Transcript Centre for Smart Energy Conversion and Utilization Research

Welcome to
Centre for Smart
Energy Conversion
and Utilization
Research
About our Centre
Director
 Prof. Henry S H Chung [Power Electronics]
Members
 Dr. Ricky W H Lau [Embedded system]
 Dr. K F Tsang [Wireless communications]
 Dr. Norman C F Tse [Advanced metering infrastructure]
Research staff:
13
Technicians:
2
Research students: 8
Research Areas
 Smart grid technologies
 Renewable energy conversion technologies
 Computational intelligence for power electronics circuit design
and analysis
 High-voltage power conversion technologies
 Energy saving and environmentally-friendly solutions for power
supply, lighting and manufacturing industries
 Advanced metering infrastructure
 Zigbee communication system
Major Equipment
 Kikusui 9kW Power Grid Network Simulator
 Simulation of voltage dips, voltage swells, power quality
 Grid impedance simulation
 MagnaPower 30kW Photovoltaic Simulator
 Integrating Sphere and Spectrometer
 Network and impedance analyser
 30kVA Battery
[upcoming]
Storage
and
Management
System
Project Album
[selected projects]
Energy-Recyclable Burn-in
System for Power Supply Industry
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Save up electric energy for burn-in
by more than 75%
Reduction of post-production cost,
electricity consumption and
emission of greenhouse gases and
pollutants
Improvement of product lifetime
Short payback period (< one year)
Award Gold award - Best Innovation and
Research Award Competition, HKICT
Award 2007
30kW burn-in system designed
for Emerson Network Power
Power Management Systems for
Large-Scale Lighting Infrastructure
Save up electric energy by more than 20%
Awards –
 Hong Kong Awards for Industries
2009 and 2011
 Notable Mention, Hong Kong EcoProducts Award 2006
 Best New Product 2005 award,
Australia Electrical and Electronic
Manufacture's Association (AEEMA)
1.5kVA, 2.4kVA, and 6.8kVA systems
available
Smart Inverter Technology for
Photovoltaic Systems [On-going]
 A new smart inverter
technology allowing wide input
voltage range and very small
size
 Parallel inverter application
Collaboration with industry
working on the following power
levels:
Grid-tie inverter module
 3kW
 6kW
 18kW
 250kW
250kW solar inverter farm
Smart Meter
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High data compression ratio
Real-time continuous electrical
waveform compression and
transmission
Simple computation process,
running on a low-cost digital signal
processor
Communication through low-power,
low bit-rate sensor network
protocol such as ZigBee
Award
Excellent Product Award, 12th HighTech Fair.
Smart meter
Ant Colony Optimization Algorithm
for Power Electronic Circuit Design
The algorithm can search the
optimal values of components for
power electronics systems and
determine the intrinsic parameters
of systems, like batteries.
AwardFirst-class prize, Natural Science
Award, Ministry of Education,
China, 2009.
For battery
parameter
estimation
Smart Grid Co-simulator for Power,
Communication and Multi-agent System Design
A simulation tool to investigate the combined
smart grid behaviors in the domain of power
system, communication network and distributed
control system.
PSCAD
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An electro-magnetic transient simulator to model
the continuous time behavior of electrical system
JADE
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A Java based multi-agent development platform for
implementing distributed control system
OPNET
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A networking simulator to model the
transmission
medium,
devices
and
protocols of any communication system
Smart Grid Co-simulator for Power,
Communication and Multi-agent System Design
Simulation Screen Captures
(PSCAD)
CityCom
Energy Management and
Metering
Advanced Metering Infrastructure
Automation and energy
management
Overview on our work
Component
level
Circuit level
System
level
Application
level
Centre for Smart
Energy Conversion
Excellence Through Passion and Innovation
and Utilization
Research
Thank you