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Protection Coordination for Reliable Marine DC Power Distribution Networks

Drazen Dujic, Seongil Kim, Gabriele Ulissi

This paper presents demonstration of a protection scheme integrated into marine DC power distribution networks to investigate the coordination between each protection action. The integrated protection scheme is based on three different time-frame protectio ...

2020

On-Chip Fully Integrated Field Emission Arrays for High-Voltage MEMS Applications

Vivek Subramanian

Vacuum-sealed fully integrated diode and triode field emission arrays based on Ti Spindt-type field emitters have been developed in a scalable, CMOS-compatible process directly on Si. Diode characterization in air demonstrates effective vacuum sealing and ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2020

Simply Structured Wearable Triboelectric Nanogenerator Based on a Hybrid Composition of Carbon Nanotubes and Polymer Layer

Jürgen Brugger

Triboelectric nanogenerators (TENGs) have proven to be a robust power source for efficiently converting environmental mechanical energy into electricity. Triboelectric technology experienced substantial growth in the past few years, especially in the field ...

KOREAN SOC PRECISION ENG2020

On the Influence of an Elevated Terrain on the Grounding Resistance of a Vertical Rod

Marcos Rubinstein, Antonio Sunjerga

In this paper, we analyze the grounding resistance of a vertical grounding rod located in an elevated terrain. Tall structures such as wind turbines and mobile phone base stations are often installed in remote and hilly locations to gain more power or to f ...

2019

Calculation of the Grounding Resistance of Structures Located on Elevated Terrain

Farhad Rachidi-Haeri, Marcos Rubinstein, Antonio Sunjerga

We present an analysis of the response of a grounding electrode located on the top of a mountain. Specifically, we derive an analytical solution for the low-frequency response of a hemispheric grounding electrode buried on the top of a cone-shaped mountain ...

2019

Reduction of a Cone-Shaped Terrain Grounding Resistance by Remote Grounding

Farhad Rachidi-Haeri, Marcos Rubinstein, Antonio Sunjerga

Tall structures such as wind turbines and mobile phone base stations are often installed in remote and hilly locations to gain more power or to have line of sight to end users. Those locations are usually very rocky and characterized by a low-conductivity ...

IEEE2019

On the Influence of an Elevated Terrain on the Grounding Resistance of a Vertical Rod

Farhad Rachidi-Haeri, Marcos Rubinstein, Antonio Sunjerga

IEEE2019

On the representation of thin wires inside lossy dielectric materials for FDTD‐based LEMP simulations

Farhad Rachidi-Haeri, Marcos Rubinstein, Akiyoshi Tatematsu

The finite-difference time-domain method is one of the most widely used numerical electromagnetic computation techniques, and it has become an effective tool for analyzing electromagnetic transient phenomena in three-dimensional structures and grounding sy ...

2019

Tower and Path-Dependent Voltage Effects on the Measurement of Grounding Impedance for Lightning Studies

Marcos Rubinstein, Antonio Sunjerga, Hamidreza Karami, Keyhan Sheshyekani

We present an analysis aimed at evaluating the effect of the presence of the tower on the measurement of the grounding impedance. The Numerical Electromagnetics Code NEC-4 is used for the full-wave modeling of the structure including the tower and its foot ...

2019

Isolated vs. Interconnected Wind Turbine Grounding Systems: Effect on the Harmonic Grounding Impedance, Ground Potential Rise and Step Voltage

Farhad Rachidi-Haeri, Marcos Rubinstein, Antonio Sunjerga, Quanxin Li

Wind turbines are very vulnerable to lightning strikes due to their height, sharp edges and remote locations often with high soil resistivity. In this paper we present numerical simulations of the impedance of a typical wind turbine grounding geometry. We ...

Elsevier2019

EM Fields Generated by a Scale Model Helical Antenna and Its Use in Validating a Code for Lightning-Induced Voltage Calculation

Farhad Rachidi-Haeri

This paper aims at validating a code for the evaluation of lightning-induced overvoltages developed in the PSCADEMTDC environment using experimental results obtained on an experimental facility deployed at the University of S˜ao Paulo, Brazil that emulates ...

2019