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A special issue of Electronics (ISSN 2079-9292). This special issue belongs to the section "Power Electronics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 January 2022.
Special Issue Editors
Interests: power electronics; renewable energy; photovoltaics; electrical engineering; impedance-source converters
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Interests: power engineering computing; PWM rectifiers; active filters; automotive electrics; computerised monitoring; decision support systems; electric vehicles; energy conservation; graphical user interfaces; home automation; power factor; power filters; harmonic distortion; power harmonic filters; compensation; invertors; mean square error methods; passive filters; photovoltaic cells; photovoltaic power systems; power conversion harmonics; power station control; pulse width modulation; reactive power; synchronisation
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Interests: energy efficiency; smart grids; buildings flexibility and grid interaction; electrical drives; power electronics
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Thanks to rapid advances in semiconductor and packaging technologies, as well as the development of new power converter topologies, power electronics are being increasingly employed in brand new applications, such as electronic power distribution systems, also known as active distribution networks or smart grids. Depending on the power scale, such concepts could be applied either for a single building or districts, thus facilitating larger shares of distributed energy generation and storage, demand-side efficiency, and energy trading operations.
Addressing these new challenges is the main focus of this Special Issue. We invite researchers from academia and industry to discuss technical challenges, exchange novel ideas, explore enabling technologies, and present R&D results related to power electronic systems, control, protection, communication, and operation aspects in designing and implementing different architectures and functionalities in emerging residential microgrids.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited, to the following:
- DC and hybrid AC/DC residential microgrid architectures
- Solutions resolving interoperability issues and facilitating the deployment of microgrids
- Optimal design methodologies and transient and stability analysis for residential microgrids
- Power electronics systems for efficient integration of distributed energy generators and storages into residential microgrids
- Active power filtering, load-sharing, islanding operation
- Condition monitoring, intelligent protection, fault diagnosis, and self-healing.
- Predictive maintenance and adaptive communication-based protection
- Microgrids during emergency, islanding, and black start
- Supervision, management, security, and hierarchical control
- Communication-based resilient and robust control
- Power management strategies, distributed control, and/or decentralized decision making
- Operation and control of interconnected residential microgrids (i.e., a microgrid community)
- Cybersecurity issues in residential microgrids.
- Control and management of multi-energy systems for residential microgrids
Prof. Dr. Dmitri Vinnikov
Prof. Dr. Enrique Romero-Cadaval
Prof. Dr. João Martins
Guest Editors
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