The National Grid Company Plc. is responsible for the maintenance of the high voltage electricity transmission network in England and Wales. It must plan maintenance so as to minimise costs taking into account: • location and size of demand, • generator capacities and availability’s, • electricity carrying capacity of the remainder of the network, i.e. that part not undergoing maintenance. Prev...

An adaptive equalizer is implemented for display port 1.1a standard with 0.13μm CMOS technology. Overall frequency response of the channel is flattened using high pass filter with current combiner. The adaptation block controls the amount of compensation by comparing the portion between high-frequency and low-frequency components. The fabricated chip consumes 11mW of power from 1.2V supply volt...

Exergy analysis of an integrated molten carbonate fuel cell-turbo expander-steam turbine hybrid cycle has been presented in this study. The proposed cycle has been used as a sustainable energy approach to provide a micro hybrid power plant with high exergy efficiency. To generate electricity by the mentioned system, an externally reformed molten carbonate fuel cell located upstream of the combi...

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Efficient and low-cost systems are needed to harvest the tremendous amount of energy stored in low-grade heat sources (<100 °C). Thermally regenerative electrochemical cycle (TREC) is an attractive approach which uses the temperature dependence of electrochemical cell voltage to construct a thermodynamic cycle for direct heat-to-electricity conversion. By varying temperature, an electrochemical...

Dendrites are extensions to the neuronal cell body in the brain which are posited in several functions ranging from electrical and chemical compartmentalization to coincident detection. Dendrites vary across cell types but one common feature they share is a branched structure. The cable equation is a partial differential equation that describes the evolution of voltage in the dendrite. A soluti...

Interface IP (SerDes) are used widely in mobile, automotive, and networking applications. These IP support low power and multiple data rates between master/host and slave/device communication networks to improve the link bandwidth among them. In general, the data communication may happen either within the same system or between the systems. Some SerDes designs also support features like receive...

Mass Impregnated PPLP cable, which is applied to various high-voltage direct current (HVDC) projects due its excellent dielectric and temperature properties, has a problem wherein voids are formed inside the butt-gap cavitation. However, there been no previous research into technology for void defect identification insulation diagnosis on HVDC MI-PPLP cables. In this paper, propose an method de...

The proper channel modeling is essential for reliable data transmission at high rates over the power grid. This paper presents a finite element approach for the calculation of the electrical parameters needed for the simulation of low voltage distribution cables carrying high frequency communication signals. The results obtained by our approach are validated through measurements performed on va...

The increasing interests in using renewable energies are coming from solar thermal energy and solar photovoltaic systems to the micro production of electricity. Usually we already have considered the solar tracking topology in large scale applications like power plants and satellite but most of small scale applications don’t have any solar tracker system, mainly because of its high cost and com...