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Renewable Energy Systems

Vision
To be a centre, carrying out innovative research work and creating new knowledge enabling the, installation and operation of Renewable Energy systems for various applications, ultimately leading to the large scale replacement of conventional energy installations

Mission

  • To design highly reliable and cost effective wind energy and solar energy electric conversion ( WEEC and SEEC) systems, build and test prototype models
  • To bring out most appropriate Power Electronic circuits for field operation of WEEC ,SEEC and hybrid systems
  • To take up consultancy projects in Renewable Energy systems and enable start-up units in this area.
  • To offer systematic training to academicians and industry personal in the design and operation of Renewable energy systems.

Research Activities
The RES Centre has the knowledge and infrastructure to harness renewable energy and it has integrated following multidomain activities:

  • Research scholars, UG and PG students undertake research works and publish the papers in SCI, Scopus and web of science indexed journals
  • Promotes Consultancy projects in renewable energy based multi domain areas
  • Conducts the training programmes, hands on workshops and webinars for both academic and business communities
  • Generates Intellectual Properties (IP) in terms of patents and high-quality technical publications.
  • Promotesthe energy audit programme in Industrial, commercial multi storage and residential buildings.

Projects completed at Centre of Excellence in RES
Sponsored Projects

  1. Funding Agency: AICTE-RPS

    Project Title:Renewable Energy Integrated movable charging unit for electric vehicles with smart Grid management concepts

    Sanctioned Amount: Rs: 8,00,000.00.

    Principal Investigator: Dr.P.Sivakumar
  2. Funding Agency: TNSCST

    Project Title: A solar power assisted dual battery balancing system for electricvehicles

    Sanctioned Amount: Rs: 7,500.00.

    Principal Investigator: Mrs.B.Dhivya
Consultancy projects at RES
Sl. No. Client Type Work Title

  
Perumal Manimekalai College of Engineering College Design and development Renewable Energy lab equipment (PV-Emulator, Fuel Cell-Emulator & hybrid power system)
1 Integrum Enterprises Small scale industry Program coding check Code debugging for job scheduling problem
2 Navodaya Institute of Technology, Raichur College MATLAB and SIMULINK with Real Time Applications MATLAB and SIMULINK with Real Time Applications
3 ADROIT SOLUTIONS Company Small scale industry Code generation PV sourced Nano grid controller model for charging applications
4 INTEGRUM ENTERPRISES Small scale industry Simulation Simulation of Multilevel inverter by using dSPACE-1104.
5 TRANSPOWER Company Small scale industry Design and development To develop the biased transformer for hybrid heating application
6 Viswa Jothi Technologies Private Limited. Small scale industry Design and development Inverter controller for BLDC drive applications by using dSPACE-1104.
7 Loyola-ICAM College MATLAB and SIMULINK with Real Time Applications Training on

Arduino
8 SRI Software

System and Technologies
Small scale industry Design and development Solar Powered

Energy conversion system with Internet of Thing
9 Integrum Enterprises Small scale industry Design and development GSM Based On -

Off Control of Starter for water pump in Agriculture Application
10 ICMR GOVT. of INDIA Design and development Temperature Monitoring Units with deep freezer   
11 REC Internal Design and development Energy saving controller for HVAC systems
12 SanSel

Instruments and Control
MSI Design and development Temperature

controller using Fuzzy control
13 REC Internal Design and development 0-100A variable DC current power supply unit for electrocoagulation system
14 REC Internal Design and development Three Phase

Inverter

Training offered

  • Workshop on PV sourced EV charging.
  • Three-day hands-on session on hybrid power sourced EV charging

Research Publications

  1. P. Arokiya Prasad and P. Siva Kumar “Biased Maximum Power Extraction from a PV during Low Irradiation and a Highly Stiffed Grid Condition”, International Transactions on Electrical Energy Systems, Volume 2022 |Article ID 4802473 | https://doi.org/10.1155/2022/4802473.
  2. Ranjitha, K., Sivakumar, P., Monica, M., “Load frequency control based on an improved Chimp optimization algorithm using adaptive weight strategy”, COMPEL - The International Journal for Computation and Mathematics in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 2022
  3. R.Essaki Raj, C. Kamalakannan, R. Karthigaivel, “Genetic algorithm based analysis of wind driven parallel operated self-excited induction generators supplying isolated loads” IET Renew. Power Gener. ISSN 1752-1416, Vol. 12, No.4, 2018, pp. 472-483.
  4. Ranganathan, S., S. Rama Reddy Design and Analysis of Fast Response Sliding Mode Controller for Quadratic Boost Converter based Hybrid PV/Wind System in DC Micro-grid. J. Elect. Eng. Technology, Springer, 2561–2571, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42835-021-00767-9
  5. R.Essaki Raj and Sridhar, S. (2021), "Grey wolf optimizer algorithm for the performance predetermination of variable speed self-excited induction generators", COMPEL - The international journal for computation and mathematics in electrical and electronic engineering, Vol. ahead-of-print No. ahead-of-rint. https://doi.org/10.1108/COMPEL-06-2021-0197
  6. Ranjitha, K., Ponnurangam, Sivakumar., Rajapandiyan, A.“Impact of demand management with load frequency control in distribution network with high penetration of renewable energy sources” was published in International Transactions on Electrical Energy Systems 2021, 31(11), e13066 WILEY
  7. Essaki Raj, R., Kamalakannan, C.&Karthigaivel, R. An optimum three-stage stator winding connections for wind-driven stand-alone self-excited induction generators for enhanced annual energy output. Electrical Engineering, springer (2020). Vol. 103, No.2, 2020, pp. 865-880. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00202-020-01125-0
  8. A.NazarAli,K.Premkumara,M.VishnupriyabB.V.ManikandancT.Thamizhselvana “Design and development of realistic PV emulator adaptable to the maximum power point tracking algorithm and battery charging controller” Solar Energy, Volume 220, 15 May 2021, Pages 473-490.
  9. G. Soorya Priya, P. Sivakumar “Analysis of antlion optimizer-based ABT for automatic generation control of an interconnected power system” was published in Springer Berlin Heidelberg pp. 1-15, May 2019
  10. P. Sivakumar, M. Arutchelvi, “Modified composite power control strategy for grid connected wind‐PV systems with unbalanced nonlinear current” published in the International Transactions on Electrical Energy Systems E2587, 26 April 2018 WILEY
  11. P. Sivakumar, M. Arutchelvi, “Maximum power extractions in a single stage PV sourced grid connected inverter during low irradiations and nonlinear loads” published in the Renewable Energy. Volume 107, July 2017, Pages 262-270,ELSEVIER

MoU Signed:

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5kW PV panel on rooftop of workshop block

500W Wind turbine Emulated PMSG power generator

500W PV Emulator

Hardware Fabrication of 500W PV Emulator

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