This paper investigates the effect of metallic sheaths on losses and temperature of medium voltage power cables. Two grounding methods of sheaths, including both ends bonding and single point bonding that causes different situations on cable ampacity, are considered. Electrical losses of cables that are main sources of heat are calculated in both conductor and metallic sheath of the cables. She...

Finite-time thermodynamic models for an Otto cycle, an Atkinson cycle, an over-expansion Miller cycle (M1), an LIVC Miller cycle through late intake valve closure (M2) and an LIVC Miller cycle with constant compression ratio (M3) have been established. The models for the two LIVC Miller cycles are first developed; and the heat-transfer and friction losses are considered with the effects of real...

We consider the optimal scheduling of hydropower plants in a hydrothermal interconnected system. This problem, of outmost importance for large-scale power systems with a high proportion of hydraulic generation, requires a detailed description of the so-called hydro unit production function. In our model, we relate the amount of generated hydropower to nonlinear tailrace levels; we also take int...

Let A be a Hermitian matrix, let be a normalized positive linear map and let f be a continuous real valued function. Real constants and such that (f(A)) f(((A)) (f(A)) are determined. If f is matrix convex then can be taken to be 1. A uniied approach is proposed so that the problem of determining and is reduced to solving a single variable convex minimization problem. As an illustration, the re...

A number of methods have been proposed to separate a color signal into its components: illumination spectral power distribution and surface spectral reflectance. Most of these methods usually use a minimization technique from solely a single color signal, which works in theoretical framework but is not effective for real data. The reason is it lacks the constraints necessary to make the iterati...

In this work, we show a new methodology for automatic supervision and fault detection of PV Systems, based mainly on the analysis of the power losses. This methodology includes parameter extraction techniques to calculate main PV system parameters from monitoring data [1-2], taking into account the real irradiance and module temperature, allowing simulation and evaluation of the PV system behav...