This book narrates an assessment of numerous advanced power converters employed on primitive phase to enhance the efficiency of power translation pertaining to renewable energy systems. It presents the mathematical modelling, analysis, and control of recent power converters topologies, namely, AC/DC, DC/DC, and DC/AC converters. Numerous advanced DC-DC Converters, namely, multi-input DC-DC Converter, Cuk, SEPIC, Zeta and so forth have been assessed mathematically using state space analysis applied with an aim to enhance power efficiency of renewable energy systems.
The book:
- Explains various power electronics converters for different types of renewable energy sources
- Provides a review of the major power conversion topologies in one book
- Focuses on experimental analysis rather than simulation work
- Recommends usage of MATLAB, PSCAD, and PSIM simulation software for detailed analysis
- Includes DC-DC converters with reasonable peculiar power rating
This book is aimed at researchers, graduate students in electric power engineering, power and industrial electronics, and renewable energy.
Dr Neeraj Priyadarshi. received M. Tech. degree in Power Electronics & Drives in 2010 from Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT), Vellore, India, and PhD from Government College of Technology and Engineering, Udaipur, Rajasthan, India. Dr Priyadarshi has Post Doc from Department of Energy Technology, Aalborg University, Esbjerg 6700, Denmark. In previous postings he was with BITT Ranchi, MIT Purnea, JK University, Geetanjali Institute, Global Institute and SS Group, Rajasthan, India. His current research interests include power electronics, Control system, power quality, and solar power generation. Currently he is associated with Bioenergy and Green Engineering, Department of Energy Technology, Aalborg University, Esbjerg 6700, Denmark. He has published over 60 papers in Journals and conferences of high repute like IEEE Systems Journal, IET Electric Power Applications, IET Power Electronics IEEE Access Journal, Electric Power Components and Systems, International transaction of Electrical Energy System, Wiley Energies MDPI, International Journal of Renewable Energy Research etc. He successfully organised two international workshops and one National workshop in different organisations. He is also invited as a Guest speaker in many Internationals/National conferences. Dr Priyadarshi is a reviewer of IEEE Systems Journal, Electric Power Components and Systems, Taylor and Francis, IEEE Access, IET Renewable Power Generation, International Journal of Modeling and Simulation, International Journal of Renewable Energy Research, International Journal of Power Electronics and Drives and Reputed Elsevier SCI indexed Journals, etc. Under his guidance 25 DST, Government of Rajasthan projects have been sanctioned for financial support. Dr Priyadarshi is working as a chief editor of two edited books of renowned publisher (Intelligent Renewable Energy Systems: Integrating Artificial Intelligence Techniques and Optimisation Algorithms, Wiley and Advances in Power Systems and Energy Management, Springer).
Sanjeevikumar Padmanaban (Member'12-Senior Member'15, IEEE) received the bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from the University of Madras, Chennai, India, in 2002, the master's degree (Hons.) in electrical engineering from Pondicherry University, Puducherry, India, in 2006, and the PhD degree in electrical engineering from the University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy, in 2012. He was an Associate Professor with VIT University from 2012 to 2013. In 2013, he joined the National Institute of Technology, India, as a Faculty Member. In 2014, he was invited as a Visiting Researcher at the Department of Electrical Engineering, Qatar University, Doha, Qatar, funded by the Qatar National Research Foundation (Government of Qatar). He continued his research activities with the Dublin Institute of Technology, Dublin, Ireland, in 2014. Further, he served an Associate Professor with the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, University of Johannesburg, Johannesburg, South Africa, from 2016 to 2018. Since 2018, he has been a Faculty Member with the Department of Energy Technology, Aalborg University, Esbjerg, Denmark. He has authored over 300 scientific papers.
S. Padmanaban was the recipient of the Best Paper cum Most Excellence Research Paper Award from IET-SEISCON'13, IET-CEAT'16, IEEE-EECSI'19, IEEE-CENCON'19 and five best paper awards from ETAEERE'16 sponsored Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, Springer book. He is a Fellow of the Institution of Engineers, India, the Institution of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers, India, and the Institution of Engineering and Technology, U.K. He is an Editor/Associate Editor/Editorial Board for refereed journals, in particular the IEEE SYSTEMS JOURNAL, IEEE Transaction on Industry Applications, IEEE ACCESS, IET Power Electronics, IET Electronics Letters, and Wiley-International Transactions on Electrical Energy Systems, Subject Editorial Board Member--Energy Sources--Energies Journal, MDPI, and the Subject Editor for the IET Renewable Power Generation, IET Generation, Transmission and Distribution, and FACTS journal (Canada).
FAROOQUE AZAM received the bachelor's degree in computer science and engineering from Visvesvaraya Technological University, India, in 2011, and the master's degree in computer science and engineering from Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, India, in 2013.
He is currently working as an Asst. Professor in the School of Computer Science and Engineering, REVA University, Bengaluru, India. He has authored 42 scientific papers of international repute. His research interest includes renewable energy, Vehicular Communication, V2G communication. He is the reviewer for IEEE Access, SN Journal of Applied Sc., Journal of Photovoltaics. He has received best paper award in First IEEE International Conference on Advances in Information Technology, organized by Adichunchunagiri Institute of Technology (AIT), Karnataka, India in July 2019.
Dr.C.Bharatiraja received the Bachelor of engineering in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Kumaraguru College of Engineering, Coimbatore, India, in 2002 and the Master of engineering degree in Power Electronics Engineering from Government College of Technology, Coimbatore, India, in 2006. He received Ph.D. at 2015. He completed his 1st Postdoctoral Fellowship at Centre for Energy and Electric Power, Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment, Tshwane University of technology, South Africa in 2016 with National Research Foundation funding. He was the award recipient of DST; Indo-U.SBhaskara Advanced Solar Energy at 2017 and through he completed his 2nd Postdoctoral Fellowship at Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Northeastern University, USA. He is a Visiting Researcher Scientist at Northeastern University, Boston, USA. He is a Visiting Researcher at University of South Africa. He is also an Award recipient of Young Scientists Fellowship, Tamil Nadu State Council for Science and Technology at 2018. He is also an Award recipient of Young Scientists Fellowship, Tamil Nadu State Council for Science and Technology at 2018. He was collaborated with leading Indian overseas universities for both teaching and research. He has completed 6sponsored projects from various government and private agencies. He also singed MoU with various industries. Currently he is running two DST funded Projects as project worth of 67 Lakhs. He is a seniorMember IEEE, IEI, and IET. He is currently working as an Associate Professor at Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, SRM Institute of Science and Technology, Kattankulathur Campus, Chennai, India. His research interest includes power electronics converter topologies, and controls for PV and EV applications, PWM techniques for power converters and adjustable speed drives, wireless power transfer and smart grid. He has authored more than 100 research papers, which are published in international journal including various IEEE transactions.
Dr Rajesh Singh is currently associated with Lovely Professional University as Professor with more than Seventeen years of experience in academics. He has been awarded as gold medalist in M.Tech from RGPV, Bhopal (M.P) India and honors in his B.E from Dr. B.R. Ambedkar University, Agra (U.P), India. His area of expertise includes embedded systems, robotics, wireless sensor networks and Internet of Things. He has been honored as keynote speakers and session chair to international/national conferences, faculty development programs and workshops. He has hundred and fifty two patents in his account. He has published more than hundred plus research papers in referred journals/conferences and twenty four books in the area of Embedded Systems and Internet of Things with reputed publishers like CRC/Taylor & Francis, Narosa, NIPA, River Publishers, Bentham Science and RI publication. He is editor to five books including, a special issue published by AISC book series, Springer in 2017 & 2018 and IGI global in 2019. Under his mentorship students have participated in national/international competitions including "Innovative Design Challenge competition" by Texas and DST and Laureate award of excellence in robotics engineering, Madrid, Spain in 2014 & 2015. His team has been the winner of "Smart India Hackathon-2019" hardware version conducted by MHRD, Government of India for the problem statement of Mahindra & Mahindra. Under his mentorship students team got "InSc award 2019" under students projects program. He has been awarded with "Gandhian Young Technological Innovation (GYTI) Award", as Mentor to "On Board Diagnostic Data Analysis System-OBDAS", Appreciated under "Cutting Edge Innovation" during Festival of Innovation and Entrepreneurship at Rashtrapati Bahawan, India in 2018. He has been honored with "Certificate of Excellence" from 3rd faculty branding awards-15, Organized by EET CRS research wing for excellence in professional education and Industry, for the category "Award for Excellence in Research", 2015 and young investigator award at the International Conference on Science and Information in 2012.
