Symmetric and Asymmetric Power Converters for Integration of Renewables and EVs
A special issue of Symmetry (ISSN 2073-8994). This special issue belongs to the section "Engineering and Materials".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2023) | Viewed by 375
Special Issue Editors
Interests: automatic generation control; stability improvements using flexible alternating current transmission system devices; power quality; power electronic converters; distributed power generation
Interests: reduced switch multilevel inverter design; new power converters; power quality control and photovoltaic system applications
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
We are inviting submissions to a Special Issue of MDPL entitled "Symmetric and Asymmetric Power Converters for Integration of Renewables and EVs".
To reduce the dependency on power generation from fossil fuels, it is very much important for integration of renewables and Electric Vehicles (EVs) into the electric power system. In recent years, major concern with climatic changes and energy efficiency creates a huge research scope in the area of electric transportation system. Globally, the research on smart microgrid system with integration of renewable energy sources (RESs) and EVs has become increasingly popular due to their capacity to reduce green house gas emissions and global warming impacts. Indeed, renewable energy sources are intermittent in nature and are not directly matched with users’ requirements. Energy storage systems are the key technology to solve these issues and to increase the adoption of renewable sources in smart grids. The effectiveness of EVs depends on appropriate functionality and battery management system. Few issues like unstable power supply, significant voltage drops, etc. in the EV charging infrastructure system can be addressed by introducing suitable converter topology. The performance of power converters, especially in terms of efficiency, power density, and reliability, has been continuously improved in recent years. Although various EV converters provide significant contributions, they have limitations with regard to high components, high switching loss, high current stress, computational complexity, and slow dynamic response. To address the issues in regards to the efficient operaion of interfacing converters, advanced control techniques, which also exploit machine learning, artificial intelligence (AI), and deep neural networks (DNN), are emerging trends. The design and analysis of different real systems can be further simplified using the concept of symmetries and asymmetries. Thus, this special session mainly focusses on the emerging trends in analytical assessment of DC-DC (buck/boost), DC-AC (three-level inverter, symmetric and asymmetric multilevel invertres) and AC-DC power electronics converter technology incorporated for integration of renewables and EVs.
Topics of interest for publication include but are not limited to:
- Power electronic converters for renewable energy sources
- Symmetric and Asymmetric power converters
- MPPT and control schemes for interfacing converters
- Power quality assessment of integrated system
- Integration of charging infrastructures in the smart grid for E-transportation
- Site-integrated EV charging
- Wireless EV charging
- Battery management for EV integrated system
- Artificial intelligence techniques for EV integrated system
- Cybersecurity for grid integrated EV system
Please note that all submitted papers must be within the general scope of the Symmetry journal.
Prof. Dr. Gayadhar Panda
Dr. Kaibalya Prasad Panda
Guest Editors
Manuscript Submission Information
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