Despite the reduction of solar installation cost by a ratio of 10 during the last 20 years. still conversion efficiency of PV panels remains an important parameter to take into account when designing solar system for residential applications. Therefore. an efficient MPPT algorithm plays a key role to harvest optimum …
Read More »Dynamic performance enhancement for wind energy conversion system using Moth-Flame Optimization based blade pitch controlle
Wind energy source (WES) is one of the most prominent sources of electrical energy in years to come. WES. as a renewable source. has no impacts on the climate issues and greenhouse gases (GHG) emissions. The increasing concerns about environmental problems demand green. renewable. and sustainable ideas. Wind turbines along …
Read More »Transitions in Energy Efficiency and Demand: The Emergence. Diffusion and Impact of Low-Carbon Innovation (Routledge Studies in Energy Transitions)
Meeting the goals enshrined in the Paris Agreement and limiting global temperature increases to less than two degrees above pre-industrial levels demands rapid reductions in global carbon dioxide emissions. Reducing energy demand has a central role in achieving this goal. but existing policy initiatives have been largely incremental in terms …
Read More »Optimized Control and Sizing of Standalone PV-Wind Energy Conversion System
Current researches are focused on the electrical production using multi-sources energy conversion systems. Photovoltaic generators (PVG) have maximum power points (MPP) corresponding to meteorological conditions. cell area and load. In Wind generator (WG) when the wind speed varies considerably. the variable speed generation (VSG) is more noticeable than fixed speed …
Read More »Control strategy of PMSG based wind energy conversion system under strong wind conditions
Consumption of fossil fuels for generating electric power causes environmental pollutions and possible global warming (Cader. Bertheau. Blechinger. Huyskens. &. Breyer. 2016). Alternatively. electric power generation by the nuclear power plants is risky due to the unreliable behavior of the plant and the possible challenges of nuclear waste dumping. Therefore. …
Read More »Power Electronics for High-Power Wind Energy Conversion Systems
Wind energy industry has set new records in terms of installed capacity contributing to about 4% of the world’s net electricity production. The cumulative wind energy capacity escalated from 6100 megawatt (MW) in 1996 to 432.883 MW by the end of 2015. The size of utility-scale wind turbine (WT) is …
Read More »Change Management Aspects in Solar Energy Implementation
They say that with no past exists no future and therefore the research activity. regarding the lifecycle management in implementation and maintenance of green energy infrastructures started by consulting literature and people dealing with green energy generation industry. finding out that the most “scientific“ works are based on inherited slightly …
Read More »Decision making model development in increasing wind farm energy efficiency
Renewable energy is a significant input for environmental. economic and social development. The wind energy has become the quickest thriving renewable energy resource. It is worth noting that wind power has the least emissions and lowest water consumption. but it has comparatively high costs. Thus. making wind energy station planning …
Read More »Robust Model Predictive Control for Collective Pitch in Wind Energy Conversion Systems
Wind energy is one of the fastest growing energy sources worldwide. The installed wind power reached 456 GW in Oct. 2016 (WWEA 2016). The yearly growth rate in 2015 was 16.8%. It was 16.5% in 2014. The environmental and economic merits of utilizing wind energy contributed to this steady growth …
Read More »A wind energy conversion system for hydrogen production by water electrolysis in the region of Hassi R’mel (Algeria)
The present paper describes a model of wind energy conversion system (WECS) for hydrogen production by water electrolysis in the region of Hassi R`mel (South of Algeria). developed under Simulink environment. The amounts of hydrogen produced using a WECS were considered as a case study for the three different sites …
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