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Residual-current device

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Performance Comparison of Cables With Partial Transposition

Pierluigi Bruzzone, Kamil Sedlák, Chiara Frittitta, Federica Demattè

The need of full transposition of the current carrying elements (strands) in large cables is frequently retained as top design criterion for conductors operating in pulsed mode. However, when the transposition error, i.e., the inductance difference among t ...

IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2024

A review of the modeling approaches of the lightning M-component with special attention to their current and electric field characteristics

Farhad Rachidi-Haeri, Marcos Rubinstein, Mohammad Azadifar, Carlo Alberto Nucci

In this paper, we present the characteristics of current, electric fields and modeling approaches of lightning M-component mode of charge transfer. We consider both the classical M-components (occurring after return strokes) and M-component-type ICC (Initi ...

Elsevier2023

Assessment of the Feasibility of Applying the Electromagnetic Time Reversal Theory to Locate Defects in Grounding Electrodes

Farhad Rachidi-Haeri, Marcos Rubinstein, Hamidreza Karami, Rafael Silva Alipio

In recent years, the electromagnetic time reversal (EMTR) theory has been successfully applied for locating various sources of disturbances, such as short-circuit faults, in power systems. In this paper, a theoretical analysis of the feasibility of applyin ...

2023

Potential-induced degradation in bifacial silicon heterojunction solar modules: Insights and mitigation strategies

Christophe Ballif, Quentin Thomas Jeangros, Alessandro Francesco Aldo Virtuani, Luca Gnocchi, Olatz Arriaga Arruti

Potential-induced degradation (PID) may be a serious concern in photovoltaic (PV) modules and plants, particularly when approaching high system voltages (1500+ V). Here, we investigate PID occurring in bifacial rear-emitter silicon heterojunction (SHJ) sol ...

Wiley2023

Vacuum Circuit Breaker Closing Time Key Moments Detection via Vibration Monitoring: A Run-to-Failure Study

Olga Fink, Gaëtan Michel Frusque

Circuit breakers (CBs) play an important role in modern society because they make the power transmission and distribution systems reliable and resilient. Therefore, it is important to maintain their reliability and to monitor their operation. A key to ensu ...

2022

Portable Multi-Frequency Impedance-Sensing Device for Bacteria Classification in a Flowing Liquid

Sandro Carrara

This paper presents a novel impedance-sensing device and its related microfluidics system developed to characterize the macroscopical properties of bacteria and microparticles. The system is based on a phase-sensitive detector with square-waves excitation ...

IEEE2022

Deep defects in InGaN LEDs: modeling the impact on the electrical characteristics

Nicolas Grandjean, Jean-François Carlin, Camille Haller

Deep defects have a fundamental role in determining the electro-optical characteristics and in the efficiency of InGaN light-emitting diodes (LEDs). However, modeling their effect on the electrical characteristics of the LED is not straightforward. ...

SPIE-INT SOC OPTICAL ENGINEERING2022

Superconductors for power applications: an executable and web application to learn about resistive fault current limiters

Bertrand Dutoit, Bertrand Dutoit, Francesco Grilli, Nicolo' Riva

High-temperature superconductors (HTS) can be superconducting in liquid nitrogen (77 K) at atmospheric pressure, which holds immense promises for our future such as nuclear fusion, compact medical devices and efficient power applications. In a power system ...

2021

Hybrid Modular Multilevel Converter Design and Control for Variable Speed Pumped Hydro Storage Plants

Drazen Dujic, Milan Utvic, Miodrag Basic

Hybrid modular multilevel converter control and design for pumped hydro storage plants is presented, addressing application-specific shortcoming of conventional back-to-back half-bridge modular multilevel converter: high common-mode-voltage machine stress. ...

2021

Silicon photonic microelectromechanical phase shifters for scalable programmable photonics

Niels Quack, Alain Yuji Takabayashi, Hamed Sattari

Programmable photonic integrated circuits are emerging as an attractive platform for applications such as quantum information processing and artificial neural networks. However, current programmable circuits are limited in scalability by the lack of low-po ...

OPTICAL SOC AMER2021

Breakerless Protection for Voltage Source Converter-Based Marine DC Power Supply Systems

Drazen Dujic, Seongil Kim

DC power supply systems utilising voltage source converters offer several advantages compared with their counterparts in marine low-voltage DC power distribution networks. In case of a two-level voltage source converter fed by a synchronous generator which ...

IEEE2021

Three-Dimensional FDTD-Based Simulation of Induced Surges in Secondary Circuits Owing to Primary-Circuit Surges in Substations

Farhad Rachidi-Haeri, Marcos Rubinstein, Akiyoshi Tatematsu

Currently, plenty of sensitive electronic devices are installed in secondary circuits in substations and power plants. Electronic devices may malfunction and become damaged owing to electromagnetic disturbances caused mainly by lightning surges. To protect ...

2021

A Data-Driven Fault Location Algorithm Based on the Electromagnetic Time Reversal in Mismatched Media

Mario Paolone, Zhaoyang Wang

The classical electromagnetic time reversal (EMTR) fault location method in power systems can be time consuming, especially when a high location accuracy is desired. To cope with this issue, the concept of EMTR in mismatched media has recently been introdu ...

2021

Performance assessment of Synchronous Condensers vs Voltage Source Converters providing grid-forming functions

Mario Paolone, Dorsan Alexis A. Lepour

Having sufficient grid-forming sources is one of the necessary conditions to guarantee the stability in a power system hosting a very large share of inverter-based generation. The grid-forming function has been historically fulfilled by synchronous machine ...

IEEE2021

Deexcitation Characterization for Power Supply Protection in DC Shipboard Power Systems

Drazen Dujic, Seongil Kim

The deexcitation of a synchronous machine has been used for the protection of the power supply based on a diode rectifier in marine dc power distribution networks. The fault current from the generator can be eliminated with the protection method utilizing ...

IEEE2020

Scalable Marine Bus-Tie Switch for Switchboard Interconnections

Drazen Dujic, Gabriele Ulissi

DC power distribution systems in marine applications are in the process of being established as the preferred solution for shipboard power distribution systems. This paper presents a bus-tie switch topology for the protection of such systems. The device is ...

2020

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

Effects of 5 MeV electron irradiation on deep traps and electroluminescence from near-UV InGaN/GaN single quantum well light-emitting diodes with and without InAlN superlattice underlayer

Nicolas Grandjean, Jean-François Carlin, Raphaël Butté, Camille Haller

The electrical properties, electroluminescence (EL) power output and deep trap spectra were studied before and after 5 MeV electron irradiation of near-UV single-quantum-well (SQW) light-emitting diodes (LED) structures differing by the presence or absence ...

IOP PUBLISHING LTD2020

Hole transporting materials for perovskite solar cells and a simple approach for determining the performance limiting factors

Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Tom Theodorus Antonius Lummen, Iwan Zimmermann

The synthesis and characterization of three novel HTMs with different highest occupied molecular orbital (HOMO) energy levels and their performances in MAPbI(3)-based devices in comparison with Spiro-OMeTAD is reported. Without systematic optimization, the ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2020

Time-resolved open-circuit conductive atomic force microscopy for direct electromechanical characterisation

Anna Fontcuberta i Morral, Wonjong Kim, Jelena Vukajlovic Plestina

Studying nanomaterial piezoelectricity and triboelectricity is attractive for energy and sensing applications. However, quantitative characterisation of electromechanical effects in nanomaterials is challenging due to practical limitations and possible com ...

2020