学术报告第201305期

报告题目：Research in  Energy Efficiency and Demand Side Management

报告人：夏小华教授（IEEE  Fellow，南非科学院与工程院院士，南非比勒陀利亚大学电气电子与计算机工程系）

报告时间：2013年5月31日上午10：30

报告地点：南一楼中311会议室

邀 请 方：“多谱信息处理技术”国家级重点实验室

Research in Energy Efficiency and Demand Side  Management

In this talk, I will start  by reviewing the basic concept, the tools and techniques of EEDSM aligned with a  control system approach. Then I will take it through our research carried out at  the Centre of New Energy Systems at the University of Pretoria, South Africa in  the recent five years, spanning from thermal utilities, electrical utilities,  transportation systems, renewables and waste minimisation and resource  conservation. Emerging research topics will be discussed in some details from  general aspects of energy systems modelling and optimisation to specific case  studies in dedicated application areas.

Brief Introduction of Prof Xia  Xiaohua

Xiaohua Xia is a professor in the Electrical, Electronic and  Computer Engineering at the University of Pretoria, South Africa, director of  the Centre of New Energy Systems, and the director of the National Hub for the  Postgraduate Programme in Energy Efficiency and Demand-side Management. He was  academically affiliated with the University of Stuttgart, Germany, the Ecole  Centrale de Nantes, France, and the National University of Singapore before  joining the University of Pretoria in 1998. Prof. Xia is a fellow of the  Institute for Electronic and Electrical Engineers (IEEE), a fellow of the South  African Academy of Engineering (SAAE), and a member of the Academy of Science of  South Africa (ASSAf). He has an A rating from the South African National  Research Foundation (NRF). Prof Xia is a registered professional engineering  with the Engineering Council of South Africa. He consults extensively for the  industry. He is a certified measurement and verification professional, and leads  the measurement and verification team of the University of Pretoria. He served  as the chair of the Technical Committee of Non-linear Systems of the  International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC). He has been an associate  editor of Automatica, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II, IEEE  Transactions on Automatic Control, and specialist editor (control) of the SAIEE  Africa Research Journal. His research interests are control systems and  automation, and more recently, the modeling and optimization of energy systems.