Power Electronic Circuits and Techniques for Renewable Energy Conversion and Storage
A special issue of Energies (ISSN 1996-1073). This special issue belongs to the section "D: Energy Storage and Application".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 April 2024 | Viewed by 1805
Special Issue Editors
Interests: maximum power point tracking techniques in photovoltaic applications; power electronics circuits for renewable energy sources; methods for the analysis, design, and optimization of switching converters; control methods and architectures for the maximization of the energy provided by vibration energy harvesting systems
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Interests: maximum power point tracking techniques in photovoltaic applications; power electronics circuits for renewable energy sources; methods for the analysis, design, and optimization of switching converters; control methods and architectures for the maximization of the energy provided by vibration energy harvesting systems
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The conversion of renewable energy sources into electrical energy and the relative storage is of fundamental importance in the modern world. In recent years, great research attention has been paid to such topics. Very different renewable energy sources can be exploited, with examples including solar energy, wind energy, vibration kinetic energy, thermal energy, electromagnetic field energy and so on. Moreover, renewable energy systems can range from large-scale power generation (kW to MW, such as in the case of wind turbines or photovoltaic plants) to low-power energy harvesting systems (mW to W, such as vibration energy harvesting in backpacks or thermal energy harvesting units). With such a great variety of applications and power ranges, a renewable energy system always needs power electronic circuits and proper control techniques for the optimal conversion into electrical energy of the primary source and for the storage of the converted energy into batteries or supercapacitors. The design and optimization of such circuits and techniques is of crucial importance for the optimal exploitation of the renewable energy source, thus avoiding the waste of precious energy that unavoidably leads to unnecessary oversizing of the entire system and results in increases in weight, volumes, and costs. Therefore, the goal of this Special Issue is:
To focus on the latest scientific results and advances in the analysis, the design and the optimization of power electronic circuits and techniques for the conversion and storage of renewable energy sources;
To bring together scientists adopting several approaches and working on the above topics;
To promote and share as much top-level research in the field of power electronic circuits for renewable energy systems as possible.
This Special Issue is open to both original research articles and review articles covering (but not limited to) the analysis, the design and the optimization of power electronic circuits for the conversion and storage of the following renewable energy sources:
- Photovoltaic sources;
- Vibrations (piezoelectric, electromagnetic, electrostatic and magnetostrictive harvesters);
- Wind turbines;
- Thermoelectric generators;
- Regenerative suspension systems (automotive and railway applications);
- Other innovative energy harvesting systems (rainfall, electromagnetic fields, pyroelectric, bistable systems for satellite applications).
Dr. Luigi Costanzo
Prof. Dr. Massimo Vitelli
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- power electronic circuits
- renewable energy sources
- maximum power point tracking
- energy harvesting
- energy storage systems
- batteries
- supercapacitors
