Uninterrupted Electric Power

Electric Power Generation with Reverse Electrodialysis

The computer simulation program of a practical scale reverse electrodialysis process has been developed based on the program for saline water electrodialysis. The program is applied to compute the performance of an industrial-scale reverse electrodialysis stack (effective membrane area S = 1 m × 1 m = 1 m2, cell pair number N = 300 pairs). The stack operatingconditions are optimized. Seaw...

Control of Transformerless Uninterrupted Power Supply for Unity Power Factor and Sinusoidal Inductor Currents

This paper discusses the design of controller for transformerless uninterruptible power supply (UPS), with simultaneous ac and dc loading. The objective of the design is to maintain good regulation of the ac and dc voltages and sinusoidal inductor currents simultaneously. The volt-second balance across the output filter inductor is used to maintain the current in sinusoidal form which is the un...

Electric Power Quality Measurement

The proliferation of non-linear and time-variant loads is causing a number of disturbances on the electric network, from a more and more significant distortion of both currents and voltages, to transient disturbances on the supply voltage. In this respect the electric network behaves as an "healthy carrier" of disturbances, so that a disturbance generated by one customer can be distributed to o...

Electric Power Distribution Systems

Electric Power Generating Bicycle

It is manifest the growing interest in both personal health and environmental issues. The device described on this paper contemplates both aspects: generating environment-friendly electric power while keeping fit. A car alternator excited through a 12V battery is coupled to a mountain bicycle, and this arrangement enables the lighting of six halogen lamps, if a cyclist pedals fast enough. Such ...