Publications related to Distribution board

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

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

A Compressive Sensing Framework for EMI Source Localization Using a Metalens Structure: Localization Beyond the Diffraction Limit

Marcos Rubinstein, Mohammad Azadifar, Farhad Rachidi-Haeri, Hamidreza Karami

In this article, we propose a novel approach for the localization of electromagnetic interference (EMI) sources based on the concept of compressive sensing and metalenses. We show that using the spatial and frequency dispersion offered by the metalens, we ...

2022

Lightning-Induced Voltages on Overhead Distribution Lines Computed through Analytical Expressions for the Electromagnetic Fields

Farhad Rachidi-Haeri, Marcos Rubinstein

The evaluation of lightning ElectroMagnetic (EM) fields represents the most cumbersome part of the lightning-induced voltages computation process. Their evaluation is usually performed through a numerical routine or with simplified analytical expressions, ...

2021

An Extension of the Guided Wave M‐Component Model Taking Into Account the Presence of a Tall Strike Object

Farhad Rachidi-Haeri, Marcos Rubinstein, Mohammad Azadifar, Qi Li, Mi Zhou

We present in this paper an extension of the guided-wave M-component model of Rakov et al. considering the presence of a vertically elevated strike object. The tall object is represented as a lossless, uniform transmission line. Expressions for the current ...

2021

Performance Comparative Assessment of Grid Connected Power Converters Control Strategies

Mario Paolone, Giacomo Piero Schiapparelli

Renewable energy sources are generally interfaced with the electric distribution and transmission grid via power converters. The displacement of the traditional generating plants requires the new resources to be involved in the grid control strategy. This ...

IEEE2020

Nonlinear electrical conductivity through the thickness of multidirectional carbon fiber composites

Marcos Rubinstein, Xi Chen, Anastasios Vassilopoulos, Jie Li

Lightning strikes pose a serious natural threat to carbon fiber-reinforced poly- mers (CFRPs). Knowledge of the electrical current distribution is essential for modeling the interaction between CFRP with lightning. In most applications, the anisotropy of C ...

2019

Generalized Telegrapher's Equations for Buried Curved Wires

Farhad Rachidi-Haeri, Damir Cavka

The paper deals with the calculation of transient currents and voltages along curved wire structures buried in a lossy ground using the generalized Telegrapher's equations. The influence of a lossy half space is taken into account by the simplified reflect ...

IEEE2018

MVDC Supply Technologies for Marine Electrical Distribution Systems

Drazen Dujic, Francisco Daniel Freijedo Fernández, Uzair Javaid, Wim Van der Merwe

The increase in the popularity of the medium voltage dc (MVDC) electrical distribution, as a possible evolution of the medium voltage ac (MVAC) electrical distribution for the ship on-board power systems, arises a need for a comparative evaluation and demo ...

2018

Reduced metabolic function and structural alterations in inherited retinal dystrophies: investigating the effect of peripapillary vessel oxygen saturation and vascular diameter on the retinal nerve fibre layer thickness

PurposeTo evaluate the relationship between the peripapillary metabolic alterations [retinal vessel Oximetry (RO)] and the structural findings [retinal vessel diameter and retinal nerve fibre layer thickness (RNFL)] in patients with inherited retinal dystr ...

Wiley2017

Interactions Between Bandwidth Limited CPLs and MMC Based MVDC Supply

Drazen Dujic, Francisco Daniel Freijedo Fernández, Alexandre François Christe, Uzair Javaid

With the improvement in the power electronic technologies, medium voltage dc (MVDC) electrical distribution systems are being considered for on-shore and off-shore applications. These future MVDC electrical distribution systems are expected to provide the ...

2017

Compact and General Strategy for Solving Current and Potential Distribution in Electrochemical Cells Composed of Massive Monopolar and Bipolar Electrodes

Hubert Girault, Alejandro Nicolás Colli

A compact, fast and general algorithm based on Dirichlet boundary conditions for the potential field is derived to enable the calculation of local current distribution, shunt currents and the local potential distribution on massive electrodes in electroche ...

2017

Irrelevance of the Boundary on the Magnetization of Metals

Antimo Marrazzo

The macroscopic current density responsible for the mean magnetization M of a uniformly magnetized bounded sample is localized near its surface. In order to evaluate M one needs the current distribution in the whole sample: bulk and boundary. In recent yea ...

Amer Physical Soc2016

MVDC Marine Electrical Distribution: Are we ready?

Drazen Dujic, Uzair Javaid, Wim Van der Merwe

Marine high-power on-board electrical systems are predominantly utilizing three-phase medium voltage alternating current (MVAC) distribution. Depending on the size and purpose of the ship, on-board electrical systems provide supply to loads in excess of 60 ...

2015

Application of real-time simulation for hydropower plants monitoring

The global emission of CO2 has increased in the sector of power generation from countries outside the OECD, particularly in China which comprises two-third of the share. Meanwhile, OECD countries focus their effort in reducing their emission, where the ind ...

EPFL2015

Mixed-signal power system emulator extension to solve unbalanced fault transient stability analysis

Sidi-Rachid Cherkaoui, Maher Kayal, Theodoros Kyriakidis, Guillaume Olivier Lanz

This paper presents the extension of a platform originally devoted to symmetrical transient stability analysis, into the domain of unbalanced faults. The aim of this solver is to increase the speed of dynamic stability assessment for power systems. It is b ...

IEEE2014

Manufacture of ITER feeder sample conductors

Pierluigi Bruzzone, Bo Liu, Hongwei Li

The ITER feeders are the components that connect the ITER magnet systems located inside the main cryostat to the cryogenics, power-supply and control system interfaces outside the cryostat. The feeder busbars rely on the Cable-In-Conduit Conductor (CICC) d ...

Elsevier Science Sa2013

Low-cost, CMOS compatible, Ta2O5-based hemi-memristor for neuromorphic circuits

Giovanni De Micheli, Sandro Carrara

In the past, tantalum oxide devices have been used to create non-volatile digital memories, whilst neglecting the analogue memristive characteristics of such devices. In this Letter, it is shown that these devices can provide a low-cost, low-power solution ...

Institution of Engineering and Technology2012

Modular DC/DC Converter for DC Distribution and Collection Networks

Stephan Kenzelmann

A major change in the electrical transmission and distribution system is taking place in Europe at the moment. The shift from a centralised energy production to a distributed generation profoundly changes the behaviour of the grid. Environmental or social ...

EPFL2012

A Versatile DC-DC Converter for Energy Collection and Distribution using the Modular Multilevel Converter

Alfred Rufer, Drazen Dujic, Stephan Kenzelmann, Michail Vasiladiotis

The drawbacks of conventional Modular Multilevel Converters (MMC) are described in terms of short-circuits. The configuration of MMC-transformer-MMC proves to handle short-circuits at the input and output without the need for additional DC or AC circuit br ...

Ieee2011

On the Measurement and Calculation of Horizontal Electric Fields From Lightning

Farhad Rachidi-Haeri, Marcos Rubinstein, Abdolhamid Shoory

In this paper, we discuss two issues related to the measurement and calculation of the horizontal electric fields from lightning. On the one hand, there is an inherent difficulty inmeasuring the horizontal electric field component from lightning because of ...

2011