Adetokunbo Ajao, Jingwei Luo, Zheming Liang, Q. Alsafasfeh, Wencong Su
{"title":"Intelligent home energy management system for distributed renewable generators, dispatchable residential loads and distributed energy storage devices","authors":"Adetokunbo Ajao, Jingwei Luo, Zheming Liang, Q. Alsafasfeh, Wencong Su","doi":"10.1109/IREC.2017.7926040","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IREC.2017.7926040","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents an intelligent home energy management system integrated with dispatchable loads (e.g., clothes washers and dryers), distributed renewable generators (e.g., roof-top solar panels), and distributed energy storage devices (e.g., plug-in electric vehicles). The overall goal is to reduce the total operating costs and the carbon emissions for a future residential house, while satisfying the end-users' comfort levels. This paper models a wide variety of home appliances and formulates the economic operation problem using mixed integer linear programming. Case studies are performed to validate and demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed solution algorithm. Simulation results also show the positive impact of dispatchable loads, distributed renewable generators, and distributed energy storage devices on a future residential house.","PeriodicalId":378157,"journal":{"name":"2017 8th International Renewable Energy Congress (IREC)","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-04-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128978130","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":"Power quality and stability impacts of Vehicle to grid (V2G) connection","authors":"Esra’a Alghsoon, A. Harb, M. Hamdan","doi":"10.1109/IREC.2017.7925995","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IREC.2017.7925995","url":null,"abstract":"Electric Vehicles (EV) are supplied with storage batteries, which are powered from the grid. So, the EV are considered as a load on the electrical network. But on the other hand, power can be recovered back to the grid in case of out use. This paper study the effect of V2G technology at substation 33kV/11kV located at Amman city, it takes the load profile for each feeder at the substation in to account, the substation and the out feeders build and tested using DIGSILENT software. The harmonic distortion that the charge controller produce it on the grid for eight scenarios at different hours for winter and summer semesters was analyzed, also the effect of V2G technology on the stability was found for fourteen scenarios at different penetration level for electric vehicles, at the end the effect of V2G technology on voltage stability was found for three cases. The results compared with IEEE standard for the allowable harmonic distortion limits where the highest total harmonic distortion occurs at summer peak and high penetration for electric vehicles which equal 0.37%, the frequency stability results compared by the NECA (National Electricity Code Agency).","PeriodicalId":378157,"journal":{"name":"2017 8th International Renewable Energy Congress (IREC)","volume":"69 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-03-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122713992","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":"PV/Batteries sizing under multi criteria consideration","authors":"Dalia Fendri, Mahmoud Ammous, M. Chaabene","doi":"10.1109/IREC.2017.7926009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IREC.2017.7926009","url":null,"abstract":"Electrification of isolated area is commonly ensured by autonomous power installation including renewable energy sources. Many software tools are available to size such installations. These tools refer to the daily energy need and the site global renewable potential which leads to inaccurate and wasteful sizing. This paper presents an alternative tool based on the energy consumption and the daily loads profile to compute the size of a standalone PV/Batteries system installed in an isolated chalet in Sfax, Tunisia. Obtained results are compared to those provided by PVsyst sizing tool to confirm the proposed algorithm effectiveness. In fact, although the slight high initial cost provided by the algorithm sizing, a profit of 55% in yearly charges is offered by the proposed sizing tool.","PeriodicalId":378157,"journal":{"name":"2017 8th International Renewable Energy Congress (IREC)","volume":"192 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-03-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124749932","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":"Fast reconfiguration algorithm for improving the efficiency of PV systems","authors":"Y. Mahmoud, E. El-Saadany","doi":"10.1109/IREC.2017.7925993","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IREC.2017.7925993","url":null,"abstract":"Photovoltaic power systems lose significant amount of energy due to partial shading which occurs when a part of a PV system is shaded while the rest is fully illuminated. These losses appear in the form of mismatch power losses. Minimizing these losses is fortunately possible through reconfiguring the connections of PV modules in a PV system, as reported recently in the literature. However, the available reconfiguration methods are based on biological optimization which needs long computational time to search for the optimal configuration. Unfortunately, this hinders their practical implementation in large PV systems. A reconfiguration technique that finds the optimal configuration in a reduced computational time is proposed in this paper. Simple rules are developed that can determine the best PV configuration without the need to solve heavy optimization problems. The validity and superiority of the proposed method is verified by comparing its performance to the existing methods under various shading scenarios.","PeriodicalId":378157,"journal":{"name":"2017 8th International Renewable Energy Congress (IREC)","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-03-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131362834","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}
G. Chidikofan, M. Sawadogo, Y. Coulibaly, F. Pinta, J. Pailhès
{"title":"Technical and sustainability assessment of power production system based on cotton stalk and rice husk gasification in an isolated area in Burkina Faso","authors":"G. Chidikofan, M. Sawadogo, Y. Coulibaly, F. Pinta, J. Pailhès","doi":"10.1109/IREC.2017.7926020","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IREC.2017.7926020","url":null,"abstract":"Biomass gasification systems may be relevant for decentralized power generation from these residues in the isolated areas. This work deals with the analysis of both the technical and economic feasibility, and then the environmental and social impacts of a 95 kWe gasification plant project in order to generate electricity for Badara village in Burkina. Two biomasses feedstock: cotton stalk and rice husk are used. Mass and energy balances of the processes were performed to assess technical performance. Levelized cost of electricity (LCOE) analysis is used to estimate the production cost of the two biomasses options. The environmental impacts were assessed by using a Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) approach. The results show that the valorisation of the rice husk is the solution that offers the low production cost (0.34 €/kWh) compared to cotton stalk (0.38 €/kWh) despite its low electricity efficiency (11.9% against 12.6%). Nevertheless, the use of the cotton stalks is most interesting in terms of direct job creation (9.58 full-time equivalent jobs /year against 8 full-time equivalent jobs /year). Concerning the environmental issue, the gasification of cotton stalk generates consistently higher environmental burdens than the rice husks gasification. This assessment represents an important step that could assist the policy maker to make a relevant decision for this local conditions and available resources.","PeriodicalId":378157,"journal":{"name":"2017 8th International Renewable Energy Congress (IREC)","volume":"342 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-03-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134114515","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":"PV electrical parameters degradation analysis-Oman perspective","authors":"Mohamed Shaik Honnurvali, N. Gupta","doi":"10.1109/IREC.2017.7926000","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IREC.2017.7926000","url":null,"abstract":"Recent interests in exploring the potential of renewable energy possibilities and readiness in sultanate of Oman has showed that it can engage renewable energy technologies, such as solar, wind power and various hybrid power models to mitigate fossil fuel limitations, revitalize additional economic development, create new jobs and preserve a cleaner environment. However, limited knowledge and information is available regarding PV performance over a long period of time under the influence of local geographical climate considerations. Therefore, PV degradation data could be vital for the stakeholders to ensure safe and long term operation of PV modules. To accomplish, it is necessary to address the PV electrical parameters degradation locally. The analysis showed that the average degradation of commercially available three silicon crystalline modules in six different sites is around 1.55%/year and median degradation is observed to be 1.28%/year. Further, analysis showed that losses of short-circuit current (Isc) were responsible and higher for the maximum power degradation (Pmax) in hot and dry climate than hot and humid climate conditions.","PeriodicalId":378157,"journal":{"name":"2017 8th International Renewable Energy Congress (IREC)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-03-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129702650","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}
Bouchema Adlene, Bensegueni Ahmed Cherif, Souilah Souheil, Necib Souheib, Outili Nawel, M. Abdeslam-Hassen
{"title":"Optimization of model parameters for gasoline properties predictions","authors":"Bouchema Adlene, Bensegueni Ahmed Cherif, Souilah Souheil, Necib Souheib, Outili Nawel, M. Abdeslam-Hassen","doi":"10.1109/IREC.2017.7925991","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IREC.2017.7925991","url":null,"abstract":"The technological and economic development of the last few years has led to an ever-expanding national road fleet, all of which operate with internal combustion engines with increasingly specific fuels and demand in terms of quantity and quality Still rising.","PeriodicalId":378157,"journal":{"name":"2017 8th International Renewable Energy Congress (IREC)","volume":"289 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-03-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128865965","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":"Dynamic modeling and LabVIEW simulation of a Photovoltaic Thermal Collector","authors":"Mahmoud Ammous, Dalia Fendri, M. Chaabene","doi":"10.1109/IREC.2017.7926007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IREC.2017.7926007","url":null,"abstract":"Photovoltaic Thermal Collector (PVT) is a hybrid generator which converts solar radiation into useful electric and thermal energies simultaneously. This paper gathers all PVT sub-models in order to form a unique dynamic model that reveals PVT parameters interactions. As PVT is a multi-input/output/output system, a state space model based on energy balance equations is developed in order to analyze and assess the parameters behaviors and correlations of PVT constituents. The model simulation is performed using LabVIEW Software. The simulation shows the impact of the fluid flow rate variation on the collector efficiencies (thermal and electrical).","PeriodicalId":378157,"journal":{"name":"2017 8th International Renewable Energy Congress (IREC)","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-03-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127773038","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":"Asymmetric control of electric vehicles power chain","authors":"Saber Hadj Abdallah, S. Tounsi","doi":"10.1109/IREC.2017.7925997","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IREC.2017.7925997","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a methodology for controlling and optimized power chain structure of electric vehicles. This method is suitable for permanent magnet axial flux synchronous motors and for IGBT converters. This structure is chosen in order to minimize the cost of the power chain by reducing the number of IGBT and simplified the electronic control system. In fact, the reducing of IGBTs number also leads to increased autonomy since the dissipated energy by conduction and by switching will be reduced. The overall design of the power chain is implemented under the simulation environment Matlab-Sumilink for performance analysis of studied structure.","PeriodicalId":378157,"journal":{"name":"2017 8th International Renewable Energy Congress (IREC)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-03-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130308869","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":"Energy hub optimization using modified firefly algorithm","authors":"A. Abdelaziz, A. El-Zonkoly, Alaa M. Eladl","doi":"10.1109/IREC.2017.7926031","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IREC.2017.7926031","url":null,"abstract":"With the continuous increase of energy demand along with the congested transmission systems, distributed generation (DG) is suggested as a possible solution. In addition, with the limited fossil energy resources, the need for sustainable and environmentally friendly energy sources is increased. Energy hubs as one type of DG, have made the local use of multi energy carrier systems economically attractive. In this paper, a modified firefly based algorithm is proposed to optimally dispatch the energy hub input energy carriers. The objective is to minimize the total energy cost and emission amount of the energy hub while maximizing the cost of electrical and heating energy sold back to the network. The proposed algorithm is applied to a commercial facility (hospital) as a case study. The results show the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm in solving the optimal dispatch of the energy hub components while reducing the overall cost and satisfying the system operational constraints.","PeriodicalId":378157,"journal":{"name":"2017 8th International Renewable Energy Congress (IREC)","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-03-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131651330","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}