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UJA Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions - Individual Fellowships Hosting Offer 2020 (INFORMATION SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING)

Universidad de Jaén The Human Resources Strategy for Researchers
19 Mar 2020

Hosting Information

Offer Deadline
EU Research Framework Programme
H2020 / Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions
Country
Spain

Organisation/Institute

Organisation / Company
Thermo Fisher Scientific
Department
Other
Is the Hosting related to staff position within a Research Infrastructure?
No

Contact Information

Organisation / Company Type
Other
Website

Description

Description of Hosting Institution (UJA – Spain)

Jaén University (UJA) was created in 1993 and is in the Top 50 of the world’s best young universities according to THE (Times Higher Education). This ranking analyzes aspects such as teaching, research work, the university’s international outreach, or integration into industry. Besides, the UJA has received the distinction of Campus of International Excellence in the fields of Agrifood (CEIA3) and Climate Change (CamBio), plus it also leads the Andalusian CEI project on historical heritage PatrimoniUN10.

Jaén University has five faculties (Social and Legal Sciences; Humanities and Education Sciences; Health Sciences; Experimental Sciences and Social Work) and two higher polytechnic schools for engineering (Linares and Jaén). In turn, these centers are organized into 35 departments. It also has three Postgraduate educational centers (Doctorate School, Advanced Study Center in Modern Languages and Postgraduate Study Center).

In regards to its research, there are several specialized centers at Jaén University (https://www.ujaen.es/servicios/ofipi/uja-ri-expertise). Besides, the full picture of the over 100 UJA groups covers the following research fields of expertise: Agrifood (AGR); Biology (BIO); Health (CTS); Social Sciences, Business, Law (SEJ); Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics (FQM); Humanities (HUM); Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences (RNM); Information and Communications Technology (TIC); and Engineering Production Technology (TEP).

As far the UJA hosting offer is concerned, Prof. FRANCISCO JURADO MELGUIZO(fjurado@ujaen.es) would be willing to host post-doctoral researchers that are eventually funded through the MSCA-IF 2020 call for applications to be part of the following research team: https://www.ujaen.es/servicios/ofipi/uja-ri-expertise/tep-152-electrical-research-and-technology

 

Project description

Nowadays with the increased power demand in Spain, the national grids are faced new risks associated with the security and economics aspects. Hence, the main aim of our Project is to develop a coordination methodology of thermal energy, wind energy and Pumped-storage hydroelectricity (PSH) power plants. PSH units can be used to store the extra wind energy for delivering hourly firmed energy to electrical power grid.

In this project, the coordinated integration of wind farms in power systems will be studied by stochastic security-constrained unit commitment (SSCUC) model to minimize the expected grid operation cost considering the variation of wind energy. The storage capability of PSH could help power systems mitigate the variability of wind energy source and reduce grid operation costs.

The coordination methodology will consider the hourly forecast errors of system loads and variable wind energy as well as random outages of power system components. Beside of that, recent FACTS controllers such as; Inter line power flow controller (IPFC), center-node unified power flow controller(C-UPFC) and generalized unified power flow controller (GUPFC) will be introduced for the reactive power management in SSCUC.

The SSCUC problem will be solved using one or more of modern optimization techniques such as; ant colony optimization technique and differential evolution algorithms and compared with the state of the art industry application optimization solver CPLEX. To demonstrate the effectiveness of developed approach for analyzing the impact of recent FACTS on the grid operation cost and hourly wind energy dispatch, the algorithms will be validated on standard IEEE test systems as well as Spanish national grids.

 

Application procedure

CV, Motivation letter and Summary of project proposal (250 words) should be sent by the offer deadline to ofipi@ujaen.es. Further information regarding the application requirements can be found at https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/portal/screen/opportunities/topic-details/msca-if-2020 & https://ec.europa.eu/research/mariecurieactions/actions/individual-fellowships_en. Please, take into account that interested candidates should comply with the MSCA-IF programme mobility rule before applying: https://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/data/ref/h2020/wp/2018-2020/main/h2020-wp1820-msca_en.pdf.