D. Espejel-Blanco, J. Hoyo-Montaño, J. Orrante-Sakanassi, Jorge A. Federico-Rivera
{"title":"Comparison of Energy Consumption of Fluorescent Vs LED Lighting System of an Academic Building","authors":"D. Espejel-Blanco, J. Hoyo-Montaño, J. Orrante-Sakanassi, Jorge A. Federico-Rivera","doi":"10.1109/SUSTECH.2018.8671348","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SUSTECH.2018.8671348","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a comparison of energy consumption and average lighting level between two different lighting systems of an Academic Building, firstly, the existing lighting system using T8 tube fluorescent lamps, and secondly, a proposed lighting system with T8 tube LED lamps. The main objective of this comparison is to find the power consumption and lighting level difference between fluorescent and LED tube lamps used in the same space, as in this case, a classroom. A second objective is to measure the lighting level inside the classroom to make sure that the existing lighting standard in Mexico is been satisfied. The measurements were performed using a power analyzer and a light meter to evaluate the actual power consumption and lighting levels using T8 tube fluorescent lamps, and the proposed retrofitted T8 tube LED lamp system. Lighting is the most important load in offices and classrooms buildings, for that reason, this kind of load has been studied by a lot of researchers. This comparison will provide information about the energy consumption and lighting level of a classroom, helping to know if the classroom accomplishes with the legal Mexican lighting standard. Additionally, will generate information about the energy savings obtained by the LED lighting system over the existing fluorescent lighting system.","PeriodicalId":127111,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE Conference on Technologies for Sustainability (SusTech)","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123046958","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Design of a Modern Proton-Exchange Membrane Fuel Cell Module for Engineering Education","authors":"Jeremy Dylan Smith, Melissa Novy","doi":"10.1109/SUSTECH.2018.8671369","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SUSTECH.2018.8671369","url":null,"abstract":"Hydrogen fuel cells are a sustainable energy technology with great potential to contribute to the hydrogen economy and mitigate dependence on fossil fuels. Unfortunately, recent advances in fuel cell technology are not reflected in modern STEM and sustainability education efforts. Within the last decade, a new generation of polymer electrolyte membranes (PEMs) has been commercialized in response to proton exchange membrane (PEMFC) automotive performance targets. However, the majority of fuel cell educational material continues to reference the traditional PEM material, Nafion®. Here, a post-secondary engineering educational module is designed to highlight recent innovations in PEM materials and familiarize students with sustainable energy sources. Pilot experiments evaluated the fuel cell performance of Nafion® and a newer generation short-side chain (SSC) PEM. The SSC PEM achieved higher current and power density compared to Nafion® attributed to enhanced proton conductivity in the SSC PEM. The module consists of a short lecture on the hydrogen economy, PEMFC theory and operation, a hands-on activity to reinforce the lesson, and an assessment of student learning. The hands-on activity demonstrates improvements of newer generation SSC PEMs over Nafion® by racing PEMFC model car kits with either generation of PEM. The module seeks to inspire the next generation of fuel cell scientists and engineers by introducing students to novel sustainable energy technologies and solutions.","PeriodicalId":127111,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE Conference on Technologies for Sustainability (SusTech)","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124002598","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Sean Monemi, R. Meguerdijian, Phat Lam, Eduardo Portillo, Devon Marantz, César Flores, Tam Lam, T. Kim
{"title":"Pseudo-Node Attack on the Smart Grid","authors":"Sean Monemi, R. Meguerdijian, Phat Lam, Eduardo Portillo, Devon Marantz, César Flores, Tam Lam, T. Kim","doi":"10.1109/SUSTECH.2018.8671361","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SUSTECH.2018.8671361","url":null,"abstract":"As there has been an evolution of electronic devices, Power Grids are no exception. This paper explores how to use Raspberry Pi’s (RPi) to operate a grid set up with a graphic interface and a sensing mechanism. Such a set up will prove useful for the many people who are looking for a framework to design their own Smart Grids using open source packages along with conveniently accessible and affordable devices. Moreover, test of a unique variation of a cyber-attack that floods a network and would prevent a Smart Grid from operating normally by drastically reducing performance. However, unlike other flooding attacks, this flooding attack would carry out its process internal to the network, which makes this type of an attack far more difficult to detect since it deviates from a traditional flooding attack, which occurs external to systems.","PeriodicalId":127111,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE Conference on Technologies for Sustainability (SusTech)","volume":"290 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120934307","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Optimal Integration of PV Generation in Distribution Systems","authors":"A. Guwaeder, R. Ramakumar","doi":"10.1109/SUSTECH.2018.8671349","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SUSTECH.2018.8671349","url":null,"abstract":"Proper allocation of distributed generation (DG) units integrated with a distribution system plays a significant role in system performance improvement. Voltage profile is one of the factors considered in determining the reliability and efficiency of operation of a power grid. This paper proposes a methodology for optimal placement by selecting candidate buses into which renewable generation, such as PV, is integrated in a distribution system with a high penetration level of solar energy based distributed generators (DG) with an objective function based on voltage profile. The voltage profile index discussed in this paper can be employed to test voltage sensitivity to load uncertainty and to determine optimal placement of distributed photovoltaic generation.","PeriodicalId":127111,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE Conference on Technologies for Sustainability (SusTech)","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115617598","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jonathan Warner, Tyler Vernick, Megan Bates, Christopher Richards, T. Masaud
{"title":"Optimal Penetration of Combined Wind DG and VAR Compensation for Voltage Stability Improvement","authors":"Jonathan Warner, Tyler Vernick, Megan Bates, Christopher Richards, T. Masaud","doi":"10.1109/SUSTECH.2018.8671345","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SUSTECH.2018.8671345","url":null,"abstract":"Integration of wind based Distributed Generation (DG) into the power grid has become a major concern for power system engineers today. Voltage stability is a key factor to achieve a successful integration of wind power into power grid that needs to be addressed and analyzed. The level of voltage stability/instability depends, amongst other factors, on the penetration level of wind generation and on level of parallel reactive power (VAR) compensation. Therefore, it becomes imperative to determine the optimal penetration level of wind DGs as well as optimal VAR compensation when integrated into a weak power grid. This paper presents an optimization algorithm to determine the optimal penetration level of combined large-scale wind DG and VAR compensation to minimize total investment cost considering the voltage stability limit as the main technical constraint. In addition, variation of wind capacity factor due to wind speed uncertainty has been considered in this study. Simulation results have demonstrated the effectiveness of the proposed method.","PeriodicalId":127111,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE Conference on Technologies for Sustainability (SusTech)","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129659596","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Review of Single-Phase Single-Stage DC/AC Boost Inverter Topologies and Their Controllers","authors":"Adam Stone, Md. Rasheduzzaman, P. Fajri","doi":"10.1109/SUSTECH.2018.8671380","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SUSTECH.2018.8671380","url":null,"abstract":"A classical voltage source inverter (VSI) generates an ac voltage that is lower than the DC input voltage. A boost inverter is different from a VSI in the sense that it can generate an ac voltage whose peak can be either higher or lower compared to that of the DC input voltage. Although two-stage boost inverters are very common, there has been a growing interest in single-stage boost inverters. This review focuses on single-phase, single-stage boost inverters where a load is connected differentially between two boost converters to produce a sinusoidal wave. The main drawback of this type of inverter lies in its control algorithm since the controller has to deal with a variable-operating point condition. Considering this issue, different kinds of controllers have been proposed in many works. This work also presents a review of those controller algorithms. Finally, it is concluded that due to the bilinear nature of the boost inverter an accurate small-signal model of the boost inverter is still a work in progress.","PeriodicalId":127111,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE Conference on Technologies for Sustainability (SusTech)","volume":"98 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133397623","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Vishwajit Roy, Subrina Noureen, S. Bayne, A. Bilbao, M. Giesselmann
{"title":"Event Detection From PMU Generated Big Data using R Programming","authors":"Vishwajit Roy, Subrina Noureen, S. Bayne, A. Bilbao, M. Giesselmann","doi":"10.1109/SUSTECH.2018.8671342","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SUSTECH.2018.8671342","url":null,"abstract":"Recent advancement in Power System Analysis shows that implementation of PMU (Phasor Measurement Unit) in Smart Grid playing a significant role over SCADA. The main reasoning for that is more sampling data than traditional SCADA system. Every PMU data like voltage, current and Phase angle gives more samples in every second which is helpful for event detection. The enormous data send by each PMU in every second energies the big data issue. To find out and predict the transient situation and even small disturbances or anomalies from big data analysis within the specified short period of time is a challenge for near future. Because introduction of new smart electrical devices will boost up the big data issue. Processing of big data for post disturbance analysis is also an important task. This paper gives a scenario of PMU measurements received to PDC (Phasor Data Concentrator) from PMUs placed in distinct locations and detection of transient events for post disturbance analysis. In this analysis, the disturbances are evaluated with the R programming analysis and compare findings of chronological data from separate locations and also shows the relation between disturbances in a grid. For this analysis, the impacts of frequency and voltage data are also considered","PeriodicalId":127111,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE Conference on Technologies for Sustainability (SusTech)","volume":"45 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132893271","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Enhancing Distribution System Hosting Capacity through Active Network Management","authors":"Chris Linn, C. Abbey, H. Gil, S. Kahrobaee","doi":"10.1109/SUSTECH.2018.8671376","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SUSTECH.2018.8671376","url":null,"abstract":"Continued integration of distributed renewable generation, such as PV, pushes the power distribution system toward its capacity limits. The traditional solution has been to invest in upgrading the system infrastructure in order to accommodate the additional capacity required by these resources. This paper discusses an alternative solution by active control and management of these resources in order to defer the system upgrade investments. A cost analysis shows how the proposed method can be an economically preferred solution in comparison with the conventional approach.","PeriodicalId":127111,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE Conference on Technologies for Sustainability (SusTech)","volume":"107 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132078611","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}