Dianoush Emami

Pioneer of Computer Use in Substation Monitoring

 

Dianoush Emami is an experienced electrical engineer who has completed significant work in industrial sectors that range from conventional fossil fuel power generation and distribution to biofuel and nuclear power plant operation. Throughout much of the 1980s, he worked for the Bechtel Power Corporation in Norwalk, California, where he performed a wide variety of engineering functions for both overhead and underground electrical infrastructure. As part of these duties, Dianoush Emami oversaw the construction of high-voltage power lines with a specific focus on supervisory control/data acquisition and electrical substation functions.

Instrumental in the automation of substation operation and monitoring, Dianoush Emami created four influential industry task forces whose mission was to study the use of computer technology in substation data acquisition and control, the use of programmable logic to monitor, control, and protect substations, the benefits of communications between intelligent substation devices, and the exchange of data among traditional RTUs (remote terminal units).