The transition trend towards renewable energy in the modern world shows a rapid increment of renewable power sources in electrical power systems. Wind energy and solar energy can be considered as the leading energy sources ...

With the current increasing trend for the non-conventional renewable energy (NCRE) in Sri Lanka, interest has been focused on retiring of thermal/coal power plants and getting the energy via renewable sources. Since almost ...

The severity of the emerging environmental problems and the criticality of a future energy crisis with associated socio-economic quandaries are becoming strengthen along with the inevitable growth of energy demand due ...

Multilevel inverters are found in many applications in high power levels. These converters are available in different topological options, such as Cascaded Half Bridge, Neutral Point Clamp, Flying Capacitor, Hybrid and so ...

It is important to have an uninterrupted, economical, and reliable electricity supply contributing to economic and social development of a country. Due to the environmental impacts of fossil fuel based conventional power ...

More and more renewable electricity generating sources such as wind and solar power plants are being integrated into electrical power systems, which in turn complicates processes such as power system stability studies due ...

Colombo being the commercial hub of Sri Lanka, maintaining high reliability of electricity supply is critical. Thus, the electricity distribution network of Colombo city comprises of six, 11 kV ring networks formed around ...

Conveyor belt-type checkweigher machines are important part of modern production factories. They are used to determine the weight of the different types of products without stopping the products on the weighing conveyor. ...

Proliferation of solar photovoltaics (PV) in low-voltage (LV) distribution networks is inciting technical challenges in network design and operation with regard to the quality of power. Violations of operational performance ...

Hydropower is an extremely valuable resource. There are two types of reservoir based hydropower stations with different main goals. Some are following the demand of the utility and others follow irrigation water requirements. ...