{"title":"Power generation from salinity gradient solar pond using thermoelectric generators for renewable energy application","authors":"B. Singh, Lippong Tan, A. Date, A. Akbarzadeh","doi":"10.1109/PECON.2012.6450345","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PECON.2012.6450345","url":null,"abstract":"Salinity-gradient solar pond (SGSP) is capable of storing heat at temperature up to 80°C. The temperature difference between the upper convective zone (UCZ) and lower convective zone (LCZ) of a SGSP can be in the range of 40°C - 60°C. This temperature difference can be used to power thermoelectric generators (TEG) for electricity production. This paper present results of a TEG system designed to be powered by the hot and cold water from the SGSP. The system is capable of producing electricity even on cloudy days or at night as the SGSP acts as a thermal storage system. The results obtained have indicated significant prospects of such system to generate power from a low grade heat for remote area power supply.","PeriodicalId":135966,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE International Conference on Power and Energy (PECon)","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123871860","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}
A. Iqbal, S. Payami, R. Behera, A. Abdallah, H. Abu-Rub
{"title":"Analysis of a field oriented controlled five-phase motor drive with active front end converter","authors":"A. Iqbal, S. Payami, R. Behera, A. Abdallah, H. Abu-Rub","doi":"10.1109/PECON.2012.6450245","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PECON.2012.6450245","url":null,"abstract":"The paper presents field oriented control of a five-phase induction motor drive system. The five-phase induction motor is supplied from a current controlled five-phase voltage source inverter and the inverter is supplied from a three-phase active front end converter. The novelty of the paper lies in the development of the five-phase drive with the active front converter. The front end converter has two control loops, the dc link voltage control and the source side current control with unity power factor operation. Simple hysteresis controllers are used to control the input from the source and output to the load currents (five-phase induction motor stator current). The validity of the control is validated using analytical, simulation and experimental approaches.","PeriodicalId":135966,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE International Conference on Power and Energy (PECon)","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131765399","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. A. Binti Muhamad, N. Bashir, A. Suleiman, Nigeria Abuja, A. Alghamdi
{"title":"Asset management through effective transformer diagnostics & condition monitoring","authors":"N. A. Binti Muhamad, N. Bashir, A. Suleiman, Nigeria Abuja, A. Alghamdi","doi":"10.1109/PECON.2012.6450209","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PECON.2012.6450209","url":null,"abstract":"Power transformers are the most critical and important equipment in the power sector. It links power generation, transmission and distribution. There is a huge investment required to acquire or replace them and when they fail, huge losses are incurred in terms of assets, revenue and customer good will. This huge financial burden due to sudden losses of power transformers can be minimized through effective condition monitoring and diagnostics. This paper presents a computer program developed to interpret the condition of power transformers by the analyzing the dissolved gases. The computer program developed using C-Sharp (C#) language under WINDOWS operating system is used to assess four different methods of Dissolved Gas Analysis (DGA) technique to predict the condition of the transformer so as to improve the accuracy of the interpretation. The result shows an increase in the fault-analysis classification of these DGA methods by up to 20%.","PeriodicalId":135966,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE International Conference on Power and Energy (PECon)","volume":"276 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132831083","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":"Back propagation neural network aided wavelet transform for high impedance fault detection and faulty phase selection","authors":"A. Abohagar, M. Mustafa","doi":"10.1109/PECON.2012.6450324","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PECON.2012.6450324","url":null,"abstract":"High impedance fault (HIF) is very common problem and complex phenomena, and because of its distinctive characteristic is considered as riskiness for public safety and human. Therefore, the detection and protection of such faults still remain a topic of research and challenging of protection engineers. In this paper, a new model of (HIF) is introduced and tested with applying of new hybrid algorithm using the wavelet transform and the neural network. The Discrete wavelet transform (DWT) is used as feature extraction to extracts useful information from the distorted current signal that is generated from transmission system network under effect of the simulated model of (HIF). In order to improve training convergence and to reduce the number of inputs to the neural network, the coefficients of wavelet are calculated and used as the inputs for training Multi-layer back propagation neural network (BP-NN) for detection the high impedance fault and discriminate the faulty phase from healthy one.","PeriodicalId":135966,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE International Conference on Power and Energy (PECon)","volume":"50 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127419937","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":"Network expansion planning using linkage identification genetic algorithm","authors":"M. Okabe, H. Aoki","doi":"10.1109/PECON.2012.6450210","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PECON.2012.6450210","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents the application of multi-objective optimization method for Network Expansion Planning. The Distribution Network Expansion Planning (DNEP) aims to minimize the cost and distribution loss while satisfying the constraints. The problem formulation results in combinatorial optimization problems which in practice are quite hard to solve due to their complexity. Therefore, in this paper Genetic Algorithm which is a meta-heuristics method was applied. The present study proposed the new method of multi-objective optimization methods. NSGA-II and SPEA2 is assumed to be the best method now. The proposed method introduces the concept of linkage identification genetic algorithm into that method. As a result, new method was possible to search more efficiently than existing methods.","PeriodicalId":135966,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE International Conference on Power and Energy (PECon)","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133806137","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}
L. M. A. Beigi, N. Azli, F. Khosravi, Ehsan Najafi, A. Kaykhosravi
{"title":"A new multilevel inverter topology with reduced number of power switches","authors":"L. M. A. Beigi, N. Azli, F. Khosravi, Ehsan Najafi, A. Kaykhosravi","doi":"10.1109/PECON.2012.6450277","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PECON.2012.6450277","url":null,"abstract":"Recent years have seen the emergence of various multilevel inverter topologies for high voltage and high power applications. This is mainly due to the attractive advantages of multilevel inverters such as lower Total Harmonic Distortion (THD) in the output voltage, higher efficiency, less stress on the power switches and low Electromagnetic Interference (EMI). The main problem of using multilevel inverters is the number of power switches that normally contributes to the complexity in controlling the power switches and high cost. In this paper a new structure of a nine-level inverter is proposed to improve the multilevel inverter performance by compensating these disadvantages. This topology employs fewer power switches compared to that of conventional multilevel inverters. In addition a modified Pulse width Modulation (PWM) control method has been designed for this new inverter structure that requires less number of carrier signals. The proposed topology and its control method are described and the results of a simulation study conducted have illustrated the performance of the overall system, thus revealing the advantages of this structure compared to conventional topologies.","PeriodicalId":135966,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE International Conference on Power and Energy (PECon)","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115710575","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}
A. Rahim, A. Shukri, M. I. Norlia, Y. Yatim, Z. Hasan, S. Nizam, U. Hashim
{"title":"An evaluation of stand-alone electrical power PV systems at Orang Asli villages in Cameron Highland, Malaysia","authors":"A. Rahim, A. Shukri, M. I. Norlia, Y. Yatim, Z. Hasan, S. Nizam, U. Hashim","doi":"10.1109/PECON.2012.6450236","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PECON.2012.6450236","url":null,"abstract":"This paper present a case study investigation on the functionality status of the rural photovoltaic electrical power photovoltaic (PV) systems installed at several Orang Asli villages or settlement around Cameron Highland, Pahang, Malaysia after average of 10 years of operation. Several important findings are highlighted and discussed.","PeriodicalId":135966,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE International Conference on Power and Energy (PECon)","volume":"57 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115733228","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 new hybrid digital technique for differential protection of salient pole synchronous generator","authors":"A. Aktaibi, M. Rahman","doi":"10.1109/PECON.2012.6450256","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PECON.2012.6450256","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, the development and implementation of d-q axis components and wavelet packet transform (WPT) based hybrid technique for digital differential protection of a salient pole synchronous generator is presented. The analysis is concentrated on the high frequency sub-band contents of WPT obtained from the d-q components of the differential currents of the relay. It has been found that the analysis in this approach provides enough information to detect any fault in the synchronous generator. This hybrid technique provides good accuracy and fast fault clearance with only one level of WPT of the d-q axis components of the current. Off-Line testing is carried out for the data collected from an experimental work on a laboratory salient pole synchronous generator for different types of disturbances. Moreover, the algorithm is verified by Real-Time experimental tests on the laboratory salient pole synchronous generator.","PeriodicalId":135966,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE International Conference on Power and Energy (PECon)","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124362686","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":"Temperature rise prediction in 3-phase busbar system at 20°C ambient temperature","authors":"M. Muhammood, M. Kamarol, D. Ishak, S. Masri","doi":"10.1109/PECON.2012.6450313","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PECON.2012.6450313","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents the temperature rise analysis of a three phase busbar system. Busbar normally used to transmit and distribute current to distribution board in a building. Higher current capacity will naturally increase heat generation in the busduct system. The heat generation normally creates power losses or eddy current losses at the conductor. In this paper, a two dimensional finite element method by Opera 2D software is used for predicting the temperature distribution at initial steady state current carrying capacity of busbar. The current carrying capacity is limited at temperature different between conductor surface temperature and ambient temperature obtained by IEC standard 60430-2. The heat transfer coefficients on the boundaries are calculated by using the Nusselt number. The mathematical analysis is applied to get the current density. The calculated current input in selected phase angle, heat transfer coefficient, heat flux is used as the input of the simulation model. The results depict that the temperature varies due to change in input phase current.","PeriodicalId":135966,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE International Conference on Power and Energy (PECon)","volume":"84 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116448595","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":"Techno-economic appraisal of alternative distribution network design options","authors":"C. K. Gan, S. Y. Low, D. Pudjianto, G. Strbac","doi":"10.1109/PECON.2012.6450332","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PECON.2012.6450332","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents the methodology and distribution network model used for the assessment of alternative distribution network design strategies in terms of the cost and benefits involved. In contrast to network specific design approach, a statistical distribution network design model has been adopted in this work. The investigation into the viability of three voltage levels design (132/11/0.4kV) when compared to conventional four voltage levels design (132/33/11/0.4kV) for a typical rural case have been carried out. The technical impact and economic implications of both design options have been quantitatively evaluated and quantified.","PeriodicalId":135966,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE International Conference on Power and Energy (PECon)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125851777","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}