Springer Recent Trends in Renewable Energy Sources and Power Conversion: Select Proceedings of ICRES 2020 (Springer Proceedings in Energy)

This book presents selected papers from the International Conference on Renewable Energy Systems (ICRES 2020). It throws light over the state of the art of renewable energy sources and their technological advances. Renewable energy sources discussed in this book include solar, wind,  biomass, fuel cells, hydropower , hydrogen, nuclear, and geothermal. This book comprehensively explains each of these sources, materials associated, technological development, economics and their impact on the environment. As the renewable energy sources are intermittent, they require specific power electronic converter to convert the generated power into useful form that can be used for utility. Hence, this book describes different forms of power converter such as AC-DC, DC-DC, DC-AC and AC-AC. Advanced power semiconductor devices, their gate drive and protection circuits, heat sink design and magnetic components for power converter are the additional topics included in this book. The topics covered in these proceedings will have a large impact among academicians, researchers, policy makers, scientists, practitioners and students in fields of electronics and electrical engineering, energy engineering, automotive engineering, and so on. From the Back Cover This book presents selected papers from the International Conference on Renewable Energy Systems (ICRES 2020). It throws light over the state of the art of renewable energy sources and their technological advances. Renewable energy sources discussed in this book include solar, wind,  biomass, fuel cells, hydropower , hydrogen, nuclear, and geothermal. This book comprehensively explains each of these sources, materials associated, technological development, economics and their impact on the environment. As the renewable energy sources are intermittent, they require specific power electronic converter to convert the generated power into useful form that can be used for utility. Hence, this book describes different forms of power converter such as AC-DC, DC-DC, DC-AC and AC-AC. Advanced power semiconductor devices, their gate drive and protection circuits, heat sink design and magnetic components for power converter are the additional topics included in this book. The topics covered in these proceedings will have a large impact among academicians, researchers, policy makers, scientists, practitioners and students in fields of electronics and electrical engineering, energy engineering, automotive engineering, and so on. About the Author Dr. R. Seyezhai is Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, SSN College of Engineering, Chennai. She has 21 years of teaching experience including 14 years of research experience. She obtained her B.E. degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering and M.E. degree in Power Electronics and Drives from Manonmaniam Sundaranar University, Tirunelveli, and Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirapalli, respectively, and Ph.D. in the area of Multilevel Inverters for Fuel Cell Systems from Anna University, Chennai. During her Ph.D, she developed a prototype of SiC based hybrid cascaded multilevel inverter employing a novel modulation technique for fuel cell power conditioning system (PCS). She has published 300 research publications in international journals/ international and national conferences. She has published 1 book and 1 book chapter. She received best teacher award for the academic years 2004-2005, 2013-2014, 2014-2015, 2015-2016, 2016-2017, 2017-18 and the CTS best faculty award for the year 2012-2013. She is recipient of  “Bharat Jyothi award 2012” from the International Friendship society for outstanding contribution to student’s community, “Best researcher Award 2015” by ASDF, “Outstanding Researcher Award 2016 in Power Electronics” by Venus International foundation and “Research Excellence Award 2017” by Institute for exploring advances in engineering. Ten students compl