Denna rapport behandlar en energiundersökning av värmekablar på uppdrag av INEOS ChlorVinyls anläggning i Stenungsund. Eftersom miljön får en större och större betydelse i dagens samhälle försöker alla sektorer i samhället minska sin energiförbrukning. År 2006 använde svensk industri 157 TWh energi och 35,8 % av detta var elenergi. Den kemiska industrin står för 8 % (2006) av Sveriges industriers energiförbrukning och räknas som en energiintensiv bransch. Fabriken i Stenungsund har länge haft ett mycket förmånligt elavtal vilket har gjort att de inte har varit lönsamt att bry sig om att göra relativt småskaliga effektiviseringar. Men nu med ökade energipriser är det aktuellt att titta på vad som kan göras och till vilket pris. Syftet med utredningen är att undersöka om ett annorlunda upplägg av termostaterna som styr värmekablarna gör att man kan spara energi genom att värmen bara ligger på när det verkligen behövs. Genom undersökning och jämförelse av olika termostater koms det fram till att det inte finns noggrannare termostater på marknaden än de som sitter i fabriken. Termostaten till VKB14 är dock felvald. Med hjälp av temperaturstatistik och ett medelvärde av antal timmar under en viss temperatur över de två vintersäsongerna har effektåtgången för VKA14 och VKB14 räknats ut. Genom mätningen av när kontaktorn slår till i VKB14 har det utlästs att detta skåp ligger till 38 % av tiden när temperaturen i intervallet är så hög att det inte borde vara till alls. Om man utgår från att skåpet gör av med 20 000 W när det är igång i onödan, ger detta att det förbrukar 1,3 gånger mer energi per år än vad som behövs vid en temperaturinställning på +5°C.

This thesis is an account of various phenomena caused by the interaction of the motion of electrically conducting fluids with magnetic fields. Such phenomena, the study of which is usually known as Magnetohydrodynamics (MHD), occur on a galactic, planetary or laboratory length scale; however in this thesis we concentrate on those phenomena which can be reproduced in the laboratory. In chapter 2 we study the laminar flow of uniformly conducting, incompressible fluids in rectangular ducts under the action of transverse magnetic fields. We begin by proving that when the duct has a constant cross-section the solution is unique and then analyse theoretically some of the curious effects on the flow of the duct's walls being electrically conducting. We find close agreement between the results of these theories and the experiments of Alty (1966) and Baylis (1966). We then analyse the flow in ducts with varying cross-sections. In chapter 3 we analyse some of the curious flows and current streamline patterns produced by placing electrodes on the non-conducting walls of a container, filled with a conducting fluid, and passing electric currents between the electrodes in the presence of a strong magnetic field. In chapter 4 we analyse some of the theoretical limitations on the use of Pitot tubes and electric potential (e.p.) probes in MHD flows, and provide some estimates of the errors to be expected. In chapter 5 we analyse the stability of parallel flows in parallel magnetic fields and also some aspects of the stability of the flows analysed in chapters 2 and 3. In chapters 6, 7 and 8 we describe our experimental apparatus, the experiments to investigate directly some of the flows analysed theoretically in chapters 2 and 3 by means of Pitot and e.p. probes, and experiments to measure the MHD errors inherent in the use of these probes. We concluded that the curious phenomena predicted actually exist. We also learnt much about the use of Pitot and e.p. probes, especially as some of the experimental results were as predicted in chapter 4.

This thesis discuss on new technique called space time block coding (especially Alamouti's code) which is used to increase capacity and reliability of data transmission over time varying multi-path fading channel. The over all work of the thesis included in the following four chapters. In chapter-1 we are going to cover some theoretical part which is useful to understand thesis work and in chapter-2 we will discuss the comparison between simple space time block code (Alamouti's code) and MRRC (Maximum Ratio Receiver Combining) which is receiver diversity and then in chapter-3 we will see the channel capacity & probability error performance for 2x2 Alamouti code over Rayleigh and Rice fading channel .Finally the conclusion and further work included in chapter-4.

<p>During the last two decades, increase in electricity demand and environmental concern resulted in fast growth of power production from renewable sources. Wind power is one of the most efficient alternatives. Due to rapid development of wind turbine technology and increasing size of wind farms, wind power plays a significant part in the power production mix of Germany, Spain, Denmark and some other countries.</p><p>Wind power has to be built in areas with good wind potential. The best conditions for installation of wind power are, thus, in remote areas free of obstacles, and consequently with low population density. The transmission system in such areas might not be dimensioned to accommodate additional large-scale power plants. Insufficient transmission capacity problem, however, would emerge for any type of new generation, planned in similar conditions, although wind power has some special features that should be considered solving this problem.</p><p>In this thesis the four possibilities are considered. One possibility is to revise the methods for calculation of available transmission capacity. Another solution for large-scale integration of wind power in such areas is to reinforce the network. This alternative however may be expensive and time consuming. Since wind power production depends on the wind speed, the wind farm utilization time is only 2000-4000 hours a year, and power production peaks not necessarily occur during periods with insufficient transmission capacity. Therefore wind energy curtailment may be considered as an alternative for large-scale wind power integration. It is also possible to store excess wind energy during the periods with insufficient transmission capacity. Conventional power plants with possibilities of fast production control (e.g. hydro power plants or gas power plants) may also be employed for this purpose.</p><p>There is a lot of research regarding first two measures, therefore, this thesis provides a review and summarized conclusions from the existing work and further concentrates on development of the methods for estimation of wind energy curtailment and evaluation of wind energy storage possibility in hydro reservoirs.</p><p>Methods similar to probabilistic production cost simulation are developed for estimation of wind energy curtailment. The developed methods are applicable to discrete variables (measurements) and also generalized for continuous variables with known distribution.</p><p>For evaluation of wind energy storage possibility the optimization problem is formulated, the objective of this evaluation is to minimize the costs for power production under consideration of the future water value. The developed method allows us to analyze previous years of operation of the power system (e.g. dry, wet and normal year) and evaluate physical possibilities for wind energy storage. The developed methods are than tested for Swedish power system and the results are also summarized in this thesis.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> / QC 20100607

Organic electronics has evolved into a well-established research field thanks to major progresses in material sciences during recent decades. More attention was paid to this research field when “the discovery and development of conductive polymers” was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2000. Electronic devices that rely on tailor-made material functionalities, the ability of solution processing and low-cost manufacturing on flexible substrates by traditional printing techniques are among the key features in organic electronics. The common theme while exploring organic electronics, and the focus of this thesis, is that (semi-)conducting polymers serve as active materials to define the principle of operation in devices. This thesis reviews two kinds of organic electronic devices. The first part describes electrochemical devices based on conducting polymers. Active matrix addressed displays that are printed on flexible substrates have been obtained by arranging electrochemical smart pixels, based on the combination of electrochemical transistors and electrochromic display cells, into cross-point matrices. The resulting polymer-based active-matrix displays are operated at low voltages and the same active material is used in the electrochemical transistors as well as in the electrochromic display cells, simply by employing the opto-electronic properties of the material. In addition to this first part, a switchable optical polarizer based on electrochromism in a stretch-aligned conducting polymer is described. The second part reports switchable charge traps in polymer diodes. Here, a device based on a solid-state blend of a conjugated polymer and a photochromic molecule has been demonstrated. The solid state blend, sandwiched between two electrodes, provide a polymer diode that allows reversible current modulation between two different charge transport mechanisms via externally triggered switching of the charge trap density.

<p>This thesis demonstrates the high- level modelling and design of oversampled delta- sigma noise shapers for D/A conversion. It presents an overview and study on digital- to- analog converters (DAC) followed by the noise shapers. It helps us to understand how to design a noise shaper model and algorithmic expressions are presented. The models are verified through high level simulations. The usage of models is to reduce the design time and get a good understanding for fundamental limitations on performance. Instead of time consuming circuit- level simulations, we point out the behavioural- level and algorithmic- level simulations of the noise shaper and the entire system comprising of interpolation filter, noise shaper followed by pulse amplitude modulation and reconstruction filtering. We have used the delta- sigma modulators to reduce the number of bits representing the digital signal. It is found that the requirement on oversampled DACs are tough. It is emphasised that the design of an oversampling converter is a filter designproblem. There is a large number of trade- offs that can be made between the different building blocks in the OSDAC.</p>

<p>This thesis discusses design of narrowband low noise amplifiers for multi¬standard applications. The target of this work is to design a low noise ampli¬fier(LNA) for DCS1800 and Bluetooth standard frequency bands. Various designs for narrowband multi-standard LNAs have been studied and a new design for tunable multi-standard LNA has been presented and designed using accumulation mode MOS varactors.</p><p>As this design includes on-chip spiral inductors, the design, modelling and layout of on-chip inductors have been discussed briefly. The tool used for this purpose is ASITIC.</p><p>Also ESD protection techniques for RF circuits and their effect on LNA per¬formance has been discussed.</p><p>Finally fully differential LNA has been designed in O.35um AMS thick metal CMOS process using Cadence SpectreRF. The design also includes ESD pro¬tection at the input of LNA.</p>

<p>This thesis introduces a coding scheme for very low bitrate video coding through the aid of principal component analysis. Principal information of the facial mimic for a person can be extracted and stored in an Eigenspace. Entire video frames of this persons face can then be compressed with the Eigenspace to only a few projection coefficients. Principal component video coding encodes entire frames at once and increased frame size does not increase the necessary bitrate for encoding, as standard coding schemes do. This enables video communication with high frame rate, spatial resolution and visual quality at very low bitrates. No standard video coding technique provides these four features at the same time.</p><p>Theoretical bounds for using principal components to encode facial video sequences are presented. Two different theoretical bounds are derived. One that describes the minimal distortion when a certain number of Eigenimages are used and one that describes the minimum distortion when a minimum number of bits are used.</p><p>We investigate how the reconstruction quality for the coding scheme is affected when the Eigenspace, mean image and coefficients are compressed to enable efficient transmission. The Eigenspace and mean image are compressed through JPEG-compression while the while the coefficients are quantized. We show that high compression ratios can be used almost without any decrease in reconstruction quality for the coding scheme.</p><p>Different ways of re-using the Eigenspace for a person extracted from one video sequence to encode other video sequences are examined. The most important factor is the positioning of the facial features in the video frames.</p><p>Through a user test we find that it is extremely important to consider secondary workloads and how users make use of video when experimental setups are designed.</p>

<p>Using an array synthesis tool based on a modified differential evolution algorithm, it is shown that the position-phase synthesis exhibits improved pattern characteristics compared to both the phase only and position only synthesis of uniform amplitude antenna arrays. The design of an unequally spaced planar reflect-array and an active power combining reflect-array are presented. The unit cell of the active reflect-array consists of an amplifying active reflect-antenna designed using a novel dual polarized microstrip-T coupled patch antenna. Two modelling approaches are proposed for the active reflect-antenna and the modelling methods are compared with the experiments.</p><p>A computationally efficient analysis of an H-slot in the ground plane of a microstripline is carried out using a transmission line model. To improve the accuracy in the resonant region of the H-slot and retaining the computational efficiency, an artificial neural network is combined with an efficient spectral domain method. An efficient analysis tool for a silicon micromachined H-slot coupled antenna is developed by combining the transmission line models of the H-slot and an aperture coupled antenna. The experimental results are compared with the theory showing good agreement.</p><p>The analysis and design of a microwave amplifier based on non-resonant slot matching is carried out. It is seen that the designed slot matched amplifier has decreased layout size, improved gain and noise figure characteristics compared to a stub matched amplifier. An efficient method for the analysis of non-resonant slots is compared with other approaches showing good agreement. This points to the fact that non-resonant slot matched circuits can be designed with the same speed and efficiency as we design the traditional stub based matching circuits.</p><p>To address the problem of bandwidth and performance of reflect-arrays we propose a dielectric resonator antenna with slotline stubs. As a preliminary step we design a dielectric resonator antenna with slotline feed and the experimental results are compared with those of a commercial CAD tool. Design and analysis of 3D interconnects based on non-radiative dielectric waveguides is carried out. At millimeterwave, these interconnects are useful for hybrid and multilayer integration techniques.</p>

The continuing shrinkage of semiconductor devices towards nanoscale features and increased functionality has prompted a strong need for high-resolution characterization tools capable of mapping the electrical properties with nanoscale lateral resolution. In this regard, scanning capacitance microscopy (SCM) scanning spreading resistance microscopy (SSRM) and Kelvin probe force microscopy (KPFM) have emerged as powerful techniques. This thesis focuses on new applications of these techniques for the electrical characterization of III-V materials, devices and low-dimensional systems. One example is the investigation of GaAs/AlGaAs buried-heterostructure lasers with cross-sectional SCM. Several important issues have been addressed: nanoscale contrast related to local band structure, characterization of interfaces and evaluation of electrical properties of the regrown layers. These investigations demonstrate the ability of SCM for reliable, non-destructive and high resolution analysis of opto-electronic devices. Applications of SCM and SSRM as potential in-line evaluation tool for III-V processing are demonstrated. In this scope, the first work deals with the characterization of ion beam implanted InP, a promising approach to achieve ultrashort carrier lifetimes. The changes in the local electrical properties of this material induced by annealing are tracked. SCM and SSRM measurements were crucial in identifying the local regions of different conductivity due to the non-uniform damage profiles. The results are correlated with those obtained by complementary structural, electrical and optical characterization. The second work in this category establishes the utility of SCM for evaluating the impact of dry etching on the electrical properties of InP. The highly conductive nature of the near surface damaged layer and its subsequent recovery upon annealing is evidenced. A striking correlation between the SCM signal distributions and the ideality factors of macroscopic Schottky contact is observed. The last part deals with the electrical characterization of low-dimensional systems using SCM, SSRM and KPFM. The challenging issues motivating this work are the detection and quantification of confined carriers, the determination of band-offsets and the determination of the spatial resolution of the technique employed. The ability of SCM, SSRM and KPFM to detect carriers accumulated in InGaAs/InP quantum wells (QWs) is demonstrated. In each of these techniques, the physical mechanisms behind the contrast characteristic obtained at QWs are elucidated. The specific issues relating to the determination of the band-offsets are discussed. A new method to determine the "electrical" spatial resolution of SCM and SSRM is addressed using quantum well structures with varying inter-well spacings. Using commercial probes, sub-30 nm and sub-5 nm lateral resolution are determined for SCM and SSRM, respectively. The experimental conditions to perform high resolution measurements are identified.