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    Analysis of PEM Fuel Cell - Supercapacitor - Battery Pack System During Standard Cycle

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    Today the application of PEM (Polymer Electrolyte Membrane) fuel cell stack in the automotive field is a topic on central interest. Unfortunately, a PEM fuel cell stack cannot directly supply variable speed drives because of their non-linear behaviour in dynamic conditions. This paper is mostly concerned with the sizing of the supply system, PEM fuel cell-supercapacitor-battery pack, of an electric vehicle, based on the urban/suburban drive cycle NEDC (New European Driving Cycle). The average required power is used to design the fuel cell stack by imposing a preset operating point; the battery capacity is chosen in order to satisfy the constrain on the minimum value of the state of charge during the cycle; finally, the supercapacitor is determined by imposing the current sharing between battery and supercapacitor in transient condition

    An Automatic Measurement System for the Performance Evaluation of Medium-sized and Large Photovoltaic Plants

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    "In recent years renewable sources of power are being increasingly exploited to address the challenges of climate. change and fossil fuel depletion. Wind power and solar power are two of the few renewable energy sources. capable of rapidly satisfying a reasonable proportion of future energy requirements [1].. Acceptance testing of medium-sized and large photovoltaic (PV) plants requires functional tests executed to. verify the proper working and energy efficiency. A final certificate ensures the compliance with the technical. requirements, as required by Italian Conto Energia program. Tests must be conducted according to several. technical norms. The paper describes a measurement system, implemented for testing medium-sized PV plants in. full compliance with the international standards; moreover, the measurement system can be configured to. measure additional parameters, because it is software based. The measurement system has been adopted for the. performance evaluation of a 842 kWp PV plant, with satisfactory results.

    Apparatus for on-line continuous diagnosis of induction motors based on the SFRA technique

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    The induction motor is used the most in industrial applications. In these areas, motor faults can involve several issues concerning health, safety, and process down time, in addition to the bare cost of the machinery itself. Induction motors may have different types of faults, mainly in the stator windings. These often begin as simple turn-to-turn failures, which can then lead to worst phase-to-phase or phase-to-ground failures. In the complex scenario of diagnostic techniques available today, the sweep frequency response analysis (SFRA) has recently emerged as a promising approach for the characterization of rotating electrical machines. In this article, a PC-based, low-cost test system that implements the SFRA technique is proposed, to verify its applicability for the continuous online diagnostic of induction motors. The system performances have been experimentally evaluated, by testing two 5.5-kW induction motors, with two-and four-poles. Both the heating test at constant mechanical load and the test at thermal equilibrium with variable loads have been investigated. The positive results obtained seem to confirm the applicability of the proposed system for the online diagnosis of asynchronous motors
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