Due to the possibility of putting a large number of modules consisting of switches and capacitors connected in series, the modular multilevel converter (MMC) can easily be scaled to high power and high voltage power conversion, which is an attractive feature for filter-less and transformer-less design and helpful to achieve high efficiency. However, a significantly increased amount of sub-modul...

We recently showed that phosphoinositide-3-kinase-gamma-deficient (PI3Kgamma-/-) mice have increased cardiac contractility without changes in heart size compared with control mice (ie, PI3Kgamma+/+ or PI3Kgamma+/-). In this study, we show that PI3Kgamma-/- cardiomyocytes have elevated Ca2+ transient amplitudes with abbreviated decay kinetics compared with control under field-stimulation and vol...

With the increasing penetration of power electronic equipment in modern residential distribution systems, harmonics mitigation through the distributed generation (DG) interfacing converters has received significant attention. Among recently proposed methods, the so-called active resonance damper (ARD) and harmonic voltage compensator (HVC) based on voltage detection can effectively reduce the h...

The current paper presents a novel control strategy of a three-phase, four-wire Unified Power Quality (UPQC) to improve power quality. The UPQC is realized by the integration of series and shunt active power filters (APF) sharing a common dc bus capacitor. The realization of shunt APF is carried out using a three-phase, four-leg Voltage Source Inverter (VSI), and the series APF is realized usin...

The low harmonic distortion and reduced switching losses are the advantages of using multilevel inverter. For this purpose, three-level inverter is used in paper as a three-phase four-leg shunt active power filter (SAPF). SAPF to eliminate current compensate reactive current, balance load currents under an unbalanced non-linear load. A fuzzy logic controller self-tuning filters (STF) control (A...

This paper studies the possibilities of decomposition of the current in three-phase, three-wire systems based on the classic p-q theory. Recently, the energy crisis in the world has led to the rise in use of renewable energy sources with the advancement in power electronics technology, the solar photovoltaic energy has been recognized as an important renewable energy resource because it is clea...

The mechanical and electrochemical behavior of the surface oxides of CoCrMo and Ti6Al4V alloys during fracture and repassivation play an important role in the corrosion of the taper interfaces of modular hip implants. This behavior was investigated in one group of CoCrMo and Ti6Al4V alloy samples passivated with nitric acid and another group coated with a novel TiN/AlN coating. The effects of m...

Abstract: NMOS-based Integrated Modular Bypass for Use in Solar systems (NIMBUS) is designed as a replacement for the traditional bypass diode, used in common solar panels. Because of the series connection between the individual solar cells, the power output of a photovoltaic (PV) panel will drop disproportionally under partial shading. Currently, this is solved by dividing the PV panel into su...

This paper presents a novel control strategy of a threephase four-wire Unified Power Quality (UPQC) for an improvement in power quality. The UPQC is realized by integration of series and shunt active power filters (APFs) sharing a common dc bus capacitor. The shunt APF is realized using a thee-phase, four leg voltage source inverter (VSI) and the series APF is realized using a three-phase, thre...

In this paper, a simplified control algorithm based on unit vector template generation (UVTG) is proposed for a stardelta supported three-phase four-wire (3P-4W) unified power quality conditioner (UPQC) topology for the improvement of different power quality problems. Different topologies reported in literature for 3P-4W UPQC use active compensation for the mitigation of source neutral current ...