Restructuring of electric industry has seriously affected the operation and planning process of electric power systems. Due to the unbundling process and new market requirements, a set of new challenges and goals have been introduced in the field of transmission planning. Moreover, the uncertainty level of input data to planning process has been increased significantly. In this paper first, the...

In this paper CCM/CVM operation and modeling of the improved Sheppard-Taylor based power factor correction (PFC) rectifier is presented and a predictive control strategy is introduced for this rectifier. Compared with conventional boost or buck–boost PFC’s, this topology allows a better current tracking at the AC side, with a relatively reduced voltage at the DC side. Consequently, ...

this study attempted to explore if teaching english collocations through two different modes of awareness-raising and input flooding has any possible differential effect on immediate retention as well as retention in a delayed assessment. it also compared the possible differential effect of teaching english collocations implicitly and explicitly on actively using the items in writing. m...

This paper proposes a new direct power control (DPC) for wind turbine system driven by doubly fed induction generator (DFIG) in order to track maximum absorbable power in different wind speeds. New DPC employs input- output linearization and sliding mode nonlinear controller for robust control of active and reactive power to obtain maximum power from wind turbine. As the three phases voltages w...