{"title":"Enabling the fault tolerant operation of shipboard microgrid architecture","authors":"Pinjala Mohana Kishore, R. Bhimasingu","doi":"10.1109/SGBC.2016.7935993","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SGBC.2016.7935993","url":null,"abstract":"Generally, in MVDC shipboard micogrid system, all the loads, and sources are connected to centralized MVDC bus through suitable power electronic converters. These power electronic converters are of two port structure and are used to control the parameters of MVDC bus, source, and load. If any fault occurs on source/sink connection or MVDC bus, results in the isolation of source/sink from the MVDC bus or total shutdown of the MVDC system. This decreases the performance of the shipboard sub-systems. For providing the uninterrupted power supply problem during faults, this paper presents a new fault tolerant two layer shipboard microgrid architecture for next generation electric ships. This two layered microgrid architecture has one MVDC bus and one MVAC bus, which are connected through interlinking converter. And, all the electrical equipment (sources/sinks) are connected to both MVDC/MVAC buses through a three port converter (TPC). In normal operation of TPC, sources/sinks are connected to its respective bus. And, if any fault will occur on any of the buses, TPC shifts its source/sink of the faulted bus to un-faulted bus. The fault tolerant two layer microgrid system was simulated using MATLAB/Simulink. The comparative results shows the effectiveness of the proposed architecture.","PeriodicalId":339120,"journal":{"name":"2016 First International Conference on Sustainable Green Buildings and Communities (SGBC)","volume":"353 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114086225","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":"EV: Communication Infrastructure Management System","authors":"Anitha Dhianeshwar, P. Kaur, Sreehari Nagarajan","doi":"10.1109/SGBC.2016.7936090","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SGBC.2016.7936090","url":null,"abstract":"Green transport, a transport that has minimal or no dependence on fossil fuels and hence minimal or zero-carbon foot print is the need of the hour. The factors inhibiting the proliferation of this are lack of implementations of international standard - for charging between Electric Vehicle (EV) and Electric Vehicle Supply Equipment (EVSE), for communication between EVSE and a Central Management System (CMS). This paper explains the criteria for ranking of different standards for EV-EVSE communication for low voltage DC chargers and also shares implementation results of the same. The next leg of the communication i.e., between EVSE and CMS implementation is also discussed. The CMS design incorporates open-APIs enabling development of mobile applications, so as to provide a holistic platform for enabling EV proliferation. The results of initial implementation of end-to-end stack is also presented.","PeriodicalId":339120,"journal":{"name":"2016 First International Conference on Sustainable Green Buildings and Communities (SGBC)","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122783415","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 net currents in meshed bipolar DC distribution grids due to asymmetrical line resistance","authors":"E. Vandeventer, L. Mackay, L. Elizondo, P. Bauer","doi":"10.1109/SGBC.2016.7935991","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SGBC.2016.7935991","url":null,"abstract":"This article describes the circulating current phenomenon that takes place in bipolar, meshed DC distribution grids. A difference in resistance between the conductor changes the distribution of the current on the conductors. This provokes a net current to flow, which is in turn measured by the residual current protection scheme, used to detect and isolate ground faults in the system, even though there is no fault in the system. Due to the circulating tendency of this net current, the operation of the protection scheme can be prevented in such a case by the addition of a clever communication system.","PeriodicalId":339120,"journal":{"name":"2016 First International Conference on Sustainable Green Buildings and Communities (SGBC)","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131880187","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 non-isolated single stage three-port converter for hybrid microgrid applications","authors":"Pinjala Mohana Kishore, R. Bhimasingu","doi":"10.1109/SGBC.2016.7936057","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SGBC.2016.7936057","url":null,"abstract":"AC and DC sub-grids in a hybrid microgrid are connected through interlinking AC-DC bi-directional converter. The storage was connected to either of the AC or DC sub-grids. Because of storage system integration, it requires a more number of power conversions and device count. So, power quality and overall efficiency of the hybrid microgrid system is decrease. On this intend, this paper proposes a new non isolated single stage three port converter (NISSTPC) for microgrid applications. NISSTPC has three bi-directional ports, which are connected to AC and DC sub grids, storage system. Single stage power conversion is possible either side using NISSTPC. Because of this single stage power conversion of NISSTPC the power quality and conversion efficiency of hybrid microgrid system is increase. The validation of proposed NISSTPC using MATLAB/Simulink and results are compared with conventional hybrid microgrids in aspects of power quality, frequency deviation and utilization of storage. From the results, it can be observed that the overall performance of the hybrid microgrid increases with the use of proposed NISSTPC converter","PeriodicalId":339120,"journal":{"name":"2016 First International Conference on Sustainable Green Buildings and Communities (SGBC)","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133028407","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 domestic heating system by implementing model predictive control","authors":"E. Khanmirza, A. Esmaeilzadeh, A. Markazi","doi":"10.1109/SGBC.2016.7936082","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SGBC.2016.7936082","url":null,"abstract":"The present study aims to investigate model predictive control in optimization of hybrid solar/gas heating system of buildings and reduction of energy used. In the article, a building has been investigated in a sample day of Tehran and model predictive control has been implemented using two heating sources of solar and gas energies. Afterward, its performance has been evaluated through redesign of this method for laboratory model and test implementation. Eventually, it was found that model predictive control has high performance in temperature setting in the range of comfort temperature for the considered day. On the other hand, according to laboratory test results, this method outperforms on-off controller and PID methods in temperature setting and can set the temperature in a time span 1/5 of mentioned methods.","PeriodicalId":339120,"journal":{"name":"2016 First International Conference on Sustainable Green Buildings and Communities (SGBC)","volume":"86 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130055801","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":"Sizing of solar DC microgrid for sustainable off-grid communities: Economics, policies and societal implications","authors":"Saranya A, K. Swarup","doi":"10.1109/SGBC.2016.7936089","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SGBC.2016.7936089","url":null,"abstract":"Nearly 30% of the world's population does not have access to electricity. In India, more than 300 million people do not have access to grid power. In view of providing reliable electricity to these people, renewable energy solutions with storage are becoming popular. In areas were the cost of bringing the conventional grid is high, off-grid solutions are being implemented. While designing solar PV systems for rural communities, sizing of the solar PV module and battery storage becomes crucial and plays an important role in determining the overall cost of the project, Levelized Cost Of Energy (LCOE), reliability of supply and battery life. Also, using a DC microgrid system reduces the overall losses and energy consumption to meet the same needs. In this paper, sizing of solar PV module and battery storage for a village in India has been done using HOMER software. The size of the system majorly depends on the solar radiation available in that location, energy usage pattern and the criticality of the load to be met. The analysis done shows that the LCOE obtained for the PV-battery system is almost on par with the grid electricity prices. The current situation calls for revision of the policies, subsidies and incentives in two years from now.","PeriodicalId":339120,"journal":{"name":"2016 First International Conference on Sustainable Green Buildings and Communities (SGBC)","volume":"75 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114480371","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":"The energy efficiency of fractal solar grids","authors":"Suraj Kumar, R. Ramaswamy, S. Nayak","doi":"10.1109/SGBC.2016.7936088","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SGBC.2016.7936088","url":null,"abstract":"We study the energy production, usage, and stability of networks composed of solar modules connected in different topologies. In particular, we examine fractal microgrid networks of such modules with storage batteries at each node and examine the performance under typical conditions of generation, usage and storage. We also incorporate energy excess sharing on demand between the units. Experimental as well as simulation results are presented for model households in which users have a distribution of requirements for the generated energy. Our results show that under normal operational conditions, solar units connected in a network offer an advantage over isolated solar off-grid units. We find that there is a relationship between the nature of the connectivity and efficiency within a particular connection topology. Furthermore, we find that networks with loops are more efficient in energy distribution. We also consider the possibility of mixed energy generation, with nodes randomly distributed between solar and wind generators. Random fractal networks show higher efficiency: they reduce power wastage and the effects of power cuts through effective power sharing.","PeriodicalId":339120,"journal":{"name":"2016 First International Conference on Sustainable Green Buildings and Communities (SGBC)","volume":"99 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133313260","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":"Electric transportation action plan for India","authors":"G. Ghatikar, Reji Kumar Pillai, Akshay Ahuja","doi":"10.1109/SGBC.2016.7936085","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SGBC.2016.7936085","url":null,"abstract":"After almost 70-years after independence in 1947, India stands at the deterministic crossroads of economic growth and energy needs for over a billion people, while facing challenges to lower carbon emissions and to improve energy security. India's transportation sector growth is one of the major contributors of deteriorating air quality in the urban cities, accounting for 30% of the total fine particulate matter (PM2.5) emissions. India is taking significant policy initiatives to leapfrog and transform electric vehicle (EV) adoption to embrace a tryst with electric transportation. India's National Electricity Mobility Mission (NEMM) Plan 2020 outlines an ambitious target to deploy six to seven million hybrid and EVs. Through stakeholder feedback and qualitative and quantitative analysis, this paper reviews goals and objectives of India's policies, their associated challenges experienced by the Indian ministries, and suggests the action plan, which is unique to the Indian context, to accelerate EVs and EV charging infrastructure, and technology development and deployment to meet the NEMM targets. This first-of-its-kind analyses for India can accelerate EV adoption, open innovation opportunities for both transportation and electric industry, and support energy security and improved urban air-quality objectives.","PeriodicalId":339120,"journal":{"name":"2016 First International Conference on Sustainable Green Buildings and Communities (SGBC)","volume":"34 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132794840","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":"PEER — A tool to design, measure and monitor the performance of smart grid","authors":"Mili Majumdar, Ishaq Sulthan, Aumkar Borgaonkar","doi":"10.1109/SGBC.2016.7936092","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SGBC.2016.7936092","url":null,"abstract":"India is world's third largest producer of electricity with an installed capacity of 306 GW. However, the per capita electricity consumption in India continues to be well below the world average despite lower electricity tariffs. The nation has a long history of demand-supply shortages on a regular basis. The electricity distribution sector is also under poor financial condition. With an energy mix dominated by fossil fuel based generation, Indian power sector has a significant impact on environment. Thus, for sustainable development of the power sector, it is important to have in place a framework to measure, monitor and improve performance of power systems. PEER (Performance Excellence in Electricity Renewal) is a tool for utilities and system operators for a comprehensive performance assessment of their system and for making subsequent improvements to achieve upper levels of performance. This paper highlights some of the key features of the PEER framework that focus on assessment of environmental impact and reliability performance of power systems. A comparison between projects in the United States of America (USA) and India is also presented to identify performance gaps.","PeriodicalId":339120,"journal":{"name":"2016 First International Conference on Sustainable Green Buildings and Communities (SGBC)","volume":"196 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123413388","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":"LPPT control of a photovoltaic system under partially shaded condition","authors":"M. K. Reddy, V. Sarkar","doi":"10.1109/SGBC.2016.7936081","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SGBC.2016.7936081","url":null,"abstract":"The objective of this paper is to deal with the partial shading problem in the limited power point tracking (LPPT) control of a photovoltaic system. The normal LPPT controller can work only under uniform irradiance condition. Under partial shading, the P-V curve of the photovoltaic system becomes multi-modal. As a result, the operating point can be trapped at a local peak whenever there is a rise in the reference power command. In order to avoid the particular phenomenon, an efficient local peak detection scheme is developed. Therefore, the operating state of the system can be appropriately re-initialized based upon the identification of a local peak. The local peak detector proposed is carefully designed so as to minimize any false detection. Detailed simulation studies are carried out to verify the usefulness of the proposed local peak detection scheme.","PeriodicalId":339120,"journal":{"name":"2016 First International Conference on Sustainable Green Buildings and Communities (SGBC)","volume":"292 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124976658","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}