Hanaa Nacer, H. Radoine, Hicham Mastouri, Nabil Koubaa, Abdelghani El Asli
{"title":"Sustainability Assessment of an Existing School Building in Ifrane Morocco using LEED and WELL Certification and Environmental Approach","authors":"Hanaa Nacer, H. Radoine, Hicham Mastouri, Nabil Koubaa, Abdelghani El Asli","doi":"10.1109/irsec53969.2021.9741142","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/irsec53969.2021.9741142","url":null,"abstract":"The purpose of this research project is to evaluate the sustainability and energy performance of an educational building in Ifrane (Morocco), with the establishment of environmental certifications such as EA6 credit and MR3 credit of LEED v4. This evaluation is based on WELL v2 tool. The energy performance assessment is achieved by Design Builder software which allows creating the reference point building (building complying with ASHRAE 90.1 standards). The results show that energy consumption of the studied building is 220.75 kWh/m2. While for the reference building, the energy consumption is estimated to 277.7 kWh/m2. Therefore, the achieved savings of 20.5% consents attainment of a relevant score of 9 points according to the LEED v4 reference. The environmental impacts are evaluated using the attributional Life Cycle Analysis (LCA) approach by means of: OneClick LCA software, ecoinvent, GaBi database and the CML method. The Carbon footprint of the baseline construction showing results is numerically higher with an estimated value of 58.79 kg CO2e/m2/year while the proposed building was estimated at 15.58 kg CO2e /m2/year. according to the results of the analysis of the building's life cycle impact, the energy consumption can greatly increase ADP-Fossil results that achieve a score of 3 points according to the MR Credit 3 of LEED v4 tool. In addition, according to WELL v2, we note that the notion of sustainability is strongly present at the level of the educational building in Ifrane. In this scope, the building is obtaining a score of 1 point for concept L03, 1 point for L08, 3 points for V03, 2 points for V06, 2 points for V08 and 2 points for M09.","PeriodicalId":361856,"journal":{"name":"2021 9th International Renewable and Sustainable Energy Conference (IRSEC)","volume":"130 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115809517","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}
Fatima Najoui, Noussaiba Rharbi, Safae Oulmouden, H. Radoine, Hicham Mastouri, H. Bahi, A. Outzourhit
{"title":"Study of some passive solutions integrated to a residential building using multi-objective optimization","authors":"Fatima Najoui, Noussaiba Rharbi, Safae Oulmouden, H. Radoine, Hicham Mastouri, H. Bahi, A. Outzourhit","doi":"10.1109/irsec53969.2021.9741177","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/irsec53969.2021.9741177","url":null,"abstract":"Over the last decades, the energy consumption in buildings continues to increase as a result of an increasing number of air-conditioning units. Our objective is to achieve a significant cooling load reduction in a residential building located in a semi-arid climate, specifically in Benguerir city (Morocco). The optimization process was initiated by performing a multi- objective optimization using DesignBuilder software. Subsequently, a study of different improvement scenarios with the help of the same software was carried out. The final results indicated that the thermal loads could be reduced by approximately 90 kWh/m2. year by introducing both insulation and a Moucharabieh system","PeriodicalId":361856,"journal":{"name":"2021 9th International Renewable and Sustainable Energy Conference (IRSEC)","volume":"290 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116571535","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":"Robust Optimal Damping Control Design For Grid-Forming Converters","authors":"H. Bevrani, Jia Liu, T. Kato","doi":"10.1109/IRSEC53969.2021.9741217","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IRSEC53969.2021.9741217","url":null,"abstract":"This paper addresses a robust optimal damping control for the grid-forming converters. The proposed control strategy calculates the optimal damping and inertia parameters in form of constant gains via an H∞-based static output feedback control synthesis. The capability and effectiveness of the proposed control methodology are proved by theoretical analysis, simulation, and experimental results on a typical grid-connected converter. It is shown that the designed controller can guarantee the robust performance and improves system stability. The simplicity of control structure, and providing desirable inertia and damping characteristics in a software program can be considered as the main advantages of the proposed methodology.","PeriodicalId":361856,"journal":{"name":"2021 9th International Renewable and Sustainable Energy Conference (IRSEC)","volume":"46 4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125099677","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}
A. El kissani, A. Abali, S. Drissi, L. Nkhaili, K. El Assail, A. Outzourhit, D. A. El haj, H. Chaib
{"title":"Earth Abundant Cu2FeSnS4 Thin Film Solar Cells","authors":"A. El kissani, A. Abali, S. Drissi, L. Nkhaili, K. El Assail, A. Outzourhit, D. A. El haj, H. Chaib","doi":"10.1109/IRSEC53969.2021.9741201","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IRSEC53969.2021.9741201","url":null,"abstract":"Firstly, copper iron tin sulfide Cu2FeSnS4 (CFTS), thin films are fabricated by the sol-gel method on soda lime glass and FTO substrates at relatively low temperature without sulfurization step. The structural, morphological, compositional and optical properties of synthesized CFTS thin films have been studied by X-ray diffraction (XRD), Raman spectroscopy, Scanning electron microscopy (SEM), energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (EDS) and UV- visible - NIR spectrophotometer respectively. Secondly, the CFTS-based solar cells with structure Au / p-CFTS / n-CdS / i-ZnO / FTO has been fabricated and characterized under AM 1.5 standard illumination conditions. XRD and Raman spectroscopy revealed that the formation of a pure phase of CFTS thin film with an average crystallites size of 60 nm. SEM analysis showed a compact and uniform CFTS thin film. EDS analysis confirmed the presence of Cu, Fe, Sn and S with a stoichiometry 2:1:1:4. The optical band gap was found to be 1.5 eV. The best CFTS based solar cell showed a short-circuit current density of 12.16 mA.cm−2, an open-circuit voltage of 0.78 V, a Fill factor of 50 % and an efficiency of 4.7%.","PeriodicalId":361856,"journal":{"name":"2021 9th International Renewable and Sustainable Energy Conference (IRSEC)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133314299","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":"Wavelet Multi-Scale Analysis of Wind Turbines Smoothing Effect and Power Fluctuations","authors":"A. Meglic, R. Goic","doi":"10.1109/IRSEC53969.2021.9741097","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IRSEC53969.2021.9741097","url":null,"abstract":"With the increased interest for co-location of wind and solar PV plants, the issues related to power fluctuations and their impact on production curtailment losses due to grid constraints gained additional importance. This paper investigates power fluctuations and the smoothing effect in wind farms utilising wavelet multi-scale analysis based on 1-second wind speed and wind power data measurements. Maximal overlap discrete wavelet transform (MODWT) is applied to decompose the wind power time series into several scales, each representing particular frequency band. Analysis of variance across multiple scales is provided for wind speed and power time series of a single and multiple wind turbine generators (WTGs). Additionally, multi-scale correlations are captured between a pair of WTGs on two sites. Smoothing effect has been analysed across different time scales in three operational wind farms of different sizes. The results imply that power fluctuations in large-scale wind farms can be accurately captured using 1-minute time resolution.","PeriodicalId":361856,"journal":{"name":"2021 9th International Renewable and Sustainable Energy Conference (IRSEC)","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133409615","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}
Fatima Zahra Benaddi, L. Boukhattem, B. Benhamou, F. Nouh
{"title":"Building Design Optimization to Enhance Thermal Comfort Performance: A Case Study in Marrakech Region","authors":"Fatima Zahra Benaddi, L. Boukhattem, B. Benhamou, F. Nouh","doi":"10.1109/IRSEC53969.2021.9741120","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IRSEC53969.2021.9741120","url":null,"abstract":"The purpose of this paper is to optimize the thermal performance of buildings in the hot semi-arid climate of Marrakech, Morocco. An actual building is adopted as a case study, and it is designated as a classroom building. Therefore, the total discomfort hours TDh during the full occupied hours is chosen as the objective function to be minimized. TDh is simulated using the building performance simulation program TRNsys coupled with the generic optimization tool GenOpt. A set of design variables (continuous, discrete) is selected to assess their influence on the objective function and to find their optimal set for the studied building and under the considered climatic condition. The results show that the optimization led to a reduction of the annual thermal discomfort index TDI from 51% in the case of the original design building to 31% by using the resulting optimal set of design variables.","PeriodicalId":361856,"journal":{"name":"2021 9th International Renewable and Sustainable Energy Conference (IRSEC)","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132108274","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}
Khadija Kouchi, Marwa Tayoury, Abdelwahed Chari, Zakaria Chchiyai, L. Hdidou, Y. Tamraoui, J. Alami, B. Manoun, M. Dahbi
{"title":"Sol Gel Synthesis of Nanoparticles Ni0.5Mg0.5Fe1.7Mn0.3O4as Anode Material for Lithium-ion Batteries","authors":"Khadija Kouchi, Marwa Tayoury, Abdelwahed Chari, Zakaria Chchiyai, L. Hdidou, Y. Tamraoui, J. Alami, B. Manoun, M. Dahbi","doi":"10.1109/IRSEC53969.2021.9741161","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IRSEC53969.2021.9741161","url":null,"abstract":"Spinel transition-metal oxides have showed excellent electrochemical performances as anode material for lithium ion-batteries due to their high theoretical capacities and good reversibility. Their capacity is typically 2–3 times higher than that of the graphite/carbon-based electrode materials. Moreover, their low cost and environmental benignity render them promising anodes for the next-generation lithium-ion batteries (LIBs). In this work, we report the synthesis of Ni<inf>0.5</inf>Mg<inf>0.5</inf>Fe<inf>1.7</inf>Mn<inf>0.3</inf>O<inf>4</inf> anode material by a sol-gel method. The synthesized product was characterized by X-Rays diffraction (XRD) and Raman spectroscopy techniques. The XRD result showed that at 800 °C temperature, the material exhibits a cubic symmetry with the space group (Fd-3m). The Raman's spectroscopy results showed that there are six Raman active modes (A<inf>1g</inf> (1), A<inf>1g</inf> (2), T<inf>2g</inf> (1), T<inf>2g</inf> (2), E<inf>g</inf> and T<inf>2g</inf> (3)), which are all observed at 800 °C temperature. The electrochemical properties of this anode material are investigated by galvanostatic and cyclic voltammetry tests. The material delivers an initial discharge/charge specific capacity of 1275 and 874 mAh g<sup>−1</sup> under the current density of 100 mA g<sup>-1</sup>. After 10 cycles, the discharge and charge capacities of the Ni<inf>0.5</inf>Mg<inf>0.5</inf>Fe<inf>1.7</inf>Mn<inf>0.3</inf>O<inf>4</inf> was 728 and 725 mAh g<sup>-1</sup> and the capacity retention was around 83%. A carbon coating of Ni<inf>0.5</inf>Mg<inf>0.5</inf>Fe<inf>1.7</inf>Mn<inf>0.3</inf>O<inf>4</inf> material leads to a higher cycling stability and a perfect capacity retention about 100%.","PeriodicalId":361856,"journal":{"name":"2021 9th International Renewable and Sustainable Energy Conference (IRSEC)","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114319601","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}
A. Kafih, Abdelwahed Chari, J. Alami, M. Dahbi, A. Guessous
{"title":"A New Material Na0.45VOPO4•1.58H2O with an Orthorhombic Structure is Applied as Cathode Material for Sodium-ion Batteries","authors":"A. Kafih, Abdelwahed Chari, J. Alami, M. Dahbi, A. Guessous","doi":"10.1109/IRSEC53969.2021.9741139","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IRSEC53969.2021.9741139","url":null,"abstract":"A new material Na0.45VOPO4•1.58H2O with an orthorhombic structure is applied as cathode material for sodiumion batteries. In this paper, the electrochemical properties of this material which has been successfully synthesized by electrochemical oxidation of vanadyl ions in a phosphoric acid medium have been investigated using cyclic voltammetry, galvanostatic charge-discharge, and a long cycle term. A reversible capacity of ~ 90 mAh g - 1 at 0.1 C was determined between 2.5 and 3.8 V (versus Na+/ Na) with a high average potential of 3.4 V and good cyclability (initial Coulomb efficiency > 97% after 20 cycles).","PeriodicalId":361856,"journal":{"name":"2021 9th International Renewable and Sustainable Energy Conference (IRSEC)","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114448017","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":"Design and Implementation of Efficient MPPT Controllers based on SDM and DDM using Backstepping Control and SEPIC Converter","authors":"Khalid Chennoufi, M. Ferfra, M. Mokhlis","doi":"10.1109/IRSEC53969.2021.9741206","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IRSEC53969.2021.9741206","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a design and hardware implementation of Maximum Power Point Tracking (MPPT) algorithms for photovoltaic panels. Two MPPT techniques have been presented which are SDM-BSC and ANNDDM-BSC. In the SDM-BSC control, the reference voltage that guarantees the maximum power point is generated by an analytical equation. The nonlinear backstepping control was introduced to track the reference voltage generated with the single diode modeling (SDM) by adjusting the duty cycle of a SEPIC converter. In order to improve the maximum power point tracking performance, the (SMD) is replaced by an artificial neural network (ANN) trained by a PV modeling based on DDM. The ANN is trained using double diode modeling (DDM), by varying the temperature and irradiance and computing the maximum voltage in every condition, thus a database of about ten photovoltaic module operating scenarios has been developed, which includes the temperature, irradiance and the maximum voltage delivered under every operating conditions. The ANN was designed with two inputs, which are temperature and insolation, and with a single output, which is the optimum voltage. The simulation results in the Matlab software showed excellent stability and speed compared to the InC-BSC and PO-BSC methods. And a power gain of about 0.3 W compared to the MSD-BSC method. The experimental setup has shown that the two proposed methods can be easily implemented and confirms the superiority of the ANNDD-BSC method.","PeriodicalId":361856,"journal":{"name":"2021 9th International Renewable and Sustainable Energy Conference (IRSEC)","volume":"93 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117104766","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":"Comparative Study Between a Single Junction and One Intermediate Band Solar Cells","authors":"Mohamed Djamel Smaili, S. Nacer, A. Aissat","doi":"10.1109/IRSEC53969.2021.9741098","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IRSEC53969.2021.9741098","url":null,"abstract":"Solar cells constitute an important and promising clean energy technology. The solar conversion efficiency is however small. One way to improve this latter is to insert an intermediate band (IB) between valence and conduction bands making what is called an Intermediate Band Solar Cell (IBSC). We propose, in this work, a comparative study of the efficiency between two solar cells: a conventional cell and an IBSC with one intermediate band using detailed balance model. The obtained results show that the intermediate band solar cell is much better than conventional cell and has the promising efficiency of 63 percent.","PeriodicalId":361856,"journal":{"name":"2021 9th International Renewable and Sustainable Energy Conference (IRSEC)","volume":"38 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122825498","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}