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Dear Colleagues,

On be half of the organizing committee of powereng2013 conference, I would like to send my special thanks to all who have done their valuable contributions to powereng2013 by uploading papers, opening special sessions and tutorials, distributing CFP, organizing workshops and reviewing papers.

There are 721 papers uploaded to powereng2013 conference by 1895 authors from 63 different countries. We completed their reviewing on Saturday, January 17, 2013 and sent the Notification Letters to authors on the same day. There were 303 reviewers to review papers from around 100 different countries. Every paper was reviewed at least by three reviewers. According to the reviewers’ comments, accepting rate is 77.00% and rejecting rate is 23.00%.

It would be our great pleasure to host you in Istanbul during the conference. You will find many different activities such as 102 general sessions, 3 poster sessions, 10 special sessions, 4 invited sessions, 4 workshops, 9 tutorials, industrial presentations, 8 keynote speeches as well as a special meeting about possible collaborations of World Universities for possible common projects such as Opening Common Graduate studies Programs in engineering fields and Staff and Student Exchanges. Therefore you will be able to meet most of the Presidents, Rectors and Deans of different Schools, Heads of departments of universities around the world. This collaboration will be announced later in the website as a workshop. Please follow the web site for more information or please contact to Prof. Dr. Halil Ibrahim Bulbul (bhalil@gazi.edu.tr) or Prof. Dr. Seref Sagiroglu (ss@gazi.edu.tr) for further detail.

In addition to these activities, you will have a chance to attend very important social, technical, cultural and touristic tours in Istanbul. Most importantly, you will have a Gala Dinner on a boat in the Bosphorus for three hours, which will give you a chance to see the astonishing beauty of Istanbul during day time and at night.

You will find detail information on www.powereng2013.org web site.

 I am looking forward to seeing all of you in the magnificent city Istanbul in Turkey.

Country List Contributed to POWERENG2013

Keynote Speakers

1.

Development of New Integrated Power Generating Systems

Speaker Name: Professor Ibrahim Dincer, Turkey Abstract: We are in a new era where we need to go beyond conventional power generating systems, due to critical energetic, environmental and sustainability issues. This presentation will make a prime focus on newly-developed multi-purpose power generating systems and their performance assessment through energy and exergy efficiencies as well as other newly developed parameters. Also, novel system design, analysis, assessment and improvement options will be discussed. Various parametric studies will be presented to highlight the importance of new energy systems and mindset chance when it comes to more efficient and effective and environmentally-benign operation. Furthermore, there will be a general discussion about carbon-free society and its complications. Speaker Biography: Ibrahim Dincer is a full professor of Mechanical Engineering in the Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science at UOIT. He is currently serving as the acting president for TUBITAK-Marmara Research Center. He is Vice President for Strategy in International Association for Hydrogen Energy (IAHE) and Vice-President for World Society of Sustainable Energy Technologies (WSSET). Renowned for his pioneering works in the area of sustainable energy technologies he has authored and co-authored numerous books and book chapters, more than 800 refereed journal and conference papers, and many technical reports. He has chaired many national and international conferences, symposia, workshops and technical meetings. He has delivered more than 250 keynote and invited lectures. He is an active member of various international scientific organizations and societies, and serves as editor-in-chief (for International Journal of Energy Research by Wiley; International Journal of Exergy, International Journal of Global Warming and International Journal of Research, Innovation and Commercialism by Inderscience; and The Open Environmental Engineering Journal by Bentham), associate editor, regional editor, and editorial board member on various prestigious international journals. He is a recipient of several research, teaching and service awards, including the Premier's research excellence award in Ontario, Canada in 2004. He has made innovative contributions to the understanding and development of sustainable energy technologies and their implementation, particularly through exergy. He has actively been working in the areas of hydrogen and fuel cell technologies, and his group has developed various novel technologies/methods/etc.

2.

How Power Electronics contribute to the Actual Energy Arena

Speaker Name: Professor Leopoldo G. Franquelo, Spain Abstract: The current energy scenario has introduced several challenges to be solved such as the integration of clean energy generation and the use of efficient high-power and energy storage systems. The energy industry has to face the problems introduced by the integration of renewable energy systems in terms of reliability and stability of the power grid. In addition, energy distribution systems based on the HVDC topology are being installed all over the world. On the other hand, it becomes extremely important to use energy storage systems in order to stabilize and improve the efficiency of the power systems using ultimate generation batteries, ultracapacitors, hydrogen based systems and mechanical systems, among others. Nowadays, the power electronics offers efficient solutions to be applied to the new distributed energy grid concept. The keynote speech reviews briefly the current scenario where power electronics converters are being applied.  The energy distribution systems, the renewable energy sources, the energy storage systems and the high-power applications, will be addressed reviewing the different alternatives and topologies, already as industrial products or still as research lines in the academia. Speaker Biography: (M’84–SM’96–F’05) was born in Málaga, Spain. He received the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the Universidad de Sevilla, Seville, Spain in 1977 and 1980 respectively. In 1978 he joined the Universidad de Sevilla as Research Assistant, being Associated Professor in 1982 and Professor since 1986. Since 1998 till 2005 has been Director of the Electronics Engineering Department. Currently is Responsible for the PhD Courses in the Department. His technical interests have started in 1978 with Microprocessor Industrial Electronics Applications, evolving to Electronics Power Applications and in the 90's to Application Specific ICs design for the control of Power Converters. His current research interest lies on modulation techniques for multilevel inverters and its application to power electronic systems for renewable energy systems. He is leading a large research and teaching team in Spain. In the last five years his group activity can be summarized as: 60 Publications in International Journals, 200 in International Conferences, several book chapters, 17 Patents, advisor for 10 PhD dissertations and more than 110 R&D projects. His research team has been awarded with the “Excellence Status” by the Regional Government. He is IEEE member since 1984, Senior Member since 1996 and Fellow since 2005. He has been Vice-president of the Industrial Electronics Society Spanish Chapter (2002-2003), Member at large of the Industrial Electronics Society AdCom (2002-2003), Vice-President for Conferences (2004 - 2007), President Elect of the IES (2008 – 2009), President of the IES (2009 – 2011) and Past-President of the IES since 2012. Currently is a Distinguished Lecturer since 2006, Associated Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics since 2007. He was a co-recipient of the 2008 Best Paper Award of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Magazine, of the 2012 Best Paper Award of the Transactions on Industrial Electronics and recipient of the 2012 IEEE-IES Dr.-Ing. Eugene Mittelmann Achievement Award “For excellence in research on power converter topologies, modeling, modulation and control techniques for high-power applications and renewable energy systems”.

3.

Real Time Position Estimation for Induction Motors using Rotor Slot Harmonics

Speaker Name: Professor H. Bülent Ertan, Turkey Abstract: It is well known that slotting harmonics exist in most of the electrical machines. These harmonics may supply valuable information for condition monitoring of bearings, windings or rotor bars. In the literature spectral estimation techniques are commonly used for this purpose. Long sampling time and computational effort required in this kind of approach, prohibit utilization of these harmonics for rotor speed and position estimation. This study introduces a novel speed and position estimation method, which overcomes problems associated with spectral estimation techniques. In this approach extracting the required information can be done within a typical control cycle of a vector controlled drive algorithm. In the application of the method, higher order rotor slot harmonics have been utilized. The approach is explained in the paper and illustrated with experimental results. Speaker Biography: H. Bülent Ertan received the B.S. and M.S. degrees, in electrical and electronics engineering, from the Middle East Technical University (METU), Ankara, Turkey, in 1971 and 1973, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree from the University of Leeds, Leeds, U.K., in 1977. Since 1977, he has led many industry-supported projects. He also led the Intelligent Energy Conversion Group at the Turkish Scientific and Technological Research Council (TUBITAK), Space Technologies Research Institute, Ankara, for many years. Currently, he is a Professor at the Electrical and Electronics Engineering Department at METU. He is the author of more than 100 published journal and conference papers, and the coeditor of two books, “Modern Electrical Derives” (Norwell, MA: Kluwer, 2000) (NATO ASI Series), “Transformers: Analysis Design and Measurement, CRC press, 2012. His current research interests include electrical machine design and drive systems. Prof. Ertan is member of the Steering Committee of the International Conference on Electrical Machines (ICEM), Electromotion, and the founder of the Aegean International Conference on Electrical Machines and Power Electronics (ACEMP). He is a member of the Turkish Chamber of Electrical Engineers and IET and IEEE.

4.

Permanent Magnet Flux Switching Machines Topologies, Analysis and Optimization

Speaker Name: Professor Jian-Xin Shen, China Abstract: Nowadays, permanent magnet (PM) brushless machines have been attracting many research attentions and widely employed in various applications, thanks to their inherent merits such as high power density, excellent efficiency and superior controllability. In both rotary and linear PM brushless machines, there are two types of electromagnetic torques/forces: 1) the PM torque/force (also-called mutual torque/force) generated by the interaction between the magnetic fields by the armatures and magnets; 2) reluctance torque/force produced by the rotor saliency. Consequently, PM brushless machines are preferably of salience in order that both types of torques/forces could be accordingly harnessed to enhance the machine performance. Permanent magnet flux switching machine (PMFSM) is a typical salient PM machine that has been widely studied and reported over the last decades. The PMFSM has most advantages of the conventional PM brushless machines. Moreover, it employs a simple passive rotor, which is the same as that of a switched reluctance motor and hence mechanically rugged. On the other hand, the PMFSM has both armature windings and permanent magnets on the stator. Nevertheless, unlike a PM flux reversal machine which has the magnets mounted on the surface of stator teeth or a doubly-salient PM machine which allocates magnets in the stator yoke, the PMFSM has its magnets sandwiched between two stator iron teeth. This unique configuration introduces bi-polar PM-excited flux linkage in the armature windings and helps to increase the power density. Moreover, the PMFSM can easily get the heat inside the magnets due to eddy current loss dissipated, and therefore prevent the magnets from being locally overheated and demagnetized. In this paper, topologies of both rotary and linear PMFSM will be reviewed, and operation principles in both motoring and generatoring modes will be introduced. Further, practical issues, such as cogging torque/force analysis and suppression, geometric optimization, as well as enhancement of field-weakening capability, will be detailed. Finally, some prospective applications of the PMFSM will be presented and discussed. Speaker Biography: Jian-Xin Shen received the B.Eng. and M.Sc. degrees from Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, China, in 1991 and 1994, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree from Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China, in 1997, all in electrical engineering. He was with Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (1997-1999), the University of Sheffield, Sheffield, U.K. (1999-2002), and IMRA Europe SAS, U.K. Research Centre, Brighton, U.K. (2002-2004). Since 2004, he has been a professor of electrical engineering at Zhejiang University. Dr. Shen is an IEEE senior member and IET member. He has published more than 130 technical papers, and is the inventor of more than 30 patents. He was the recipient of the Prize Paper Award from the IEEE Industry Applications Society in 2003, and the Best Paper Awards from EVER Monaco in 2010 and 2011. He is the associate editor / member of editorial board of 6 journals, and the member of technical program committee / international advisory board / international steering committee of 12 international conferences. Dr. Shen’s main research interests include topologies, control and applications of permanent magnet machines and drives.

5.

Digital Control Switching Power Supply Techniques for Green IT

Speaker Name: Professor Fujio Kurokawa, Japan Abstract: In recent years, the demand for data centers has increased because of the spread of internet-based systems and services. As the number of systems increases, the power consumption becomes large. In Japan, the national project was established to save the energy in the data center and is called "Green IT Project." The dc power supply system is gaining attentions in the data center, while the ac power supply system has been widely used. The dc power supply system has advantages compared to the existing ac distribution power feeding system. The commercial ac power has to be converted to the dc voltages in order to connect with battery, which is necessary to ensure the reliability in the data center. It is then converted to the ac power again in the ac power supply system. On the other hands, the dc bus can be directly connected with the battery in the dc power supply system. The number of power conversion stages is less than ac distribution power feeding system. Since the overall efficiency of the system becomes higher by introducing higher dc bus voltage, the Higher voltage direct-current (HVDC) feeding system attract attentions. The battery is required to ensure the reliability in the data center. The voltage decreases significantly in the HVDC system when the battery is discharged. So the switching power supply unit performs against the wide input voltage. Nevertheless, the good regulation characteristic and superior dynamic response must be satisfied, keeping the high efficiency. The keynote speech reviews a digital control switching power supply for the HVDC system in data center to realize such high performance power supply system. The performance characteristics including the high efficiency, good regulation characteristics against the input voltage of the server as the load and superior transient response are realized in this converter for the HVDC system. The digital control consists of both a digital peak current mode control and the existing fast P control. The converters operate in parallel to provide the redundancy then ensure the reliability. Speaker Biography: Fujio Kurokawa was born in Yamaguchi, Japan, in 1952. He received the B. S. degree in electronic engineering from the Fukuoka Institute of Technology, Fukuoka, Japan, in 1976, and the Dr. Eng. Degree from Osaka Prefecture University, Sakai, Japan, in 1988. Since 1984, he has been with the Faculty of Engineering, Nagasaki University, and is currently a full professor of Department of Advanced Technology and Science for Sustainable Development. His research and teaching interests are in the area of dc-dc converter, ac-dc converter, inverter and their digital control for telecommunication and information system, for example, a high frequency digital control for telecommunications power supply in HVDC system, active energy management for server of data centre, renewable energy technologies, distributed and micro-grid system technologies, smart community technologies, power electronics technologies in aerospace and automobile, control for power plant of thermal power station and ship, switching power supply for lighting system and so forth. He has experiences as a member of IEC of INTELEC at present, IEEE PELS Japan Fukuoka Chapter Chair at 2011, the vice-chairman of Organizing Committee of INTELEC 2009, a General Chair of ICRERA(International Conference on Renewable Energy Research and Applications) 2012, a General Chair of IEEE PEDS (Power Electronics and Drive Systems) 2013, Co-General Cahir of IEEE PoweReng 2013, Co-General Cahir of PEMC 2014 and so on. Also, he has recipients of IEEE　Fellow　Award 2011 (for contributions to switching power converter control), IEEE Thanks Award 2011, Best Special Session Paper Award in 2012 by the IEEE ICMLA, Outstanding Paper Award in 2009 by the IEEE INTELEC, Paper Award in 2008 by the Japan Universities Association for Computer Education, Outstanding Paper Award in 2007 by the International Conference on Electrical Machines and Systems and so forth. Prof. Kurokawa is a Fellow of IEEE, a Fellow member of the Illuminating Engineering Institute of Japan, a senior member of IEICE of Japan, a senior member of the Institute of Electrical Engineers of Japan, and a senior member of the Information Processing Society of Japan.

6.

Energy Management with Energy Storage: Control Strategies and Design Methodology Suitable for Power Hybridization of Vehicles and Renewable Energies

Speaker Name: Professor Brayima Dakyo, France Abstract: A micro power generation with a diesel systems and renewable energy is drastically subject to disturbances directly attributed to the fluctuations and the intermittency of the resources. To ensure availability of energy, long life and efficiency of the system it appears highly recommended to use storage units. According to the formulation of the problem of energy storage, time or frequency properties tied to the available technologies should be linked to the problem of multi-objective management of energy. This proposal discussion deals with strategies for managing energy in a power system including wind, diesel engine, flywheel, battery and super capacitor as hybridization candidates. A generic approach to design is associated. Technically, electrical power generation systems of fully renewable energy are not achievable for commonly use of electric power. The reason why is that the resources availability matching the demand requirement is not always ensured. Therefore, hybridization of conventional sources (oil or gas) with renewable sources and storage devices is the solution used in recent years. The main way to target sustainability (minimizing Co2 emission) is then to maximize penetration ratio of "green power" involved with renewable sources. According to energy storage issue, the properties of available technologies can be spread on dual energy-power definition, related to time horizon of effectiveness Basically, a DC link is often use as common coupling solution, in such a case because of the wind generator power fluctuation, instability occurs and different storage devices could be used to absorb disturbances. As established according the power range, the use of battery technology provides a low power but high energy capacity, while the Super Capacitor or flywheel have a high power capacity but low energy. So, how can we manage dynamically the batteries and SC transient energy in order to absorb damaging middle range or high frequencies current? Recent studies have given some solutions the purpose will deal with. The energy management systems, the renewable energy sources, the energy storage systems and the hybridization, will be addressed reviewing sample cases approach in some recent studies or demonstrative experimental plants. Speaker Biography: Prof. Brayima DAKYO was born in Burkina Faso (West Africa). Education: He has received Engineer Dipl. (1984) Doctor in Engineering (1987) degrees from Dakar University (Senegal). From University of Le Havre (France) he received Ph D degree (1988) and Habilitation diploma (1997) Professional position: Dr Dakyo has joined the University of Le Havre as assistant professor(MdC) from 1989 to 1999, in the Faculty of Sciences and Technology. He was co-founder of Power Electronic Research Laboratory (LEPII), in 1989 and founder of the Electrical and Automatic Research Laboratory (GREAH) in 1999 Dr Dakyo has Headed the GREAH laboratory from 1999 to 2007 and has been reelected in 2012. Since 2000 he is full Professor of Electrical Engineering and the main leader of the renewable energy and storage activities of the Research Team of Le Havre (GREAH). (17 full professors and Assistant professors plus 20 Ph D students among whom 6 are averagely involved in renewable energies field) Professor Dakyo is the main advisor of the electrical engineering department. Research activities: Professor Dakyo current interests include power electronic, converter fed electrical machines, electrically powered systems, wind and solar energy systems, Multisource and hybrid applications, diagnostic. Professor Dakyo has published and co-authored more than 100 technical papers in scientific journals and conference proceedings since 1987. He has been the advisor of 12 Ph.D. thesis and numerous M.Sc. students. Co author of three books (power electronic, marine & wind energy, power management) He as been “Best Paper” Awarded twice from conference EVER Monaco in 2011 and 2012. “Outstanding paper” Awarded from ICRERA conference Nagasaki in 2012. 5 years R&D collaborative project with Thales Air System on innovative power supply for radar subsystems. Coordinator of the French R&D cluster for offshore win farm application located in Normandy. Dr Dakyo is Member of European Power Electronic and Applications Association (EPE), Member of French Electrical Engineering Association (CLUB EEA). Member of IEEE society.

7.

Diagnosis and Detection Fault in Induction Machine

Speaker Name: Professor Youcef Soufi, Algeria Abstract: Nowadays, an improved reliability of the electric drives turns to be a crucial requirement in order to guarantee a high production-capability of the manufacturing process. In spite of its popularity, the induction motor suffers from the likelihood of some disturbing faults, whose diagnosis is currently given an increasing attention in many industrial fields. Recently, research has picked up a fervent pace in the area of fault diagnosis of electrical machines. The manufacturers and users of these drives are now keen to include diagnostic features in the software to improve salability and reliability. Apart from locating specific harmonic components in the line current (popularly known as motor current signature analysis), other signals, such as speed, torque, noise, vibration etc., are also explored for their frequency contents. Sometimes, altogether different techniques, such as thermal measurements, chemical analysis, etc., are also employed to find out the nature and the degree of the fault. Broken bars, eccentricity and short circuit between turns in the stator are the relatively common faults in induction motors. These effects have been extensively investigated during the last decade. Several methods have been developed for the identification of this kind of faults, originally based on thermal and vibration monitoring, followed by axial flux monitoring, current monitoring, instantaneous power monitoring, air-gap torque monitoring, shaft current monitoring. In this keynote speech, the mechanical and electrical faults which can occur in the induction machine will be reviewed and the different methods for diagnostics of such faults will be introduced. Then the most frequently used method such as the stator current evolution, motor current spectral analysis and d-q phasor analysis of the stator phase-currents will be detailed. Finally, some of prospective applications of the considered method will be presented and discussed. Speaker Biography: Youcef SOUFI received the B.Eng.(1991) and Doctorate degrees from the University of Annaba, Algeria and the Magister degree in 1997 from University of Tébéssa, Algeria in Electrical Engineering. Since 2000 he has been with the Department of Electrical Engineering, Laboratory of Electrical Engineering, University of Tébessa, Algeria where he is currently an Associate Professor in electrical engineering. His main and current major research interests include electrical machines, diagnostic, wind and solar energy, power electronics and drives Applied to renewable and sustainable energy. He has published and co-authored more than 80 technical papers in scientific journals and conference proceedings since 2000. He is the member of editorial board of 2 journals, and the member of technical program committee / international advisory board / international steering committee of 08 international conferences. His email address is: y_soufi@yahoo.fr.

8.

Design for reliability in Power Electronics in renewable energy systems – status and future

Speaker Name: Professor Frede Blaabjerg, Denmark Abstract: Advances in power electronics enable efficient and flexible processing of electric power in the application of renewable energy sources, electric vehicles, adjustable-speed drives, etc.  More and more efforts are devoted to having better power electronic systems in terms of reliability to ensure high availability, long lifetime, sufficient robustness and low maintenance cost.  However, the reliability predictions are still dominantly according to models and terms, such as MIL-HDBK-217H handbook models, mean-time-to-failure (MTTF), and mean-time-between-failures (MTBF).  In this presentation, a collection of methodologies based on physics-of-failure (PoF) approach and mission profile analysis are presented to perform reliability-oriented design of power electronic systems. The corresponding design procedures and reliability prediction models are provided.  Further on, a case study on 10 MW wind power converters is discussed with emphasis on the reliability critical components IGBTs and DC-link capacitors.  Different aspects of improving the reliability of the power converters are mapped.  Finally, the challenges and opportunities to achieve more reliable power electronic systems are addressed.  Speaker Biography: He was employed at ABB-Scandia, Randers, from 1987-1988. During 1988-1992 he was a PhD. student at Aalborg University. He became an Assistant Profes­sor in 1992 at Aalborg University, in 1996 Associate Professor and in 1998 full professor in power electronics and drives the same place. In 2000 he was visiting professor in University of Padova, Italy as well as he became part-time programme research leader at Research  Center Risoe in wind turbines. He has been dean of the faculties of Engineering, Science and Medicine at Aalborg University, Denmark in the time period of 2006-2010. In 2002 he was visiting professor at Curtin University of Technology, Perth, Australia. His research areas are in power electronics, static power converters, ac drives, switched reluctance drives, modelling, characterization of power semiconductor devices and simulation, power quality, wind turbines, custom power systems, reliability and green power inverter. He has been involved in more than fifty research projects with the industry. Presently he is leader of the Center of Reliable Power Electronics (CORPE).  He is the author or co-author of more than 700 publications in his research fields including the book “Control in Power Electronics” (Eds. M.P. Kazmierkowski, R. Krishnan, F. Blaabjerg) 2002, Academic Press.  Out of those +450 papers are registered in IEEExplore with more than 180 ISI-registered journal papers. From 2006-2012 he has been Editor in Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics as well as he has been Distingueshed lecturer for the IEEE Power Electronics Society from 2005 to 2008. In 2010-2011 he was Distigueshed Lecturer of IEEE Industry Applications Society and now he is prominent lecturer. He is active in national and international research councils. He received the 1995 Angelos Award for his contribution in modulation technique and control of electric drives, and an Annual Teacher prize at Aalborg University, also 1995. In 1998 he received the Outstanding Young Power Electronics Engineer Award from the IEEE Power Electronics Society. He has received eleven IEEE Prize paper awards during the last ten years (the last one in 2008) and an other prize paper award at PELINCEC Poland 2005. In 2002 he received the C.Y. O’Connor fellowship from Perth, Australia, in 2003 the Statoil-prize for his contributions in Power Electronics and in 2004 the Grundfos Prize in acknowledgement of his international scientific research in power electronics. He became IEEE Fellow in 2003. He received the IEEE Power Electronics Society Distingueshed Service Award in 2009 and the EPE-PEMC Council award in 2010. Recently he got awarded an ERC Advanced Grant – “Harmony”

9.

Power Line Communications: a Technology for the Smart Grid

Speaker Name: Professor Andrea M. Tonello, Italy Abstract: The telecommunication infrastructure is an important component of the Smart Grid. Power line communication (PLC) is among the most important data communication technology candidates for application in the Smart Grid since the grid is not only the information source but it also offers the infrastructure for the information delivery. This talk will offer an overview of PLC and its recent advances. The role and application of PLC in HV, MV and LV networks will be discussed. State-of-the-art solutions, standards as well as open challenges will be described. In particular, we will discuss the important topics of channel and noise modeling and report up-to-date results about statistical channel modeling. The main challenges of physical layer design for both narrow-band (NB-PLC) and broad-band PLC (BB-PLC) to encompass the presence of channel attenuation and frequency selectivity, interference, and various noise sources will be presented. We will describe existing and emerging modulation approaches. Some similarities and differences with the wireless communications scenario will also be discussed. Speaker Biography: Andrea M. Tonello received the Doctor of Engineering degree in Electronics (1996, summa cum laude), and the Doctor of Research degree in Electronics and Telecommunications (2003), both from the University of Padova, Italy. In 1997, he became a Member of Technical Staff at Lucent Technologies Bell Laboratories, where he worked on the development of baseband algorithms for cellular handsets. He worked at Bell Labs - Advanced Wireless Technology Laboratory until 2002, during which time he was appointed Technical Manager and Managing Director of Bell Labs, Italy. Herein, he conducted research on wireless systems, air interface design, performance analysis, and was involved in the standardization of the evolution of 2G and 3G cellular technology. In 2003, Dr. Tonello joined the Dipartimento di Ingegneria Elettrica, Gestionale e Meccanica (DIEGM) of the University of Udine, Italy, where he is an Aggregate Professor and founder of the Wireless and Power Line Communication Lab. He is also the founder and CEO of WiTiKee, a spin-off company of the lab working in the field of communications for the smart grid. He has been involved in several European coordinated actions through FP5-FP7 EU funded projects. Dr. Tonello has received several awards, including the Lucent Bell Labs Recognition of Excellence award (2003), the Distinguished Visiting Fellowship from the Royal Academy of Engineering, UK (2010), and the Distinguished Lecturer Award from the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society (2011). He also received the 2007 EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing Best Paper Award. He co-authored the papers that received the best paper awards at the IEEE International Symposium on Power Line Communications (ISPLC) in 2010 and in 2011, and at the IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference 2011 Spring. Dr. Tonello serves as an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology and as an Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Communications. He was the General Chair of IEEE ISPLC 2011 in Udine, Italy, and he served as a TPC Co-chair in several other conferences. He is the Vice-Chair of the IEEE Communications Society Technical Committee on Power Line Communications. ( web: www.diegm.uniud.it/tonello )

 

 

Invited Speakers

1.

Grid Connected Converters

Speaker Name: Hector Zelaya De La Parra, ABB Abstract: The use of Grid Connected converters in the power system network continues to increase at accelerated pace due the introduction of renewables sources of energy as well as the widespread application of FACTS and advantages of HVDC in the transmission of power over long distances. This tendency will obviously continue as the quest to optimize power flow, reduce the network loss, increase power system damping and improve voltage stability become more important in the modern society of the 21st Century The presentation will cover a historical background in the development of grid connected converters and will then look at present configurations and future tendencies in the area Speaker Biography: Hector Zelaya De La Parra (SM'02) was born in Mexico City, Mexico, in 1953. He received the B.Sc.degree in electrical engineering from the Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico City, in 1976, the M.Sc. degree from Loughborough University, Leicestershire,U.K., in 1981, and the Ph.D. degree from Bradford University, Bradford, U.K., in 1987.From 1989 to 1997, he was a member of the Power Electronics and Traction Systems Group, Birmingham University, Birmingham, U.K. For the past 15 years, he has been with ABB Corporate Research,Västerås, Sweden, where he is currently a Senior Principal Scientist. His current research interests include power electronics, grid connected converters, switched-mode power supplies, motor drives, and control strategies. Dr. Hector Zelaya De La Parra is a Senior Member of the IEEE and a Registered Charter Engineer in the U.K.

2.	Cost Benefit Analysis of Smart Grid
Speaker Name: Marcelo MASERA, European Commission JRC Abstract: Speaker Biography:

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Remote Laboratories and Industrial Electronics Engineering Education

Speaker Name: Luis Gomes, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Faculty of Sciences and Technology Abstract: Very often, the concepts of learning and teaching appear somehow mixed together although their use emphasizes who is considered to be at the center of the process. At European level, Bologna Declaration has put the emphasis on the "What students do?" paradigm, shifting the center of the process to the student. Such paradigm also supports lifelong learning objectives. The remote laboratory concept provides a tool to sustain this shift towards a student-centric teaching approach. However, within engineering education, this means an additional stress on laboratories, as a result from the pressure to increase experimentation, and raises the question: how to handle overcrowded laboratories? Remote labs present a solution to this problem, allowing students to access experiments without time and location restrictions. Remote laboratories have been introduced during the last decades into engineering education processes, as well as integrated within e-learning frameworks offered to engineering and science students. In this presentation, after a brief overview of state of the art technologies in the development of remote labs and presentation of several recent examples of remote labs in several areas related with industrial electronics education, some current trends and challenges are also identified and discussed, as well as a historical perspective on related technical activities in IES will be provided. Speaker Biography: Luís Gomes received his Electrotech. Eng. degree from Universidade Técnica de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal, in 1981, and a PhD degree in Digital Systems from Universidade Nova de Lisboa, in 1997. He is an Associate Professor at the Electrical Engineering Department, Faculty of Sciences and Technology of Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal and a researcher at UNINOVA Institute, Portugal. From 1984 to 1987, he was with EID, a Portuguese medium enterprise, in the area of electronic system design, in the R&D engineering department. He was made a "Profesor Onorific", at Transilvanea University of Brasov, Romania in 2007. His main interests include the usage of Petri nets and other concurrency models applied to reconfigurable and embedded systems co-design. Dr. Gomes is author of more than 200 papers and chapters published in journals, books and conference proceedings. He was co-editor of the books "Hardware Design and Petri Nets" (Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2000), "Advances on remote laboratories and e-learning experiences" (University of Deusto, 2007), and "Behavioral Modeling for Embedded Systems and Technologies: Applications for Design and Implementation" (IGI Global, 2009). Dr. Gomes has been serving in different roles for the organization of conferences, including Program Co-Chair, Track Co-Chair, Special Sessions Co-Chairs, Tutorials Co-Chair, as well as General Co-Chair for several IEEE conferences (ETFA'2003, SIES'2007, SIES'2008, ICELIE'2008, ICELIE'2009, INDIN'2011, and ICIT'2012). Dr. Gomes was responsible for the organization of the Petri Nets'1998 International Conference on Applications and Theory of Petri nets, among other events. Dr. Gomes has served as IEEE IES VP-Workshops during 2007-2010, Chair/Co-Chair of the IES Education in Engineering and Industrial Technologies Technical Committee from 2005 to 2009, and is serving as IES VP-Conferences during 2011-2013, and Chair/Co-Chair of the IES Technical Committee on Electronic Systems on Chip during 2010-2013. Dr. Gomes has been serving as Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, between 2005 and 2008, and after 2011, as Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, since 2009, and a member of the Editorial Board of LNCS ToPNoC - Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency, since 2006, among other editorial boards.

Tutorials

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Power electronics and microgrid control for power system applications: introduction to microgrids

Tutorial Info: Click Here to Download Tutorial Time: 90 Minutes Author Name: Dr. Adel Nasiri Author Biography: Education Ph. D. -Electrical Engineering, Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT), Chicago, Illinois, August 2004. M.S. - Electrical Engineering, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, July 1998 B.S.- Electrical Engineering, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, July 1996 Research Interests Modeling, analysis, design, and control of power electronic converters Renewable energy systems and sources Wind and solar energy integration Energy storage for renewable energy systems Microgrids Switched-mode power supplies Adjustable speed drives Digital control of converters and motor drives using digital signal processors (DSP) and microprocessors Applications of power electronics and motor drives in medical devices Power electronic interface for electro-mechanical and electro-chemical systems Author Web: www.uwm.edu/~nasiri

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Energy storage interfaces to grids and microgrids

Tutorial Info: Click Here to Download Tutorial Time: 90 Minutes Author Name: Dr. Adel Nasiri Author Biography: Education Ph. D. -Electrical Engineering, Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT), Chicago, Illinois, August 2004. M.S. - Electrical Engineering, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, July 1998 B.S.- Electrical Engineering, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, July 1996 Research Interests Modeling, analysis, design, and control of power electronic converters Renewable energy systems and sources Wind and solar energy integration Energy storage for renewable energy systems Microgrids Switched-mode power supplies Adjustable speed drives Digital control of converters and motor drives using digital signal processors (DSP) and microprocessors Applications of power electronics and motor drives in medical devices Power electronic interface for electro-mechanical and electro-chemical systems Author Web: www.uwm.edu/~nasiri

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Synchronized phasor and frequency measurements in power systems

Tutorial Info: Click Here to Download Tutorial Time: 180 Minutes Author Name: Prof. Mukul Chandorkar Author Biography: Education: Ph.D.: University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA (1995) M. Tech.: Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India (1987) B. Tech.: Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India (1984) Work experience: ABB Corporate Research, Baden, Switzerland (1996-2000) Soft Switching Technologies Corp., Middleton, Wisconsin, USA (1995-1996) Kirloskar Electric Co. Ltd., Mysore, India (1987-1988) Larsen and Toubro Limited, Mumbai, India (1984-1986) Author Web: http://www.ee.iitb.ac.in/~mukul/

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The Economics of Wind Power

Tutorial Info: Click Here to Download Tutorial Time: 120 Minutes Author Name: Assoc.Prof.Ahmad Zahedi Author Biography: Current Research Areas : Power System and Power System Modelling Renewable Energy System, Solar Photovoltaic, Grid-Connected, Stand-Alone, RAPS Systems, Power Quality Distributed Generation Technologies Energy Efficiency and Energy Management Engineering & Economics of Renewable Energy systems Modelling, Optimization of Energy Systems Author Web: http://www.ece.jcu.edu.au/Staff/Profiles/ahmad-zahedi/index.shtml

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Battery charging wind turbine systems

Tutorial Info: Click Here to Download Tutorial Time: 180 Minutes Author Name: Giri Venkataramanan Author Biography: Giri Venkataramanan studied electrical engineering at the Government College of Technology, Coimbatore, India, and received his BS from the University of Madras, India. He moved to the United States to continue his studies and obtained his MS and PhD from the California Institute of Technology and the University of Wisconsin–Madison, respectively. Upon graduation, Dr. Venkataramanan moved west to take a teaching appointment at Montana State University–Bozeman. Dr. Venkataramanan returned to UW–Madison as a faculty member in 1999. Author Web:

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Energy efficiency and power quality

Tutorial Info: Click Here to Download Tutorial Time: 90 Minutes Author Name: Hector Zelaya De La Parra Author Biography: Hector Zelaya De La Parra (SM'02) was born in Mexico City, Mexico, in 1953. He received the B.Sc.degree in electrical engineering from the Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico City, in 1976, the M.Sc. degree from Loughborough University, Leicestershire,U.K., in 1981, and the Ph.D. degree from Bradford University, Bradford, U.K., in 1987.From 1989 to 1997, he was a member of the Power Electronics and Traction Systems Group, Birmingham University, Birmingham, U.K. For the past 15 years, he has been with ABB Corporate Research,Västerås, Sweden, where he is currently a Senior Principal Scientist. His current research interests include power electronics, grid connected converters, switched-mode power supplies, motor drives, and control strategies. Dr. Hector Zelaya De La Parra is a Senior Member of the IEEE and a Registered Charter Engineer in the U.K. Author Web:

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Petri nets based digital controller development

Tutorial Info: Click Here to Download Tutorial Time: 180 Minutes Author Name: Luis Gomes Author Biography: Luís Gomes received his Electrotech. Eng. degree from Universidade Técnica de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal, in 1981, and a PhD degree in Digital Systems from Universidade Nova de Lisboa, in 1997. He is an Associate Professor at the Electrical Engineering Department, Faculty of Sciences and Technology of Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal and a researcher at UNINOVA Institute, Portugal. From 1984 to 1987, he was with EID, a Portuguese medium enterprise, in the area of electronic system design, in the R&D engineering department. He was made a "Profesor Onorific", at Transilvanea University of Brasov, Romania in 2007. His main interests include the usage of Petri nets and other concurrency models applied to reconfigurable and embedded systems co-design. Dr. Gomes is author of more than 200 papers and chapters published in journals, books and conference proceedings. He was co-editor of the books "Hardware Design and Petri Nets" (Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2000), "Advances on remote laboratories and e-learning experiences" (University of Deusto, 2007), and "Behavioral Modeling for Embedded Systems and Technologies: Applications for Design and Implementation" (IGI Global, 2009). Dr. Gomes has been serving in different roles for the organization of conferences, including Program Co-Chair, Track Co-Chair, Special Sessions Co-Chairs, Tutorials Co-Chair, as well as General Co-Chair for several IEEE conferences (ETFA'2003, SIES'2007, SIES'2008, ICELIE'2008, ICELIE'2009, INDIN'2011, and ICIT'2012). Dr. Gomes was responsible for the organization of the Petri Nets'1998 International Conference on Applications and Theory of Petri nets, among other events. Dr. Gomes has served as IEEE IES VP-Workshops during 2007-2010, Chair/Co-Chair of the IES Education in Engineering and Industrial Technologies Technical Committee from 2005 to 2009, and is serving as IES VP-Conferences during 2011-2013, and Chair/Co-Chair of the IES Technical Committee on Electronic Systems on Chip during 2010-2013. Dr. Gomes has been serving as Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, between 2005 and 2008, and after 2011, as Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, since 2009, and a member of the Editorial Board of LNCS ToPNoC - Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency, since 2006, among other editorial boards. Author Web:

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Principles of Communication over Power Lines: Technologies and Standards

Tutorial Info: Click Here to Download Tutorial Time: 90 Minutes Author Name: Prof. Andrea M. Tonello Author Biography: Andrea M. Tonello received the Doctor of Engineering degree in Electronics (1996, summa cum laude), and the Doctor of Research degree in Electronics and Telecommunications (2003), both from the University of Padova, Italy. In 1997, he became a Member of Technical Staff at Lucent Technologies Bell Laboratories, where he worked on the development of baseband algorithms for cellular handsets. He worked at Bell Labs - Advanced Wireless Technology Laboratory until 2002, during which time he was appointed Technical Manager and Managing Director of Bell Labs, Italy. Herein, he conducted research on wireless systems, air interface design, performance analysis, and was involved in the standardization of the evolution of 2G and 3G cellular technology. In 2003, Dr. Tonello joined the Dipartimento di Ingegneria Elettrica, Gestionale e Meccanica (DIEGM) of the University of Udine, Italy, where he is an Aggregate Professor and founder of the Wireless and Power Line Communication Lab. He is also the founder and CEO of WiTiKee, a spin-off company of the lab working in the field of communications for the smart grid. He has been involved in several European coordinated actions through FP5-FP7 EU funded projects. Dr. Tonello has received several awards, including the Lucent Bell Labs Recognition of Excellence award (2003), the Distinguished Visiting Fellowship from the Royal Academy of Engineering, UK (2010), and the Distinguished Lecturer Award from the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society (2011). He also received the 2007 EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing Best Paper Award. He co-authored the papers that received the best paper awards at the IEEE International Symposium on Power Line Communications (ISPLC) in 2010 and in 2011, and at the IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference 2011 Spring. Dr. Tonello serves as an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology and as an Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Communications. He was the General Chair of IEEE ISPLC 2011 in Udine, Italy, and he served as a TPC Co-chair in several other conferences. He is the Vice-Chair of the IEEE Communications Society Technical Committee on Power Line Communications. Author Web: http://www.diegm.uniud.it/tonello

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FPGA Technology for Renewable Energy Systems – State of the Art and Trends

Tutorial Info: Click Here to Download Tutorial Time: 90 Minutes Author Name: Prof. Rachid Beguenane Author Biography: Dr. Rachid Beguenane received his D.E.A. and Ph.D. degrees, both in electrical engineering from CNAM, Paris, France in 1991 and 1994 respectively. During this period, he conducted his Ph.D. research work at École des Mines de Douai, France. From 1995 to 1997, he held a teaching and research position at the Professional Institute of Amiens, France. During 1997/1998, he was a post-doctoral researcher at the School of Information Technology and Engineering of the University of Ottawa, Canada. From 1998 to 2002, he has been employed as ASIC/FPGA design engineer by Telexis inc., Nortel Networks, and Prova Scientific Corp. in Ottawa and Montreal, Canada. He mainly designed and verified IC chips for telecommunication industry. From 2002 to 2009, he was associate professor at Université du Québec à Chicoutimi (UQAC), Canada. Since 2009, he is associate professor in electrical and computer engineering department of Royal Military College of Canada. Dr. Beguenane has authored and co-authored more than 60 technical papers. Author Web: http://wwwdsa.uqac.ca/~rbeguena/

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