National Institute of Technology, Silchar

About: National Institute of Technology, Silchar is a education organization based out in Silchar, Assam, India. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Computer science & Control theory. The organization has 1934 authors who have published 4219 publications receiving 41149 citations. The organization is also known as: NIT Silchar.

LFC for Autonomous Hybrid Micro Grid System of 3 Unequal Renewable Areas using Mine Blast Algorithm

Abstract: This paper ensures the feasibility of the proposed 3-area hybrid micro grid system (3A-HµGS) comprising of highly intermittent energy sources like wind turbine generator (WTG), parabolic trough collector (PTC), and PV arrays. Renewable energy sources (RES) inherently set in power and frequency oscillations as these sources (RES) are extremely influenced by climatic behavior that’s why the erection of 3A-HµGS as a controlled dispatch able unit is in fact very difficult to be realized but this proposed system has considered diesel engine generator (DEG) as a back-up source and the energy storage system (ESS) like battery, ultra-capacitor and fuel cell as the dynamic devices to make it controllable and reliable. Unwanted frequency deviation has been restricted to a satisfactory limit through GA, PSO and MBA based proportional integral derivative (PID), proportional integral derivative with filter (PIDN) and 2 degree of freedom PID (2DOF-PID) controllers. MBA based 2DOF-PID controllers provide the best coordination among RES, ESS, and DEG to maintain the power quality of 3A-HµGS. A qualitative and quantitative analysis of the dynamic responses under all the controlling actions clearly exhibits the efficacy of the proposed system. Moreover, the system remains stable even after incorporation of natural disturbances like change in wind velocity and solar irradiances which ensure the feasibility and practicality of the proposed 3A-HµGS.

Synthesis, structural and optical properties of Al doped SnO2 nanoparticles

Abstract: Pure tin dioxide (SnO2) and Al doped SnO2 nanoparticles are prepared by co-precipitation method. Studies on structural and morphological properties are done by X-ray diffraction, field emission scanning electron microscopy and electron diffraction X-ray spectroscopy and optical properties by using UV–Visible spectroscopy in diffuse reflectance spectroscopy mode. Porosity is found to increase with Al doping when compared to pure SnO2. The band gap as well as Urbach energy increases with Al doping. Al doped SnO2 exhibits high porosity.