Subject of this thesis is analysis of friction power losses in rolling bearings and design and implementation of computing program. Thesis is divided into six chapters. At the beginning there is overview of different types of rolling bearings and their system of lubrication. Fundamentals of elastohydrodynamic lubrication are described together with effects that occur in lubricant. Remaining part is focused on friction in rolling bearing its sources and calculation. Other programs for computing friction losses are shown and own program is designed. Designed program is applied on bearings of chosen type and results are compared with existing models.

In a world where development of new technology moves rapidly towards renewable energy resources, it is important to implement new technology for efficiency improvement on existing products. This is Cascade Drives ambition, to enable a shift from hydraulic usage in heavy vehicles to a solution that is completely electromechanical driven, to improve energy efficiency.  Currently, Cascade Drives are developing electromechanical linear actuators to replace hydraulic driven actuators in heavy vehicles such as forklifts, both for lifting and steering applications.  These actuators are designed with a rack and pinion setup where multiple pinions are placed on a single rack and by using a patented flexible solution, an otherwise overdetermined system can share the load evenly over the pinions. This significantly reduce the size of each pinion and the overall package.  This master thesis aims at investigating the power losses in this electromechanical actuator and implement a model in the loop (MIL) to predict the efficiency and how this alters for different speeds and loads applied on the actuator.  A model to predict the efficiency was implemented in Simulink software and two different verification tests on physical prototypes were conducted. The results showed that the predicted load dependent losses corresponded well to the measured values. The speed dependent losses proved harder to predict. / I en värld där utveckling av ny teknik rör sig snabbt mot förnybara energikällor är det viktigt att implementera ny teknik för effektivisering av befintliga produkter. Detta är Cascade Drives ambition, att möjliggöra en övergång från användandet av hydraulik i tunga applikationer till en lösning som är elektromekaniskt driven, för att förbättra energieffektiviteten.  För närvarande utvecklar Cascade Drives elektromekaniska ställdon för att ersätta hydrauliskt drivna ställdon i tunga fordon så som gaffeltruckar, både för lyft- och styrapplikationer.  Dessa ställdon är utformade med en rack- och kugghjulsuppsättning där flera kugghjul är i ingrepp med ett enda rack och genom att använda en patenterad flexibel lösning kan ett annars överbestämt system dela belastningen över alla kugghjul. Detta leder till att storleken på varje hjul kan minskas och även den totala storleken på produkten blir mindre.  Detta examensarbete syftar till att undersöka effektförlusterna i detta elektromekaniska ställdon och implementera en så kallad ”Model In the Loop” (MIL) för att förutsäga verkningsgraden och hur denna förändras för olika hastigheter och krafter som appliceras på ställdonet.  En modell för att prediktera verkningsgraden implementerades i Simulink programvara och två olika verifieringstester på fysiska prototyper genomfördes. Resultaten visade att prediktionen för de lastberoende förlusterna motsvarade de uppmätta värdena. De hastighetsberoende förlusterna visade sig svårare att förutsäga.

The mass-market adoption of electrification in the transportation sector mandates stringent and aggressive requirements in terms of cost, power rating, efficiency, power density, and specific density of power electronics. Modular packaging of power electronics is advantageous and thus ubiquitously used by the automotive industry. A trend of shrinking die sizes and increased integration is evident and will inevitably continue. The thermal management system has become ever more significant as it is one of the main obstacles to higher power densities. The cooling system must be cost-effective, simple, efficient, reliable, and compatible with system requirements. Pin fins are a reliable and effective means of augmenting heat transfer. They rely on inducing turbulence, increasing the effective wetted surface, and accelerating fluid velocity. Unavoidably the pin fin array also produces an undesirable pressure drop that is commensurate to the pumping power required for the system. In this thesis, a tool is developed for the geometry optimization of pin fin arrays to dissipate the heat at a rate large enough to ensure junction temperatures do not exceed the maximum value possible at a minimal pressure drop. It is hoped that this tool would contribute to the multi-physics optimization and integration of power electronics for electrified vehicles. This optimization is confined to equalaterally spaced short pin fins, aspect ratios less than three. The tool employs empirical correlations since flow is too complex to solve analytically and numerical solutions or CFD-simulations are too time and computationally extensive. The tool development is done in a comprehensive manner. Starting from the first principles of a two-level voltage source inverter's operation. Next, the inevitable power losses from the operation are explained and a method for their calculations is presented. Correlations in the literature related to both pressure drop and heat transfer are reviewed afterward. Then the methodology of the construction of the tool is explicated in detail. Employing a commercial power module to benchmark results; three scenarios with different flow rates and inlet temperatures are optimized for. Simulations in ANSYS Fluent are run to verify the accuracy of correlations used in the tool. Comparing the optimized geometry of pin fins to the original benchmarking geometry it is evident that employing this tool on a per-application basis provides superior performance. / Thesis / Master of Applied Science (MASc)

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Current trends in regulation of electricity supply continuity in the power engineering industry includes introduction of systems and customers standards. The electricity market liberalization in the European Union is speeded up the process furthermore. Companies included in the distribution network bussiness therefore began to be interested more in the evaluation of risks associated with the aplication of these standards. The aim of the thesis is to minimize the expenses caused by power losses of the distribution network by means of distribution network reconfiguration depending on the standard selection. For the minimization two of the Genetic algorithms was selected. As an criterion the overall expenses caused by power losses and the expenses caused by an electricity shortage. Furthermore the influence of the inclusion of the power loss to the calculation on the operation costs for given regulation standards. Two contemporary standards - finish and portugues - are considered together with three experimental standards. The aim of including experimental standards is to complete the regulation standards with parameters uncovered in the portuguese and finish standard. The results described in the thesis can be used in the distribution network optimization process from the point of reliability and operational costs.

Numerous advantages attained by integrating Distributed Generation (DG) in distribution systems. These advantages include decreasing power losses and improving voltage profiles. Such benefits can be achieved and enhanced if DGs are optimally sized and located in the systems. In this thesis, the optimal DG placement and sizing problem is investigated using two approaches. First, the optimization problem is treated as single-objective optimization problem, where the system’s active power losses are considered as the objective to be minimized. Secondly, the problem is tackled as a multi-objective one, focusing on DG installation costs. These problems are formulated as constrained nonlinear optimization problems using the Sequential Quadratic Programming method. A weighted sum method and a fuzzy decision-making method are presented to generate the Pareto optimal front and also to obtain the best compromise solution. Single and multiple DG installation cases are studied and compared to a case without DG, and a 15-bus radial distribution system and 33-bus meshed distribution system are used to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed methods.

Detta examensarbete behandlar ett uppsamlingsnät för en ny vindkraftpark som planeras i norra Sverige av företaget AB.Parken skall bestå av 101 stycken vindkraftverk som skall förbindas samman med ett kabelnät och anslutas till en transformatorstation. Rapporten behandlar två förslag på hur nätet skall dimensioneras och förläggas. Uppdelningen av vindkraftverken i kluster illustreras av kartor och enlinjescheman.Valda förläggningsätt och dimensioneringar motiveras med kabelberäkningar och grundläggande teori gällande kabeldimensionering. Kabeltyp samt längder för båda förslagens samtliga radialer presenteras i tabeller tillsammans med en enklare kostnads jämförelse.Simuleringar för uppsamlingsnäten utförs i programmet Power World Simulator. För att kontrollera riktigheten i värdena från simuleringen utförs kontrollberäkningar på en radial med pi-modellen.Beräkningarna visar att dimensioneringen är utförd så förluster och spänningsökningar är väl inom gränsvärden för båda förslagen. Uppsamlingsnätets totala reaktiva tillskott är väl inom gränserna för vad vindkraftverken kan kompensera för.Förslag på fortsatt arbete för detta projekt vore att se över konstruktionen av transformatorstationen samt skydd för uppsamlingsnätet. / This report contains a suggestion for a projected wind farm in northern Sweden.The farm contains 101 wind turbines that shall be connected together with a collection grid and connected to a substation.The report contains two different suggestions of dimension and location of the cables for the grid. The turbines are divided into clusters and shown in maps and single line diagramsChosen suggestions and dimensions are reasoned with calculations and basic theory regarding cable sizing. The chosen cable types and lengths for both suggestions are shown in table form, together with a simplified cost comparison.After simulations have been run in power world simulator programme, the values was checked for authenticity with the π-circuit formula.The calculations shows that the selection of cables have accomplished low losses, and the increase of voltage is well within limits for both suggestions.The contribution of reactive power in the collection grid is also within the limits of what the wind turbines can compensate.A suggestion for future work on this project could be the design and dimension of the substation and the safety equipment.

This thesis has contributed to the design of suitable decision-making techniques for energy management in the smart grid with emphasis on energy efficiency and uncertainty analysis in two smart grid applications. First, an energy trading model among distributed microgrids (MG) is investigated, aiming to improve energy efficiency by forming coalitions to allow local power transfer within each coalition. Then, a more specific scenario is considered that is how to optimally schedule Electric Vehicles (EV) charging in a MG-like charging station, aiming to match as many as EV charging requirements with the uncertain solar energy generation. The solutions proposed in this thesis can give optimal coalition formation patterns for reduced power losses and achieve optimal performance for the charging station. First, several algorithms based on game theory are investigated for the coalition formation of distributed MGs to alleviate the power losses dissipated on the cables due to power transfer. The seller and buyer MGs can make distributed decisions whether to form a coalition with others for energy trading. The simulation results show that game theory based methods that enable cooperation yield a better performance in terms of lower power losses than a non-cooperative approach. This is because by forming local coalitions, power is transferred within a shorter distance and at a lower voltage. Thus, the power losses dissipated on the transmission lines and caused by power conversion at the transformer are both reduced. However, the merge-and-split based cooperative games have an inherent high computational complexity for a large number of players. Then, an efficient framework is established for the power loss minimization problem as a college admissions game that has a much lower computational complexity than the merge-and-split based cooperative games. The seller and buyer MGs take the role of colleges and students in turn and apply for a place in the opposite set following their preference lists and the college MGs’ energy quotas. The simulation results show that the proposed framework demonstrates a comparable power losses reduction to the merge-and-split based algorithms, but runs 700 and 18000 times faster for a network of 10 MGs and 20 MGs, respectively. Finally, the problem of EV charging using various energy sources is studied along with their impact on the charging station’s performance. A multiplier k is introduced to measure the effect of solar prediction uncertainty on the decision-making process of the station. A composite performance index (the Figure of Merit, FoM) is also developed to measure the charging station’s utility, EV users charging requirements and the penalties for turning away new arrivals and for missing charging deadlines. A two-stage admission and scheduling mechanism is further proposed to find the optimal trade-off between accepting EVs and missing charging deadlines by determining the best value of the parameter k under various energy supply scenarios. The numerical evaluations give the solution to the optimization problem and show that some of the key factors such as shorter and longer deadline urgencies of EVs charging requirements, stronger uncertainty of the prediction error, storage capacity and its initial state will not affect significantly the optimal value of the parameter k.

Les travaux présentés dans ce mémoire ont été réalisés dans le cadre d’une collaboration entre le LAboratoire PLAsma et Conversion d’Énergie (LAPLACE), Université de Toulouse, et la Seconde Université de Naples (SUN). Ce travail a reçu le soutien de la société Rongxin Power Electronics (Chine) et traite de l’utilisation des convertisseurs multi-niveaux pour le transport d’énergie électrique en courant continu Haute Tension (HVDC). Depuis plus d’un siècle, la génération, la transmission, la distribution et l’utilisation de l’énergie électrique sont principalement basées sur des systèmes alternatifs. Les systèmes HVDC ont été envisagés pour des raisons techniques et économiques dès les années 60. Aujourd’hui il est unanimement reconnu que ces systèmes de transport d’électricité sont plus appropriés pour les lignes aériennes au-delà de 800 km de long. Cette distance limite de rentabilité diminue à 50 km pour les liaisons enterrées ou sous-marines. Les liaisons HVDC constituent un élément clé du développement de l’énergie électrique verte pour le XXIème siècle. En raison des limitations en courant des semi-conducteurs et des câbles électriques, les applications à forte puissance nécessitent l’utilisation de convertisseurs haute tension (jusqu’à 500 kV). Grâce au développement de composants semi-conducteurs haute tension et aux architectures multicellulaires, il est désormais possible de réaliser des convertisseurs AC/DC d’une puissance allant jusqu’au GW. Les convertisseurs multi-niveaux permettent de travailler en haute tension tout en délivrant une tension quasi-sinusoïdale. Les topologies multi-niveaux classiques de type NPC ou « Flying Capacitor » ont été introduites dans les années 1990 et sont aujourd’hui couramment utilisées dans les applications de moyenne puissance comme les systèmes de traction. Dans le domaine des convertisseurs AC/DC haute tension, la topologie MMC (Modular Multilevel Converter), proposée par le professeur R. Marquardt (Université de Munich, Allemagne) il y a dix ans, semble particulièrement intéressante pour les liaisons HVDC. Sur le principe d’une architecture de type MMC, le travail de cette thèse propose différentes topologies de blocs élémentaires permettant de rendre le convertisseur AC/DC haute tension plus flexible du point de vue des réversibilités en courant et en tension. Ce document est organisé de la manière suivante. Les systèmes HVDC actuellement utilisés sont tout d’abord présentés. Les configurations conventionnelles des convertisseurs de type onduleur de tension (VSCs) ou de type onduleur de courant (CSCs) sont introduites et les topologies pour les systèmes VSC sont ensuite plus particulièrement analysées. Le principe de fonctionnement de la topologie MMC est ensuite présenté et le dimensionnement des éléments réactifs est développé en considérant une commande en boucle ouverte puis une commande en boucle fermée. Plusieurs topologies de cellules élémentaires sont proposées afin d’offrir différentes possibilités de réversibilité du courant ou de la tension du côté continu. Afin de comparer ces structures, une approche analytique de l’estimation des pertes est développée. [...] / This work was performed in the frame of collaboration between the Laboratory on Plasma and Energy Conversion (LAPLACE), University of Toulouse, and the Second University of Naples (SUN). This work was supported by Rongxin Power Electronic Company (China) and concerns the use of multilevel converters in High Voltage Direct Current (HVDC) transmission. For more than one hundred years, the generation, the transmission, distribution and uses of electrical energy were principally based on AC systems. HVDC systems were considered some 50 years ago for technical and economic reasons. Nowadays, it is well known that HVDC is more convenient than AC for overhead transmission lines from 800 - 1000 km long. This break-even distance decreases up to 50 km for underground or submarine cables. Over the twenty-first century, HVDC transmissions will be a key point in green electric energy development. Due to the limitation in current capability of semiconductors and electrical cables, high power applications require high voltage converters. Thanks to the development of high voltage semiconductor devices, it is now possible to achieve high power converters for AC/DC conversion in the GW power range. For several years, multilevel voltage source converters allow working at high voltage level and draw a quasi-sinusoidal voltage waveform. Classical multilevel topologies such as NPC and Flying Capacitor VSIs were introduced twenty years ago and are nowadays widely used in Medium Power applications such as traction drives. In the scope of High Voltage AC/DC converters, the Modular Multilevel Converter (MMC), proposed ten years ago by Professor R. Marquardt from the University of Munich (Germany), appeared particularly interesting for HVDC transmissions. On the base of the MMC principle, this thesis considers different topologies of elementary cells which make the High Voltage AC/DC converter more flexible and easy suitable respect to different voltage and current levels. The document is organized as follow. Firstly, HVDC power systems are introduced. Conventional configurations of Current Source Converters (CSCs) and Voltage Source Converters (VSCs) are shown. The most attractive topologies for VSC-HVDC systems are analyzed. The operating principle of the MMC is presented and the sizing of reactive devices is developed by considering an open loop and a closed loop control. Different topologies of elementary cells offer various properties in current or voltage reversibility on the DC side. To compare the different topologies, an analytical approach on the power losses evaluation is achieved which made the calculation very fast and direct. A HVDC link to connect an off-shore wind farm platform is considered as a case study. The nominal power level is 100 MW with a DC voltage of 160 kV. The MMC is rated considering press-packed IGBT and IGCT devices. Simulations validate the calculations and also allow analyzing fault conditions. The study is carried out by considering a classical PWM control with an interleaving of the cells. In order to validate calculation and the simulation results, a 10kW three-phase prototype was built. It includes 18 commutation cells and its control system is based on a DSP-FGPA platform.

There has been a large body of statements claiming that the large scale deployment of Distributed Energy Resources (DERs) will eventually reshape the future distribution grid operation in numerous ways. However, there is a lack of evidence specifying to what extent the power system operation will be alternated. In this project, quantitative results in terms of how the future distribution grid will be changed by the deployment of distributed generation, active demand and electric vehicles, are presented. The quantitative analysis is based on the conditions for both a radial and a meshed distribution network. The input parameters are on the basis of the current and envisioned DER deployment scenarios proposed for Sweden. The simulation results indicate that the deployment of DERs can significantly reduce the power losses and voltage drops by compensating power from the local energy resources, and limiting the power transmitted from the external grid. However, it is notable that the opposite results (e.g., severe voltage uctuations, larger power losses) can be obtained due to the intermittent characteristics of DERs and the irrational management of different types of DERs in the DNs. Subsequently, this will lead to challenges for the Distribution System Operator (DSO).