The number of flights have increased by 80% between 1990 and 2014, and the demand for air travel continues to increase. Even though the aviation sector contributes to economical and social benefits, it still affects the climate change [1]. A first step to minimize the environmental impact is to develop more electric aircraft (MEA), where the idea is to maximize the use of electricity and improve the overall energy effciency [2]. In most of today's aircraft, large mechanical transmission shafts with a lot of components are driven by central power units, termed centralized drive systems. By the use of electromechanical actuators (EMAs), a distributed drive systems can be used instead, which increases functionality, reduces mass, maintenance and energy consumption, as well as improves manufacturing and assembly [3].  When designing electromechanical actuators, one must take into account a lot of parameters that affect each other in various ways. It is often a time-consuming job to find the most optimal choice of architecture. Parameters such as temperature, load, lifetime and effciency to mention a few. This master thesis offers a new analytical tool for EMAs of primary and secondary flight control systems for Saab Avionics Systems. The aim of the analytical tool is to characterize the parts of the system and identify important parameters in order to find the most optimal choice of architecture. The tool focus on the main mechanical components such as the three-phase synchronous permanent magnet motor, power-off brake, two-stage planetary gearbox and ball screw. The tool developed in this project generates an initial design of the EMA with optimized dimensions in order to minimize both mass and energy consumption. It functions by identifying three main groups of parameters: The input parameters: fixed values defined by the customer demands The design parameters: variables that the user can change to find the optimal choice of architecture The output parameters: resulting values of either performance or dimensions By defining few design parameters for each component, and implementing multidisciplinary design optimization (MDO), the analytical tool can find an optimized solution for each specific project in a time-efficient way. The final values of the parameters characterize the performance of the EMA.

The goal of this master´s thesis is primarily the theoretical analysis of three-phase inverters and subsequent familiarization of the reader with their detailed practical structure. The first part is devoted to the general definition of the power semiconductor converter as such. The following part describes the principle of three-phase pulse width modulation including the widely used principle of scalar control of induction motors. The second half of the thesis is already focused on the practical design of a three-phase inverter for a 50 kW high-speed induction motor. This section explains the problem of sizing and selecting all of the sub-elements of the inverter based on the parameters specified by the end user of the device.

This master thesis is focused on the synchronous generator mathematical model analysis. Based on the analysis are compiled mathematical models of main generator and exciter cooperating in brushless synchronous generator excitation system. Mathematical models of both machines are based on system of differential equations and their validity is verified in Matlab-Simulink. The master thesis is devided into three main parts. First part is focused on the derivation of differential equations to describe the behavior of electrical quantities of machines. In the second part are compiled and simulated mathematical models of both synchronous machines in Matlab-Simulink. The correctness of models are verified by approximate analytical calculations of selected steady and dynamic states. The last part is focused on design and simulation of concept for main generator rapid field winding deexcitation in brushless synchronous genereator excitation system.

Diploma thesis describes design and realization of hardware and software for controlling and regulation of the high-speed drive with BLDC motor, which will serve as a spindle for CNC milling machine. The thesis described in detail the schematic design and the design of printed circuit board of the power part, control part and power supply part of the three-phase transistor inverter controlled by DSP processor. It is also described in detail program of DSP processor for controlling and regulation of the BLDC motors, which the function is verified by the final measurements. The result of Diploma thesis is functional high-speed drive with BLDC motor.

The thesis "Critical thinking and its application in libraries", aims to become familiar with the term "critical thinking". It informs about the program Reading and Writing for Critical Thinking and its Czech version. It represents some of the modern teaching methods, which are generated by its ideas and principles. It deals mainly with the description of activating methods, which are crucial for the program. The methods are divided into three groups according to whether they use more reading, writing and discussion. The practical part deals with the preparation of information education lessons in which methods are applied to developing critical thinking. The lessons are divided into three parts, according to a three-phase model of learning - evocation, awareness of the importance and reflection. Model lessons are adapted to the university library. As the lecture topics have been selected areas of critical thinking, information smog, invisible web, the credibility of information retrieval techniques and information security.

L'autonomie moyenne des voitures électriques commercialisées actuellement reste limitée par rapport aux véhicules thermiques. Pour pallier ce problème, la capacité de la batterie peut être augmentée ou bien la charge peut être facilitée en réduisant le temps de charge et ceci en augmentant la puissance de charge.L'infrastructure de charge rapide de type DC étant encore limitée, un progrès considérable consiste à embarquer le chargeur dans le véhicule en réutilisant tout, ou une partie de l'électronique de puissance déjà disponible pour propulser le véhicule. Le chargeur est alors nommé chargeur intégré.Au cours des dernières années, plusieurs chargeurs intégrés ont été proposés, mais peu d'entre eux ont été industrialisés vue qu'ils présentent des inconvénients que l'on cherchera à surmonter ou réduire.Dans le cadre de cette thèse notre objectif principal est donc de concevoir une nouvelle topologie de convertisseur permettant la charge de la batterie à moindre coût.Plusieurs idées permettant l'innovation sont proposées et une solution répondant au mieux au cahier de charges est retenue. Cette topologie est étudiée en détails (contrôle, dimensionnement, harmoniques, CEM, etc.). Finalement un prototype est réalisé pour valider le concept proposé. / To date, the range autonomy of most electric vehicles is still lower than conventional fuel based vehicles and charging times are significantly longer. To overcome this problem, battery capacity could be increased but more importantly high power fast charging should be accessible everywhere.The widespread deployment of public DC fast charging stations is still difficult to achieve. So, in order to have a better spreading of the charge spots and a better coverage, it is also necessary for the vehicle to be charged from an on-board charger that could be plugged into three-phase AC power outlets.Furthermore, because the battery is charged only when the car is parked -except for regeneration at braking-, using the on-board traction system components to form an integrated charging device is possible. This kind of topology is called an integrated charger which allows designing a charger small enough to be embedded in a vehicle at an affordable cost.Several non-isolated on-board integrated charging topologies are proposed in this thesis and the one that best meets some predefined specifications is selected. This topology is studied in details and validated by simulation software. A laboratory prototype is also built to verify the performance of this multi-purpose traction/charger converter.

Current controls the motion of a manipulator. The manipulators at ABB are powered by a three-phase alternating current system where shunt resistors are utilised to measure the current to the motors. Magnetic field sensors are instead investigated to eliminate issues with power losses, the number of components and the cost of the shunt resistors. Since current produces a magnetic field, it can be measured without contact using a magnetic field sensor. However, employing non-contact magnetic field sensors in three-phase implementations introduces problems with stray magnetic fields due to the three traces being in close proximity to each other. This magnetic crosstalk will influence the sensors, hence the current measurement for each trace. In this thesis separating this influence of the magnetic fields is done through a software approach. Initially, two magnetic field sensors, a tunnel magnetoresistance sensor and a Fluxgate sensor, were tested and evaluated to gain knowledge and understanding. From the different tests, it was decided to continue with the Fluxgate sensor. Further, a partial least-squares regression was constructed to separate the magnetic field and predict the current in each trace from the Fluxgate sensor output. From a simulation created, the current could be predicted with an error of approximately 1 nA, meaning less than 0.1% when considering a simulated linear model of the Fluxgate sensor.

Carbon dioxide hydrates were synthesized in a 0.10m I.D. and 1.22m tall bubble column equipped with a cooling jacket for heat removal. Visual observations at different driving forces (pressures between 2.75 and 3.60 MPa and temperatures between 0 and 8ºC) were recorded with a digital camera through a sight glass of 118.8 by 15.6 mm. The superficial gas velocity was varied from 20 to 50 mm/s to attain different levels of turbulence in the liquid. The growth rate was found to be dependent on the sequence/method used to reach the operating temperature and pressure. A greater supersaturation was obtained when the system temperature and pressure were reached with very low or no bubble-induced mixing. As a result, hydrates nucleated and grew immediately when starting the gas flow with the reactor volume being quickly filled with hydrates. Moreover, the hydrate growth rate and solution final density were higher when operating conditions partially condensed CO2 resulting in greater interphase mass transfer rates. In parallel, since hydrate formation is an exothermic process and the reaction is often limited by the rate of heat removal, heat transfer measurements were achieved in a simulated hydrate environment. The instantaneous heat transfer coefficient and related statistics gave insight on the role of bubbles on heat transfer and hydrodynamics.

The world is heading towards an energy crisis and desperate efforts are being made to find an alternative, reliable and clean source of energy. Solar Energy is one of the most clean and reliable source of renewable energy on earth. Conventionally, extraction of solar power for electricity generation was limited to PV farms, however lately Distributed Generation form of Solar Power has emerged in the form of residential and commercial Grid Tied Micro-Inverters. Grid Tied Micro-Inverters are costly when compared to their string type counterparts because one inverter module is required for every single or every two PV panels whereas a string type micro-inverter utilizes a single inverter module over a string of PV panels. Since in micro-inverter every panel has a dedicated inverter module, more power per panel can be extracted by performing optimal maximum power tracking over single panel rather than over an entire string of panels. Power per panel extracted by string inverters may be lower than its maximum value as few of the panels in the string may or may not be shaded and thereby forming the weaker links of the system. In order to justify the higher costs of Micro-Inverters, it is of utmost importance to convert the available power with maximum possible efficiency. Typically, a microinverter consists of two important blocks; a Front End DC-DC Converter and Output DCAC Inverter. This thesis proposes efficiency optimization techniques for both the blocks of the micro-inverter. iv Efficiency Optimization of Front End DC-DC Converter This thesis aims to optimize the efficiency of the front end stage by proposing optimal design procedure for resonant parameters of LLC Topology as a Front End DC-DC Converter for PV Applications. It exploits the I-V characteristics of a solar panel to design the resonant parameters such that resonant LLC topology operates near its resonant frequency operating point which is the highest efficiency operating point of LLC Converter. Efficiency Optimization of Output DC-AC Inverter Due to continuously variable irradiance levels of solar energy, available power for extraction is constantly varying which causes the PV Inverter operates at its peak load capacity for less than 15% of the day time. Every typical power converter suffers through poor light load efficiency performance because of the load independent losses present in a power converter. In order to improve the light load efficiency performance of Three Phase Inverters, this thesis proposes Phase Skipping Control technique for Three Phase Grid Tied Micro-Inverters. The proposed technique is a generic control technique and can be applied to any inverter topology, however, in order to establish the proof of concept this control technique has been implemented on Three Phase Half Bridge PWM Inverter and its analysis is provided. Improving light load efficiency helps to improve the CEC efficiency of the inverter.

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