Biboum Alain

• PhD in Energy
• Ass. Professor at National Advanced School of Engineering Cameroon

Abstract: In this study, advanced exergoeconomic analysis of solar-biomass hybrid energy systems for the northern part of Cameroon is conducted. Three concentrating solar power (CSP) technologies, parabolic trough collector (PTC), linear Fresnel reflector (LFR) and solar tower (ST), hybridised with biomass-fired (BF) technology are investigated. It...

In this study, it is aimed to conduct the thermodynamic and economic analysis of solar thermal power plants using parabolic trough collectors (PTC), linear Fresnel reflectors (LFR), and solar tower (ST) technologies for Cameroon. The analysis is performed for each power plant with the installed capacity of 5 MWe. Initial investment costs for the so...

This study investigates the use of heat recovery steam generators (HRSGs) connected to three types of concentrated solar power (CSP) technologies for solar thermal power plants for the city of Faro-Poli located in northern Cameroon. The HRSGs are designed for the solar thermal power plants using solar tower (ST) technology as HRSG-1 and using parab...

The use of Concentrating Solar Power (CSP) systems for combined cooling and power (CCP) is increasing daily across the global. However, due to some land and other limitations various types of solar fields, CSP technology and specially solar trough Collector (STC) configuration which may have effect on overall performance of Solar thermal power p...

This feasibility study essentially consists in the evaluation of the energy potential of the crop residues biomass in the northern province of Cameroon for the electricity production instead of the use of thermal power station using fossil resources. The site assessment, transformation process and conversion of agricultural biomass are presented in...

This paper presents an artificial intelligence direct torque control (DTC) method for an electric vehicle (EV) drive system. The architecture of the proposed electric vehicle is that of four wheels each with an induction motor (IM). A comparative study of the different torque and speed controllers proposed in this paper is made. An electronic diffe...

2023) Investigation of concentrating solar-biomass-fired power technologies based on advanced exergy, exergoeconomic and exergoenvironmental analyses, Energy Sources, Part A: Recovery, Utilization, and Environmental Effects, 45:4, 9668-9683, ABSTRACT In this study, hybrid renewable power systems (HRPS) based on bio-mass-fired (BF) and concentrating...

Energy supply in Cameroon remains below demand, although it has been growing steadily since 1980. Given that one of the growth targets of the Energy Sector Development Plan, which was 3GW of production by 2020, has not been met, it seemed appropriate to launch a study to gather information to estimate Cameroon's conventional energy potential and to...

e accuracy of a knowledge extraction algorithm in a large database depends on the quality of the data preprocessing and the methods used. e massive amounts of data that we collect every day are putting storage capacity at a premium. In reality, many databases are characterized by attributes with outliers, redundant, and even more missing values. Mi...

In this study, three configurations of hybrid renewable energy systems (HRES) consisting of concentrating solar and biomass technologies are investigated for Faro‐Poli, Cameroon. The HRES configurations selected are Linear Fresnel reflectors combined with biomass‐fired technology (HRES1), parabolic trough collectors combined with biomass–fired tech...

This paper presents a thermodynamic analysis of an organic Rankine cycle with a water-loop (ORC-WL) as an efficient means of heat regeneration and saving Water Consumption (WC). The ORC-WL was simulated with wet, dry and isentropic refrigerants such as R717, R600a and R1234yf, respectively, in order to compare its technical performance to the conve...

In this work, a direct torque control (DTC) method for multi-machine systems is applied to electric vehicles (EVs). Initially, the DTC control method associated with the model reference adaptive system (MRAS) is used for speed control, and management of the magnetic quantities is ensured by the variable master-slave control (VMSC). In order to incr...

Actual trends for Electric Vehicle (EV) Induction Motor Drive focus Space Vector Modulation technique based Direct Torque Control - (DTC-SVM) or Intelligent DTC. This paper presents a Direct Torque Fuzzy Control (DTFC) applied to the control of a 2-wheel Electric Vehicle Drive utilizing an Electronic Differential (ED) with two-induction motor rear...

Cameroon, located in the Sub-Saharan Africa, has a good direct normal irradiation value of about 2145 kWh/ m2 /year, but it has a population living with less than 10% electrification rate in the rural area. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the commercial use of three different solar thermal power technologies (Parabolic trough collector,...

In this study, advanced exergoeconomic analysis of solar-biomass hybrid energy systems for the northern part of Cameroon is conducted. Three concentrating solar power (CSP) technologies, parabolic trough collector (PTC), linear Fresnel reflector (LFR) and solar tower (ST), hybridised with biomass-fired (BF) technology are investigated. It is found...

The purpose of this article is to evaluate the commercial use of different solar thermal power technologies in the northern part of Cameroon. For this, a techno-economic study highlighting the design of each technology using various capacities of the studied plant. The main objective was to carry out, technical, economic and financial parameters...