Keynote Speakers
Prof. Lim Yun Seng
Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Malaysia
Research Area:
Power System Analysis and Energy Storage System
Experience:
Professor Ir. Dr. Lim Yun Seng (BEng (Hons), PhD (UK), CEng, PE(PC), MIET, SMIEEE, MIEM, FAAET), has successfully developed the first utility scale, self-intelligent energy storage system (ESS) of 400kVA and 677kWh on the power grid in Malaysia using patented controllers to reduce maximum power demands for customers and utilities. With the system, utilities like TNB avoid adding new power plants and/or upgrading power networks, resulting in greenhouse emissions reduction and brings down the price of electricity which is essential to a developing country. The system also reduces commercial end-user electricity bills by reducing maximum demand charges. He has also developed another novel ESS that promotes renewable energy sources to mitigate climate change issues. Prof Lim is the founder and director of IoT Energy S/B that designs ESS projects for utilities such as TNB and Sarawak Electricity Board (SEB). Prof Lim has published 62 journal papers, where 15 journals are ranked in the top 5% in Clarivate Analysis and 30 conference papers with 1273 citations at h- index of 20 and 16 in Google Scholar and Scopus, respectively. He obtained RM6.3 million in research funding, consultancy projects with worth of RM65,000 and holds 3 granted patents (Malaysia and China) and 5 pending patents (3 in Malaysia and 2 in Indonesia). Prof Lim has successfully graduated 5 PhD and 14 Master students. He is the lead author for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Sixth Assessment Report (IPCC, United Nations) that assesses mitigation and solutions to the threat of climate changes. Prof Lim won 25 international and national awards such as Energy Globe Award 2010, Gold Medal in 2013 ITEX, UTAR Best Invention of the year 2013, National Outstanding Innovator Award in 2017 by Private Education Co-operative of Malaysia and 2018 Top Research Scientist Malaysia by Academy of Sciences Malaysia.
Title: Whole-system techno-economic benefits of energy stroage in future electricity systems
Abstarct:
Through funding received from the government and British Council (AAIBE, CREST and Newton Fund), Prof Lim has successfully built the first working utility-scale grid-integrated Energy Storage System (ESS) at the rating of 400 kW and 780 kWh in Malaysia on UTAR campus (commercial building) under a real operating environment to reduce the daily peak demands with the intermittent power output of renewable energy sources. UTAR saved RM18,500 for electricity bills per year due to the reduction of monthly maximum demand charges. The utility company, TNB, saved about RM 91,000 per year from the deferment of network reinforcement and power plants. In addition, about 16 tonnes of CO2 were avoided per year due to the relatively low maximum demands on power networks. With such ESS, TNB can avoid any increase in electricity price (RM/kWh) for its customers, hence propelling the growth of the national’s economy. This project was carried out in collaboration with Newcastle University (UK) and industries such as Hoppecke and ERS Energy. Four patents (2 Malaysia and 2 Indonesia patents) were generated from this work in addition to 20 journal papers being published and 8 postgraduate students successfully graduated. The technology readiness is at category 6 which is ready now ready for commercialisation. Lim founded a spin-off company, IoT Energy S/B, to design homegrown large-scale energy storage system for utility companies and customers. The awards received for this project include National Outstanding Innovator Award 2017, Top Research Scientist Malaysia 2018 and Gold Award in Pecipta 2019. This project has attracted the attention of the key industries. The managing director of Tenaga Switchgear, Datuk Mohd Hisham Ab. Halim and his team visited the project on 10th Feb 2020. R&D manager of Sarawak Energy Berhad, Dr Ng Sing Muk, and his team visited the project on 7th Jan 2020 with a view to adopt this low cost, highly efficient novel technology in the utility sectors as it is seen as a more economically viable option compared to overseas technology. Under the newly awarded Newton Fund 2020, Prof Lim is collaborating with Newcastle University and a UK enterprise, namely Equiwatt Ltd, to build another novel ESS using second-life batteries for peak reductions. It is anticipated that a large number of second-life batteries could be generated from electric vehicles in the near future. This project is aimed at reducing the total cost of ESS because second-life batteries are relatively cheap while minimising the waste from the electric vehicles. In addition, this ESS will be controlled by an innovative algorithm implemented on the cloud platform that is highly effective in controlling multiple ESS across the power networks involving simultaneous manipulation and analysis of a large amount of data. The outcomes of this project will accelerate the commercialisation and wide installation of ESS across the power networks.
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Assoc. Prof. Jia Cui,
Master supervisor, Postdoctor, Deputy director of new energy science and engineering teaching and Research Office of Shenyang University of Technology
·Research direction:
Energy Internet, smart grid, integrated energy, electricity market,demand side management, digital twin technology, big data analysis, energy management of industrial park, electric vehicle charging planning, load modeling and forecasting, micro-Grid energy management technology, new energy gridding technology, wind power generation control technology, etc.
·Main scientific research achievements:
More than 30 scientific and technological papers were published. Four papers were indexed in zone one of SCI and top journal. Twelve of them were indexed in EI. Two papers were included with the impact factor of 3.953, ranking first among 103 domestic electrical engineering journals. More than 30 invention patents have been applied for authorization.
·Part time in academic organizations:
(1)China Electrotechnical Society, Professional Committee of electronic control system and device, Membership card Number: E060013459M
(2)Electrical automation professional committee of China Automation Society, Member number:E1405042347M
(3)China Renewable Energy Society, Member number:B391150018M
(4)IEEE Member of China Energy Storage Technology Committee of electric power and Energy Association.
(5)Member of technical Committee of Liaoning Smart Grid Cloud Computing Professional Technology Innovation Center.
(6)Expert reviewer of international first-class academic journals in IEEE Transactions on Smart grid, IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy, IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery, IEEE ACCESS, Applied Energy，CSEE Journal of Power and Energy Systems.
(7)Expert reviewer of first-class journals in the power industry, such as Proceedings of the CSEE, Transactions of China Electrotechnical Society, Automation of Electric Systems, Power System Technology, Renewable energy, Energy Internet, Electric Power.
·Academic conference exchange:
(1)Guest editor, 2022 3rd International Conference on Clean Energy and Electric Power Engineering (ICCEPE 2022)，Official website of the conference: http://www.iccepe.org, Meeting time: May 20-22, 2022, Venue of the conference: Hangzhou, China, Collection retrieval: JA-EI Compendex(EI Journal), SCIE , DOAJ，Scopus，Inspec
(2)Chairman, 2021 International Conference on New Energy and Power Engineering (ICNEPE 2021), Meeting time:November 19-21, 2021, Venue of the conference: China Sanya (online), Retrievable type: SCIE (Science Citation Index Expanded)
EI Compendex-JA, DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journal)，Scopus，Inspec
(3)Chairman, The second International Conference on Clean Energy and Power Engineering(ICCEPE 2021), Meeting time:July 2-4, 2021, Venue of the conference: Changsha, China, Collection retrieval: SCI,El Compendex, Scopus
(4)Keynote Speaker, 2022 International Conference on Green Energy and Power Systems, ICGEPS 2022, Speech topic “Quantitative evaluation method of load side flexibility for industrial park.”(EI: 20221812043553).
(5)Keynote Speaker，2019 IEEE 10th International Symposium on Power Electronics for Distributed Generation Systems(PEDG)，Speech topic “A load combination prediction algorithm considering flexible charge and discharge of electric vehicles”(EI: 20193707424851).
(6)Keynote Speaker，Photovoltaic & New Energy Vehicle China Energy Storage Industry Summit Forum , 2017 China Storage Battery Industry Forum, Speech topic “ Influence of electric heat storage technology on power grid and its economic analysis ” , December 13-15, 2017.
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Prof. Ismail Musirin
School of Electrical Engineering, College of Engineering, Universiti Teknologi MARA, 40450, Shah Alam, Selangor, Malaysia
Research Area:
Artificial intelligence, optimization techniques, power system analysis, renewable energy optimization, distributed generation, and power system stability.
Experience:
Professor Dr. Ismail Musirin has got 22 years of research experience in the field of Power System Engineering. He has received numerous research grants from the Ministry of Higher Education, Malaysia (MOHE) and Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation, Malaysia (MOSTI). Most of his researches dealt with the algorithms and techniques development in solving problems in Power System involving voltage stability, economic power dispatch, transient stability, distributed generation, renewable energy optimization, power system optimization and application of artificial intelligence in power system. With his vast experience in electrical engineering and artificial intelligence, he has been appointed as one of the research grant evaluators since seven years ago by the Minister of Higher Education Malaysia (MOHE). He has also been opportunity to evaluate research grant at the international level. One of the most important recognition received b him is the opportunity given by the Ministry of Security, Kazaksthan to review a research proposal from the country. Besides, he has delivered speeches on research proposals at several universities in Malaysia.
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Prof. Hamid BENTARZI
University M’hamed Bougara Boumerdes/ Power and Control Engineering,
Research Area:
Control and protection systems in Smart Grid, Reliability study of protective system
Experience:
My research activities are centered upon control and protection systems in the smart grid as well as reliability enhancement using the recent technologies such as the Phasor Measurement Technology and communication. I have been author and co-author in more than150 papers and three books.
Speech Title: Micro-Synchro-Phasor Measurement Unit: Developments and Trends
Abstract:
The measurement system named Micro-Synchro-Phasor Measurement Unit (µSPMU) can be used to better observe, control and protect the power distribution network integrating renewable energies (smart distribution network), which needs a high-precision power measurements. However, the existing PMU can be used only in transmission grid. The μSPMU can store synchrophasor measurements and communicate real-time data at distribution level of the power grid.
This keynote presents two main points:
1) Development of μPMU with precise time stamping of measurements via GPS to allow the comparison of voltage phase angle δ (i.e., the precise timing of the voltage waveform) at different locations, on hardware side. On the software side, development of a new computational framework to manage large, high-density data streams with nanosecond time stamping and online capabilities that avoids the need for phasor data concentrators.
2) Development of many practical applications using this new type of information provided by μPMU in the distribution network context including the integration of intermittent renewable generation such as distributed control, adaptive protection and cyber-security of the electric grid.