Charles Ibrahim, I. Mougharbel, H. Kanaan, Nivine Abou Daher, S. Georges, M. Saad
{"title":"Improve Prediction Accuracy of Electrical Consumption Adjusted with Demand Response Programs","authors":"Charles Ibrahim, I. Mougharbel, H. Kanaan, Nivine Abou Daher, S. Georges, M. Saad","doi":"10.1109/redec49234.2020.9163906","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/redec49234.2020.9163906","url":null,"abstract":"Prediction on electrical consumption of clients and their selection for appropriate demand response programs (DRPs), are a major challenge for the stability of the distribution network. Prediction accuracy of patterns and their matching with reality plays an important role in DRPs modeling for better consumers’ participation. Existing Approaches studied several aspects of prediction and baselines in DRPs environment. The originality of this work consists in demonstrating a prediction based approach, studying its accuracy and continuously adding new patterns to the training set. The variation versus planning phase is kept minimal and adapted to customers’ variations. It is achieved at the individual and aggregated profiles, thus customers’ classification and engagement are ensured. The approach is validated through a simulation on Matlab. Objectives include the customer prequalification and the effects of prediction accuracy on the balance generation/demand.","PeriodicalId":371125,"journal":{"name":"2020 5th International Conference on Renewable Energies for Developing Countries (REDEC)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125123378","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}
Yasser Harmen, Y. Chhiti, F. Alaoui, F. Bentiss, Mohamed Elkhouakhi, L. Deshayes, C. Jama, S. Duquesne, M. Bensitel
{"title":"Storage efficiency of paraffin-LDPE-MWCNT phase change material for industrial building applications","authors":"Yasser Harmen, Y. Chhiti, F. Alaoui, F. Bentiss, Mohamed Elkhouakhi, L. Deshayes, C. Jama, S. Duquesne, M. Bensitel","doi":"10.1109/REDEC49234.2020.9163856","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/REDEC49234.2020.9163856","url":null,"abstract":"Passive latent energy storage technologies with Phase Change Materials (PCM) provide a potential solution to reduce energy demand and regulate thermal comfort in occupied buildings. However, leakage of liquid PCM and low thermal conductivity limit the PCM building applications. In this context, the objective of this study is to develop a new shape stable PCM enhanced by carbon-based nanoparticles. The paraffin, Low-Density Polythene (LDPE) and Multi-Walled Carbon Nano-Tube (MWCNT) are used as PCM, supporting matrix and thermal conductivity enhancer, respectively. The PCM composites with different ratios were prepared by melt blending method, using a parallel co-rotating twin-screw micro-extruder. A series of experimental tests were achieved. Thermophysical and chemical analyses (Modulated Differential Scanning Calorimetry (MDSC), Thermogravimetric Analysis (TGA), thermal conductivity, Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (FTIR)) were carried out to characterize the raw materials and the prepared PCM composites, to optimize the energetic and phenomenological behaviors of samples. The results indicate a good chemical and physical compatibility of the prepared samples. Besides, the LDPE maintains the molten paraffin in compact shape during the solid-liquid transition. Thus, paraffin-LDPE-MWCNT with 70-29-1 wt.% exhibit the best thermal properties with a latent heat of 93 J/g. 1 wt.% of MWCNT improves the thermal conductivity of paraffin-LDPE by 28%. The results of this study demonstrate a significant potential of the prepared shape stable PCM to improve the thermal inertia of construction materials and thermal comfort inside buildings.","PeriodicalId":371125,"journal":{"name":"2020 5th International Conference on Renewable Energies for Developing Countries (REDEC)","volume":"88 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116097294","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":"Improving the Quality of Intermittent Wind Power and its Harvest for Steam Power Plant Operation on Power Systems","authors":"Ali Hassan, Y. Hamam, J. Munda","doi":"10.1109/REDEC49234.2020.9163871","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/REDEC49234.2020.9163871","url":null,"abstract":"Wind power generation exhibits intermittence on the power produced which constitutes a disadvantage to its integration into the power system operation. The challenges of handling wind power intermittence on the power system are enormous, as the impact requires the use of additional generation resources on the conventional system in order to improve the performance of the system. In this work, a remedy to the intermittence and improvement of the wind power harvest is proposed. The wind power is generated using modified wind turbines and the power is stored on a heat transfer fluid. The stored heat is then used to produce steam which is processed in a heat exchanger to drive a steam turbine power plant. This eliminates the disturbance due to the wind intermittence as presented on the results, where the power system exhibits a more stable operation (higher minimum singular values) when using the heat storage as compared to the direct wind power injection and also the wind power harvest is improved by using modified wind turbines.","PeriodicalId":371125,"journal":{"name":"2020 5th International Conference on Renewable Energies for Developing Countries (REDEC)","volume":"23 2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122505064","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}
Imane Boumanchar, Y. Chhiti, F. Alaoui, Mohamed Elkhouakhi, L. Deshayes, F. Bentiss, C. Jama, M. Bensitel
{"title":"Thermo-chemical behavior of biomass, coal, municipal solid wastes and their mixtures","authors":"Imane Boumanchar, Y. Chhiti, F. Alaoui, Mohamed Elkhouakhi, L. Deshayes, F. Bentiss, C. Jama, M. Bensitel","doi":"10.1109/REDEC49234.2020.9163853","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/REDEC49234.2020.9163853","url":null,"abstract":"This paper investigated the thermal behavior of biomass, coal, municipal solid waste (MSW) and their 50/50 in weight % mixtures using thermogravimetric analysis. The thermo-kinetic behavior was modeled using Coats and Redfern method. In fact, this work presented a complementary study between single and multiple steps process to determine the activation energy (Ea). Thus, Ea values were in average 21, 18 and 40 kJ/mol for biomass, coal and MSW respectively and showed a significant synergism effect between experimental and theoretical data.","PeriodicalId":371125,"journal":{"name":"2020 5th International Conference on Renewable Energies for Developing Countries (REDEC)","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122001363","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":"REDEC 2020 Copyright Page","authors":"","doi":"10.1109/redec49234.2020.9163884","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/redec49234.2020.9163884","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":371125,"journal":{"name":"2020 5th International Conference on Renewable Energies for Developing Countries (REDEC)","volume":"292 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122198375","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}
Hala Alami Aroussi, ElMostafa Ziani, Manale Bouderbala, B. Bossoufi
{"title":"DPC & DNPC Applied To Wind Energy Converter System","authors":"Hala Alami Aroussi, ElMostafa Ziani, Manale Bouderbala, B. Bossoufi","doi":"10.1109/redec49234.2020.9163898","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/redec49234.2020.9163898","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a comparison between an improved direct power control using hysteresis and artificial neural regulators applied to a wind energy conversion system (WECS) using a doubly fed induction machine (DFIM) as a generator. We assume that the direct power control (DPC) has numerous advantages such as the easy implementation that permits a perfect decoupling between active and reactive powers, as well as the good performance at transient and steady state without PI controller and rotating coordinate transformations. To introduce the WECS adopted, the wind turbine modelling and the dynamic model of the asynchronous generator is presented. Subsequently, a detailed explanation of the controls is spreading out in addition of the principle of adjusting the active and reactive powers according to the wind profile. Moreover, the estimation method of the two variables controlled will be presented in addition to the switching table used for the multilevel inverter. Finally, the system will be tested using an asynchronous machine of 1.5 KW under Matlab / Simulink to demonstrate the effectiveness of these controls.","PeriodicalId":371125,"journal":{"name":"2020 5th International Conference on Renewable Energies for Developing Countries (REDEC)","volume":"64 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126474223","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}
H. Rajha, J. Azoury, Espérance Debs, Elie El Azzi, N. Louka
{"title":"Optimization of peanuts’ defatting using Ired-Irrad®, a newly-patented green and low-cost technology","authors":"H. Rajha, J. Azoury, Espérance Debs, Elie El Azzi, N. Louka","doi":"10.1109/REDEC49234.2020.9163870","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/REDEC49234.2020.9163870","url":null,"abstract":"Optimization of the defatting process of peanuts was conducted using response surface methodology, varying the time and temperature of the solvent-free infrared (Ired-Irrad®) pretreatment. Results of the central composite design, exploited in Statgraphics centurion®, showed that the peanut oil extraction yield increased from 30% to 45% when peanuts were pretreated with IR irradiation for 56 min at 88.5°C. Infrared is a newly-patented environment-friendly technology that showed its efficiency in many potential industrial applications.","PeriodicalId":371125,"journal":{"name":"2020 5th International Conference on Renewable Energies for Developing Countries (REDEC)","volume":"105 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121946443","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":"Study of Elastic Behaviour of Bolted Sandwich Beam With Unidirectional Carbon Fiber Skins","authors":"Ounss Soukaina, Mounir Hamid, E. Abdellatif","doi":"10.1109/redec49234.2020.9163863","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/redec49234.2020.9163863","url":null,"abstract":"Sandwich materials with reinforced composite skins become currently a relevant choice to obtain both strength and lightweight structures because of their optimal mechanical performances provided by having just a moderate volume ratio of rigid fibers. Therefore, composite sandwiches are strongly recommended for wind turbines blades that need lightweight materials to achieve optimal power efficiency with an increased size. In this paper, a bolted sandwich beam used for wind turbines with skins reinforced by unidirectional carbon fibers is studied through realizing a numerical simulation under commercial software in order to evaluate an analytical model proposed to predict tensile elastic modulus. For that, several simulations of tensile tests were performed for many samples of sandwich beams and their composite skins with a fiber volume fraction of 15% and two reinforcement orientations that are 0° and 45°. The study results approved the analytical approach especially for sandwich specimens where elastic core absorbs shear energy and composite skins influence sandwich rigidity that equals to 4.6 Gpa for the case of a reinforcement orientation of 45° and 11.8 Gpa for 0° fibers inclination. Then, the application of various bolt preloads causes a tensile modulus drop because of concentrations of constraints which requires a suitable selection of fibers angle, tensile load and bolt material to conserve beam rigidity.","PeriodicalId":371125,"journal":{"name":"2020 5th International Conference on Renewable Energies for Developing Countries (REDEC)","volume":"143 2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134574965","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}
Y. Kali, M. Saad, J. Rodas, I. Mougharbel, K. Benjelloun
{"title":"Robust Control of a 6-Phase Induction Generator for Variable Speed Wind Energy Conversion System","authors":"Y. Kali, M. Saad, J. Rodas, I. Mougharbel, K. Benjelloun","doi":"10.1109/redec49234.2020.9163835","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/redec49234.2020.9163835","url":null,"abstract":"Multiphase induction generators are gaining popularity in wind energy systems for their robustness, reliability and fault-tolerant behavior when compared to the famous three-phase ones. This work proposes an advanced robust nonlinear control strategy for a multiphase induction generator in a variable speed wind energy conversion system. The considered structure in this paper consists of a six-phase induction generator and two conventional three-phase two-level voltage source converters. The stator currents of the structure are regulated using the proposed method that consists of a time delay estimation-based modified super-twisting. On one hand, and a proportional-integral regulates the speed in an outer control loop. On the other hand, the proposed method regulates the stator currents in an inner control loop. The stability analysis of the closed-loop error dynamics is proved using a quadratic Lyapunov function. Finally, numerical simulations have been carried out on a model of a real six-phase induction generator to show the good features of the designed method.","PeriodicalId":371125,"journal":{"name":"2020 5th International Conference on Renewable Energies for Developing Countries (REDEC)","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131652861","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":"Collective demand side management in smart grids","authors":"Rajaa Naji El Idrissi, M. Ouassaid, M. Maaroufi","doi":"10.1109/REDEC49234.2020.9163903","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/REDEC49234.2020.9163903","url":null,"abstract":"In recent years, several energy management strategies have been proposed in order to maximize the energy efficiency for smart grids. In this paper, we study the advantage of adopting a cooperative load management to maximize the consumer’s profits. Consequently,a developed home energy management has been evaluated with two other approaches (demand response and unscheduled load profiles) in terms of load peak power and load factor. Simulations are conducted in three different houses communities. The results demonstrate the high impact of coordinated scheduling decisions on the performance of the whole users, as it achieves up to 45% in the load factor maximization and curtails up to 28 % the peak load consumption.","PeriodicalId":371125,"journal":{"name":"2020 5th International Conference on Renewable Energies for Developing Countries (REDEC)","volume":"32 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131008223","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}