Biomass and Solar-Powered Sustainable Digital Cities

O.V. Gnana Swathika, PhD, is an associate professor in the School of Electrical Engineering at VIT Chennai, India. She earned her PhD in electrical engineering at VIT University and completed her postdoc at the University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka. K. Karthikeyan is the chief engineering manager of electrical designs for Larsen and Toubro Construction, a multinational Indian contracting company. He has two decades of experience in electrical design and has contributed to several projects including the building airports, railway stations and depots, hospitals, and educational buildings in India and abroad. His primary role involves preparing and reviewing complete electrical system designs up to 110KV voltage levels, acting as a point of contact between clients and projects teams, peer review, and project management. Milind Shrinivas Dangate, PhD, is an assistant professor in the Department of Chemistry at Vellore University of Technology, Channai, India. He has authored several publications and has a grant and a fellowship to his credit, in addition to several postdoctoral appointments. Nicoletta Ravasio, PhD, is a senior associate at the Institute of Molecular Science and Technologies (ISTM), The National Research Council, in Milan, Italy. She has authored numerous publications and is a sought-after speaker for scientific conferences.

• Preface xxi1 Additives in Bio-Oil Components for Increased Stability, Quality, and Legal Status 1Abhinav Koushik, Jayendra Kasture and Milind Shrinivas Dangate2 Potential Source of Energy: Microalgae and Legal Commercialization 13Abhinav Koushik, Jayendra Kasture and Milind Shrinivas Dangate3 Renewable Energy Integration for Rural Electrification Legally 21Abhinav Koushik, Nasrin I. Shaikh and Milind Shrinivas Dangate4 Fuels from Waste Biomass for the Transport Industry 31Sakthi Ashok, Abhinav Koushik, Milind Shrinivas Dangate and Nasrin I. Shaikh5 The Potential Use of Biodiesel in Diesel Engine and Legal Environmental Laws 43Abhinav Koushik, Jayendra Kasture and Milind Shrinivas Dangate6 Bioinspired Machine Learning: A New Era in Sustainable Energy Systems 57Akshaya Kumar Mandal, Pankaj Kumar Deva Sarma, Satchidananda Dehuri and Nayanjyoti Mazumdar7 The Impact of the Internet of Things in the Smart City From the Point of View of Energy Consumption Optimization 81Sanjeevikumar Padmanaban, Mostafa Azimi Nasab, Mohsen Hatami, Omid Halimi Milani, Mohammad Ali Dashtaki, Morteza Azimi Nasab and Mohammad Zand8 Bio-Based Fuel Production, Environmental Impact, and Economic Assessment 123Kavinkumar Ravikumar, Nicoletta Ravasio and Milind Shrinivas Dangate9 Improving Energy Consumption in Smart Homes Based on the Internet of Things 147Sanjeevikumar Padmanaban, Mostafa Azimi Nasab, Amritansh Sagar, Mohammad Zand, Mohammad Ali Dashtaki and Morteza Azimi Nasab10 Performance Analysis of Supercapacitors in Renewable Energy System/Microgrid/Electric Vehicle, and Comparative Study of Various Converters With Their Applications 163Moovendan Murugu, Arul Rajagopalan, V. T. Sreedevi, R. Sitharthan and R. Kanimozhi11 Diesel Engines and Related Environmental Pollution Issues 197Sathya Narayanan, Jayendra Kasture and Milind Shrinivas Dangate12 Production of Bio-Diesel and By-Product Processing 209Sathya Narayanan, Jayendra Kasture and Milind Shrinivas Dangate13 Effective Use of Biofuel in a Diesel Engine 221Sathya Narayanan, Nasrin I. Shaikh and Milind Shrinivas Dangate14 Enhancing Bio-Oil Stability and Fuel Quality Through Additive Integration 231Sathya Narayanan, Nasrin I. Shaikh and Milind Shrinivas Dangate15 Biofuels from Microbes and Waste Resources 243Sathya Narayanan, Nasrin I. Shaikh and Milind Shrinivas Dangate16 Optimal Scheduling of a Microgrid Incorporating Renewables and Demand Response Using a New Heuristic Optimization Technique 255Karthik Nagarajan, Arul Rajagopalan, Krishna Kumba, R. Sitharthan, Sowmmiya Uthayakumar, Rajkumar Murugesan and R. Kanimozhi17 Dual Battery Management System for Hybridization of Photovoltaic Systems with Batteries 285P. Devadharshini, S. Arun Kumar, S. Rishwanth and G. Kanimozhi18 Advancing Smart City Energy Management: Very Short-Term Photovoltaic Power Generation Forecasting Using Multi-Scale Long Short-Term Memory Deep Learning 305Battula Srinivasa Rao, Mudiyala Aparna and Mallela Siva Naga Raju19 Artificial Intelligence Applied to the Management and Operation of Solar Systems 317Neel Ghoshal and B.K. Tripathy20 Robust Rearrangement of Interconnected Microgrids to Reduce the Effects of Physical Cyberattacks on Intelligent Distribution Networks 339Sanjeevikumar Padmanaban, Mostafa Azimi Nasab, Omid Halimi Milani, Mohammad Zand, Mohsen Hatami, Morteza Azimi Nasab and Mohsen Khalili21 Reinforcement Learning Method Optimizes the Planning and Design of the Solar Energy Systems 363R. Dhanasekaran, S. Sreenatha Reddy, K. Santhi, Ch. Nagaraja Kumari and Saba Noureen22 Photovoltaic-Thermal Solar-Assisted Heat Pump Systems for Building Applications: Integration and Design Methods 371Krishna Kumba, Venkateswarlu Gundu and R. Arul23 Critical Review: IoT-Based Data Logger for SAPV System 383Kshitij Tiwari, Anil Kumar Jha, Manish Kumar, Ayush Shankar, Aditi Verma and O.V. Gnana SwathikaIndex 427