The Emerging Power Electronic Converter Topologies and Control Techniques for Sustainable Solutions

Dear Colleagues,

The ever-increasing global energy consumption and impact of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions on the environment have accelerated research into renewable energy sources (RES) with appropriate power converters and control for sustainable solutions. In recent years, the rapid development of new energy conversion systems has created a thrust among researchers to develop an efficient, redundant, high-power-density power electronics converter design and their controls to meet the current demands of the smart world. Power electronic converters should send power by regulating dc-dc or dc-ac to the electrical load and the utility grid. The performance of power electronic converters depends on interactions among sources, loads, and their state of operation. Power electronic converters should be operated with safety and stability under normal conditions, fault conditions, overloads, and different operation modes. Therefore, enhanced control strategies for power electronic converters are important to improve the reliability of renewable energy sources and the stability of the grid and the load. Some of the application areas include solar PV, wind, renewable energy integration, data centre, mass-scale electric vehicle chargers and DC microgrid, batteries, fuel cells, and ultra-capacitor unitizations, energy conversion systems, smart grid, distributed generation, grid integration issues, etc. The power electronics converters are the unavoidable segments.  To meet the needs of the above applications, a high-performance power converter and its controller’s development should have higher reliability, lifetime prediction, fault-tolerant capabilities, a compact size, a thermal runway, and cost-effective solutions.

This Special Issue on “The emerging power electronic converter topologies and control techniques for sustainable solutions” aims to stimulate advanced investigations and the growth in the design and controls of future power electronics converters, covering the design and development of the reliability of DC-link capacitors in power converters, sustainable energy conversion systems, the reliability of power electronics packaging, wind turbine systems, smart control strategies for improved power electronics system reliability, mission profile-oriented reliability design in wind turbine and photovoltaic systems, smart connected and self-sustainable electronic grids, e-transportation, e-mobility, wearables, lighting, off-grid and rural electrification applications, and the Internet of Things and Everything.

We encourage all researchers working in this area to submit original research contributions with subjects including but not limited to:

• Power electronic converter topologies and technologies for renewable energy conversion systems;
• Novel power electronics controllers for renewable energy systems;
• Energy storage systems with innovative power converters;
• Power electronic interface for sustainable energy systems;
• Energy harvesting through power electronics;
• Smart-grids and micro-grids with power electronics;
• Optimization in power electronics with applications in energy conversion;
• Intelligent power electronics in renewable energy systems;
• Electric/hybrid vehicle converters;
• Novel power electronic converter topologies, including their control techniques;
• Analysis and modelling of power electronic converters;
• Power Electronic Converter Systems Coordinated control when off/on-grid-integrated;
• Predictive control applied to power converters;
• EV chargers based on wireless power transfer;
• Application of power electronic converters in wind and solar;
• Power Electronic Converter Systems in Charging station integrations;
• Fault-tolerant methods in Power Electronic Converter Systems;
• Fast-charging Power Electronic Converter solutions;
• Advanced current and voltage controller technology for power converters;
• Supervisory control of sustainable energy systems;
• Machine learning for control of power converters;
• Multi-level converters, multi-phase converters for high-power applications.

Dr. Bharatiraja Chokkalingam
Prof. Dr. Lucian Mihet-Popa
Prof. Dr. Josiah Munda
Dr. M.S. Kamalesh
Guest Editors

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• renewable energy systems
• emerging power converters and their control techniques
• analysis and modelling of power electronic converters
• power electronic converter systems and supervisory control of off/on- grid-integrated systems
• wind/solar energy conversion systems with appropriate power electronic interface
• maximum power point tracking in wind/solar energy conversion systems
• machine learning for control of grid-side and machine-side control in renewable energy systems
• multi-phase machines and multi-phase converters for res integration to the grid
• compact and flexible on-board chargers
• EV chargers based on wireless power transfer
• application of power electronic converters in wind and solar
• power electronic converter systems in charging station integrations
• power converters and its controllers in intelligence electrical drives
• new multilevel power converter topologies’ structure
• novel PWM-based modulation techniques
• fault-tolerant methods in power electronic converter systems
• power electronic converter systems in intelligent ev fleet charging management
• fast-charging power electronic converter solutions
• advanced current and voltage controller technology for power converters