Ziegler, Andreas Rainer (Date of defense: 2022-10-27)
(English) Lithium-Ion Batteries (LIBs) are being used in more and more areas of application. At the same time, their chemical composition and their designs are constantly evolving. Major developments ...
Verdugo Retamal, Cristian Andrés (Date of defense: 2021-07-23)
Most of large scale photovoltaic systems are based on centralized configurations with voltage source converters of two or three output voltage levels connected to photovoltaic panels. With the development ...
Lledó Ponsati, Tomàs (Date of defense: 2022-07-15)
The present Ph.D. thesis has been developed following an Industrial Ph.D. program and verses on developing a commercial piece of equipment for teknoCEA, a spin-off company from CITCEA-UPC. The thesis ...
Munné Collado, Íngrid (Date of defense: 2021-10-01)
On the way towards a low carbon electricity system, flexibility has become one of the main sources for achieving it. Flexibility can be understood as the ability of a power system to cope with the ...
Imdad, Kashif (Date of defense: 2017-07-17)
This thesis presents the results related to high frequency modeling of power transformers. First, a 25kVA distribution transformer under lightning surges is tested in the laboratory and its high frequency ...
Razmjoo, Ali (Armin) (Date of defense: 2021-02-19)
The main aim of this thesis is investigating energy sustainability in developing countries using useful indicators. As it is known, serious issues such as global warming and inefficient consumption of ...
Grillone, Benedetto (Date of defense: 2021-12-03)
In order to reach the goal set in the Paris agreement of limiting the rise in global average temperature well below 2 ºC compared to pre-industrial levels, massive efforts to reduce global greenhouse ...
Abdali Nejad, Sajad (Date of defense: 2022-07-19)
The scope of this thesis is related to the enhancement of the operation of distributed generators (DGs) based on renewable energies (REs) when connected to the conventional grid network. Synchronization ...
Tarrasó Martínez, Andrés (Date of defense: 2022-02-22)
During the last century, the electrical energy infrastructures have been governed by synchronous generators, producing electrical energy to the vast majority of the population worldwide. However, power ...
Arcanjo, Marcelo Augusto Sousa (Date of defense: 2022-03-04)
This thesis presents an investigation on the signatures of corona discharges from grounded rods under thunderstorms and in the laboratory, with optical detections in the 337/777 nm wavelengths for high ...