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Title: Accelerated aging and health monitoring of IGBT(s) switches in motor drives
Author: O'Connor, Paul
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering, Engineering
Description: ABSTRACTPAUL RICHARD VALENTINE O'CONNOR. Accelerated aging and health monitoring of IGBT(s) in Motor Drives. (Under the direction of DR. ROBERT W. COX) There has been a proliferation in the use of power electronic drives in applications such as sh...

Title: An Integrated Hybrid Thermal Dynamics Model and Energy Aware Optimization Framework for Grid-Interactive Residential Building Management
Author: Ariwoola, Raheem
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering, Engineering
Description: This dissertation focuses on developing an integrated hybrid model for studying the thermal dynamic operations of passive buildings considering active power management. For this, the following methodology is designed. First, the hybrid model,inclu...

Title: Autonomous Navigation of an Electric All-Terrain Vehicle Along Waypoint-Defined Trails
Author: Daniel, Jacob
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Engineering, Electrical engineering, Mechanical engineering
Description: Previous research attempted to autonomously control an internal combustion all-terrain vehicle platform but was unsuccessful due to the inability to reliably control speed. To address this, an electric motor conversion is performed on the platform...

Title: Control of wind integrated power grid using voltage controllability and vulnerability detection
Author: Maharjan, Rabindra
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering, Engineering, Renewable energy sources
Description: Modern power grids are the largest and most complex engineered systems. Integration of distributed resources like wind farms and economic constraints push power grids to operate close to their limits. Due to this, power system is subject to variou...

Title: Coordinated optimal control of smart buildings and PV systems in active distribution networks
Author: Kodanda Pani, Naveen Kumar
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering, Engineering, Environmental engineering
Description: Driven by economic and environmental policies, there is an increase in distributed energy resources (DER) penetration, such as wind farms and rooftop solar panels in the electrical grid system. With advancement in smart technology such as smart me...

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: DEVELOPMENT AND EVALUATION OF RSSI-BASED LOCALIZATION SCHEMES FOR WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS TO MITIGATE SHADOWING EFFECTS
Author: CHUKU, NDUBUEZE
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering, Engineering, Computer engineering
Description: Received radio frequency (RF) signal strength provides a cost-effective mechanism for distance estimation that is popularly used for range-based localization in wireless sensor networks (WSN). The typical method of determining sensor location usin...

Title: DEVELOPMENT OF EXPERIMENTAL AND NUMERICAL TOOLS FOR MAGNETIC DRUG TARGETING IN CARDIOVASCULAR FLOW
Author: Ciero, Ashley
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering, Electrical engineering, Engineering
Description: The aim of the present work is to design and develop experimental and numerical tools to investigate the practicality of magnetic drug targeting (MDT) in a patient-specific diseased left carotid bifurcation artery for the potential prospects of tr...

Title: Decentralized Agent-Based Control of Distributed Energy Resources for Providing Multiple Services in Active Distribution Networks
Author: Karandeh, Roozbeh
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering, Engineering, Power resources
Description: In recent decades, due to the carbon-free energy policies of power utilities, small and medium-scale renewable energy sources (RES), such as roof-top solar photovoltaic panels (PV), have been widely deployed across the distribution systems.However...

Title: Development of a Digital Twin for a Solar Powered Electric Race Vehicle
Author: Baer, James
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Engineering, Electrical engineering, Mechanical engineering
Description: The global and local impacts of climate change have increased the interest in decarbonizing energy economies in general and transportation in particular. Solar EVs represent an intersection of renewable energy generation and EV development, both o...

Title: Dynamic Remedial Action Scheme Using Online Transient Stability Analysis
Author: Shrestha, Arun
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering, Engineering, Power resources
Description: Economic pressure and environmental factors have forced the modern power systems to operate closer to their stability limits. However, maintaining transient stability is a fundamental requirement for the operation of interconnected power systems. ...

Title: ENERGY STORAGE SYSTEM OPERATION AND CONTROL FOR GRID RESILIENCY AND ENHANCING RENEWABLE ENERGY PENETRATION
Author: Abdelrazek, Sherif
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering, Engineering, Power resources
Description: This research aims to examine the potential value of Energy Storage Systems (ESSs) to different sects of the electrical power system through the various applications in which it could be utilized. The different storage technologies are reviewed in...

Title: ENHANCING THE RESILIENCE OF DISTRIBUTION POWER GRIDS WITH PHOTOVOLTAICS (PVs) AND ENERGY STORAGE
Author: McGirt, Alexander
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering, Engineering, Power resources
Description: Extreme events such as natural disasters can cause power grid failures, leading to catastrophic consequences and losses. With increasing integrations of photovoltaics (PVs) and energy storage in the distribution power grid, this work explores how ...

Title: Empowering FPGAs For Massively Parallel Applications
Author: SHIDDIBHAVI, SUHAS ASHOK
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering, Engineering, Computer engineering
Description: The availability of OpenCL High-Level Synthesis (OpenCL-HLS) has made FPGAs an attractive platform for power-efficient high-performance execution of massively parallel applications. FPGAs with their customizable data-path, deep pipelining abilitie...

Title: Frequency-Dependent Electric Power Line Modeling for Steady State Harmonic Analysis
Author: Poudel, Bikash
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering, Engineering
Description: The modern electric power system is experiencing an increased level of harmonic frequency components because of the growing use of power electronic devices, such as converters, and nonlinear loads, such as rectifier-end loads. Electric power line ...

Title: Game Theoretic Approaches for Channel Selection, Power Control and Routing in Wireless Sensor Networks
Author: Darak, Natwar
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering, Engineering
Description: This work proposes a game theoretic framework for managing the radio resources of wireless sensor nodes in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs). We consider data collecting sensor networks that are typical of environmental monitoring applications, whic...

Title: INVESTIGATION ON TOROIDAL PCB EMBEDDED INDUCTOR FOR POWER ELECTRONICS APPLICATIONS
Author: Shah, Neel
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering, Engineering
Description: This thesis investigates a Printed Circuit Board embedded air core inductor at5 MHz switching frequency for two different prototypes 200 W-􀀀 5 A/ 250 nH and300 W -10 A/150 nH. The toroid structure has been used, as they have weaker external magnet...

Title: Implementation of a cost effective non-destructive testing laboratory experiment
Author: Nye, Cameron
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering, Electrical engineering, Engineering
Description: A great amount of research is being performed in the field of Non-Destructive Testing (NDT). In addition, research is being performed in optimizing the distance learning experience, allowing students to gain equal involvement compared to students ...

Title: Model Predictive Control on Thermal Stress Reduction for Grid-Connected Inverters Reliability Enhancement
Author: Wang, Luocheng
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering, Engineering, Power resources
Description: Thermal stress has been identified as one of the major failure causes in the power module. It is generated from the mechanical strain by severely varying temperatures at different loci in the power module and the different coefficients of the ther...

Title: PRESSURE CONTROL METHODS FOR A PRESSURIZED COOLING SYSTEM WITH REPETITIVE CYCLES OF TRANSIENT DYNAMIC BEHAVIOR
Author: Smith, Michael
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering, Engineering
Description: Pressurizer (PZR) behavior in typical pressurized water reactor (PWR) nuclear power plants is well understood. Pressure control is relatively straightforward for a typical PWR, since the larger fluid system normally operates in a very steady state...