Tianjing University, P.R. China

Founded in 1895 as Peiyang University, Tianjin University (TJU) is the first university in China. As the pioneer of modern higher education in China. TJU has been a National Key University since 1959 and it is also among the first group of universities to be included into the "211" and "985" Projects of national investment for developing world class universities. Now, TJU has grown into a world recognized research university with distinctive qualities and strengths in education, research and social service.
The Key Laboratory of Smart Grid, Ministry of Education, at Tianjin University was established in 2004. It concentrates on fundamental and applied researches in the fields of smart grid, integrated energy systems, renewable energy. Its achievements have been applied successfully in thousands of projects in over 200 cities in China.

Prof. Jia Hongjie is a professor at Tianjin University. He became an Associate Professor of Tianjin University in 2002 and was promoted to Professor in 2006. From Jan. 2010 to May. 2014, he was the dean of school of Electrical Engineering and Automation in Tianjin University. His research specialty is integrated energy system, power system stability assessment, distributed generation and renewable energy, etc. In such research areas, he is the principal investigator of 16 important projects, including NSFC, 973 and 863. He has published more than 200 papers and gotten 20 patents. His doctor thesis was awarded as the National Excellent Doctoral Dissertation of China. He was awarded as one of the Program for New Century Excellent Talents in University by the Chinese Ministry of Education in 2005, China Youth Science and Technology Award in 2013, UK Royal Academy of Engineering Distinguished Visiting Fellowship in 2015. He became a member of All-China Youth Federation (ACYF) in 2010 and was selected into ‘131’ Innovative Talents of Tianjin Municipal in 2011.

Prof. Yu Yixin joint Tianjin University in 1958. He became a professor in 1985. Professor Yu is an Academician of Chinese Academy of Engineering. He was a visiting scholar in the Department of EECS, California University (Berkeley). During 1991-1992 he was a visiting professor in the Department of EE, Washington University (Seattle). From 1995 to 1997 he was a Chair visiting professor on power system control in Kyushu Institute of Technology. His particular interests include analysis, planning and simulation of power system and integrated energy systems.

Associate Prof. Mu Yunfei joint Tianjin University in 2012. He is now an associate professor. In 2010.11-2011.12, as an assistant researcher at the Energy Research Institute of Cardiff University in the UK, Dr. Mu was engaged in the research of the EU seventh framework MERGE project. His research interests include integrated energy systems, EV integration and renewable energy.

Associate Prof. Wang Dan joint Tianjin University in 2015 as an associate professor. He worked as a post-doctoral at the Institute of Integrated Energy Systems, University of Victoria (IESVic) from 2010 to 2012. He worked in the Institute of Electrical Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences (IEECAS) as an advanced visiting scholar in 2012. His research interests include integrated energy systems, load demand response.

Completed and on-going projects

• National High Technology R&D Program (863 Program) of China, “Research on Smart Energy Supplying System (2015AA050400)”. Total ¥ 24.38M to TJU team: Jia Hongjie (Principal Investigator), Mu Yunfei, Wang Dan, Yu Yixin, 2015-18.
• National High Technology R&D Program (863 Program) of China, “Research and Demonstration for CCHP Based Micro-Grid with High Penetration Renewable Energy (2015AA050403)”. Total ¥ 7.62M to TJU team: Jia Hongjie (Principal Investigator), Mu Yunfei, Wang Dan and Yu Yixin, 2015-18.
• National High Technology R&D Program (863 Program) of China, “Academic Research, Technique Development and Demonstration for Active Distribution Network (2014AA051901)”. Total ¥7.34M to TJU team: Jia Hongjie (Principal Investigator), Mu Yunfei and Wang Dan, 2015-18.
• UK-China Jointly funded project “Integrated Operation and Planning for Smart Electric Distribution Networks (OPEN)”. Total ¥3M with ¥0.7M to TJU team: Jia Hongjie (Principal Investigator) and Mu Yunfei (Co-Investigator and Project Manager), 2013-16.

Facilities
TJU has built a comprehensive experimental platform for integrated energy system in the custom side with a wide variety of distributed generation units. It is equipped with PV panels (monocrystal PV, polycrystal PV, and thin-film PV), wind turbines (small wind power generator and DFIG simulator), combined cooling heating and power (CCHP) system driven by micro gas turbine, fuel cells, electrolytic hydrogen device, energy storage systems (lead-acid battery, Li-ion battery, super-capacitor, compressed-air, flow battery, flywheel), cooling and heating energy storage, ground-sourced heat pump, transmission line and load simulators, etc.

Key publications

• Dong Xiaohong, Mu Yunfei, Jia Hongjie, Wu Jianzhong, Yu Xiaodan, Planning of fast EV charging stations on a round freeway, IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy (in press).
• Hou Kai, Xu Xiandong, Jia Hongjie, Yu Xiaodan, Zhang Kai, Shu Bin, A reliability assessment approach for integrated transportation and electrical power systems incorporating electric vehicles, IEEE Trans. on Smart Grid (in press).
• Mingshen Wang, Yunfei Mu, Hongjie Jia, Jianzhong Wu, Xiaodan Yu, Yan Qi, Active power regulation for large-scale wind farms through an efficient power plant model of electric vehicles, Applied Energy (in press).
• Jiang Tao, Mu Yunfei, Jia Hongjie, Lu Ning, Yuan Haoyu, Yan Jiahong, Li Weifeng, A novel dominant mode estimation method for analyzing inter-area oscillation in China southern power grid, IEEE Trans. on Smart Grid (in press).
• Jiang Tao, Jia Hongjie, Yuan Hongyu, Zhou Ning, Li Fangxin, Projection pursuit: a general methodology of wide-area coherency detection in bulk power grid, IEEE Transactions on Power Systems (in press).
• Dan Wang, Yue Zhou, Hongjie Jia, Chengshan Wang, Ning Lu, Pang-Chieh Sui, Menghua Fan, An energy-constrained state priority list model using deferrable electrolyzers as a load management mechanism, Applied Energy, 2016, 167: 201-210.
• Kai Hou, Hongjie Jia, Xiandong Xu, Zhe Liu, Yilang Jiang, A continuous time markov chain based sequential analytical approach for composite power system reliability assessment, IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, 2016, 31(1): 738-748.
• Meng Jian, Mu Yunfei, Jia Hongjie, Wu Jianzhong, Yu Xiaodan, Qu Bo, Dynamic frequency response from electric vehicles considering travelling behavior in the great britain power system, Applied Energy, 2016:162:966-979.
• Wang Dan, Jia Hongjie, Wang Chengshan, Lu Ning, Fan Menghua, Zhou Yue, Qi Yebai, Voltage stability enhancement using thermostatically controlled appliances as a comfort-constrained virtual generator, International Transactions on Electrical Energy Systems, 2015, 25(12): 3509-3522.
• Wang Dan, Zhou Yue, Jia Hongjie, Wang Chengshan, Lu Ning, Fan Menghua, Probabilistic total transfer capability analysis based on static voltage stability region integrated with a modified distributed-level nodal-loading model, Science China Technological Sciences, 2015, 58(12): 2072- 2084.
• Xu Xiandong, Jin Xiaolong, Jia Hongjie, Yu Xiaodan, Li Kang, Hierarchical management for integrated community energy systems, Applied Energy, 2015, 160: 231-243.
• Meng Jian, Mu Yunfei, Wu Jianzhong, Jia Hongjie, Dai Qian, Yu Xiaodan, Dynamic frequency response from electric vehicles in the Great Britain power system, Journal of Modern Power Systems and Clean Energy, 2015, 3(2): 203-211.
• Wang Mingshen, Mu Yunfei, Jia Hongjie, Wu Jianzhong, Yao Xiaoping, Yu Xiaodan, Janaka E., A preventive control strategy for static voltage stability based on an efficient power plant model of electric vehicles, Journal of Modern Power Systems and Clean Energy, 2015, 3(1): 103-113.
• Xu Xiandong, Jia Hongjie, H.D. Chiang, D.C. Yu, Wang Dan, Dynamic modeling and interaction of hybrid natural gas and electricity supply system in microgrid, IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, 2015, 30(3):1212-1221.
• Hongjie Jia, Ned Djilali, Xinghuo Yu, H. D. Chiang, Gongnan Xie, Computational science in smart grids and energy systems, Journal of Applied Mathematics, 2015: 326481.
• Liu Zhe, Wang Dan, Hongjie Jia, Ned Djilali, Zhang Weixin, Aggregation and bidirectional charging power control of plug-in hybrid electric vehicles: generation system adequacy analysis, IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy, 2015, 6(2): 325-335.
• Hongjie Jia, Wenjin Qi, Zhe Liu, Bingdong Wang, Yuan Zeng, Tao Xu, Hierarchical risk assessment of transmission system considering the influence of active distribution network, IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, 2015, 30(2):1084-1093.
• Xu Xiandong, Jia Hongjie, H.D Chiang, D.C Yu, Wang Dan, Hierarchical energy management system for multi-source multi-product microgrids, Renewable Energy, 2015, 78: 621-630.    
• Liu Zhe, Wang Dan, Hongjie Jia, Ned Djilali, Power system operation risk analysis considering charging load self-management of plug-in hybrid electric vehicles, Applied Energy,2014,136: 662-670.
• Wang Dan, Jia Hongjie, Wang Chengshan, Lu Ning, Fan Menghua, Miao Weiwei, Liu Zhe, Performance evaluation of controlling thermostatically controlled appliances as virtual generators using comfort-constrained state-queueing models, IET Generation Transmission & Distribution, 2014, 8(4): 591-599.
• Wang Dan, Ge Shaoyue, Jia Hongjie, Wang Chengshan, Zhou Yue, Lu Ning, Kong Xiangyu, A demand response and battery storage coordination algorithm for providing microgrid tie-line smoothing services, IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy, 2014, 5(2): 476-486.
• Mu Yunfei, Wu Jianzhong, Nick Jenkins, Jia Hongjie, Wang Chengshan, A spatial-temporal model for grid impact analysis of plug-in electric vehicles, Applied Energy, 2014, 114:456-465.
• Jia Hongjie, Mu Yunfei, Qi Yan, A statistical model to determine the capacity of battery- supercapacitor hybrid energy storage system in autonomous microgrid, International Journal of Electrical Power & Energy Systems, 2014, 54(1):516-524.
• Yunfei Mu, Jianzhong Wu, Janaka Ekanayake, Nick Jenkins, Hongjie Jia, Primary frequency response from electric vehicles in the Great Britain power system, IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, 2013, 4(2): 1142-1150.
• Jia Hongjie, Qi Yan, Mu Yunfei, Frequency response of autonomous microgrid based on family- friendly controllable loads, Science China E-Technological Sciences, 2013, 56(3): 693-702.
• Jia Hongjie, Qi Yan, Mu Yunfei, Frequency response of autonomous microgrid based on family- friendly controllable loads, Science China E-Technological Sciences, 2013, 56(3): 693-702.
• D Wang, S. Parkinson, W Miao, H Jia, C Crawford, D Djilali, Hierarchical market integration of responsive loads as spinning reserve, Applied Energy, 2013.4, Vol.104, pp.229-238.
• Miao Weiwei, Jia Hongjie, Dan Wang, Simon Parkinson, Curran Crawford, Ned Djilali, Active power regulation of wind power systems through demand response, Science China E-Technological Sciences, 2012, 55(6):1667-1676.
• D Wang, S. Parkinson, W Miao, H Jia, C Crawford, D Djilali, Online voltage security assessment considering comfort-constrained demand response control of distributed heat pump systems, Applied Energy, 2012, 96:104-114.