DC Circuit Protection
CEM engineer Dr. Xianyong Feng presented a paper describing a novel way to identify and locate electrical faults in dc circuits at the 13th IET International Conference on Developments on Power System Protection on March 7 – 10, 2016 in Edinburgh, Scotland.
The Future of Providing Reliable Electricity
Researchers at the University of Texas at Austin Center for Electromechanics collaborated with researchers at the University of Twente in the Netherlands to produce two papers on novel “Demand-Side Management”, a phrase used in the electric utility community to describe exerting some level of beneficial control over the use of electricity to maintain safe and efficient operation of the electric grid.
Deploying Power During a Disaster – Bus Exportable Power Supply (BEPS)
During manmade or natural disasters, electric power service is often interrupted as homes, businesses, schools, and hospitals may sit in the dark for several days. Restoring power distribution and generation systems is often a time consuming process, and the availability of alternate power sources, such as diesel generators, is scarce when compared to community needs immediately following a disaster.
UT & NI Host "Programming for Power Electronics" Workshop
UT-CEM and National Instruments (NI) kicked off summer learning by teaming up to bring a “Basic Programming for Power Electronics” one day workshop to the academic community, hosted on the UT JJ Pickle Research Campus.