{"title":"Power sharing control and wind power curtailing for offshore multi-terminal VSC-HVDC transmission","authors":"Mohamed A. Abdelwahed, H. Sindi, E. El-Saadany","doi":"10.1109/SEGE.2016.7589515","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SEGE.2016.7589515","url":null,"abstract":"Worldwide, many countries spend billions of dollars on the development of renewable energy sources, especially wind generation, to counter the effects of global warming and in response to other environmental concerns. Given the increasing number of remotely located large power offshore wind farms, power sharing control and voltage regulation are significant challenges in the development of large multi-terminal voltage source converter high-voltage direct current (MT VSC-HVDC) transmission grids. Additionally, a wind-power curtailment algorithm is needed in cases of high windpower generation during low power demand from onshore AC networks. This work presents a power sharing control and wind power curtailment algorithm. This algorithm is based on selecting the optimal droop parameters of the power receiving converters and the reference power output for the offshore wind farms to share the offshore wind energy to the MT HVDC network among different AC grids based on desired shares. These desired power shares are defined to fulfill the active power requirements of the connected systems to achieve their objectives.","PeriodicalId":222683,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE Smart Energy Grid Engineering (SEGE)","volume":"54 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128898986","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 mathematical model for estimating oil drainage rate in SAGD process considering wellbore/formation coupling effect","authors":"Chunlan Li, Linsong Cheng, Haoxiang Gu","doi":"10.1109/SEGE.2016.7589533","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SEGE.2016.7589533","url":null,"abstract":"The aim of this work is to present a new mathematical model for estimating oil drainage rate in rising and expanding steam chamber stages in Steam-assisted gravity drainage (SAGD) process, more importantly, vertical-wellbore/formation and horizontal-wellbore/formation coupling effects are taken into consideration. In this study, a function of steam chamber height is introduced and the expressions for oil drainage rate in the rising and expanding steam chamber stages are derived in detail. Then, an example is given to introduce how to use the proposed method. The results indicate that heat injection power per meter reduces gradually along the horizontal wellbore, which affects both steam chamber height and oil drainage rate in the SAGD process. Moreover, it is found that when production time is the same, the calculated oil drainage rate from the new method is lower than that from Butler's method, but the production period in the rising steam chamber stage for the former is longer than the latter.","PeriodicalId":222683,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE Smart Energy Grid Engineering (SEGE)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131085164","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}
D. Hameed, Saad Hamayoon, Asad Ali Malik, O. Ansari
{"title":"Solar grid-tied inverter, with battery back-up, for efficient solar energy harvesting","authors":"D. Hameed, Saad Hamayoon, Asad Ali Malik, O. Ansari","doi":"10.1109/SEGE.2016.7589507","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SEGE.2016.7589507","url":null,"abstract":"Solar Grid-Tied Inverter system is an electricity generating system that is connected to the utility grid. This paper discusses the design of a Grid-Tied Inverter (GTI). The first stage is Maximum Power Point Tracking (MPPT) which is implemented using perturb and observe algorithm. Then push-pull converter is used to convert DC output from MPPT stage to 330V dc. This DC voltage is then converted into AC voltage using full-wave inverter topology employing unipolar SPWM technique. Then synchronization is achieved between grid and photovoltaic system. Finally, power flow control mechanism controls the power flow from GTI system to the grid and the house load.","PeriodicalId":222683,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE Smart Energy Grid Engineering (SEGE)","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127055217","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 circuit topology for battery charger from 200V DC source to 12V for hybrid automotive applications","authors":"K. Sayed, K. Nishida, H. Gabbar, M. Nakaoka","doi":"10.1109/SEGE.2016.7589544","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SEGE.2016.7589544","url":null,"abstract":"The research target is the development of the DC/DC converter for charging from 200V NiMH or Li-Ion battery to 12V Lead-acid storage battery in hybrid cars such as Toyota Prius. In car, a 12V Lead-acid storage battery is used to operate air conditioner, main lights and various actuators in engine control unit etc. Before the lead-acid battery ends up all the discharge, it should be charged using the alternator. In order to improve fuel efficiency, it is necessary to implement a so-called charge control, where the battery charge is executed in deceleration period avoiding the acceleration period of the car. In Hybrid cars, as a high voltage NiMH battery is equipped, it is possible to charge 12V Lead-acid storage battery from the high voltage battery. By using this scheme, it is realized not only to take off the alternator but also to improve braking touch for the car driver, because all regenerative energy can be absorbed in the high voltage battery. Furthermore the fuel efficiency can be improved easily for the reason why the efficiency of DC/DC converter is much higher than that of alternator.","PeriodicalId":222683,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE Smart Energy Grid Engineering (SEGE)","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122891745","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":"Adaptive algorithm for microprocessor based distance relays in smart grid","authors":"T. Bujanovic, P. Ghosh","doi":"10.1109/SEGE.2016.7589552","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SEGE.2016.7589552","url":null,"abstract":"Power grid reconfiguration requires appropriate intelligent optimization strategy, particularly during power system restoration. The complexity increases to develop strategy for implementing protection scheme taking into consideration the grid reconfiguration. It therefore needs innovative approach to help future power engineers to learn about protection relays in the ever growing complex power grid. In the graduate course “power system protection” at Syracuse University the students study implementation of modern microprocessor based protection relays in accordance to the surrounding system reconfiguration. Students run simulations under different fault conditions to visualize the impact of nature and location of the fault on the external measurements. Using an example of a single phase to ground fault in a transmission line between the two subsystems, students analyze, through simulations, the line impedance detected by the distance relay and develop the requirements for the distance relay parameter settings. In the next step the students study possible reconfiguration scenarios and analyze necessary distance relay parameter adjustments. We note how students perform numerical analysis and develop the requirements for the necessary adaptive changes in the relay algorithm to meet the application specifications, for example, in Zone 1 and Zone 2 transmission line protection when a loss of neutral grounding on one terminal of the transmission line occurs. Through these exercise, students get opportunities to demonstrate their knowledge of mathematics, science, and engineering in performing complex analysis for accurate data interpretation collected with a level of measurement uncertainty. In this article we will present some students works and discuss the effects of the strides we have made to improve the pedagogical aspect of teaching in response to changes in the power industry.","PeriodicalId":222683,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE Smart Energy Grid Engineering (SEGE)","volume":"149 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132551091","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":"Integration of different energy vectors in polygeneration systems","authors":"P. Lazzeroni, M. Repetto","doi":"10.1109/SEGE.2016.7589522","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SEGE.2016.7589522","url":null,"abstract":"One polygeneration node is an energy system where the user demands are met by different generation sources, possibly including renewable energy inputs and energy storages. User demands can involve one single energy vector like electricity, heating, cooling etc. or can be a combination of all of them at the same time. The management strategy of these systems is not univocal since different mix of production can meet the user demand. The operational management has to follow a strategy aiming at some objective like maximisation of renewable energy share, minimisation of operational cost, minimisation of environmental emission etc. The optimal strategy must be based on a model of the system. An optimisation procedure based on a techno-economical approach is here presented together with its main features. An application example is presented and results discussed.","PeriodicalId":222683,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE Smart Energy Grid Engineering (SEGE)","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122395849","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 link weight factor in backpressure scheduling algorithm for energy-efficient design of Smart Wireless Sensor Networks","authors":"Fawaz Alassery","doi":"10.1109/SEGE.2016.7589553","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SEGE.2016.7589553","url":null,"abstract":"In Smart Wireless Sensor Networks, it is imperative to utilize the most power efficient techniques to prolong the lifetime of a sensor node. Backpressure based scheduling has a remarkable performance for smart WSNs, and it has been discussed extensively in literatures. However, considering the energy efficiency of Backpressure scheduling algorithms for recourse-constrained smart WSNs is still need to be studied in order to design smart WSNs with minimum energy consumption. Unlike previous works for Backpressure scheduling algorithms, in this paper we propose a novel Multi-Factors Backpressure Scheduling (MFBS) algorithm which focuses on introducing new link-weights for energy efficient scheduling in smart WSNs. In MFBS, besides queue backlog differentials which is the common scheduling method in the classical Backpressure algorithm, nodal residual energy as well as the shortest path between neighbors (nodes) are also jointly considered into the transmission scheduling decision. Based on the results of our extensive simulation which is proven by the equivalent theoretical analysis, MFBS shows a significant improvement in the network performance of smart WSNs in terms of the network lifetime, the throughput, the queue length and the energy-efficiency in comparison with existing algorithms such as the classical backpressure algorithm and enhanced dynamic backpressure routing algorithm.","PeriodicalId":222683,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE Smart Energy Grid Engineering (SEGE)","volume":"49 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127946097","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 survey: Internet of Things (IOT) technologies, applications and challenges","authors":"Sajjad Hussain Shah, Ilyas Yaqoob","doi":"10.1109/SEGE.2016.7589556","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SEGE.2016.7589556","url":null,"abstract":"The main aim of this paper is to discuss the Internet of things in wider sense and prominence on protocols, technologies and application along related issues. The main factor IoT concept is the integration of different technologies. The IoT is empowered by the hottest developments in RFID, smart sensors, communication technologies, and Internet protocols. Primary hypothesis is to have smart sensor dealing directly to deliver a class of applications without any external or human participation. Recently development in Internet and smart phone and machine-to-machine M2M technologies can be consider first phase of the IoT. In the coming years IoT is expected to be one of the main hub between various technologies by connecting smart physical objects together and allow different applications in support of smart decision making. In this paper we discuss IoT architecture and technical aspect that relate to IoT. Then, give over view about IoT technologies, protocols and applications and related issues with comparison of other survey papers. Our main aim to provide a framework to researcher and application developer that how different protocols works, over view of some key issues of IoT and the relation between IoT and other embryonic technologies including big data analytics and cloud computing.","PeriodicalId":222683,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE Smart Energy Grid Engineering (SEGE)","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128915404","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":"Combustion characteristics of torrefied biomass materials to generate power","authors":"H. Haykiri-Açma, S. Yaman, S. Kucukbayrak","doi":"10.1109/SEGE.2016.7589530","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SEGE.2016.7589530","url":null,"abstract":"Co-firing of biomass with coal for power generation is an effective way to lower the use of fossil fuels and to mitigate CO2 emissions. However, high moisture content, high yields of volatiles, low density, and insufficient calorific value of biomass are the main challenges to burn them with coal in co-combustion systems. Also, co-firing systems usually suffer mainly from high volatile matter content of biomass that leads segregation of coal and biomass from each other during co-combustion. In this context, several woody biomass species such as olive milling residue (OMR), rhododendron (RH), and ash tree (AT) were subjected to torrefaction process at temperatures of 200, 250, and 300°C under nitrogen atmosphere to produce biochars that have lower content of volatiles and higher content of calorific value. The biochars were characterized by the proximate and ultimate analyses and the calorific value. It was found out that so significant improvements can be achieved in the calorific values that the biochars became almost comparable with sub-bituminous coals in terms of the calorific value. Besides, the burning reactivities of these biochars revealed that significant reductions took place in the burning reactivities through torrefaction. In addition, the burning characteristics of these biochars were investigated by thermal analysis methods.","PeriodicalId":222683,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE Smart Energy Grid Engineering (SEGE)","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116014251","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":"Day ahead hourly forecast of solar irradiance for Abu Dhabi, UAE","authors":"S. Hussain, A. A. Al Alili","doi":"10.1109/SEGE.2016.7589502","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SEGE.2016.7589502","url":null,"abstract":"Forecasting is an inseparable part of modern renewable energy generation systems including wind, solar and wave. In order to effectively manage integration of grid-connected energy resources and energy storage systems, the energy generation potential of these resources needs to be estimated ahead in time. To this aim, this paper applies a simple and linear statistical forecasting technique, the Autoregressive Integrated Moving Average (ARIMA) on hourly global horizontal irradiance (GHI W/m2) data. The objective is to test the capabilities of ARIMA forecasting on high resolution solar time series for the state of Abu Dhabi, the United Arab Emirates and lay down the foundations for further in-depth analysis. The performance of the model is assessed using commonly used statistical metrics, coefficient of determination (R2) and root mean square error (RMSE). The model is trained and tested on hourly GHI from March, 2016. The R2 and RMSE values for the best fit model are found to be 88.63% and 72.88 W/m2, respectively.","PeriodicalId":222683,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE Smart Energy Grid Engineering (SEGE)","volume":"61 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126619379","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}