{"title":"An alternative arrangement to triple-junction devices for reduced temperature effect and enhanced spectrum coverage","authors":"A. Mokri, M. Emziane","doi":"10.1109/EFEA.2014.7059992","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EFEA.2014.7059992","url":null,"abstract":"The performance of triple-junction photovoltaic (PV) devices depends on the distribution of their energy bandgaps, the concentration ratio and operational temperature. The choice of materials for such devices is based on trading the optimum bandgap for the lattice parameter. Also, the sub-cells behave differently under light concentration and having them operating together under the same concentration may be another compromise on the overall performance. Furthermore, these devices are designed to operate under high concentration, and this results in having them functioning at high temperatures. In this work, we tackle these issues by proposing an alternative arrangement to triple-junction devices. We propose that the sun-beam is split by an optical filter and one part of the solar spectrum goes towards a single-junction AlGaAs cell while the other part is directed towards a double-junction cell where five different bandgap combinations are considered. In this work a simulation model is built to investigate the mutual effect of bandgap combination, light concentration and operational temperature on the overall performance of the alternative arrangement. The paper also compares these performance improvements with the optical losses associated with beam splitting.","PeriodicalId":129568,"journal":{"name":"3rd International Symposium on Environmental Friendly Energies and Applications (EFEA)","volume":"66 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124530448","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":"Sensitivity analysis of a solar thermophotovoltaic system with silicon thermal storage","authors":"M. Emziane, M. Alhosani","doi":"10.1109/EFEA.2014.7059993","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EFEA.2014.7059993","url":null,"abstract":"Transient simulations for solar thermophotovoltaic (STPV) systems utilizing silicon as phase change material (PCM) and Er3Al5O12 as selective emitter with Ge cell are presented. A sensitivity analysis was carried out in order to study the effect on the efficiency of the STPV system of the PCM size, solar irradiance and location of the selective emitter with respect to the receiver cavity. The results show that higher efficiencies can be achieved by placing the selective emitter and the PV cell close to the receiver cavity. Also, the optimum size of the PCM depends on the amount of incident solar radiation and the storage capacity required. Furthermore, increasing the solar flux to very high value or reduce it to very small value reduces the efficiency of the overall system.","PeriodicalId":129568,"journal":{"name":"3rd International Symposium on Environmental Friendly Energies and Applications (EFEA)","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132097712","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":"An efficient method for flux weakening control of an induction motor drive system","authors":"D. Stănescu, P. Nicolae, I. Bojoi","doi":"10.1109/EFEA.2014.7059937","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EFEA.2014.7059937","url":null,"abstract":"The paper presents a speed-sensorless induction motor drive system operated into deep flux weakening region. An efficient direct control method based on the stator flux control is detailed. The speed-sensorless proposed algorithm is based on the induction motor's mathematic model and is suitable for low cost industrial applications. Simulations and experimental results based on this algorithm are also presented. The experimental tests were performed based on a dSPACE DS 1103 platform controlling an inverter fed 4 kW induction motor.","PeriodicalId":129568,"journal":{"name":"3rd International Symposium on Environmental Friendly Energies and Applications (EFEA)","volume":"59 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123656194","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}
M. Benaouadj, A. Aboubou, M. Ayad, M. Becherif, M. Bahri
{"title":"Control alghorithm of fuel cell hybrid source based on the flatness propriety","authors":"M. Benaouadj, A. Aboubou, M. Ayad, M. Becherif, M. Bahri","doi":"10.1109/EFEA.2014.7059964","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EFEA.2014.7059964","url":null,"abstract":"In this work, a fuel cell hybrid electric source is presented. The energy management among different components is assured by applying a control algorithm based on the nonlinear flatness principle. The studied hybrid sources use fuel cells (polymer electrolyte membrane technology) and lithium-ion batteries as main and auxiliary sources. The goal is to supply domestic load (a house), maintain the DC bus (assuring power segmentation) voltage to the imposed reference value and calculate how many moles and grams of H2 and O2 are consumed. Presented results are obtained using MATLAB/Simulink simulation environment.","PeriodicalId":129568,"journal":{"name":"3rd International Symposium on Environmental Friendly Energies and Applications (EFEA)","volume":"30 18","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120823414","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}
N. O. Cherchali, A. Morsli, M. S. Boucherit, L. Barazane, A. Tlemçani
{"title":"Comparison of two maximum power point trackers for photovoltaic systems using robust controllers","authors":"N. O. Cherchali, A. Morsli, M. S. Boucherit, L. Barazane, A. Tlemçani","doi":"10.1109/EFEA.2014.7059989","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EFEA.2014.7059989","url":null,"abstract":"Photovoltaic power is widely used to supply isolated or unpopulated areas (lighting, pumping, etc.). Great advantage is that this source is inexhaustible, it offers great safety in use and it is clean. But the dynamic models used to describe a photovoltaic system are complicated and nonlinear and due to nonlinear I-V and P-V characteristics of photovoltaic generators, a maximum power point tracking technique (MPPT) is required to maximize the output power. In this paper, two online techniques of maximum power point tracking using robust controller for photovoltaic systems are proposed, the first technique use fuzzy logic controller (FLC) and the second use sliding mode controller (SMC) for photovoltaic systems. The two maximum power point tracking controllers receive the partial derivative of power as inputs, and the output is the duty cycle corresponding to maximum power. A Photovoltaic generator with Boost converter is developed using MATLAB / Simulink to verify the preferences of the proposed techniques. SMC technique provides a good tracking speed in fast changing irradiation and when the irradiation changes slowly or is constant the panel power of FLC technique presents a much smoother signal with less fluctuations.","PeriodicalId":129568,"journal":{"name":"3rd International Symposium on Environmental Friendly Energies and Applications (EFEA)","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116466405","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":"Stabilization of a DC electrical network by damping injection","authors":"Djawad Hamache, A. Fayaz, E. Godoy, C. Karimi","doi":"10.1109/EFEA.2014.7059990","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EFEA.2014.7059990","url":null,"abstract":"It is well known that interactions between weakly damped LC input filters and constant power loads (CPL) can lead to instability. This paper deals, in particular, with this problem when several CPL are connected to the network through undamped LC filters. The second goal is the energy management. They are mainly achieved by controlling the energy flow between the network and a storage device. The latter is a super-capacitor connected to the network via two DC-DC converters. After Port controlled Hamiltonian (PCH) expression of the system dynamics, they are controlled using the passivity approach. A proof of stability of the controlled system is given. Robustness tests relative to parameters uncertainties are realized and simulation results confirm the validity the proposed approach. This approach has also the advantage of requiring the measurement of only two state variables.","PeriodicalId":129568,"journal":{"name":"3rd International Symposium on Environmental Friendly Energies and Applications (EFEA)","volume":"54 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129389887","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, optimization and feasibility study of parabolic trough solar thermal power plant with integrated thermal energy storage and backup system for Algerian conditions","authors":"T. Boukelia, M. Mecibah, I. E. Meliche","doi":"10.1109/EFEA.2014.7059966","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EFEA.2014.7059966","url":null,"abstract":"The question of the increasing in energy demand and environmental protection has committed the Algerian government to launch the Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency program, this program is based mainly on developing Concentrating Solar Power (CSP) plants. Parabolic trough solar thermal power plant (PTSTPP) is considered as one of most proven CSP technologies to produce electricity. In the present study, we are interested in: (i) evaluate the design, yield, investment cost as well as the levelized cost of electricity (LCOE) of a parabolic trough solar thermal power plant with integrated thermal energy storage (TES) and backup system (BS). (ii) The optimization of the plant, (iii) and the feasibility of the optimized plant for eight different Algerian locations with semi-arid and arid climates are performed. In general, it was found that the semi arid and arid Algerian sites are suitable for realization of PTSTPP with integrated TES and BS especially for southern locations.","PeriodicalId":129568,"journal":{"name":"3rd International Symposium on Environmental Friendly Energies and Applications (EFEA)","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122709661","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}
Zine Souhila, M. Benyounès, Bouzid Mohamed Amine, Mihoub Youcef
{"title":"Comparison of sliding mode control and fuzzy logic applied to wind turbine emulator","authors":"Zine Souhila, M. Benyounès, Bouzid Mohamed Amine, Mihoub Youcef","doi":"10.1109/EFEA.2014.7059974","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EFEA.2014.7059974","url":null,"abstract":"Wind energy features prominently as a supplementary energy booster since the wind speed varies. Evaluation of control schemes for electrical generator is hard with wind turbine. For similar environment of turbine, a wind turbine emulator (WTE) is used. The purpose of systems is to maximize energy efficiency, and extract maximum power from the wind speed. In This case, the MPPT control becomes important. Conventional proportional and integral (PI) controller is usually used to realize this control. However, this strategy has limitation and cannot achieve better performances. This paper proposes other solutions such as fuzzy logic, sliding mode control. The proposed sliding mode control strategy with fuzzy controller presented attractive features such as robustness against parameter variation of the turbine. The proposed strategies have been simulated with wind turbine emulator. The simulation results under MatlabSimulink show better dynamic performances of the proposed MPPT strategy.","PeriodicalId":129568,"journal":{"name":"3rd International Symposium on Environmental Friendly Energies and Applications (EFEA)","volume":"16 2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128567862","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}
M. Bansal, N. Bansal, R. Saini, B. Pandey, Lakshay Kalra, D. Hussain
{"title":"SSTL I/O Standard based environment friendly energyl efficient ROM design on FPGA","authors":"M. Bansal, N. Bansal, R. Saini, B. Pandey, Lakshay Kalra, D. Hussain","doi":"10.1109/EFEA.2014.7059947","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EFEA.2014.7059947","url":null,"abstract":"Stub Series Terminated Logic (SSTL) is an Input/output standard. It is used to match the impedance of line, port and device of our design under consideration. Therefore, selection of energy efficient SSTL I/O standard among available different class of SSTL logic family in FPGA, plays a vital role to achieve energy efficiency in design under test (DUT). Here, DUT is ROM. ROM is an integral part of processor. Therefore, energy efficient design of RAM is a building block of energy efficient processor. We are using Verilog hardware description language, Virtex-6 FPGA, and Xilinx ISE simulator. We are operating ROM with the highest operating frequency of 4th generation i7 processor to test the compatibility of this design with the latest hardware in use. When there is no demand of peak performance, then we can save 74.5% clock power, 75% signal power, and 30.83% I/O power by operating our device with 1GHz frequency in place of 4GHz. There is no change in clock power and signal power but SSTL2_H_DCI having 80.24% 83.38% 62.92% and 76.52% and 83.03% more I/O power consumption with respect to SSTL2_I, SST18_I, SSTL2_I_DCI, SSTL2_II, and SSTL15 respectively at 3.3GHz.","PeriodicalId":129568,"journal":{"name":"3rd International Symposium on Environmental Friendly Energies and Applications (EFEA)","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127636021","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":"Numerical study of distribution of smoke and hazards in underground parking areas considering the operation of ventilation","authors":"V. Stoyanov, A. Terziev, M. Uzunova","doi":"10.1109/EFEA.2014.7059991","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EFEA.2014.7059991","url":null,"abstract":"Outbreak of fire in isolated places is always related to the emission of harmful substances, increasing the air temperature and decreasing the level of oxygen. These parameters of the environment are very dangerous to occupants. This current work is carried out using numerical solutions of the distribution of smoke and hazards in confined and large spaces with and without operation at ventilation systems. In the process of numerical solution different schemes of air suction and supply are modeled and studied. Different turbulent models are tested in order to achieve the sustainable solution.","PeriodicalId":129568,"journal":{"name":"3rd International Symposium on Environmental Friendly Energies and Applications (EFEA)","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128065536","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}