Md Ahsan Kabir

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Military Institute of Science and Technology · Department of Electrical, Electronic & Communication Engineering

Many developing countries with abundant solar resources and rich history of agriculture, face overpopulation and land shortage issues. Floating solar photovoltaics (FSPVs) do not compete with agriculture for land and offer higher energy potential than land-based photovoltaics (LBPVs). For feasibility and site suitability evaluation of FSPVs, this s...

Microgrids represent a core component of future power systems, consisting of interconnected distributed generators (DGs), energy storing units, with multiple consumers functioning under coordinated command, often incorporating renewables. This paper introduces a decentralized power-balance control strategy for grid voltage and current for a smartgr...

Doubly-Fed Induction Generators (DFIGs), when integrated with wind farms and connected to grids featuring series compensation, are prone to instability caused by subsynchronous resonance (SSR). This paper proposed a resilient controller designed to boost the stability of electrical power networks and mitigate the SSR phenomenon between wind farms e...

The paper discusses the energy challenges faced by Bangladesh, focusing on ensuring energy security for rising demand and reducing carbon emissions. It compares rooftop photovoltaic (PV) based systems for an academic building load using various technical and economic parameters. The study evaluates three cases: grid-connected PV system (case I), PV...

Bangladesh faces challenges with global carbon emissions and energy security due to its heavy reliance on imported fossil fuels. This paper investigates the techno-economic viability of photovoltaic (PV) systems for achieving net-zero energy in academic buildings as a sustainable alternative. The study evaluates the performance of PV systems based...

This chapter examines the latest technologies for efficient storage and transportation of hydrogen

The increasing price of conventional fossil fuels and their harmful impacts on climate change have led to an interest in the production and utilization of electric vehicles in the transport sector. Hydrogen fuel cells (FCs) are extensively used as a power source for electric vehicles because they are cheap to produce, easy to transport, and leave b...

The global renewable energy sources (RESs) are comprised of solar photovoltaic, wind energy, marine energy, geothermal energy and so on. Among the RESs, wave energy is considered as the prominent energy resource as the oceans cover around three fourths of total area of the earth surface and it contains a huge amount of energy that can be extracted...

To meet the growing renewable energy need, many utilities have been built to extract energy from natural resources. The Pelamis wave energy converter is one of them. It is basically an offshore semi-submerged float type device operating in such a location where the depth of sea water is 50 m or more. This chapter describes different aspects of Pela...

To harvest wave energy, different processes are being investigated throughout the world. Among them, the resonant wave energy converter (WEC) has been developed where power generation efficacy depends on the resonant effect. This chapter explains concept and explanation of the resonance effect of wave energy converter. Placement of resonant and oth...

The Unified Power Quality Conditioner (UPQC), composed of both parallel active filters (PAF) and series active filters (SAF), recognized as a crucial device for enhancing the overall power quality of the system. In context, different control methods are employed to evaluate the performance of UPQC. This study aims to explore the performance of four...

Fruit production plays a significant role in meeting nutritional needs and contributing to the lessening of the global food crisis. Plant diseases are quite a common phenomenon that hampers gross production and causes huge losses for farmers in tropical South Asian weather conditions. In context, early-stage detection of plant disease is essential...

A dataset containing over 4,300 RGB high-resolution images of eleven different types of rice field weeds in Bangladesh.

In this paper, a net-metering-based rooftop solar PV system for a residential building in Mirpur DOHS, Dhaka is designed. The results show that a rooftop PV system with net metering for residential load has a very high energy output and yield. The economic analysis shows that the system has a low Levelized cost of energy (LCOE), and a positive Net...

With a continual rise in electricity prices, the integration of demand-side management (DSM) techniques such as peak load shifting and load behavior patterns with machine learning-based solution has become a necessity in modern grid management. In this paper, using the Pearson correlation coefficient (PCC), the correlation between a synthesized dat...

In this paper, the economic sustainability of net billing and feed-in-tariff (all energy buy/sell) method is analyzed in comparison with the current net-metering for the industrial PV systems in Bangladesh. Three billing methods are compared according to plant capacity factor, excess energy transfer, levelized cost of energy (LCOE), net present val...

Electricity production from photovoltaic (PV) systems has accelerated in the last few decades. Numerous environmental factors, particularly the buildup of dust on PV panels have resulted in a significant loss in PV energy output. To detect the dust and thus reduce power loss, several techniques are being researched, including thermal imaging, image...

Industrial energy management is critical to ensuring efficient energy usage, market viability, and greenhouse gas emission reductions. In this study, the aim is to investigate energy management practices in paper and pulp in�dustries (PPI) of Bangladesh. The study identifies several barriers to adopt energy management practices; “Lack of government...

With the advent of smart grids, accurate electric load forecasting has become more essential since it may assist power companies in improving load scheduling and reducing surplus energy output. Short term load forecasting (STLF) is gaining popularity owing to its utility in energy usage, demand-side management, energy storage, peak load forecasting...

In this paper, the Uniform Manifold Approximation and Projection (UMAP) technique is applied to compress smart meter data. The Random Forest (RF) classification algorithm is then used on the compressed data to classify the load profiles into two distinctive user groups, namely residential electricity consumers and small and medium-sized enterprises...

The electricity generation from the large-scale grid-connected solar photovoltaic system expands in Bangladesh in the last decades. The performance of PV modules declines with the external environmental factors, especially power loss due to dust. Being one of the most polluted air-containing countries, mitigation of dust effect is a challenge for B...

Due to the increasing electricity demand, distributed generation (DG) had been integrated into the power system. Due to the incorporation of DG with the utility grid, the stability of the system subjected to any disturbances is affected severely, including the degradation of power quality. Among other DG, integration of large-scale PV to the grid c...

Demand Side Management (DSM) is growing as an efficient load management technique on the distribution side. Due to uncertainty in grid power supply and rising electricity costs in Bangladesh, industries are looking for alternative solutions in demand management. In this paper, two Demand-Side Management (DSM) techniques; Peak load shifting, and Tim...

This paper aims to address the economic feasibility of different metering schemes for grid-connected industrial PV systems in Bangladesh. An on-grid PV system is designed for an industrial load and a comparative assessment amongst net energy metering and net billing is carried out under two different scenarios-without any grid limit and with grid l...

Ensuring a secure supply of electricity without harming climate is a key challenge for future power system and many renewables-based cutting-edge technologies are introduced to overcome this challenge. This paper aims to study the grid-connected residential PV-battery system at behind-the-meter scenarios in Sweden from a technical and economic pers...

In Bangladesh, despite available feedstock for producing biogas, the development of biogas production has been very slow. The objective of this research was to study the drivers for and barriers to biogas technology implementation in the country. As the research involved different types of stakeholders related to biogas production, the outcome prov...

In smart grids, residential energy management is a vital part of demand-side management. It plays a pivotal role in improving the efficiency and sustainability of the power system. However, challenges such as variability of consumption profiles require machine learning to understand and forecast residential demands. Moreover, machine learning based...

Imbalance power management is a key operational task for a system operator. Imbalance power is produced from the difference in electrical energy supply and demand in the real operational time which deviates power system stability. In this paper, a balancing market model using demand response is developed to mitigate imbalance power. In context, a c...

Hatiya Island in Bangladesh is an off grid remote locality. Despite being only twenty kilometers away from shore the island lacks any electricity grid connection. There has been governmental initiative for establishing a hybrid power plant in the island but that project was not realized. Thus there is a need for further investigation to plan electr...

Renewable energy can help the countries to meet their sustainable development goals. It provides provision of access to clean, secure, reliable and affordable energy. Renewable energy has gone mainstream, accounting for the majority of capacity additions in power generation today. Today wind power plant technologies are experiencing renaissance and...

PV based hybrid mini grid becomes an alternative choice of solar home system (SHS) for off-grid rural electrification in Bangladesh. Several hybrid mini grid projects are implemented in remote areas and different challenges are identified. This paper presents a discussion of four key challenges in technical, economic, social and policy area for the...

Bangladesh has among the lowest per capita energy (240 kg oil equivalents) consumption in the world and is severely dependent on additional environmentally friendly renewable energy resources in the future. Among the possible energy resources that could be explored is the potential geothermal energy in regions of higher geothermal gradients with fa...