{"title":"Performance Analysis of a Z-Source Inverter with Controller for Autonomous System Application","authors":"S. Kumaravel, Vinu Thomas, S. Tripathy, S. Ashok","doi":"10.1109/PECON.2018.8684183","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PECON.2018.8684183","url":null,"abstract":"Z-source inverter provides the voltage boosting capability to the conventional voltage source inverters. The impedance network at the input side allows the shoot-through mode of operation of the switches in the inverter. This paper discusses the development and implementation of a Z-source inverter with a closed loop controller. The controller design has been done based on the state space model of the Z-source inverter. Open loop simulation of the inverter is carried out in MATLAB/Simulink platform. Performance of the designed closed loop controller for the inverter is carried out for the step change in load, reference AC voltage and input DC voltage. The developed control algorithm for the Z-source inverter is implemented in OPAL-RT real time simulator and it is utilized as a controller for testing the Z-source inverter. The hardware validation of the designed controller for the inverter has been carried out in the laboratory environment and the experimental results are presented in this paper.","PeriodicalId":278078,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE 7th International Conference on Power and Energy (PECon)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126879571","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 Solar Concentrating-Waste Incineration Power Plant for Cost-Effective and Dispatchable Renewable Energy Production","authors":"A. Arabkoohsar, M. Sadi","doi":"10.1109/PECON.2018.8684179","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PECON.2018.8684179","url":null,"abstract":"The future energy system is based on a high contribution of renewable energy while stochastic fluctuations of the main renewable energy sources, i.e. solar and wind, is the main challenge for further implementation of such technologies. In addition, waste incineration is a key component of most European countries’ energy matrix for base load heat or power supply. In this study, a steam power plant is proposed in which the heat demand is supplied by a hybrid system including a parabolic trough solar collector array and a waste incineration unit. The proposed hybrid power plant provides a uniform power production profile, making the produced intermittent solar energy well dispatchable, energy-efficient and cost-effective. The proposed plant is designed, sized and analyzed over an entire year of operation in a case study in Denmark. The results of the simulations of the system are presented and discussed.","PeriodicalId":278078,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE 7th International Conference on Power and Energy (PECon)","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114197773","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":"Load Scheduling Algorithm Design for Smart Home Energy Management System","authors":"P. Pawar, S. Sampath, Trisha Ghosh, K. Vittal","doi":"10.1109/PECON.2018.8684141","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PECON.2018.8684141","url":null,"abstract":"In a world of diminishing energy stores and heightening economic crises, it is imperative to develop systems that diminish our dependence on non-renewable resources. There is a growing trend of Smart Home Energy Management Systems (SHE) which use smart switches to actively monitor the energy consumption by each load, the power available and other factors to switch between renewable resources and the main power grid. An extensive literature survey was conducted and results of various approaches were consolidated and analyzed. The approach detailed is a combination of the merits of all the most popular approaches. The methodology proposed hopes to carry out demand response management on both the grid power and solar power in unison. The problem was split in two: scheduling assuming only solar power is available and scheduling assuming only grid power is available. The two halves are then merged together to have the most efficient utilization of the resources available. Further, after analysing the simulation results, the validity of such a solution is presented while adhering to various real world variables.","PeriodicalId":278078,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE 7th International Conference on Power and Energy (PECon)","volume":"135 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117350971","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":"PECon 2018 Contact","authors":"","doi":"10.1109/pecon.2018.8684026","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/pecon.2018.8684026","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":278078,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE 7th International Conference on Power and Energy (PECon)","volume":"87 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131489083","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. Noroozi, Mehdi Zarei Tazehkand, S. H. Fathi, J. Milimonfared
{"title":"Enhanced Shunt Active Power Filter based on Instantaneous Power Theory Used in Microgrids under Non-Ideal Grid Voltages","authors":"M. Noroozi, Mehdi Zarei Tazehkand, S. H. Fathi, J. Milimonfared","doi":"10.1109/PECON.2018.8684160","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PECON.2018.8684160","url":null,"abstract":"In microgrids, load variation and non-linear loads cause distortion in currents and voltages due to the low mechanical inertia of the system. Using a shunt Active Power Filter (shunt APF) based on instantaneous power theory also known as p-q theory is a solution to compensate current harmonics. Accurate functionality of p-q theory requires pure sinusoidal grid voltage waveforms. Under non-ideal grid voltage conditions, correct voltage references must be estimated. This paper presents a modified strategy to alleviate the problem. The proposed method is based on making virtual d-axis voltage in the synchronous reference frame. All the assumptions and principles of the proposal are described in details. The concept has been validated by simulations in various cases and compared to the most common method i.e. using low pass filter.","PeriodicalId":278078,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE 7th International Conference on Power and Energy (PECon)","volume":"37 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131765788","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. S. Suhaimi, M. F. Md. Din, M. T. Ishak, A. A. Rahman
{"title":"Statistical Analysis on AC Breakdown Voltage of CNT Nanofluid with Mineral Oil and Palm Oil","authors":"N. S. Suhaimi, M. F. Md. Din, M. T. Ishak, A. A. Rahman","doi":"10.1109/PECON.2018.8684081","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PECON.2018.8684081","url":null,"abstract":"Nanofluids can be regarded as next-generation heat transfer fluid that has enormous potential to enhance the performance of insulating oil in the transformer. In this study, the breakdown voltage of new colloidal mineral insulation oil and natural ester oil (palm oil) was systematically investigated and compared. Carbon nanotubes (CNT) nanofluid is formulated by dispersing CNTs in mineral and palm oil. The AC breakdown voltage test is performed accordingly to the methods and precautionary steps based on IEC 60156. For a successful forecast, instead of referring to the average and lowest possible breakdown failure data, there are few types of distributions (Weibull, normal, Gumbel and generalized extreme value (GEV)) that were used in order to represent a better probability of breakdown failure. In most cases, the experimental results followed Weibull and GEV distributions than other distributions. Thus, Weibull and GEV distributions were used to indicate the probability of breakdown failure of CNT nanofluids. The results indicated that CNT is considered as a potential material that would be possible to enhance the performance of mineral oil but with appropriate concentrations of CNTs. However, contradictory results occurred for CNT based palm oil, where the trend of breakdown voltage is lower than mineral oil value.","PeriodicalId":278078,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE 7th International Conference on Power and Energy (PECon)","volume":"45 Pt B 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133917653","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. H. Halim, N. S. Jusoh, S. Arshad, M. Isa, A. Z. Abdullah, M. Isa
{"title":"Analysis on Heat Transfer Distribution of Grounding System Using Finite Element Method","authors":"N. H. Halim, N. S. Jusoh, S. Arshad, M. Isa, A. Z. Abdullah, M. Isa","doi":"10.1109/PECON.2018.8684036","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PECON.2018.8684036","url":null,"abstract":"Grounding system is the most important part of the electrical power system in the building or other electrical devices as protection to human and their property when lightning strike occur. The main objective of this research is to analyse on heat transfer distribution on grounding system depends on few factors that will affected the effectiveness of the grounding system such as type of electrode, width and length of electrode, value of peak current and condition of soil. In order to sustain the effectiveness of grounding system the heat and energy must be deviated to ground and ensure that the low resistance of the grounding system. Finite Element Method (FEM) is used with Joule Heating physics to represent the behavior of the heat transfer. COMSOL Multiphysics programming is utilized as simulation to observe the execution of heat transfer by electrode to the soil by changing the sort of electrode material and four others input parameters as specified previously. Grounding system performance is not only depending on the effectiveness of the electrode but also the condition of the soil to perform the effectiveness of grounding system. The grounding system is modelled in 3 Dimension (3-D). The result shows that the best electrode that can distributed the heat to the soil is copper due to highest electrical conductivity compared to stainless steel and carbon graphite.","PeriodicalId":278078,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE 7th International Conference on Power and Energy (PECon)","volume":"58 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115466389","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}
MD Shahrukh Adnan Khan, Kazi Mahtab Kadir, M. R. Hasan, R. A. Ahmed Khan, MD Raqibul, N. Mohammad
{"title":"Investigation of Advanced Implementation of Permanent Magnet Synchronous Generator in Renewable Energy","authors":"MD Shahrukh Adnan Khan, Kazi Mahtab Kadir, M. R. Hasan, R. A. Ahmed Khan, MD Raqibul, N. Mohammad","doi":"10.1109/PECON.2018.8684116","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PECON.2018.8684116","url":null,"abstract":"This paper provides a technical analysis of state-of-the-art implementation and advanced application of \"Three Phase Permanent Magnet Synchronous Machine\" in recent years. An in-depth investigation has been conducted for the recent years to study the nature and behavior of the Permanent Magnet Synchronous Generator in the latest renewable applications. A technical review followed by a methodological analysis have been provided for each case with current trend, limitation of the developed systems and future scope.","PeriodicalId":278078,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE 7th International Conference on Power and Energy (PECon)","volume":"292 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121492043","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 Cluster-Based Dynamic Wind Farm Operation to Improve Annual Energy Production","authors":"Mfon Charles, D. Oyedokun, M. Dlodlo","doi":"10.1109/PECON.2018.8684143","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PECON.2018.8684143","url":null,"abstract":"Wind energy is a global necessity because of its comparative negative environmental impacts. Wind farm power production and consequently its annual energy production (AEP) depends largely on the farm layout chosen. Such layout and turbine density (aspect ratio) must be planned with careful consideration of several factors to include total power production, turbine health, and aesthetics. In this study we propose a dynamic control technique using a wind speed threshold to improve AEP while keeping loads on turbines within acceptable limits, to aid their operative health throughout the expected lifespan. The approach offers flexibility in power capture based on the site’s wind rose. The study assumes a constant axial induction factor only at wind speeds above rated speed, for power estimation. Application of the proposed technique on the proposed spacing yields an increase in AEP of approximately 169 kWh compared to the reference spacing, for the same farm area.","PeriodicalId":278078,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE 7th International Conference on Power and Energy (PECon)","volume":"40 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114797969","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 Flying-capacitor Modular Multilevel Converter","authors":"Junliang Pan, Mingyu Wang","doi":"10.1109/PECON.2018.8684129","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PECON.2018.8684129","url":null,"abstract":"With the increase of HVDC transmission, HVDC grids are the inevitable trend of the future. HVDC DC-DC converters act as the indispensable components to transmit energy and connect HVDC grids with different voltage levels. This paper proposes a flying-capacitor modular multilevel DC-DC converter for HVDC grid connection and offshore wind farm collection system. It consists of a number of modular multilevel converters (MMC) and a series of flying capacitors. Due to the mature technology of MMC, it is easy to control the power, circulating currents, submodule voltage balancing of the internal MMCs. A simple power control arithmetic of this converter is presented. The proposed converter inherits the merits of MMC and achieves a high efficiency high step-up ratio DC-DC conversion without using heavy transformers. Simulation results in PSCAD validates the feasibility of the converter.","PeriodicalId":278078,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE 7th International Conference on Power and Energy (PECon)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115170478","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}