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2015 IEEE 15th International Conference on Environment and Electrical Engineering (EEEIC 2015)

Rome, Italy 10-13 June 2015

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Reliability Analysis: A Case Study in Designing Power Distribution System of TehranOil Refinery. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

Amir Hossein Boojar Arani, Reza Shojaee Baghini and Golmehr Mirshekari Chargari

Active and Reactive Power Control of a Variable Speed Pumped Storage System usingDFIM’s Stator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

Usman Nasir and Minxiao Han

Acoustic Flashover Location Detector for Gas Insulated Switchgears at a Fraction of Cost

Arun Varkey and Suyog Kothari

RFID System on Electrical Substation Equipments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Wendy Navarro, Yackeline Ternera, John Candelo and Juan Carlos Velez

Variable Reverse Power Flow-Part I: A-R-OPF with Reactive Power of Wind Stations . . . . 21

Aouss Gabash and Pu Li

Variable Reverse Power Flow-Part II: Electricity Market Model and Results . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

Aouss Gabash and Pu Li

Improvement for Electrical Transients of Safety Bus using High Speed Power TransferScheme in Nuclear Power Plants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

Moon-Young Kim, Choong-Heui Jeong and Seong-Hyon Ji

Comparative Analysis of SPWM and Square Wave Output Filtration Based Pure SineWave Inverter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

Muhammad Bilal Cheema, Syed Ali Hasnain, Muhammad Maaz Ahsan, Musab Umerand Gulraiz Ahmad

Application of artificial neural networks for electric load forecasting on railway transport . 43

Alexander Komyakov, Viktor Erbes and Vladimir Ivanchenko

A Greenhouse Climate Model for Control Design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

Yuanping Su and Lihong Xu

A New Passive Compensation Technique to Economically Improve the Power Quality ofTwo Identical Single-Phase Feeders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

Yassine Terriche, Djallel Kerdoun and Hind Djeghloud

A MILP Model for Optimal Charging Coordination of Storage Devices and ElectricVehicles Considering V2G Technology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60

Carlos Francisco Sabillon Antunez, John Fredy Franco Baquero, Marcos Rider andRuben Romero

Effects of Double Ground Faults in Wind Farms Collector Cables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66

Gaetano Zizzo and Diego La Cascia

Simplified Model of Brushless Synchronous Generator for Real Time Simulation . . . . . . . . . . 71

Maria Dolores Lopez, Carlos A. Platero, Emilio Rebollo and Francisco R. Blanquez

An Improved Distribution System Reconfiguration Using Hybrid GA with PSO. . . . . . . . . . . 77

Dawit Fekadu Teshome and Kuo Lung Lian

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A Continuous Risk Estimation Approach for Corporate Environmental ComplianceManagement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83

Heiko Thimm

Comparison of Voltage Sags Prediction Methods in Power Networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89

Xavier Zambrano, Araceli Hernandez, Rosa M. de Castro and Mohamed Izzeddine

Design and Testing of Thermoelectric Generator embedded Clean Forced Draft BiomassCookstove. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95

Risha Mal

Loss Evaluation of Interior Permanent-Magnet Synchronous Machine Drives UsingT-Type Multilevel Converters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101

Aboubakr Salem, Frederik De Belie, Peter Sergeant, Ahmed Abdallh and Jan Melkebeek

Plasma position control simulations with PSIM / Simulink to validate the WESTdivertor coils power supplies topology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107

Nicolas Dumas, Hubert Dougnac, Remy Nouailletas, Eric Nardon, Philippe Moreau,Olivier Baulaigue, Francois Saint-Laurent and Sylvain Bremond

Modeling and Simulation of a Wind Model Using a Spectral Representation Method . . . . . .

Abrous Ahmed, Wamkeue Rene and Ouhrouche Mohand

Computational methods for technical validation of demand response products . . . . . . . . . . . . 117

Simone Paoletti, Antonio Vicino and Donato Zarrilli

Microgrid Fuel Optimal Operation Considering Prediction of Wind Power andPhotovoltaic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123

Zhang Xiaobo and Zhang Baohui

Demand Side Management and Charging and Discharging for Multiple PHEVs toReduce Cost and Reduce Fossil Fuel using Game Theory in Smart Grid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128

Mohammad Rasoul Rahmatian, Hamdi Abdi, Sajad Rezaei and Hamed Rahimzadeh

Proving DC non-homogeneity in a stranded conductor by advanced 3Delectromechanical simulation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133

Zeroukhi Youcef and Napieralska Juszczak Ewa

Single phase Inverter with Wide-Input Voltage Range for Solar Photovoltaic Application . 139

Ibrahim Oladimeji, Nor Zaihar Yahaya and Nordin Saad

Energy Management Systems and Tertiary Regulation in Hierarchical ControlArchitectures for Islanded Microgrids . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144

Eleonora Riva Sanseverino, Maria Luisa Di Silvestre, Ninh Quang Nguyen, LilianaMineo, Adriana C. Luna, Josep M. Guerrero, Juan C. Vasquez and Moises Graells

ESCO market in Turkey: Challenges and Opportunities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150

Erkan Dursun and Paolo Bertoldi

Type Tests of JT-60SA Fast Plasma Position Control Coil (FPPCC) Power Supplies. . . . . . 156

Pietro Zito, Alessandro Lampasi, Luca Novello, Makoto Matsukawa, KatsuhiroShimada, Danilo Cinarelli, Marco Portesine, Fioravante Fasce, Ander Dorronsoroand Dionisio Vian

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A Grid-Connected PV Interface System Based On The DAB-Converter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161

Mostafa I. Marei, Hadi El-Helw and Mohamed Al-Hasheem

A New Fast Peak Current Controller for Transient Voltage Faults for Power Converters . . . 166

Jesus Munoz-Cruzado-Alba, Javier Villegas-Nunez, Jose Alberto Vite-Frıas, EduardoGalvan-Dıez and Juan Manuel Carrasco-Solıs

A new maximum power point tracking approach for decreasing convergence time . . . . . . . . . 172

Mustafa Engin Basoglu and Bekir Cakir

A Practical study for a new measuring tool for EHV Bus Bar Fault Detection . . . . . . . . . . . .

Ali El-Rifaie, Rania El-Sharkawy and Sherif Haggag

Experiments on Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP) generated by laser-plasma interaction innanosecond regime . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182

Fabrizio Consoli, Riccardo De Angelis, Pierluigi Andreoli, Mattia Cipriani, GiuseppeCristofari, Giorgio Di Giorgio and Francesco Ingenito

Optical Self-Interference Cancellation System for Improved Spectrum Sensing inCognitive Radios . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188

Matthew Chang, Yanhua Deng and Paul Prucnal

Strategic Behavior of Generation Companies in the Generation Scheduling Process . . . . . . . 192

Sergei Palamarchuk

An algorithm for simulating end-user behaviour in a real time pricing market . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198

Gabriele Pecoraro, Eleonora Riva Sanseverino, Salvatore Favuzza, Fabio Massaro,Gaetano Zizzo, Giovanni Galioto and Mariano Giuseppe Ippolito

Effective Use Of Continuity Testing To Assess Grounding System Integrity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202

Darren Woodhouse, Ian McLagan and Stephen Palmer

Seasonal based energy performance analyzes of Cd-Te and c-Si photovoltaic modules . . . . . 208

Mustafa Engin Basoglu, Abdulvehhap KazdaloGlu, Tarik ErfIdan, Mehmet Zeki BIlgInand Bekir Cakir

Modified Givens Method for the Analysis Power System Static Stability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213

Sergey Kovalenko, Inga Zicmane and Georgi Georgiev

DDS Based Interoperability Framework for Smart Grid Testbed Infrastructure. . . . . . . . . . . . 219

Tarek Youssef, Ahmed Elsayed and Osama Mohammed

Online Identification of all DFIG Parameters and Speed Based on Variable StructureTheory. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Abdelhak Djoudi, Seddik Bacha, El Madjid Berkouk, Saida Makhloufi and AbdelghaniChachmi

Stator powers controller with rotor currents sensor-less, and rotor flux observer usingsliding mode of WECS based on DFIG and matrix converter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Abdelhak Djoudi, El Madjid Berkouk and Seddik Bacha

Pulsed Power Supply System of the ASDEX Upgrade Tokamak Research Facility . . . . . . . . . 237

Claus-Peter Kasemann, Ernst Grois, Ferdinand Stobbe, Michael Rott, Klaus Klasterand Asdex Upgrade Team

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Control strategies and real time operation of storage systems integrated with MVphotovoltaic plants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243

Stefano Barsali, Romano Giglioli, Marco Giuntoli, Giovanni Lutzemberger andDavide Poli

Online Optimizer for Distribution Networks on Neplan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249

Stefano Breganni, Franco D’Urso, Antonio Giarratana, Paolo Gregoraci, MarioManzini, Enrico Pons, Maurizio Repetto, Lorenzo Vandoni and Giancarlo Zamboni

Electricity Consumption Assessment and PV System Integration in Grid-ConnectedOffice Buildings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255

Filippo Spertino, Gianfranco Chicco, Paolo Di Leo, Alessandro Ciocia, StefanoCorgnati and Daniela Raimondo

A Low-cost Sensor Based on Time-Domain Reflectometry for Water Level Monitoring inEnvironmental Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261

Konstantinos Loizou, Eftichios Koutroulis, Dimitrios Zalikas and Georgios Liontas

Electric field distribution in glass and porcelain pin insulators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267

Paul Taklaja, Ivar Kiitam, Jaan Niitsoo, Joni Kluss and Petri Hyvonen

Application of Gyrator Concept to Control and Operation of Boost Converter . . . . . . . . . . . . 272

Hussein Mohammad Al-Masri, Fahad Alhuwaishel, Fahad Alismail, Sinan Sabeeh,Haitham Kanakri and Mark Ehsani

Design Optimization of a RES-based Power-Supply System for Wireless Sensor Networks 278

Ioannis Mandourarakis and Eftichios Koutroulis

Design of electronic programmable board with user-friendly touch screen interface formanagement and control of thermosolar plant parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 284

Paolo Visconti, Paolo Costantini and Giorgio Cavalera

Assessment of Lightning Induced Voltages in Buried Cables for SPD Implementation . . . . . 290

Francois Grange, Sebastien Journet, Simon Fortin and Farid Dawalibi

Distribution Network Expansion Planning. Real Distribution Network Case Study . . . . . . . . 297

Constantin Barbulescu, Stefan Kilyeni, Attila Simo and Cosmin Oros

The Cost and Robustness of Cyber-Physical Power Grid With a Novel Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303

Zhengcheng Dong, Yanjun Fang and Meng Tian

Adaptive Delay Bank Filter for Selective Elimination of harmonics in SRF-PLL structures 308

Slobodan Lubura, Milomir Soja, Srdjan Lale, Milica Ristovic and Marko Ikic

Dielectric Characteristics of Electric Vehicle Traction Motor Winding Insulation underThermal Ageing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313

Konstantinos N. Gyftakis, Malgorzata Sumislawska, Darren Kavanagh, David Howeyand Malcolm McCulloch

Cost/benefit analyses of storage systems applications for the provision of dispatchingservices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 319

Michele Benini, Silvia Canevese, Diego Cirio, Angelo Cavaliere, Antonio Gatti, PaoloGrisi and Andrea Pitto

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Energy efficiency in high speed railway traffic operation: a real-time ecodriving algorithm. 325

Adrian Fernandez-Rodriguez, Antonio Fernandez-Cardador and Asuncion P. Cucala

The Accurate Input Impedances of a DC-DC Converters Connected to the Network . . . . . . 331

Achour Ales, Mohamed Elyazid Boudaren, Bouzid Karouche, Zaki Gouichiche,Jean-Luc Schanen, James Roudet and Djelloul Moussaoui

Input Impedance of Modern Embedded Networks Including Many Power ElectronicsConverters: An Analytical Investigation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 337

Achour Ales, Zaki Gouichiche, Bouzid Karouche, Mohamed El Yazid Boudaren,Jean-Luc Schanen, Djelloul Moussaoui and James Roudet

High productivity Non-Tracking solar collectors for process heat applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . 343

Maxime Canaff and Wattana Ratismith

Novel non-tracking solar collector with metal-to-water contact . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 347

Yann Favre and Wattana Ratismith

Demand Response: a solution to manage loads in the smart grid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 352

Damien Picault, Olivier Cottet and Teddy Ruez

Energy Storage Levelized Cost Assessment: Lithium-Ion vs. Combustion Turbine . . . . . . . . . 357

Bernardino Ricci and Seok-Min Jung

An Experimental Microgrid for laboratory activities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 363

Danilo Antonio Sbordone, Kazi M Moyeenull Huq and Mesut Baran

Development of Protection Scheme for Off-Grid Topology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 368

Jakub Vramba, Stanislav Misak, Vıt Houdek and Jakub Kosmak

Mathematical Model for Eddy Current Testing of Metal Plates with Two CylindricalFlaws . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 374

Valentina Koliskina and Andrei Kolyshkin

Numerical study on the thermal performance of a refrigerated container envelopeprovided by phase change materials (PCMs). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 378

Benedetta Copertaro, Roberto Fioretti, Lorenzo Sangelantoni and Paolo Principi

Local Electricity Market involving end-user Distributed Storage System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 384

Daniele Menniti, Nicola Sorrentino, Anna Pinnarelli, Grazia Belli, Alessandro Burgioand Pasquale Vizza

Influence of LV Neutral Grounding on Global Earthing Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 389

Giuseppe Cafaro, Pasquale Montegiglio, Francesco Torelli, Antonino Barresi, PietroColella, Angelo De Simone, Maria Luisa Di Silvestre, Luigi Martirano, ElenaMorozova, Roberto Napoli, Giuseppe Parise, Luigi Parise, Enrico Pons, EleonoraRiva Sanseverino, Riccardo Tommasini, Filomena Tummolillo, Giovanni Valtorta andGaetano Zizzo

A two-step procedure for the energy management in smart microgrids accounting foreconomical and power quality issues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 395

Andrea Bonfiglio, Massimo Brignone, Federico Delfino, Paola Girdinio, FabioPampararo and Renato Procopio

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Compact Tokamak Fusion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 401

Alan Sykes, Alan Costley, Mikhail Gryaznevich, David Kingham, Jan Hugill, ColinWindsor, Peter Buxton, Bill Huang, Gideon Hammond, John Fanthome, John Ross,Antti Jokinen, George Smith, Steven Ball, Steve Chappell and Ziad Melhem

Current and Voltage Behaviour During a Fault in a HV/MV System: Methods andMeasurements. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 404

Pietro Colella, Roberto Napoli, Enrico Pons, Riccardo Tommasini, Antonino Barresi,Giuseppe Cafaro, Angelo De Simone, Maria Luisa Di Silvestre, Luigi Martirano,Pasquale Montegiglio, Elena Morozova, Giuseppe Parise, Luigi Parise, Eleonora RivaSanseverino, Francesco Torelli, Filomena Tummolillo, Giovanni Valtorta andGaetano Zizzo

Analisis of a energy storage system integrated with renewable energy plants and heatpump for residential application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 410

Biagio Di Pietra and Danilo Sbordone

Voltage Collapse Risk Index Prediction for Real Time System’s Security Monitoring . . . . . . 415

Norziana Aminudin, Marayati Marsadek, Titik Khawa Abdul Rahman, NorazanMohamed Ramli, Noor Miza Mohamad Razali and Mohd Ihsan Yassin

A Multiagent Saver for the Automatic Management of HVAC Systems. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 421

Francesco Muzi, Mario Gimenz De Lorenzo and Giovanni De Gasperis

EMC Philosophy applied to Design the Grounding Systems for Gas InsulationSwitchgear (GIS) Indoor Substation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 427

Marcos Tello, Guilherme A. D. Dias, Daniel S. Gazzana, Roberto C. Leborgne andArturo S. Bretas

OPGrid: Steady state analysis toolbox for systems with embedded FACTS andDroop-based devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 432

Bassam Mohamed and Pablo Arboleya

Statistical Analysis of PV Behaviour Under Harsh Weather Aspects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 438

Kamal Al Khuffash, Lisa Lamont and Youssef Lotfy Abdel Magid

Reducing Inverter Power Rating in Active Power Filters using proposed Hybrid PowerFilter Topology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 443

Bartosz Kedra

Performance of Automotive Permanent Magnet Machines with Different Sizes, Types ofRare-earth Magnets and Winding Configurations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 449

Roziah Aziz and Glynn Atkinson

Maximizing Reliability by Optimal Siting of Distributed Generation and ProtectiveDevices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 455

Maurice Tristan Donalvo, Wilbert Rey Tarnate and Adonis Emmanuel Tio

Electromagnetic Compatibility on-site Testing of Secondary Equipment. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 461

Bai Lin, Li Li, Zhenhua Sun, Qinglin Xu and Yang Qiu

Synthetic Evaluation for Lightning Protection Performance of Smart Buildings . . . . . . . . . . . 466

Li Li, Bai Lin, Zhenhua Sun, Xifei Jia and Jin Tian

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Performance analysis of 200 kW tidal current power turbine with pre-deformed blades . . . . 472

Chul-Hee Jo, Kang-Hee Lee, Su-Jin Hwang and Do-Youb Kim

Optimal VPP Operation Strategy in Liberalized Electricity Markets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 478

Chun-Lien Su, Hwei-Ming Chung, Chien-Yu Wei and Chao-Kai Wen

Dispatch of Generation and Demand Side Response in Regional Grids . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 482

Hwei-Ming Chung, Chun-Lien Su and Chao-Kai Wen

A Survey on Recent Energy Harvesting Mechanisms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Abdul-Rahman El-Sayed, Mohammad Biglarbegian, Shohel Mahmud and Kevin Tai

Evaluation of centralized and distributed microgrid topologies and comparison to OpenEnergy Systems (OES) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 492

Annette Werth, Nobuyuki Kitamura, Ippei Matsumoto and Kenji Tanaka

Effects of power supply limits on control of MHD instabilities in fusion devices . . . . . . . . . . . 498

Fabio Villone and Alfredo Pironti

A Practical Method to Test HV/MV Substation Grounding Systems. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 502

Luigi Martirano, Giuseppe Parise, Luigi Parise, Antonino Barresi, Giuseppe Cafaro,Pietro Colella, M.L. Di Silvestre, Pasquale Montegiglio, Elena Morozova, RobertoNapoli, Enrico Pons, E. Riva Sanseverino, Stefano Sassoli, Riccardo Tommasini, F.Torelli, Filomena Tummolillo, Giovanni Valtorta, Gaetano Zizzo and Giuseppe Vagnati

A novel reliability analysis algorithm for distribution system with integration of windpower generator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 507

Dechang Yang and Jing Han

Modeling and Hybrid Model Predictive Control of a Smart House . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 513

Albina Khakimova, Akmaral Shamshimova, Dana Sharipova, Aliya Kusatayeva, ViktorTen, Alberto Bemporad, Yakov Familiant, Almas Shintemirov and Matteo Rubagotti

GEM Green Energy and Mobility: the case of Canada and Italy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 519

Morris Brenna, Michela Longo, Whaiba Yaıci and Federica Foiadelli

Feasibility of Independent Photovoltaic System as main energy provider in ChargingStations for EVs in Spain and Italy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 525

Michela Longo, Alicia Trivino and Dario Zaninelli

Numerical implementation of active power flow tracing methods: practical implicationson transmission networks and DR programs support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 531

Giuseppe Paterno, Salvatore Favuzza, Mariano Giuseppe Ippolito, Fabio Massaro andLuigi Dusonchet

The Global Grounding System: definitions and guidelines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 537

Gaetano Zizzo, Angelo Campoccia, Maria Luisa Di Silvestre, Eleonora RivaSanseverino, Luigi Martirano, Giuseppe Parise, Luigi Parise, Enrico Pons, PietroColella, Roberto Napoli, Riccardo Tommasini, Giovanni Valtorta, Angelo De Simone,Elena Reizl Morozova, Giuseppe Cafaro, Pasquale Montegiglio, Francesco Torelli,Filomena Tummolillo and Antonino Barresi

A Bottom-up Approach for the Evaluation of the Flexible Quota of Aggregate Loads . . . . . 542

Gaetano Zizzo, Salvatore Favuzza, Fabio Massaro, Mariano Giuseppe Ippolito andGabriele Pecoraro

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Adequacy Assessment of Power Systems Containing Wind Farm Subjected to Expansion . 548

Mazaher Hajibashi and Akbar Ebrahimi

DC appliance classification and identification using k-Nearest Neighbours Technique onfeatures extracted within the 1st second of current waveforms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 554

Yang Thee Quek

Analysis and comparison of calculation results and measurements of dangerouspotentials on earthing systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 561

Mario Kokorus, Rasim Gacanovic, Alija Jusic and Hamid Zildzo

Investigation of Optimum Monthly Tilt Angles for Photovoltaic Panels in TripoliThrough Solar Radiation Measurement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 565

Hamid H. Sherwali, Hamed M. Abufares, Haitem Ashour and Silvia Sangiorgio

Biogas Power Plant Operation Considering Limited Biofuel Resources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 570

Renata Varfolomejeva, Antans Sauhats, Zane Broka and Inga Umbrasko

Coordination of multiple-power tapping from existing HVDC link . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 576

Agha Francis Nnachi, Josiah Munda, Dan Valentin Nicolae and Augustin Mpanda

Energy market impact of renewable energy source . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 581

Alfonso Calabria, Roberto Capata, Mario Di Veroli and Silvia Sangiorgio

Commissioning of the Plasma Central Column for the PROTO-SPHERA SphericalTokamak . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 587

Alessandro Lampasi, Giuseppe Maffia, Franco Alladio, Luca Boncagni, AndreaGrosso, Alessandro Mancuso, Paolo Micozzi, Benedetto Tilia and Vincenzo Zanza

Use of Adaptive System Stabilizers in Ship Power Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 593

Nikolay Djagarov, Zhivko Grozdev and Milen Bonev

Low-cost Programmable Three Phase Load for Microgrids Labs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 599

David Novak, Mebrahtom Beraki, Geber Villa and Pablo Garcia

On-line Shelf-Life Prediction in Perishable Goods Chain Through the Integration ofWSN Technology with a 1st Order Kinetic Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 605

Valerio Francesco Annese and Daniela De Venuto

A Power Quality Forecasting Model as an Integrate Part of Active Demand SideManagement using Artificial Intelligence Technique – Multilayer Neural Network withBackpropagation Learning Algorithm. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 611

Jindrich Stuchly, Stanislav Misak, Tomas Vantuch and Tomas Burianek

Smart Transformer Insensitive to Short Circuits that Improves Grid Stability . . . . . . . . . . . . . 617

Roberto Paggi, Gian Luca Mariotti, Anna Paggi and Pietro Senatore

Fostering electromobility in regions, sustainable policy and business approaches. . . . . . . . . . . 622

Gabriele Grea and Anja Lehmann

The Ion Source and Extraction Power Supplies (ISEPS) for the SPIDER experiment -Project status . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 626

Giuseppe Taddia, Luigi Rinaldi, Luca Sita, Muriel Simon, Marco Bigi, Vanni Toigoand Hans Decamps

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Daylight Harvesting Control Systems: design recommendations based on a literaturereview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 632

Niko Gentile, Marie-Claude Dubois and Laike Thorbjorn

An approach to the development of an advanced solution for smart monitoringapplications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 638

Eugenio Pignatelli, Fabio Bisegna, Gianni Pignatelli and Loredana Scaffa

ENEA’s Energy Storage Activities In The Italian Electric System Research Project . . . . . . . 644

Mario Conte

Study of a daylight ”filter” zone in tunnels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 649

Dionysia Drakou, Chiara Burattini, Fabio Bisegna and Franco Gugliermetti

A territorial based strategy for the distribution of Sensor Networks in Smart Cities . . . . . . . 653

Benedetta Mattoni, Lucia Cellucci, Luca Gugliermetti, Fabio Bisegna and FrancescaPagliaro

Investigating the use of standby generator sets to mitigate peak demand charges inindustrial facilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 659

Vishwamitra Oree and Saganaden Parianen

Smart city and public lighting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 665

Valentina Vaccaro, Gianluca Scaccianoce, Eleonora Riva Sanseverino, Gaetano Zizzoand Silvia Pennisi

Home Smart Grid device for Energy Saves and Failure Monitoring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 671

Luca Gugliermetti, Chiara Galati, Benedetta Mattoni, Fabio Nardecchia and FabioBisegna

Biocathode Application in Microbial Fuel Cells: Organic Matter Removal andDenitrification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 677

Abdullah Kizilet, Dilek Akman, Kevser Cirik, Ozer Cinar and vildan Akgul

Intentional islanding control of a Smart User Network . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 683

Giovanni Brusco, Daniele Menniti, Anna Pinnarelli, Nicola Sorrentino, GiuseppeBarone and Alessandro Burgio

Evaluation of Optical Radiation emissions by a measurement campaign on LED sourcesfor general lighting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 689

Francesco Leccese, Viola Vandelanotte, Tommaso Corucci, Giacomo Salvadori andMichele Rocca

Feasibility Assessment of Plug and Play Model Predictive Control for use in DC Grids. . . . 695

Paul Mc Namara, Sean McLoone and Federico Milano

Towards the factory of the future: a new concept based on an enhanced use ofdaylighting for comfort and energy saving . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 701

Valerio R.M. Lo Verso, Antonio Carlin, Stefano Invernizzi and Andrea Polato

Characterization of sodium iron (II)/iron (III) phosphate mixtures as cathodes forsodium-ion batteries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 707

Pier Paolo Prosini, Cinzia Cento, Amedeo Masci and Maria Carewska

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Grid-PV-Diesel Hybrid System Management. Application to MED-Solar ProjectScenarios. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 713

Guillermo Velasco-Quesada, Francisco Casellas, Francesc Guinjoan, Robert Pique andHerminio Martınez

Interior lighting control system: a practical case using daylight harvesting control strategy 719

Luigi Parise, Francesco Lamonaca and Domenico Luca Carni’

Pressure-based Prediction of Harvestable Energy for Powering EnvironmentalMonitoring Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 725

James Rodway, Petr Musilek, Edward Lozowski, Jana Heckenbergerova and MichalPrauzek

A Single-Phase Cable Model Based on Lumped-Parameters for Transient Calculationsin the Time Domain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 731

Abdullah Hoshmeh, Uwe Schmidt, Kaveh Malekian and Wolfgang Schufft

Decentralised heat pumps and small electricity storages as active components in avirtual power plant for smart grid services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 737

Dirk Pietruschka, Marcus Brennenstuhl, Jann Binder and Benjamin Matthis

The Leaf Community: Control of an AC Microgrid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 742

Pietro Ferraro, Emanuele Crisostomi, Sami Barmada, Marco Raugi, AntonioGiovannelli and Gino Romiti

Lighting control and monitoring for energy efficiency: a case study focused on theinteroperability of building management systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 748

Anna Osello, Anna Pellegrino, Andrea Acquaviva, Laura Blaso, Valerio R.M. LoVerso and Edoardo Patti

Smart Distribution Grids: New Solutions for System Operation in Emergency Conditions . 754

Luigi D’Orazio, Cristiano D’Orinzi, Christian D’Adamo, Vito Bufano and MariaCarmen Falvo

Multilevel DC-AC Converters for Renewable Power Generation Plants: Comparison,Simulation, and Experimental Tests . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 760

Alberto Reatti, Stefano Manetti, Maria Cristina Piccirilli, Antonio Luchetta andMarian Kazimierczuk

Comparison of DCM Operated PWM DC-DC Converter Modelling Methods Includingthe Effects of Parasitic Components on Duty Ratio Constraint . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 766


Effects of Parasitic Components on Diode Duty Cycle and Small-Signal Model of PWMDC-DC Buck Converter in DCM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 772


Derivations of Network Functions for PWM DC-DC Buck Converter in DCM IncludingEffects of Parasitic Components on Diode Duty-cycle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 778


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Adaptive Saturation System for Grid-Tied Inverters in Low Voltage ResidentialMicro-Grids . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 784

Jakson P. Bonaldo, Helmo K. M. P, Alessandro Costabeber and Jose A. Pomilio

Robust IM Exponential Reaching Law Sensorless Control with MRAS-based OnlineParameters Identification. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 790

Legrioui Said, Salah Eddine Rezgui and Hocine Benalla

Double Soft-computing Techniques Based Triple Functionalities for Shunt Active PowerFilter with Voltage Source Inverter Topology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 796

Nor Farahaida Abdul Rahman, Mohd Amran Mohd Radzi, Azura Che Soh, NormanMariun and Nasrudin Abd Rahim

An experimental survey of LV equipment for their clustering and control in a n-grid . . . . . . 802

Mauro Biagi, Paolo Mazzoli, Maria Carmen Falvo and Umberto Grasselli

Decolorization of Acid Blue 25 Dye by Non-Thermal Plasma Advanced OxidationProcess for Industrial Wastewater Treatment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 807

Ahmed El-Tayeb Khalil, Ahmed Hassan Elshazly, Marwa El-Kady and Adel AbdElrahman

Estimating the effects of energy-efficient driving profiles on railway consumption . . . . . . . . . . 813

Mariano Gallo, Fulvio Simonelli, Giuseppina De Luca and Valerio De Martinis

Foamed slag glass – eco-friendly insulating material based on slag waste . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 819

Elena A. Yatsenko, Boris M. Goltsman, Victoria A. Smolii and Andrey S. Kosarev

Mercury in ambient air . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 824

Silvana Iacobellis, Carmela Tortorella and Aldo Giove

Computer tool for assessing the selection of distributed generation systems in NZEB. . . . . . 830

Edwin Xavier Dominguez, Pablo Arboleya and Felix Manuel Lorenzo

In/Out Energy Design R-Evolution. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 836

Maria Antonietta Sbordone, Rosanna Veneziano, Carla Langella and Giulia Scalera

Energy Management and D/G Fuel Consumption Optimization in the Power System ofMarine Vessels through VFD-based Process Flow Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 842

Spyridon Giannoutsos and Stefanos Manias

A Gate Drive Circuit for Normally-On SiC JFETs with Self-Protection Functionsagainst Overcurrent and Shoot-Through Fault Conditions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 851

Spyridon Giannoutsos, Sotirios Kokosis and Stefanos Manias

A Control strategy of Hybrid System ”Diesel-Photovoltaic-Battery” For Stand-aloneApplications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 860

Ahmed Belila

Modeling and Small-signal Stability Analysis of an islanded DC Microgrid withDynamic Loads . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 866

Sheng Liu, Wanlu Zhu, Yinzhong Cheng and Bowen Xing

On the Risk of Upward Lightning initiated from Wind Turbines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 872

Gehard Diendorfer

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A Pulse Width Modulation Strategy for DC-AC Nine Switches Inverter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 877

Bekheira Tabbache, Mohand Amokrane Abbache, Mohand Amokrane Allel and AhmedBelila

A Stochastic Approach to Hydroelectric Power Generation Planning in an ElectricityMarket. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 883

Antans Sauhats, Renata Varfolomejeva, Roman Petricenko and Jevgenijs Kucajevs

Effect of Coke Bed on the Electrical Performance of HVDC Ground Electrode . . . . . . . . . . . . 889

Bo Zhang, Jinliang He, Rong Zeng and Jinpeng Wu

Impact of Punching on a Small Induction Motor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 895

Martin Mach and Vitezslav Hajek

Practical Testing of Methods for Improvement of Efficiency of a Small Induction Motor . . . 901

Martin Mach and Vitezslav Hajek

The Next Generation Green Data Center: A Modified Power Usage Effectiveness MetricProposal for a CCHP Natural gas or Biogas Fuelled Architecture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 907

Francesco De Angelis and Umberto Grasselli

Average Modeling of Current Type Z-Source Inverter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Ali Rasooli Madani, Ahmad Radan, Shokrollah Shokri and Hadi Ezoji

A New Method for Designing X-Shape Impedance Parameters in Current Type ZSI. . . . . . .


Measuring resistances of grounding systems of transmission line towers equipped withground wire using pulse method . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Nikolay Korovkin, Sergey Kirvisheev, Nikolay Silin and Sergey Shishiguin

Overview of the Toroidal Power Supply system of RFX-mod after ten years of operation . . 926

Loris Zanotto, Claudio Finotti and Vanni Toigo

Actuator channel setting strategy for ship information systems based on reachabilityanalysis and physical characteristic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 932

Bowen Xing, Sheng Liu and Wanlu Zhu

Economic Feasibility of a Customer-side Energy Storage in the Italian Electricity Market . 938

Enrico Telaretti, Mariano Giuseppe Ippolito, Eleonora Riva Sanseverino, SalvatoreFavuzza and Gaetano Zizzo

Demand response: Social welfare maximisation in an unbundled energy market – Casestudy for the low-voltage networks of a distribution network operator in the Netherlands . 944

Michiel Nijhuis, Muhammad Babar, Madeleine Gibescu and Sjef Cobben

Small scale ESS for LV prosumers: an economic feasibility and sensitivity analysis . . . . . . . . 950

Maria Carmen Falvo, Umberto Grasselli, Matteo Manganelli and Alessio Modesto

A measurement campaign in a metro trains deposit/maintenance and repair site for PVproduction optimal sizing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 956

Alfonso Capasso, Regina Lamedica, Luca Podesta, Alessandro Ruvio, SilviaSangiovanni, George Cristian Lazaroiu and Gennario Antonio Maranzano

Optimisation of Magnetic Gears for Large Wind Turbines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 962

Andreas Penzkofer and Kais Atallah

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Lithium Ion Battery System in Data Centers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 968

Seok-Min Jung, Bernardino Ricci and Gonjin Chung

Power Quality Disturbances in Distribution Networks Caused by the Influence ofNearby Power Lines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 974

Alexander Novitskiy, Irina Konotop and Dirk Westermann

Autonomous Monitoring Unit of Fault Condition with Vibration Energy Harvester . . . . . . . 980

Vojtech Vetiska, Ondrej Hyncica, Cestmir Ondrusek and Zdenek Hadas

Voltage Mode Controlled Buck Converter Under Input Voltage Variations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 986

Usman Nasir, Zafar Iqbal and Tahir Rasheed

A Comparative Analysis of Synchronous Buck , Isolated Buck and Buck Converter . . . . . . . 992

Zafar Iqbal, Usman Nasir and Tahir Rasheed

A laboratory model of a dual active bridge DC-DC converter for a smart user network. . . . 997

Alessandro Burgio, Daniele Menniti, Michele Motta, Anna Pinnarelli, NicolaSorrentino and Pasquale Vizza

Designing effective frequency response patterns for flexible thermostatic loads . . . . . . . . . . . . 1003

Vincenzo Trovato, Simon Tindemans and Goran Strbac

An Update on Experimental Data Obtained at the Santis Tower. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1009

Mohammad Azadifar, Farhad Rachidi, Marcos Rubinstein, Mario Paolone and DavidePavanello

A Reduced Switch Cascaded Transformer Multi Level Inverter. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1013

Saeed Ouni, Masih Khodabandeh, Mohammad Reza Zolghadri, Jose Rodrıguez andHashem Oraee

Experiment on Bidirectional Single Phase Converter Applying Simple Model PredictiveControl . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1019

Gabriele D’antona, Roberto Faranda, Hossein Hafezi and Marco Bugliesi

Commissioning and testing of the first Lithium–Titanate BESS for the ItalianTransmission Grid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1025

Francesco Palone, Gianluigi Gemelli, Massimo Rebolini, Andrea Necci, MarcoPietrucci, Anna Carolina Tortora and Ester Mocci

Lightning protection of home automation systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1031

Giovanni Luca Amicucci, Fabio Fiamingo and Luigi Martirano

Design and energy performance assessment of high-efficiency lighting systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1035

Matteo Manganelli and Roberto Consalvi

Feed-forward control of a ZVT Full Bridge DC-DC Converter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1041

Sabino Pipolo, Stefano Bifaretti, Alessandro Lidozzi and Luca Solero

DC and AC ground fault analysis in LVDC microgrids with energy storage systems . . . . . . 1047

Marco Carminati, Enrico Ragaini and Enrico Tironi

Procedure for selection of the SPD system according to the probability of damage . . . . . . . . 1055

Tomasz Kisielewicz, Giovanbattista Lo Piparo, Carlo Mazzetti and Alain Rousseau

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Electrical risk analysis in operating rooms at the light of the advancements in modellingand simulation methods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1061

Emanuele Zennaro, Umberto Corbellini, Fabio Fiamingo, Giovanni Luca Amicucciand Carlo Mazzetti

A New Generation of Pulsed Power Supplies for Experimental Physics Based onSupercapacitors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1067

Giuseppe Maffia, Alessandro Lampasi and Pietro Zito

Productivity comparison and performance improvement of a concentrated photovoltaic . . . 1073

Sonia Leva, Roberto Faranda and Cristian Lazaroiu

Optimised Methodology for Stepper Motor Simulation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1078

Liviu Neamt, Oliviu Matei and Olivian Chiver

Computationally-Efficient Simulation of Electric Industrial Plants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1083

Giovanni Mercurio Casolino, Mario Russo and Pietro Butera

A novel piezoelectric micro-generator to power wireless sensors networks in vehicles . . . . . . . 1089

Alex Mouapi, Nadir Hakem, Gilles Delisle and Nahi Kandil

Simulator for Studying the Wind Turbines Work . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1093

Susana Arad, Liliana Samoila and Marius Petre

Investigation into Control Performance of Brushless Doubly Fed AsynchronousMachines in Wind Energy Conversion Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1099

Hacene Bouzekri, Abderahmane Ganouche and Zahir Ahmida

Simple Indicators for an effective Power Quality Monitoring and Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1104

Vanya Ignatova, Jean-Marie Hypolite and Dominique Villard

DC Networks Including Multi-port DC/DC Converters: Fault Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1109

Matteo Corti, Enrico Tironi and Giovanni Ubezio

Sensitivity Analysis on Locations of Energy Storage in Power Systems with WindIntegration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1115

Nhi T. A. Nguyen, Duong D. Le, Godfrey G. Moshi, Cristian Bovo and Alberto Berizzi

Reliability Improvement of Power System Utilizing ESS with Wind Farm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1120

Zagros Shahooei, Mahmud Fotuhi-Firuzabad and Ali Abbaspour

Exploiting Event-Driven Metering to Enable Enhanced Knowledge of Electrical EnergyUses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1126

Mikhail Simonov, Gianfranco Chicco and Gianluca Zanetto

Geometry optimization of exhaust ducts applied in thermoelectric cogeneration efficiency . 1132

Pedro Gomes, Wesley Calixto, Priscilla Jua, Messias Faria, Aylton Alves and ElderDomingues

Simulation-Based Electrical Safety Training . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1137

Mark Halpin, Regina Halpin and Pat Curtis

Statistical Analysis of Environmental Measurements for Design of Energy-efficientMonitoring Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1143

Obiora Sam Ezeora, Jana Heckenbergerova and Petr Musilek

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Analysis and Implementation of Multicarrier Modulation Techniques for MarxMultilevel Inverter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1149

Piyush Kant, Akbar Ahmad and Paulson Samuel

Mathematical modeling of electromechanical processes in ship’s power systems. . . . . . . . . . . .1155

Nikolay Djagarov, Zhivko Grozdev and Milen Bonev

Analysis of Renewable Energy Infeed toward a concept of Storage Integration intoexisting Grid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1163

Xoese Kobla Nanewortor and Przemyslaw Janik

Simulation of Three-Phase Grid Interactive Inverter for Wind Energy Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . 1169

Fehmi Sevilmis and Hulusi Karaca

Unsupervised Algorithms for Non-Intrusive Load Monitoring: an Up-to-Date Overview . . . 1175

Roberto Bonfigli, Stefano Squartini, Marco Fagiani and Francesco Piazza

Robust LCC Compensation in Wireless Power Transfer with Variable Coupling FactorDue to Coil Misalignment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1181

Mauro Feliziani, Tommaso Campi, Silvano Cruciani, Francesca Maradei, UmbertoGrasselli, Michele Macellari and Luigi Schirone

Approach to Solve Synthetic Test Circuit for Testing of High Voltage Circuit Breaker . . . . . 1187

Vishal Kumar Gaur and H. R. Jariwala

Optimization of a Hybrid Coordinated Power System Stabilizer for superconductingGenerator Using Genetic Algorithm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1193

Adjeroud Mayouf Faiza, Djahli Farid, Mayouf Abdelhalim and Thierry Devers

Short-term Load Forecasting for Smart Water and Gas Grids: a comparative evaluation . . 1198

Marco Fagiani, Stefano Squartini, Roberto Bonfigli and Francesco Piazza

QoS Implementation Inside LTE Networks to Support Time-Critical Smart GridApplications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1204

Abdalkarim Awad, Seyedhassan Moarrab and Reinhard German

Monte Carlo Evaluation of the Impact of Subsequent Strokes on Backflashover rate . . . . . . . 1210

Fabio Massimo Gatta, Alberto Geri, Stefano Lauria and Marco Maccioni

SPD dimensioning in front of indirect flashes to overhead low voltage power lines . . . . . . . . . 1216

Tomasz Kisielewicz, Giovanbattista Lo Piparo, Carlo Mazzetti, Fabio Napolitano andCarlo Alberto Nucci

Coordinated Closed-Loop Voltage Control by using a Real-time Volt/VAR OptimizationFunction for MV Distribution Networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1222

Saeed Rahimi, Stefano Massucco and Federico Silvestro

Dynamic reconfiguration of solar systems for avoiding MPPT faults due to architecturalpartial shading . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1229

Pierluigi Guerriero, Fabio Di Napoli, Vincenzo d’Alessandro and Santolo Daliento

Monitoring volcanic ash by using geostationary satellite . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1235

Giovanni Laneve, Guido Bernini, Riccardo Orsi and Emiliano Ortore

Voltage Stability Analysis for the Receiving-end Grid of UHV-DC Transmission System . . 1240

Meng Liu, Yiwei Zhang and Weiyong Jiang

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Current Transformer Error Correction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1245

Jevgenijs Kozadajevs and Aleksandrs Dolgicers

Measurements-based approach for PSS retuning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1250

Valeriy Tashchilin, Pavel Chusovitin, Grigoriy Shabalin, Andrey Pazderin, KonstantinGerasimov and Krum Gerasimov

Embedded Platform for Web-based Monitoring and Control of a Smart Home . . . . . . . . . . . . 1256

Daniel Moga, Nicoleta Stroia, Dorin Petreus, Rozica Moga and Radu Adrian Munteanu

Connection of very large public charging station to the HV transmission grid . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1262

Francesco Palone, Simone Gentili, Giorgio Maria Giannuzzi, Massimo Rebolini,Maddalena Schembari and Stefano Lauria

A High Gain Step-up Flyboost Converter for High Voltage High Power Applications . . . . . . 1268

Rathdharshagorn Suriyakulnaayudhya

Comparative Assessment of Double-Fed Induction Generator and Full ConverterGenerator Wind Turbines on Short Circuits in Distribution Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1273

Milad Gheydi, Farshid Abdolahnejad, Payam Farhadi and Reza Effatnejad

Electric Energy Storage Systems integration in Distribution Grids . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1279

Alessandro Di Giorgio, Francesco Liberati and Andrea Lanna

EVs mass adoption in Colombia-A first approach model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1285

Laura Marcela Hinestroza Olascuaga and Javier A. Rosero Garcia

Autonomous Patrol and Surveillance System using Unmanned Aerial Vehicles . . . . . . . . . . . . 1291

Kian Seng Lee, Mark Ovinis, Nagarajan Thirumalaiswamy, Ralph Seulin and OlivierMorel

Simulation of Two Cases Steam Turbine with Synchronous Generator during theSwitching into its Self-Consumption Supply . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1298

Ladislav Lastovka and Pavla Hejtmankova

Analysis of high speed squirrel cage induction motors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1302

Jirı Klıma, Martin Mach and Ondrej Vıtek

Measurement of luminance ratios at pedestrian crossings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1306

Richard Baleja, Barbara Helstynova, Karel Sokansky and Tomas Novak

Development of Communication System for Small Wind Turbine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1311

Andre Ramos, Juliano Grigulo, Claiton Franchi, Frederico Schaf and Humberto Pinheiro

Evolutionary algorithm for detection and localization of faults in HVDC systems . . . . . . . . . 1317

Arkadiusz Burek, Jacek Rezmer and Tomasz Sikorski

Studies on the Influence of Electric Field on the Oxidation Stability of Insulating Oil . . . . . 1323

Tiberiu Octavian Cujba

Development of an electronic equipment managed by software on PC for controlling anddriving of multiple bi-axial solar trackers in photovoltaic solar plants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1328

Paolo Visconti, Paolo Costantini, Cosimo Orlando and Giorgio Cavalera

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Potential of electricity generation from renewable energy sources for a large hotel inMauritius . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1334

Vishwamitra Oree and Jonathan Marie

Utilization of Financial Contracts by Wind Power Plants to Benefit Promotion and RiskReduction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Navid Yektay, Saleh Fazaeli, Fatemeh Daburi Farimani, Mahtab Kaffash, EbrahimEsmaeilzadeh and Mohammad Hossein Javidi

An accurate Fault Location Algorithm for Transmission Lines with use of Two-endUnsynchronized Measurements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1345

Moez Ben Hessine, Sahbi Marrouchi and Souad Souad

Power Consumption Analysis of Computing Facilities with Superconducting JosephsonJunction Quantum Computers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1351

Brook Abegaz, Satish Mahajan and R. Wayne Johnson

Intelligent system for measuring soil compaction on croplands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1357

Geovanne Furriel, Wesley Calixto, Aylton Alves, Elder Domingues and Pedro Campos

New strategy based on Combined Use of Particle Swarm Optimization and Gradientmethods to solve the Unit Commitment Problem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1362

Sahbi Marrouchi, Moez Ben Hessine and Souad Souad

Improvement of Electricity Distribution Services Using a DVR with a Constant DCVoltage Source Instaled in MV Connection Substations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1368

Gheorghe Ioan Nicolaescu, Horia Andrei and Stefan Radulescu

Modeling, simulation and control of a Thermoelectric Generator. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1373

Messias Faria, Priscilla Jua, Aylton Alves, Elder Domingues, Pedro Gomes andWesley Calixto

Energy Production Forecasting in a PV plant using Transfer Function Models . . . . . . . . . . . . 1379

Gabriella Dellino, Teresa Laudadio, Renato Mari, Nicola Mastronardi, Carlo Meloniand Silvano Vergura

Real-time Demonstration of a Hierarchical Agent Based Voltage Instability PreventionSystem. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1384

Freek Baalbergen, Madeleine Gibescu, Vasileios Karapanos and Lou van der Sluis

Implications of the Photovoltaic Generation on the Non-Photovoltaic Generation in theLombardy Region . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1391

Fabrizio Fattori, Norma Anglani and Paul Deane

An Integrated Simulation Module for Wireless Cyber-Physical System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1397

Mariorosario Prist, Andrea Monteriu, Sauro Longhi and Alessandro Freddi

Fault current increase due to the progressive undergrounding of a HV subtransmissionnetwork . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1403

Maddalena Schembari, Asia Codino, Alessandro Catapano and Stefano Lauria

Effect of Resistance To Earth Improvement on Performance of Pole Earthing . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1409

Andras Mohos and Jozsef Ladanyi

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Novel Flexible Algorithm for the Operation of Renewable Source Grid Interface VSCsUnder Unbalanced Voltage Sags . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1414

Rabeh Abbassi, Salem Saidi, Sahbi Marrouchi and Souad Souad

Seasonal signal analysis of distribution lines in smart grids via Hilbert-Huang transform . . 1420

Silvano Vergura, Roberto Zivieri and Mario Carpentieri

Research perspectives of the influence of lighting modes on changes of human functionalstate by means of ”smart lighting” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1426

Dmitrii Berlov, Lucia Pavlova, Fabio Bisegna, Andrey Aladov, Alexander Zakgeim,Tatiana Baranova, Julia Chiligina and Mikhail Mizerov

Secure and Adaptive State Estimation for a PMU-equipped Smart Grid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1431

Jinghe Zhang, Marjan Momtazpour, Greg Welch, Naren Ramakrishnan and SaifurRahman

Autonomous control of distributed energy resources via wireless machine-to-machinecommunication - a survey of big data challenges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1437

Samina Subhani, Madeleine Gibescu and Will Kling

Stochastic Unit Commitment in a Distribution System with Photovoltaic Power:Empirical Assessment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1443

Thais De Fatima Araujo, Wadaed Uturbey, Le Xie and Luis Monteiro

A Hierarchical and Partition Low-Carbon Evaluation Model for Active PowerDistribution Grid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1448

Danyu Tian, Yong Li, Ye Cai, Yijia Cao, Jianbo Xin and Ruixiang Fan

Financial Payback of Solar PV Systems and Analysis on the Potential Impact ofNet-Metering in Butuan City, Philippines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1453

Jeffrey Dellosa

Experimental Simulation on Grounding Resistance and Electromagnetic InterferenceImpact for Dual-frequency Induced Polarization Measurement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Zhi Min Liu, Xi Gao Liu and Jin Tao Zhang

Power System Schematics Standardization. Philosophy.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1465

Umberto Corbellini

New structure of Rogowski coil and its optimization method. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1471

Jiali Ma

LPV Controllers for a DFIG in a Microgrid under Unbalanced Conditions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1475

Thai Vo, Jayashri Ravishankar, Hendra Nurdin and John Fletcher

Scalable model of PV cell in variable environment condition based on the manufacturerdatasheet for circuit simulation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1481

Silvano Vergura

Energy Efficiency in Supermarkets: Structured Project Financing for ESCOs . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1486

Federico Santi, Pasquale Caiazzo and Tommaso Marciano Nigro

Sustainable Airports and NZEB: the real case of Rome International Airport . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1492

Federico Santi, Maria Carmen Falvo, Romano Acri and Emiliano Manzan

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A Method for Extracting Steady State Components from Syncrophasor Data usingKalman Filters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1498

Farhan Mahmood, Hossein Hooshyar, Luigi Vanfretti and Luigi Vanfretti

A Comparison of Two Innovative Customer Power Devices for Smart Micro-Grids . . . . . . . . 1504

Gaetano Zizzo, Maria Carmen Falvo, Luigi Martirano, Danilo Sbordone, MarianoGiuseppe Ippolito, Enrico Telaretti, Giorgio Graditi, Ilaria Bertini, Biagio Pelligraand Biagio Di Pietra

Plug-In Electric Vehicle Charging Coordination in Electrical Distribution Systems Usinga Tabu Search Algorithm. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1510

Maria Nataly Banol Arias, John Fredy Franco, Marina Lavorato, Marcos Rider andRuben Romero

A multi-sensor approach for monitoring an active volcanic area: the 2011-2014 eruptivephase of Mount Etna . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1516

Michele Martino, Silvia Scifoni, Maria Marsella, Mauro Coltelli, Peppe JuniorValentino D’Aranno and Quintilio Napoleoni

Impact of increased penetration of large-scale wind farms on power system dynamicstability - A review. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1522

Mohammad Moradzadeh, Mehrdad Saif and Lieven Vandevelde

Switched Reluctance Generator in Connection with the Three-Phase Power Grid . . . . . . . . . 1527

Ghunter Viajante, Darizon Alves Andrade, Marcos Antonio Arantes Freitas, LucianoCoutinho Gomes, Victor Regis Bernadelli, Josemar Alves Santos, Marcelo EscobarOliveira and Cassio Xavier Rocha

Identifying New Prognostic Features for Remaining Useful Life Prediction UsingParticle Filtering and Neuro-Fuzzy System Predictor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1533

Tahar Boukra

A new semi-resonant dc/dc converter topology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1539

Giuseppe Catona, Enrico Bianconi, Roberto Maceratini, Giovanni Coppola, LucaFumagalli, Giovanni Petrone and Giovanni Spagnuolo

Modelling EVs in residential distribution grid with other nonlinear loads . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1543

Jaan Niitsoo, Paul Taklaja, Ivo Palu and Ivar Kiitam

HVAC System Energy Saving in a Sample Building through Synergic Earth-Air HeatExchanger and closed loop control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1549

Farivar Fazelpour and Reza Asnaashari

Experimental Design of a Finite State Model Predictive Control for Improving PowerFactor of Boost Rectifier . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1556

Amar Bouafassa, Lazhar Rahmani, Ramazan Bayindir and Bedreddine Babes

Centralized Home Energy Management in Multi-Carrier Energy Frameworks . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1562

Mohammad Rastegar, Mahmud Fotuhi-Firuzabad and Hamidreza Zareipour

3D Printed Lab-on-a-chip Microviscometer for various Biochemical Applications . . . . . . . . . .

Venkateswaran Pedinti Sankaran, Abhishek Sharma, Ajay Agarwal and Sanket Goel

19


Design and performance evaluation of a high power density EMI filter for PWMinverter-fed induction motor drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1573

Graziella Giglia, Guido Ala, Giuseppe Costantino Giaconia, Maria Carmela DiPiazza and Gianpaolo Vitale

Intelligent Simultaneous Quantification of Environmental Trace Elements with TotalReflection X-ray Fluorescence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1580

Junjie Ma, Yeyao Wang, Qi Yang, Yubing Liu and Ping Shi

Feasibility of Satisfying Electrical Energy Needs with Hybrid Stand Alone Systems forApplication in Tehran, Iran . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1587

Farivar Fazelpour, Mahla Shariatzadeh, Nima Soltani and Marc A. Rosen

A Novel Electromagnetic Transient Modeling Method of Impact Load of Arc Furnace . . . . . 1593

Liang Dong, Zhiguo Hao, Mingyu Huang, Feng Gao and Shuang Zhang

Influence of tilt and orientation angle of the PV panels on high-energy production inRomanian climate conditions during cold season . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1599

Alexandra Danu, Vladimir Tanasiev, Constantin Ionescu and Adrian Badea

The TIGRIsat camera: a nanosatellite optical payload for detecting dust and sand storms.1605

Claudio Paris, Maurizio Parisse and Nabeel Abdulhussein Salman

Improvement of Power Quality and Dynamic Voltage of Wind Farms Using an InductiveFiltering Method . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1611

Zhisheng Xu, Yanjian Peng, Yong Li, Min Wen, Longfu Luo, Ye Cai and Yijia Cao

Defect Engineering of Diamond Cathodes for High Temperature Solar Cells. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1616

Daniele M. Trucchi, Alessandro Bellucci, Paolo Calvani and Marco Girolami

AC Power and Energy Measurements based on Physical Definitions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1620

Jerzy Kolanko, Zbigniew Leonowicz, Leslaw Ladniak, Przemyslaw Musz, JanuszDudzik, Piotr Modzel and Zbigniew Wierzbicki

Analysis of Mathematical Modeling of PV Module with MPPT Algorithm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1625

B Chitti Babu, Suresh Gurjar, Zbigniew Leonowicz, Luigi Piegari and Tomas Cermak

A Hierarchical Dispatch Structure for Distribution Network Pricing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1631

Zhao Yuan and Mohammad Reza Hesamzadeh

Load Areas in Distribution Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1637

Giovanni Mercurio Casolino and Arturo Losi

The potential impact of the next hyperspectral PRISMA mission on the natural andanthropogenic hazards management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1643

Roberto De Bonis, Giovanni Laneve, Angelo Palombo, Simone Pascucci, StefanoPignatti, Federico Santini and Cristina Ananasso

Net Metering Benefits for Residential Buildings: A Case Study in Italy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1647

Intisar Ali Sajjad, Matteo Manganelli, Luigi Martirano, Roberto Napoli, GianfrancoChicco and Giuseppe Parise

Developing a satellite optical sensor based automatic system for detecting andmonitoring oil spills . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1653

Giovanni Laneve and Roberto Luciani

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DC Voltage Regulation Control of Engine Direct Connection Type IPMSG for SpecialVehicle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1659

Sung An Kim, Sang Geon Lee, Sang In Byun and Yun Hyun Cho

Clustering for multi-objective thermal generator scheduling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1665

Dipti Srinivasan, Bing Kiat Chee, Anupam Trivedi and Bharat Menon

PrInCE Lab experimental microgrid Planning and operation issues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1671

Alessia Cagnano, Enrico De Tuglie, Maria Dicorato, Giuseppe Forte and MicheleTrovato

Designing an Energy Management System for Smart Houses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1677

Pierluigi Siano, Mariano Acone, Roberto Romano, Francesca Loia, Gaetano Zizzoand Mariano Ippolito

Improved DC Voltage Margin Control Method for DC Grid Based on VSCs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1683

Runze Chai, Baohui Zhang and Jingming Dou

Comparative study on sudden short-circuit currents of a synchronous generator . . . . . . . . . . .1688

Olivian Chiver, Liviu Neamt and Oliviu Matei

Impact of Ferroresonance on protective relays in Manitoba Hydro 230 kV electricalnetwork . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1694

Salman Rezaei

Recovery of Useful Energy from Lost Human Power in Gymnasium. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1700

Bushra Chalermthai, Nisrein Sada, Omer Sarfraz and Bahaa Radi

New design Approach to MIMO Nonlinear Controller for Direct Expansion AirConditioning System in Building Automation System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1706

Farinaz Behrooz, Norman Bin Mariun, Mohammad Hamiruce Marhaban, AbdulRahman Ramli and Mohd Amran Mohd Radzi

Development of a Real Time Wind Turbine Emulator based on RTDS using AdvancedPerturbation Methods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1713

Richa Gokhale, Satish Mahajan, Brook Abegaz and Robert Craven

Development of Acoustic Camera-Imaging Simulator Based on Novel Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1719

Seungchul Kwak, Yonghoon Ji, Atsushi Yamashita and Hajime Asama

Research on Weather Condition of Significant Decline of Air Gap Breakdown Voltage . . . . . 1725

Niu Haiqiong, Guo Ran, Xu Tao and Xu Jia

Expectation–Maximization Algorithm for Evaluation of Wind Direction Characteristics . . . 1730

Jaroslav Marek and Jana Heckenbergerova

Methodology for Grid Voltage Unbalance Compensation Appling a Two-ConverterSeries DFIG topology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1736

Vinicius P. Suppioni, Ahda P. G. Pavani and Julio C. Teixeira

A Scalable Geographic Routing Protocol for Virtual Power Plant Communications. . . . . . . .1742

Mouna Rekik, Zied Chtourou and Nathalie Mitton

Different Approaches for Estimation of Dampings and Frequencies of ElectromechanicalModes from PMU Ambient Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1748

Mohammadreza Farrokhifard, Mohammadreza Hatami and Mostafa Parniani

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Geographic Routing Protocol for Peer-to-Peer Smart Grid Neighborhood Area Network. . .1754

Mouna Rekik, Zied Chtourou and Nathalie Mitton

Leakage inductance variation based monitoring of transformer winding deformation. . . . . . .1759

Xiaojing Zhang, ZhiGuo Hao, GuoZhen Chen, Zhi Sun, Fei He, SuJuan Sun andPeng Wu

Research on Differential Protection Algorithm about Special Phase-shifting AngleRectifier Transformer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1765

Liang Dong, Zhiguo Hao, Zhiyuan Liu and Hongsen Zou

Nanostructured sensing devices controlled by ultra-flexible polysilicon readout circuits . . . . 1770

Luca Maiolo, Francesco Maita, Salvatore Mirabella, Vincenzina Strano, AntonioMinotti, Alessandro Pecora, Andrea Ferrone and Guglielmo Fortunato

A Worksheet for Computing the Levelized Cost of Storing Photovoltaic (Wind) Electricity

Michael Stavy

Experimental Assessment of Direct Flux and Torque Control of Induction MachineWith Four-Switch and Six-Switch Inverters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Mohamed Azab

Short-Term Load Forecasting with Radial Basis Functions and Singular SpectrumAnalysis for Residential Electric Vehicles Recharging Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1783

Xiaolei Hu, Enrico Ferrera, Riccardo Tomasi and Claudio Pastrone

The Impact of Load Management and Renewable DG on the Service Restoration ofFuture Power Distribution Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1789

Maad Alowaifeer, Mohammad Almuhaini and Abdulrahman Alsaggaf

Bringing off-grid electricity to rural villages in India: opportunities and pitfalls for solarPhotovoltaics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1795

Dinesh Kathaiyan

Investigation of MPPT for PV Applications by Mathematical Model. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1800

Hussein Mohammad Al-Masri, Fahad Alhuwaishel, Fahad Alismail, Sinan Sabeeh andHaitham Kanakri

Feasibility Study for Grid-Connected Biomass and Biogas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1806

Marayati Marsadek and Vigna Kumaran

Dealing with Generation Unit Maintenance Scheduling Problem in Iran Electricity Market1811

Mazaher Hajibashi and Iman Rahmati

Asset Tracking in Critical Power Communications Infrastructure using PassiveTechniques . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1816

John Oraw, David Laverty and John Morrow

Intelligent Low-Cost and Energy-Efficient Drive for Induction Motor Based FluidPumping Systems Using General Purpose Microcontrollers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Walid Ghoneim, Hamdy Ashour and Mohamed El Quersh

Electrochemical activity of lightweight borohydrides in lithium cells . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1827

Luca Farina, David Munao, Laura Silvestri, Stefania Panero, Daniele Meggiolaro,Sergio Brutti, Aurelio La Barbera and Priscilla Reale

22


Modern Distribution System Protection Design Considering Stability Criteria . . . . . . . . . . . .

Lukasz Huchel, Alexandros Tsoupos, Amer Al Hinai and Maksymilian Klimontowicz

A Fast-speed Transformer Matching Method with Additional Capacitors in CMOSProcess . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1838

Zicheng Liu, Peng Gao and Zhiming Chen

Real-time Critical Machine Identification for Online Transient Stability Analysis . . . . . . . . . . 1842

Fu Su and Baohui Zhang

The value of supply security. Contingent valuation survey on the costs of powerinterruptions for Polish enterprises . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1846

Magdalena Ligus

A Simple and Accurate Approach to Solve the Power Flow for Balanced IslandedMicrogrids . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1852

Faisal Mumtaz, Mazheruddin Syed, Mohamed Hosani and Hatem Zeineldin

Storage system control for correct operation of fault protections of single phase load ingrids dominated by inverters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1857

Luigi Piegari, Samuele Grillo and Enrico Tironi

Optical payload for high-resolution Earth imaging suitable for microsatellites . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1863

Riccardo Di Roberto, Augusto Nascetti, Antonio Paolozzi and Claudio Paris

Estimation of Mobility Direction of a People Flux by using a live 3G Radio AccessNetwork and Smartphones in Non-Connected mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1869

Andrea Scaloni and Davide Micheli

Influence of A/D quantization in a renewable energy system using a DFT basedestimation of grid signal parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1874

Dariusz Kania

Sensorless Direct Power Regulation by Sliding Mode Approach of DFIG GeneratorBased Wind Energy System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1880

Houssam Eddine Medouce, Hocine Benalla, Abdellatif Reama and Adel Mehdi

Contribution to Load-Frequency Regulation of a Hydropower Plant with Long Tail-RaceTunnel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1886

Guillermo Martınez - Lucas, Jose Ignacio Sarasua Moreno, Jose Roman Wilhelmi

Ayza and Jose Angel Sanchez Fernandez

A PMU-Based Fast Real-Time Sub-synchronous Oscillation Detection Application . . . . . . . . 1892

Luigi Vanfretti, Maxime Baudette, Jose Luis Dominguez-Garcia, Austin White,Muhammad Shoaib Almas and Jan Ove Gjerde

Validation Experiment Design of a PMU–Based Application for Detection ofSub-Synchronous Oscillations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1898

Jose Luis Domınguez–garcıa, Maxime Baudette, Gerard Del-Rosario, AlbertRuiz-Alvarez, Muhammad Shoaib Almas, Ignasi Cairo and Luigi Vanfretti

Comparative Analysis of Different Synchronous Reluctance Motor Topologies . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1904

Claudiu Oprea, Arkadiusz Dziechciarz and Claudia Martis

23


Modelling and Control of Modular Multi-level Converter Based HVDC Systems usingSymmetrical Components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1910

Yuanze Zhang, Jayashri Ravishankar and Rui Li

Average Modeling of Voltage Type ZSI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .


PV Power Plant Inspection by UAS: Correlation between Altitude and Detection ofDefects on PV Modules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1921

Sonia Leva, Francesco Grimaccia and Mohammadreza Aghaei

Bidirectional Buck Boost Half-Bridge Converter with the Possibility of Zero VoltageSwitching . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1927

Franz Hanser

Intelligent System for Monitoring and Control of Photovoltaic Plants and forOptimization of Solar Energy Production. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1933

Paolo Visconti and Giorgio Cavalera

Challenges of Real-Time Parameter Estimation of a DFIG using Synchrophasors . . . . . . . . . 1939

Naveed Ur Rehman Malik, Muhammad Shoaib Almas and Luigi Vanfretti

An Experimental Setup for Testing Synchrophasor-based Damping Control Systems . . . . . . 1945

Eldrich Rebello, Muhammad Shoaib Almas and Luigi Vanfretti

Design for the upgrade of the Fast Sequence Control for Frascati Tokamak Upgrade . . . . . . 1951

Fabio Pollastrone, Carlo Neri, Chiara Monti, Cristina Centioli and Maurizio Panella

Electricity Price and Demand Forecasting Under Smart Grid Environment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1956

Dina Masri, Hatem Zeineldin and Wei-Lee Woon

Power transformers energy efficiency programs: a critical review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1961

Angelo Baggini and Franco Bua

A study of dynamic behaviour performance of DC/DC boost converter used in thephotovoltaic system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1966

Hamza Snani, Mohamed Amarouayache, Aissa Bouzid, Abderezak Lashab and HadjerBounechba

Utilization of Carbon Produced by Torrefaction of Grass for Energy Purposes andRelated Risks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1972

Konstantin Raclavsky, Helena Raclavska, Lucia Kovalova and Hana Skrobankova

Performance Assessment of PMU-Based Estimation Methods of Thevenin Equivalentsfor Real-Time Voltage Stability Monitoring. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1977

Jan Lavenius, Luigi Vanfretti and Glauco N. Taranto

Shielding Effectiveness Measurement and Simulation of Small Perforated ShieldingEnclosure Using FEM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1983

Zdenek Kubık and Jirı Skala

Contribution of LARES and geodetic satellites on Environmental monitoring . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1989

Erricos C. Pavlis, Giampiero Sindoni, Ignazio Ciufolini and Antonio Paolozzi

24


ASIC Realization and Performance Evaluation of Scalable Microprogrammed FIRFilters using Wallace Tree and Vedic Multipliers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1995

Abdullah A. Aljuffri, Mohammad Al-Nahdi, Anas A. Hemaid, Osamh A. Alshaalan,Mohammed S. Bensaleh, Abdulfattah M. Obeid and Syed Manzoor Qasim

Performance of Three Islanding Detection Methods for Grid-tied Multi-Inverters . . . . . . . . . .1999

Mageda El-Moubarak, Mahmoud Hassan and Ayman Faza

Dynamic Roadways and in-Vehicle Lighting Conditions for Determining MesopicAdaptation Luminance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2005

Mojtaba Navvab, Fabio Bisegna and Franco Gugliermetti

Advanced concrete materials for EMI reduction in protected environment and IEMIthreats suppression. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2011

Roberto Pastore, Davide Micheli, Mario Marchetti, Antonio Vricella, Ramon BuenoMorles, Franco Moglie and Valter Mariani Primiani

Evaluation of Heuristic Approach for Efficient Scheduling of Residential Smart HomeAppliances . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2017

Chris Ogwumike and Michael Short

Investigating Net-Metering Variant Policies: The Case of Greece. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2023

George Christoforidis, Ioannis Panapakidis, Theofilos Papadopoulos, GrigorisPapagiannis, Ioannis Koumparou, Maria Hatzipanayi and George Georghiou

Hybrid Computational Intelligence Model for Short-Term Bus Load Forecasting . . . . . . . . . 2029

Ioannis Panapakidis, George Christoforidis and Grigoris Papagiannis

Energy Harvesting Microsystems Based on the QFG MOS Transistors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2035

Antonio Lopez-Martin, Daniel Orradre, M. Pilar Garde, Pablo Sanchis, EugenioGubia, Gurutze Perez, David Astrain and Jaime Ramirez-Angulo

The Fluency of Data Flow in the Instrument for Measurement and Registration ofParameters of the Electrical Power Network . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2040

Romuald Masnicki

Participation of Demand Response Resources through Virtual Power Plant: A DecisionFramework under Uncertainty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2045

Saeed Rahmani Dabbagh and Mohammad Kazem Sheikh-El-Eslami

Design and Control of a Quasi-Z-Source Inverter Based for Wind Power Generationusing PMSG . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2050

Abdullah Hussien, Mohamed Taha Elsayed Ahmed Abdelkader and Osama Mahgoub

Using of Suitable Reluctance Motors for Electric Vehicles and Comparison of theirPerformances . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2056

Pavol Rafajdus, Adrian Peniak, Milan Diko, Juraj Makarovic, Peter Dubravka andValeria Hrabovcova

A Genetic Algorithm for Optimal Power Scheduling for Residential Energy Management. .2061

Shyam Kumar Polaki, Motahar Reza and Diptendu Sinha Roy

Engineering Hybrid Halide Perovskites Morphology for optoelectronic devices . . . . . . . . . . . .

Vanira Trifiletti, Aurora Rizzo, Andrea Listorti, Alessandro Cannavale, Silvia Colellaand Giuseppe Gigli

25


Smart grids reliability indices assessment using sequential Monte Carlo method . . . . . . . . . . 2072

Monica Mancasi and Ramona Vatu

Low-Gap Polymers Incorporating a Dicarboxylic Imide Moiety for Near-InfraredPolymer Light-Emitting Diodes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2078

Andrea Zampetti, Alessandro Minotto, Eva Garcia Rodriguez, Sybille Allard, UllrichScherf and Franco Cacialli

An Assessment of Ocean Wave, Thermal and Salinity Energy Potential in the Junctionof the Arabian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2082

Jason Bassett, Mahmoud Shahin, Ahmed Dalaq and Dana Suwwan

Coordinated voltage control in distribution grids with LTE based communicationinfrastructure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2090

Andrea Angioni, Abhinav Sadu, Antonello Monti, Ferdinanda Ponci, Dhruvin Patel,Fiona Williams, Davide Della Giustina and Alessio Dede

Perovskite photovoltaics: from lab cells to modules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2096

Aldo Di Carlo and Fabio Matteocci

Flexible Photovoltaics for Light Harvesting under LED lighting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2100

Francesca De Rossi, Tadeo Pontecorvo and Thomas Brown

Eletricity Generation Using Thermoelectric Generator - TEG. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2104

Priscilla A. J. Stecanella, Messias A. A. Faria, Elder G. Domingues, Pedro H. G.Gomes, Wesley P. Calixto and Aylton J. Alves

A New Mathematical Model for Assessing Optimization Decisions of the Loading FactorFlowing Through Substation Transformers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2109

Sorina Costinas, Ion Tristiu, Gabriela Nicoleta Sava, Ioana Opris and VladimirTanasiev

An Actuator Control Unit for Robotized Prostethic Arm with Embedded Energy Storage 2115

Sergio Saponara

Uninterruptible Power Supply Systems for Railway with Predictive Diagnostic AgainstPower Transformer Failure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2119

Sergio Saponara, Luca Fanucci and Alessandro Falciani

Using of Microcontroller with Small-Scale Wind Power in Off-Grid coupled withInduction Generator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2124

Pavel Sobota, Stanislav Rusnok, Stanislav Misak, Michal Kelnar and Petr Kacor

The Influence of the Frequency on the Efficiency and on the Power Quality of aContactless Power Transfer System. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2129

Ioana-Gabriela Sirbu

Optimal Power Flow for Reactive Power Compensation Increasing the Cross-BorderTransmission Capacity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2135

Mana Farrokhseresht, Mohammad Reza Hesamzadeh and Saeed Rahimi

A Photovoltaic System Installed on the Rooftop of a Industry: a Technical andEconomical Study . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2141

Jonatas Rodrigues, Aylton Alves, Elder Domingues, Wesley Calixto, Jose Domingosand Pedro Abrao

26


Noise and vibration behavior and analysis conditions of a 45kW induction motor . . . . . . . . . 2147

Daniel Fodorean, Aron Popp, Mathieu Sarrazin, Ovidiu Birte, Claudia Martis andHerman Van der Auweraer

Automatic Voltage Control of a cluster of hydro power plants to operate as a VirtualPower Plant. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2153

Massimiliano Chiandone, Riccardo Campaner, Vittorio Arcidiacono, Federico Milanoand Giorgio Sulligoi

A Virtual Instrument for the Adaptive Analysis of Low-Frequency Magnetic-FieldEmissions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2159

Beata Palczynska

Optimization of residential heating systems using accumulators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2165

Ioan-Valentin Sita, Petru Dobra, Daniel Moga, Radu Manescu, Vlad Muresan andIulia Clitan

Photovoltaic Switched Reluctance Motor Modeling and Simulation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2171

Loic Queval, Alain Coty, Lionel Vido, Raimund Gottkehaskamp and Bernard Multon

Open Source Telecommunications Framework for Time-Series Data from Smart GridSensors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2177

John Hastings, David Laverty and D John Morrow

Achieving energy savings and thermal comfort through intermittent heating in very lowenergy buildings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2183

Vladimir Tanasiev, Adrian Badea, Horia Necula, Sorina Costinas and GabrielaNicoleta Sava

A New Control Technique to Enhance the Stability of a DC microgrid and to ReduceBattery Current Ripple during the Charging of Plug-In Electric Vehicles. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2189

Nawaz Hussain and Vivek Agarwal

Feasibility Study of a Grid Connected Hybrid Wind/PV System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2194

Hussein Mohammad Al-Masri and Fathi Amoura

Synchronous Islanding Control in the Presence of Hydro-electric Generation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2200

Mats-Robin Jacobsen, David Laverty, John Morrow and John Hastings

Ion Current Studies Using A Small Corona Cage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2205

Jonathan Wulff, Tobias Vogt and Frank Jenau

Particle Swarm Optimization with multi-ring topology applied to the optimization ofpower transmission line parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2211

Sergio Arruda, Bernardo Alvarenga and Wesley Calixto

Thermal Simulation and Validation of 5W High Power LED Luminaire . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2216

Jose Luiz F. Barbosa, Wesley P. Calixto, Rodrigo A. Lima, Aylton J. Alves and ElderG. Domingues

Domestic Microgrid Energy Management: Model Predictive Control StrategiesExperimental Validation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2221

Stefano Bifaretti, Vincenzo Bonaiuto, Giacomo Bruni, Stefano Cordiner, VincenzoMulone, Hoa Nguyen, Claudio Paglia and Francesco Spagnolo

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Quantifying the effects of ground settlement on buildings by the exploitation of longterm DINSAR time series: the case of Roma . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2226

Maria Marsella

Predictive Management of Medium Voltage Distribution Networks for Solar andBiomass Power Integration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2231

Nisrine Kebir and Mohamed Maaroufi

MUSIC Algorithm for Estimation of Parameters of Signals in Power System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2236

Przemyslaw Janik and Zbigniew Waclawek

Various Oxygen Loadings for Oxidation of Methane as Electron Donor Source inMembrane Biofilm Reactor for Wastewater Treatment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2241

Dilek Akman, Kevser Cirik, Ozer Cinar and Ilker Akman

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