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A Comparative Analytical Study on Low-Voltage Ride-Through Reference-Current-Generation (LVRT-RCG) Strategies in Converter-Interfaced DER Units
DownloadSpring 2015
Mohammadalizadeh Shabestary, Masoud
Recently, riding through grid faults and supporting the grid voltage under faults have become major requirements in distributed energy resource (DER) units. There have been also extensive efforts in academia and industry to develop and implement control strategies to ride through voltage...
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Spring 2016
The proliferation of power-electronic-based modern residential loads can produce excessive voltage and current waveform distortions in residential power distribution systems. With their unique advantages such as flexible control and dynamic compensation over traditional passive power filters...
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A Probabilistic Bottom-up Technique for Modeling and Simulation of Residential Distributed Harmonic Sources
DownloadSpring 2012
The proliferation of energy-efficient appliances and modern consumer electronics has resulted in numerous power-electronic-based harmonic sources penetrating into residential households. Due to the huge number and wide adoption of these new harmonic sources, techniques for determining the...
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Spring 2017
Buried pipelines that share a common corridor with nearby overhead AC power lines experience voltage induction. The induced voltages can cause personnel safety and pipeline corrosion problems. Industry has a requirement to reduce the induced voltages below an acceptable level. In view of the...
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Fall 2011
Present-day economic and environmental constraints push power systems to be operated closer to their limits. A common limiting factor for power transmission is the risk of voltage instability in recent years. As the ultimate countermeasure to voltage collapse, load shedding is normally considered...
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Fall 2014
Shunt capacitors are widely used in power systems for voltage support and reactive power compensation. Its applications, however, can also cause various problems. This thesis presents a comprehensive investigation of the power quality issues associated with shunt capacitor applications. Switching...
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Fall 2013
In recent years, the increased public awareness of energy conservation has attracted serious attention to detailed energy consumption monitoring and management for the end users of power system. Load decomposition is a technique that can extract detailed sub-load information from compound load...
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Spring 2013
Utility companies have benefited from the use of condition monitoring to optimize the performance of their assets and enhance power system reliability. This thesis starts with a review of different applications of condition monitoring in a distribution system, and one of the findings is that...
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Fall 2017
Harmonic distortion has always been an important power quality concern for utilities and customers. In recent years, a wide variety of harmonic-producing loads, ranging from home appliances to industrial equipment, is being connected to power systems due to rapid advancement in power electronic...
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Fall 2017
Adequate modeling of all of the power system components including generators, transmission lines, loads, and neighboring power systems is essential for power system analysis. With nowadays large interconnected power systems, it is common practice to represent only the study system with high...