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Sizing of branch inductors parameters in modular multilevel converters: An analytical approach

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Giancarlo Ferrari Trecate, Michele Tucci, Alessandro Floriduz

Kron reduction (KR) is a methodology for analyzing an electrical network by replacing it with a simpler circuit having less nodes but the same terminal behavior of voltages and currents at target vertices. Existing approaches to instantaneous KR, however, ...

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Electrical effects in winding of large electrical ac machines application to advanced large size DFIM

Frédéric Michael Maurer

To meet the electrical grid's demand on pump power variation, GE Renewable Energy develops since 10 years variable speed machines (also called Doubly Fed Induction Generators or DFIG). Within turbogenerators, the phenomenon of circulating currents in Roebe ...

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Open-Loop Power Sharing Characteristic of a Three-Port Resonant LLC Converter

Yan-Kim Tran, Drazen Dujic, Francisco Daniel Freijedo Fernández

The Solid State Transformer (SST) is an attractive solution for highly flexible, cost-effective, compact and efficient power transfer among different grids. Furthermore, a three-port topology is proven as a suitable solution to integrate energy storage res ...

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Dynamic Modeling of Magnetic Components for Circuit Simulation of Power Electronic Systems

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Magnetic components play an important role in a power electronic converter system. They provide energy buffering, galvanic isolation and voltage ratio conversion and have significant impact on the overall performance of the system regarding power efficienc ...

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Galvanically Isolated Modular Converter

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The ever increasing penetration of renewable energy systems in the distribution grids will inevitably require profound changes in the grid infrastructure. One emerging direction, the medium voltage dc (MVdc) grids, is the cornerstone of this work. They are ...

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A Reconfigurable Inductor Based on Vanadium Dioxide Insulator-to-Metal Transition

Mihai Adrian Ionescu, Montserrat Fernandez-Bolanos Badia, Emanuele Andrea Casu, Alessandro Fumarola, Matteo Cavalieri, Andrei Müller

This letter introduces a reconfigurable planar square-coil-shaped inductor exploiting as the tuning mechanism the insulator-to-metal transition (IMT) of a vanadium dioxide (VO2) switch placed in the interwinding space in an unprecedented manner. The VO2 th ...

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Advances in the characterization of nanowire photovoltaic devices

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III-V nanowires (NWs) have a great potential for solar energy applications due to their diameter-dependent optical properties, which may enhance absorption of light. In addition, core-shell radial p-i-n structures, in which the direction of light absorptio ...

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Leakage Flux Modeling of Multi-Winding Transformers for System-Level Simulations

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In multiwinding transformers, different geometry of the individual windings leads to unbalanced leakage flux paths. The unbalance affects the behavior of the power electronic converters, where these transformers are used. This paper proposes an approach to ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2018

Area and Power Efficient Ultra-Wideband Transmitter Based on Active Inductor

Catherine Dehollain, Franco Maloberti, Kerim Türe, Arnout Jan J Devos

This paper presents the design of an impulse radio ultra-wideband (IR-UWB) transmitter for low-power, short-range, and high-data rate applications such as high density neural recording interfaces. The IR-UWB transmitter pulses are generated by modulating t ...

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Quantifying and Modeling the Impact of Interconnection Failures on the Electrical Performance of Crystalline Silicon Photovoltaic Modules

Christophe Ballif, Antonin Faes, Jacques Levrat, Matthieu Despeisse, Eleonora Annigoni, Alessandro Francesco Aldo Virtuani

We present an electrical model developed with LT SPICE that simulates the performance of a string of cells with disconnections in the electrical circuit. In a previous contribution, we quantified experimentally how the module performance is affected when o ...

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