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INTRODUCTION

Željko Tomšić orcid.org/0000-0002-4948-964X ; Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, University of Zagreb Unska 3, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia
Igor Kuzle ; Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, University of Zagreb Unska 3, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia

Sažetak

This special issue of the Journal of Energy is dedicated to the establishment of today
the Department for Energy and Power Systems (ZVNE), University of Zagreb Faculty
of Electrical Engineering and Computing in 1934. in that time the High Voltage
Department as part of the Technical Faculty. For this reason, the history of the Department
for Energy and Power Systems is presented in the introductory article, while the
other articles are part of a broad scientific and professional work of the employees of the
Department and some of the articles were created in wide cooperation with experts from the
companies, that graduated from the Department.
Journal of Energy special issue: present 17 papers selected for publication in Journal of
Energy after having undergone the peer review process. We would like to thank the authors
for their contributions and the reviewers who dedicated their valuable time in selecting and
reviewing these papers. We hope this special issue will provide you valuable information of
some achievements at Department of Energy and Power Systems, Faculty of Electrical Engineering
and Computing.
Short introduction of scientific and expert work of the Department for Energy and Power
Systems (ZVNE):
Besides educational energy related programmes for undergraduate, graduate and postgraduate
students, DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY AND POWER SYSTEMS has been actively involved
for many years in many scientific and expert studies. Studies on scientific projects include
collaboration with industry, national institutions, electric utilities, and many foreign universities.
The Department has developed valuable international cooperation with many research institutions
around the world, either directly or through inter-university cooperation.
The Department is the leading institution in the field of electrical power engineering in the
region, it has a long lasting cooperation with the economic sector, and it is recognized for
its scientific activities and a large number of published scientific papers in globally relevant
journals, as well as numerous national and international scientific projects.
Main Department areas of activities are:
a) Power Engineering and Power Technologies,
b) Energy, Environment, Energy Management and
c) Nuclear Power Engineering
In Power Systems Engineering the research is focused to development of both fundamental
knowledge and applications of electrical power engineering. The research is generally directed
to increasing the availability and the reliability of a power system with an emphasis on the
adjustment to the open market environment. Specific goals include: improving models and
methodologies for power system analysis, operation and control; development, production
and application of models and methodologies for power systems planning, maintenance and
development; application of soft-computing (artificial intelligence, meta-heuristics, etc.), information
technologies (web-oriented technologies, geographic information systems, enterprise
IT solutions, etc.) and operational research in improving processes of planning, development,
exploitation and control of power systems; investigation on applications for coordinated control
of power system devices and exploring the power system stability, security and economic
operation; integration of intelligent devices and agents in energy management systems
and distribution management systems equipment and software; advanced modelling of
dynamics, disturbances and transient phenomena in transmission and distribution networks
(in particular regarding distributed generation); advances in fault detection, restoration and
outage management. The researches also cover high voltage engineering. At time of global
changes in the energy sector, with emphasis on sustainable development, significant efforts
are devoted to liberalization efforts, facilities revitalization, improved legislation and adoption
of new standards.
In area of Power Technologies, Energy and Environment, Energy Management the main
framework for the research are: sustainable electricity generation on a liberalized market, modelling
ETS and electricity market; energy security and climate change; power system optimization
with emission trading; rational use of energy and energy savings; energy management
in industry and buildings; energy conservation and energy auditing in industry and buildings.
General objective of the research is to develop methodologies for quantitative assessment
of the environmental impact of applicable energy technologies (electric power producing
plants and their technology chains), as a base for estimating optimal long-term development
strategy of the Croatian power system. Research work includes new strategies of energy
sector and power system development; preparing medium and long-term electricity generation
expansion plan for power system; comparison of energy, economic and environmental
characteristics of different options for electric
power generation; studies for rational use of energy and energy savings, assuming a centralized
structure of the electricity market. Research work also includes renewable energy sources
and its role in power sector, as well as electricity production considering cap on CO2 emissions.
Research covers development of new models for power system generation optimization
and planning under uncertainties on the open electricity market. The goal of that research is
to create analytical and software tools which will enable a successful transition to liberalized
electricity market and ensure healthy and efficient power system operation in compliance with
environmental requirements.
In the Nuclear Energy Field research cover nuclear physics reactor theory, nuclear power
plants. fuel cycles and reactors materials and general objective of the research is to develop
methodologies for reliable assessment of nuclear power plants operational safety. In the
nuclear energy field the specific analysis cover calculations of transients and consequences
of potential accidents in NPP Krško. In the field of safety analyses of nuclear power plants the
research activities are oriented to the mathematical modelling of nuclear power plant systems
and components.

Ključne riječi

Hrčak ID:

199272

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/199272

Datum izdavanja:

15.9.2017.

Posjeta: 410 *