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Hassan A. N. Hejase
Hassan M. Noura
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ICREGA’14 -
Renewable Energy:
Generation
and Applications
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Mohammad O.Hamdan Hassan A.N.Hejase
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Al Ain ElectricalEngineering
UnitedArab Emirates UnitedArab Emirates University
Al Ain
UnitedArab Emirates
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Preface
The third international Conference on Renewable Energy, Generation and
Applications 2014, organized by the Faculty of Engineering, UAE University, is
the third conference in a new series of important meetings and technical forums,
withthefirstconferenceheldinMarch2010andthesecondinMarch2012.These
conferences aimatgatheringscientists andengineersfromacademia andindustry
todiscussthelatestdevelopmentsandinnovationsintheareaofrenewableenergy.
They further provide an opportunity to assess the challenges and the future of
renewable energy technologies worldwide.
TheinterestinRenewableenergyhasgainedalotofattentioninthelastdecade
due to environmental reasons, such as greenhouse abatement and ozone layer
protectionandeconomicandstrategicones,suchasthelimitedfossilfuel.United
Arab Emirates has committed to produce about 20 % of its energy consumption
fromrenewableenergyby2020.Toachievethisobjectivemanyrenewableenergy
projects are currently going on in the UAE.
ICREGA’14 features an outstanding group of keynote speakers addressing
significant topics in the applications of renewable energy. In addition, the con-
ference also includes three technical workshops.
The current conference attracted a large participation from universities and
industry from 19 different countries. A total of 79 papers have been submitted,
among which 70 papers are accepted for presentations. A total of 15 % of the
acceptedconferencepaperswillbeselectedtobeconsideredforpublicationinthe
‘‘Renewable Energy’’ Journal published by Elsevier Publishers. In addition, 26
student posters will also be presented at the conference.
Wearecommittedonorganizingthisconferenceevery2years,andbelievethat
it will continue to grow in importance and size.
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Contents
1 The Potential of Castor as a Biodiesel Feedstock Crop
for the Arabian Peninsula. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Kiran Menon, S. Irshad Ahmed, Neeru Sood and Nanduri K. Rao
2 The Effect of Internal Parameters on Biohydrogen
Production in Batch Microbial Electrolysis Cell Reactor . . . . . . . 11
M. Azwar, M. A. Hussain and A. K. Abdul-Wahab
3 Assessment of Surplus Agricultural Residues Available
for Biomass Briquetting in India. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
N. Awalgaonkar, H. Saxena, A. Venkatesan and R. Natarajan
4 Feasibility of Algal Systems for Sustainable
Wastewater Treatment. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Thinesh Selvaratnam, Ambica Pegallapati, Felly Montelya,
Gabriela Rodriguez, Nirmala Khandan, Peter Lammers
and Wayne Van Voorhies
5 Effectiveness of Enzymatic Biodiesel Production
from Microalga Oil in Supercritical Carbon Dioxide. . . . . . . . . . 49
H. Taher, S. Al-Zuhair, A. Al-Marzouqi, Y. Haik and M. Farid
6 Review of Dynamic Electric Circuit Models
for PEM Fuel Cells . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
M. Nabag, A. Fardoun, H. Hejase and A. Al-Marzouqi
7 SBG for Health Monitoring of Fuel Cell System . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
B. Ould-Bouamama, N. Chatti and A. L. Gehin
8 Dynamic Modeling of PEM Fuel Cell Using Particle
Swarm Optimization. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
R. Salim, M. Nabag, H. Noura and A. Fardoun
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9 Catalytic Characterization of Size Based Gold Nanoparticles
for Applications in Fuel Cells . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
A. Al-Hatti, I. Shaikha, M. Al-Shamisi,
T. Abdulrehman and Y. Haik
10 Advances in P.E.M. Fuel Cell Stack Observer Design
Using a Takagi–Sugeno Approach with Unmeasurable
Premise Variables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
S. C. Olteanu, A. Aitouche and L. Belkoura
11 Maximum Power Control for Photovoltaic System
Using Two Strategies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131
N. Harrabi, E. Kamal, A. Aitouche and M. Souissi
12 Maximum Power Point Tracking (MPPT) of Stand-Alone
Photovoltaic Systems Based on Synergetic Control . . . . . . . . . . . 143
A. Gaid and M. Bettayeb
13 Reconfiguration Solution for Shaded PV Panels
Using Fuzzy Logic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161
A. Tabanjat, M. Becherif and D. Hissel
14 High Voltage Gain DC–DC Converter with Low Input
Current Ripple for Fuel Cell Source. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179
Mustafa A. Al-Saffar
15 Integrated Double Boost–SEPIC DC–DC Converter
for Renewable Energy Systems. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193
Ahmad J. Sabzali and Esam H. Ismail
16 Low Cost Controller for Wave Energy Converter . . . . . . . . . . . . 207
Addy Wahyudie, Mohammed Jama, Omsalama Said,
Ali Assi and Hassan Noura
17 Coordinated Hybrid Electric Vehicle Charging
in Hybrid AC/DC Distribution Systems. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221
M. F. Shaaban, A. A. Eajal and E. F. El-Saadany
18 Monitoring Framework for Cost-Effective Energy
Consumption in a Building. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233
Salah Bouktif and Waleed K. Ahmed
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19 Distributed Energy Storage Based Series Compensator
to Mitigate Power Quality Problems. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241
M. E. Nassar, E. F. EL-Saadany and M. M. A. Salama
20 Guidelines for Sizing Shading Devices for Typical
Residential Houses in Muscat, Oman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251
Alya Al-Hashim, Nader Chalfoun and Colby Moeller
21 Thermal Performance of Ferrocement Green Building System. . . 267
Wail N. Al-Rifaie, Waleed K. Ahmed, L. E. Ibraheem
and H. Y. Al-Samarraie
22 Using PCM Implanted in Building Material for Thermal
Management: One Versus Seven Days Assessment. . . . . . . . . . . . 277
Emad Elnajjar
23 Effective U-Value of Wall Assemblies for an Eco-Friendly
Paint Coating. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287
S. Shahid, W. Whistler and M. Nazarinia
24 Function-Based Model Predictive Control Approach
for Maximum Power Capture of Heaving Wave
Energy Converters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299
Mohammed Jama, Addy Wahyudie, Ali Assi and Hassan Noura
25 Overview of Water Energy Nexus of Abu Dhabi’s Power
Sector-Energy Water Analysis of End Use Segment. . . . . . . . . . . 315
S. Assaf and M. Nour
26 Diesel Engine Performance and Emission Under
Hydrogen Supplement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329
M. O. Hamdan, P. Martin, E. Elnajjar, M. Y. E. Selim
and S. Al-Omari
27 The Potential of Using Raw Jojoba Oil as Fuel in Furnaces. . . . . 339
Salah B. Al-Omari, Mohammad O. Hamdan,
Mohamed Y. E. Selim and Emad Elnajjar
28 Present Status of Energy Recovery from Municipal
Solid Waste . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 347
K. P. Pauley, C. J. Chow, P. Rodgers and V. Eveloy
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29 Grid Connection of Wind Energy Conversion System
Using Doubly-Fed Induction Generator. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 365
Ali Haddi, Mohamed Becherif and Imane Benslama
30 Capacitor Bank Resizing in Islanded Power Grid Fed
by Induction Generator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 379
Saliha Boutora and Hamid Bentarzi
31 Economic Droop Parameter Selection for Autonomous
Microgrids Including Wind Turbines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 393
Morad M. A. Abdelaziz, E. F. El-Saadany and R. Seethapathy
32 Energy Management for a Grid-Tied
Photovoltaic-Wind-Storage System:
Part I—Forecasting Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 405
Ala Hussein and Issa Batarseh
33 Failure Analysis of Adhesively Bonded Wind Turbine Blade . . . . 417
Waleed K. Ahmed
34 New Pitch Control Scheme for Wind Turbines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 429
Salim Ibrir and Kyle Hunte
35 Numerical Investigation of Four Commonly Used Airfoils
for Vertical Axis Wind Turbine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 443
Franklyn Kanyako and Isam Janajreh
36 Sodar (SOnic Detection and Ranging) Measurement Campaign:
Case Study. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 455
Hatem Yazidi
37 Energy Recovery from Low Speed Winds. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 463
Janesh Mohanan and Mutasim Nour
38 Thermal Management of Solar Photovoltaics Modules
for Enhanced Power Generation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 479
Stuart J. McColl, Peter Rodgers and Valerie Eveloy
39 Thermal Performance of Improved Inverted
Trickle Solar Still. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 491
Fadi A. Ghaith and Ahmed Bilal
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40 Electrodeposited Dendritic Structures of Copper Oxide
as Solar Selective Absorbers in the UV–Vis Range. . . . . . . . . . . . 505
A. H. Alami, Anis Allagui and Hussain Alawadhi
41 Numerical Investigation of Solar Chimney
Power Plant in UAE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 513
Mohammad O. Hamdan and Saud Khashan
42 Jordan Current Status on Renewable Energy and Energy
Efficiency: Analysis and Recommendations
for Curricula Development. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 525
F. A. Abu Al-Rub, S. Kiwan, Q. Khasawneh and T. Emtairah
43 Heterojunction Solar Cell Based on p-type PbS Quantum
Dots and Two n-type Nanocrystals CdS and ZnO . . . . . . . . . . . . 535
Sawsan Dagher, Yousef Haik, Ahmad Ayesh and Nacer Tit
44 Dye and Nanoparticles-Sensitized Solar Cells . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 547
Sawsan Dagher, Zahraa A. Yousif, Iman Abdulkareem,
Sayeda Al Ameri and Yousef Haik
45 Combination of an Improved P&O Technique
with ANN for MPPT of a Solar PV System. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 557
M. Kesraoui, A. Benine and N. Boudhina
46 Articulation Control of a PLC Based Robot Manipulator
used for Heliostat Orientation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 571
A. Chaïb, M. Kesraoui and E. Kechadi
47 High Density Polyethylene Pyrolysis: Review and Progress . . . . . 585
Farah Obeid and Isam Janajreh
48 Developing Sustainable and Clean Energy for Environmental
Issues in Turkey. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 597
I. Yuksel and H. Arman
49 Detailed Kinetics-Based Entrained Flow Gasification
Modeling of Utah Bituminous Coal and Waste Construction
Wood Using Aspen Plus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 607
Idowu A. Adeyemi and Isam Janajreh
50 Estimating Global Solar Radiation with Multiple
Meteorological Predictors for Abu Dhabi and Al Ain, UAE. . . . . 623
Jamal Hassan
