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Volume II: Power Electronic Circuits for Electric Drives and Renewable Energy Sources

A special issue of Energies (ISSN 1996-1073). This special issue belongs to the section "F3: Power Electronics".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 February 2023) | Viewed by 3471

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Jelena Loncarski

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Department of Electrical, Electronic, and Information Engineering "Guglielmo Marconi", Campus Cesena, University of Bologna, 40126 Bologna, Italy
Interests: power electronic circuits and power electronic converters for renewable energy sources and electrical drives; sustainability; electric vehicle chargers; WBG devices
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Dr. Vítor Monteiro

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Algoritmi Research Centre, Department of Industrial Electronics, University of Minho, 4800-058 Guimarães, Portugal
Interests: power electronics converters; electric mobility; renewable energy sources; digital control techniques; smart grids
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

We are inviting submissions to a Special Issue of Energies on “Volume II: Power Electronic Circuits for Electric Drives and Renewable Energy Sources”.

Low-carbon and sustainable and green future goals push us to think outside the box and abandon the conventional power systems. The transition to fully renewable smart grids with a high penetration of power electronic converters will inevitably happen in the near future. In this scenario, efficiency and reliability are the keywords when considering the improvement of various energy generation technologies, such as wind, tidal, wave, photovoltaic, and power electronic interfaced loads. New advances in the materials of the power switching devices, new circuit topologies, and non-conventional converter layouts are some of the criteria for paper acceptance in this very broad Topical Issue.

This Special Issue aims to consolidate works on technological advances with performance and reliability optimization methods in the area of power electronics, connected to both renewable energy generation systems and renewable energy consumption.

Technical Committee Member:
Mr. Riccardo Mandrioli, University of Bologna

Dr. Jelena Loncarski
Dr. Vítor Monteiro
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Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Energies is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2600 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

Keywords

  • innovative materials in power semiconductors
  • improvements in converter design layout
  • novel converter topologies, DC/DC and AC/DC, including multilevel and isolated topologies
  • benchmarking of the efficiency improvement for converters facing renewable energy sources (RESs)
  • efficiency and reliability issues in power converters facing electric drives, including both multiphase and multilevel inverters
  • advances in modulation strategies and control techniques for performance and efficiency enhancement

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Design Procedure and Testing for the Electrification of a Maintenance Railway Vehicle
by Davide D’Amato, Marco Lorito, Vito Giuseppe Monopoli, Rinaldo Consoletti, Giuseppe Maiellaro and Francesco Cupertino
Energies 2023, 16(3), 1205; https://doi.org/10.3390/en16031205 - 22 Jan 2023
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In response to climate change, governments around the world have committed to reducing greenhouse gas emissions, which contribute to global warming, through the energy transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy sources and electrification of transportation. This article outlines the design procedure for [...] Read more.
In response to climate change, governments around the world have committed to reducing greenhouse gas emissions, which contribute to global warming, through the energy transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy sources and electrification of transportation. This article outlines the design procedure for the electrification of a railway vehicle used for maintenance services on the rail network. The proposed methodology consists of the design of both an all-electric propulsion system and storage system with the aim of zero emissions when the vehicle is operating in tunnels and to minimise noise during maintenance services in cities. After highlighting the characteristics of the railway vehicle under consideration, a simulation model of the propulsion and generation system was developed in order to calculate the energy consumption of the entire railway system. Finally, experimental tests carried out on the prototype proved the effectiveness of the design procedure adopted and the proposed mathematical model, showing a good matching with the simulated results. Full article
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Novel Active Damping Design Based on a Biquad Filter for an LLCL Grid-Tied Inverter
by Bin Wang, Qiangsong Zhao, Gong Zhang, Hongwei Zhang, Kaiyue Liu and Xuebin Yue
Energies 2023, 16(3), 1093; https://doi.org/10.3390/en16031093 - 19 Jan 2023
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LLCL filters for grid-tied inverters have been adopted to get better performance for the harmonics near the switching frequency than commonly used LCL filters. However, the resonant peak caused by a pair of unstable resonance poles of the LLCL filters is introduced and [...] Read more.
LLCL filters for grid-tied inverters have been adopted to get better performance for the harmonics near the switching frequency than commonly used LCL filters. However, the resonant peak caused by a pair of unstable resonance poles of the LLCL filters is introduced and makes the system become unstable. In this paper, a biquad filter composed of a notch filter and a resonator is introduced to restrain the resonant peak. In this method, the resonance point and the notch point of the biquad filter are placed at the appointed frequency, and the resonant peak is transferred to the stable area by phase transformation, so that the system does not cross −180° at the resonant peak. This method makes the system have higher control bandwidth and stronger robustness even in a weak power grid. Meanwhile, a proportional-integral multiresonant repetitive controller is used to restrain low-frequency current harmonics and improve the steady-state and dynamic performance of the control system. Furthermore, based on the active damping of the biquad filter, the stability criterion of the control system under a weak power grid is given. Finally, the accuracy of the analysis and the effectiveness of the method is verified by simulations. Full article
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