welcome to centre for smart energy conversion and utilization research
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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] - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Welcome to
Centre for Smart Energy Conversion and Utilization Research
About our CentreDirector
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 Storage and Management System [upcoming]
Project Album[selected projects]
Energy-Recyclable Burn-in System for Power Supply Industry
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
Eco-Products 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:
3kW
6kW
18kW
250kW
Grid-tie inverter module
250kW solar inverter farm
Smart Meter
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 High-Tech 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.
Award-
First-class prize, Natural Science Award, Ministry of Education, China, 2009.
For battery parameter estimation
A simulation tool to investigate the combined smart grid behaviors in the domain of power system, communication network and distributed control system.
Smart Grid Co-simulator for Power, Communication and Multi-agent System Design
PSCADo An electro-magnetic transient simulator
to model the continuous time behavior of electrical system
JADEo A Java based multi-agent development
platform for implementing distributed control system
OPNETo 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
System level
Application
level
Centre for Smart Energy Conversion and Utilization Research
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