Hussam J. Khasawneh, Motasem Bani Mustafa, A. Al-Salaymeh, Motasem N. Saidan
{"title":"Techno-Economic Evaluation of On-Grid Battery Energy Storage System in Jordan using Homer Pro","authors":"Hussam J. Khasawneh, Motasem Bani Mustafa, A. Al-Salaymeh, Motasem N. Saidan","doi":"10.23919/AEIT.2019.8893416","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/AEIT.2019.8893416","url":null,"abstract":"The limitation in the allowed new capacities of renewable energy sources to be connected to the electric utility grid is a challenge. This limitation will form an obstacle in expanding towards full dependence on the clean available resource of electricity in Jordan. Battery electricity storage system (BESS) can be a solution for this limitation, and which has been studied to allow storing more electricity from new renewable energy sources, such as PV, to be supplied on demand. This paper evaluates different battery technologies using HOMER (Hybrid Optimization Modelling Software) simulation software, which allows comparing different available battery technologies to different technical specifications from an economic point of view. The essential primary outcome of the simulation is the cost of the electricity stored in each battery technology that can be used to optimize the battery storage system size for each type of battery. The simulation was made for a photovoltaic system in Jordan, connected to the grid, and with different kinds of battery technologies with varying sizes in order to understand their effect on the final cost of energy, and to know the needed minimum tariff that will encourage investors in the field of renewable energy to invest more in battery electricity storage. The findings of this paper show that a tariff of $0.140 per kWh will make the battery electricity storage system more attractive for storing energy from solar PV systems for shares around 20% of the average PV production. The resulted Levelized Cost Of Energy (LCOE) will help in securing more electricity for Jordan from solar PV plants, and to depend less on fossil fuel which has environmental impacts, fluctuating prices, and not indigenously available in Jordan.","PeriodicalId":134409,"journal":{"name":"2019 AEIT International Annual Conference (AEIT)","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133181791","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}
Guangyuan Liu, P. Mattavelli, S. Pistollato, A. Petucco
{"title":"Reduction of Output Capacitance for DAB DC-DC Converters in DC Microgrids by Shaping Resistive Output Impedance","authors":"Guangyuan Liu, P. Mattavelli, S. Pistollato, A. Petucco","doi":"10.23919/AEIT.2019.8893377","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/AEIT.2019.8893377","url":null,"abstract":"The reduction of output capacitance for Distributed Energy Resource (DER) converters in DC microgrids is expected, for the purpose of saving cost, decreasing system weight and size, and facilitating the short-circuit fault isolation. However, the decrease of output capacitance leads to the increase of output voltage spike/dip during load changes, and the output voltage may go out of the acceptable range during transient. From this point of view, the resistive output impedance is a better design solution for DER converters than non-resistive solutions, because it allows a larger voltage spike/sag and thus enables the use of smaller output capacitance. This paper proposed a design methodology for droop-controlled Dual Active Bridge (DAB) dc-dc converters, so that the resistive output impedance can be achieved. This design approach consists of the selection of output capacitance and the design of droop controller. Besides, for converters with small output capacitance, the output voltage presents high switching ripple. In such a case, the traditional single sampling technique causes a steady-state error between the averaged output voltage and the sampled one, impacting on the output impedance. This issue is addressed in this paper by a hybrid sampling method which combines the instantaneous value and the well-filtered value of the output voltage. Finally, the proposed design method with the hybrid sampling method is verified by experimental results.","PeriodicalId":134409,"journal":{"name":"2019 AEIT International Annual Conference (AEIT)","volume":"46 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128325039","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 Robust Travelling-Wave Simultaneous Faults Location Considering Parameters Variations","authors":"Hossam A. Abd el-Ghany, A. Azmy, A. M. Abeid","doi":"10.23919/AEIT.2019.8893411","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/AEIT.2019.8893411","url":null,"abstract":"Calculating the fault location correctly reduces outage time and, so, system reliability increases. There are a lot of algorithms to calculate a single fault location. This paper proposes an advanced algorithm to detect, discriminate, and locate single fault and simultaneous shunt faults by using both of single-end and double-end traveling wave (TW) techniques. The effect of changing the inception angle of the simultaneous faults and the sampling frequency on the algorithm accuracy is studied. To make sure of the proposed algorithm capability to detect and identify the fault locations correctly, comprehensive simulation results are investigated. ATP-EMTP package is used to simulate a 500 kV transmission line. MATLAB discreet wavelet transform (DWT) toolbox is used to investigate faults transient signals.","PeriodicalId":134409,"journal":{"name":"2019 AEIT International Annual Conference (AEIT)","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127703947","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}
Dario Genovese, C. Zappacosta, G. Mancini, G. Pancari, Alessio Papeschi, Laura Foconi
{"title":"Running Capability Assessment for Rolling Stock According to EU Regulations","authors":"Dario Genovese, C. Zappacosta, G. Mancini, G. Pancari, Alessio Papeschi, Laura Foconi","doi":"10.23919/AEIT.2019.8893318","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/AEIT.2019.8893318","url":null,"abstract":"Railway systems are an important means of transportation for both people and goods. Their safety, reliability, efficiency and effectiveness is pursued by mandatory technical standards concerning both design criteria and test procedures. One of the most important European standards to be fulfilled is EN 50553 concerning Running Capability in case of fire on board of rolling stock. One of the aspects that could have to be verified according to this standard consists in the capability of trains to continue providing minimum performance levels for a minimum amount of time even when parts of the propulsion systems incur in a fault due to a fire. This paper analyses and comments such requirement, illustrating how the manufacturers can exploit the limited minimum operation time required to increase the maximum slope that the train can overcome. In particular, the documents to be provided by the applicant to permit the body in charge to verify the compliancy will be discussed.","PeriodicalId":134409,"journal":{"name":"2019 AEIT International Annual Conference (AEIT)","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115535545","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}
C. Spalvieri, I. Rossetta, R. Lamedica, A. Ruvio, A. Papalini
{"title":"Train braking impact on energy recovery: the case of the 3 kV d.c. railway line Roma-Napoli via Formia","authors":"C. Spalvieri, I. Rossetta, R. Lamedica, A. Ruvio, A. Papalini","doi":"10.23919/AEIT.2019.8893399","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/AEIT.2019.8893399","url":null,"abstract":"The study reports the evaluations of energy recovery through the train braking. The simulations were carried out on an Italian 3 kV d.c. railway line used for high frequency transport. Several cases of braking phases were studied and the energy returned into the system, used by other trains, was reported. The energy dissipated on the on-board rheostat are also highlighted, considering the possibility of reintroducing the recovered energy into the primary power supply through reversible ESSs or storage in ESSs.","PeriodicalId":134409,"journal":{"name":"2019 AEIT International Annual Conference (AEIT)","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117185329","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}
E. B. Yacoub, Francisco Lázaro, A. Graell i Amat, G. Liva
{"title":"Symbol Message Passing Decoding of Nonbinary Spatially-Coupled Low-Density Parity-Check Codes","authors":"E. B. Yacoub, Francisco Lázaro, A. Graell i Amat, G. Liva","doi":"10.23919/AEIT.2019.8893373","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/AEIT.2019.8893373","url":null,"abstract":"The performance of a decoding algorithm, called symbol message passing (SMP), is analyzed for nonbinary spatially coupled low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes. The SMP algorithm can be seen as a generalization of Gallager B and the binary message passing algorithm by Lechner et al. to q-ary LDPC codes. The analysis is performed via density evolution over the q-ary symmetric channel, with q being the field order used for the code construction.","PeriodicalId":134409,"journal":{"name":"2019 AEIT International Annual Conference (AEIT)","volume":"66 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127122802","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}
R. Benato, R. Caldon, A. Chiarelli, M. Coppo, S. Sessa, D. Mimo, M. Modesti, F. Piovesan
{"title":"Benefit assessment of installing innovative conductors in overhead lines","authors":"R. Benato, R. Caldon, A. Chiarelli, M. Coppo, S. Sessa, D. Mimo, M. Modesti, F. Piovesan","doi":"10.23919/AEIT.2019.8893409","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/AEIT.2019.8893409","url":null,"abstract":"The ongoing evolution of the electricity system to implement climate action policies translates into a continuous increase in the penetration of renewables and the need to strengthen the transmission grid to optimize the use of these sources and contain operating costs. The development of innovative overhead line conductors with better performance than those of traditional lines would bring benefits in terms of increased energy efficiency in transmission and distribution networks without requiring the replacement of existing towers. The project CALAJOULE, co-financed by the Italian Ministry of Economic Development in the framework of the “Ricerca di Sistema” programme, aims at proposing innovative solutions for overhead line conductors for the containment of Joule power losses. This paper presents the main characteristics of the innovative conductors along with the expected benefits deriving from their use in place of the traditional ones.","PeriodicalId":134409,"journal":{"name":"2019 AEIT International Annual Conference (AEIT)","volume":"17 6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129012577","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":"Analytical modeling of overhead line vulnerability to wet snow events for resilience assessment","authors":"A. Pitto, D. Cirio, E. Ciapessoni, G. Pirovano","doi":"10.23919/AEIT.2019.8893309","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/AEIT.2019.8893309","url":null,"abstract":"Extreme weather events are getting more and more frequent due to climate changes and often determine large load disruptions on power systems. As a preliminary step to face this issue, an analysis of the component vulnerabilities to natural threats which may cause multiple, dependent contingencies is required. Furthermore, the availability of advanced analytical models describing the vulnerability of components to threats can favour the development of approaches and tools to support operators' choices in power system management. This paper presents an analytical model to simulate the mechanical vulnerability of overhead lines against wet snow events, considering three main subcomponents of the line namely phase conductors, shield wires, and tower supports. The simulations performed on realistic support types and a reasonable range of mechanical loads, due to the combined action of wet snow/ice and wind, can be useful to identify the weakest subcomponents of the lines and to compute the return times of the outage events.","PeriodicalId":134409,"journal":{"name":"2019 AEIT International Annual Conference (AEIT)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132024708","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}
Massimo Battaglioni, P. Santini, M. Baldi, G. Cancellieri
{"title":"Obtaining structured generator matrices for QC-LDPC codes","authors":"Massimo Battaglioni, P. Santini, M. Baldi, G. Cancellieri","doi":"10.23919/AEIT.2019.8893395","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/AEIT.2019.8893395","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper we propose an efficient and general method to obtain structured generator matrices for QC-LDPC codes. Moreover, we devote particular attention to the family of fully-connected monomial codes and perform a statistical analysis of their low-weight unavoidable codewords, whose weight gives an upper bound on their minimum distance.","PeriodicalId":134409,"journal":{"name":"2019 AEIT International Annual Conference (AEIT)","volume":"48 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121320484","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}
Domenico Nardo, Alfio Scuto, G. Sorrentino, A. Raciti, S. Rizzo
{"title":"The key role of the SJ MOSFET with fast diode in high-end SMPS converters for telecom applications","authors":"Domenico Nardo, Alfio Scuto, G. Sorrentino, A. Raciti, S. Rizzo","doi":"10.23919/AEIT.2019.8893311","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/AEIT.2019.8893311","url":null,"abstract":"The increasing demand of electronic systems in car electrification as well as in IoT (internet of thing) applications requires power supply with large power output, high efficiency, and small size factor. In this framework, the main topologies used for telecom switch-mode-power-supply (SMPS) have been investigated in this paper. Performance and reliability of the SMPS are mainly related to the MOSFET characteristics, and a primary aspect of such high-level applications is to ensure the service continuity. The new products of super junction (SJ) MOSFETs with very fast diode are the best candidate to match the above expectations. This work describes the reasons underlying the performance improvement and presents the experimental results confirming that SJ MOSFETs with very fast diode is the suitable technology to be used for telecom zero voltage switching SMPS.","PeriodicalId":134409,"journal":{"name":"2019 AEIT International Annual Conference (AEIT)","volume":"92 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125202903","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}