Referred Conference Publications  
 
2007
 
 
 
 
1.
G. Dastagir* and Luiz Lopes, “Voltage and Frequency Regulation of a Stand-alone Self-Excited Induction Generator,” in IEEE Electrical Power Conference 2007, Montreal, October 25-26 2007.  
2.
M. F. Naguib* and Luiz. Lopes, “Analysis of a Hybrid Current Source Converter with Bi-Directional Power Flow Capability”, in IEEE Electrical Power Conference 2007, Montreal, October 25-26 2007.
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3.
N. A. Ninad* and Luiz Lopes, “Operation of Single-Phase Grid-Connected Inverters with Large DC Bus Voltage Ripple”, in IEEE Electrical Power Conference 2007, Montreal, October 25-26 2007.  
Concordia Power Electronics & Energy Research Group (PEER)
4. Y.-Z. Zhang* and Luiz Lopes, “Design and Compliance of Frequency Drifting Islanding Detection Methods with the IEEE Standard 1547.1”, in 2007 Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering, Vancouver-Canada, April 22-26 2007.
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5. Y.-Z. Zhang*, H.-L. Sun* and Luiz Lopes, “An Islanding Detection Enhancer for a System with Multiple Photovoltaic Inverters”, in 2nd Canadian Solar Buildings Network Conference, Calgary-Canada, June 10-14 2007
Concordia University
   
 
2006
 
     
  6. Y.-Z. Zhang* and Luiz Lopes, “Islanding Detection Assessment of Systems with Multiple Inverters”, in 1st Canadian Solar Buildings Network Conference, Montreal-Canada, August 20-24 2006.
7. Z.-X. Luo*, Y.-Z. Zhang* and L. A. C. Lopes, "A Simple Control Circuit for a Three-Level Hysteresis Current Controlled Voltage Source Inverter”, IEEE International Symposium on Industrial Electronics, ISIE’06, Montreal-Canada, 9-13 July 2006, pp. 751-756.  
  8. N. Monsur*, V. Sood and L. Lopes, “Modelling a Hybrid Diode-Thyristor HVDC Rectifier in EMTP-RV”, in 19th Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering, Ottawa-Canada, May 7-10 2006, pp. 1275-1279.
  9. N.S. D’Souza*, X.J. Liu* and L.A.C. Lopes, “Peak Current Controlled Maximum Power Point Trackers for Very Fast Transient Responses”, in 19th Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering, Ottawa-Canada, May 7-10 2006, pp. 1310-1314.  
   
 
 
 
2005
   
  10. A. Tokoyama, M.E. Tostes, C.C. Carvalho, P.P. de Souza, A. Bittencourt, G. L. Tavares, A. C. do Nascimento and Luiz Lopes, “Harmonic Analysis of an Aluminum Plant Power System: Increased Current in the Harmonic Filters,” 18th National Seminar on Generation and Transmission of Electric Power (SNPTEE’05), 16-21 October 2005, Curitiba – Brazil, (in Portuguese).  
  11. A. Tokoyama, M.E. Tostes, C.C. Carvalho, P.P. de Souza, A. Bittencourt, G. L. Tavares, A. C. do Nascimento and Luiz Lopes, “Losses Related to the Harmonics of a Large Rectifier: A Study Case,” 4th Brazilian Seminar on Electric Power Quality (SBQEE’05), 21-24 August 2005, Belem – Brazil, (in Portuguese).  
  12. Luiz Lopes, J. Lhuillier*, M.F. Khokhar* and A. Mukherjee*, "A Wind Turbine Emulator that Represents the Dynamics of the Wind turbine Rotor and Drive Train", in 36th Annual IEEE Power Electronics Specialists Conference, PESC’05, Recife Brazil, June 2005, pp. 2092-2097  
  13. N.S. D’Souza*, Luiz Lopes and X.J. Liu*, "An Intelligent Maximum Power Point Tracker Using Peak Current Control", in 36th Annual IEEE Power Electronics Specialists Conference, PESC’05, Recife Brazil, June 2005, pp. 172-177.  
   
 
 
 
2004
   
  14. Z.X. Luo*, Luiz Lopes and Huili Sun*, “A Multi-Featured Single-Phase Utility Interface with Reduced DC Link Capacitor for Distributed Power Sources”, in 30th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (IECON-04), Vol. 2, pp. 1617-1622, Seoul-Korea, November 2004.  
  15. Huili Sun*, L. A. C. Lopes and Z.X. Luo*, “Analysis and Comparison of Islanding Detection Methods Using a New Load Parameter Space”, in 30th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (IECON-04), Vol. 2, pp. 1172-1177, Seoul-Korea, November 2004.  
  16. G. Joos, S. Chen and L. Lopes, “ Closed-Loop State Variable Control of Dynamic Voltage Restorers with Fast Compensation Characteristics”, in 39th Annual Meeting of the IEEE Industry Applications Society (IAS-04), 3-7 October 2004, pp. 2252-2258.  
  17. X.J. Liu* and L.A.C. Lopes, “An Improved perturbation and observation maximum power point tracking algorithm for PV arrays”, in 35th Annual IEEE Power Electronics Specialists Conference, PESC’04, Aachen-Germany, 20-26 June 2004, pp. 2005-2010.  
  18. M. Pasini, A. Athienitis, J. Kerbi, R. Moussa, L. Lopes and Y. Chen, “Energy Analysis for the Canadian Participation in Solar Decathlon Competition”, in 29th Annual Conference of the Solar Energy Society of Canada, Waterloo – Ontario, 21-25 August 2004.  
  19. Y. Deng*, V.K. Sood and L. Lopes, “STATCOM Model in EMTP RV Using Hysteresis Current Controlled Voltage Source Converter”, in 18th Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering, CCECE’05, Saskatoon – Saskatchewan, 1-4 May 2004  
   
 
 
 
2003
   
  20. T. Kandil*, L. Lopes and Wilsun Xu, “Transient Analysis of a Per-Phase Switched Capacitor Based Load Compensator”, 5th International Conference on Power Electronics and Drive Systems (PEDS 03), 17-20 November 2003, Vol. 1, pp. 560-565.  
  21. L. Lopes and A-M. Lienhardt*, “A Simplified Non-linear Power Source for Simulating PV Panels”, in 34th Annual IEEE Power Electronics Specialists Conference, PESC’03, Acapulco-Mexico, June 2003, Vol 4, pp. 1729-1734.  
   
 
 
 
2002
   
  22. S. Chen, G. Joos, L. Lopes, W. Guo “A Nonlinear Control Method of Dynamic Voltage Restorers”, in 33rd Annual IEEE Power Electronics Specialists Conference, PESC’02, Queensland-Australia, June 2002, Vol. 1, pp. 88-93.  
   
 
 
 
2001
   
  23. L. Lopes, Kleiber T. de Souza*, Thayrone Chaves*, Carminda M. de Moura and Walter Barra Jr. “An Automatic System for Frequency Regulation of a Power Plant Simulator”, in Proc. 6th Brazilian Power Electronics Conference, Brazil, November 2001, pp. 792-796.  
   
 
 
 
2000 & Before
   
  24. L.A.C. Lopes and R.G. Almeida*, "Operation Aspects of an Isolated Wind Driven Induction Generator Regulated by a Shunt Voltage Source Inverter", in 35th IEEE Industry Applications Society Annual Meeting, IAS’00, Rome - Italy, October 2000, Vol. 4, pp. 2277-2282.  
  25. L.A.C. Lopes, A.C. Nascimento*, P.P.C. Souza and J.P.C. Neto, "Analysis of the Rectifier of an Aluminium Plant with a PWM DC-DC Converter Regulating the Excitation Current of Saturable Reactors" (in Portuguese), in Proc. Brazilian Conference in Automatic Control, Brazil, 2000, pp. 853-858.  
  26. L.A.C. Lopes, J.A. Neto*, V. R. Fernandes, J. A. Neto* and G. Joos, "A PWM Controllable Series Capacitor", in Proc. 4th Brazilian Power Electronics Conference, Brazil, December 1997, Vol. 1, pp. 431-436.  
  27. L. A. C. Lopes, J. A. Neto*, C. S. Moreira* and G. Joos, “A 2-switch Three-Phase AC Controller”, in Proc. 4th Brazilian Power Electronics Conference, Brazil, December 1997, Vol. 1, pp. 379-384  
  28. L.A.C. Lopes, G. Joos and B.T. Ooi, "A Multi-Module Switched-Reactor-Based Static VAR Compensator", in 27th Annual IEEE Power Electronics Specialists Conference, PESC’96, vol. I, pp. 515-520, Italy, June 1996.  
  29. L.A.C. Lopes, B.T. Ooi and G. Joos, "PWM AC Controller-Based Phase Shifters", in 1996 Canadian Conference in Electrical and Computer Engineering, pp. 988-991, May 1996.  
  30. L.A.C. Lopes, G. Joos and B.T. Ooi, "A High Power PWM Quadrature Booster Phase-Shifter Based on Multi-Module Converters", in 26th Annual IEEE Power Electronics Specialists Conference, PESC’95, pp. 375-380, June 1995.  
  31. L.A.C. Lopes, G. Joos and B.T. Ooi, "A PWM Quadrature Booster Phase Shifter for AC Power Transmission", in 25th Annual IEEE Power Electronics Specialists Conference, PESC’94, vol. I, pp. 211-216, Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C., June 1994.  
       
  Note: * denotes students supervised by Dr. Lopes