Optimal Engineering Design for Dependable Water and Power Generation
in Remote Areas Using Renewable Energies and Intelligent Automation

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The 8th and final project meeting

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The 8th and final project meeting took place on 20th-22nd of December 2010 in Hammamet, Tunisia.

The meeting was attended by: Prof. Essam Badreddin (Project Coordinator), Dr. Amr Kandil (UHEI), Prof. Sadi Abdelkrim, Dr. Mohammedi Kamel (CDER), Prof. Sami Karaki, Mr. Hisham Ashkar (AUB), Mr. Firas Alawneh (NERC), Mr. Makis Kartalides, Dr. George Arampatzis (NTUA), Prof. Cesar Prada, Dr. Fernando Tadeo, Mr Luis Palacin, Johanna Salazar (UVA), Prof. Amenallah Guizani, Dr Hamza Elfil, Kamilia Ben-Youssef, (CRTEn). The partners visited the prototype facilities and participated to the demonstration of the running plant. The following relevant issues were discussed as well:

Construction and development of the whole plant
Power supply subsystem achievements
Closed-loop experiments on desalination plant
Internal models of the SMA Inverters
Dissemination of scientific work and access policy to the plant
Final reporting and perspectives beyond the project

OPEN-GAIN Project Workshop

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The project workshop took place on October 2010 in the city of Fes, Morocco.

The workshop was organized as invited session within The 22nd European Modeling & Simulation Symposium- EMSS2010- 13-15 of October 2010.

Exhaustive project dissemination has been performed by the participating partners in different forms:

Discussions throughout the symposium
Oral presentations (10)
Newsletter distribution

Presented articles are published in the Symposium Proceeding

OPEN-GAIN 7th project meeting

admin — 2010-11-25T13:02:46Z

The 7th project meeting took place on 14-15th of July 2010 at the University of Heidelberg in Mannheim, Germany. The meeting was attended by: Prof. Essam Badreddin, Dr. Amr Kandil (UHEI), Prof. Sadi Abdelkrim, Dr. Mohammedi Kamel (CDER), Prof. Sami Karaki (AUB), Mr. Firas Alawneh (NERC), Mr. Makis Kartalides, Dr. George Arampatzis (NTUA), Prof. Cesar Prada, Dr. Fernando Tadeo, Johanna Salazar (UVA), Dr Amenallah Guizani, Ms Kamilia Ben-Youssef (CRTEn).

At this stage of the project, the partners discussed relevant issues as:

Current status and Work progress in CRTEn's site
Acceptance tests of Power Sources
Development of components in the EcoSim Library: wind, PV, Batteries
Real-Time Implementation of the Energy Management System
Project Dissemination and Workshop

The project partners took this opportunity to visit the labs of the Automation Laboratory.

OPEN-GAIN - 6th project meeting

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OPEN-GAIN - 6th project meeting

The 6th project meeting took place on 9&10th of December 2009 in Beirut, Lebanon. The meeting was attended by: Prof. Essam Badreddin (Chair, Project Coordinator), Dr. Amr Kandil (UHEI), Dr. Mohammedi Kamel, Mr Sadi Abdelkrim, (CDER), Prof. Sami Karaki (AUB), Mr. Firas Alawneh (NERC), Mr. Makis Kartalides, Dr. George Arampatzis (NTUA), Prof. Cesar Prada, Mrs Johanna Salazar (UVA), Prof. Amenallah Guizani, Dr Hamza Elfil (CRTEn). Participants presented and discussed the project work progress and results achieved up to 3rd project period. The goal of this meeting was to prove exactly what has been done until now in the project and the plan for the last project year. UHEI presented the project goal and the new work plan and the new list of deliverables after the extension of the project were discussed.

OPEN-GAIN 5th project meeting

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OPEN-GAIN 5th project meeting

The 5th project meeting took place on 25th et 26th of June 2009 in Hammamet, Tunisia. The meeting was attended by: Prof. Essam Badreddin (Project Coordinator), Dr. Amr Kandil (UHEI), Prof. Sadi Abdelkrim, Dr. Mohammedi Kamel (CDER), Prof. Sami Karaki (AUB), Mr. Firas Alawneh (NERC), Prof. Dionysis Assimacopoulos, Mr. Makis Kartalides, Dr. George Arampatzis (NTUA), Prof. Cesar Prada, Dr. Fernando Tadeo, Mr Luis Palacin (UVA), Prof. Sassi Ben-Nasrallah, Prof. Amenallah Guizani, Dr Hamza Elfil, Dr Ridha Andoulsi, Khenissi Lotfi (CRTEn). Participant presented and discussed the project work progress and results achieved up to the first half of the 3rd project period

The 4th project meeting

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The 4th project meeting

The 4th project meeting took place on 16-18th of December 2008 in Tunis, Tunisia. The meeting was attended by: Project Officer Mario Scalet (European Commission), Prof. Essam Badreddin, Dr. Amr Kandil (UHEI), Prof. Sadi Abdelkrim, Dr. Mohammedi Kamel (CDER), Prof. Sami Karaki, Karim Kabalan (AUB), Mr. Firas Alawneh (NERC), Prof. Dionysis Assimacopoulos, Mr. Makis Kartalides, Dr. George Arampatzis (NTUA), Prof. Cesar Prada, Dr. Fernando Tadeo, Mr Luis Palacin (UVA), Prof. Sassi Ben-Nasrallah, Prof. Amenallah Guizani, Dr Hamza Elfil, Dr Ridha Andoulsi, Mrs Kamila Ben-Youssef (CRTEn). Participant presented the work achieved during the second period of the project with emphasis on equipments acquisition and housing construction for the prototype. A field visit was organized to the construction site where the project members and project officer had the opportunity to assist to the reverse osmosis running test.

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Open-gain Newsletters

Newsletter'1 Covering project 1st year period (2007)

Newsletter'2 - Englisn version -

Newsletter'2 - French version -

First mid-year 2008 meeting

admin — 2008-10-29T08:34:32Z

First mid-year 2008 meeting

The project 1st semestral meeting of year 2008 took place on 23-24th of June in the historical city of Athens – Greece. The meeting was attended by: Prof. Essam Badreddin, Dr. Amr Kandil (UHEI), Prof. Sadi Abdelkrim, Dr. Mohammedi Kamel (CDER), Prof. Sami Karaki (AUB), Mr. Firas Alawneh (NERC), Prof. Dionysis Assimacopoulos, Mr. Makis Kartalides, Dr. George Arampatzis (NTUA), Prof. Cesar Prada, Dr. Fernando Tadeo (UVA), * Unfortunately Dr Imed Chouch, Ms Kamilia Ben-Youssef (CRTEn) did not manage to attend the meeting due to organizational problem At this stage of the project, the partners discussed relevant issues as:

- Design and the specification of the power systems, subsystems and equipments.

- Assessment of the work progress.

- Equipments acquisition and transportation .

- Actions to undertake with regards to project on-going.

NERC, AUB and UHEI took part in sub-commission meeting. The discussions were mainly about the size of the different system components according to the typical user's profile (electricity and water in Tunisia) and within the available funds.

The First Annual Meeting

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OPEN-GAIN 1st annual meeting

The project 1st annual meeting took place on 5-7, December 2007 in the beautiful city of Hammamet – Tunisia. The meeting was attended by: Prof. Essam Badreddin, Dr. Amr Kandil, Mr. Michael Kröger (UHEI), Prof. Sadi Abdelkrim, Prof. Mohammedi Kamel (CDER), Prof. Sami Karaki (AUB), Mr. Firas Alawneh (NERC), Prof. Dionysis Assimacopoulos, Mr. Makis Kartalides, Dr. George Arampatzis (NTUA), Prof. Cesar Prada, Dr. Fernando Tadeo (UVA), Prof. Sassi Ben Nasrallah, Dr. Imed Chouch (CRTEn.), Mr. David Torrijos, Mr. Juan Robles, Mr. Javier Lucia (SETA) Nearly one year after the project start-up, this was a good opportunity to assess the work performed during the first period.

The main goals of the meeting are:

1) to assess work performed during the first period

2) to discuss relevant issues with regard to the project on-going

3) to discuss with SETA the issues relative to the RO unit

A visit was organised by CRTEn.to the site where the project prototype will be built

Fruitful discussions arose through the presentations and appropriate advices issued for up-coming actions.

Optimal Engineering Design for Dependable Water and Power Generation in Remote Areas Using Renewable Energies and Intelligent Automation