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Title: A Post-Processing Approach for Solar Power Combined Forecasts of Ramp Events
Author: Abuella, Mohamed
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering
Description: The growing integration level of wind and solar energy resources introduces new regulating and operating challenges in the electric grid. Ramp-rate limits of conventional power plants in the generation mix impose an operating constraint on renewab...

Title: Integrated Active and Reactive Power Management of Power Distribution System Considering Distributed Energy Storage and PV Farms
Author: Ahmed, Muhammad
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering
Description: Modern electric distribution system with distributed Photo-Voltaic (PV) farms and energy storage units have been facing technical challenges due to the difficulty in managing them collectively. This dissertation presents new solutions for energy m...

Title: DATA-DRIVEN DIAGNOSTICS OF ISSUES RELATED TO POWER SYSTEM DYNAMICS USING PMU MEASUREMENT
Author: Arefi, Mahmoodreza
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering, Engineering
Description: This work investigates the use of data driven techniques to diagnose issues related to power system dynamics. The source behind the data are simulated Phasor Measurement Unit (PMU) measurements. First, this study examines the application of Weight...

Title: Hierarchical Control Strategies for Spatiotemporally Varying Systems with Application to Airborne Wind Energy
Author: Bafandeh, Alireza
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering, Electrical engineering
Description: Wind energy represents a leading renewable resource for the production of clean and sustainable electricity for on- and off-grid networks. Nevertheless, tower and foundation costs, which typically represent about 30 percent of the total installati...

Title: Active and reactive power compensator using wide band gap semiconductors for voltage support in low voltage networks
Author: Belchandan, Rakesh Kumar
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering
Description: RAKESH KUMAR BELCHANDAN. Active and reactive power compensator using wide band gap semiconductors for voltage support in low voltage networks. (Under the direction of DR. MADHAV MANJREKAR)The purpose of this research is to develop and demonstrate ...

Title: ADAPTIVE CONTROL OF RENEWABLE ENERGY RESOURCES FOR IMPROVING THE DISPATCHABILITY AND OPERATIONAL STABILITY OF RENEWABLE ENERGY INTEGRATED POWER SYSTEM
Author: Bhattarai, Rojan
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering, Renewable energy sources
Description: This dissertation presents a measurement based adaptive control framework for renewableenergy resources (RER) in order to improve the dispatch-ability and operationalstability of renewable energy integrated bulk power grid. The proposed techniquei...

Title: High Frequency GaN Power Converters Digital Twin
Author: Biglarbegian, Mehrdad
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering
Description: There is a need for a foundation of a research study aimed at investigations on near real-time reliability awareness of Gallium Nitride devices in high-frequency power converters for which we need advanced hardware and algorithms. This dissertatio...

Title: Low Power RFID System Design and Implementation
Author: Bowen, Jacob
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering
Description: A successful design and implementation of an RFID(Radio Frequency Identification)tag and reader.The RFID reader was implemented using a USRP board and GNU radio. TheRFID system designed here is considered a UHF(ultra high frequency) RFID. Thereade...

Title: Powerline Communications Through Series Connected Switched Mode Power Converters to Be Used in Solar Microinverters
Author: Evans, Daniel
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering
Description: Modern photovoltaic converters and energy storage modules are shifting to a cascaded or distributed module-level inverters to reduce the required voltage output of each module and thereby optimizing production costs. The switch to an AC-stacked ar...

Title: Approaches for Oscillation Monitoring and Damping of Wind Integrated Power Grid
Author: Gurung, Niroj
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering
Description: Wind energy has emerged as one of the major choice of sustainable energy especially due to lower generation cost and push for alternative sources of clean energy. How- ever, the technological difference in wind generation is certain to create chan...

Title: METHODOLOGY AND VISUALIZATION TOOLS FOR MANAGING ENERGY GOALS IN COMMERCIAL OFFICE DESIGNS
Author: Lawless, William
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering
Description: ABSTRACTWILLIAM NATHANIEL LAWLESS. Methodology and Visualization Tools for Managing Energy Goals in Commercial Office Designs. (Under the direction of DR. ROBERT COX)Managing buildings energy usage is crucial for reducing emissions worldwide along...

Title: AN INVESTIGATION INTO THE TORQUE CAPABILITIES OF HIGH GEAR RATIO MAGNETIC GEARBOXES
Author: Li, Kang
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering, Early childhood education, Electromagnetism
Description: Mechanical gears can be as small as those in traditional mechanical watches or as large as those in mechanical marine turbines. They can be seen in almost all transportation tools, for example, bicycles, cars, trains and airplanes. Though they hav...

Title: Framework for Scenario Generation and Reduction in Photovoltaic-Integrated Generation Commitment
Author: Luis, Lee
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering, Power resources
Description: Photo-voltaic (PV) power generation is promising from an environmental and economic standpoint. However, increased penetration of PV power into the electric grid can present significant challenges to decision-making in energy markets. To maintain ...

Title: A Novel Principal and Independent Component Analysis Preprocessing Technique for Neural Network Classification of Electroencephalography Signals for Brain Computer Interface Development
Author: Major, Tyler
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering
Description: The field of brain computer interfaces (BCI) is growing rapidly. Innovations that help benefit disabled persons is the overall goal of the research, currently. Every brain computer interface consists of three basic parts: a sensing device, signal ...

Title: INVESTIGATION OF DISTRIBUTED CONTROLS AND COMMUNICATIONS IN CASCADED MULTI-LEVEL INVERTER
Author: Mishra, Nisha
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering
Description: This thesis investigates a cascaded H-bridge multi-level inverter topology (CHB-MLI). It utilizes a unique methodology that converts the conventional DC voltage output of a solar photo-voltaic (PV) panel to generate switched quasi-square wave AC v...

Title: Adaptive Mobility Management for Next-Generation Small Cell Networks
Author: Nasrin, Wahida
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering
Description: Small cells are introduced as one of the key technologies of the new generation (5G) mobile networks. Among the existing small cell technologies, femtocells drew more research attention from both industry and academia because of their unplanned in...

Title: Optimal Sizing and Operation of Energy Storage Systems to Mitigate Intermittency of Renewable Energy Resources
Author: Naziri Moghaddam, Iman
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering
Description: Increased share of Renewable Energy Sources (RES) in the generation mix requires higher flexibility in power system resources. The intermittent nature of the RES calls for higher reserves in power systems to smooth out the unpredictable power fluc...

Title: A Non-Invasive Wideband Isolated Current Sensor for High Frequency Power Electronics Applications
Author: Nibir, Shahriar Jalal
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering
Description: With the introduction of new generation of wide-bandgap (WBG) power devices, the size and volume of the modern power electronic converters are getting significantly miniaturized. For effective control of power converters maintaining high efficienc...

Title: IMPLEMENTATION OF PATH PLANNING ALGORITHMS ON A MOBILE ROBOT IN DYNAMIC INDOOR ENVIRONMENTS
Author: Panchpor, Aishwarya
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering, Robotics
Description: The objective of this thesis was to review and analyze existing algorithms for robot localization and mapping in dynamic indoor environments. Some of the existing algorithms include occupancy grid approach, artificial intelligence approach, dense ...

Title: Design Considerations for Intermittently Connected Energy Harvesting Wireless Sensor Networks
Author: Rajib, Md Majharul Islam
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering
Description: Wireless sensor networks can potentially achieve perpetual maintenance-free operation by harnessing ambient energy from the environment. However, most environmental energy sources, such as vibrations, heat, radio frequency (RF) are usually inadequ...