Renewable energy resources are being used to overcome energy shortage. From the point of view of energy management the interconnectivity of electric utility with renewable energy resources is difficult. Renewable energy resources need to be managed with electric utility. A Smart Energy Management System (SEMS) is designed and developed for monitoring an efficient load management of electric uti...

We present a design of an integrated beam combiner which cascades power combiners and polarization converter/combiner. The proposed device has 2 dB lower loss than power combiners and is more fabrication-tolerant than wavelength combiners. The Optical Society (OSA) This work may not be copied or reproduced in whole or in part for any commercial purpose. Permission to copy in whole or in part wi...

A classification procedure based on time-frequency decomposition of the signal is presented. Parametric spectral ESPRIT method is used for estimation of relevant parameters of signal components and specific areas of the time-frequency plane are chosen, where the signal is expected to show most characteristic patterns. Classification is based on time-domain correlation of reconstructed signals. ...

In this paper, non-integer order control is applied to improve the performance of a buck-boost dc-dc power converter with ultracapacitor based on state feedback techniques. The approach is based on stabilization in the Lyapunov's sense for linear rational-order systems. The ultracapacitor can overcome the classical problems of energy losses due to the use of batteries, giving more accuracy, aut...

This paper presents a bidirectional DC-DC converter suitable for low-voltage super capacitor-based electric energy storage systems. The DC-DC converter presented here consists of a full-bridge circuit and a current-fed push-pull circuit with a high frequency (HF) transformer-link. In order to reduce the device-conduction losses due to the large current of the super capacitor as well as unnecess...

Electric drive systems are one of the most important components of our life; billions of them are used in industry, traffic applications and private environment. In the recent past an accelerated development of controlled drive systems could be experienced. The scientific and technical background of today’s most important drive systems, the converter controlled DC-drives and the vector controll...

It is needless to say that four quadrant principle plays a vital role in industrial applications .Running a machine both in motoring and generating action illustrates the four quadrant operation. In electric locomotives, the motor may run clock wise and anti clockwise, and the torque may act either with or against the direction of rotation. In other words the speed and torque may be positive or...

Power electronic devices are non-linear loads that create harmonic distortion and can be susceptible to voltage dips if not adequately protected. The most common economically damaging power quality problem encountered involves the use of variable-speed drives. Variable-speed motor drives or inverters are highly susceptible to voltage dip disturbances and cause particular problems in industrial ...

Wireless power transfer (WPT) has attracted an ever increasing interest from both industry and academics over the past few years. Its applications vary from small power devices such as mobile phones and tablets to high power electric vehicles, and from small transfer distance of centimeters to large distance of tens of centimeters. In order to achieve a high efficiency WPT system, each circuit ...

This paper presents a self-powered piezoelectric energy harvesting circuit using frequency conversion. A vibration energy harvesting principle is introduced. Due to a capacitive characteristic of the piezoelectric vibration transducer, an energy harvesting circuit is proposed for matching the capacitive impedance. The energy harvesting circuit consists of a matching circuit with up-conversion, ...