Welcome to

Centre for Smart Energy Conversion and Utilization Research

About our CentreDirector

Prof. Henry S H Chung [Power Electronics]

Members

Dr. Ricky W H Lau [Embedded system]

Dr. K F Tsang [Wireless communications]

Dr. Norman C F Tse [Advanced metering infrastructure]

Research staff: 13

Technicians: 2

Research students: 8

Research Areas

Smart grid technologies

Renewable energy conversion technologies

Computational intelligence for power electronics circuit design and analysis

High-voltage power conversion technologies

Energy saving and environmentally-friendly solutions for power supply, lighting and manufacturing industries

Advanced metering infrastructure

Zigbee communication system

Major Equipment Kikusui 9kW Power Grid Network Simulator

Simulation of voltage dips, voltage swells, power quality

Grid impedance simulation

MagnaPower 30kW Photovoltaic Simulator

Integrating Sphere and Spectrometer

Network and impedance analyser

30kVA Battery Storage and Management System [upcoming]

Project Album[selected projects]

Energy-Recyclable Burn-in System for Power Supply Industry

Save up electric energy for burn-in by more than 75%

Reduction of post-production cost, electricity consumption and emission of greenhouse gases and pollutants

Improvement of product lifetime

Short payback period (< one year)

Award -Gold award - Best Innovation and Research Award Competition, HKICT Award 2007

30kW burn-in system designed for Emerson

Network Power

Power Management Systems for Large-Scale Lighting Infrastructure

Save up electric energy by more than 20%

Awards – Hong Kong Awards for

Industries 2009 and 2011 Notable Mention, Hong Kong

Eco-Products Award 2006 Best New Product 2005

award, Australia Electrical and Electronic Manufacture's Association (AEEMA)

1.5kVA, 2.4kVA, and 6.8kVA systems available

Smart Inverter Technology for Photovoltaic Systems [On-going] A new smart inverter

technology allowing wide input voltage range and very small size

Parallel inverter application

Collaboration with industry working on the following power levels:

3kW

6kW

18kW

250kW

Grid-tie inverter module

250kW solar inverter farm

Smart Meter

High data compression ratio

Real-time continuous electrical waveform compression and transmission

Simple computation process, running on a low-cost digital signal processor

Communication through low-power, low bit-rate sensor network protocol such as ZigBee

Award

Excellent Product Award, 12th High-Tech Fair.

Smart meter

Ant Colony Optimization Algorithm for Power Electronic Circuit Design

The algorithm can search the optimal values of components for power electronics systems and determine the intrinsic parameters of systems, like batteries.

Award-

First-class prize, Natural Science Award, Ministry of Education, China, 2009.

For battery parameter estimation

A simulation tool to investigate the combined smart grid behaviors in the domain of power system, communication network and distributed control system.

Smart Grid Co-simulator for Power, Communication and Multi-agent System Design

PSCADo An electro-magnetic transient simulator

to model the continuous time behavior of electrical system

JADEo A Java based multi-agent development

platform for implementing distributed control system

OPNETo A networking simulator to model

the transmission medium, devices and protocols of any communication system

Smart Grid Co-simulator for Power, Communication and Multi-agent System Design

Simulation Screen Captures(PSCAD)

CityCom

Energy Management and Metering

Advanced Metering Infrastructure

Automation and energy management

Overview on our work

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