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    Conclusions and Future Directions

    EES systems offer various benefits of improved energy efficiency, reliability, availability, and cost-effectiveness for wide range of applications including the power grid, renewable power sources, EV/HEV, and...

    Younghyun Kim, Naehyuck Chang in Design and Management of Energy-Efficient … (2014)

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    Background and Related Work

    An EES element is a unit device or apparatus that stores electrical energy. Electrical energy can be stored in various forms of energy, such as mechanical energy, thermal energy, electrochemical energy, electrost...

    Younghyun Kim, Naehyuck Chang in Design and Management of Energy-Efficient … (2014)

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    Implementation and Application

    In this section, we present two experimental results. We first present a simulation of the proposed optimization technique applied to an EV. The EV presented in the simulation is comprised of a PV module, a re...

    Younghyun Kim, Naehyuck Chang in Design and Management of Energy-Efficient … (2014)

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    Introduction

    Electrical energy is a high quality form of energy, which can be easily and efficiently converted into other forms of energy and used to control other lower quality forms of energy [6]. Transformity of energy,...

    Younghyun Kim, Naehyuck Chang in Design and Management of Energy-Efficient … (2014)

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    Hybrid Electrical Energy Storage Systems Design

    In this chapter, we discuss high-level concepts of HEES systems. We first present the desirable characteristics of a HEES system that we achieve by the optimization techniques that we discuss in this book. We ...

    Younghyun Kim, Naehyuck Chang in Design and Management of Energy-Efficient … (2014)

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    Architectures for Energy Efficiency

    In this chapter, we propose two novel architectures for improving energy efficiency. The first architecture that we introduce is a reconfigurable EES array architecture. It enables dynamic changes of series an...

    Younghyun Kim, Naehyuck Chang in Design and Management of Energy-Efficient … (2014)

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    Joint Optimization with Power Sources

    In this chapter, we discuss joint optimization of power sources and HEES systems. We first introduce a technique to maximize the energy transferred from a PV module to a HEES system by maximizing power convers...

    Younghyun Kim, Naehyuck Chang in Design and Management of Energy-Efficient … (2014)