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Transformer-less Grid-Connected High-Voltage Marx Pulse Generator with Unity Power Factor for Domestic Drinking Water Disinfection
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Hamad bin Khalifa University Press (HBKU Press)
, 2016 , Conference Paper)
Qatar has no rivers, thus the main natural water resource in Qatar is the groundwater table. The average groundwater recharge from rainfall is approximately 55.9 million m3/year, in addition to 2.2 million m3/year inflow ...
Machine learning-based management of electric vehicles charging: Towards highly-dispersed fast chargers
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MDPI AG
, 2020 , Article)
Coordinated charging of electric vehicles (EVs) improves the overall efficiency of the power grid as it avoids distribution system overloads, increases power quality, and decreases voltage fluctuations. Moreover, the ...
Demand Response in HEMSs Using DRL and the Impact of Its Various Configurations and Environmental Changes
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MDPI
, 2022 , Article)
With smart grid advances, enormous amounts of data are made available, enabling the training of machine learning algorithms such as deep reinforcement learning (DRL). Recent research has utilized DRL to obtain optimal ...
Power budgeting of LEO satellites: An electrical power system design for 5G missions
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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
, 2021 , Article)
Although Geostationary-Equatorial-Orbit (GEO) satellites have achieved significant success in conducting space missions, they cannot meet the 5G latency requirements due to the far distance from the earth surface. Therefore, ...
Modeling and Control of Single-Stage Quadratic-Boost Split Source Inverters
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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
, 2022 , Article)
This paper aims to develop the recently introduced Spilt-Source Inverter (SSI) topology to improve its boosting characteristics. New SSI topologies with high voltage gain are introduced in this paper. The proposed converters ...
An active damping technique for a current source inverter employing a virtual negative inductance
(2010 , Conference Paper)
A grid connected CSI requires a CL filter stage. In this work, the isolation transformer leakage inductance constitutes this filter inductance. This CL filter is lightly damped for efficiency constraints. Hence, it is ...
Iterated unscented Kalman filter-based maximum power point tracking for photovoltaic applications
(2013 , Conference Paper)
One of main challenges in harvesting power from a PV source is maximum power point tracking (MPPT). This is due to the nonlinear behaviour and characteristics of PV arrays. Conventional MPPT techniques usually utilize a ...
Maximum power transfer of PV-fed inverter-based distributed generation with improved voltage regulation using flywheel energy storage systems
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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
, 2014 , Conference Paper)
One of the main issues accompanied with the high penetration of PV distributed generation (DG) systems in low voltage (LV) networks is the overvoltage challenge. The amount of injected power to the grid is directly related ...
Fundamental output voltage enhancement of half-bridge voltage source inverter with low DC-link capacitance
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Korean Institute of Power Electronics
, 2018 , Article)
Conventionally, in order to reduce the ac components of the dc-link capacitors of the two-level Half-Bridge Voltage Source Inverter (HB-VSI), high dc-link capacitances are required. This necessitates the employment of ...
Quasi two-level operation of modular multilevel converter for use in a high-power DC transformer with DC fault isolation capability
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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
, 2015 , Article)
DC fault protection is one challenge impeding the development of multiterminal dc grids. The absence of manufacturing and operational standards has led to many point-to-point HVDC links built at different voltage levels, ...