Efficient Motion Drive Systems and Wind Energy Generating Units with Electrical Machines for Sustainability

Dear Colleagues,

As the Guest Editor, I am inviting you to submit papers to a Special Issue of Energies on the subject of “Efficient Motion Drive Systems and Wind Energy Generating Units with Electrical Machines for Sustainability”.

In their modern form, electrical machines have attracted the attention of investigators since the early 80s. Based on the appearance of successful publications in highly quoted international journals, double-fed electrical machines have become one of the preferences of energy industries, as double-output electric generators in wind energy systems and as efficient saving double-fed motors in the heavy energy industry. The use of double-fed motors in heavy industry installations is a very efficient solution because of their capability to recover a significant percentage of unused and dissipated electric power. On the other hand, due to their ability to work as generators at a wide range of variable wind speeds, they have become part of most basic configurations in renewable energy systems, autonomous, isolated, or grid interconnected.

During the last few decades, many remarkable works have appeared, in specialized topics such as new control techniques, involving new software and hardware modules and a wide range of applications with increased benefits. More recently, the entrance of internet-based control created many new perspectives of applications, such as in remote areas, or reducing the physical presence of human beings in dangerous environments.

Renewable energy sources have been integrated into the grids locally and on a larger scale power industry. According to new sustainability targets, an unfluctuating larger share of renewable energy generation should be reached in the near-term years. Thus, marine energy can be a source to balance the grid during the variability of renewable wind and solar energy.

Other challenges include the safety and technical capacity of offshore renewable energy infrastructures, modules development for efficient power transmission, propulsion and transportation, their applicability to new specific technologies, and hybrid solutions with economic aspects.

The issue of sustainable applications is attracting attention to ensure access to affordable, reliable, and modern energy, build robust infrastructures, and promote innovation and inclusive industrialization. In this context, the roles of electrical machines are decisive.

This Special Issue will focus on novel solutions and research trends devoted to electrical machines for sustainability in energy generation, motion, conversion, use, control, storage, recovery, economics, and management.

You are kindly invited to submit original contributions, including, but not limited to the following keywords.

Prof. Dr. Maria G. Ioannides
Guest Editor

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• Double-fed electrical machines, motors, and generators
• Special electrical machines
• Linear electrical machines
• Industrial and special applications
• Electrical propulsion and transportation
• High performance and high-efficiency electric drives
• Energy recovery and harvesting
• Energy efficiency for residential, commercial, and industrial applications
• Renewable energy sources and systems RESS
• Wind, solar, biomass, geothermy, marine, ocean, tidal, hydrogen-generating units, and energy systems
• Electrical energy storage systems
• Autonomous and Isolated systems
• Hybrid systems
• Power quality harmonics
• Modeling, simulation, control, and optimization of energy systems
• Multi-objective optimization of electric drives and generators
• Monitoring, maintenance, diagnostics, fault detection, reliability, and safety
• Management of industrial and energy systems
• Sensors, grids, smart grids, and applications
• Energy trading and economic aspects
• IoT-based energy industrial and generating systems
• Heterogeneous networks for efficient IoT systems
• Energy engineering education