1:00 to 2:00 PM
"Energy technologies have a central role in social and economic development at all scales, from household and community to regional, national and international. Among its welfare effects, energy is closely linked environmental pollution, degradation, to economic development and quality of living. Today, we are mostly dependent on nonrenewable fossil fuels that have been and will continue to be a major cause of pollution and climate change. Because of these problems, and our dwindling supply of petroleum, finding sustainable alternatives is becoming increasingly urgent. Perhaps the greatest challenge in realizing a sustainable future is to develop technology for integration, control of renewable energy sources, control of energy consumption and load management.
The challenge of twenty first century is to empower the energy users for a sustainable living and ultimately developing distributed generation systems where ever energy user is a an energy producer. In this talk, an overview of humankind energy use is presented. Then the talk focuses on some of the challenges and efforts needed to harness renewable energy."
Dr. Keyhani is a fellow of IEEE and recipient of the Ohio State University College of Engineering Research Award for 1989, 1999.and 2003 from 1967 to 1972; he worked for Hewlett-Packard Co. Columbus Southern Ohio Electric Co. and TRW Control. From 1975- until 1980, he was a professor at Tehran Polytechnic in Tehran. Currently, he is a Professor of Electrical and computer engineering at the Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio. He is the past Chairman of Electric Machinery Committee of IEEE Power Engineering Society and the past editor of IEEE Transaction on Energy Conversion. He is the director OSU Electromechanical and Mechatronic Systems laboratory... Dr. Keyhani’s research activities focus on the design and control of fuel cells for distributed energy systems, control of power electronic systems, advanced electric propulsions, modeling of electric machine, DSP-based virtual test bed for control of electro-mechanical systems, automotive systems, modeling, parameter estimation and failure detection systems. The National Science Foundation, American Electric Power Cooperation, Delphi Automotive systems, Liebert Cooperation, General Motors, Ford Motor Company and TRW, have supported his Research work. These activities have involved both theoretical and a substantial amount of experimental research in power systems control. Distributed Energy Systems and DSP based virtual test bed for design of power converter system.