<p>Production and consumption of electricity have grown enormously during the last century. No mater what the primary source of energy is, almost all generation of electricity comes from conversion of a rotational movement in a generator. The aim of this thesis is to see how high voltage technology influence production and storage of electricity. Power flow in the generators used to convert mechanical movement to electric energy is analyzed using Poynting‘s vector. The impact of new generator technology for efficient extraction of hydroelectric power is shown. Simulation of a large permanent magnet turbo generator is presented. A flywheel storage system for electric vehicles utilizing high voltage technology is also presented. In pulsed power applications, a cheap method for intermediate storage of energy during milliseconds, which enables an inductive primary storage is presented and experimentally tested.</p>

Production and consumption of electricity have grown enormously during the last century. No mater what the primary source of energy is, almost all generation of electricity comes from conversion of a rotational movement in a generator. The aim of this thesis is to see how high voltage technology influence production and storage of electricity. Power flow in the generators used to convert mechanical movement to electric energy is analyzed using Poynting‘s vector. The impact of new generator technology for efficient extraction of hydroelectric power is shown. Simulation of a large permanent magnet turbo generator is presented. A flywheel storage system for electric vehicles utilizing high voltage technology is also presented. In pulsed power applications, a cheap method for intermediate storage of energy during milliseconds, which enables an inductive primary storage is presented and experimentally tested.

M. Tech. Electrical Engineering. / Produces findings, based on scientific methods, to verify or refute electromagnetic propagation, generated with Synthetic Poynting Vector formation, that will enable small but efficient electrical antennas.

Radio astronomy is used to study stars, galaxies, black holes and gas clouds radiation at radio frequencies. Detecting extremely weak signals from deep space radio sources requires high sensitive feed system associated with large dish antennas. The key figure of merit is survey speed, or the time required to map a region of the sky to a given source flux density. Survey speed is proportional to the frequency bandwidth, the field of view or observable region of the sky, and the squared sensitivity, where sensitivity is related to reflector aperture efficiency and system noise temperature. Compared to the traditional single feed, phased array feeds with significantly expanded field of view are considered as the next generation feed for radio telescope. This dissertation outlines the design, analysis and measurement of high sensitivity L-band and mm-wave phased array feeds for the 100-meter Green Bank Telescope. Theoretical works for radio astronomy includes design guideline for high sensitivity phased array feed, fundamental frequency bandwidth limit, array antenna loss influenced by mutual coupling and beamformer coefficients and possibility of superdirectivity for radio telescopes and other antennas. These study are helpful to understand and guide the design of a phased array feed system. In the absence of dish antennas, sparse phased arrays with aperiodic structure have been developed for satellite communications. A compromise between the peak side lobe level, array element density, directivity and design complexity is studied. We have found that the array peak side lobe level can be reduced by enhancing the array element direction at the main lobe direction, increasing the array element density and enlarging the array size. A Poynting streamline approach develops to understand the properties of a receiving antenna and the mutual coupling effects between array elements. This method has been successfully used to generate effective area shape for many types of antennas and guide the design of a superdirective antenna. Motivated by this method, a superdirective antenna is experimental demonstrated.

This dissertation describes a theoretical and experimental study on coherent thermal emission from thin-film multilayer structures. A novel multilayer structure consisting of a one-dimensional photonic crystal and a polar material (or a metal) is proposed as a coherent thermal-emission source. Surface electromagnetic waves can be excited at the edge of photonic crystal, enabling coherent emission characteristics (i.e., spectral- and directional-selectivity in the emissivity). A near-infrared coherent emission source is designed and fabricated using vacuum deposition and chemical vapor deposition techniques. Measurements were performed using a Fourier-transform infrared spectrometer and a laser scatterometer. The agreement between the resonance conditions obtained from experiments and the calculated dispersion relation confirms that surface waves at the photonic crystal-metal interface can be utilized to build coherent thermal-emission sources. The second part of this dissertation focuses on the energy propagation direction in near-field thermal radiation. The energy streamline method based on the Poynting vector is applied to near-field thermal radiation by incorporating the fluctuational electrodynamics, in which thermal emission is viewed as originated from random motion of electric dipoles at temperatures above absolute zero. It is shown that the Poynting vector is decoupled for each parallel wavevector component due to the randomness of thermal emission. The spectral radiative energy travels in infinite directions along curved lines; this is a fundamental characteristic of near-field thermal radiation. The findings in this dissertation are important for the design of near-field optical sensors and energy conversion devices.

<p>Polarisation, which was first studied in optics, is a fundamental property of all electromagnetic fields. A convenient way to describe the polarisation of two dimensional electromagnetic fields is given by the Stokes parameters. This thesis deals with different aspects of wave polarisation and electromagnetic field measurements. A generalisation of the Stokes parameters to three dimensions is presented. The theory has been used to develop methods and systems for obtaining the polarisation parameters of electromagnetic waves. The methods can be applied for a wide range of electromagnetic fields, measured both on ground and onboard satellites. The applications include, e.g., direction-finding, polarisation analysis, radar, and several examples in the field of wireless communication. Further applications are given in the analysis of satellite data, where a whistler wave is considered. Whistlers are circularly polarised electromagnetic waves propagating in the magnetosphere along the geomagnetic field. Dispersion in the magnetospheric plasma make the whistler frequencies travel at different speeds and the signal takes the form of a chirp. From instantaneous polarisation analysis of the whistler´s magnetic wave field, the normal to the polarisation plane is obtained and found to precess around the geomagnetic field. A statistic analysis of ionospheric stimulated electromagnetic emissions (SEE) is also presented. SEE is generated by injecting a powerful high frequency radio wave into the ionosphere. It is shown that the SEE features have a statistical behaviour indistinguishable from the amplitude and phase distributions of narrow-band Gaussian noise. The results suggests that SEE cannot be explained by simple coherent processes alone. Finally, an expression for the complex Poynting theorem is derived for the general case of anharmonic fields. It is found that the complex Poynting theorem, for real fields and sources, is not a conservation law of the imaginary part of electromagnetic energy.</p>

Polarisation, which was first studied in optics, is a fundamental property of all electromagnetic fields. A convenient way to describe the polarisation of two dimensional electromagnetic fields is given by the Stokes parameters. This thesis deals with different aspects of wave polarisation and electromagnetic field measurements. A generalisation of the Stokes parameters to three dimensions is presented. The theory has been used to develop methods and systems for obtaining the polarisation parameters of electromagnetic waves. The methods can be applied for a wide range of electromagnetic fields, measured both on ground and onboard satellites. The applications include, e.g., direction-finding, polarisation analysis, radar, and several examples in the field of wireless communication. Further applications are given in the analysis of satellite data, where a whistler wave is considered. Whistlers are circularly polarised electromagnetic waves propagating in the magnetosphere along the geomagnetic field. Dispersion in the magnetospheric plasma make the whistler frequencies travel at different speeds and the signal takes the form of a chirp. From instantaneous polarisation analysis of the whistler´s magnetic wave field, the normal to the polarisation plane is obtained and found to precess around the geomagnetic field. A statistic analysis of ionospheric stimulated electromagnetic emissions (SEE) is also presented. SEE is generated by injecting a powerful high frequency radio wave into the ionosphere. It is shown that the SEE features have a statistical behaviour indistinguishable from the amplitude and phase distributions of narrow-band Gaussian noise. The results suggests that SEE cannot be explained by simple coherent processes alone. Finally, an expression for the complex Poynting theorem is derived for the general case of anharmonic fields. It is found that the complex Poynting theorem, for real fields and sources, is not a conservation law of the imaginary part of electromagnetic energy.

<p>U radu je pokazano da frekvencijski zavisna impedansa<br />zemlje kao povratnog provodnika, pri proizvoljnoj<br />učestanosti može veoma tačno da se odredi pomoću<br />fluksa kompleksnog Pointingovog vektora. Za<br />izračunavanje kompleksnog Pointingovog vektora,<br />neophodno je prethodno odrediti raspodelu struje u<br />zemlji, kao i raspodelu magnetskog polja i u zemlji i u<br />vazduhu iznad povr&scaron;i zemlje. Obe ove raspodele takođe<br />su značajne za analizu elektroenergetskih sistema.</p> / <p>The thesis shows that the Earth return impedance at<br />arbitrary low frequency can be accurately determined<br />from the complex Poynting vector flux. For the complex<br />Poynting vector calculation, first it is necessary to<br />determine the current distribution inside the ground, as<br />well as the magnetic field distribution both inside the<br />ground and in the air above the ground surface. Both<br />distributions are also significant for power electrical<br />systems analysis.</p>

Submitted by Renata Lopes (renatasil82@gmail.com) on 2016-05-31T15:07:36Z No. of bitstreams: 1 lucasvitorfonsecadeoliveira.pdf: 1420167 bytes, checksum: b5075b7ccc33c587012a46901a9b21af (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Adriana Oliveira (adriana.oliveira@ufjf.edu.br) on 2016-07-02T12:44:37Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 lucasvitorfonsecadeoliveira.pdf: 1420167 bytes, checksum: b5075b7ccc33c587012a46901a9b21af (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-07-02T12:44:37Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 lucasvitorfonsecadeoliveira.pdf: 1420167 bytes, checksum: b5075b7ccc33c587012a46901a9b21af (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012-03-30 / CAPES - Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / Com a abertura legal do setor elétrico brasileiro na década de 90 para investimentos privados, em especial com a implantação sistemática de leilões para definição dos concessionários de transmissão, diversos estudos foram efetuados com o objetivo de viabilizar projetos de linha de transmissão de modo a concorrem nesses leilões. Grandes transmissoras, como Furnas, Chesf e Eletronorte promoveram pesquisas em consórcio com empresas construtoras de linhas e fabricante de ferragens e isoladores, com o objetivo de desenvolverem projetos com baixa relação Reais/MW transmitido. Neste cenário, muitos projetos de linhas de potência natural elevada foram idealizados e implantados, e como fruto desses projetos, publicações foram realizadas descrevendo os resultados obtidos. Todavia, apesar da quantidade, qualidade e riqueza das informações publicadas, a descrição do processo de otimização dos parâmetros elétricos da linha, em especial da impedância característica, não receberam destaque, sendo muita das vezes suprimida nos artigos. Neste sentido, este trabalho propõe a investigação de um método inovador de otimização da capacidade de transmissão de linhas de potência natural elevada, através da análise indireta dos efeitos da variação do posicionamento dos cabos condutores no feixe sobre a impedância característica da linha, por meio de uma abordagem original que utiliza basicamente o vetor de Poynting como função objetivo do Método de Otimização por Enxame de Partículas, sendo os campos elétricos e magnéticos necessários para definição do vetor de Poynting calculados por meio do Método dos Elementos de Contorno. O método foi validado utilizando como exemplos a otimização das configurações de feixes da linha de 500 kV Interligação Norte/SUL III – Trecho 2 e Linha de 500 kV Presidente Dutra / Teresina / Sobral / Fortaleza. Foram encontrados ganhos na capacidade de transmissão de 7% e 22% respectivamente devido à redução da impedância característica calculada após a otimização através da rotina Line Constants do programa ATP/EMTP, e comparando-a com os valores originais. / With the legal opening for private investments in the Brazilian energy sector in the 90's, in particular the systematic implementation of auctions for defining power transmission concessions, several studies were made with the aim of developing transmission line projects in order to compete in these auctions. Major transmission companies such as Furnas, Eletronorte and CHESF promoted consortium research with line builders and hardware and insulators manufacturers, in order to develop projects with low cost/MW transmitted. In this scenario, many projects of high surge-impedance loading lines were developed and implemented, and as a result of these projects, publications were made describing the results. However, despite the quantity, quality and resourcefulness of published information, the descriptions of the optimization process of electrical line parameters, especially regarding characteristic impedance, were not given prominence, being often suppressed from the articles. Thus, this study proposes the investigation of a method for optimizing the transmission capacity of high surge-impedance loading lines, varying the power cables in the bundle, indirectly reducing its characteristic impedance through an original approach that uses basically the Poynting's vector as objective function of the Particle Swarm Optimization method.The electric and magnetic fields needed for defining the Poynting vector were calculated using the Boundary Element Method. The method was validated through the optimization of bundle configuration, using as a model the characteristics of the 500 kV line North / South Interconnection III - Segment 2 and the 500 kV line Presidente Dutra / Teresina / Sobral / Fortaleza. It was found transmission capacity gains of 7% and 22% respectively, by reducing the characteristic impedance, which was calculated after the optimization using the EMTP/ATP Line Constants Program, comparing it with the original values.