Smart Grids—Renewable Energy, Power Electronics, Signal Processing and Communication Systems Applications (eBook)

This book discusses power electronics, signal processing and communication systems applications in smart grids (SG). Smart grids can be considered an evolution of the classic energy model to allow a more efficient management of the relationship between supply and demand, in order to overcome the contingency problems of the modern world. To achieve their goals, they use advanced technologies of information and communication, power electronics and signal processing, and can be used to integrate renewable energy sources.

The book is divided into two main parts. The first part presents the application of power electronics technologies in renewable energy systems, while the second part presents some telecommunications, signal processing and energy capture technologies within the context of SGs. The chapters are written by invited expert authors, according to their research areas.

Prof. Dr. A.J. Sguarezi Filho received his Ph. D. degree from Campinas University in Brazil in 2010. He is a full-time professor at Federal University of ABC-UFABC, in Santo André, Brazil, teaching in the areas of electrical machines, power electronics and electrical drives. His research interests are machine drives, wind, and photovoltaic energies, doubly fed induction generators, electric vehicles, power control, and electrical power systems. He is Senior Member of IEEE.  He has published book chapters, papers in conferences and journals. He is advisor of more than 30 master and Ph.D. theses. He is Associate Editor of IEEE ACCESS and Springer Journal of Control, Automation and Electrical Systems.

Prof. Dr. Carlos E. Capovilla received the B.S. degree from the University of Sao Paulo (USP Sao Carlos) in 2001, M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Campinas in 2004 and 2008, all in Electrical Engineering. He is currently a Professor with the Federal University of ABC, IEEE Senior Member, and published more than one hundred papers in technical journals and conferences. His current research interests include microwave circuits, planar antennas design, energy harvesting applications and mobile systems design for smart grids.

Prof. Dr. Ivan R. S. Casella is full Professor at Federal University of ABC and founder and chair of the Information and Communication Laboratories. He holds a master's and doctorate in Electrical Engineering from the Polytechnic School of the University of Sao Paulo, with a doctoral internship at the Wireless Communication Laboratory of the University of Toronto. He is senior member of the IEEE, associate editor of IET Electronic Letters and author of several articles and book chapters in telecommunications and smart grids areas, which have resulted in some academic and scientific awards. Additionally, he is the main editor of the book Power Line Communication Systems for Smart Grids. His main areas of interest are wireless communications, power line communications, smart grids, planar antennas design and energy harvesting.