The present context of the electric industry, characterized by competitive markets, privatization, and regulatory of technical requirements forces the power utilities to optimize their asset management practices and develop the requisite decision plans techno-economically. Practically approaching, this paper devises a new support tool based on a multiattribute decision making (MADM) framework i...

With the increasing demand for power from the ac line and more stringent limits for power quality, power factor correction has gained great attention in recent years. A variety of circuit topologies and control methods have been developed for the PFC application. International Standards in the area of compliance of a product’s AC mains current harmonics have forced that new power supply design ...

Advanced weapons and sensors increase demand on the electric power systems of Navy surface combatants, driving the need for fully Integrated Power Systems (IPS) such as those found in the DDG-1000 Zumwalt class of ships. The goal of this paper is to introduce novel power system configurations that could potentially be integrated into future flights of the DDG-51 class to support expanded electr...

In the provinces of north China, combined heat and electric power generations (CHP) are widely utilized to provide both heating source and electricity. While, due to the constraint of thermal-electric coupling within CHP, a mass of wind turbines have to offline operate during heating season to maintain the power grid stability. This paper proposes a thermal-electric decoupling (TED) approach to...

In the emerging deregulated electric power market, congestion management becomes extremely important and it can impose barrier to electric power trading. There are two 1 / 4

Multilevel static power conversion (MSPC) technology has ability to process high voltages and generate multitier voltage waveforms with high spectral quality. This technology is increasingly being used in acdc, dc-ac converters and power conditioning applications. In view of this, a comprehensive review of MSPC technology is presented in this paper, which includes configurations, control strate...