This paper presents a single-phase five-level photovoltaic (PV) inverter topology for grid-connected PV systems with a Sinusoidal Pulse Width-Modulated (SPWM) control scheme. The photo-voltaic arrays are connected to fivelevel multilevel inverter through the DC-DC boost converter. By implementing maximum power point tracking algorithm are producing more power from PV array. The DC power from th...

Occupational asthma (OA) can be induced by fumes of manual metal-arc welding on stainless steel. In recent years, the use of special stainless steels (SSS) with high chromium content has increased. This study presents two cases of OA caused by manual metal-arc welding on SSS. In both cases, the diagnosis of OA was based on respiratory symptoms, occupational exposure and positive findings in the...

The objective of this study was to characterize personal exposures to welding-related metals and gases for production welders and non-welders in a large manufacturing facility. Welding fume metals and irritant gases nitrogen dioxide (NO2) and ozone (O3) were sampled for thirty-eight workers. Personal exposure air samples for welding fume metals were collected on 37 mm open face cassettes and ni...

We present an analytical model for computing the supply current, delay, and power in a submicron CMOS inverter using a modified version of the ‘n-th power law’ MOSFET model [2]. By first computing definable reference points on the output voltage waveform and then using linear approximations through these points to find the actual points of interest, the desired speed and accuracy of the inverte...

Integration of distributed generations (DGs) in power grids is expected to play an essential role in the infrastructure and market of electrical power systems. Microgrids are small energy systems, capable of balancing captive supply and requesting resources to retain stable service within a specific boundary. Microgrids can operate in grid-connected or islanding modes. Effective islanding detec...

In order to supply power from a solar panel or photo voltaic system at a low voltage to a grid at high voltage, a power electronic converter which is capable of voltage boosting and inversion is required. Newly introduced Switched Boost Inverter is capable of achieving both these objectives by a single stage. This paper presents a PWM control strategy based switched Boost Inverter (SBI) for DC ...

The Sliding mode control theory is applied to a sinusoidal output voltage boost inverter with linear load. The boost inverter is intended to be used in UPS design, whenever an AC voltage larger than the DC link voltage is needed, with no need of a second power conversion stage. Operation, control strategy, simulation and experimental results are'included in this paper.

The growing market of mobile, battery-powered electronic systems demands the design of microelectronic circuits with low power dissipation. More generally, as density, size, and complexity of the chips continue to increase, the difficulty in providing proper cooling might either add significant cost or limit the functionality of the computing systems that make use of those integrated circuits. ...

Sharply increasing need for portable electronic devices has reinforced the need of low power design methodologies in the recent years. Adiabatic logic style is proved to be an attractive solution for low power digital design. The energy is recycled back to power supply instead of being wasted. Many researchers have introduced different adiabatic logic styles in the past few years. This paper di...

This paper gives a recent progress of welding process research in Japan, especially, an instance in the capability of the visualization and prediction of welding arcs, though the dynamic observations of spectral image by a high-speed digital video-camera with a monochromator and also the calculations by numerical models. The dynamic observations lead to visualizations of metal vapor behavior in...