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Medium Voltage DC-DC Converter for Power Collection Links : A Multistage Stacked Boost Architecture

Nowadays electrical energy generation is an important topic discussed in the society. Since technologies like wind or solar energy generation are most of the time placed far away from the city centres one point to focus on is the transmission of the energy ...

EPFL2017

Existence and Uniqueness of Load-Flow Solutions in Three-Phase Distribution Networks

Mario Paolone, Jean-Yves Le Boudec, Andrey Bernstein, Cong Wang

We present sufficient conditions for the existence and uniqueness of load-flow solutions in three-phase distribution networks. The conditions can be efficiently verified for real distribution systems. ...

IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2017

Compact and General Strategy for Solving Current and Potential Distribution in Electrochemical Cells Composed of Massive Monopolar and Bipolar Electrodes

Hubert Girault, Alejandro Nicolás Colli

A compact, fast and general algorithm based on Dirichlet boundary conditions for the potential field is derived to enable the calculation of local current distribution, shunt currents and the local potential distribution on massive electrodes in electroche ...

2017

Model-less Measurement-based Computation of Voltage Sensitivities in Unbalanced Electrical Distribution Networks

Mario Paolone, Konstantina Christakou, Mauro Carpita, Carl Emile Mugnier

Within the context of microgrids optimal voltage control, most schemes proposed in the literature either rely on (i) droop-control methods or (ii) methods involving the computation of explicit nodal power set-points as a solution to a given optimization pr ...

Università degli Studi di Genova, Italy2016

Stochastic Day-ahead Optimal Scheduling of Active Distribution Networks with Dispersed Energy Storage and Renewable Resources

Mario Paolone, Sidi-Rachid Cherkaoui, Mostafa Nick

This paper focuses on the problem of the probabilistic optimal day-ahead scheduling of energy resources in Active Distribution Networks (ADNs). These resources include both dispersed energy storage systems (DESSs) and volatile renewable embedded generators ...

IEEE2014

Real-space observation of unbalanced charge distribution inside a perovskite-sensitized solar cell

Michael Graetzel, Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin

Perovskite-sensitized solar cells have reached power conversion efficiencies comparable to commercially available solar cells used for example in solar farms. In contrast to silicon solar cells, perovskite-sensitized solar cells can be made by solution pro ...

Nature Publishing Group2014

Deposition and residues of azoxystrobin and imidacloprid on greenhouse lettuce with implications for human consumption

Anna Kounina Massé

Lettuce greenhouse experiments were carried out from March to June 2011 in order to analyze how pesticides behave from the time of application until their intake via human consumption taking into account the primary distribution of pesticides, field dissip ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2012

Modular DC/DC Converter: Comparison of Modulation Methods

Drazen Dujic, Alfred Rufer, Stephan Kenzelmann

This paper presents a bidirectional modular DC/DC converter. It consists of two Modular Multilevel Converters (MMC) linked by a transformer to achieve galvanic isolation. This topology serves as “DC transformer” interfacing low and medium voltage DC grids. ...

2012

IEEE Guide for Improving the Lightning Performance of Electric Power Overhead Distribution Lines

Farhad Rachidi-Haeri, Mario Paolone, Carlo Alberto Nucci

Factors that contribute to lightning-caused faults on the line insulation of overhead distribution lines and suggested improvements to existing and new constructions are identified in this guide. ...

IEEE2011

A Versatile DC-DC Converter for Energy Collection and Distribution using the Modular Multilevel Converter

Drazen Dujic, Alfred Rufer, Michail Vasiladiotis, Stephan Kenzelmann

The drawbacks of conventional Modular Multilevel Converters (MMC) are described in terms of short-circuits. The configuration of MMC-transformer-MMC proves to handle short-circuits at the input and output without the need for additional DC or AC circuit br ...

Ieee2011