previously inaccessible ocean as its territory. But Britain’s moves in the Antarctic are sure to anger many neighbouring countries in the region. The UK’s Antarctic submission reflects efforts to secure resources for the future as oil and gas reserves dwindle over the coming years. The substantial gas and oil reserves in the North Sea, on which the country has depended for more than 30 years, a...

In this paper, we derive the discrete-time model for the power-factor-correction (PFC) buck-boost converter in terms of a stroboscopic switching map. Fast-scale instability is analysed through a fold diagram, which exposes the periodicity of the operation as well as the locations of the critical phase angles of the line voltage at which instability begins to occur along a half-line cycle. The a...

This paper presents a small-scale prototype of a wind-photovoltaic hybrid system, having batteries as energy storage components. All devices are connected to a common dc-bus using appropriate power converters. The photovoltaic modules are connected through a dc-dc buck converter using Perturb and Observe Maximum Power Point Tracking control. The permanent magnet synchronous generator (wind gene...

A Double input DC to DC converter for low voltage energy sources applications is proposed in this paper. The proposed converter is buck-boost converter which can step up or step down the input voltage according to output voltage required at load end. The converter is able to boost up voltage of energy sources such as solar photovoltaic and wind energy system of relatively low voltage. The conve...

The paper focuses on a DC/DC converter that is used to adapt a varying output voltage from a solar panel to demands of an electrolyzer unit or battery charging purposes. The converter covers an input voltage span from 9 V to 24 V and has an output voltage of 12 V at a maximum current of 50 A. A modular topology of the converter is described along with a microcontroller control strategy. Finally...

This paper explores Switched Inductor (SL) Quasi Z-source Inverter which has high boost factor and performance when compared to other Z-Source inverters along with three control methods: simple boost, maximum boost and maximum constant boost. The proposed inverter improves the input current, reduces the passive count and also the reliability. The simulations are done in MATLAB/Simulink environm...

Hepatocyte growth factor (HGF) accelerates tissue regeneration and ameliorates tissue fibrosis through its ligand c-Met receptor tyrosine kinase. Hence, HGF is currently discussed as an attractive therapeutic candidate for fatal liver diseases. However, it remains unclear whether c-Met of dedifferentiated hepatocytes adequately responds to HGF in an impaired liver. Therefore, we investigated c-...

This paper presents an improved three-phase PFC power rectifier with a three-phase diode rectifier cascaded four-switch boost converter. Its operating principle contains the operating principle of two conventional three-phase PFC power rectifiers: one switch boost converter type and a two switch boost converter type. The operating characteristics of the four switch boost converter type three-ph...

Standard radiation therapy for patients undergoing primary chemosensitized radiation for carcinomas of the cervix usually consists of external beam radiation followed by an intracavitary brachytherapy boost. On occasion, the brachytherapy boost cannot be performed due to unfavorable anatomy or because of coexisting medical conditions. We examined the safety and efficacy of using CyberKnife ster...