Reaction temperature plays a major role in product selectivity in the oscillatory mode of the palladium-catalyzed phenylacetylene oxidative carbonylation reaction. At 40 °C, dimethyl (2Z)-2-phenyl-2-butenedioate is the major product whereas at 0 °C the major product is 5,5-dimethoxy-3-phenyl-2(5H)-furanone. The occurrence of oscillations in pH coincides with an increase in the rate of phenylace...

The dynamics of an electret-based, capacitive, vibration-to-electric micro-converter (energy scavenger) is described by a set of ODEs where a second-order equation is coupled to two first-order equations through strongly-nonlinear terms. The nonlinear regimes of forced oscillations are analyzed with a semi-analytical approach, finding that the system exhibits features typical of Duffing-like no...

In the context of aircraft, shimmy is an oscillatory phenomenon of the landing gear mainly due the tire dynamics and the landing gear structural dynamics. This phenomenon, which can result in severe structural damages of the landing gear, is here actively damped by an indirect fuzzy adaptive controller. The difficulties to model the ground/wheel interface require the use of an adaptive controll...

Since Electric Power Systems are constantly subjected by perturbations, it is necessary to insert controllers for damping electromechanical oscillations originally from these perturbations. The Power System Stabilizer (PSS) and Power Oscillation Damper (POD) are two of the most common damping controllers used by the industry. However, just the inclusion of these controllers does not guarantee a...

1. Review of SMA. Selective Modal Analysis (SMA) is a physically motivated framework for understanding, simplifying and analyzing complex linear time invariant models of dynamic systems. SMA can focus on selected portions of the structure and behaviour of the system [1, 2]. In many physical systems, it can be readily recognized that some set of modes is asociated to a certain set of variables. ...

In this paper, the simulation of the disturbance propagation through a large power system is performed on the WSCC 127 bus test system. The signal frequency analysis from several parts of the power system is performed by applying the Wavelet Transform (WT). The results show that this approach provides the system operators with some useful information regarding the identification of the power sy...

1. Review of SMA. Selective Modal Analysis (SMA) is a physically motivated framework for understanding, simplifying and analyzing complex linear time invariant models of dynamic systems. SMA can focus on selected portions of the structure and behaviour of the system [1, 2]. In many physical systems, it can be readily recognized that some set of modes is asociated to a certain set of variables. ...

* Presented at the 5th Symposium of Specialists in Electric and Expansion Planning (V SEPOPE), May 19-24, 1996, Brazil Abstract This paper examines the use of controllable series capacitors for damping of electromechanical oscillations. The fundamental input signal for damping of power swings is discussed based on the study of eigenvalues of a linearized power system. The impact of a CSC on dam...

This paper presents the settings of automatic voltage regulator (AVR) and power system stabilizer (PSS) on a single machine infinite bus (SMIB) to improve the dynamic stability of the power system. This setting is done by determining the fitness function of AVR (KA) and PSS (KPSS) gain using Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) algorithm. The main purpose of this setting is to minimize the oscilla...

A new metaheuristic method, the BAT search algorithm based on the echolocation behaviour of bats is proposed in this paper for optimal design of Power System Stabilizers (PSSs) in a multimachine environment. The PSSs parameter tuning problem is converted to an optimization problem which is solved by BAT search Algorithm. An eigenvalues based objective function involving the damping factor, and ...