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Testing the Performance of Battery Energy Storage in a Wind Energy Conversion System by Sattar, Adnan, Al-Durra, Ahmed, Caruana, Cedric, Debouza, Mahdi, Muyeen, S. M.

“…This article examines the dynamic and transient performances of a battery energy storage system (BESS) connected with the output of a wind energy conversion…”
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Building Energy Renovation and Smart Integration of Renewables in a Social Housing Block Toward Nearly-Zero Energy Status by Gatt, Damien, Caruana, Cedric, Yousif, Charles

“…Like other islands, Malta experiences great challenges to secure its energy supply and independence. Deep renovation of buildings to nearly zero energy and…”
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Analysis and Compensation of Inverter Nonlinearity Effect on a Sensorless PMSM Drive at Very Low and Zero Speed Operation by Raute, R, Caruana, C, Staines, C S, Cilia, J, Sumner, M, Asher, G M

“…It has been well established in the literature that inverter nonlinearity effects afflict saliency-based sensorless drives. The inverter nonlinearity leads to…”
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Sensorless Control of Induction Machines at Low and Zero Speed by Using PWM Harmonics for Rotor-Bar Slotting Detection by Raute, R, Caruana, C, Staines, C S, Cilia, J, Sumner, M, Asher, G M

“…This paper presents the use of the inherent high-frequency pulsewidth modulation (PWM) harmonics for sensorless control of ac machines. The amplitude and…”
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Improved Waveform Quality in the Direct Torque Control of Matrix-Converter-Fed PMSM Drives by Ortega, Carlos, Arias, Antoni, Caruana, Cedric, Balcells, Josep, Asher, Greg M

“…Despite the ability of matrix converters (MCs) to generate a higher number of voltage vectors compared with standard voltage-source inverters, most of the…”
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Islanding operation of hybrid microgrids with high integration of wind driven cage induction generators by Ambia, Mir Nahidul, Al-Durra, Ahmed, Caruana, Cedric, Muyeen, S.M.

“…This paper proposes two control strategies for the islanding operation of hybrid microgrid with a high penetration of wind driven cage induction generators…”
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Development and performance testing of a small, multi-bladed wind turbine by Sant, Tonio, Farrugia, Robert N, Muscat, Martin, Caruana, Cedric, Axisa, Redeemer, Borg, Albert, Cassar, Cecille M, Cassar, Josianne, Cordina, Christian, Farrugia, Adrian, Schembri, Steven

“…This article presents selected results from the development process of a small, prototype multi-bladed wind turbine designed to replace the American…”
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Power management of hybrid micro-grid system by a generic centralized supervisory control scheme by Ambia, Mir Nahidul, Al-Durra, Ahmed, Caruana, Cedric, Muyeen, S.M.

“…This paper presents a generic centralized supervisory control scheme for the power management of multiple power converters based hybrid micro-grid system. The…”
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Real-time testing of energy storage systems in renewable energy applications by Caruana, Cedric, Sattar, Adnan, Al-Durra, Ahmed, Muyeen, S.M.

“…Energy storage systems provide a promising solution for the renewable energy sector to facilitate large-scale grid integration. It is thus very important to…”
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Performance of HF signal injection techniques for zero-low-frequency vector control of induction Machines under sensorless conditions by Caruana, C., Asher, G.M., Sumner, M.

“…A number of HF signal injection techniques have been proposed for the sensorless zero-low-frequency control of induction machines (IMs). This paper reviews…”
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Sensorless control of induction Machines at zero and low frequency using zero sequence currents by Staines, C.S., Caruana, C., Asher, G.M., Sumner, M.

“…This paper considers both flux and rotor position estimations for sensorless control of delta-connected cage induction machines (IMs) at low and zero frequency…”
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Testing the Performance of Battery Energy Storage in a Wind Energy Conversion System by Sattar, A., Al-Durra, A., Caruana, C., Muyeen, S.M.

“…This paper examines the dynamic and transient performances of a battery energy storage system connected at the output of a wind energy conversion system to…”
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Performance Aspects of the Electrical Conversion Stages of a small multibladed wind energy system by Caruana, Cedric, Grima, Claire, Mifsud, Miriana

“…The paper considers a conventional small-scale wind energy system with a multibladed rotor. A predetermined control characteristic is used to direct the system…”
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Reducing the common mode voltage in a DTC-PMSM drive using matrix converters by Ortega, C., Arias, A., Caruana, C., Apap, M.

“…The common mode voltage at the output of matrix converters is firstly analyzed in this paper. An approach to reduced it, when a direct torque control scheme is…”
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A Two-Stage Approach Combining Constraint-Based Algorithms and Gaussian Process Regression for Estimation of Cruise Ship Hotel Loads by Micallef, Alexander, Apap, Maurice, Licari, John, Caruana, Cedric

“…This paper presents a hybrid approach based on two stages for estimating the hotel load power demand on cruise ships. In the initial stage, a constraint-based…”
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Design of a High Specific Power Permanent Magnet Electrical Machine for a Flywheel Energy Storage System by Lian, Xuewen, Caruana, Cedric, Galea, Michael, Camilleri, Robert

“…This paper considers the design and analysis of a 22-kW surface-mounted permanent magnet electrical machine for a flywheel electrical storage system to be used…”
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Analysis of Droop controlled paralleled Aircraft Generators through common DC Bus by Lendi, Daniel, Staines, Cyril Spiteri, Caruana, Cedric, Licari, John

“…With the increase in electrical loads and the shift from hydraulic and pneumatic to electrical systems, such as in the Boeing 787s no-bleed system…”
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Flux position estimation in cage induction machines using synchronous HF injection and Kalman filtering by Caruana, C., Asher, G.M., Bradley, K.J., Woolfson, M.

“…This paper proposes a new approach to the tracking of the flux position saliency of an induction machine by means of high-frequency (HF) signal injection in…”
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Sensorless flux position estimation at low and zero frequency by measuring zero-sequence current in delta-connected cage induction machines by Caruana, C., Asher, G.M., Clare, J.C.

“…This paper considers the estimation of both flux and rotor position in delta-connected cage induction machines operating at low and zero frequencies. It is…”
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Sensorless Control of Induction Machines by Using PWM Harmonics for Rotor Bar Slotting Detection by Raute, R., Caruana, C., Staines, C.S., Cilia, J., Sumner, M., Asher, G.

“…The paper presents the use of the inherent high frequency PWM harmonics for sensorless control of AC machines. The amplitude and position of the PWM voltage…”
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