Abstract—The Flexible AC Transmission System (FACTS) technology is a new advanced solution that increases the reliability and provides more flexibility, controllability, and stability of a power system. The Unified Power Flow Controller (UPFC), as the most versatile FACTS device for regulating power flow, is able to control respectively transmission line real power, reactive power, and node vol...

Commonly used centrality measures identify the most important elements in networks of components, based on the assumption that flow occurs in the network only along the shortest paths. This is not so in real networks, where different operational rules drive the flow. For this reason, a different model of flow in a network is here considered: rather than along shortest paths only, it is assumed ...

An energy harvester fabricated by inkjet 3D printing based on miniature water flow turbine with mechanical and electrical components necessary for electrical energy generation is shown. Turbine (outside diameter 25.4 mm (1”) and 14 mm length) is able to generate electric power of 4 mW for 14 L/min of water flow and it gives 0.7 V for optimal load resistance (RL = 55 Ω). The harvester itself may...

Mass content creation is nowadays one of the most important challenges for game artists. This paper presents a high-level architectural modeling solution that combines the full generative power of shape grammars with the ease of use and flexibility of a node-based visual language. Our approach comprises a shape data flow character and introduces some novel features, including recursion, paramet...

Power systems exhibit various modes of oscillation due to interactions among system components. Many of the oscillations are due to synchronous machine rotors swinging relative to each other. Controllable Series Devices (CSD), i.e. series connected Flexible AC Transmission Systems (FACTS) devices, such as Unified Power Flow Controller (UPFC), Controllable Series Capacitor (CSC) and Quadrature B...

Abstract In this paper, a fuzzy PID with new structure is proposed to solve the load frequency control in interconnected power systems. in this study, a new structure and effective of the fuzzy PID-type Load frequency control (LFC) is proposed to solve the load frequency control in interconnected power systems. The main objective is to eliminate the deviations in the frequency of different area...

Many real world systems (electric power, transportation, telecommunication, etc) are multistate systems composed of multistate components in which system reliability can be computed in terms reliabilities of its components. Such systems may be regarded as flow networks whose arcs (components) have independent, discrete, and multi-valued random capacities. An arc can, at different conditions, be...

Fundamental component estimation, including its phase and amplitude information along with instantaneous fundamental symmetrical components, is of great importance for grid connected power electronics converters control, namely in power conditioning applications such as Dynamic Voltage Restorers (DVRs) and Unified Power Flow Controllers (UPFCs). Several methods have been proposed to estimate th...

Numerical investigation of the effects of magnetic field strength, thermal radiation, Joule heating, and viscous heating on a forced convective flow of a non-Newtonian, incompressible power law fluid in an axisymmetric stretching sheet with variable temperature wall is accomplished. The power law shear thinning viscosity-shear rate model for the anisotropic solutions and the Rosseland approxima...

The advent of power electronics and computerized equipment in recent decades has brought enhanced efficiency and improved system but at the same time also created harmonics and waveform distortion to the power system network. With high harmonic contents present in the supply network, a higher equipment component failure rate or undesirable tripping of sensitive device might be experienced. This...