E. Saidi, Ayoub El Baraka, Houssame Limami, A. Khaldoun
{"title":"Design of an Efficient Insulation System for a House in Zaouiat Sidi Abdeslam","authors":"E. Saidi, Ayoub El Baraka, Houssame Limami, A. Khaldoun","doi":"10.1109/IRSEC48032.2019.9078177","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IRSEC48032.2019.9078177","url":null,"abstract":"The purpose of this research is to design a thermal insulating system for a residential building in renovation. Several construction techniques are being implemented to ensure the feasibility of the project in a real-life scale, and to meet the constraints of the regulations regarding construction in the region of Ifrane, more specifically Zaouiat of Sidi Abdeslam. The aim of the study is to choose the best thermal insulation scenario for the house, in terms of thermal performance, and thermo-physical properties. The insulating materials proposed are foam of Polyurethane, Cellulose wadding, Rock wool, and Glass wool. Finally, the financial analysis will play an important role in the final decision. Using a dynamic thermal simulation software, “Binayate”, the analysis of the transfer of heat happening throughout the building envelope is presented; mainly heat gains, losses, energy need for cooling and heating periods, each of the insulated components of the house, walls, ceiling, floor, and windows, including the linear thermal bridges, and real data according to the weather in Ifrane are presented, reinforcing the personal arguments on the materials and method chosen in the project to achieve energy efficiency and sustainability. From the results, Glass Wool affirmed being the best scenario, having a 63% energy reduction impact and, a 4.3 years payback period. Furthermore, its insulation permanence's is accepted by the norms of the Moroccan thermal regulations.","PeriodicalId":6671,"journal":{"name":"2019 7th International Renewable and Sustainable Energy Conference (IRSEC)","volume":"26 1","pages":"1-6"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87646768","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}
Belarhzal Samya, Aziz Bachir, El Mostapha Boudi, I. Amarir
{"title":"The Effect of Addendum Factor on Contact Ratio Factor and Contact Stress for Spur Gears","authors":"Belarhzal Samya, Aziz Bachir, El Mostapha Boudi, I. Amarir","doi":"10.1109/IRSEC48032.2019.9078205","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IRSEC48032.2019.9078205","url":null,"abstract":"This work is about analyzing the effect of changing the addendum factor on contact ratio factor and contact stress generated on zone action of spur gear teeth during meshing. In this paper, three values of addendum factor were considered: 1, 1.15 and 1.25, for each the contact stress was calculated according to ISO formula and compared with the results obtained from finite element method. To come up with the results, the 3D model was generated and assembled in SolidWorks software, using involute spur gear model, then treated for stress analysis on ANSYS Workbench (FEM).","PeriodicalId":6671,"journal":{"name":"2019 7th International Renewable and Sustainable Energy Conference (IRSEC)","volume":"36 1","pages":"1-6"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88937643","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 Review of Experimental Scope, Designs and Methods from Intermediate-fast Pyrolysis of Biomass","authors":"G. Charis, G. Danha, E. Muzenda, N. Nkosi","doi":"10.1109/IRSEC48032.2019.9078189","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IRSEC48032.2019.9078189","url":null,"abstract":"Intermediate and fast pyrolysis (IFP) for the recovery of bio-oil from organic matter have gained the attention of researchers in their attempt to increase the contribution of renewables into the energy mix. Current research has focused on equipment configuration and variables for higher yields of the oils; methods of upgrading the oils for compatibility with existing fuel infrastructure and engines, and various tests to characterize the products or test their applicability as fuels. This paper reviews the progress in experimental work around intermediate-fast pyrolysis (hot vapour residence~1-20s; moderate to high liquid yields) in the past twelve years. The review focuses on the experimental scope, equipment used, preparation of raw materials, experimental design and characterization of bio-oils. Experimental work covering actual applications of the oils are not covered in this review paper. The feedstocks mostly researched on in IFP were rice husks, followed by pinewood, Jatropha curcas cake and rapeseed respectively. Most IFP studies have been done on woody biomass (over 100 different feedstocks) due to their consistency, followed by agricultural residues then herbaceous energy crops. Lignocellulosics proved to be the veteran organic feedstocks (~95% of IFP) ahead of non-lignocellulosic biomass (~5%). The most applied technologies in recent years, were fluidized bed followed by the free fall reactors. For the experimental design, most papers reviewed used the simple single parameter method, while a few used the central composite rotatable design and full factorial design methods. The characterization tests mostly conducted on the oils were the pH, viscosity, Karl Fischer titration and calorific value.","PeriodicalId":6671,"journal":{"name":"2019 7th International Renewable and Sustainable Energy Conference (IRSEC)","volume":"44 1","pages":"1-6"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84236593","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 the GaInAsN/GaAs Structure for Improve the Efficiency of Solar Cell","authors":"A. Aissat, R. Bestam, S. Naser, J. Vilcot","doi":"10.1109/IRSEC48032.2019.9078222","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IRSEC48032.2019.9078222","url":null,"abstract":"The objective of this work is based on the modeling and simulation of the Ga1-xInxAs1-yNy/GaAs structure, for solar cell applications. Theoretical model was used to study the effects of the indium (In) incorporation and nitrogen (N) concentration in the GaInAsN material. In order to implement this idea, a simulation program was developed to determine the strain effect on the band energy by taking into consideration the influence of In < 25% and N < 4%. In this study we have used the Band Anti-Crossing (BAC) model. Indeed, the strain reduces the band gap energy, and the nitrogen incorporation splits the conduction band into two subbands E+ and E-. In the correct condition, we also treated the impact of indium and nitrogen concentrations on the absorption coefficient of the GaInAsN/GaAs structure. According to a particular sequence, the raise of these both materials concentrations In and N results in the increase of the absorption coefficient. This work allowed us to optimize the In and N concentrations to raise the efficiency η= 22%, with strain equal to 1.5% of the solar cell based on the GaInAsN/GaAs structure.","PeriodicalId":6671,"journal":{"name":"2019 7th International Renewable and Sustainable Energy Conference (IRSEC)","volume":"37 1","pages":"1-5"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86922278","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}
Sofian Talbi, K. Kassmi, I. Atmane, O. Deblecker, Noureddine Elmoussaoui
{"title":"Feasibility of a Box-type Solar Cooker Powered by Photovoltaic Energy","authors":"Sofian Talbi, K. Kassmi, I. Atmane, O. Deblecker, Noureddine Elmoussaoui","doi":"10.1109/IRSEC48032.2019.9078275","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IRSEC48032.2019.9078275","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we have realized and experimented a box-type solar cooker that is powered by photovoltaic energy. Under an illumination of 770 W / m2, an ambient temperature of 18°C and electrical power of 340 W, the results show, on the one hand, a temperature of the thermal resistance which heats the cooker equal to 686°C, and, on the other hand, a temperature and a thermal efficiency of the cooker worth 200°C and 77%, respectively. Heating one liter of water yields a boiling time of 50 minutes, and the time needing for complete evaporation is of the order of 3 hours. In addition, the results show very significant improvements compared to thermal cookers operating directly to the sun, namely 53% increase of the heating temperature and 60 % decrease on its heating duration. All the results and performances obtained in this work demonstrate the feasibility of box-type solar cookers, powered by photovoltaic energy inside homes.","PeriodicalId":6671,"journal":{"name":"2019 7th International Renewable and Sustainable Energy Conference (IRSEC)","volume":"87 1","pages":"1-4"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84389841","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":"High-Power Load Management for Residential House under Desert Climate Conditions - A Case Study in Qatar","authors":"Zhaohui Cen, Mohammed Al-Azba, S. Ahzi","doi":"10.1109/IRSEC48032.2019.9078287","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IRSEC48032.2019.9078287","url":null,"abstract":"Located as a Peninsula in the east of Arabia and bordering the Persian Gulf, Qatar has a unique desert weather condition with strong irradiance, high temperature, high humidity, and soiling issues. To maintain a comfort level of living under this arid climatic condition, Residential houses need to be equipped with necessary facilities and high-power home appliances such as Air-Conditioners, water heaters, refrigerators, pool pumps, laundries and so on. Also, electricity cost could be very different at peak time and non-peak time through the day. To achieve a better cost-efficient electricity consumption, optimization control of load consumption for local residential house is studied in this paper. Firstly, a dedicated house model with thermal dynamics under local conditions is developed in this paper. Based on this model, optimal cost-oriented load control and consumption management based on optimization tool is proposed. Also, by designing constraint criteria, the comfort level of housing indoor temperature is guaranteed and energy consumption upper boundary is restricted. Finally, the optimization control scheme is verified through a scenario under typical seasonal weather conditions. The results shows that the lowest cost of energy consumption can be achieved by the proposed optimization control of house load management.","PeriodicalId":6671,"journal":{"name":"2019 7th International Renewable and Sustainable Energy Conference (IRSEC)","volume":"44 1","pages":"1-5"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89579485","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":"Effect of Solids Concentration in Cow Dung on Biogas Yield","authors":"E. Makhura, E. Muzenda, T. Lekgoba","doi":"10.1109/IRSEC48032.2019.9078218","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IRSEC48032.2019.9078218","url":null,"abstract":"This paper focuses on the utilization of animal waste in particular cow dung to produce biogas with the aim of finding the effect of substrate concentration on total biogas yield. The batch anaerobic digestion experiment was conducted using the Automatic Methane Potential Test System (AMPTS II). The experiment was conducted with 10%, 20%, 50% and 65% solids slurry and the results show that methane yield increases with an increase in solids concentration but only up to 20% where after the biogas production goes down. The digester that had cow dung at 20% solids produced a higher accumulated gas volume of 12790.5 Nml (equivalent to 14267.55 ml) while accumulated gas volumes of 3128.4 Nml (3441.24 ml), 4021.6 Nml (4433.76 ml) and 704.4 Nml (774.84 ml) were recorded for 10%, 50% and 65% cow dung respectively. The results from this study will prove to be very helpful in future because they can be used to improve the performance of anaerobic digestion.","PeriodicalId":6671,"journal":{"name":"2019 7th International Renewable and Sustainable Energy Conference (IRSEC)","volume":"14 1","pages":"1-5"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89596889","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":"Comparative Study of Electric Vehicle Energy Consumption between Trunk Roads and Highways","authors":"Salima El Amrani, Mohammed Chennani, D. Belkhayat","doi":"10.1109/IRSEC48032.2019.9078169","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IRSEC48032.2019.9078169","url":null,"abstract":"The transportation field is one of the most important in energy consumption and it must move towards more sustainable development. Indeed, global warming is a reality and air pollution is worrying especially in large cities. In addition, the depletion of fossil resources is looming. Electric vehicles (EVs) are currently considered as the promising solution for reducing the dependence of transport on fossil fuels. Nevertheless, the overall adoption of these vehicles is disturbed by range limits of EVs. Therefore, it is necessary to predict the required power to drive and plan for charging whenever needed. The aim of this paper is to introduce a software tool permitting to predict and estimate energy consumption for any desired road. The software tool is based on mathematical model of the EV, which relates the energy to different factors such as the velocity, the acceleration and the road slope. In other side, this paper presents a comparative study between the highways and the trunk roads. The road chosen is Marrakech to Casablanca based on two different driving cycles, each one corresponding to a specific road. This method can be used for any EV, which the characteristics are known. Using the proposed model, the results show that EVs are more efficient in trunk roads than highways taking into account the energy recovery during the frequent braking.","PeriodicalId":6671,"journal":{"name":"2019 7th International Renewable and Sustainable Energy Conference (IRSEC)","volume":"46 1","pages":"1-7"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90449193","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":"An Improved MPPT Controller for Photovoltaic System Based on Predictive Current Control","authors":"Sana Sahbani, H. Mahmoudi, A. Hasnaoui","doi":"10.1109/IRSEC48032.2019.9078185","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IRSEC48032.2019.9078185","url":null,"abstract":"Maximum Power Point Tracking (MPPT) gains much attention as an important optimisation field for the photovoltaic (PV) systems. The focus of this paper is to introduce and analyze a novel fast MPPT strategy based on predictive current control. The overall system is designed to improve the energy control performance in tracking the maximum power point (MPP) of a photovoltaic array under irradiation changes condition and fixed load and will be compared to the classical Perturb and observe technique. The proposed control scheme and the classical perturbe and observe (P&O) technique are designed for residential application and implemented in MATLAB/SIMULINK software. The obtained results proves the advantages of this proposed controller in the stability of its output voltage with fast response speed to the required parameters and without power losses.","PeriodicalId":6671,"journal":{"name":"2019 7th International Renewable and Sustainable Energy Conference (IRSEC)","volume":"76 ","pages":"1-5"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91456513","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. Ibrahimi, I. Khay, Anas El Maakoul, M. Bakhouya
{"title":"Thermal Modeling of a Pilot-scale Liquid Recirculation Anaerobic Digester","authors":"M. Ibrahimi, I. Khay, Anas El Maakoul, M. Bakhouya","doi":"10.1109/IRSEC48032.2019.9078203","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IRSEC48032.2019.9078203","url":null,"abstract":"A multitude of parameters affect the speed, maximal yield, quality of obtained biogas and several other important factors in the complex process of anaerobic digestion. One of these parameters is the temperature distribution inside the digester. It was noticed that when no form of stirring takes place inside the digester, a temperature gradient forms due to the natural convection phenomenon. The presence of this gradient is undesirable in most anaerobic digestion applications, since it would cause the anaerobic bacteria to suffer from upsetting temperature changes, triggering a noticeable slowdown and even a failure of the process. As stirring would fix this temperature gradient issue, an alternative low-cost solution is investigated in this study. This potential solution manifests in changing the placement of the solid waste layer inside the liquid recirculation digester to allow it to always be at an optimal temperature. Experiments and simulations have been conducted to better understand the thermal behavior of the digester, then a model was developed and validated to numerically simulate the observed phenomena. It was concluded that the occurrence of this gradient is independent of the contents of the digester, while in the same time it was established that the optimal location for the solid waste layer is between the heating elements.","PeriodicalId":6671,"journal":{"name":"2019 7th International Renewable and Sustainable Energy Conference (IRSEC)","volume":"228 2","pages":"1-6"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91479510","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}