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Multiobjective optimization for carbon market scheduling based on behavior learning (2017)
Conference Proceeding
Li, D., Hua, W., Sun, H., & Chiu, W. (2017). Multiobjective optimization for carbon market scheduling based on behavior learning. . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.egypro.2017.12.581

With advances of smart grid, the responsibility of carbon emission reduction can be fairly allocated to each participant in power networks through bidirectional communications. This paper proposes a hierarchical carbon market scheduling model to effe... Read More about Multiobjective optimization for carbon market scheduling based on behavior learning.

Household Level Distributed Energy Management System integrating Renewable Energy Sources and Electric Vehicles (2017)
Conference Proceeding
Gosselin, D., Jiang, J., & Sun, H. (2017). Household Level Distributed Energy Management System integrating Renewable Energy Sources and Electric Vehicles. In IEEE 85th Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC2017-Spring) : 4–7 June 2017, Sydney, Australia ; proceedings (1-5). https://doi.org/10.1109/vtcspring.2017.8108626

To reduce the burden on data communication in smart girds, household level distributed energy management systems have become increasingly vital due to their capability of distributed intelligence and scheduling devices. This paper studies the optimal... Read More about Household Level Distributed Energy Management System integrating Renewable Energy Sources and Electric Vehicles.

L-index sensitivity based voltage stability enhancement (2017)
Conference Proceeding
Liu, Q. L., You, M., Sun, H., & Matthews, P. (2017). L-index sensitivity based voltage stability enhancement. In 2017 IEEE 85th Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC2017-Spring) : 4–7 June 2017, Sydney, Australia ; proceedings (1-5). https://doi.org/10.1109/vtcspring.2017.8108627

Voltage stability is a long standing issue in power systems. Due to the requirements of on-line monitoring and high computation efficiency, L-index is used as voltage stability metric in this paper. We propose a novel L-index sensitivity based contro... Read More about L-index sensitivity based voltage stability enhancement.

Achieving low carbon emission using Smart Grid technologies (2017)
Conference Proceeding
Li, D., Sun, H., & Chiu, W. (2017). Achieving low carbon emission using Smart Grid technologies. In 2017 IEEE 85th Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC2017-Spring) : 4–7 June 2017, Sydney, Australia ; proceedings (1-5). https://doi.org/10.1109/vtcspring.2017.8108624

This paper presents a novel carbon emission flow (CEF) model to assess and analyze the carbon emission of each component in power networks. Through the use of information about CEF, demand side management (DSM) and supply side management (SSM) are co... Read More about Achieving low carbon emission using Smart Grid technologies.

Unit Commitment in Achieving Low Carbon Smart Grid Environment with Virtual Power Plant (2017)
Conference Proceeding
Hua, W., Li, D., Sun, H., & Matthews, P. (2017). Unit Commitment in Achieving Low Carbon Smart Grid Environment with Virtual Power Plant. In 2017 IEEE International Smart Cities Conference (ISC2) : 14-17 September 2017, Wuxi, China ; proceedings (1-6). https://doi.org/10.1109/isc2.2017.8090810

This paper proposes a novel unit commitment (UC) model under smart grid (SG) environment, which intends to strike a balance pursuing minimum carbon emissions for policy maker, minimum costs for generators and minimum payment bills for consumers. This... Read More about Unit Commitment in Achieving Low Carbon Smart Grid Environment with Virtual Power Plant.

Qualitative comparison of techniques for evaluating performance of short term power system reliability management (2017)
Conference Proceeding
Heylen, E., Deconinck, G., Van Hertem, D., Troffaes, M. C., & Kazemtabrizi, B. (2017). Qualitative comparison of techniques for evaluating performance of short term power system reliability management. In 2017 IEEE PES Innovative Smart Grid Technologies Conference Europe (ISGT-Europe) : Torino, Italy, 26-29 September 2017 : conference proceedings (333-339). https://doi.org/10.1109/isgteurope.2017.8260148

Adequate performance evaluation of different short term reliability management approaches and criteria is crucial in order to convince transmission system operators to substitute or complement the currently used N-1 criterion with more efficient, alt... Read More about Qualitative comparison of techniques for evaluating performance of short term power system reliability management.

An Optimal Differential Pricing in Smart Grid Based on Customer Segmentation (2017)
Conference Proceeding
Meng, F., Kazemtabrizi, B., Zeng, X., & Dent, C. (2017). An Optimal Differential Pricing in Smart Grid Based on Customer Segmentation. In 2017 IEEE PES Innovative Smart Grid Technologies Conference Europe (ISGT-Europe) : Torino, Italy, 26-29 September 2017 ; conference proceedings (1-6). https://doi.org/10.1109/isgteurope.2017.8260255

In smart grids, dynamic pricing (e.g., time-of-use pricing (ToU), real-time pricing (RTP)) has recently attracted enormous interests from both academia and industry. Although differential pricing has been widely used in retail sectors such as broadba... Read More about An Optimal Differential Pricing in Smart Grid Based on Customer Segmentation.

Dynamic Time and Power Allocation for Opportunistic Energy Efficient Cooperative Relay (2017)
Conference Proceeding
Heron, J., & Sun, H. (2017). Dynamic Time and Power Allocation for Opportunistic Energy Efficient Cooperative Relay. In 2017 IEEE 86th Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC Fall) : Toronto, Canada, 24-27 September 2017 ; proceedings (1-5). https://doi.org/10.1109/vtcfall.2017.8288142

Exponential growth in power consumption of wireless communication devices and lack of progress in battery capacity are increasing pressure for more energy efficient (EE) wireless networks. This paper presents an algorithm for optimum EE time allocati... Read More about Dynamic Time and Power Allocation for Opportunistic Energy Efficient Cooperative Relay.

A new algorithm for a fast testing and sorting system applied to battery clustering (2017)
Conference Proceeding
Wang, Q., Cheng, X., & Wang, J. (2017). A new algorithm for a fast testing and sorting system applied to battery clustering. In Renewable energy resources impact : 2017 6th International Conference on Clean Electrical Power (ICCEP) : Santa Margherita Ligure, 27-29 June 2017 (397-402). https://doi.org/10.1109/iccep.2017.8004846

Battery clustering is to sort out homogeneous battery cells to form a battery pack with high uniformity, which is of great importance to prolong the cycle life of the lithium-ion battery. The traditional method for battery clustering is to compare th... Read More about A new algorithm for a fast testing and sorting system applied to battery clustering.

Modelling of a 6 Slot 4 Pole Single Tooth Wound Synchronous Reluctance Motor (2017)
Conference Proceeding
Donaghy-Spargo, C., Mecrow, B., & Widmer, J. (2017). Modelling of a 6 Slot 4 Pole Single Tooth Wound Synchronous Reluctance Motor. In 2017 IEEE International Electric Machines and Drives Conference (IEMDC): 21-24 May 2017, Miami, Florida, USA. https://doi.org/10.1109/iemdc.2017.8002058

This paper presents a modified d-q model that includes the complex inductance characteristics present in single tooth wound synchronous reluctance motors. Utilization of the single tooth coils results in high air gap harmonic content and has conseque... Read More about Modelling of a 6 Slot 4 Pole Single Tooth Wound Synchronous Reluctance Motor.

Leakage Inductance of a Prototyped Single Tooth Wound Synchronous Reluctance Motor (2017)
Conference Proceeding
Donaghy-Spargo, C., Mecrow, B., & Widmer, J. (2017). Leakage Inductance of a Prototyped Single Tooth Wound Synchronous Reluctance Motor. In 2017 IEEE International Electric Machines and Drives Conference (IEMDC) ; proceedings (556-561). https://doi.org/10.1109/iemdc.2017.8002059

This paper explores the inductance characteristics present in single tooth wound synchronous reluctance motors, specifically the stator leakage inductance. Despite the nature of the single tooth design resulting in increased air gap harmonic content,... Read More about Leakage Inductance of a Prototyped Single Tooth Wound Synchronous Reluctance Motor.

Lithium-ion laptop battery test and energy recycling (2017)
Conference Proceeding
Zhou, J., Wang, Q., & Wang, J. (2017). Lithium-ion laptop battery test and energy recycling. In Proceedings of the ASME 2017 International Design Engineering Technical Conference and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference (IDETC/CIE 2017) : August 6-9, 2017, Cleveland, Ohio, USA. https://doi.org/10.1115/detc2017-67803

Before recycling used lithium-ion laptop batteries, testing and sorting work is needed through charge and discharge tests. For current lithium-ion battery charge and discharge tests, the battery is discharged through a resistor. Thus, the energy in t... Read More about Lithium-ion laptop battery test and energy recycling.

Pumped Thermal Electricity Storage for Active Distribution Network Applications (2017)
Conference Proceeding
Ibrahim, A., Kazemtabrizi, B., Bordin, C., Dent, C., McTigue, J., & White, A. (2017). Pumped Thermal Electricity Storage for Active Distribution Network Applications. In 2017 IEEE Manchester PowerTech : 18-22 June 2017, Manchester, England ; proceedings. https://doi.org/10.1109/ptc.2017.7980837

This paper introduces a new model for Pumped Thermal Electricity Storage (PTES) devices as an emerging thermal storage technology. PTES devices are capable of reaching higher capacities than battery storage devices and therefore are suitable for grid... Read More about Pumped Thermal Electricity Storage for Active Distribution Network Applications.

ADMM-based Coordinated Decentralized Voltage Control Meets Practical Communication Systems (2017)
Conference Proceeding
Xu, J., & Sun, H. (2017). ADMM-based Coordinated Decentralized Voltage Control Meets Practical Communication Systems. In 2017 IEEE International Conference on Communications Workshops (ICC Workshops 2017) : Paris, France, 21-25 May 2017 ; proceedings (906-910). https://doi.org/10.1109/iccw.2017.7962774

More and more distributed generators (DGs) will penetrate into the distribution power system in the future. Therefore, voltage fluctuation becomes a challenging essential issue for future smart grids. In this paper a coordinated decentralized voltage... Read More about ADMM-based Coordinated Decentralized Voltage Control Meets Practical Communication Systems.

Incorporating User Utility in a Smart Microgrid with Distributed Generation and Elastic Demand (2017)
Conference Proceeding
Benjamin, B., Jiang, J., & Sun, H. (2017). Incorporating User Utility in a Smart Microgrid with Distributed Generation and Elastic Demand. In A. Jamalipour, & C. Papadias (Eds.), 2017 IEEE International Conference on Communications Workshops (ICC 2017) : 21-25 May 2017, Paris, France ; proceedings (1117-1122). https://doi.org/10.1109/iccw.2017.7962808

Demand Side Management (DSM) will play a large role in creating a pathway to a low carbon future. Microgrids are an ideal test bed for DSM within the Smart Grid (SG) framework, allowing for increased integration of distributed generation (DG), here f... Read More about Incorporating User Utility in a Smart Microgrid with Distributed Generation and Elastic Demand.

Operational Planning and Optimisation in Active Distribution Networks using Modern Intelligent Power Flow Controllers (2017)
Conference Proceeding
Ibrahim, A., Kazemtabrizi, B., & Dent, C. (2017). Operational Planning and Optimisation in Active Distribution Networks using Modern Intelligent Power Flow Controllers. In 2016 IEEE PES Innovative Smart Grid Technologies Conference Europe (ISGT-Europe). https://doi.org/10.1109/isgteurope.2016.7856196

In this paper, a centralised control framework is introduced for day-ahead operational planning of active distribution networks which accommodate high levels of distributed generation resources. The purpose of the framework is to plan network operati... Read More about Operational Planning and Optimisation in Active Distribution Networks using Modern Intelligent Power Flow Controllers.