Publications related to Two-phase electric power

Simulations of primary and secondary ice production during an Arctic mixed-phase cloud case from the Ny-Ålesund Aerosol Cloud Experiment (NASCENT) campaign

Georgia Sotiropoulou, Paraskevi Georgakaki

The representation of Arctic clouds and their phase distributions, i.e., the amount of ice and supercooled water, influences predictions of future Arctic warming. Therefore, it is essential that cloud phase is correctly captured by models in order to accur ...

Copernicus GmbH2024

Impact of Hysteresis Losses in Hybrid (HTS-LTS) Coils for Fusion Applications

Davide Uglietti

Several conductor designs featuring High Temperature Superconducting (HTS) stacked tapes for fusion coils are being proposed. These conductors are planned to operate in time-varying magnetic field and current; thus, the estimation of AC losses is fundament ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2023

Advanced Frameworks to Aggregate and Unlock the Power Flexibility of Distributed Energy Resources Located in Active Distribution Networks

Mohsen Kalantar Neyestanaki

Environmental concerns are leading to a fast transition in electric power systems towards replacing fossil fuel and nuclear generation with renewable generation. This transition has two significant implications for electric power systems: 1-The capacity o ...

EPFL2022

Amplitude and phase reconstruction for Low-Energy Electron Holography of individual proteins

Hannah Julia Ochner

Single-molecule imaging methods are of importance in structural biology, and specifically in the imaging of proteins, since they can elucidate conformational variability and structural changes that might be lost in imaging methods relying on averaging proc ...

EPFL2022

Time-Synchronization Attack Detection in Unbalanced Three-Phase Systems

Jean-Yves Le Boudec, Mario Paolone, Marguerite Marie Nathalie Delcourt, Gyorgy Miklos Dan

Phasor measurement units (PMU) rely on an accurate time-synchronization to phase-align the phasors and timestamp the voltage and current phasor measurements. Among the symmetrical components computed from the phasors in three-phase systems, the standard pr ...

2021

Expanded Phase Distribution in Low Average Layer-Number 2D Perovskite Films: Toward Efficient Semitransparent Solar Cells

Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Paul Joseph Dyson, Bin Ding, Yong Ding, Yen-Cheng Liu, Hiroyuki Kanda, Xuehui Liu, Cheng Liu, Hao Huang

The application of low average layer-number (< n & rang;

2021

Effect of voltage source converters with electrochemical storage systems on dynamics of reduced-inertia bulk power grids

Mario Paolone, Fabrizio Sossan, Yihui Zuo

A major concern associated to the massive connection of distributed energy resources is the increasing share of power electronic interfaces resulting in the global inertia reduction of power systems. The recent literature advocated the use of voltage sourc ...

Elsevier2020

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

A Generalized Index for Static Voltage Stability of Unbalanced Polyphase Power Systems including Thévenin Equivalents and Polynomial Models

Mario Paolone, Andreas Martin Kettner

This paper proposes a Voltage Stability Index (VSI) suitable for unbalanced polyphase power systems. To this end, the grid is represented by a polyphase multiport network model (i.e., hybrid parameters), and the aggregate behavior of the devices in each no ...

IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2019

Performance Assessment of Kron Reduction in the Numerical Analysis of Polyphase Power Systems

Mario Paolone, Andreas Martin Kettner

This paper investigates the impact of Kron reduction on the performance of numerical methods applied to the analysis of unbalanced polyphase power systems. Specifically, this paper focuses on power-flow study, state estimation, and voltage stability assess ...

IEEE2019

Real-Time State Estimation and Voltage Stability Assessment of Power Grids: From Theoretical Foundations to Practical Applications

Andreas Martin Kettner

The operators of power distribution systems strive to lower their operational costs and improve the quality of the power service provided to their customers. Furthermore, they are faced with the challenge of accommodating large numbers of Distributed Energ ...

EPFL2019

High-Power DC–DC Converter Utilising Scott transformer Connection

Drazen Dujic, Stefan Milovanovic

To obtain a resilient and flexible DC grid, reliable means for interfacing its parts operating under different voltage levels must be ensured. This paper proposes bidirectional, isolated, DC–DC converter designed to connect either high/medium voltage bipol ...

2019

Current Control Strategy for Dynamic Winding Reconfiguration of Slotless Brushless DC Motors

Yves Perriard, Douglas Martins Araujo, Florian Louis Copt

Depending on the winding configuration, the intrinsic characteristic of a motor differs. By reconfiguring the winding, it becomes possible to increase the torque–speed limitation of a motor. Current proposed methodologies for dynamically reconfiguring the ...

2019

Accessible Superchiral Near-Fields Driven by Tailored Electric and Magnetic Resonances in All-Dielectric Nanostructures

Hatice Altug, Andreas Tittl, Yasaman Jahani, Kosmas Tsakmakidis, Ershad Mohammadi

Detection and differentiation of enantiomers in small quantities are crucially important in many scientific fields, including biology, chemistry, and pharmacy. Chiral molecules manifest their handedness in their interaction with the chiral state of light ( ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2019

On the Properties of the Compound Nodal Admittance Matrix of Polyphase Power Systems

Mario Paolone, Andreas Martin Kettner

Most techniques for power system analysis model the grid by exact electrical circuits. For instance, in power flow study, state estimation, and voltage stability assessment, the use of admittance parameters (i.e., the nodal admittance matrix) and hybrid pa ...

IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2018

Locating lightning strikes and flashovers along overhead power transmission lines using electromagnetic time reversal

Mario Paolone, Gianluca Antonini, Reza Razzaghi, Keyhan Sheshyekani, Marco Scatena

The paper presents a method to identify the location of direct lightning strikes to overhead transmission lines and potential subsequent flashover(s). The method is based on the electromagnetic time reversal theory and relies on the use of a single measure ...

Elsevier2018

On Non-Uniform Transient Electromagnetic Field Coupling to Overhead Transmission Lines

Jun Guo

Transient electromagnetic fields can couple to overhead power transmission and distribution lines, causing damage to the connected equipment. In real cases, incident electromagnetic fields exhibit different spatial and temporal waveform distributions along ...

2018

Zero refractive index in time-Floquet acoustic metamaterials

Romain Christophe Rémy Fleury, Theodoros Koutserimpas

New scientific investigations of artificially structured materials and experiments have exhibit wave manipulation to the extreme. In particular, zero refractive index metamaterials have been on the front line of wave physics research for their unique wave ...

2018

Approximating Matsubara dynamics using the planetary model: Tests on liquid water and ice

Michele Ceriotti, Michael John Willatt

Matsubara dynamics is the quantum-Boltzmann-conserving classical dynamics which remains when real-time coherences are taken out of the exact quantum Liouvillian [T. J. H. Hele et al., J. Chem. Phys. 142, 134103 (2015)]; because of a phase-term, it cannot b ...

2018

Membrane-less micro fuel cell based on two-phase flow

Demetri Psaltis, Miguel Antonio Modestino, Seyyed Mohammad Hosseini Hashemi, Pooria Hadikhani

Most microfluidic fuel cells use highly soluble fuels and oxidants in streams of liquid electrolytes to overcome the mass transport limitations that result from the low solubility of gaseous reactants such as hydrogen and oxygen. In this work, we address t ...

2017