EPDC 2012 - 2012 17th Conference on Electrical Power Distribution Networks (EPDC)

electric distribution network conference will be held by Hormozgan Eclectic Distribution Company and Amirkabir university of technology under the supervision of IRAN association of electrical and electronic engineering (IAEEE).

Basic subject of the conference

Losses in distribution network.
Distribution networks designing.
Utilization of distribution network.
Information technology and electric distribution automation.
Demand side and load management.
Effects of distributed generation on EDN (Electrical Distribution Network).
Management economical and social studies related to electric distribution networks ( EDN).
Protection and control in distribution network.
Losses in distribution network:

Losses calculation and modeling.
Losses decreasing in network.
New design of network in order to decrease the losses.
Role of lifetime of equipments on losses.
Load estimate
Network design

Optimizing of networks.
Optimizing in equipments.
Design and installing of network in different climates.
Advance method in design of EDN.
Distribution network and urban development
Utilization of electrical distribution (EDN)

Advance method in development and designing and maintenance of EDN.
Reliability in EDN.
Suitable utilization by considering different climates.
Optimizing and making standard the street lighting.
Modern devices in improvement of utilization in EDN.
The role of experts in improvement of utilization in EDN.
IT and EDN automation

Monitoring method of substations EDN.
Automatic switching in EDN.
Dispatching control and EDN.
Mechanization of EDN.
Intelligent networks.
Role of IT in customer service and customer satisfy.
Role of the IT in planning of EDN.
The best ways in using IT in EDN
Effects of distributed generation in EDN

Photovoltaic system and thermal power plants and so on….
Geothermal energy.
New energies and connection problems to EDN.
Governmental and private investments in new energies and DG.
Strategy of using new energies in IRAN.
Using of new energies in countries.
Demand side management (DSM) and Load Management (LM).

Optimizing of pattern of consumption.
New methods of DSM.
Role of tariffs in DSM and load management.
Presentation of experiences in DMS.
Measurement in EDN

Role of intelligent measurement devices in LC and increasing the income.
Methods of energy measurement and in its components.
Data transmission of measurement devices.
Role of measurement devices related electrical parameters in EDN.
Management economical and social studies related to EDN.

Role of knowledge management and planning in electrical distribution companies.
Power marketing in EDN.
Financial circulation from selling to gaining in electrical distribution companies.
Preventing methods of illegal customers.
Suitable pattern in improvement of efficiency of employees.
Systematic thinking in management of electrical distribution companies.
Protection and safety in EDN.
Rely and protection in EDN

Manufacturing and designing of protective devices.
Protection relays coordination.
Safety and limits in EDN.
Accident and the methods of decreasing.
EDN in earthquake.
Protection of networks include of DG.
New methods in decreasing human's accidents.