Special Issue "Renewable Energy Exploitation: Technologies, Assessment, and Future Perspective"

A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Energy Sustainability".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 July 2022.

Special Issue Editors

Prof. Dr. Hoseyn Sayyaadi
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Guest Editor
Faculty of Mechanical Engineering-Energy Division, K.N. Toosi University of Technology, Tehran 1999 143344, Iran
Interests: renewable energy technologies; machine learning and artificial intelligence; multi-objective optimization; decision making; heating ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC); energy; exergy; economic; environmental analysis of energy systems; building design and performance analysis; desalination; power generation systems; Stirling engine; hydrogen production
Dr. Ali Sohani
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Guest Editor
Lab of Optimization of Thermal Systems’ Installations, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering-Energy Di-vision, K.N. Toosi University of Technology, Tehran 1999 143344, Iran
Interests: HVAC; energy systems; machine learning; multi-objective optimization; solar photovoltaics (PV)
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues, 

When it comes to our targets for future energy supply, renewable energy technologies occupy an important role because of their great advantages compared to those of conventional technologies, and considering this point, they are gaining more and more attention, not only from researchers but also from policy makers and people in different levels of society. 

To develop renewable energy technologies, several factors should be considered to have a desirable system. Despite the fact that in the literature, some aspects have usually been considered and others have been missed, in this Special Issue, we are going to provide a forum for discussion of all the important involved issues. In addition, in contrast to most of the research items in the literature, in which only one type of renewable energy source or technology has been studied, here, different types, including solar, wind, geothermal, hydrogen, and all other types of renewable energy resources, are going to be investigated. This will provide us with the possibility of having a better insight into different renewable energy resources when they are compared together. The scope of this Special issue includes but is not limited to the following items: 

  • Designing and retrofitting;
  • Performance analysis, optimization, and assessment;
  • Policy making;
  • Risk and reliability analysis;
  • Finding the best place and best operating strategy;
  • Desalination;
  • CCHP and polygeneration units;
  • Artificial intelligence and machine learning;
  • Future perspectives;
  • Agriculture and industrial use;
  • Renewable-energy-driven HVAC systems.

Prof. Dr. Hoseyn Sayyaadi
Dr. Ali Sohani
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • renewable energy resources
  • solar energy
  • wind energy
  • geothermal energy
  • power generation
  • combined cooling
  • heating and power (CCHP) systems
  • desalination
  • hybrid energy systems
  • fuel cells
  • hydrogen production
  • optimization
  • artificial intelligence

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Reliability Evaluation of Smart Microgrids Considering Cyber Failures and Disturbances under Various Cyber Network Topologies and Distributed Generation’s Scenarios
Sustainability 2021, 13(10), 5695; https://doi.org/10.3390/su13105695 - 19 May 2021
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Smart microgrids (SMGs), as cyber–physical systems, are essential parts of smart grids. The SMGs’ cyber networks facilitate efficient system operation. However, cyber failures and interferences might adversely affect the SMGs. The available studies about SMGs have paid less attention to SMGs’ cyber–physical features [...] Read more.
Smart microgrids (SMGs), as cyber–physical systems, are essential parts of smart grids. The SMGs’ cyber networks facilitate efficient system operation. However, cyber failures and interferences might adversely affect the SMGs. The available studies about SMGs have paid less attention to SMGs’ cyber–physical features compared to other subjects. Although a few current research works have studied the cyber impacts on SMGs’ reliability, there is a research gap about reliability evaluation simultaneously concerning all cyber failures and interferences under various cyber network topologies and renewable distributions scenarios. This article aims to fill such a gap by developing a new Monte Carlo simulation-based reliability assessment method considering cyber elements’ failures, data/information transmission errors, and routing errors under various cyber network topologies. Considering the microgrid control center (MGCC) faults in comparion to other failures and interferences is one of the major contributions of this study. The reliability evaluation of SMGs under various cyber network topologies, particularly based on an MGCC’s redundancy, highlights this research’s advantages. Moreover, studying the interactions of uncertainties for cyber systems and distributed generations (DGs) under various DG scenarios is another contribution. The proposed method is applied to a test system using actual historical data. The comparative test results illustrate the advantages of the proposed method. Full article
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