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292 books match the query 'Power resources' and 27 start with s
SF6 Switchgear
H.M. Ryan
The Institution of Engineering and Technology, 1989
This book provides an extensive review of recent developments in SF6 Switchgear and covers fundamental properties of SF6 interrupter types, characteristics and associated operating mechanisms, arc modelling and computer aided methods for interrupter design and evaluation. The impact of SF6 Technology upon (i) Transmission Switchgear (ii) Distribution and Utility Switchgear and (iii) Regulations, Testing and Instrumentation is dealt with comprehensively.
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Scenarios for a Future Electricity Supply
Cost-optimised variations on supplying Europe and its neighbours with electricity from renewable energiesGregor Czisch
The Institution of Engineering and Technology, 2011
This book pursues the fundamental idea of using renewable energies in a rational and economic way in order to develop a climate-friendly electricity supply. As the most cost efficient solution, an electricity network for the whole of Europe and parts of Africa and Asia must be found. The sources of renewable and partly decentralised electricity generation could be connected in a comprehensive power supply to meet the electricity needs of an entire region.
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Self-Organizing Dynamic Agents for the Operation of Decentralized Smart Grids
Alfredo Vaccaro
The Institution of Engineering and Technology, 2024
Integrating intermittent distributed generation, distributed storage systems, electric vehicles, and flexible loads will present security, stability, and power quality challenges in future smart grids. The amount of data to be processed to face these issues can overwhelm grid operation tools and conventional IT-based applications, limiting situational awareness and decision support. Decentralized and self-organizing technologies can help with that problem. In a self-organizing system, information processing is based on local interactions of its elementary parts (dynamic agents), enabling the cooperative solution of complex decision-making problems by only requiring local information exchange without needing a fusion center for data collection and processing.
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Short-circuit Currents
J. Schlabbach
The Institution of Engineering and Technology, 2005
The calculation of short-circuit currents is a central task for Power System engineers, as they are essential parameters for the design of electrical equipment and installations, the operation of power systems and the analysis of outages and faults.
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SiC Power Devices and Applications
Li Ran
The Institution of Engineering and Technology, 2026
Semiconductor power switches are essential to the operation of power electronic converters and systems. Traditional silicon-based semiconductor power switches have intrinsic physical limits to their performance. Wide Bandgap (WBG) devices deliver higher efficiency, smaller size, and/or lighter weight. Applications in power grid electronics as well as in electromobility are on the rise, but WBG devices also pose new challenges, in particular due to their fast switching speed and the need for protection.
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SiC Power Module Design
Performance, robustness and reliabilityAlberto Castellazzi
The Institution of Engineering and Technology, 2022
High-frequency switching power semiconductor devices are at the heart of power electronic converters. To date, these devices have been dominated by the well-established silicon (Si) technology. However, their intrinsic physical limits are becoming a barrier to achieving higher performance power conversion. Wide Bandgap (WBG) semiconductor devices offer the potential for higher efficiency, smaller size, lighter weight, and/or longer lifetime. Applications in power grid electronics as well as in electromobility are on the rise, but a number of technological bottle-necks need to be overcome if applications are to become more widespread - particularly packaging.
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Signal Processing for Fault Detection and Diagnosis in Electric Machines and Systems
Mohamed Benbouzid
The Institution of Engineering and Technology, 2021
Over the last three decades, the search for competitiveness and growth gains has driven the evolution of machine maintenance policies, and the industry has moved from passive maintenance to active maintenance with the aim of improving productivity. Active maintenance requires continuous monitoring of industrial systems in order to increase reliability, availability rates and guarantee the safety of people and property.
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Silicon Solar Cell Metallization and Module Technology
Thorsten Dullweber
The Institution of Engineering and Technology, 2022
In solar cell production, metallization is the manufacturing of metal contacts at the surfaces of solar cells in order to collect the photo-generated current for use. Being one of the most expensive steps in solar cell fabrication, it plays both an electrical and an optical role, because the contacts contribute to shading, and to the series resistance of solar cells. In addition, metal contacts may reduce the solar cells voltage due to charge carrier recombination at the metal / silicon interface. Addressing these challenges could increase solar cell conversion efficiency while cutting their production costs.
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Simulation and Analysis of Circuits for Power Electronics
Muhammad H. Rashid
The Institution of Engineering and Technology, 2025
Power electronics play a vital role in many spheres, including integrating renewable energy, ensuring the reliability of complex power distribution systems, and in increasing efficiency of electric vehicles and industrial machines. Simulation of power electronic circuitry is thus a key and cost-effective means to detect and avoid problems during development of circuitry in power generation, distribution and use. This is true for both novel and established circuit designs.
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Small Electric Motors
Helmut Moczala
The Institution of Engineering and Technology, 1998
Users of small electric motors face the difficult task of selecting the best motor for their particular drive application. The technical requirements of the drive, the level of safety needed and the cost factor must all be considered. The choice is made more difficult by the continuous arrival of newly developed types of motor. This book, a translation from German, aims to help those involved in specifying, developing, manufacturing and marketing small motors by reporting the current state of the art.
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Small Wind and Hydrokinetic Turbines
Philip Clausen
The Institution of Engineering and Technology, 2022
There is huge potential for smaller wind turbines to provide clean energy around the world. Small wind turbines come in a variety of designs, and have similarities in principles and technology to small hydrokinetic turbines (SHKTs). SHKTs, in turn, can play an important role in hydropower. Small wind and hydrokinetic systems can even work together, for example, to power farms, communities, campuses, rural as well as remote rural areas, and island regions.
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Smarter Energy
From smart metering to the smart gridHongjian Sun
The Institution of Engineering and Technology, 2016
This book presents cutting-edge perspectives and research results in smart energy spanning multiple disciplines across four main topics: smart metering, smart grid modeling, control and optimization, and smart grid communications and networking.
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Solar Photovoltaic Energy
Anne Labouret
The Institution of Engineering and Technology, 2010
This professional manual on photovoltaic energy gives designers, installers and managers the tools and methods for:
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Standard Codecs
Image compression to advanced video codingMohammed Ghanbari
The Institution of Engineering and Technology, 2011
A substantially updated edition of Video Coding: An introduction to standard codecs (IEE 1999, winner of IEE Rayleigh Award as the best book of 2000), this book discusses the growth of digital television technology, from image compression to advanced video coding. This third edition also includes the latest developments on H.264/MPEG-4 video coding and the scalability defined for this codec, which were not available at the time of the previous edition (IEE 2003). The book highlights the need for standardisation in processing static and moving images and extensively exploits the ITU and ISO/IEC standards defined in this field. The book gives an authoritative explanation of pictures and video coding algorithms, working from basic principles through to the advanced video compression systems now being developed. It discusses the reasons behind the introduction of a standard codec for a specific application and its chosen parameters. Each chapter is devoted to a standard video codec, and chapters are introduced in an evolutionary manner complementing the earlier chapters. This book will enable readers to appreciate the fundamentals needed to design a video codec for any given application and should prove a valuable resource for managers, engineers and researchers working in this field.
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Statistical Techniques for High-Voltage Engineering
W. Hauschild
The Institution of Engineering and Technology, 1992
This book sets out statistical methods that can be used in the preparation, execution, evaluation and interpretation of experiments of a random nature. It also includes the assessment of test methods used in high-voltage engineering from a statistical standpoint, and contains detailed sections on breakdown statistics of typical electrical insulating arrangements. Separate special areas of mathematical statistics - such as statistical trial planning, questions of reliability, and stochastic processes - are mentioned briefly. The extensive bibliography points the way to more advanced work.
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Structural Control and Fault Detection of Wind Turbine Systems
Hamid Reza Karimi
The Institution of Engineering and Technology, 2019
With the rapid growth of wind energy worldwide, challenges in the operation and control of wind turbine systems are becoming increasingly important. These affect all parts of the system, and require an integrated approach to optimize safety, cost, integrity and survivability of the system, while retaining the desired performance quality.
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Structural Control and Fault Detection of Wind Turbine Systems
Hamid Reza Karimi
The Institution of Engineering and Technology, 2025
With the rapid growth of wind energy worldwide, and the increasing size of wind turbine systems, addressing challenges in their operation and control is becoming increasingly important. These challenges affect all components of wind turbine systems, and require an integrated approach to optimize safety, cost, structural integrity and system survivability, while maintaining the desired performance quality.
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Superconducting Magnetic Energy Storage in Power Grids
Mohd. Hasan Ali
The Institution of Engineering and Technology, 2022
Energy storage is key to integrating renewable power. Superconducting magnetic energy storage (SMES) systems store power in the magnetic field in a superconducting coil. Once the coil is charged, the current will not stop and the energy can in theory be stored indefinitely. This technology avoids the need for lithium for batteries. The round-trip efficiency can be greater than 95%, but energy is needed for the cooling of the superconducting coil, and the material is expensive. So far, SMES systems are primarily used for improving power quality through short time storage, but further applications are being researched.
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Surface Passivation of Industrial Crystalline Silicon Solar Cells
Joachim John
The Institution of Engineering and Technology, 2019
Surface passivation of silicon solar cells describes a technology for preventing electrons and holes to recombine prematurely with one another on the wafer surface. It increases the cell's energy conversion efficiencies and thus reduces the cost per kWh generated by a PV system.
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Surge Protection for Low Voltage Systems
Alain Rousseau
The Institution of Engineering and Technology, 2022
Low-voltage equipment is designed for handling low voltages at consumer-level. This includes computing and telecommunications systems, power distribution grids and PV systems, and EV charging facilities.
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Surge Protection for Low Voltage Systems
Alain Rousseau
The Institution of Engineering and Technology, 2026
In an increasingly automated world - characterised by smart cities, intelligent buildings, and the ongoing global energy transition - the protection of electrical and electronic equipment from lightning strikes and other power surges is essential to the safety and reliability of key technologies.
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Surveillance and Diagnostics of Next Generation Nuclear Reactors
Imre Pázsit
The Institution of Engineering and Technology, 2025
Next generation nuclear reactors are expected to contribute to the future energy mix, forming part of the transition to an emission-free energy system. Diagnostics and monitoring are a necessary part of the design, development and operation of the new generation of nuclear power plants.
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Synchronized Phasor Measurements for Smart Grids
Dusmanta Kumar Mohanta
The Institution of Engineering and Technology, 2017
The use of advanced technologies has made it possible to transform the power grid to an intelligent smart grid with real time control and monitoring of the system. The development of Phasor Measurement Units (PMUs) and the resulting possibility of real time measurements has enabled different power system applications to enhance the stability, state estimation, load estimation, power network protection, Wide-Area Security Assessment and reliability of the power grid.
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Synchronized Phasor Measurements for Smart Grids
Maddikara Jaya Bharata Reddy
The Institution of Engineering and Technology, 2025
The use of advanced technologies is enabling the transformation of power grids to intelligent smart grids with real-time control and monitoring and integration of distributed renewable generation. With the development of phasor measurement units (PMUs) and the availability of real-time measurements, it has become possible to develop different power system applications to enhance stability and perform state estimation, load estimation, power network protection, and wide-area security assessment and reliability of the power grid.
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Synchrophasor Technology
Real-time operation of power networksNand Kishor
The Institution of Engineering and Technology, 2023
Phasor measurement units (PMUs) provide time synchronized measurements of phase angles of voltages or currents. These synchrophasors are used in electricity grids to support planning and operation. In the past decade, transmission network planners and grid operators have been using PMUs for monitoring applications. Improvements are still needed to realise the full potential of PMU data for more complex power systems with distributed renewables and increased loads. Challenges related to noise and higher frequency components from various dynamic behaviours of grid components, including electric vehicles, are prevalent.
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Synergetic Energy Systems
Integrating storage and demand-side managementPriya Bhagavathy
The Institution of Engineering and Technology, 2026
A key aspect of energy system transformation is the transition from dependence on fossil fuels to using cleaner energy sources. The energy system that delivers this change will need a new architecture and will use new technologies; it will need to be digitally enabled and optimised for affordability, sustainability and resilience. The interactions, interdependencies and trade-offs between and amongst all parts of the energy system must be fully understood and managed. Planning and implementing this substantial change successfully will require a holistic, synergetic approach.
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System Level Control and Optimisation of Microgrids
Alessandra Parisio
The Institution of Engineering and Technology, 2024
Microgrids are essential components of next-generation energy grids. A microgrid is a local, integrated energy system comprising interconnected loads and distributed energy resources; they can represent urban or rural districts, islands or local communities. Microgrids can operate in parallel with the main grid or independently in an intentional island mode. When on-site generation is included, intelligent buildings can also function as microgrids. Efficient optimization and control algorithms are crucial for ensuring optimal microgrid performance, making them a continuous focus of research and development in the field of power systems.
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