{"title":"Computational application to study the performance of an electric vehicle with photovoltaic panels","authors":"C. Diniș, D. Sousa, A. Roque, V. Pires","doi":"10.1109/ICRERA.2012.6477419","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICRERA.2012.6477419","url":null,"abstract":"The installation of micro generation systems on-board of electric vehicles is a solution that can contribute to improve the performance of this type of vehicles. Embedded generation systems increase the autonomy of electric vehicles and can reduce the number of times and duration of the recharging process of their energy storage systems. In this work, the influence of installing micro-generation systems dedicated to electrical vehicles is investigated. In particular, the integration of photovoltaic modules in a commercial electric vehicle (“Fiat Seicento Elettra”) was analyzed. Starting from this solution, a computational application was developed allowing the users/students to configure the vehicle (including: type of vehicle, slope of the route, type of photovoltaic panels, location and month of the year). Therefore, the main outputs of the developed computational application are the distance run according to the energy generated by the photovoltaic modules, the power balance of the photovoltaic panels, the greenhouse gas emissions and the vehicle consumptions for urban, extra urban and combined circuits.","PeriodicalId":239142,"journal":{"name":"2012 International Conference on Renewable Energy Research and Applications (ICRERA)","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121082984","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. Koyanagi, H. Hayashi, M. Irie, S. Zaitsu, H. Sakai
{"title":"The flow simulation in the membrane module of PRO using concentrated brine","authors":"K. Koyanagi, H. Hayashi, M. Irie, S. Zaitsu, H. Sakai","doi":"10.1109/ICRERA.2012.6477350","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICRERA.2012.6477350","url":null,"abstract":"The flow simulation of the membrane module of PRO, the following results obtained. 1. There is distorted flow in a module. 2. Amount of osmosis is different in a module. At the fresh water collects the amount of osmosis is rapidly decrease. 3. Amount of osmosis in hollow fiber area is about ten percent of the whole.","PeriodicalId":239142,"journal":{"name":"2012 International Conference on Renewable Energy Research and Applications (ICRERA)","volume":"60 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116254898","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":"Overview of battery energy storage systems for stabilization of renewable energy in Japan","authors":"N. Kawakami, Y. Iijima","doi":"10.1109/ICRERA.2012.6477391","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICRERA.2012.6477391","url":null,"abstract":"Natural energy generators such as wind turbines and photovoltaics cause instability of the power grid due to their output fluctuations. Battery energy storage systems are being considered as a countermeasure for this issue. This paper gives an overview of battery energy storage systems used for stabilizing the output fluctuations of natural energy generators in Japan. Some verification test results are also shown.","PeriodicalId":239142,"journal":{"name":"2012 International Conference on Renewable Energy Research and Applications (ICRERA)","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124936091","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":"Harvesting solar and energy management system for Light Electric Vehicles (LEVs)","authors":"F. A. Azidin, M. A. Hannan","doi":"10.1109/ICRERA.2012.6477268","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICRERA.2012.6477268","url":null,"abstract":"Abundance sunlight ray in Malaysia makes it perfect to be used with the current alternative green vehicle technology: the Light Electric Vehicles (LEVs). LEV is powered by battery packs, which can be rechargeable by any external source of electricity. Hence, it is one of the targets of this study to examine the reliability of such solar fuel station. As green alone is not enough to be the purchasing factor for the consumers, multiple sources of energy combinations and its control algorithm are studied and developed in order to provide vehicle with acceptable speed and power load capabilities. This study concentrated on a model to be used with LEV such as electric scooters. Multiple energy sources selected are battery, fuel cell (FC) and super-capacitor (SC). The complete vehicle system built of the energy management system (EMS), power controller, DC unit and vehicle dynamics are designed and modeled by using MATLAB/SIMULINK. The performance of the proposed system is analyzed and compared with the ECE-47 test drive cycle in terms of vehicle speed and load power.","PeriodicalId":239142,"journal":{"name":"2012 International Conference on Renewable Energy Research and Applications (ICRERA)","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131200124","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":"An experimental investigation of thermoelectric cooling with solar panel","authors":"D. O. Esen, E. Balta, A. Kaman","doi":"10.1109/ICRERA.2012.6477367","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICRERA.2012.6477367","url":null,"abstract":"Energy consumption is rapidly increasing with advancing technology. For this reason, solar energy from one of the renewable energy sources should be laid on. Because it can produce electrical energy, such as solar energy, photovoltaic conversion could also be utilized as a source of direct heat. Photovoltaic energy from sunlight most of the systems, the modules are collected by means of, converted to chemical energy for use at night and on cloudy days the battery is collected. In this study, using solar energy, energy derived from the sun through solar thermoelectric cooling is used. Thermoelectric cooling (TEC) effect on the coefficient of performance (COP) was evaluated. with a battery operated on cloudy days and at night. COP value were calculated from the temperature supply and PV. In this study, COP values of PV for the case where the highest levels of solar radiation was observed to be better than COP values for the power supply is constant, has been rising in specific proportions. Given that both of these systems working hours was observed to be better value than the PV system.","PeriodicalId":239142,"journal":{"name":"2012 International Conference on Renewable Energy Research and Applications (ICRERA)","volume":"39 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131600195","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":"Super capacitors and fuel cell energetic assistance for the transport applications - Energy management in the traction situations","authors":"M. Camara, B. Dakyo","doi":"10.1109/ICRERA.2012.6477313","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICRERA.2012.6477313","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents the integration of the Fuel Cell (FC) and the SuperCapacitors (SC) in the distributed energy generation system such as the transport applications. This proposal is due to the present trend in the transport applications, knowing that the major drawback for these applications is the energetic autonomy problem. In this context, using the Fuel Cell and the SuperCapacitors with a performing energy management method is a promising solution to improve the energetic performances of the system. This paper presents the load's demand sharing between the SC and the FC in the traction situations. The proposed control method is implemented in the PIC18F4431 microcontroller for the reduced scale experimental test bench management. Through some experimental results, the authors present an improved energy management method for the transport applications during the tractions situations.","PeriodicalId":239142,"journal":{"name":"2012 International Conference on Renewable Energy Research and Applications (ICRERA)","volume":"76 12","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131613184","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":"New development method of control software for smart energy applications dealing with multi-sample-rate controllers","authors":"H. Kidokoro, M. Nakahara","doi":"10.1109/ICRERA.2012.6477477","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICRERA.2012.6477477","url":null,"abstract":"In a smart energy system, power converters should be controlled by complex control software. However the efficient development of reliable control software is difficult. We have proposed to introduce a “model-based design” process using MATLAB/Simulink, established in the automotive and aerospace fields, to the development of power electronics systems. However, it was difficult in the past because calculating switching circuit as the plant model is difficult in MATLAB/Simulink due to the socalled stiff equation problem. Thus, in this study, we have developed a simulation environment in which the standard model-based design tool, MATLAB/Simulink, and the simulation engine for power switching circuits, SCALE, work cooperatively. SCALE was originally developed to solve stiff equation and efficiently simulate power switching circuits. This software environment enables us to design control algorithms with intuitive block diagram expression and test them in actual hardware, without writing a C program. Furthermore to improve this environment, a mechanism that handles the multiple sample rates was introduced. Smart energy systems that use several controllers with different sampling rates can be simulated in the proposed environment. Thus, we can develop control software for smart energy systems in a timely and cost effective manner.","PeriodicalId":239142,"journal":{"name":"2012 International Conference on Renewable Energy Research and Applications (ICRERA)","volume":"147 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121276444","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}
Y. Morita, M. Honda, T. Kuraoka, Y. Fukasawa, Y. Mitoma, H. Yoshizumi, H. Hayashiya
{"title":"Analysis of local smoothing effect on the PV on Tokyo station","authors":"Y. Morita, M. Honda, T. Kuraoka, Y. Fukasawa, Y. Mitoma, H. Yoshizumi, H. Hayashiya","doi":"10.1109/ICRERA.2012.6477266","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICRERA.2012.6477266","url":null,"abstract":"We analyzed the local smoothing effect in view of time window for the PV system on Tokyo station. The smoothing effect differs according to the range of time windows. In cases of fine day, the result revealed that it is effective to smooth the fluctuation range of electric power output from PV within ten seconds.","PeriodicalId":239142,"journal":{"name":"2012 International Conference on Renewable Energy Research and Applications (ICRERA)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127803339","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":"Current balance performance evaluations for transformer-linked three phase DC-DC LLC resonant converter","authors":"M. Kobayashi, M. Yamamoto","doi":"10.1109/ICRERA.2012.6477465","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICRERA.2012.6477465","url":null,"abstract":"The dc-dc LLC resonant converter can achieve complete soft switching operation in all power semiconductor devices. However, the single phase and interleaved LLC resonant converter required large size smoothing capacitor in the output terminal because the output current ripple of the LLC converter is higher than other isolated dc-dc converter. To solve the problem, the three phase dc-dc LLC resonant converter is proposed in this paper. The output current ripple through the output capacitor is reduced because of superposed each phase output current. In addition to this, the transformer-linked method is applied for the proposed three phase dc-dc LLC resonant converter to obtain the miniaturized performance in the high frequency transformer in the proposed converter. The proposed transformer-linked converter has additional advantage for the each phase current balance. In this paper, the current balance performance of the proposed transformer-linked three phase dc-dc LLC resonant converter is discussed and evaluated from the experimental point of view.","PeriodicalId":239142,"journal":{"name":"2012 International Conference on Renewable Energy Research and Applications (ICRERA)","volume":"51 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132136379","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":"Effects of high penetration levels of residential photovoltaic generation: Observations from field data","authors":"A. Toliyat, A. Kwasinski, F. Uriarte","doi":"10.1109/ICRERA.2012.6477269","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICRERA.2012.6477269","url":null,"abstract":"Photovoltaic (PV) generation technologies, often deemed a viable solution for reducing greenhouse gases and decreasing electricity demand, have become increasingly prevalent in their deployment. Particular progress in their implementation has been evidenced in residential areas characterized by rooftop-mounted PV arrays. Aside from the known advantages provided by residential PV generation, one noteworthy disadvantage confronting the electric utility is the degradation of power factor when grid-tied PV sources are extensively integrated into the electrical distribution system. In this paper, the effect of PV sources on power factor is studied using recorded field data from a residential community that is part of a large-scale smart grid demonstration project in Austin, Texas.","PeriodicalId":239142,"journal":{"name":"2012 International Conference on Renewable Energy Research and Applications (ICRERA)","volume":"84 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134415178","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}