Smart Energy Control & Conversion Systems

Dear Colleagues,

Climate change is a difficult reality, and even if fossil fuels are not going to be decommissioned soon, smart energy management, conversion, and control are mandatory, to avoid the direst scenarios that, unanimously, will be realized if current energy consumption continues unabated.

In the last decade, research institutions all over the world have devoted an ever-growing effort to innovative energy conversion. Electric energy generation is moving from the centralized paradigm that is currently in use to a distributed generation paradigm, especially given the technological improvements to micro-scaled renewable energy sources (RES); of course, the introduction of several smaller energy sources into the electrical grid has led to new problems, given the resources needed to coordinate, convert, and control all the energy flows at the same time. This has, ultimately, initiated the current smart grid paradigm.

This Special Issue aims to collect new research contributions on smart energy management, conversion, and control; this includes but is not limited to applications for power electronic converters, electrical motors, internal combustion engines, renewable energy sources, and fuel cells. Smart energy management, conversion, and control can be achieved in various ways, among which:

• Power electronics static energy conversion with switching loss minimization;
• Load curve management;
• Fuel consumption optimization;
• Electric machine loss minimization;
• Efficiency optimization in power flow management.

Dr. Angelo Accetta
Dr. Marcello Pucci
Dr. Giuseppe La Tona
Dr. Antonino Sferlazza
Guest Editors

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