Intelligent Renewable Energy Systems : Integrating Artificial Intelligence Techniques and Optimization Algorithms

This collection of papers on artificial intelligence and other methods for improving renewable energy systems, written by industry experts, is a reflection of the state of the art, a must-have for engineers, maintenance personnel, students, and anyone else wanting to stay abreast with current energy systems concepts and technology.

Renewable energy is one of the most important subjects being studied, researched, and advanced in today's world. From a macro level, like the stabilization of the entire world's economy, to the micro level, like how you are going to heat or cool your home tonight, energy, specifically renewable energy, is on the forefront of the discussion.

This book illustrates modelling, simulation, design and control of renewable energy systems employed with recent artificial intelligence (AI) and optimization techniques for performance enhancement. Current renewable energy sources have less power conversion efficiency because of its intermittent and fluctuating behavior. Therefore, in this regard, the recent AI and optimization techniques are able to deal with data ambiguity, noise, imprecision, and nonlinear behavior of renewable energy sources more efficiently compared to classical soft computing techniques.

This book provides an extensive analysis of recent state of the art AI and optimization techniques applied to green energy systems. Subsequently, researchers, industry persons, undergraduate and graduate students involved in green energy will greatly benefit from this comprehensive volume, a must-have for any library.

Audience

Engineers, scientists, managers, researchers, students, and other professionals working in the field of renewable energy.

Neeraj Priyadarshi, PhD, works in the Department of Energy Technology, Aalborg University, Denmark, from which he also received a post doctorate. He received his M. Tech. degree in power electronics and drives in 2010 from the Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT), Vellore, India, and his PhD from the Government College of Technology and Engineering, Udaipur, Rajasthan, India. He has published over 60 papers in scientific and technical journals and conferences and has organized several international workshops. He is a reviewer for a number of technical journals, and he is the lead editor for four edited books, including Scrivener Publishing.

Akash Kumar Bhoi, PhD, is an assistant professor in the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Sikkim Manipal Institute of Technology (SMIT), India. He is also a research associate at Wireless Networks (WN) Research Laboratory, Institute of Information Science and Technologies, National Research Council (ISTI-CRN) Pisa, Italy. He is a member of several technical associations and is an editorial board member for a number of journals. He has published several papers in scientific journals and conferences and is currently working on several edited volumes for various publishers, including Scrivener Publishing.

Sanjeevikumar Padmanaban, PhD, is a faculty member with the Department of Energy Technology, Aalborg University, Esbjerg, Denmark and works with CTIF Global Capsule (CGC), Department of Business Development and Technology, Aarhus University, Denmark. He received his PhD in electrical engineering from the University of Bologna, Italy. He has almost ten years of teaching, research and industrial experience and is an associate editor on a number of international scientific refereed journals. He has published more than 300 research papers and has won numerous awards for his research and teaching.

S. Balamurugan is the Head of Research and Development, QUANTS IS & Consultancy Services, India. He has authored or edited 40 books, more than 200 papers in scientific and technical journals and conferences and has 15 patents to his credit. He is either the editor-in-chief, associate editor, guest editor, or editor for many scientific and technical journals, from many well-respected publishers around the world. He has won numerous awards, and he is a member of several technical societies.

Jens Bo Holm-Nielsen currently works at the Department of Energy Technology, Aalborg University and is head of the Esbjerg Energy Section. He helped establish the Center for Bioenergy and Green Engineering in 2009 and served as the head of the research group. He has served as technical advisor for many companies in this industry, and he has executed many large-scale European Union and United Nation projects. He has authored more than 300 scientific papers and has participated in over 500 various international conferences.