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Study and Analysis of Controls for Induction Motor Drives for High-Power Applications
No full textInduction motors have become the backbone of modern industrial systems, owing to their unparalleled efficiency, robustness, and low maintenance requirements. Their simplicity in design, coupled with high reliability and cost-effectiveness, has made them the preferred choice in various applications, ranging from manufacturing and transportation to renewable energy generation. Furthermore, induction motors offer seamless speed control and can operate across a wide range of environmental conditions, making them indispensable in various industrial settings.
In recent years, rapid advancements in technology have led to the development of sophisticated control strategies and innovative materials, enhancing the performance and versatility of induction motors. Researchers and engineers have focused their efforts on optimizing motor designs, improving energy efficiency, and reducing carbon emissions. This study focuses on two of the main control strategies for robust variable-frequency drives of induction motors, V/Hz and Field Oriented Control (FOC). The first part of the thesis will concentrate on the open loop V/Hz control, one of the widely recognized speed control techniques. Within this control method, two modulation techniques are examined: asynchronous modulation and synchronous modulation. The asynchronous modulation technique introduces subharmonics, which can be problematic. To address this issue, the synchronous modulation technique is proposed and implemented alongside the open-loop V/Hz control strategy. Simulation tests are conducted to validate the elimination of subharmonics. Another challenge associated with the open-loop V/Hz control strategy is the presence of significant current and torque oscillations at low to medium frequencies due to nonlinear interactions between the electrical and mechanical subsystems. To mitigate these undesired oscillations, a stability analysis of the open-loop V/Hz control is performed, identifying a region of instability. Two mitigation techniques are presented in this thesis: the varying slope V/Hz control strategy and the active damping control strategy. These techniques are verified and validated through simulation tests on a 7 MW medium voltage (MV) induction motor using MATLAB/Simulink and a low voltage (LV) induction motor in a laboratory setup without a mechanical load. Furthermore, the thesis explores the impact of considering the magnetic saturation of the motor, which leads to more stable operations. Simulations confirm that considering magnetic saturation allows for the use of higher flux values, resulting in more stable machine operations and greater torque. Experimental tests on a 10-kW induction motor validate these findings. Closed-loop control methods, such as Field Oriented Control (FOC) and Direct Torque Control (DTC) are mostly preferred compared to V/Hz in order to achieve high dynamic performances. In the second part of the thesis a submarine application of a sensorless induction motor drive where a FOC algorithm is adopted has been considered. The electric motor serves as the prime mover for propelling a gasoline dispensing apparatus situated at a substantial distance from the offshore petroleum extraction platform. Consequently, the motor-pump assembly is significantly removed from the primary processing facility. The system analyzed consists of an inverter that links to an induction machine via a filter, as well as a lengthy submarine cable. The inverter and filter are situated on the offshore oil platform, while the motor and pump are located in the subsea oil extraction area, with a cable spanning a distance of 19.74 kilometers connecting the two. This arrangement induces a voltage drop that necessitates compensation. After presenting the system and its features, such as the rotor flux Luenberger Observer, and the speed estimation algorithm, the compensation strategy for the filter and cable has been investigated by implementing the entire system in the MATLAB/Simulink environment and validated through simulation results
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
Author Under Sail The Imagination of Jack London, 1893-1902
No full textIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Spirit Truth -- 2. From Absorption to Theatricality and Back Again -- 3. "I Will Build a New Present" -- 4. Sons as Authors -- 5. Fathers as Publishers -- 6. The Daughter as Author -- 7. Lovers as Authors -- 8. At Sea with the Family -- 9. Yellow News, Yellow Stories -- 10. The Return Home -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About Jay WilliamsIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries
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