Naser Ali, M. Sebzali, Altaf Safar, Fadi Al-Khatib
{"title":"A feasibility study of using waste cooking oil as a form of energy in Kuwait","authors":"Naser Ali, M. Sebzali, Altaf Safar, Fadi Al-Khatib","doi":"10.1109/SMART.2015.7399255","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SMART.2015.7399255","url":null,"abstract":"A study was conducted in order to determine the feasibility of using used cooking oil as an alternative source of energy in Kuwait. The method used in this study involved data collection of all raw cooking oil produced in Kuwait and exported to it for the past three years, which represents the overall amount of cooking oil within the country. This is followed by a calculation of the estimate used cooking oil produced from its initial stage. The estimated amount is then forecasted to determine the future changes in quantities and compared to diesel fuel in terms of cost, energy production, and environmental effects. The research findings showed that used cooking oil can be utilized as a supportive source of energy in Kuwait with minimum environmental impact compared with diesel fuel.","PeriodicalId":365573,"journal":{"name":"2015 International Conference on Sustainable Mobility Applications, Renewables and Technology (SMART)","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127902893","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. Tahani, N. Babayan, A. Pouyaei, M. Mirhosseini, A. Sedaghat
{"title":"Increasing the produced power of building mounted wind turbines by optimization of roof geometry and utilization of solar panels","authors":"M. Tahani, N. Babayan, A. Pouyaei, M. Mirhosseini, A. Sedaghat","doi":"10.1109/SMART.2015.7399270","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SMART.2015.7399270","url":null,"abstract":"The desire for design of environmental friendly buildings has led engineers for utilizing the optimized shape of renewable energies. In this paper, the optimum translocation of solar panels has been studied for the purpose of capturing the maximum solar energy and controlling the wind direction for getting maximum power from the wind turbine. This study has been done for the city of Tehran and by PSO algorithm in MATLAB. Also, a building with solar panels has been modeled by using CFD simulation, and after parametric solving, the best angle for capturing the maximum solar insulation and the maximum wind power has been achieved. The results show that for capturing the maximum solar energy, the tilt angle of panel must be around 30 degrees and in this condition the wind velocity increases about 1.5 times, because of deflection of wind flow.","PeriodicalId":365573,"journal":{"name":"2015 International Conference on Sustainable Mobility Applications, Renewables and Technology (SMART)","volume":"38 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121596582","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}
Fatma Ezzahra Lahouar, M. Hamouda, J. Ben Hadj Slama
{"title":"Analysis of linear and nonlinear control of a three-phase/level PWM DC-AC neutral point clamped converter","authors":"Fatma Ezzahra Lahouar, M. Hamouda, J. Ben Hadj Slama","doi":"10.1109/SMART.2015.7399222","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SMART.2015.7399222","url":null,"abstract":"This paper introduces two control methods for multilevel PWM voltage source power converter (VSC). The first approach consists of a traditional cascaded linear PI regulator while the second presents a fast voltage control scheme applying a nonlinear input-output feedback linearization (IOFL). The system modeling is obtained with the state space model of the VSC in order to meet a constant dc-bus voltage and keep the input power at unity. By IOFL, the system is linearized and decoupled without leading any zero dynamics, and then a feedforward law is derived to account for model error. Simulation results demonstrate the effectiveness response of the two designed issues in steady state and prove that with nonlinear structures, output signal responses become faster than those in cascaded control schemes.","PeriodicalId":365573,"journal":{"name":"2015 International Conference on Sustainable Mobility Applications, Renewables and Technology (SMART)","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116059200","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. Abdellaoui, A. Yangui, A. Saidi, H. H. Abdallah
{"title":"STATCOM-based 48-pulses three level GTO dedicated to VAR compensation and power quality improvement","authors":"A. Abdellaoui, A. Yangui, A. Saidi, H. H. Abdallah","doi":"10.1109/SMART.2015.7399248","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SMART.2015.7399248","url":null,"abstract":"This paper deals with a novel technique for power quality improvement that considers an advanced STATCOM 48-pulse GTO voltage source converter. The technology of this converter is based on a phase shifting transformer (PST) and a three leg voltage source converter (VSC). The proposed concept enables the compensation of the reactive power by absorbing or generating a flow of current equivalent to the required reactive power. Furthermore, it enables the cancellation of the current harmonics. The performance of the proposed concept is simulated in the MATLAB environment considering a real-life case study.","PeriodicalId":365573,"journal":{"name":"2015 International Conference on Sustainable Mobility Applications, Renewables and Technology (SMART)","volume":"231 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116198184","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":"Rotor notching for electromagnetic noise reduction of induction motors","authors":"Gui-yu Zhou, Jian-Xin Shen","doi":"10.1109/SMART.2015.7399261","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SMART.2015.7399261","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a new method by notching the induction motor (IM) rotor core to reduce the electromagnetic noise. The aim of the proposed strategy is to decrease the vibration caused by the rotor slot permeance harmonics. Firstly, principle of such electromagnetic noise reduction technique is presented. Then, finite element method (FEM) is used to calculate the Maxwell force harmonics and the vibration spectra of a 5.5kW sample induction motor and a corresponding modified motor. Finally, experimental results are given to validate the proposed technique, by testing the vibration and acoustic noise spectra of the two sample induction motors. It is shown that the modified motor has about 4.6 dB(A) reduction of the overall sound pressure level (SPL) comparing with the original one.","PeriodicalId":365573,"journal":{"name":"2015 International Conference on Sustainable Mobility Applications, Renewables and Technology (SMART)","volume":"48 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133563578","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":"Thermal, power and packaging design of an HT-PEM fuel cell application for climatization and range extension in future Vehicle Concepts","authors":"F. Philipps","doi":"10.1109/SMART.2015.7399210","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SMART.2015.7399210","url":null,"abstract":"Today's electric vehicles do not offer sufficient range, especially if heating or air-conditioning is necessary. Fuel cells are able to provide electrical and thermal power with a high degree of efficiency. The DLR Institute of Vehicle Concepts is investigating different fuel cell technologies for use in mobile applications at ranges from 100 W in cargo pedelecs to systems of over 10 kW for passenger cars and up to 200 kW for rail applications, and to this end operates several test benches to test individual subsystems such as batteries, fuel cells, and electric machines up to complete vehicles on the roller test bench. This makes it possible to develop subsystems and prototypes and to parameterize and evaluate the concepts simulated.","PeriodicalId":365573,"journal":{"name":"2015 International Conference on Sustainable Mobility Applications, Renewables and Technology (SMART)","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134096662","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":"Environmental impact of developing large buildings close to residential environments","authors":"M. Zhunussova, M. Jaeger, D. Adair","doi":"10.1109/SMART.2015.7399257","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SMART.2015.7399257","url":null,"abstract":"High-resolution computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulations have been performed to access the dispersion of air pollutants (CO2) emanating from traffic in a busy street and in the vicinity of a complex configuration of buildings located in Salmiya, Kuwait City. New buildings are planned for this area, and the work includes predictions for the dispersion of pollutants after their completion. The CFD simulations are based on calculated CO2 concentration levels based on traffic counts taken on location in Salmiya with the existing configuration of buildings in place. As the computer code used in this work has been validated previously it is thought that predictions on the addition of the new buildings are suitable as indicators of any potential air pollution problem areas. It was found for light winds the proposed new buildings helped reduce pollution in the vicinity of the residential buildings, but as the winds became more moderate to strong, there was a tendency for pollution to get trapped in the residential street.","PeriodicalId":365573,"journal":{"name":"2015 International Conference on Sustainable Mobility Applications, Renewables and Technology (SMART)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130310933","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":"Quality of tap drinking water in Kuwait: Physicochemical characteristics","authors":"A. Ahmed","doi":"10.1109/SMART.2015.7399256","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SMART.2015.7399256","url":null,"abstract":"Adequate clean drinking water is essential for any community to sustain. Over the last two decades, Quality of drinking water in terms of physical, chemical and biological safety has come to focus of research efforts due to its effects on human health. As a result, various studies were conducted to assess the quality of drinking water all over the world. Kuwait experiences an extremely hot long summers with temperatures reach up to 50° and very low amounts of rainfall. Kuwait depends on sea water distillation to meet the rapidly increasing demand on drinking water. This study aims to assess the physicochemical parameters including the total dissolved solid (TDS), pH, electrical conductivity and sodium concentration of tap water in Kuwait. The outcomes of this study helps in evaluating the quality of centrally treated water in Kuwait. Samples were taken different residential areas covering all the six governorates in the state of Kuwait. All physicochemical parameters were found to be within the standard guidelines. Minor variations were found while comparing the values of pH, TDS, and electrical conductivity between tap and domestic bottled water. TDS levels in tap water samples increases about four its original value once they are produced in the distillation plant. Water supply authorities need to consider a periodical maintenance for the pipeline distribution network. They should also lead a strict monitoring system to assure that the physicochemical parameters of the centrally treated water are always with accordance to the standards guidelines.","PeriodicalId":365573,"journal":{"name":"2015 International Conference on Sustainable Mobility Applications, Renewables and Technology (SMART)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129251747","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}
Baohua Zhang, Weihao Hu, P. Hou, M. Soltani, Zhe Chen
{"title":"Wind farm active power dispatch for output power maximizing based on a wind turbine control strategy for load minimizing","authors":"Baohua Zhang, Weihao Hu, P. Hou, M. Soltani, Zhe Chen","doi":"10.1109/SMART.2015.7399215","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SMART.2015.7399215","url":null,"abstract":"Inclusion of the wake effect in the wind farm control design (WF) can increase the total captured power by wind turbines (WTs), which is usually implemented by derating upwind WTs. However, derating the WT without a proper control strategy will increase the structural loads, caused by operation in stall mode. Therefore, the WT control strategy for derating operation should be considered in the attempt at maximizing the total captured power while reducing structural loads. Moreover, electrical power loss on the transmission system inside a WF is also not negligible for maximizing the total output power of the WF. In this paper, an optimal active power dispatch strategy based on a WT derating strategy and considering the transmission loss is proposed for maximizing the total output power. The active power reference of each WT is chosen as the optimization variable. A partial swarm optimizing algorithm is used for solving the problem. Simulation results show the effectiveness of the proposed strategy.","PeriodicalId":365573,"journal":{"name":"2015 International Conference on Sustainable Mobility Applications, Renewables and Technology (SMART)","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126061448","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":"Research of smart grid cyber architecture and standards deployment with high adaptability for Security Monitoring","authors":"R. Hu, Weihao Hu, Zhe Chen","doi":"10.1109/smart.2015.7399218","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/smart.2015.7399218","url":null,"abstract":"Security Monitoring is a critical function for smart grid. As a consequence of strongly relying on communication, cyber security must be guaranteed by the specific system. Otherwise, the Demand Response (DR) signals and bidding information can be easily forged or intercepted. Customers' privacy and safety may suffer huge losses. Although OpenADR specifications provide continuous, secure and reliable two-way communications in application level defined in ISO model, which is also an open architecture model for adopted security systems, no specific or proprietary technologies is restricted to OpenADR itself. It is significant to develop a security monitoring system. This paper discussed the cyber architecture of smart grid with high adaptability for security monitoring. An adaptable structure with Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) is studied. Focusing on this network structure, the rational utilization of standards is investigated to provide a smart grid communication network with better performance and higher security, whilst it avoids the extra investment of an individual security monitoring network as far as possible.","PeriodicalId":365573,"journal":{"name":"2015 International Conference on Sustainable Mobility Applications, Renewables and Technology (SMART)","volume":"49 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122738479","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}