Adabi Firouzjaee, Mohammad Ebrahim (Date of defense: 2018-01-25)
The solid state transformer (SST) is seen as a proper replacement of the conventional iron-and-copper transformer in the future smart grid . The SST offers several benefits (e.g. enhanced power quality ...
Monadi, Mehdi (Date of defense: 2016-12-14)
The integration of renewable energy resources (RES), as a type of distributed generation (OG) units, is increasing in distribution, systems. This integration, changes the topology, performance and the ...
Schaefer, Markus (Date of defense: 2017-11-08)
Control schemes for inverters of different topologies and various numbers of voltage levels are of great interest for many standard as well as special applications. This thesis describes a novel, robust ...
Cavalheiro, David (Date of defense: 2017-05-19)
There has been a tremendous evolution in integrated circuit technology in the past decades. With the scaling of complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) transistors, faster, less power consuming ...
Bakkar, Mostafa (Date of defense: 2022-02-07)
Distributed Generators (DGs) are sensible to voltage sags, so the protection devices must trip fast to disconnect the faulted part of the grid. The DG disconnection will not be desirable in the near ...
Solh Joukhah, Zahra (Date of defense: 2017-10-27)
The present PhD thesis deals with transformer inrush current in offshore grids including offshore wind farms and High Voltage Direct Current (HVDC) transmission systems. The inrush phenomenon during ...
Zhang, Weiyi (Date of defense: 2017-06-01)
The installation of power generation systems based on renewable energy sources has been increasing exponentially over the last decades. However, in spite of the well-known merits of such energy sources, ...
Westerman Spier, Daniel (Date of defense: 2022-06-30)
Modular Multilevel Converters (MMCs) are a type of Voltage Source Converter (VSC) which have become the preferred topology choice for High Voltage Direct Current (HVDC) applications. Compare to its HVDC ...
Roslan, Nurul Fazlin (Date of defense: 2021-12-16)
Distributed Generation (DG) provides an alternative to the Centralized Generation (CG) by means of generating electricity near to the end user of power with the employment of small-scale technologies ...
Lai, Ngoc Bao (Date of defense: 2022-03-23)
Power system is undergoing an unpreceded paradigm shift: from centralized to distributed generation. As the renewable-based generations and battery storage systems are increasingly displacing conventional ...