{"title":"A case study of prioritizing thermal zones to retrofit effectively existing building","authors":"E. Carbonara, M. Tiberi, A. Ceci","doi":"10.1109/EEEIC.2016.7555754","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EEEIC.2016.7555754","url":null,"abstract":"Architectural constraints represent a challenging aspect in energy retrofitting of existing buildings. Usual interventions are often not possible to preserve historical values of the building stock. The aim of this study is to analyse what energy efficiency measures could be applied to a listed building, specifically, in some of its parts. The case study is the Pharmaceutical Chemistry building of the Sapienza University campus in Rome. This approach shows how interventions no feasible for the overall building would be beneficial if applied at lower scale such as a single thermal zone or a single area. A building simulation model was built as a reference scenario. Then, for each identified thermal zone the upgrade due to the hypothesized energy efficiency measure was evaluated.","PeriodicalId":246856,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE 16th International Conference on Environment and Electrical Engineering (EEEIC)","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-06-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121429886","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}
Rui Fan, Yong Li, Yijia Cao, Wei Xie, Yi Tan, Ye Cai
{"title":"An optimization management strategy for energy efficiency of air conditioning loads in smart building","authors":"Rui Fan, Yong Li, Yijia Cao, Wei Xie, Yi Tan, Ye Cai","doi":"10.1109/EEEIC.2016.7555507","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EEEIC.2016.7555507","url":null,"abstract":"With the technological development of the smart grid, the demand response technology will be developed to enhance the security, stability and economy of power system to a great extent. The air conditioning load, as a kind of temperature controlled load, is a typical load that can be used for demand response. In this paper, an optimization management strategy of the air conditioning load is proposed, which can adapt to the seasonal temperature changes and increase the energy efficiency of smart buildings. First, we divided the control mode into two parts for summer and winter respectively, aiming at the peak load shifting and smooth the load curve. Secondly, the controlling process block is embed into the terminal control platform; Finally, an experimental system of energy efficiency optimization management has been developed as shown in the demonstration project, which indicates the feasibility of proposed strategy for load scheduling.","PeriodicalId":246856,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE 16th International Conference on Environment and Electrical Engineering (EEEIC)","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-06-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128733202","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}
Jun Guan, Z. Hao, Wenzhe Chen, Zhiyuan Liu, Xiaojun Yu
{"title":"Compensation of current transformer saturation based on improved ESPRIT algorithm","authors":"Jun Guan, Z. Hao, Wenzhe Chen, Zhiyuan Liu, Xiaojun Yu","doi":"10.1109/EEEIC.2016.7555447","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EEEIC.2016.7555447","url":null,"abstract":"Current transformer is prone to get into transient saturated during the fault in the power system. Operation performance of relay protection will be influenced severely due to serious distortion in the secondary side. An improved ESPRIT algorithm that can be applied in relay protection for antisaturation is presented in this paper. The improved ESPRIT can accurately obtain the frequency, magnitude and phase angle of the fault current with unsaturated data segment of CTs' distorted secondary current in a relatively short time window. In order to reduce the calculation amount, singular value decomposition (SVD) is employed to determine the valid order of the signal. Moreover, the improved ESPRIT algorithm could reduce the computational load with little influence on calculative result through the dimension reduction of singular value decomposition. In order to obtain the magnitude and phase angle more accurate, AR model and least square method are employed to improve the robustness of algorithm. Finally, the accuracy of the improved ESPRIT is verified by CT's transient experiment data. The improved SEPRIT algorithm could be applied in the difference protection to avoid the malfunction by CTs' transient saturation and ensure the validity of protection.","PeriodicalId":246856,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE 16th International Conference on Environment and Electrical Engineering (EEEIC)","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-06-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115883399","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. Cellucci, F. Bisegna, F. Gugliermetti, M. Navvab
{"title":"Lighting distribution affects pedestrians' sense of security","authors":"L. Cellucci, F. Bisegna, F. Gugliermetti, M. Navvab","doi":"10.1109/EEEIC.2016.7555655","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EEEIC.2016.7555655","url":null,"abstract":"The greatest obstacle to a pedestrian's Sense of Security (SoS) is lack of lighting. This research analyzes lighting characteristics which affect a pedestrian's SoS, including how lighting distribution changes perception, to design lighting for night-time walking that maximizes the SoS without increasing energy consumption.","PeriodicalId":246856,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE 16th International Conference on Environment and Electrical Engineering (EEEIC)","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-06-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116651773","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 hybrid modell for assessing resilience of electricity networks","authors":"F. Landegren, O. Samuelsson, Jonas Johansson","doi":"10.1109/EEEIC.2016.7555612","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EEEIC.2016.7555612","url":null,"abstract":"A hybrid model is used for quantification of three resilience metrics: robustness, rapidity and resilience loss. The approach is demonstrated in a case study on a municipal electricity distribution system. An overall conclusion from the case study is that the suggested method provides an overview of the resilience metrics of the electricity distribution system and that it allows the network operator to see for what levels of strain that they reach their targets concerning system resilience. It is also concluded that the presented approach can enable assessment of how decision variables, relating to the technical network as well as to the repair system, are impacting system resilience.","PeriodicalId":246856,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE 16th International Conference on Environment and Electrical Engineering (EEEIC)","volume":"57 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-06-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115401890","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 photovoltaic power self-consumption using linear programming","authors":"Rodrigo Martins, P. Musílek, H. Hesse","doi":"10.1109/EEEIC.2016.7555581","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EEEIC.2016.7555581","url":null,"abstract":"Energy storage system integration in residential buildings equipped with solar power generators can help to balance the electrical power grid. The photovoltaic/energy storage system configuration should increase the grid independence of individual households. Therefore, such configuration needs an optimized power dispatch strategy. This paper presents an advanced controller that uses the potential photovoltaic production and demand profiles to define an improved dispatch operation for photovoltaic/energy storage system in a group of households using linear programming as the optimization method. The results show that the advanced controller can improve the individual household self-consumption using the optimal configuration strategy.","PeriodicalId":246856,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE 16th International Conference on Environment and Electrical Engineering (EEEIC)","volume":"107 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-06-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114351269","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":"Comparison of energy storage operation in vertically integrated and market-based power system","authors":"Zora Luburić, Hrvoje Pandzra, Tomislav Plavsra","doi":"10.1109/EEEIC.2016.7555524","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EEEIC.2016.7555524","url":null,"abstract":"Energy storage is expected to have a notable function in modern power systems. Its ability to act both as a load and as a generator, as well as its abundant ramp limits, make energy storage favorable in renewable energy intensive power systems. This paper presents two different environments of energy storage operation: operation under control of a vertically integrated power utility and as an independent entity in electricity market. Energy storage operation under vertically integrated power utility is analyzed using an augmented unit commitment model, while its operation in market environment is modelled as a bilevel program where the upper-level problem makes decisions on storage operation, while the lower-level problem simulates the market clearing procedure. Both models are mixed-integer programs modelled in GAMS and solved by CPLEX.","PeriodicalId":246856,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE 16th International Conference on Environment and Electrical Engineering (EEEIC)","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-06-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127323559","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 proposal for a self contained electric bus service for medium sized cities","authors":"L. Biggiero, F. Pagliara","doi":"10.1109/EEEIC.2016.7555566","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EEEIC.2016.7555566","url":null,"abstract":"Many medium sized Italian cities present pollution problems, due to their geographical position and climate conditions and mainly due to congested traffic flows. Impacts on the health of residents are becoming more frequent and also risky. Thus different policies have been proposed to reduce environmental effects. Among these, the use of low or zero emission vehicles both for private and public transport. In this paper a fuel cell self contained bus system is proposed for a medium sized town. Moreover its economic feasibility has been evaluated taking also into account residents health advantages.","PeriodicalId":246856,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE 16th International Conference on Environment and Electrical Engineering (EEEIC)","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-06-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127422030","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 of vulnerability of the Latvian electrical power system","authors":"Aleksejs Soboļevskis, I. Zicmane","doi":"10.1109/EEEIC.2016.7555880","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EEEIC.2016.7555880","url":null,"abstract":"The electric power system (EPS) is exposed to small and large impacts during operation, such as changes of loads, commutation of circuit elements, changes of generation of active and reactive power, the impact of automation, (all of them are examples of normal relatively small disturbances), as well as short circuits, large load resets and load surge, unauthorized shutdown of equipment, work of protections and anti-damage automation (those are examples of large disturbances). The purpose of this paper is to provide methods for detection of network parameters that are most vulnerable (voltage drop) to external impacts (sensors), determine their relationship with EPS parameters, try to use this information for improvement of EPS behavioural properties. Thus, availability of information on the location of sensors allows determining and controlling nodes, in which the biggest oscillations of operational parameters are observed due to disturbances in the system.","PeriodicalId":246856,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE 16th International Conference on Environment and Electrical Engineering (EEEIC)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-06-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127015012","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}
S. Karimi, A. Knight, P. Musílek, J. Heckenbergerova
{"title":"A probabilistic estimation for dynamic thermal rating of transmission lines","authors":"S. Karimi, A. Knight, P. Musílek, J. Heckenbergerova","doi":"10.1109/EEEIC.2016.7555851","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EEEIC.2016.7555851","url":null,"abstract":"Dynamic Thermal Line Rating (DTLR) provides actual current-carrying capacity of transmission lines by considering weather conditions perceived to be influential on line thermal capacity. These weather variables include ambient temperature, wind speed, and wind direction. In this paper, a probability technique is adopted to effectively model the existing uncertainties in weather variables. A probability distribution is assigned to each variable to account for the inherent uncertainties in weather data. Monte Carlo Simulation (MCS) technique is then employed to generate different scenarios for relevant weather data. Output of MCS is fed to the IEEE model to obtain the probability distribution of sectional line ampacity estimated at each line span. Next, probability distribution of line ampacity will be calculated as the minimum of the ampacities estimated at each line span. Expected value and related percentiles of line ampacity can be derived from its probability distribution. The proposed approach would enable system operators to make decisions on DTLR accounting for risk and degree of uncertainty that power utilities are willing to accept.","PeriodicalId":246856,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE 16th International Conference on Environment and Electrical Engineering (EEEIC)","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-06-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128186811","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}