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Converter-Based Dynamics and Control of Modern Power Systems
addresses the ongoing changes and challenges in rotating masses of
synchronous generators, which are transforming dynamics of the
electrical system. These changes make it more important to consider
and understand the role of power electronic systems and their
characteristics in shaping the subtleties of the grid and this book
fills that knowledge gap. Balancing theory, discussion, diagrams,
mathematics, and data, this reference provides the information
needed to acquire a thorough overview of resilience issues and
frequency definition and estimation in modern power systems. This
book offers an overview of classical power system dynamics and
identifies ways of establishing future challenges and how they can
be considered at a global level to overcome potential problems. The
book is designed to prepare future engineers for operating a system
that will be driven by electronics and less by electromechanical
systems.
Dry Syngas Purification Processes for Coal Gasification Systems
illustrates the promising development status of dry syngas
purification for various power generation systems based on coal
gasification. The core advantages of dry syngas purification,
methodologies for impurity measurement, sorbents development, and
evaluation of process performance are described in-depth, and from
a practical perspective that is based on current research and
development. Reviewing key findings from process integration, the
book encompasses scale-up strategies from pilot processes to
achieve dry syngas processing for new build plants. The book
provides researchers and engineers with practical information to
realize dry syngas purification processes for each context.
Techno-Economic Challenges of Green Ammonia as an Energy Vector
presents the fundamentals, techno-economic challenges,
applications, and state-of-the-art research in using green ammonia
as a route toward the hydrogen economy. This book presents
practical implications and case studies of a great variety of
methods to recover stored energy from ammonia and use it for power,
along with transport and heating applications, including its
production, storage, transportation, regulations, public
perception, and safety aspects. As a unique reference in this
field, this book can be used both as a handbook by researchers and
a source of background knowledge by graduate students developing
technologies in the fields of hydrogen economy, hydrogen energy,
and energy storage.
Power System Flexibility provides a consolidated foundation in the
design, planning, and operation of intermittent highly renewable
power systems—integrating core theory, mathematical analysis, and
modern international applications in an unusually multidisciplinary
approach. Opening with an expansive theoretical grounding in the
definition, analysis, and modeling of power systems, the book
demonstrates how to apply flexibility theory to critical problems
involving intermittency and variability in power system planning
and operation. The guide concludes with an international complement
of case studies, demonstrating how flexibility theory has been
applied to real-world projects of increasing complexity.
This timely book examines the significant challenges and possible
solutions for enabling efficient modernization of electric power
systems. It addresses rapidly changing electricity infrastructure
needs and technical requirements and provides a practical
introduction to the past, present, and future of energy efficiency
and power quality concepts. The book also looks at recent
developments in custom power conditioners that help
improve the performance of transmission and distribution systems,
ensure reliability, and reduce costs. Modernization of
Electric Power Systems is a valuable resource for practicing
engineers, students, and researchers interested in exploring and
implementing energy efficiency and power quality in modern energy
systems with renewables.Â
The need to improve the reliability and robustness of power systems
and smart grids makes protection of sensitive equipment and power
transmission and distribution lines against lightning-related
effects a primary concern. Renewable electricity generation
capacity has been increasing all over the world, and lightning can
cause failures either by hitting the turbines or panels directly or
inducing transients on the control systems that lead to equipment
failure, malfunction or degradation. This two-volume set assesses
how global lightning may respond to global climate change, provides
thorough coverage of the lightning phenomenon and its interaction
with various objects, and covers methods for the effective
protection of structures and systems. It is a valuable reference
for researchers in the fields of lightning and power systems, for
transmission and distribution line engineers and designers, and is
a useful text for related advanced courses. Volume 1 covers
fundamentals and modelling of lightning interaction with power
systems. This Volume 2 addresses various applications including the
application of the Monte Carlo method to lightning protection and
insulation coordination practices; lightning interaction with power
substations; lightning interaction with power transmission lines;
lightning interaction with medium-voltage overhead power
distribution systems; lightning interaction with low-voltage
overhead power distribution networks; lightning protection of
structures and electrical systems inside of buildings; lightning
protection of smart grids; lightning protection of wind power
systems; lightning protection of photovoltaic systems; measurement
of lightning currents and voltages; application of the FDTD method
to lightning studies; and software tools for lightning performance
assessment.
There is huge potential for smaller wind turbines to provide clean
energy around the world. Small wind turbines come in a variety of
designs, and have similarities in principles and technology to
small hydrokinetic turbines (SHKTs). SHKTs, in turn, can play an
important role in hydropower. Small wind and hydrokinetic systems
can even work together, for example, to power farms, communities,
campuses, rural as well as remote rural areas, and island regions.
This concise book, written by experts in the field, provides an
in-depth overview of small turbines for wind and hydropower.
Chapters cover resource assessment for wind and water, turbine
technology, design of vertical and horizontal axis turbines, blade
element analysis, vibration-based energy harvesting, very low head
turbines, diffuser augmented wind turbines, and numerous case
studies. Small Wind and Hydrokinetic Turbines is a valuable summary
for researchers involved with small wind turbines and SHKT
development and deployment, both in academia and industry, for
research on powering remote areas, as well as for advanced students
and manufacturers of turbines.
Capacitors are passive electrical components that store energy in
an electric field. Applications include electric power
conditioning, signal processing, motor starting, and energy
storage. The maximum charge a capacitor can hold largely depends on
the dielectric material inside. That material is the enabler for
the performance. Ongoing development in fields such as high-power
electronics, renewable energy, hybrid electric vehicles and
electric aircraft, is posing an urgent need for more advanced
electrostatic capacitor technology. This book for researchers in
industry and academia provides an overview of key dielectric
materials for capacitor technology. It covers preparation and
characterization of state-of-the art dielectric materials including
ceramics, polymers and polymer nanocomposites, for the most popular
applications including energy storage, microwave communication and
multi-layer ceramic capacitors. The book begins with an
introduction to electrostatic capacitor technology, then goes on to
cover the following topics: techniques for capacitor dielectrics
characterization; dielectric polymers and dielectric metamaterials
for high energy capacitors; polymer/nanofiller composites;
high-temperature polymer-based dielectrics for electrostatic energy
storage; design and simulations of capacitor dielectrics by
phase-field computations; rational design on polymer dielectrics;
inorganic dielectrics for high-energy-density capacitors; ceramic
dielectrics for microwave communication; ceramic dielectrics for
MLCCs; and finally two chapters on future prospects for polymers
and ceramics.
Demand response (DR) describes controlled changes in the power
consumption of an electric load to better match the power demand
with the supply. This helps with increasing the share of
intermittent renewables like solar and wind, thus ensuring use of
the generated clean power and reducing the need for storage
capacity. This book conveys the principles, implementation and
applications of demand response. Chapters cover an overview of
industrial DR strategies, cybersecurity, DR of industrial
customers, price-based demand response, EV, transactive energy, DR
with residential appliances, use of machine learning and neural
networks, measurement and verification, and case studies in the
Aran Islands, as well as a use case of AI and NN in energy
consumption markets. The chapters have been written by an
international team of highly qualified experts from academia as
well as industry, ensuring a balanced and practically oriented
insight. Readers will be able to develop and apply DR strategies to
their respective systems. Industrial Demand Response: Methods, best
practices, case studies, and applications is a valuable resource
for researchers involved with regional as well as industrial power
systems, power system engineers, experts at grid operators and
advanced students.
The Inventions, Researches and Writings of Nikola Tesla is the
definitive record of the pioneering work of one of the modern
world's most groundbreaking inventors. During the early twentieth
century, Tesla blazed the trail that electrical technology followed
for decades afterward. Although he pioneered inventions like
alternating current (AC), radio, wireless transmission, and X-rays,
and worked with innovators like George Westinghouse and Thomas
Edison, the once-celebrated Tesla was later largely forgotten by
history. This beautiful leatherbound edition brings together many
of the findings and theories that made this genius famous (and to
some, infamous), showing not only the scope of Nikola Tesla's
theories and inventions, but allowing contemporary readers to
experience the visionary range of his thinking. In addition to its
many detailed reproductions of Tesla's patents and inventions, this
highly collectible book includes dozens of thought-provoking
lectures and articles. The Inventions, Researches and Writings of
Nikola Tesla affords a rare glimpse of a true genius at work.
Coordination of Distributed Energy Resources in Microgrids:
Optimisation, control, and hardware-in-the-loop validation provides
a structured overview of research into techniques for managing
microgrids with distributed energy resources (DERs). The DERs
including distributed generators, energy storage systems, and
flexible loads are posing both challenges and opportunities to
microgrids' security, planning, operation, and control. Advanced
operation and control techniques are needed to coordinate these
components in the microgrids and maintain power quality, as well as
keeping the system economically feasible. This book is for
researchers and students in the area of smart grids, power
engineering, and control engineering, as well as for advanced
students, transmission network and grid operators. It focuses on
cutting-edge techniques for secure, economic, and robust operation
and control of microgrids. Effective coordination of DERs on both
temporal and spatial scales are introduced in detail. Topics
covered include comprehensive mathematical models of DERs and
microgrids, sizing and siting of DERs under uncertainties,
stochastic and robust optimisation for active and reactive power
dispatch of DERs in microgrids, distributed coordinated control,
and hardware-in-the-loop tests for validation of control
algorithms.
Energy and power are fundamental concepts in electromagnetism and
circuit theory, as well as in optics, signal processing, power
engineering, electrical machines, and power electronics. However,
in crossing the disciplinary borders, we encounter understanding
difficulties due to (1) the many possible mathematical
representations of the same physical objects, and (2) the many
possible physical interpretations of the same mathematical
entities. The monograph proposes a quantum and a relativistic
approach to electromagnetic power theory that is based on recent
advances in physics and mathematics. The book takes a fresh look at
old debates related to the significance of the Poynting theorem and
the interpretation of reactive power. Reformulated in the
mathematical language of geometric algebra, the new expression of
electromagnetic power reflects the laws of conservation of
energy-momentum in fields and circuits. The monograph offers a
mathematically consistent and a physically coherent interpretation
of the power concept and of the mechanism of power transmission at
the subatomic (mesoscopic) level. The monograph proves
(paraphrasing Heaviside) that there is no finality in the
development of a vibrant discipline: power theory.
In this digital age, as the role of electronic circuits becomes
ever broader and more complex, a thorough understanding of the key
concepts of circuits is a great advantage. This book offers a
thorough reference guide to the theory, elements and design of
basic electric circuits, providing a solid foundation for those who
plan to move into the field of electronics engineering, and
essential information for anyone who uses electric circuitry in
their profession or research. The book is designed to be accessible
to newcomers to the field while also providing a useful review for
more advanced readers. It has been extensively revised and expanded
for this new edition to provide a clear source of information on
this complex topic. Materials are presented visually with less text
and more outlines so that readers can quickly get to the heart of
each topic, making studying and reviewing more effective.
Internet of things networks have changed the standard of how
computing and electronic systems are interconnected. Computing and
electronic devices and systems, with the help of 5G technology, can
now be seamlessly linked in a way that is rapidly turning the globe
into a digital world. Smart cities and the internet of things are
here to stay but not without some challenges; a thorough review of
the opportunities, difficulties, and benefits of 5G internet of
things is necessary for it to be successfully utilized and
implemented. 5G Internet of Things and Changing Standards for
Computing and Electronic Systems examines modern computers and
electronics and how they provide seamless connectivity due to the
development of internet of things technology. Moreover, this
reference covers various technologies and their roles and impacts
in the future of smart cities. Covering a range of topics such as
machine learning and renewable energy systems, this reference work
is ideal for scientists, engineers, policymakers, researchers,
practitioners, academicians, scholars, instructors, and students.
Simulation of Battery Systems: Fundamentals and Applications covers
both the fundamental and technical aspects of battery systems. It
is a solid reference on the simulation of battery dynamics based on
fundamental governing equations of porous electrodes. Sections
cover the fundamentals of electrochemistry and how to obtain
electrochemical governing equations for porous electrodes, the
governing equations and physical characteristics of lead-acid
batteries, the physical characteristics of zinc-silver oxide
batteries, experimental tests and parameters necessary for
simulation and validation of battery dynamics, and an environmental
impact and techno-economic assessment of battery systems for
different applications, such as electric vehicles and battery
energy storage. The book contains introductory information, with
most chapters requiring a solid background in engineering or
applied science. Battery industrial companies who want to improve
their industrial batteries will also find this book useful.
Low-voltage equipment is designed for handling low voltages at
consumer-level. This includes computing and telecommunications
systems, power distribution grids and PV systems, and EV charging
facilities. Exposure to sudden high voltage surges, for example,
from switching or lightning, can damage or destroy low-voltage
equipment. Protection of low-voltage equipment and systems from
such phenomena is thus vital for human safety as well as preventing
damages, and so understanding the processes and protective
countermeasures is of great importance. This book offers a
systematic and thorough treatise of the topic for researchers in
industry and universities as well as utility experts and advanced
students and more generally for all people involved in
electromagnetic compatibility or designing surge protection systems
and lightning protection systems. The book aims to provide answers
to all readers' questions from the simplest to the most
complicated, including guidance on the application of surge
protective devices (SPD) illustrated by many cases studies.
Following an introduction, chapters cover lightning and surges,
risk assessment, standard environment, surge protection (surge
protective components and surge protective devices), and their
applications, new trends and unsolved challenges.
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