Smart Power Grid

July 2017

Researchers Develop Model to Predict and Prevent Power Outages Using Big Data

Texas A&M University

High-speed winds during a thunderstorm may cause trees around an electric grid to crash into the distribution system feeders causing an outage in that area. Currently, most utility companies diminish such accidents by scheduling regular tree-trimming operations. This effort is costly and is based on a rotational ap

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Date:

07/27/2017

Galvanic isolation between the high-voltage and low-voltage sides.

Maximum Efficiency for Inverters

Wolfgang Rambow, Senior Director Reference Design EPCOS, a TDK Group Company

TDK has joined forces with Infineon Technologies to develop a design for xEV inverters that achieves a very high efficiency of over 98 percent over a power range of 10 kW to 150 kW. This success has been achieved by matching of the Infineon IGBT module and the EPCOS and TDK passive components. The new Infin

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Date:

07/25/2017

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Interference-free cabling

Interference-free cabling

Martin Tenhumberg and Werner Wölfle, Traco Power

Long lines for distributed loads can emit and be susceptible to interference which can affect the connected loads. However, the loads work without disruption as long as a few basic rules are observed when it comes to cabling. Moderndevices and systems are generally complex, their electrical/electronic components

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Date:

07/22/2017

Wuerth Elektronik and FELA collaborating on research into new technology

Despite current stability and positive sales growth in the circuit board indus-try, it must be presumed that consolidation has not yet come to an end. Circuit board manufacturers are facing enormous price erosion caused by Asian circuit boards, as well as rising manufacturing costs in Europe and generally intense g

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Date:

07/21/2017

Battery Breakthrough Using 2016 Nobel Prize Molecule

The Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)

Silicon anodes are receiving a great deal of attention from the battery community. They can deliver 3~5-times higher capacities compared with those using current graphite anodes in lithium ion batteries. A higher capacity means longer battery use per charge, which is particularly critical in extending the driving mi

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Date:

07/21/2017