{"title":"Energy options for wireless sensors","authors":"Chedly Belhadj-Yahya","doi":"10.1109/ENERGYCON.2010.5771745","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ENERGYCON.2010.5771745","url":null,"abstract":"Successful design strategies for energy efficient wireless sensor networks must involve the optimization of system energy at all levels including sensor circuits, communication, and powering methods. The paper reviews the various sensor powering options focusing on remote wireless powering and hybrid powering solutions. The comparative analysis of the two main wireless remote powering methods based on power transfer from RF and optical sources is backed with design procedures and experimental verification. The study shows that optical powering can have an edge over RF with the advantage of being easily combined with solar power harvesting to form a reliable hybrid energy harvesting option for autonomous wireless sensors.","PeriodicalId":386008,"journal":{"name":"2010 IEEE International Energy Conference","volume":"47 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133593414","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. Ayad, M. Becherif, A. Henni, M. Wack, A. Aboubou
{"title":"Sliding mode control applied to fuel cell, supercapacitors and batteries for vehicle hybridizations","authors":"M. Ayad, M. Becherif, A. Henni, M. Wack, A. Aboubou","doi":"10.1109/ENERGYCON.2010.5771729","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ENERGYCON.2010.5771729","url":null,"abstract":"This paper treats the design and control of two structures with hybrid sources. The first structure uses supercapacitors, fuel cell and batteries on the DC link and the second one is similar to the first but without batteries. A fuel cell, as a slowest dynamic source in these systems (due to its auxiliaries) acts to supply the permanent energy. The supercapacitors, as high dynamic and high power density devices, compensate the intrinsic limitations in embedded sources and shave transient power peaks. The batteries module, as a high energy density device, operates for supplying energy if limitations of the power and energy sources occur. The load is a single phase DC machine connected directly in the DC bus. Our interest is focused on the comparison of the two structures. Both structures are controlled using sliding mode technique. Some results are presented and discussed.","PeriodicalId":386008,"journal":{"name":"2010 IEEE International Energy Conference","volume":"84 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132805802","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}
S. Porkar, P. Poure, A. Abbaspour-Tehrani-Fard, S. Saadate
{"title":"A new framework for large distribution system optimal planning in a competitive electricity market","authors":"S. Porkar, P. Poure, A. Abbaspour-Tehrani-Fard, S. Saadate","doi":"10.1109/ENERGYCON.2010.5771675","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ENERGYCON.2010.5771675","url":null,"abstract":"Distribution systems management is becoming an increasingly complicated issue due to the introduction of new technologies, new energy trading strategies and new deregulated environment. In the new deregulated energy market and considering the incentives coming from the technical and economical fields, it is reasonable to consider Distributed Generation (DG) as a viable option to solve the lacking electric power supply problem. This paper presents a mathematical distribution system planning model considering three planning options to system expansion and to meet the load growth requirements with a reasonable price as well as the system power quality problems. DG is introduced as an attractive planning option with competition of voltage regulator devices and interruptible load. In mathematical model, the object function includes investment costs, which are evaluated as annualized total cost, plus total running cost as well as cost of curtailed loads and losses. This model identifies the optimal type, size and location of the planning options. This paper is also studied fluctuation of load and electricity market price versus time period and the effect of DG placement on system improvement. To solve the proposed mathematical planning model a new software package interfacing MATLAB and GAMS is developed. This package is enabling to solve large extent distribution system planning program visually and very fast. The proposed methodology is tested in the case of the well-known IEEE 30-bus test system.","PeriodicalId":386008,"journal":{"name":"2010 IEEE International Energy Conference","volume":"42 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133300872","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. P. Moghaddam, P. T. Baboli, E. Alishahi, F. Lotfifard
{"title":"Flexible load following the wind power generation","authors":"M. P. Moghaddam, P. T. Baboli, E. Alishahi, F. Lotfifard","doi":"10.1109/ENERGYCON.2010.5771792","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ENERGYCON.2010.5771792","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a method for demand side management considering the amount of wind power generation. The intermittency of wind power may cause several problems like inadequacy of power, congestion in transmission lines, and power quality. All these technical concerns lead to financial challenges in power market. In this paper, a new concept of flexible loads following the wind farm output power is proposed, where several objectives are optimized through a two stage approach. In the first stage, the available transmission capacity (ATC) of the transmission corridor is maximized while the losses are minimized. In the second stage, the base load power purchased from adjacent network is maximized when the peak of exchanged power is minimized. Numerical studies are conducted to evaluate the performance of the proposed method.","PeriodicalId":386008,"journal":{"name":"2010 IEEE International Energy Conference","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127816141","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":"Monitoring partial discharges in power networks: Contribution to the energetic distribution security","authors":"I. Candel, Bertrand Gottin, C. Ioana, T. Espilit","doi":"10.1109/ENERGYCON.2010.5771712","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ENERGYCON.2010.5771712","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents some general considerations on the transient phenomena in power networks which are a key point in the security of any power supply system. In this context, some detection techniques employed in their analysis will be addressed. Among these techniques, a special attention will be given to the analysis of the transient signals associated with the partial discharges (PDs), as follows : spectrogram, high order statistics (HOS) with wavelets and complex time distribution. Results on realistic data will point out on the potential of each type of method.","PeriodicalId":386008,"journal":{"name":"2010 IEEE International Energy Conference","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115662018","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":"Model reduction of flat-plate solar collector using time-space discretization","authors":"Mahmoud Nabag, M. A. Al-Radhawi, M. Bettayeb","doi":"10.1109/ENERGYCON.2010.5771725","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ENERGYCON.2010.5771725","url":null,"abstract":"Three model reduction schemes, namely, balanced truncation, singular perturbation balanced truncation, and Han-kel norm approximation are used to develop a reduced-order model to the partial differential system representing the dynamic behavior of the flat-plate solar collector system. To get a tractable finite-dimensional model instead of the infinite-dimensional model, the finite difference method is applied to the PDEs where a discretization of both time and space will result in a high-order linear time-invariant discrete state-space model. Then, a reduced-order model is computed via the three aforementioned schemes from the resultant high-order model. A substantial order reduction is shown to be possible and the obtained discrete reduced-order models are tractable for the purposes of simulation and control via digital controllers.","PeriodicalId":386008,"journal":{"name":"2010 IEEE International Energy Conference","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127309860","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. Guenach, C. Nuzman, K. Hooghe, J. Maes, M. Peeters
{"title":"On power-efficient usage of line drivers in copper-based access networks","authors":"M. Guenach, C. Nuzman, K. Hooghe, J. Maes, M. Peeters","doi":"10.1109/ENERGYCON.2010.5771662","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ENERGYCON.2010.5771662","url":null,"abstract":"Recently, it has been shown that spectral optimization in copper access networks can significantly reduce the transmit power required, resulting in significant reductions in the line driver energy consumption. Building on these results, we develop an improved model for line driver power usage which focuses on the aggregate transmit power, the supply voltage, and on constraints that connect these two. We show that an ideally tuned supply voltage can save significant power relative to a fixed supply voltage. Much of these gains may be achievable with a small set of discrete supply voltage options. The line driver model is simple enough to incorporate into a full spectral optimization framework, in which line driver power usage and rate are traded-off in a utility-based optimization framework. Benefits of power supply tuning in combination with spectral optimization are illustrated in numerical examples.","PeriodicalId":386008,"journal":{"name":"2010 IEEE International Energy Conference","volume":"92 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124836222","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 knowledge base for energy-efficient smart homes","authors":"M. Kofler, W. Kastner","doi":"10.1109/ENERGYCON.2010.5771803","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ENERGYCON.2010.5771803","url":null,"abstract":"With the rise of energy costs for heating, cooling and ventilation and an increasing amount of energy consuming appliances (e.g. white goods, consumer electronic devices), hidden saving potentials can be found in numerous areas of a modern smart home. To manually enforce an energy-saving policy is a tedious procedure which needs the user to be aware of all kinds of equipment as well as building information. Especially the thermal properties of a building are generally unknown to the occupant of a residential home. Information already collected in the architecture, engineering and construction (AEC) industry is often not considered and neglected as soon as the project is finished. Reusing this knowledge to optimize energy consumption seems natural, as nowadays the information is often already available in a structured form as building information model (BIM). The more knowledge is available about building properties of the smart home, the better the system can act as an autonomous caretaker in order to create an environmental-friendly and comfortable ambience. Therefore, the transition of information from a building information model into a more intelligent knowledge base as foundation of an autonomous automation system is desirable.","PeriodicalId":386008,"journal":{"name":"2010 IEEE International Energy Conference","volume":"71 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124264185","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":"Development of LVRT and HVRT control strategy for DFIG based wind turbine system","authors":"Ayaz Ahmad, R. Loganathan","doi":"10.1109/ENERGYCON.2010.5771698","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ENERGYCON.2010.5771698","url":null,"abstract":"With a rapid increase of large wind farms across the globe, a problem associated with the wind turbine is voltage fluctuation of the grid during power generation. Voltage fluctuation could be over voltage or voltage dips and under those conditions the performance of the wind turbines is normally deteriorated. Over voltage withstanding capability of the wind turbine is normally known as High Voltage Ride Through (HVRT) and on the other hand capability of wind turbines during voltage dips is known as Low Voltage Ride Through (LVRT). The problems due to sudden over voltage and voltage dips are normally associated with the power electronic converters fed wind turbines and are being affected by the poor grid conditions. In this paper, an algorithm has been formulated to handle such situations in order to overcome the effects of over voltage and low voltage grid conditions and to save the doubly fed induction generator based wind turbines without affecting the performance. System modeling and simulation results presented in this paper prove the effectiveness of the proposed strategy.","PeriodicalId":386008,"journal":{"name":"2010 IEEE International Energy Conference","volume":"88 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131282865","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}
D. Spatti, I. D. da Silva, N. R. Santos, R. Flauzino
{"title":"Increasing safety and reliability in power distribution systems from optimized selection of protection devices","authors":"D. Spatti, I. D. da Silva, N. R. Santos, R. Flauzino","doi":"10.1109/ENERGYCON.2010.5771779","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ENERGYCON.2010.5771779","url":null,"abstract":"The objective of this paper consists of presenting a design of expert system that assists the procedures involved with the protection specification of transformers and equipments against atmospheric discharges, allowing also to analyze in a detailed and systematic way the behavior of the respective voltage transients that are generated at the supplying area. For such purpose, the expert system developed in this research makes the efficient integration of approaches and techniques that take into account the characteristic aspects of the atmospheric discharges, the experimental analyses that represent the phenomenon and the mathematical models that allow to map the process involved with the formation of the lightning.","PeriodicalId":386008,"journal":{"name":"2010 IEEE International Energy Conference","volume":"101 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131818990","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}