Special Issue on SSD'05

Citation

Masmoudi, A. (2007), "Special Issue on SSD'05", COMPEL - The international journal for computation and mathematics in electrical and electronic engineering, Vol. 26 No. 1. https://doi.org/10.1108/compel.2007.17426aaa.001

Special Issue on SSD'05

The Third International Conference on Systems, Signals and Devices (SSD'05) took place on March 21-24, 2005, in the Conference Center of the Sol Club Kantaoui Hotel, Sousse, Tunisia. This special issue of the International Journal for Computation and Mathematic in Electrical and Electronic Engineering (COMPEL) contains a selection of 14 papers among 83 accepted for presentation by the Power Electrical Systems (PES) Committee of the SSD'05.

Following the conference and within an agreement with COMPEL, the PES Committee invited the authors of the 25 best PES papers (coming: 6 from Algeria, 4 from France, 4 from KSA, 4 from Tunisia, 2 from Japan, 1 from Canada, 1 from Egypt, 1 from Greece, 1 from Qatar and 1 from Algeria, France and Syria) to submit improved and extended versions of their papers presented in SSD'05. Following the reviewing procedure, 14 papers have been accepted for publication in this special issue of COMPEL.

Referring to the contents of the issue, one cannotice that the topics of the papers are covering almost the whole area of power electrical engineering including, machines, power electronics, drives and power systems.

Up to the seventeenth, the evolution of electric machines has been founded upon well-established physical laws as Ampère's law, Faraday's law, Lorentz force and, in more general terms, Maxwell's equations. Given the long history of the subject, it is quite commonly believed that this is a mature topic with little scope for innovation. In recent years, this statement is continuously confounded by the emergence of new topologies of electrical machines.

Associated to this trend are two remarkable progresses:

(1) the rapid technology advance in solid-state power switching devices; and

(2) the implementation, thanks to dedicated digital signal processors (DSP), of emerging control strategies in machine drives.

These progresses are currently opening up significant benefits in the field of electric machine drives yielding a new era of electric machine technology based on the principle that the best machine design is the one that simply produces the optimum match between the machine and the associated power electronic converter, leading to the so-called “converter fed machines”.

The remarkable evolutions in the fields of electric machines and power electronics have key impacts on power systems. Of particular interest is the integration in power systems of renewable energy-based converters. These represent a crucial challenge accounting for the alarming increase of the emissions of greenhouse gases associated with the drain in time of fuel reserves worldwide.

I would like to thank Professor Jan K. Sykulski, the Editor in Chief of COMPEL, and the staff of Emerald Group Publishing Limited especially the Managing Editor Miss Nancy Rolph.

I would like to congratulate Professors Nabil Derbel and Hans-Rulf Tränkler, Co-general Chairmen of SSD'05, and my colleagues of the Organizing Committee, especially Professors Mohamed Djemal, Maher Damak, Anas Kamoun, Moez Feki, Houda Ben Jemaa, Dorra Sellami, Hafedh Trabelsi, Amin Kallel, Chokri Rekik, Fatma Ben Salem, Hanen Medhaffar, and Imene Khanfir.

Finally, I would like to congratulate all members of my laboratory: the Research Unit on Renewable Energies and Electric Vehicles, who significantly contributed to the enhancement of the PES theme of SSD'05, and of the present special issue.

Ahmed MasmoudiGuest Editor, Co-general Chairman of SSD'05, Manager of the RELEV