{"title":"[Title page]","authors":"","doi":"10.1109/efea.2018.8617039","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/efea.2018.8617039","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":447143,"journal":{"name":"2018 5th International Symposium on Environment-Friendly Energies and Applications (EFEA)","volume":"69 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125940990","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":"Vertical Displacement Sliding Mode Control of a Half-Vehicle Active Suspension","authors":"H. Benariba, L. Baghli, A. Boumediène","doi":"10.1109/EFEA.2018.8617086","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EFEA.2018.8617086","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents the model and the control of a half-vehicle active suspension based on classical sliding mode control using two increased Lyapunov surfaces. This technique allows limitation of the front and the rear body vertical displacement by supplying control forces to suspension system when travelling on rough road. Hence, it will limit the pitch to ensure the best performances of the suspension such as comfort and stability of the vehicle.","PeriodicalId":447143,"journal":{"name":"2018 5th International Symposium on Environment-Friendly Energies and Applications (EFEA)","volume":"53 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121928792","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}
Talha Javed Soleja, Muhammad Farooq Siddiqui, M. Kashan, Areeb Waseem
{"title":"Economic Feasibility Analysis of On-Grid PV System without Battery Storage for a Commercial Building in Karachi, Pakistan","authors":"Talha Javed Soleja, Muhammad Farooq Siddiqui, M. Kashan, Areeb Waseem","doi":"10.1109/EFEA.2018.8617051","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EFEA.2018.8617051","url":null,"abstract":"The prospect of global warming has seen the world's transition towards zero carbon energy sources. Amongst the renewable energy technologies, solar photovoltaic (PV) and wind are the most mature. This paper discusses the modeling of on-grid solar PV system without battery storage along with its performance analysis. In the latter part of the paper, economic feasibility and the reduction in carbon emissions from the project are also calculated. The calculations and analysis discussed in the paper are performed for head office building of Jubilee Life Insurance Company Limited, located in Karachi, Pakistan. The city has longitude of 25°N and latitude of 67°E.","PeriodicalId":447143,"journal":{"name":"2018 5th International Symposium on Environment-Friendly Energies and Applications (EFEA)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120991331","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}
J. Valinejad, M. Marzband, K. Busawon, J. Kyyrä, E. Pouresmaeil
{"title":"Investigating Wind Generation Investment Indices in Multi-Stage Planning","authors":"J. Valinejad, M. Marzband, K. Busawon, J. Kyyrä, E. Pouresmaeil","doi":"10.1109/EFEA.2018.8617106","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EFEA.2018.8617106","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a Multi-stage stochastic bi-level model for the expansion planning of Wind resources in power systems at a multi-stage horizon. In this paper, the power system consists of a combination of fossil fuel technologies and Wind resources for investment. Demand is characterized by a certain number of demand blocks. The uncertainty of demand for each this block (for each time period of the curve) is determined by the scenario. Afterwards, the suggested model is converted to a mathematical programming with some equilibrium constraints. Following that, after linearization, a mixed integer linear program is obtained. This framework is examined on the IEEE RTS 24-bus network. The obtained simulation results confirm that this model can be appropriately used as a means to analyze the behavior of investments in wind and thermal units.","PeriodicalId":447143,"journal":{"name":"2018 5th International Symposium on Environment-Friendly Energies and Applications (EFEA)","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127067340","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":"Impact of Forecasting Errors on Day-Ahead Scheduling of Price-Responsive Customers","authors":"G. Carpinelli, F. Mottola, P. De Falco","doi":"10.1109/EFEA.2018.8617102","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EFEA.2018.8617102","url":null,"abstract":"Scheduling the distributed energy resources in day-ahead scenarios requires the use of accurate forecasts of loads, generation, and energy prices. Forecasting errors may significantly influence the quality of the scheduling, resulting in overestimations or underestimations of the power required from the grid by a price-responsive customer. In this paper we provide an insight on the assessment of the impact of forecasting errors in a case study regarding an industrial customer who disposes of a photovoltaic system and of an electrical energy storage system. The day-ahead scheduling procedure, developed in previous works, is applied using forecasts obtained through random forests and through a benchmark model; the obtained results are compared with the ideal scenario, using the actual realizations of the unknown variables, in order to assess the responsiveness of the scheduling procedure to forecasting errors.","PeriodicalId":447143,"journal":{"name":"2018 5th International Symposium on Environment-Friendly Energies and Applications (EFEA)","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132612056","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 Utilization of Wet Organic Waste","authors":"V. Kovbasyuk, O. Buryakovskaya, M. Vlaskin","doi":"10.1109/EFEA.2018.8617060","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EFEA.2018.8617060","url":null,"abstract":"In the present paper a system for thermal utilization of wet organic waste that provides its deep intensive drying is described. The scheme of the system and the estimations of its key parameters are given. The system is expected to be employed for combined generation of heat and electricity.","PeriodicalId":447143,"journal":{"name":"2018 5th International Symposium on Environment-Friendly Energies and Applications (EFEA)","volume":"38 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122507289","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":"Selective Harmonic Elimination Procedure for Uniform Step Asymmetrical 7-Level CHB Inverter","authors":"F. Chabni, R. Taleb, M. G. Cimoroni, C. Buccella","doi":"10.1109/EFEA.2018.8617081","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EFEA.2018.8617081","url":null,"abstract":"Multilevel converters offer high power capability, low switching losses and low harmonic content in output waveforms. Their main disadvantage is their complexity requiring a great number of power devices and passive components rather than a complex control circuitry. The use of asymmetrical topologies allows to reduce the number of power devices. This paper proposes a three-phase uniform step asymmetrical seven-level cascaded inverter composed by two H-bridges. A simple selective harmonic elimination graphical procedure is introduced to calculate the value of switching angles capable to eliminate fifth and seventh harmonics. The proposed method is compared to multiple optimization methods in order to assess its performance. Simulation results are validated using a small scale laboratory prototype of a three phase seven-level cascaded H-bridge inverter controlled by STM32F407 microcontroller.","PeriodicalId":447143,"journal":{"name":"2018 5th International Symposium on Environment-Friendly Energies and Applications (EFEA)","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122932955","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}
Mohammad Hossein Fouladfar, A. Sumaiti, Mohammed Seddik Fenik, M. Marzband, K. Busawon, E. Pouresmaeil
{"title":"Energy Management of a Single Grid-Connected Home Microgrid for Determining Optimal Supply/Demand Bids","authors":"Mohammad Hossein Fouladfar, A. Sumaiti, Mohammed Seddik Fenik, M. Marzband, K. Busawon, E. Pouresmaeil","doi":"10.1109/EFEA.2018.8617065","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EFEA.2018.8617065","url":null,"abstract":"As a result of socio-economic growth and paying attention to environmental aspects requirement in order to improve the reliability and achieve higher service, better power quality and increasing energy efficiency are taken more into consideration. Thus, home micro-grids (H-MG) with non-dispatchable Source and interruptible loads can be used as the primary tool to achieve the stated objectives. In order to implement the energy management system (EMS) an algorithm is presented in this paper. EMS which is based on harmony search method for multi-purpose extrapolation of a sample H-MG with renewable energy sources (RES) as well as compound resources of backup power such as micro-turbine and battery for levelling the mismatch of power or for additional power saving in case of necessary. In this paper, the harmony search (HS) for an algorithm to minimize the costs associated with sources, RLD and reduce the price of the electricity (i.e. market clearing price) with respect to the proposed price of production and supply, the price of non-interruptible loads, the optimal production of each of the existing resources in the micro grid is determined. For reliability enhancement the uncertainty is considered in using wind turbines (WT), photovoltaic (PV), load demand and market clearing price in the algorithm. The recommended algorithm system is tested on a H-MG sample. These results show the capability of the HS approach in supplying the load requested.","PeriodicalId":447143,"journal":{"name":"2018 5th International Symposium on Environment-Friendly Energies and Applications (EFEA)","volume":"45 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114684175","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":"Nonlinear Optimal Control for Gas-Turbine Power Generation Units","authors":"G. Rigatos, K. Busawon, P. Siano, M. Abbaszadeh","doi":"10.1109/EFEA.2018.8617072","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EFEA.2018.8617072","url":null,"abstract":"A nonlinear optimal (H-infinity) control approach is proposed for an electric power unit that comprises a gas-turbine and a synchronous-generator. The control method aims at synchronizing the generator with the grid's frequency while also optimizing the fuel's consumption by the gas-turbine. At a first stage the state-space model of the the power unit is linearized at a temporary operating point which is updated at each iteration of the control method. The linearization procedure relies on Taylor series expansion and on the computation of the system's Jacobian matrices. At a second stage, an H-infinity feedback controller is designed for the approximately linearized model of the power unit. This allows to solve the optimal control problem of the power generation unit, despite the effects of model inaccuracy and exogenous disturbances. The feedback gain of the H-infinity controller, is obtained after solving an algebraic Riccati equation at each time-step of the control method. Finally, Lyapunov analysis is used to prove the global asymptotic stability properties of the control scheme.","PeriodicalId":447143,"journal":{"name":"2018 5th International Symposium on Environment-Friendly Energies and Applications (EFEA)","volume":"100 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124814817","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}
O. Buryakovskaya, M. Vlaskin, A. Dudoladov, E. I. Shkolnikov
{"title":"Hydrogen Generation at Low Temperatures by Oxidation of Aluminum and Magnesium","authors":"O. Buryakovskaya, M. Vlaskin, A. Dudoladov, E. I. Shkolnikov","doi":"10.1109/EFEA.2018.8617105","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EFEA.2018.8617105","url":null,"abstract":"The present study is devoted to hydrogen generation at temperatures down to −40°C by aluminum and magnesium oxidation in various aqueous solutions. At −40°C the highest conversion degrees (180 min.) are 17% for aluminum powder in KOH aqueous solution and 43.4% for aluminum granules in HCl solution containing CuCl<inf>2</inf>. At −30 °C for MgCl<inf>2</inf> solution magnesium powder samples ball-milled with Ni, Ga and without additives yielded 82.8, 73 and 67.2% respectively.","PeriodicalId":447143,"journal":{"name":"2018 5th International Symposium on Environment-Friendly Energies and Applications (EFEA)","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121619273","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}