Fayrouz El hamdani, S. Abderafi, T. Bounahmidi, S. Vaudreuil
{"title":"Economic Comparison of Parabolic trough Collector and Linear Fresnel Reflectors Power Plants","authors":"Fayrouz El hamdani, S. Abderafi, T. Bounahmidi, S. Vaudreuil","doi":"10.1109/IRSEC48032.2019.9078276","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IRSEC48032.2019.9078276","url":null,"abstract":"Nowadays, generating clean electricity is gaining increasing interest, many renewable technologies have been developed to produce green energy. Indeed, concentrating solar power (CSP) plants are one of the promising viable options to substitute fossil power plants especially for countries with abundant solar resource. In the present paper, an economic comparison of the kWh produced by both technologies Linear Fresnel reflectors (LFR) and parabolic trough collectors (PTC) is presented. Indeed, the comparison consists in the variation of several parameters (inlet and outlet temperatures of the field, cycle efficiency and solar multiple) using cost and hourly simulation performance models. An optimization approach is also integrated in this perspective, in order to minimize the cost of kWh. This study is carried out as part of the project for the development of a simultaneous production of water and electricity unit by coupling a CSP to the forward osmosis desalination process of brackish water.","PeriodicalId":6671,"journal":{"name":"2019 7th International Renewable and Sustainable Energy Conference (IRSEC)","volume":"12 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":"73402273","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":"Primary Frequency Control for Wind/Battery Stand-Alone Microgrid","authors":"A. Mahrouch, M. Ouassaid","doi":"10.1109/IRSEC48032.2019.9078187","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IRSEC48032.2019.9078187","url":null,"abstract":"A Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) is one of the solutions being proposed to improve the performance and reliability of various power system applications. Indeed, BESS is a reliable resource to provide energy, and to increase the reliability and flexibility of the renewable energy dispatch. Wind energy has the largest contribution among renewable energy resources and its control has become a research focus in the power systems area. This paper introduces a novel BESS control, which depends on a Fuzzy-Logic based Frequency Regulation (FL-FR) for wind farms composed of 5 Wind Turbine Generators (WTGs) augmented with BESS. Moreover, rotor speed of the deloaded WTG is optimized to extract more rotational kinetic energy. WTG can ensure sufficient generation reserve using deloaded operation, which can be used during depressed frequency conditions. The performance of the studied system is proved through simulation in the MATLAB/Simulink environment.","PeriodicalId":6671,"journal":{"name":"2019 7th International Renewable and Sustainable Energy Conference (IRSEC)","volume":"11 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":"75770031","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}
T. Boushaki, H. Zaidaoui, Fathia Manseur, Y. Rahib, B. Sarh
{"title":"Characteristics of Biogas and Syngas Combustion","authors":"T. Boushaki, H. Zaidaoui, Fathia Manseur, Y. Rahib, B. Sarh","doi":"10.1109/IRSEC48032.2019.9078165","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IRSEC48032.2019.9078165","url":null,"abstract":"Biomass, one of the autonomous sectors of renewable energy, is characterized by its neutrality in CO2emissions during its life cycle and by a low content of nitrogen and sulfur which results in low emissions of NOx and SO2. This paper reports some numerical results of characteristics of biogas and syngas flames. Numerical calculations are performed using the COSILAB code for one-dimensional premixed flames. Three cases of flames are analyzed: CH4-air, biogas (CO2-CH4-air) and syngas (CO-H2-air and CO-H2-CO2-air). Calculations include laminar flame velocity, flame temperature and CO-NOx emissions with different parameters, such as temperature and pressure of fresh gases, equivalence ratio and gas composition. Several reaction mechanisms as GRI-Mech3.0, GRI Skeletal, San Diego, NIU GALWAY, CRECK Group, S. Davis et al. are used and compared to the results from the literature. Results show that calculations with some these mechanisms reproduce well experimental results of the literature. Results of biogas flames show that CO2addition induces a decrease in laminar burning velocity, an increase in CO emissions and a decrease in NOx formation. Calculations of syngas flames show that the hydrogen increase leads to an increase of laminar burning velocity and flame temperature.","PeriodicalId":6671,"journal":{"name":"2019 7th International Renewable and Sustainable Energy Conference (IRSEC)","volume":"35 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":"75816911","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}
Salaheddine Zouirech, Mohammed Zerouali, Hayat Elaissaoui, Abdelghani El Ougli, B. Tidhaf
{"title":"Application of Various Classical and Intelligent MPPT Tracking Techniques for the Production of Energy through a Photovoltaic System","authors":"Salaheddine Zouirech, Mohammed Zerouali, Hayat Elaissaoui, Abdelghani El Ougli, B. Tidhaf","doi":"10.1109/IRSEC48032.2019.9078154","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IRSEC48032.2019.9078154","url":null,"abstract":"This work is an attempt to study and discuss six types of MPPT techniques. Techniques allowing to extract the maximum power from the PV source is the aim task of the maximum power point tracking algorithms called MPPT. In this paper most popular MPPT commands are studied and reviewed: Perturb and observe, Increment of the conductance, Open Circuit Voltage(OCV), Short Circuit Current (SCC), control based on fuzzy logic ‘LF’ and Artificial Neural Network ANN. Matlab Simulink environment is used to model the MPPT system, to analyze and interpret their simulation results, and therefore show their good behavior.","PeriodicalId":6671,"journal":{"name":"2019 7th International Renewable and Sustainable Energy Conference (IRSEC)","volume":"82 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":"74321251","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}
Samya Sigue, S. Abderafi, Sebastion Vaudreuil, T. Bounahmidi
{"title":"Simulators Selection for Design and Simulation of a CSP-Driven Forward Osmosis Process","authors":"Samya Sigue, S. Abderafi, Sebastion Vaudreuil, T. Bounahmidi","doi":"10.1109/IRSEC48032.2019.9078216","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IRSEC48032.2019.9078216","url":null,"abstract":"Coupling of desalination technologies and renewable energy systems is relatively a new concept, which is used either to provide energy to a desalination system or to generate simultaneously power and drinking water. The aim of this paper is to select the most convenient simulator to study a plant combining concentrated solar power and forward osmosis dedicated to electricity and drinking water producing for populations in arid regions. Thus, a state of the art of the available steady-state simulators has been carried out. The design and simulation models and the use of these simulators in the already-published papers have been investigated. It has been revealed that there is a lack of simulators having all the required models to analyze solar energy-driven desalination processes. Thereby, most authors use two simulators, one general for chemical processes and the other specific to renewable energy systems. Besides that, simulators with pre-built models for FO unit does not exist. Open source solutions were selected over commercial ones for several reasons. They offer open access to the application elements, so new modules can be easily added or modified. Furthermore, they can interoperate and communicate with other applications. Finally, based on the supported models and development tools, we have chosen SAM and DWSIM as the suitable open source simulators for our project.","PeriodicalId":6671,"journal":{"name":"2019 7th International Renewable and Sustainable Energy Conference (IRSEC)","volume":"57 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":"86660003","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}
Ademola Oyejide Adebayo, S. Jekayinfa, P. Ozor, C. Mbohwa, Christiane Herrrmann
{"title":"Biogas Production Potential of Poultry Discharge in a Batch Reactor at Mesophilic Temperature","authors":"Ademola Oyejide Adebayo, S. Jekayinfa, P. Ozor, C. Mbohwa, Christiane Herrrmann","doi":"10.1109/IRSEC48032.2019.9078265","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IRSEC48032.2019.9078265","url":null,"abstract":"Renewable energy technology is seemingly becoming an antidote to the negative environmental effect being experienced using conventional energy resources (fossil fuels) in most part of the world today. This study was on biogas production technologies as a renewable and sustainable alternative to depleting conventional sources. Biogas was produced from poultry discharge using a thermostatic cabinet (batch reactor) operated at mesophilic temperature (37°C). The reactor was fed with poultry discharge calculated based on its volatile solid (VS) concentration. The concentration of the gas produced was measured with the gas analyzer GA 2000 model. The biogas and methane yields obtained were 509.6 L/kgVS and 328.2 LCH4/kgVS respectively. After the headspace correction, the Methane (CH4) content was found to be 76.7% while the Carbon dioxide (CO2)constituted up to 14.3%. This study has established that poultry discharge is a decent renewable energy source for sustainable development in emerging nations of Africa.","PeriodicalId":6671,"journal":{"name":"2019 7th International Renewable and Sustainable Energy Conference (IRSEC)","volume":"21 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":"87321024","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 Shading design of Transparent Surfaces on Indoor Temperatures; Case Study: an Arid Climate","authors":"M. K. Cherier, S. Bekkouche, M. Hamdani","doi":"10.1109/IRSEC48032.2019.9078224","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IRSEC48032.2019.9078224","url":null,"abstract":"The objective of this work is to study the simultaneous effect of external shading devices and their configurations on indoor environments of a building under an arid climate conditions. To achieve this purpose, a typical residential building was selected to evaluate the effect of these parameters on the indoor temperatures of the different zones of the latter. A series of simulations were performed using EnergyPlus simulation program to see the effect of shading in each scenario and to determine the most favorable shading device configuration. It has been found that the shading of the windows (transparent parts of the building) of our case study and in an arid climate remains insufficient to protect the habitat from summer overheating caused by exposure to intense solar radiation, and remains unfavorable to take advantage of solar gains during the winter period.","PeriodicalId":6671,"journal":{"name":"2019 7th International Renewable and Sustainable Energy Conference (IRSEC)","volume":"61 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":"91048726","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. Hamidi, B. Gharbi, H. Hafs, Mustapha Malhaa, A. Bah
{"title":"Numerical Study of Trombe Wall as a Passive Ventilation System: The Case of Moroccan Climate","authors":"Y. Hamidi, B. Gharbi, H. Hafs, Mustapha Malhaa, A. Bah","doi":"10.1109/IRSEC48032.2019.9078162","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IRSEC48032.2019.9078162","url":null,"abstract":"Nowadays, as building's energy consumption has become of outstanding importance, passive solar design strategies such as Trombe Walls have received extensive attention from researchers all over the world. In this context, the present work is intended to contribute to a better understanding of the feasibility of using the Trombe wall as an effective natural ventilation technology in order to achieve potential energy savings as well as acceptable thermal comfort conditions. To that aim, a mathematical model describing the thermal performance of the studied wall system was used, and then by means of COMSOL Multiphysics software, a parametric study of a single room with four different wall configurations that differ only in the inlet and outlet air vent position was carried out under six Moroccan climate zones namely: Agadir (Zone I), Tangier (Zone II), Fez (Zone III), Ifrane (Zone IV), Marrakech (Zone V) and Er-rachidia (Zone VI) during both winter and summer seasons. Temperature and velocity fields in the test room incorporating the Trombe wall were analyzed. From the simulation results, some useful conclusions were derived.","PeriodicalId":6671,"journal":{"name":"2019 7th International Renewable and Sustainable Energy Conference (IRSEC)","volume":"7 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":"90331148","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}
Trust Nhubu, E. Muzenda, C. Mbohwa, E. Muzenda, E. Muzenda
{"title":"Options for Decentralised Municipal Solid Waste Management in Harare, Zimbabwe","authors":"Trust Nhubu, E. Muzenda, C. Mbohwa, E. Muzenda, E. Muzenda","doi":"10.1109/IRSEC48032.2019.9078311","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IRSEC48032.2019.9078311","url":null,"abstract":"The decentralisation of municipal solid waste management (MSWM) brings significant reductions in the amount of waste sent to landfills, distances travelled by waste collection vehicles yielding subsequent reductions in fuel consumption, transport and maintenance costs, greenhouse gas and other emissions as well as vector associated human health impacts thereby bringing sustainability in MSW. Such decentralised MSWM systems require residents' acceptance derived from their participation in its planning, development and implementation. This study reviewed the options for decentralizing waste management in Harare and surrounding urban areas. Numerous opportunities for decentralisation exist from household backyard composting, anaerobic digestion or composting of biodegradable fraction of municipal solid waste (MSW), anaerobic co-digestion of biodegradable fraction of MSW and dewatered sewage sludge, source separation of MSW for material recovery, construction of waste transfer stations or citizens' convenient centres and establishment of thermal waste to energy facilities. Legislative reforms and their implementation need to be initiated as provided for under goal 10 of the national integrated solid waste management plan (NISWMP) for Zimbabwe to promote the decentralisation of MSWM authority to the lowest appropriate level as well as strengthening the capacity of local authorities to fulfill their obligations.","PeriodicalId":6671,"journal":{"name":"2019 7th International Renewable and Sustainable Energy Conference (IRSEC)","volume":"18 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":"90354696","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. Elkhoukhi, M. Bakhouya, Majdoulayne Hanifi, D. El Ouadghiri
{"title":"On the use of Deep Learning Approaches for Occupancy prediction in Energy Efficient Buildings","authors":"H. Elkhoukhi, M. Bakhouya, Majdoulayne Hanifi, D. El Ouadghiri","doi":"10.1109/IRSEC48032.2019.9078164","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IRSEC48032.2019.9078164","url":null,"abstract":"Occupancy forecasting is considered as a crucial input for improving the performance of predictive control strategies in energy efficient buildings. In fact, accurate occupancy forecast is the key enabler for context-drive control of active systems (e.g. heating, ventilation, and lighting). This paper focuses on forecasting occupants' number using real-time measurements of CO2 concentration and its forecasting values. The main aim is to evaluate the accuracy of forecasting occupants' number by applying the steady state model (1) [16] on the CO2 forecast using recent deep learning approaches. The LSTM, a recurrent neural network based deep learning algorithm, is deployed to forecast the CO2 level in a dedicated space, a testlab deployed in our university for conducting experiments and assess approaches for energy efficiency in buildings. Preliminary results show the effectiveness of LSTM in forecasting occupants' number, which reaches 70% in accuracy.","PeriodicalId":6671,"journal":{"name":"2019 7th International Renewable and Sustainable Energy Conference (IRSEC)","volume":"80 1 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":"77397382","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}