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Lithium-Ion Ultracapacitor Energy Storage Integrated With A Variable Speed Wind Turbine For Improved Power Conversion Control, Goran Mandic Dec 2012

Lithium-Ion Ultracapacitor Energy Storage Integrated With A Variable Speed Wind Turbine For Improved Power Conversion Control, Goran Mandic

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The energy of wind has been increasingly used for electric power generation worldwide due to its availability and ecologically sustainability. Utilization of wind energy in modern power systems creates many technical and economical challenges that need to be addressed for successful large scale wind energy integration. Variations in wind velocity result in variations of output power produced by wind turbines. Variable power output becomes a challenge as the amount of output power of the wind turbines integrated into power systems increases. Large power variations cause voltage and frequency deviations from nominal values that may lead to activation of relay protective …


Medical Grade High Frequncy Power Distribution Units, Ezana Mekonnen Dec 2012

Medical Grade High Frequncy Power Distribution Units, Ezana Mekonnen

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The focus of this thesis is to design, model, build, and test a series resonance converter that uses a high frequency isolation transformer, offering significant reduction in size and cost, for powering a Computed Tomography (CT) scanner. The design increases the power quality for the load by isolating the grid side disturbances, and providing regulated desired voltage. The proposed architecture also allows for an optimized point of integration with an UPS, a regulated DC bus to improve waveform fidelity of x-ray generator, and active monitoring and control of the power architecture. Conventional CT systems use a 60Hz transformer, which not …