Publications

Peer Reviewed Journals :

1. F. Akar, Y. Tavlasoglu, B. Vural, “Analysis and Experimental Verification of a Multi Input DC-DC Converter for DC Microgrid Applications.” IET Power Electronics, Volume 11, Issue 6, 1009-1017, December 22, 2017.

2. F. Akar, Y. Tavlasoglu, B. Vural, “An Energy Management Strategy for Bidirectional for a Concept Battery/Ultra-capacitor Electric Vehicle with Improved Battery Life.” IEEE Transactions on Transportation Electrification, Volume 3, Issue 1, 191-200, March, 2017.

3. F. Akar, Y. Tavlasoglu, E. Ugur, B. Vural, I. Aksoy, “A Bidirectional Non-Isolated Multi Input DC-DC Converter for Hybrid Energy Storage Systems in Electric Vehicles.” IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, Volume 65, Issue 10, 7944-7955, November, 2016.

4. S. Düşmez, B. Vural, M. Uzunoğlu, A. R. Boynuegri, Z. Li, “Efficient Braking Energy Recovery Using Bidirectional Step-up Converter in Fuel Cell and Battery Electric Vehicles.” International Journal of Powertrains, Volume 4, Issue 2, 89-105, 2015.

5. B. Vural, S. Dusmez, M. Uzunoglu, E. Ugur, B. Akin, “Fuel Consumption Comparison of Different Battery/Ultra-capacitor Hybridization Topologies for Fuel-Cell Vehicles on a Test Bench” IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Power Electronics, Volume 2, Issue 3, 552-561, January 2, 2014.

6. B. Vural, “FC/UC Hybridization for Dynamic Loads with A Novel Double Input DC/DC Converter Topology” International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, Volume 38, Pages 1103-1110, January 2013. 

7. A. Tascikaraoglu, M. Uzunoglu, B. Vural, “The assessment of the contribution of short-term wind power predictions to the efficiency of stand-alone hybrid systems”, Applied Energy, vol. 94, pp. 156-165, June 2012.

8. A.R. Boynuegri, B. Vural, A. Tascikaraoglu, M. Uzunoglu, R. Yumurtaci, “Voltage regulation capability of a prototype Static VAr Compensator for wind applications,” Applied Energy, vol. 93, pp. 422-431, May 2012.

9. O. Erdinc, O. Elma, M. Uzunoglu, U.S. Selamogullari, B. Vural, E. Ugur, A.R. Boynuegri, S. Dusmez, “Experimental performance assessment of an online energy management strategy for varying renewable power production suppression,” International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, vol. 37, no. 6, pp. 4737-4748, March 2012.

10. A. Tascikaraoglu, M. Uzunoglu, B. Vural, and O. Erdinc, “Power Quality Assesment of Wind Turbines and Comparison With Conventional Legal Regulations: A Case Study In Turkey,” Applied Energy, vol. 88, no. 5, pp. 1864-1872, May 2011.

11. B. Vural, A. R. Boynuegri, I. Nakir, O. Erdinc, A Balikci, M. Uzunoglu, H. Gorgun, and S. Dusmez, “Fuel-cell and ultra-capacitor ybridization: A prototype test bench based analysis of different energy management strategies for vehicular applications,” International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, vol. 35, no. 20, pp. 11161-11171, October, 2010. 

12. B.Vural, O Erdinc., and M. Uzunoglu, “Paralel combination of FC and UC for vehicular power systems using a multi-input converter-based power interface,” Journal of Energy Conversion and Management, vol. 51, no. 12, pp. 2613-2622, December 2010.

13. B.Vural, A Kizil, and M.Uzunoglu, “A power quality monitoring system based on MATLAB Server Pages,” Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, vol. 18, no 2, pp. 313-326, 2010.

14. Y.Ates, O.Erdinc, M.Uzunoglu, and B.Vural, “Energy management of an FC/UC hybrid vehicular power system using a combined neural network-wavelet transform based strategy,” International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, vol. 35, no. 2, pp. 774-783, January 2010.

15. Y. Eren, O. Erdinc, H. Gorgun, M. Uzunoglu, and B. Vural, “A Fuzzy Logic Based Supervisory Controller for a FC/UC Hybrid Vehicular Power System,” International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, vol. 34, no. 20, pp. 8681-8694, October 2009.

16. O.Erdinc, B.Vural, and M. Uzunoglu, “A Wavelet-Fuzzy Logic Based Energy Management Strategy for a Fuel Cell/Battery/Ultra-capacitor Hybrid Vehicular Power System,” Journal of Power Sources, vol. 194, no. 1, pp. 369-380, October 2009.

17. O.Erdinc, B. Vural, M. Uzunoglu, and Y. Ates, “Modeling and Analysis of an FC/UC Hybrid Vehicular Power System Using a Wavelet-Fuzzy Logic Based Load Sharing and Control Algorithm,” International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, vol. 34, no. 12, pp. 5223–5233. June 2009. 

18. K. Gulez, M. Uzunoglu, O. C. Onar, and B. Vural, “Power Op-Amp Based Active Filter Design with Self Adjustable Gain Control by Neural Networks for EMI Noise Problem,” Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 3644, pp. 243-252, 2005. 

Conference Papers :

1. E. Yıldız, F. Akar, B. Vural, “Current ripple minimization of a PEM fuel cell via an interleaved converter to prolong the stack life.” XIX-th Intenational Symposium on electrical Apparatus and Technologies (SIELA), June 2016, Bourgas-Bulgaria.

2. E. Uğur, B. Vural, “Comparison of different small signal modeling methods for bidirectional DC-DC converter.” International Conference on Renewable Energy Research and Application (ICRERA), pp. 913-915, Oct. 2014, Milwaukee,WI-USA

3. Y. Tavlasoglu, F. Akar, B. Vural, “PV/battery hybrid energy system via a double input DC/DC converter for dynamic loads.” IEEE 23rd International Symposium on Industrial Electronics (ISIE), pp. 631-636, June 2014, Istanbul-Turkey.

4. AT. Ince, O. Elma, US Selamogulları, HP Partal, B. Vural, “Data Reliability and Latency Test for ZigBee-based Smart Home Energy Management Systems” 7th International Ege Energy Symposium & Exhibition, pp. 380-387, June 2014, Usak-Turkey.

5. F. Akar, B. Vural, “Battery/UC hybridization for electric vehicles via a novel double input DC/DC power converter” 3rd International Conference on Electric Power and Energy Conversion Systems (EPECS), pp. 1-4, October 2014, Istanbul-Turkey,

6. S. Paran, C.S. Edrington, B. Vural, “Investigation of HIL Interfaces in Nonlinear Load Studies,” 44th North American Power Symposium (NAPS), 2012 IEEE, Sep 9-11 2012, Illinois-USA.

7. E. Ugur, S. Dusmez, B. Vural, M. Uzunoglu, "Implementation of a reliable load sharing strategy between battery and ultra-capacitor on a prototype electric vehicle," Transportation Electrification Conference and Expo (ITEC), 2012 IEEE , pp.1-4, 18-20 June 2012

8. B. Vural, C. S. Edrington, "Ultra-capacitor based pulse power management in electrical ships," Transportation Electrification Conference and Expo (ITEC), 2012 IEEE , pp.1-5, 18-20 June 2012

9. B. Vural, C.S. Edrington, “A novel inductive-capacitive pulse forming circuit for pulse power load applications”, IECON 2012 - 38th Annual Conference on IEEE Industrial Electronics Society, 4446-4450, Montreal, Canada, Oct. 25-28, 2012.

10. B. Vural, M. Uzunoglu, S. Duzmez, E. Ugur, and O. Erdinc, “Small scale test bench based performance analysis of a fuel cell/ultra-capacitor hybrid vehicular power system with an improved power conditioning unit ,” in Proc., International Conference on Sustainable Energy Technologies (ICSET), Dec 2010, Kandy, Sri Lanka. 

11. B. Vural, S. Duzmez, and M. Uzunoglu, “An improved power conditioning unit for energy storage systems in hybrid electrical vehicles,” in Proc., 5th International Agean Energy Symposium and Exhibition, June 2010, Denizli, Turkey. 

12. Y. Eren, A. Balikci, O. Erdinc, H. Gorgun, M. Uzunoglu, and B. Vural, “Dynamic modeling of PEM fuel cells for stand alone applications,” in Proc., International Conference on New Perspectives in Eco-Technologies and Eco-Economy, May 2010, Istanbul, Turkey.

13. O. Erdinc, B. Vural, and M. Uzunoglu, “A dynamic lithium-ion battery model considering the effects of temperature and capacity fading,” in Proc., International Conference on Clean Electrical Power (ICCEP), pp. 383-386, June 2009, Capri, Italy.

14. Y. Ates, M. Uzunoglu, O. Erdinc, and B. Vural, “A Wavelet-ADALINE Network Based Load Sharing and Control Algorithm for a FC/UC Hybrid Vehicular Power System,” in Proc., International Conference on Clean Electrical Power (ICCEP), pp. 591-594, June 2009, Capri, Italy,.

15. B.Vural, M. Uzunoglu , O. Erdinc, and O. C. Onar, “A Dynamic Ultra-Capacitor Model for Vehicular Applications,” in Proc., International Conference on Clean Electrical Power (ICCEP), pp. 595-598, June 2009, Capri, Italy.

16. B. Vural, M. Uzunoğlu, S. Düşmez, E. Uğur, B. Yağcıtekin, “An experimental comparison of different topologies for fuel-cell, battery and ultra-capacitor in electric vehicle,” National Conference on Electrical, Electronics and Computer Engineering (ELECO), sf. 46-52, Aralık 2010, Bursa-İstanbul 

17. Boynueğri A. R., Vural B., Uzunoglu M., Rüzgar Santrallerinin Şebekeye Bağlanması ile Oluşan Gerilim Dalgalanmasına SVC ile Çözüm Getirilmesi, Nükleer & Yenilenebilir Enerji Kaynakları Konferansı, Ankara, Eylül 2009.

18. Erdinc O., Uzunoglu M., Vural B., “Genetik-Bulanık Mantık Tabanlı Kontrol Algoritması Kullanılarak Taşıt Uygulamaları için Hibrit YH/UK Güç Sisteminin Modellenmesi ve Analizi”, Elektrik - Elektronik Ve Bilgisayar Mühendisliği Sempozyumu ELECO 2008, Bursa, Kasım 2008.

19. Ates Y., Erdinc O., Uzunoglu, M., Vural B., Hibrit bir YH/UK Taşıt Güç Sisteminin Yapay Sinir Ağları ile Kontrolü, Elektrik - Elektronik ve Bilgisayar Mühendisliği Sempozyumu ELECO 2008, Bursa, Kasım 2008.

20. Erdinc, O., Ates, Y., Uzunoglu, M., Vural, B., "Dalgacık Dönüşümü-Bulanık Mantık Tabanlı Yük Paylaşımı ve Kontrol Algoritması Kullanılarak Taşıt Uygulamaları için Hibrit YH/UK Sisteminin Modellenmesi ve Analizi", II. Ulusal Güneş ve Hidrojen Enerjisi Kongresi, Eskişehir, Haziran 2008.

21. Vural, B., Uzunoglu, M., Nakir, İ., "Yakıt Hücreli Elektrikli Taşıt Sistemleri için Enerji Depolama Ünitesi olarak Ultrakapasitörlerin Kullanılması", II. Ulusal Güneş ve Hidrojen Enerjisi Kongresi, Eskişehir, Haziran 2008.

22. Vural B, Kizil A, Uzunoglu M., Kocatepe C, Onar, O.C., “MATLAB Sunucu Sayfaları ile Elektrik Enerji Kalitesinin Görüntülenmesi”, II. Enerji Verimliliği ve Kalitesi Sempozyumu, Kocaeli, Mayıs 2007.

23. Gülez, K., Uzunoğlu, M., Onar, O. Ç., Vural B., “Nonlineer Yükleri İceren Enerji Sistemleri için Harmonik ve EMI Gürültü Problemlerine Yönelik Op-Amp Tabanlı Bir Aktif Filtre Uygulaması”, I. Enerji Verimliliği ve Kalitesi Sempozyumu, Kocaeli, Mayıs 2005.

24. Uzunoğlu, M., Vural, B., Kızıl, A, Onar, O.Ç., “Akıllı Keşif Robotu (AKERO)”, Havacılıkta İleri Teknolojiler ve Uygulamaları Sempozyumu (HITEK),  İstanbul, sayfa 9-10, Aralık 2004.