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Unified Harmonic Power-Flow and Stability Analysis of Power Grids with Converter-Interfaced Distributed Energy Resources

Modern power distribution systems are experiencing a large-scale integration of Converter-Interfaced Distributed Energy Resources (CIDERs). Their presence complicates the analysis and mitigation of harmonics, whose creation and propagation may be amplified ...

EPFL2024

DC Power Distribution Networks with Direct Current Transformers

Renan Pillon Barcelos

The shift towards DC power distribution networks, enabled by power electronics technologies, is changing the nature of electrical power systems. Nowadays, DC power distribution networks can effectively support the high penetration of distributed energy res ...

EPFL2024

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

Enablers for Overcurrent Capability of Silicon-Carbide-Based Power Converters: An Overview

Elison de Nazareth Matioli

With the increase in penetration of power electronic converters in the power systems, a demand for overcurrent/ overloading capability has risen for the fault clearance duration. This article gives an overview of the limiting factors and the recent technol ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2023

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 ...

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Distributed Scheme for Line Overload Mitigation With Linearized AC Power Flow

Li Ding, Ping Hu

The transmission overload after a disturbance poses significant security risk to the power system. Once it happens, an efficient remedial action must be taken to relieve the line overloads as quickly as possible. The line overload mitigation problem become ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2022

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 ...

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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

Adaptive Body Biasing in Strong Body Factor Technologies

Thomas Christoph Müller

With the advent of intelligent sensor nodes in everyday life, low power aspects of system design become more and more important. Adaptive body biasing is a promising methodology to achieve dynamic adaptation of the tradeoff between performance and energy b ...

EPFL2021

Time-Varying Components for Enhancing Wireless Transfer of Power and Information

Romain Christophe Rémy Fleury, Mohammad Sajjad Mirmoosa, Xuchen Wang

Temporal modulation of components of electromagnetic systems provides an exceptional opportunity to engineer the response of those systems in a desired fashion, both in the time and frequency domains. For engineering time-modulated systems, one needs to th ...

American Physical Society (APS)2021

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 ...

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Harmonic Power-Flow Study of Polyphase Grids with Converter-Interfaced Distributed Energy Resources, Part I: Modelling Framework and Algorithm

Mario Paolone, Lorenzo Enrique Reyes Chamorro, Andreas Martin Kettner, Johanna Kristin Maria Becker

Power distribution systems are experiencing a largescale integration of Converter-Interfaced Distributed Energy Resources (CIDERs). This complicates the analysis and mitigation of harmonics, whose creation and propagation are facilitated by the interaction ...

2021

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

Protection Coordination in Marine DC Power Distribution Networks

Seongil Kim

The increasing penetration of renewable energy sources, energy storage systems (ESSs), and DC loads has opened the door to DC technology to pave its way into future grids. The shift has been more obvious in the marine domain supported by track records of i ...

EPFL2020

Protection Coordination for Reliable Marine DC Power Distribution Networks

Drazen Dujic, Gabriele Ulissi, Seongil Kim

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

Energy Analysis of Lightweight AEAD Circuits

Andrea Felice Caforio, Muhammed Fatih Balli, Subhadeep Banik

The selection criteria for NIST's Lightweight Crypto Standardization (LWC) have been slowly shifting towards the lightweight efficiency of designs, given that a large number of candidates already establish their security claims on conservative, well-studie ...

2020

Properties of convex optimal power flow model based on power loss relaxation

Mario Paolone, Zhao Yuan

We derive the branch ampacity constraint associated to power losses for the convex optimal power flow (OPF) model based on the branch flow formulation. The branch ampacity constraint derivation is motivated by the physical interpretation of the transmissio ...

Elsevier2020

A VSC-Based BESS Model for Multi-Objective OPF Using Mixed Integer SOCP

Xiaoying Tang, Tong Wu

This paper presents a new model of voltage source converter (VSC)-based battery energy storage systems (BESSs) that interface with power grids. A VSC-based BESS is made up of a series connection of a VSC, its connecting transformer and a BESS. The VSC allo ...

IEEE2020

MMC-based conversion for MVDC applications

Stefan Milovanovic

In recent years, DC grids have gained momentum due to the advantages they display over their AC counterparts. For instance, high voltage DC grids have been established as the most prominent solution in the underwater power transmission or interconnection o ...

EPFL2020

Dynamic behaviour of a Francis turbine during voltage regulation in the electrical power system

François Avellan, Elena Vagnoni

Hydroelectric units can be operated in synchronous condenser mode to provide reactive power to the electrical power system (EPS) for voltage regulation. In this operating mode, the hydraulic turbine consumes active power and in case of hydroelectric units ...

2020