{"title":"A detailed design and optimization process of a stand-alone photovoltaic AC transformer-less regulated three-phase voltage generator","authors":"M. Khelif, A. M'Raoui, L. Hassaine","doi":"10.1109/IREC.2016.7478956","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IREC.2016.7478956","url":null,"abstract":"This paper deals with a synthetic design process, in a Matlab/Simulink environment, of an overall photovoltaic energy conversion system, consisting of a stand-alone, (50Hz, 3×380 V), transformer-less electrical power supply (3KWp). Starting from the basic schematic of an off-grid PV system, the first step is dedicated to the identification of each stage main external electrical characteristics, in order to build up a homogenous conversion chain, responding to the fixed objective. This is done without ignoring many of the practical sizing constraints to make the final design as near as possible to its detailed field realizable configuration. A progressive modelling process is then initiated with the chosen structure of the PV array (PVG). As a result, the external characteristics of the latter are established in presence of the main field perturbations such as solar irradiance intensity, temperature and shading variations. A maximum power point tracking stage (MPPT), based on the “perturb & observe” (P&O) approach as a control strategy of a boost DC-DC converter is then introduced, implemented and optimised. Its behaviour is investigated under a multitude of the various working conditions quoted above, along with the load constraints. At this level, these are related to the battery pack mainly arranged to fulfil DC bus voltage considerations. Significant results in this scope are presented, before introducing a three-phase Voltage Source Inverter (VSI), which direct control circuits are based on the analog PWM technique. An output voltage regulation loop is then designed to assure optimum static and dynamic performances in presence of the main user AC load perturbation profiles. At the end, significant and realistic operating conditions are introduced to evaluate the overall performances of the completed installation, before conducting some representative validating tests which related results are presented and discussed.","PeriodicalId":190533,"journal":{"name":"2016 7th International Renewable Energy Congress (IREC)","volume":"62 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-03-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116596929","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}
H. Atia, A. Snoussi, A. Benbrahim, A. Ilinca, R. Boukchina
{"title":"Energetic and exergetic evaluation of conventional and sloped solar chimney power plants","authors":"H. Atia, A. Snoussi, A. Benbrahim, A. Ilinca, R. Boukchina","doi":"10.1109/IREC.2016.7478888","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IREC.2016.7478888","url":null,"abstract":"A CFD analysis using ANSYS Fluent software was conducted to study the effects of collector slope on solar chimney's performances. Three solar chimney configurations, named A, B and C, which correspond to a slope of 0°, 2.5° and 5°, respectively, were studied. Both collector Radius and chimney height were fixed to 495m for the three configurations. For the three studied configurations, the pressure ratio was fixed to 0.9 and the solar radiation was varied from 200 W/m2 to 1100 W/m2. The results show that the thermodynamic performances of the solar chimney were enhanced by increasing the inclination angle of the collector roof. In fact, the power extracted from a sloped solar chimney power plant (SSCPP), the energetic and the exergetic efficiencies of the processes increase with increasing the inclination angle and the solar radiation value.","PeriodicalId":190533,"journal":{"name":"2016 7th International Renewable Energy Congress (IREC)","volume":"78 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-03-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127710221","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}
K. Harzli, H. Oueslati, A. Ben Mabrouk, S. Mabrouk, L. Dusonchet, S. Favuzza, D. La Cascia, F. Massaro, G. Zizzo
{"title":"Study and simulation of photovoltaic installation connected to the grid with storage system","authors":"K. Harzli, H. Oueslati, A. Ben Mabrouk, S. Mabrouk, L. Dusonchet, S. Favuzza, D. La Cascia, F. Massaro, G. Zizzo","doi":"10.1109/IREC.2016.7478900","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IREC.2016.7478900","url":null,"abstract":"In the present paper, a new approach to the management of energy resources in a research laboratory is proposed and evaluated by a simulation for the PV installation realized for the Tunisian-Italian cooperation project DE.DU.ENER.T, using renewable energy and economic criteria. The aim of this project is to improve energy efficiency order to minimize the electricity cost consumed at the laboratory, because according to the bills of electricity received we noticed that there is a high consumption of electrical current, from the STEG grid, and especially by the energy intensive equipment such as drying ovens and all the workstations. So we targeted to install a photovoltaic field of 12KWc to reduce these bills by using other sustainable, green and clean sources. In addition, a theoretical study of the PV system sizing realized manually in order to know in the first hand the compatibility between the different equipment of this installation and to compare the results with those found by the SMA Sunny Design software in the second hand. Then, we present the different result obtained by the simulation of our installation using a PV*SOL simulation software. We designed and managed these systems optimally to promote the self-consumption of the electric energy in the building of LPT Research laboratory. We will focus on the use of the PV system by evaluating the impacts of electricity generation using renewable energy levied on electricity grid (energy injection and extraction) and the economies that can be achieved during the hours Operating.","PeriodicalId":190533,"journal":{"name":"2016 7th International Renewable Energy Congress (IREC)","volume":"44 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-03-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130255702","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":"Optimization of a cationic dye adsorption onto a chemically modified agriculture by-product using response surface methodology","authors":"A. A. Azzaz, S. Jellali, L. Bousselmi","doi":"10.1109/IREC.2016.7478936","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IREC.2016.7478936","url":null,"abstract":"In the present study, Methylene Blue (MB) removal from aqueous solutions by orange tree sawdust was optimized using the Response Surface Methodology (RSM). The effects of the intensity of the chemical treatment with NaOH, the sawdust dose, contact time and the initial MB concentration were examined in batch system. Analysis of variance (ANOVA), F-test and Student's t-test revealed that the chemical treatment concentration is the most influencing parameter, followed by the contact time, treatment dose and the initial dye concentration. An optimum treatment/adsorption point was determined for a 100% MB removal yield using MINITAB's desirability function for the recommended optimum conditions of: NaOH concentration of 0.14 M, an adsorbent dosage of 50 g/L, a contact time of 1 hour and a MB concentration of 69.5 mg/L. The physical-chemical characterization of the generated sawdust through FTIR, SEM, EDX and BET analyses showed a non negligible shift in the hydroxyl and aromatic functional groups and an important variation of the surface morphology and texture. The Kinetic and isotherm MB adsorption experiments carried out on the chemically modified sawdust demonstrated that the pseudo-second order and Langmuir models fitted very well the kinetic and at equilibrium experimental data, respectively. These findings confirm that the MB adsorption is mainly governed by a chemisorption phenomenon and was driven with a monolayer fixation process. The MB adsorption capacity of the modified sawdust was relatively important and indicates that this solid matrix could be considered as a promising material for dyes removal from industrial effluents.","PeriodicalId":190533,"journal":{"name":"2016 7th International Renewable Energy Congress (IREC)","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-03-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126378033","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":"PSO and GA-based maximum power point tracking for partially shaded photovoltaic systems","authors":"Afef Badis, M. Mansouri, A. Sakly","doi":"10.1109/IREC.2016.7478923","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IREC.2016.7478923","url":null,"abstract":"Under partial shading (PS) conditions, photovoltaic (PV) systems are popularly known to suffer from low-energy efficiency. Therefore, an effective MPPT algorithm should be used to detect the unique global peak as the maximum power point (MPP), and avoid any local maxima in order to mitigate the effect of PS. To date, various MPPT techniques have been developed to reliably track the MPP under all circumstances and reduce the energy losses due to PS. Usually, conventional methods such as Perturb and Observe (P&O) and the Incremental Conductance (IncCond), fail to extract the global MPP of the PV panel if the PV generator is partially shaded. To overcome this problem, Evolutionary Algorithms (AEs), namely the Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) and Genetic Algorithm (GA) are studied, simulated and compared under the same software.","PeriodicalId":190533,"journal":{"name":"2016 7th International Renewable Energy Congress (IREC)","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-03-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122254952","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}
Ines Baccouche, S. Jemmali, B. Manai, Rania Chaibi, Najoua Essoukri Ben Amara
{"title":"Hardware implementation of an algorithm based on kalman filtrer for monitoring low capacity Li-ion batteries","authors":"Ines Baccouche, S. Jemmali, B. Manai, Rania Chaibi, Najoua Essoukri Ben Amara","doi":"10.1109/IREC.2016.7478930","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IREC.2016.7478930","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we introduce an algorithm based on an adaptive Kalman filter algorithm for estimating the state of charge of low capacity Li-ion batteries. Using the first order model with a static characterization, good results have been reached and the algorithm converges even with random initial SoC values and has represented no cumulative error drawbacks. This algorithm has been validated, simulated and implemented on a hardware platform based on a microcontroller for an online SoC estimation for multimedia application.","PeriodicalId":190533,"journal":{"name":"2016 7th International Renewable Energy Congress (IREC)","volume":"105 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-03-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127254857","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}
F. Parigi, Michele Del Viscio, Simone Amicabile, M. Testi, Sailesh Rao, H. Udaykumar
{"title":"High efficient Mewar Angithi stove testing in rural Kenya","authors":"F. Parigi, Michele Del Viscio, Simone Amicabile, M. Testi, Sailesh Rao, H. Udaykumar","doi":"10.1109/IREC.2016.7478891","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IREC.2016.7478891","url":null,"abstract":"Three billion people worldwide use biomass daily for cooking, endangering health, climate, forests and biodiversity. Extensive solutions have been proposed in the literature to reduce the wood usage by increasing the efficiency of the cooking stoves. The major challenges faced are: cultural inertia to change, budget limitation and technological sophistication. This document examines if the wood-savings achieved in Rajasthan India through Mewar Angithi (MA) insert can be replicated in rural Kenya. MA local prototype construction and testing in the field was done. Analysis of field data and heat transfer simulations were performed. The achievement of 66% savings in firewood usage indicates the feasibility of this low-cost, low-tech solution to rural areas in Kenya and eventually in the rest of the Sub-Saharan region.","PeriodicalId":190533,"journal":{"name":"2016 7th International Renewable Energy Congress (IREC)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-03-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131346055","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}
Abbes Kaabi, M. Tliha, A. Dhahri, C. Khaldi, J. Lamloumi
{"title":"Electrochemical properties of the LaGaO3 perovskite-type oxide used as negative electrode in Ni/MH accumulators","authors":"Abbes Kaabi, M. Tliha, A. Dhahri, C. Khaldi, J. Lamloumi","doi":"10.1109/IREC.2016.7478911","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IREC.2016.7478911","url":null,"abstract":"In this work, we studied the hydrogen storage properties of the LaGaO3 perovskite-type oxide used as negative electrode in nickel-metal hydride batteries. The LaGaO3 perovskite-type oxide is synthesized by conventional sol-gel method and their phase structure and electrochemical properties are investigated systematically. X-ray diffraction (XRD) analysis shows that LaGaO3 perovskite-type oxide consist of single phase and crystallizes in the orthorhombic space group Pnma. The electrochemical properties of the LaGaO3 electrode are studied at 55°C using different electrochemical techniques (chronopotentiometry, chronoamperometry, voltamétrie cyclique). The corrosion properties of the LaGaO3 electrode also are evaluated at different state of charge at 55°C.","PeriodicalId":190533,"journal":{"name":"2016 7th International Renewable Energy Congress (IREC)","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-03-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115198809","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":"Study of the traction chains of different models of electric vehicles with the ADVISOR tool","authors":"Sahar Bradai, M. Ghariani, A. Guermazi","doi":"10.1109/IREC.2016.7478878","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IREC.2016.7478878","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we describe a method of analysis and simulation model of different traction chains. ADVISOR (Advanced Vehicle Simulator) was used as an analysis and simulation tool. Also we are interested on the study of different traction chains and their reliability on a standard driving cycle. In this context, we chose to focus on the leisure cars for different types of traction chains that undergo a slow development compared to other categories. The paper then discusses a comparative study of different chains traction and also presents the simulation of traction chains based on ADVISOR tool and its input parameters that allows us to know the difference between different traction chains configurations to reach the best configuration.","PeriodicalId":190533,"journal":{"name":"2016 7th International Renewable Energy Congress (IREC)","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-03-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115415808","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}
Najoua Mekaddem, Samia Ben Ali, A. Hannachi, A. Mazioud, Magali Foi
{"title":"Latent energy storage study in simple and honeycomb structures filled with a phase change material","authors":"Najoua Mekaddem, Samia Ben Ali, A. Hannachi, A. Mazioud, Magali Foi","doi":"10.1109/IREC.2016.7478884","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IREC.2016.7478884","url":null,"abstract":"Heat storage in wall building via phase change materials (PCMs) can be an alternative solution to problems related to high energy consumption for air conditioning. Paraffins are usually used as thermal storage materials thanks to their quality of high storage capacity and nearly constant thermal energy. The objective of this study was to compare the thermal behavior and the heat storage capacity of two aluminum panels: a simple panel and a honeycomb panel both filled with paraffin RT27. For this aim, a 3D numerical model based on the effective heat capacity method using Fluent® software was adopted to study the process of phase change.","PeriodicalId":190533,"journal":{"name":"2016 7th International Renewable Energy Congress (IREC)","volume":"199 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-03-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116154458","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}