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Welcome to 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]

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Welcome to Centre for Smart Energy Conversion and Utilization Research

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  1. Welcome toCentre for Smart Energy Conversion and Utilization Research

  2. 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

  3. 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

  4. Major Equipment • Kikusui 9kW Power Grid Network Simulator • Simulation of voltage dips, voltage swells, power quality • Grid impedance simulation • MagnaPower30kW Photovoltaic Simulator • Integrating Sphere and Spectrometer • Network and impedance analyser • 30kVA Battery Storage and Management System [upcoming]

  5. Project Album [selected projects]

  6. 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

  7. 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

  8. 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 onthe following power levels: • 3kW • 6kW • 18kW • 250kW Grid-tie inverter module 250kW solar inverter farm

  9. 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

  10. 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

  11. 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 • An electro-magnetic transient simulator to model the continuous time behavior of electrical system • JADE • A Java based multi-agent development platform for implementing distributed control system • OPNET • A networking simulator to model the transmission medium, devices and protocols of any communication system

  12. Smart Grid Co-simulator for Power, Communication and Multi-agent System Design Simulation Screen Captures (PSCAD)

  13. CityCom

  14. Energy Management and Metering Advanced Metering Infrastructure Automation and energy management

  15. Overview on our work

  16. Centre for Smart Energy Conversion and Utilization Research Excellence Through Passion and Innovation Thank you

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