Safdar Raza, H. Mokhlis, H. Arof, H. Mohamad, J. Laghari
{"title":"Prioritization of different passive parameters for islanding detection on the basis of response analysis","authors":"Safdar Raza, H. Mokhlis, H. Arof, H. Mohamad, J. Laghari","doi":"10.1109/PECON.2016.7951634","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PECON.2016.7951634","url":null,"abstract":"This paper prioritizes the different passive parameters on the basis of performance capability in selecting the parameters for intelligent islanding detection techniques. The responses of 16 different passive parameters are analyzed under all possible islanding and non-islanding conditions. As a result of this, it has been found that rate of change of frequency over reactive power shows the highest capability to distinguish islanding from other events of similar signatures followed by rate of change of reactive power and rate of change of power.","PeriodicalId":259969,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE International Conference on Power and Energy (PECon)","volume":"81 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":"123807950","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":"Circulating current control and energy balancing of modular multi-level converters","authors":"M. Fawzi, A. Kalas, M. Elfar, Osama Elbaksawi","doi":"10.1109/PECON.2016.7951604","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PECON.2016.7951604","url":null,"abstract":"Modular Multi-level Converters (MMCs) are considered as one of the promising multilevel converter topologies specially in high voltage applications such as HVDC transmission systems. The idea behmd MMC is to use floating capacitors as a voltage sources along with a switchmg circuit (chopper cell) to form what is called “submodules”. These submodules are inserted or bypassed according to the required output voltage level. To ensure a stable operation, submodule capacitor voltages should be kept m the same level, total converter energy should be uniformly distributed between the three phases. This can be achieved by controlling the current that circulates between the three phases. In this paper a grid connected three phase MMC is considered. An analytical study has been done, operating principles, mathematical model and control system have been described. Also, the system performance has been verified usmg shnulation with Matiab-Shnulink.","PeriodicalId":259969,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE International Conference on Power and Energy (PECon)","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":"124170578","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. Gomesh, R. Syafinar, S. Dayang, M. Irwanto, G. Yeap
{"title":"FT-IR and electrical characteristic of dye-sensitized solar cell using dyes from hibiscus and bougainvillea","authors":"N. Gomesh, R. Syafinar, S. Dayang, M. Irwanto, G. Yeap","doi":"10.1109/PECON.2016.7951640","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PECON.2016.7951640","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents an investigation on active components in nature based dyes as well as the electrical characteristic of both dyes from hibiscus and bougainvillea. Experiment was conducted using the Fourier transform infrared (FT-IR) spectroscopy to investigate the working components in the dyes pigment as well as solar simulator to simulate 1 sun radiance for the purpose of electrical data collection. Fabrication of the DSSC was done using Dr. Blade's method and as well as by using the carbon counter electrode. FT-IR shows that H-DI and H-Etha has important component such as the carboxyl and hydroxyl group which can bind to TiO2 to produce electron generation. As for the B-DI, carbonyl component as well as hydroxyl components was observe as well. In terms of its electrical performance, hibiscus pigment extract from di-water solvent exhibits high photoelectrical characteristic compare to B-DI, though the margin is small. Overall experiment shows that both dyes have potential in being used as dye as an alternative to their synthetic partner.","PeriodicalId":259969,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE International Conference on Power and Energy (PECon)","volume":"20 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":"116042726","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}
M. K. Rahim, A. Jidin, S. A. Tarusan, A. Razi, R. Sundram, Huzainirah Ismail
{"title":"Constant switching frequency using proposed controller with optimal DTC switching strategy for dual-inverter supplied drive","authors":"M. K. Rahim, A. Jidin, S. A. Tarusan, A. Razi, R. Sundram, Huzainirah Ismail","doi":"10.1109/PECON.2016.7951559","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PECON.2016.7951559","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a simple solution to the variable switching frequency and high torque ripple which encountered by hysteresis-based Direct Torque Control (DTC) drive. To solve this two major problems, a new carried-based torque controller is introduced to replace the previous hysteresis torque controller which operate by comparing torque error with the triangular waveform. Since the dual-inverter supplied drive is implemented, an optimal switching strategy scheme is adopted for ensuring the most appropriate amplitude of voltage vectors is selected according to machine operation condition. As a result, the torque error become easier to be control inside triangular waveform since the rate change of torque or torque slope become lesser then the slope of triangular waveform. By combining this simple carrier-based torque controller with optimal switching strategy scheme, the DTC performances able to be improved further by providing constant switching frequency as well as torque ripple reduction. Then, all this improvement offered by proposed schemes are validated through the experimental results.","PeriodicalId":259969,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE International Conference on Power and Energy (PECon)","volume":"43 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":"131766543","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 viscosity of ester oils and different sizes of suspended cellulose particles on bridging phenomenon under non-uniform DC electric field","authors":"M. H. S. Zainoddin, H. Zainuddin, A. Aman","doi":"10.1109/PECON.2016.7951574","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PECON.2016.7951574","url":null,"abstract":"Petroleum-based mineral oils are insulating media that are typically used in the industry, particularly for high voltage (HV) applications. In recent years, however, there is growing interest among researchers to formulate novel dielectric liquids in replacement of petroleum-based mineral oils since mineral oils are non-biodegradable and highly flammable. In addition, the dielectric performance of mineral oils is somewhat limited and therefore, there is a need to develop alternative insulation oils with superior dielectric performance in order to fulfil the demanding requirements of dielectric liquids. One of the promising substitutes for mineral oils is ester oils. In this regard, this research investigates the bridging phenomenon in two types of ester oils with different values of viscosity, i.e. natural and synthetic esters under the influence of direct current (DC) electric field. Three different sizes of contaminants are used, i.e. 100, 300 and 500 μm. The results show that both the size of particles and oil viscosity play important roles in the formation of cellulose bridge and breakdown behaviour.","PeriodicalId":259969,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE International Conference on Power and Energy (PECon)","volume":"6 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":"134573757","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 analysis on energy consumption of two different commercial buildings in Malaysia","authors":"Mohd Fairuz Abdul Hamid, H. A. Richard, N. Ramli","doi":"10.1109/PECON.2016.7951585","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PECON.2016.7951585","url":null,"abstract":"The increment rate of gross domestic product (GDP) and electricity consumption had been consistent until the mid-1990s where Malaysia experience a slump in GDP but our electricity consumption continued to increase until now. To reduce the energy consumption, we need to perform an energy analysis based on factors that affect the energy consumption and trends of data from two different commercial buildings. There are five main factors which are equipment's, outside temperature, building structure, operating hour and people. Among these factors, temperature will be considered to analyse energy consumption in two different commercial buildings in Malaysia. The motivation to conduct this analysis is to establish the benchmarking of the energy efficiency of the commercial buildings since it has not established yet in Malaysia. In this paper, Multilayer Perceptron (MLP) based on Artificial Neural Networks (ANN) has been implemented for energy efficiency analysis. The results of this analysis showed that the energy prediction by using artificial neural network is better than traditional method used by industry which is linear regression where linear regression show the highest error square for both buildings which is 30491.23 for Skywarth and 91738.31 for Skymage building. By comparing the results of two different buildings, we can conclude that outside temperature plays an important role in determining energy consumption of commercialize building. For future study, an advanced method such as k-Nearest Neighbor or Support Vector Machine can be used to predict the energy consumption, so we could obtain better prediction results.","PeriodicalId":259969,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE International Conference on Power and Energy (PECon)","volume":"60 1-2 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":"131799092","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. Abujarad, M. Mustafa, J. J. Jamian, A. M. Abdilahi
{"title":"Flexibility quantification for thermal power generators using deterministic metric for high renewable energy penetration","authors":"S. Abujarad, M. Mustafa, J. J. Jamian, A. M. Abdilahi","doi":"10.1109/PECON.2016.7951627","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PECON.2016.7951627","url":null,"abstract":"Power system operation became a challenging with the integration of variable and uncertain Renewable Energy Sources (RES) generation. The operational flexibility describes the technical ability of the power system to respond to the net-load within a controllable power at a certain time to accommodate the RES power output. The main objective of this paper is to analyse and evaluate the impact of the variation of ramping and capacity weights on the flexibility quantification of the IEEE RTS-96 test system. This paper contributes to the up-rising field of flexibility by providing a precise analysis of a deterministic metric and weights variation to assets the available flexibility from the individual generator and as well as when aggregated within the power system. The analysis is executed using a deterministic metric with an iterative variation of both ramping and capacity weights simultaneously to quantify the technical flexibility of the overall system and each different technology of the test system. The results demonstrate that the increment of the capacity weight has more influence on the individual generators flexibility and the overall system flexibility as well. The incremental rate of flexibility is not linear for all the units at the test system. This metric is useful for the power system operators and planners who requires simple, fast and offline metric to quantify the technical flexibility of the power system.","PeriodicalId":259969,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE International Conference on Power and Energy (PECon)","volume":"41 2","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120890419","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. Shirzadi, H. Hizam, N. Wahab, M. Maghami, S. MacAlpine
{"title":"Increasing energy harvest of photovoltaic arrays under uniform illumination : A case study on photovoltaic arrays in boulder CO and Tucson AZ","authors":"S. Shirzadi, H. Hizam, N. Wahab, M. Maghami, S. MacAlpine","doi":"10.1109/PECON.2016.7951466","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PECON.2016.7951466","url":null,"abstract":"Studies on photovoltaic (PV) arrays have demonstrated that some arrays suffer from mismatch power losses even under uniform illumination. This mismatch power loss that is attributed to the inequality of characteristic parameters between a PV array's modules is conventionally addressed by sorting techniques — which stands for sorting PV modules in an array by one of their characteristic parameters such as Isc, IMPP or PMPP-Another recently suggested method to address this problem is arranging modules by genetic algorithm (GA). This paper applies this new technique to three PV arrays with relatively high mismatch losses. I-V curves for each array's modules are measured under different levels of radiation to provide a precise model. This precise modeling is used to run an annual simulation of energy yield and mismatch losses. Simulations carried out in this study show that a proper arrangement of modules in arrays decreases the mismatch losses and increases annual energy output more than what is gained by sorting techniques.","PeriodicalId":259969,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE International Conference on Power and Energy (PECon)","volume":"25 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":"116440545","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":"Enhanced chaotic spiral dynamic algorithm with application to controller design","authors":"M. R. Hashim, M. Tokhi","doi":"10.1109/PECON.2016.7951659","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PECON.2016.7951659","url":null,"abstract":"This paper present an enhanced chaotic spiral dynamic algorithm (ECSDA) for optimization problems and their application in single link flexible manipulator system (SLFMS). The algorithm is developed by integrating logistic chaotic pattern into the original spiral dynamic algorithm (SDA). The artificial bee colony optimization (ABC) searching method is also adopted in ECSDA to increase its capability to find the best possible local optimum solution. This hybrid technique reduces the probability of ECSDA getting trapped at local optimum. ECSDA is used to optimize the PD controller parameters of a single link flexible manipulator system (SLFMS). The results show that the ECSDA outperforms the SDA with improved search capability and escaping local optima and is able to tune the PD controller of SLFMS for the desired output.","PeriodicalId":259969,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE International Conference on Power and Energy (PECon)","volume":"53 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":"116538142","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 ZVS DC-DC converter with resonant inductor and back-to-back switch","authors":"Min-Ho Ahn, Jin-Hyuk Park, Kyo-Beum Lee","doi":"10.1109/PECON.2016.7951603","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PECON.2016.7951603","url":null,"abstract":"This paper proposes zero voltage switching (ZVS) bi-directional DC-DC converter with auxiliary circuit. The conventional DC-DC converter has the problem which is switching loss by the hard switching. The proposed ZVS bi-directional DC-DC converter uses the soft switching with an additional circuit to decrease the switching loss. The additional circuit is made up the resonant inductor and back-to-back switch. It is possible to operate ZVS of all switches through the stored energy in resonant inductor of the auxiliary circuit. Therefore, the efficiency of whole system can be improved. The proposed topology is verified from PSIM simulations using 3-kW ZVS bi-directional DC-DC converter.","PeriodicalId":259969,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE International Conference on Power and Energy (PECon)","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":"122902025","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}