control of the Hybrid Power Sources.

About the Author

Nicu Bizon received a five-year degree in electronic engineering from the University “Polytechnic” of Bucharest, Romania, in 1986, and the PhD degree in Automatic Systems and Control from the same university, in 1996. Firstly, he was in hardware design with the Dacia Renault SA, Romania. Currently, he is Professor with the University of Pitesti, Romania, being from 2012 the dean of the Faculty of Electronics, Communication and Computers. Also, he was head of University Research Department (2004-2008) and Executive Director of the Research Centre "Modeling and simulation processes and systems" (2008-2012), being manager of two research project in field of Green and Hydrogen Energy, and team’s member in other four projects in the same research field.

He is editor of six books in field of Green Energy, Hybrid Power Sources and Power Converters. His current research interests include the broad area of nonlinear systems, on both dynamics and control applied in the Green Energy field (www.researcherid.com/rid/B-8523-2011). He was authored or co-authored of several papers (over to 150) in journals (ISI web of knowledge or data base indexed) or international conferences proceedings.

He has expertise in field of renewable energy, being evaluator of Research Projects for FP7 Programme , EVAL-INCO Programme, EACI Programme, NSRF 2007-13 (Greece), NEWFELPRO 2013-17 (Croatia), CNCSIS Ideas and ANCS PN II Programme (Romania).

He is general chair and proceedings’ Editor of the “Electronics, Computers and Artificial Intelligence - ECAI” Conference (www.ecai.upit.ro) and member of the Editorial/Technical Board of several international Journals and Conferences.

Naser Mahdavi Tabatabaei was born in Tehran, Iran, 1967. He received his B.Sc. and the M.Sc. degrees from University of Tabriz (Tabriz, Iran) and the Ph.D. degree from Iran University of Science and Technology (Tehran, Iran), all in Power Electrical Engineering,in 1989, 1992, and 1997, respectively. Currently, he is a Professor in International Organization of IOTPE. He is also an academic member of Power Electrical Engineering at Seraj Higher Education Institute (Tabriz, Iran) and teaches power system analysis, power system operation, and reactive power control. He is the General Secretary of International Conference of ICTPE, Editor-in-Chief of International Journal of IJTPE and Chairman of International Enterprise of IETPE all supported by IOTPE. He has authored and co-authored of six books and book chapters in Electrical Engineering area in international publishers and more than 130 papers in international journals and conference proceedings. His research interests are in the area of power quality, energy management systems, ICT in power engineering and virtual e-learning educational systems. He is a member of the Iranian Association of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IAEEE).