• Advances in Energy Research
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• 제7권1호
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• pp.67-84
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• 2020

Given the recent surge of interest towards utilization of renewable distributed energy resources (DER), in particular in remote areas, this paper aims at designing an optimal hybrid system in order to supply loads of a village located in Esfarayen, North Khorasan, Iran. This paper illustrates the optimal design procedure of a standalone hybrid system which consists of Wind Turbine Generator (WTG), Photo Voltaic (PV), Diesel-generator, and Battery denoting as the Energy Storage System (ESS). The WTGs and PVs are considered as the main producers since the site's ambient conditions are suitable for such producers. Moreover, batteries are employed to smooth out the variable outputs of these renewable resources. To this end, whenever the available power generation is higher than the demanded amount, the excess energy will be stored in ESS to be injected into the system in the time of insufficient power generation. Since the standalone system is assumed to have no connection to the upstream network, it must be able to supply the loads without any load curtailment. In this regard, a Diesel-Generator can also be integrated to achieve zero loss of load. The optimal hybrid system design problem is a discrete optimization problem that is solved, here, by means of a recently-introduced meta-heuristic optimization algorithm known as Lightning Attachment Procedure Optimization (LAPO). The results are compared to those of some other methods and discussed in detail. The results also show that the total cost of the designed stand-alone system in 25 years is around 92M€ which is much less than the grid-connected system with the total cost of 205M€. In summary, the obtained simulation results demonstrate the effectiveness of the utilized optimization algorithm in finding the best results, and the designed hybrid system in serving the remote loads.

• 전력전자학회:학술대회논문집
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• 전력전자학회 2001년도 Proceedings ICPE 01 2001 International Conference on Power Electronics
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• pp.635-638
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• 2001

Photovoltaic (PV) pumping systems with maximum power point tracking (MPPT) technique aims at obtaining the highest possible power to the pump under various insolation and temperature, thus overcomes the mismatch between the photovoltaic panel and the pumping load. A simple method of tracking the maximum power points and forcing the system to operate close to these points is presented in this paper. The MC68HC908GP32 micro control unit (MCU) is employed to implement the proposed MPPT controller. Experimental results will also show the performances of the photovoltaic pumping system with the MPPT technique.

• 전력전자학회논문지
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• 제9권5호
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• pp.438-447
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• 2004

본 논문에서는 하프ㆍ풀-브리지 셀을 이용하는 새로운 멀티레벨 인버터를 제안하고 독립형 태양광 인버터로서의 가능성을 평가한다. 기본 회로 구조는 기존의 11-레벨형 PWM 인버터에 기초하며 세 개의 풀-브리지 모듈 중 하나의 모듈을 하프-브리지 구조로 대체한다. 이 간단한 회로 구조의 변경으로 제안된 멀티레벨 인버터는 세 가지의 장점을 가지게 된다. 첫째, 출력 전압 레벨 수의 증가를 통해 보다 정현적인 출력 전압 파형을 형성 시킬 수 있다. 둘째, 풀-브리지 모듈 대신 하프-브리지 셀을 이용하므로 두 개의 전력 스위치를 줄일 수 있다. 셋째, 쵸핑용으로 이용되는 인버터와 결합된 변압기에 의해 부하로 전달되는 전력량을 저감 시킬 수 있어 전체 효율 개선에 유리하다. 즉, 대부분의 전력은 저주파 스위칭 동작으로 기본 출력전압을 형성하는 인버터와 이와 결합된 변압기에 의해 부하단으로 전달되고, 고주파 스위칭을 하는 쵸핑용 인버터와 이와 결합된 변압기를 통한 출력은 최종 출력전압을 보다 정현화 하기 위한 목적으로 사용되도록 한다. 기존의 11-레벨형 PWM 인버터와 비교를 통해 제안하는 인버터를 평가하고, 컴퓨터 시뮬레이션 및 실험 결과를 통해 독립형 태양광 인버터로서의 가능성을 입증한다.

• Journal of Power Electronics
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• 제9권2호
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• pp.267-274
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• 2009

This paper deals with a voltage and frequency (VF) controller for an isolated power generation system based on an asynchronous generator (AG) driven by a pico hydro turbine. The proposed controller is a combination of a static compensator (STATCOM) and an electronic load controller (ELC) for decoupled control of the reactive and active powers of the AG system to control the voltage and frequency respectively. The proposed generating system along with its VF controller is modeled in MATLAB using SIMULINK and PSB (Power System Block Sets) toolboxes. The performance of the controller is verified for the proposed system and feeding various types of consumer load such as linear/non-linear, balanced/unbalanced and dynamic loads.

• Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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• 제28권6호
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• pp.916-921
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• 2004

This paper describes microprocessor-based control of photovoltaic power conditioning system. where the microprocessor is responsible for control of output power in accordance with the generated array DC power. The microprocessor includes the control algorithm of maximum power point tracking and converter control algorithm. In this power, we have designed a MPPT(Maximum Power Point Tracker) algorithm with environment factors and a PWM(Pulse Width Modulation) algorithm for high efficiency. The controller has been tested in the laboratory with the power conditioner and shows excellent performance.

• 전력전자학회:학술대회논문집
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• 전력전자학회 2008년도 하계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.320-322
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• 2008

The international oil price now has been going up every each day, about 120 USD per a gallon April 2008, so that most of countries in the world are concern of the the shortage of petroleum and the development of new and renewable energy resources. This paper presents optimal design and operational features of stand-alone 500W PEMFC(Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cell) system which can be a substitute instead fossil fuel. The stack of PEMFC is composed of 35 laminated graphites, and a unit cell of the stack has electrical characteristics as below; 14W, 0.9V, 15A. The other components of BOP(Balance of Plant) are composed of hydrogen and nitrogen tanks, regulators, 3way solenoid valves, mass flow meters, etc.

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 1990년도 추계학술대회 논문집 학회본부
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• pp.291-294
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• 1990

Fuel cell system needs DC-AC conversion inverter system because its output is DC. And the inverter system can be operated not only in stand-alone load but also in interactive mode in interactive mode, it is necessary to control active-reactive power of inverter and to synchronize inverter output voltage to power line voltage. In this paper, a 12 phase multiple VSI type GTO inverter system for fuel cell is described. Synchronization between power line voltage phase and inverter output voltage phase, and reduction of harmonics in the output voltage phase are the purpose of this inverter system. This control algorithm for the system is realized by the software method utilizing 8031AH 8bit Microprocessor.

• Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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• 제13권4호
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• pp.1483-1493
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• 2018

Recently, more power facilities are needed to cope with the increasing electric demand. However, the additional construction of generators, transmission and distribution installations is not easy because of environmental problems and citizen's complaints. Under this circumstance, a microgrid system with distributed renewable resources emerges as an alternative of the traditional power systems. Moreover, the configuration of power system changes with more DC loads and more DC installations. This paper is written to introduce an idea of a genetic algorithm-based solution to determine the optimal capacity of the distributed generators depending on the types of system configuration: AC-link, DC-link and Hybrid-link types. In this paper, photovoltaic, wind turbine, energy storage system and diesel generator are considered as distributed generators and the feasibility of the proposed algorithm is verified by comparing the calculated capacity of each distributed resource with HOMER simulation results for 3 types of system configuration.

• 전력전자학회:학술대회논문집
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• 전력전자학회 2015년도 추계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.117-118
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• 2015

본 연구에서는 독립형 직류 배전망 구성에 이용될 수 있는 태양광 발전 시스템 및 ESS(Energy Storage System)를 이용한 하이브리드형 분산 전원 시스템의 구성 일례를 제시한다. 제안된 시스템의 전력회로는 태양광 발전 시스템용 PCS에는 직렬 공진 탱크를 가지는 절연형 풀브리지 방식, ESS용 PCS에는 비절연형 양방향 컨버터로 구성되었다. 태양광 PCS의 제어방식으로는 전류 제어기가 사용되었으며, ESS 용 PCS에는 비집중식 제어방식이 적용 되었다. 제안된 방식의 타당성을 검증하기 위해 100[kW]급 태양광 시스템, 100[kW]급 ESS를 기반으로 하이브리드 시스템을 구현하고 직류 계통 전압 제어 특성, 부하급변에 대한 전력분담 제어 실험결과를 제시하였다.

• 전력전자학회:학술대회논문집
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• 전력전자학회 2017년도 전력전자학술대회
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• pp.68-69
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• 2017

본 논문에서는 독립형 태양광 시스템의 설계에서 배터리 용량 선정 방식에 관련하여 부하손실확률(LLP: Loss of Load Probability)이 0 인 기준을 토대로 시스템 무정전 전력공급을 위한 시행 착오법을 제안하였으며 시스템의 수명주기비용(LCC: Life Cycle Cost)을 분석하여 기존 시스템에 비해 경제성을 높이고자 한다. 제안한 방식의 검증을 위하여 시뮬레이션을 수행하였다.