{"title":"Non-isolated dual half-bridge ZVS/ZCS high step-down converter with zero DC bias current coupled inductor and active clamp","authors":"K. Hwu, W. Jiang","doi":"10.1109/ICSET.2016.7811767","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSET.2016.7811767","url":null,"abstract":"A non-isolated dual half-bridge zero-voltage-switching (ZVS)/ zero-current-switching (ZCS) high step-down converter with zero dc bias current and active clamp is presented in this paper. Owing to the use of the dc-blocking capacitors, the dc magnetizing inductance current of the coupled inductor is zero. Thus, the magnetizing current can be both positive and negative, which means that the entire core B-H loop (four quadrants of the B-H loop) can be used. Therefore, the utilization of the coupled inductor can be upgraded, and hence the core loss can be reduced. The dc-blocking capacitors can be not only used to step down the voltage, but also used to eliminate the dc magnetizing inductance current. Furthermore, an active clamp is used to suppress voltage spike across the MOSFET switch which is connected between the two windings of the coupled inductor. Moreover, owing to a discrete output inductor, this converter also features a non-pulsating output current. Although there are four switches in the proposed converter, only two half-bridge drivers are needed. In this study, detailed theoretical analyses and experimental results are offered to verify the feasibility and effectiveness of the proposed converter.","PeriodicalId":164446,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE International Conference on Sustainable Energy Technologies (ICSET)","volume":"52 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132526757","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":"Use of plasmonic metal nanoparticles to increase the light absorption efficiency of thin-film solar cells","authors":"Saniat Ahmed Choudhury, M. Chowdhury","doi":"10.1109/ICSET.2016.7811781","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSET.2016.7811781","url":null,"abstract":"Thin-film photovoltaic (PV) cell technology has been of keen interest over the last decade or so due to its lower cost of production, wide applicability and lower diffusion length for minority carriers. However, the conversion efficiencies of thin-film PV cells is much lower than that of conventional crystalline Si PV cells. Nanostructures have therefore been designed and implemented with such cells to improve optical and electrical efficiency of the cell, and plasmonic solar cells is among them. This study investigates how the optimization of the physical parameters of metal nanoparticles dispersed periodically over a 2μm a-Si substrate affect the enhancement in optical and electrical activity of a plasmonic solar cell. The study found that periodic arrays of Ag nanoparticles with a diameter of 100nm dispersed at a pitch of 220nm provided the highest enhancement. This conclusion was verified by analyzing absorption enhancement, short circuit current density and near-field images of all the different nanoparticle configurations studied.","PeriodicalId":164446,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE International Conference on Sustainable Energy Technologies (ICSET)","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130754832","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}
Hoang Duc Chinh, S. Shetty, Manish Gupta, S. K. Panda
{"title":"A wireless sensor and actuator network (WSAN) framework for personalized thermal comfort in office buildings","authors":"Hoang Duc Chinh, S. Shetty, Manish Gupta, S. K. Panda","doi":"10.1109/ICSET.2016.7811754","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSET.2016.7811754","url":null,"abstract":"Recent advances in wireless technologies, MEMS and embedded systems enable the popular usage of wireless sensor networks(WSNs) and subsequently WSNs with actuating capability known as WSANs in various automation systems. This paper provides an implementation framework for wireless sensor and actuator network (WSAN) to support research experiments in personalized thermal comfort for existing multi-occupancy offices. The proposed framework facilitates environmental and user preference data collection, analytics and actuation of the local comfort devices with minimal retrofitting. Commercially available fans are integrated with wireless sensor and actuator node to act as the local comfort devices for the users. The framework can be operated in three different modes: Manual, Auto and Hybrid to account for the various applications. A method for air speed estimation based on the ASHRAE Standards 55-2013 is described to demonstrate the actuation of the fans based on a thermal comfort model. This paper also suggests future directions on how the framework can be used to enhance thermal comfort and minimise air-conditioning energy consumption.","PeriodicalId":164446,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE International Conference on Sustainable Energy Technologies (ICSET)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131058570","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":"Analysis and design of a current-fed push-pull parallel-resonant converter for cooker magnetrons","authors":"Yueh-Ru Yang","doi":"10.1109/ICSET.2016.7811799","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSET.2016.7811799","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents the analysis and design of a current-fed push-pull parallel-resonant (CFPP-PR) converter for cooker magnetrons. The CFPP-PR converter is fabricated with a buck converter, a push-pull parallel-resonant inverter and a full-wave voltage doubler. The front-end buck converter synchronously operated with the following push-pull resonant circuit is a controllable dc current source. The CFPP-PR converter operated at resonant frequency exhibits zero-voltage switching and the push-pull switches only conduct buck inductor current. The magnetizing inductance of transformer resonates with equivalent parallel capacitance. The resultant resonant voltage is boosted with the turn ratio of transformer. The voltage doubler reduces the voltage stress of transformer windings. To demonstrate the analysis and design, a CFPP-PR converter with integrated circuit UC3872 is built and tested. Simulation and experiment results meet the predictions.","PeriodicalId":164446,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE International Conference on Sustainable Energy Technologies (ICSET)","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125683801","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":"Modeling and analysis of an integrated AC-DC network under AC and DC faults","authors":"D. N. Huu","doi":"10.1109/ICSET.2016.7811773","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSET.2016.7811773","url":null,"abstract":"With the strong development of renewable energy sources, the next generation network could include an existing AC system and multi-terminal VSC-HVDC links. In such an AC-DC network, interactions between AC and DC side under faults are interested to study. This paper presents a dedicated model of a sample AC-DC network and analyzes transient responses of this network following faults.","PeriodicalId":164446,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE International Conference on Sustainable Energy Technologies (ICSET)","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114809523","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":"Bidding strategy for virtual power plant with intraday demand response exchange market using stochastic programming","authors":"H. T. Nguyen, L. Le","doi":"10.1109/ICSET.2016.7811763","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSET.2016.7811763","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a mathematical model for the energy bidding problem of a virtual power plant (VPP) that participates in the regular electricity market and intraday demand response exchange (DRX) market considering different system uncertainties due to the intermittent renewable energy sources, retail customers' demand and electricity prices. By participating in the DRX market, the VPP can purchase demand response (DR) services from several demand response providers (DRP) as “virtual energy resources” to reduce the penalty cost of energy bidding mismatch in the energy market, increase its profit, and improve its renewable energy utilization significantly. The overall energy bidding problem is modeled as a three-stage stochastic program, which can be solved efficiently by the scenario based optimization approach. Extensive numerical results show the positive impact of DRX market on VPP's energy management and effectiveness of the proposed optimization framework.","PeriodicalId":164446,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE International Conference on Sustainable Energy Technologies (ICSET)","volume":"410 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124356002","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. Trường, Nguyen Lang Tung, N. Q. Hưng, B. Delinchant
{"title":"Grid-connected PV system design option for nearly zero energy building in reference building in Hanoi","authors":"N. Trường, Nguyen Lang Tung, N. Q. Hưng, B. Delinchant","doi":"10.1109/ICSET.2016.7811804","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSET.2016.7811804","url":null,"abstract":"Building is responsible for more than 40 percent of energy consumption and one third of greenhouse gas emissions. Europe has stablished the path towards nearly zero-energy buildings (nZEB), soon required in every new construction and large renovation in existing buildings by 2020. Achieving nZEB required the use of photovoltaic modules for generating electricity. In Vietnam, photovoltaic systems are in most cases not used in building today. This research, we aim to implement the platform that will be dedicated to prototyping and tools to support research training in the reference building. In order to achieve nZEB, a 15 kWp of PV array will be installed in the rooftop of this building to compensate the energy needed. The objectives are to benefit from PV source, to improve energy efficiency and to reduce cost of electrical consumption in different scenarios. The Photovoltaic simulation tool is important in predicting the energy production from the solar panels. The first study investigates the use of a simulation tool PVSYST as a method of informing the design decision of building installed photovoltaic system. Input to the simulation software such as meteorological data has been evaluated.","PeriodicalId":164446,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE International Conference on Sustainable Energy Technologies (ICSET)","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128875585","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 microgrid operation considering auto-configuration in islanded mode","authors":"Van-Hai Bui, A. Hussain, Hak-Man Kim","doi":"10.1109/ICSET.2016.7811772","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSET.2016.7811772","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, a novel algorithm is proposed for optimal operation of microgrids considering the occurrence of faults or recovery from faults, auto-configuration. The objective of the proposed algorithm is to minimize the operation of the microgrid while ensuring stability. The auto-configuration is defined as the capability of the system to update the status of all components and reschedule healthy components, whenever a fault occurs or the system recovers from a fault. Additionally, an energy management system (EMS) is developed in accordance with the proposed algorithm to maintain the system frequency and operate the system in a cost-effective way.","PeriodicalId":164446,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE International Conference on Sustainable Energy Technologies (ICSET)","volume":"692 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122981793","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":"Battery storage technologies, applications and trend in renewable energy","authors":"N. Ertugrul","doi":"10.1109/ICSET.2016.7811821","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSET.2016.7811821","url":null,"abstract":"As the battery technologies offer desirable characteristics at competitive cost, their applications have broadened significantly within the last decade covering all areas of power systems: from generation to transmission and distribution levels. In addition, battery storage technologies offer solutions to a range of network problems which are weak, long and thin, have large load variations, and have low power system inertia. The network problems may also be associated with fringe-of-grid areas that are likely to experience reliability and power quality issues. In addition, as the penetration of renewable energy resources increases, further problems also emerged primarily related to the intermittency of such resources. This paper aims to address the battery storage technologies in the light of a complete system topology while presenting a broader view about the future trends. Since their interactions in an ever growing complexity of microgrid applications need special attention, main emphasis is also given to highlight the impact of renewable energy utilising battery storage solutions. Finally, the energy storage test system developed is explained to provide insight to accelerate the technology by real tests on system components and applications, knowledge sharing and training.","PeriodicalId":164446,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE International Conference on Sustainable Energy Technologies (ICSET)","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126150141","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":"Converters with high boost, energy storage and bi-directional power flow in energy systems","authors":"M. F. Rahman, I. Osman, D. Xiao, K. Alam","doi":"10.1109/ICSET.2016.7811765","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSET.2016.7811765","url":null,"abstract":"This paper reviews the existing structures for converter stages in renewable energy and motor drive systems that offer high voltage gain at the input of an inverter. The inverter may also connect the DC supply to the utility grid. For traction motor drives in vehicle and rail transport and in high-frequency transformer connected grids, bi-directional power flow capability is also required. Cascaded high-boost non-isolated DC stage which offers multi-stage or multi-level DC inputs and output connections is the focus of attention in this paper. The high voltage DC supply to the inverter allows connections to inverters for motor drive and utility at the required voltage level. This arrangement may lead to reduced battery management issues and reduced size of storage elements, flexibility of connections with several input DC supplies at different levels, and improved reliability through series/parallel connection of converters with some redundancy. Several options for the high-boost stage which are currently available will be reviewed. This will be followed by considerations for energy storage elements and converters suitable for bi-directional power transfer capabilities. Converter topologies and control issues using a high-frequency link for bi-directional power flow between two AC grids will also be discussed.","PeriodicalId":164446,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE International Conference on Sustainable Energy Technologies (ICSET)","volume":"47 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128216536","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}