Design Optimization and Optimal Control of Renewable Energy Systems
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Energy Science and Technology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 July 2020) | Viewed by 476
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Dear colleagues,
The interest in harnessing renewable energy resources is continuously growing, spanning from electricity generation to industrial solutions and from large central installations to agile distributed units. One of the main concerns in the design of systems that utilize renewable energy sources is the intermittent character of the resource availability. This depends on the type of resources and the employed technology, while often multiple resources and technologies are integrated together and need to perform in a well-balanced manner. In other words, once design optimization is achieved, the individual components and integrated system must be optimally controlled in order to correctly match the requirements and resource availability. This is true across all different levels of technology development (bench, lab, pilot, operation) with similar or different challenges and opportunities.
This Special Issue solicits papers addressing the whole spectrum of design and control of renewable energy systems throughout all temporal, spatial, and development scales. The aim is to offer the state-of-the art of the most advanced techniques, new theoretical concepts, tested and verified methods, and their applications in solar, hydro, wind, biomass and ocean energies. Potential topics include (but are not limited to):
- Central and Distributed Renewable Energy Systems
- Solar, Hydro, Wind, Biomass, and Ocean Energies
- Autonomous and Integrated Systems
- Numerical and Experimental Methods
- Power Generation
- Energy Conversion and Storage
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Prof. N.C. Markatos
Prof. K. Kakosimos
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Solar, hydro, wind, biomass, ocean energies
- Autonomous and integrated systems
- Numerical studies
- Optimization .optimal control
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