This paper describes a method to directly measure the physical sag of overhead electric power transmission conductors. The method used relies on the Global Positioning System (GPS) used in the differential mode. The direct measurement of sag is a main advantage of the concept. The digital signal processing required is described in detail in a four level configuration. Typical accuracy, response...

For improving power quality as a cost effective solution for the protection of sensitive loads from voltage disturbances a dynamic voltage restorer (DVR) has great significance. Dynamic voltage restorers are mostly utilized to deal with voltage sag and swells in distribution systems. In this paper, a Dynamic voltage restorer and review of proposed control strategies applied in Dynamic voltage r...

Contrary to the situation with stochastic gradient descent, we argue that when using stochastic methods with variance reduction, such as SDCA, SAG or SVRG, as well as their variants, it could be beneficial to reuse previously used samples instead of fresh samples, even when fresh samples are available. We demonstrate this empirically for SDCA, SAG and SVRG, studying the optimal sample size one ...

This paper describes techniques to compile lexical entries in HPSG (Pollard and Sag, 1987; Pollard and Sag, 1993)-style grammar into a set of nite state au-tomata. The states in automata are possible signs derived from lexical entries and contain information raised from the lexical entries. The automata are augmented with feature structures used by a partial unication routine and de-layed/froze...

In this paper, the voltage sag ride-through capabilities of the line-connected electrically excited synchronous machine with damper windings (EESM) is investigated. We will design an algorithm for voltage sag ride through by controlling the flux. Two aspects are investigated, first the capability to keep the nominal speed and second the damping of speed oscillations. We will show through simula...

In this paper improvement in voltage sag by using firefly algorithm optimized fuzzy controller is described. DSTATCOM is the FACTS device used in voltage sag improvement. Firefly algorithm optimization is used to optimize the if-then rules of the fuzzy controller. In this system a DSTATCOM is placed in a three phase system to control the voltage sag. A fuzzy controller is designed to control th...

This paper presents a study of a D-STATCOM (Distribution Static Compensator) used for mitigating voltage sag. The basic idea of the voltage sag mitigation, using a D-STATCOM is to dynamically inject a current of desired amplitude, frequency and phase into the grid line. The proposed method extracts the active and reactive parts of the positiveand negative-sequence component for generating refer...

This paper presents a combinational quantum-inspired binary gravitational search algorithm (QBGSA) for solving the optimal power quality monitor (PQM) placement problem in power systems for voltage sag assessment. In this algorithm, the standard binary gravitational search algorithm is modified by applying the concept and principles of quantum behaviour as to improve the search capability with ...

Sulfidation is a major transformation product for manufactured silver nanoparticles (Ag-MNPs) in the wastewater treatment process.We studied the dissolution, uptake, and toxicity of Ag-MNP and sulfidized Ag-MNPs (sAg-MNPs) to a model soil organism, Caenorhabditis elegans. Our results show that reproduction was the most sensitive endpoint tested for both Ag-MNPs and sAg-MNPs. We also demonstrate...