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[IEEE 2019 IEEE 46th Photovoltaic Specialists Conference (PVSC) - Chicago, IL, USA (2019.6.16-2019.6.21)] 2019 IEEE 46th Photovoltaic Specialists Conference (PVSC) - Degradation observation of 9 year old PV modules in Bangalore, India
摘要： We study battery filling policies with hard deadlines when the supply of energy can be modulated. This occurs for example with an electric plug-in vehicle using an adjustable electricity service for charging; such a service is offered in some countries as a means to provide flexibility to operators, and typically involves non-scheduled service reductions combined with a service guarantee that constrains these reductions. The problem for the battery user is to determine a charging policy, which we call a “consumption policy,” that meets a given “full battery” deadline while minimizing the energy cost (i.e., the bill paid to the electricity provider). As the charging efficiency is diminishing with respect to consumption, it is not optimal to charge as much and as early as possible. On the other hand service reductions cannot be predicted but it is possible to gain some information on the worst case reduction by analyzing past reductions. In this context, the computation of a causal consumption policy is an open problem. In this paper we consider a battery user interested in charging her battery while minimizing the worst case cost, where the total cost is a sum of two terms that reflect (i) the total energy consumption and (ii) the distance to a full battery at the deadline. We prove that there exists a causal consumption policy that minimizes the worst-case cost of the user. We find that the policy is threshold-based and give an efficient method to explicitly compute it at any time based solely on knowledge of past reductions, of the service guarantees and on the current distance to completion. Our method is based on the use of service curves and game theory.
关键词： Adjustable supply,repeated game,worst-case cost,service curves,battery management
更新于2025-09-23 15:19:57
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Photoelectric evaluation of dye-sensitized solar cells based on prodigiosin pigment derived from Serratia marcescens 11E
摘要： Prodigiosin, a natural pigment produced as a secondary metabolite by the non-photosynthetic bacterium Serratia marcescens, was tested as a sensitizer in dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSC). The strain S. marcescens 11E, which was isolated from a natural spring located in the northeastern Mexican state of Nuevo Leon, was cultivated on peanut oil broth 1% v/v, a culture medium which is known to enhance the production of prodigiosin. The resulting pigment was extracted with chloroform and identified as prodigiosin based on the spectroscopic and structural characteristics obtained by UV–Vis spectrophotometry along with FTIR and 1H-NMR spectroscopies. The initial absorbance decomposition test performed on the bacterial pigment demonstrated that prodigiosin exhibited high photostability after five days, while the photovoltaic performance test of the sensitized DSSC, resulted in an open voltage circuit of 560 mV, a current density of 0.096 mA/cm2, and efficiency of 0.032 %. Structurally, the DSSC consisted of a titanium dioxide (TiO2) photoanode sensitized with the pigment by direct adsorption, an electrolyte containing a redox pair I?/I3? and a cathode or counter electrode prepared from a carbon paste. Since the overproduction of prodigiosin can be easily achieved on a large scale through the rapid fermentation of agro-industrial residues throughout the year without the need to allocate surfaces for the cultivation of pigment-producing plants or wait for specific seasons for their cultivation, our results suggest that prodigiosin could be considered an excellent candidate to be used in the development of a low-tech, low-cost DSSC.
关键词： Low-cost DSSC,Solar energy,Bacterial pigments,Native strain
更新于2025-09-23 15:19:57
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Optical Mouse Sensor for Eye Blink Detection and Pupil Tracking: Application in a Low-Cost Eye-Controlled Pointing Device
摘要： In this paper, a new application of the optical mouse sensor is presented. The optical mouse is used as a main low-cost infrared vision system of a new proposal of a head-mounted human-computer interaction (HCI) device controlled by eye movements. The default optical mouse sensor lens and illumination source are replaced in order to improve its ?eld of view and capture entire eye images. A complementary 8-bit microcontroller is used to acquire and process these images with two optimized algorithms to detect forced eye blinks and pupil displacements which are translated to computer pointer actions. This proposal introduces an inexpensive and approachable plug and play (PnP) device for people with severe disability in the upper extremities, neck, and head. The presented pointing device performs standard computer mouse actions with no extra software required. It uses the human interface device (HID) standard class of the universal serial bus (USB) increasing its compatibility for most computer platforms. This new device approach is aimed at improving comfortability and portability of the current commercial devices with simple installation and calibration. Several performance tests were done with di?erent volunteer users obtaining an average pupil detection error of 0.34 pixels with a successful detection in 82.6% of all mouse events requested by means of pupil tracking.
关键词： human-computer interaction,low-cost device,optical mouse sensor,pupil tracking,eye blink detection
更新于2025-09-23 15:19:57
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Operational Performance and Degradation Influenced Life Cycle Environmentala??Economic Metrics of mc-Si, a-Si and HIT Photovoltaic Arrays in Hot Semi-arid Climates
摘要： Life cycle metrics evolution specific to the climate zone of photovoltaic (PV) operation would give detailed insights on the environmental and economic performance. At present, vast literature is available on the PV life cycle metrics where only the output energies ignoring the degradation rate (DR) influence. In this study, the environ-economic analysis of three PV technologies, namely, multi-crystalline silicon (mc-Si), amorphous silicon (a-Si) and hetero-junction with an intrinsic thin layer (HIT) have been carried out in identical environmental conditions. The energy performance parameters and the DR rate of three PV technologies are evaluated based on the monitored real time data from the installation site in hot semi-arid climates. The assessment demonstrates that the HIT PV module technology exhibits more suitable results compared to mc-Si and a-Si PV systems in hot semi-arid climatic conditions of India. Moreover, energy metrices which includes energy payback time (EPBT), energy production factor (EPF) and life cycle conversion efficiency (LCCE) of the HIT technologies are found to be 1.0, 24.93 and 0.15 years, respectively. HIT PV system has higher potential to mitigate the CO2 and carbon credit earned compared to mc-Si and a-Si PV system under hot semi-arid climate. However, the annualized uniform cost (UAC) for mc-Si (3.60 Rs/kWh) and a-Si (3.40 Rs/kWh) are more admissible in relation to the HIT (6.63 Rs/kWh) PV module type. We conclude that the approach of considering DR influenced life cycle metrics over the traditional approach can support to identify suitable locations for specific PV technology.
关键词： annualized uniform cost,amorphous silicon,crystalline solar cells,life cycle assessment,PV cells,energy payback time,life cycle metrics,HIT,photovoltaic systems,degradation rate
更新于2025-09-23 15:19:57
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Multiple epitaxial lift-off of stacked GaAs solar cells for low-cost photovoltaic applications
摘要： This paper presents a multilayer peeling from a stacked cell structure as an approach for the cost reduction of III–V solar cells. We demonstrate the separation of two-layer stacked GaAs solar cells with Al(Ga)As release layers on the GaAs substrate into individual layers without cracks. The cells in each layer peeled from the stacked structure show equivalent device performances. Thermal cycling tests with repeated heating to 85 °C and cooling to ?40 °C show that the flexible GaAs thin-film cell exhibits a high durability against temperature changes. Further, a damp heat test conducted at 85 °C and 85% humidity indicates that the cell has long-term stability. These results suggest that the flexible GaAs thin-film cells fabricated by peeling from stacked structures have a high reliability and prove that the separation of the stacked cell structures into individual layers is effective in fabricating low-cost III–V solar cells.
关键词： epitaxial lift-off,cost reduction,damp heat test,photovoltaic applications,thermal cycling,GaAs solar cells
更新于2025-09-23 15:19:57
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[IEEE 2019 IEEE 46th Photovoltaic Specialists Conference (PVSC) - Chicago, IL, USA (2019.6.16-2019.6.21)] 2019 IEEE 46th Photovoltaic Specialists Conference (PVSC) - PV system performance evaluation by clustering production data to normal and non-normal operation.
摘要： Cloud service providers are typically faced with three significant problems when running their cloud data centers, i.e., rising electricity bills, growing carbon footprints, and unexpected power outages. To mitigate these issues, running cloud data centers in smart microgrids (SMGs) is a good choice, since SMGs can enhance the energy efficiency, sustainability, and reliability of electrical services. Thus, in this paper, we investigate the problem of energy management for cloud data centers in SMGs. To be specific, we would minimize the time average expected energy cost (including electricity bill, battery depreciation cost, the total generation cost of conventional generators, and revenue loss due to the unfinished workloads) with the consideration of three practical factors, i.e., the ramping constraints of backup generators, the charging and discharging efficiency parameters of batteries, and two kinds of data center workloads. A stochastic programming is formulated by integrating the constraints associated with workload allocation, electricity buying/selling, battery management, backup generators, and power balancing. To solve the stochastic programming problem, an online algorithm is designed, and the algorithmic performance is analyzed. Simulation results show the advantages of the designed algorithm over other baselines.
关键词： energy cost,uncertainty,smart microgrids,Cloud data centers
更新于2025-09-23 15:19:57
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Assessment of technical and financial benefits of AC and DC microgrids based on solar photovoltaic
摘要： Microgrid deployments are expanding around the world as the most suitable solution to integrate distributed renewable energy sources to meet the increasing load demands and to power-up the remote areas. The installation of DC microgrid can improve system ef?ciency and reduces the cost of electrical infrastructure compared to the AC microgrid. However, the main challenge of implementing DC microgrid is the existing structure of the AC distribution system. In addition to the previous researches performed on DC microgrids, this paper proposes a framework to assess the technical and ?nancial bene?ts of implementing the AC and DC microgrids. The power loss, voltage drop and system ef?ciency have been investigated for the AC and DC microgrids during the steady-state condition. Furthermore, the dynamic behaviors of AC and DC microgrids have been analyzed when each system subjected to disturbance such as short-circuit fault, aiming to evaluate the system response. In the next stage, techno-economic analysis has been carried out to determine the optimal size of solar PV system connected to each AC or DC microgrid with its energy storage, according to the meteorological and load pro?le data of the selected remote area in Sarawak (Malaysia). The study presented in this paper justi?es that DC microgrid is potentially more bene?cial than AC microgrid. However, the stability of the system during fault condition is the main problem in the DC microgrid. Therefore, it can be concluded that the protection and control of DC microgrids should be the key areas of future researches.
关键词： AC and DC microgrid con?gurations,Cost optimization,Techno-economic analysis,System losses
更新于2025-09-23 15:19:57
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Fast Visual Odometry Based Sparse Geometric Constraint for RGB-D Camera
摘要： Pose estimation is a basic requirement for the autonomous behavior of robots. In this article we present a robust and fast visual odometry method to obtain camera poses by using RGB-D images. We first propose a motion estimation method based on sparse geometric constraint and derive the analytic Jacobian of the geometric cost function to improve the convergence performance, then we use our motion estimation method to replace the tracking thread in ORB-SLAM for improving its runtime performance. Experimental results show that our method is twice faster than ORB-SLAM while keeping the similar accuracy.
关键词： 3D reconstruction,pose estimation,geometric cost function,fast visual odometry,iterative optimization
更新于2025-09-19 17:15:36
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Markov Chain Investigation of Discretization Schemes and Computational Cost Reduction in Modeling Photon Multiple Scattering
摘要： Establishing fast and reversible photon multiple scattering algorithms remains a modeling challenge for optical diagnostics and noise reduction purposes, especially when the scattering happens within the intermediate scattering regime. Previous work has proposed and verified a Markov chain approach for modeling photon multiple scattering phenomena through turbid slabs. The fidelity of the Markov chain method has been verified through detailed comparison with Monte Carlo models. However, further improvement to the Markov chain method is still required to improve its performance in studying multiple scattering. The present research discussed the efficacy of non-uniform discretization schemes and analyzed errors induced by different schemes. The current work also proposed an iterative approach as an alternative to directly carrying out matrix inversion manipulations, which would significantly reduce the computational costs. The benefits of utilizing non-uniform discretization schemes and the iterative approach were confirmed and verified by comparing the results to a Monte Carlo simulation.
关键词： computational cost reduction,markov chain approximation,discretization schemes,multiple scattering
更新于2025-09-19 17:15:36
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Evaluation of photocatalytic thin film pretreatment on anaerobic degradability of exopolymer extracted biosolids for biofuel generation
摘要： This study reports the result of sodium citrate induced exopolymer extraction on the photocatalytic thin film (TiO2) pretreatment efficiency of waste activated sludge (WAS). TiO2 is immobilized through DC spluttering method followed by annealing process. The exopolymer removal of 94.2 % by sodium citrate (0.05 g/g SS) promotes better disintegration. This TiO2 thin film efficiently extricate the intracellular components of exopolymer extracted sludge at 50 minutes increasing the solubilization to 19.33 %. As a result, the exopolymer extracted sludge shows high methane generation (0.24 gCOD/gCOD) than the other (pretreated sludge without exopolymer removal – 0.12 gCOD/gCOD and raw sludge without treatment – 0.075 gCOD/gCOD). The methane generated in sodium citrate induced TiO2 thin film pretreated sludge is 398.99 kWh. In cost analysis, it gives net cost of -57.46 USD/ ton of sludge. In addition, the proposed method also accounts 51.3 % of solid reduction.
关键词： Methane,Photocatalytic oxidation,Sodium citrate,Pretreatment,Cost analysis
更新于2025-09-19 17:15:36