For a specific chip, the common industry practice is to provide the system designers with the Thermal Design Power (TDP). According to [11], TDP “is the highest expected sustainable power while running known power intensive real applications” and it should be a safe power level in which to run the system. Therefore, manufacturers recommend that the cooling solution should be designed to dissipa...

We propose a new methodology for post-silicon power validation using the captured thermal infrared emissions from the back-side of operational integrated circuits. We first identify the challenges associated with thermal to power inversion, and then we address these challenges by devising a quadratic optimization formulation that incorporates Tikhonov filtering techniques to find the most accur...

the major problem of wind turbines is the great variability of wind power production. the dynamic change of the wind speed returns the quantity of the power injected to networks. therefore, wind–thermal generation scheduling problem plays a key role to implement clean power producers in a competitive environment. in deregulated power systems, the scheduling problem has various objectives than i...

To successfully implement a packaging concept, it is imperative to resolve many challenging issues related to materials and processing, which will result in improved thermal management of the power electronics modules. Almost every parameter of a power device is a function of temperature. The heat generated by these active devices, which reduces circuit efficiency, may also degrade circuit perf...

This paper describes the thermal properties of power Si MOSFETs. Recently, the thermal problems of driving devices have been gaining attention. The thermal design of semiconductor chips is important since the main heat source in a driving device is the semiconductor chips. Power Si MOSFETs, which are widely used as semiconductor devices in car electronics, have serious thermal problems, since t...

We present an efficient simulation technique to account for the thermal spreading effects of surface metallizations in the self-consistent dynamic electro-thermal analysis of power microwave devices. Electro-thermal self-consistency is achieved by solving the coupled nonlinear system made of a temperature dependent device electrical model, and of an approximate description of the device thermal...

The prediction of regional sulfur dioxide (SO2) emission of thermal power belongs to gray system which has small amounts of samples and little information, so a appropriate forecasting method is essential. Based on thermal power industry SO2 emission data from state department authorities, considering the main factors of China's thermal power industry SO2 predicted emission, we established a co...

This paper presents a systematic approach for the design of temperature controller using genetic algorithms (GAs) for thermal power plant subsystems and investigates the robustness of the designed control law. The proposed approach employs GA search for determination of the optimal PI controller parameters for a previously identified nonlinear de-superheater of a 4X 325 MW thermal power plant. ...

It is well known that for a thermoelectric generator (TEG) in thermal steady-state with constant temperature difference across it the maximum power point is found at half of the open-circuit voltage (or half of the short-circuit current). However, the effective thermal resistance of the TEG changes depending on the current drawn by the load in accordance with the parasitic Peltier effect. This ...