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Electrical and Computer Engineering

Power Electronics

2000

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Development Of A Closed-Form Expression For The Input Impedance Of Power-Ground Plane Structures, Minjia Xu, Yun Ji, Todd H. Hubing, Thomas Van Doren, James L. Drewniak Aug 2000

Development Of A Closed-Form Expression For The Input Impedance Of Power-Ground Plane Structures, Minjia Xu, Yun Ji, Todd H. Hubing, Thomas Van Doren, James L. Drewniak

Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

This paper analyzes the fundamental behavior of PCB power bus structures using the modal expansion method. The results are validated by experiments and full-wave numerical modeling. It is shown that the power bus can be modeled as a series LeC circuit below the first board resonance frequency. C is the interplane capacitance and Le is an effective inductance contributed by all the cavity nodes. The effects of the layer thickness, port location, board size and the feeding wire radius on the value of Le are discussed in this study. Le can be estimated from the …


Role Of Laboratory Education In Power Engineering: Is The Virtual Laboratory Feasible? Part I, S. Iwamoto, G. G. Karady, Kraig J. Olejniczak, H. A. Mantooth, Mariesa Crow, Gerald T. Heydt Jul 2000

Role Of Laboratory Education In Power Engineering: Is The Virtual Laboratory Feasible? Part I, S. Iwamoto, G. G. Karady, Kraig J. Olejniczak, H. A. Mantooth, Mariesa Crow, Gerald T. Heydt

Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

IEEE PES sponsors a panel session in the summer power meeting in Seattle on laboratory education in power engineering. Six short papers and one full paper summarize the opinions of the panelist. This paper contains the summary of four of the presentations. The objective of the panel is to discuss the role of laboratory education in power engineering at both the graduate and undergraduate level. The question is what type of laboratory course is needed? Power electronics, electric machines, system simulation, etc? the second objective is to assess the status and value of computer based virtual laboratories. This includes the …


An Improved Statcom Model For Power Flow Analysis, Zhiping Yang, Chen Shen, Lingli Zhang, Mariesa Crow Jul 2000

An Improved Statcom Model For Power Flow Analysis, Zhiping Yang, Chen Shen, Lingli Zhang, Mariesa Crow

Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

The StatCom is traditionally modeled for power flow analysis as a PV or PQ bus depending on its primary application. The active power is either set to zero (neglecting the StatCom losses) or calculated iteratively. The StatCom voltage and reactive power compensation are usually related through the magnetics of the StatCom. This traditional power flow model of the StatCom neglects the impact of the high-frequency effects and the switching characteristics of the power electronics on the active power losses and the reactive power injection (absorption). In this paper, the authors propose a new StatCom model appropriate for power flow analysis …