his investigation tried to control a standalone hybrid DC microgrid in islanded operation mode by using decentralized power management strategies. Unlike common approaches where a Photovoltaic (PV) module is controlled as current source, the proposed strategy controls PV arrays as a voltage source that follows the current/voltage adaptive characteristic curve. Proposed I/V characteristic for hy...

Abstract: The use of the isolated hybrid power systems is being popular due to the continuous increasing gap between demand and supply of conventional energy sources and intermittent nature of non-conventional energy sources. Normally, the non-conventional energy source such as wind have induction generator to generate electricity but induction generators require reactive power for its operatio...

Received Feb 3, 2017 Revised Mar 18, 2017 Accepted May 5, 2017 Dual input dc-dc converters have two input voltage sources or one input source and an energy storage system like ultra capacitor, PV, battery, super capacitors and a single output load. In order to process the power in hybrid energy systems using reduced part count, researchers have proposed several multi-input dc-dc power converter...

Hybrid energy systems consist of a load poweredby a source and a form of energy storage. Systems with mixedenergy supply find applications in the electric grid with renew-able and non-renewable sources, in mission critical systems suchas Mars rovers with rechargeable and non-rechargeable batter-ies and low-power monitoring systems with energy harvesting.A general problem...

geothermal energy because of its versatility has extensive applications in power generation, industry, agriculture, treatment of diseases etc: ...this source of energy has received great attention in recent years many countries in the world are benefiting from it. it possesses an eternal heat source and is pollution free. in this article it is tried to demonstrate the importance of georhermal e...

This paper investigates the effect of temperature on a hybrid energy storage system with various energy management systems. The hybrid energy storage system consists of a fuel cell, ultracapacitor and battery with associated DC/DC and DC/AC converters. The energy management strategies employed are the state machine control strategy, fuzzy frequency/logic decoupling strategy, minimization strate...