Volume 3, Number 4, September 2011 (Special Issue on )

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Detection of Mechanical Deformation in Old Aged Power Transformer Using Cross Correlation Co-Efficient Analysis Method

Asif Islam, Shahidul Islam Khan, Aminul Hoque

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DOI: 10.4236/epe.2011.34073  7,696 Downloads  12,580 Views   Citations

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Research Progress on Nanostructured Radar Absorbing Materials

Yanmin Wang, Tingxi Li, Lifen Zhao, Zuwang Hu, Yijie Gu

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DOI: 10.4236/epe.2011.34072  7,839 Downloads  14,432 Views   Citations

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The Effect of Retrofit Technologies on Formaldehyde Emissions from a Large Bore Natural Gas Engine

Daniel B. Olsen, Bryan D. Willson

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DOI: 10.4236/epe.2011.34071  5,629 Downloads  8,994 Views   Citations

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Wind Tunnel at LABINTHAP (Updated)

P. Rosas Quiterio, M. Toledo Velázquez, G. Tolentino Eslava, R. Tolentino Eslava, J. Abugaber Francis

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DOI: 10.4236/epe.2011.34070  5,450 Downloads  9,212 Views   Citations

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Multiple Criteria Analysis for Energy Storage Selection

Alexandre Barin, Luciane N. Canha, Alzenira R. Abaide, Karine F. Magnago, Breno Wottrich, Ricardo Q. Machado

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DOI: 10.4236/epe.2011.34069  5,490 Downloads  9,448 Views   Citations

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Modified Shuffled Frog Leaping Algorithm for Solving Economic Load Dispatch Problem

Priyanka Roy, A. Chakrabarti

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DOI: 10.4236/epe.2011.34068  6,060 Downloads  10,068 Views   Citations

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Isolated Area Load Forecasting using Linear Regression Analysis: Practical Approach

M. A. Mahmud

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DOI: 10.4236/epe.2011.34067  6,948 Downloads  10,498 Views   Citations

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Characterization of Peaks and Valleys of Electricity Demand. Application to the Spanish Mainland System in the Period 2000-2020

Fermín Moreno

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DOI: 10.4236/epe.2011.34066  5,012 Downloads  8,213 Views   Citations

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Efficiency Upgrade in PWRs

Morteza Gharib, Abdolazim Yaghooti, Majid Oloomi Buygi

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DOI: 10.4236/epe.2011.34065  5,033 Downloads  8,193 Views   Citations

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Improvment of Free Convection Heat Transfer Rateof Rectangular Heatsink on Vertical Base Plates

HamidReza Goshayeshi, Mahdi Fahiminia, Mohammad Mahdi Naserian

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DOI: 10.4236/epe.2011.34064  4,863 Downloads  7,619 Views   Citations

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Evaluation of the Gas Turbine Inlet Temperature with Relation to the Excess Air

F. Rueda Martínez, A. Rueda Martínez, M. Toledo Velazquez, P. Quinto Diez, G. Tolentino Eslava, J. Abugaber Francis

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DOI: 10.4236/epe.2011.34063  10,786 Downloads  18,453 Views   Citations

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Fault Detection and Isolation Based on Neural Networks Case Study: Steam Turbine

D. Benazzouz, S. Benammar, S. Adjerid

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DOI: 10.4236/epe.2011.34062  5,530 Downloads  8,793 Views   Citations

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Optimization of Recloser Placement to Improve Reliability by Genetic Algorithm

Nematollah Dehghani, Rahman Dashti

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DOI: 10.4236/epe.2011.34061  6,682 Downloads  10,699 Views   Citations

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A Practical Framework for Reliability and Quality Assessment of Power Systems

M. A. El-Kady, B. M. Alshammari

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DOI: 10.4236/epe.2011.34060  4,640 Downloads  7,614 Views   Citations

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Mechanism Analysis on Stress Accumulation in Cylindrical Vertical-Placed Metal Hydride Reactor

Xiaochen Hu, Zhaogang Qi, Feng Qin, Jiangping Chen

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DOI: 10.4236/epe.2011.34059  4,054 Downloads  6,685 Views   Citations

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Effect of New Suggested Ferroresonance Limiter on the Stability Domain of Chaotic Ferroresonance in the Power Transformer with Linear Core Model

Hamid Radmanesh, Hamid Fathi, Mehrdad Rostami

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DOI: 10.4236/epe.2011.34058  5,966 Downloads  9,454 Views   Citations

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Analysis of Chaotic Ferroresonance Phenomena in Unloaded Transformers Including MOV

Ataollah Abbasi, Mehrdad Rostami, Ahmad Gholami, Hamid R. Abbasi

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DOI: 10.4236/epe.2011.34057  5,532 Downloads  8,917 Views   Citations

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Analytical Approach for the Systematic Research of the Periodic Ferroresonant Solutions in the Power Networks

Fathi Ben Amar, Rachid Dhifaoui

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DOI: 10.4236/epe.2011.34056  4,851 Downloads  7,444 Views   Citations

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Study of Luminous Emission from a Coaxial Plasma Discharge Device in the Presence of External Transverse Magnetic Field

Tarek M. Allam, Hanaa A. El-Sayed, Hanaa M. Soliman

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DOI: 10.4236/epe.2011.34055  3,578 Downloads  5,902 Views   Citations

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Plasma Current Sheath Motion in Coaxial Plasma Discharge

Tarek M. Allam, Hanaa A. El-Sayed, Hanaa M. Soliman

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DOI: 10.4236/epe.2011.34054  4,785 Downloads  7,798 Views   Citations

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A Novel Fuzzy—Adaptive Hysteresis Controller Based Three Phase Four Wire-Four Leg Shunt Active Filter for Harmonic and Reactive Power Compensation

P. Rathika, D. Devaraj

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DOI: 10.4236/epe.2011.34053  6,966 Downloads  11,192 Views   Citations

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Fuzzy and PI Controller Based SHAF for Mitigation of Current Harmonics with P-Q Method Using Matlab and RTDS Hardware

Suresh Mikkili, Anup Kumar Panda

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DOI: 10.4236/epe.2011.34052  5,037 Downloads  8,144 Views   Citations

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Study of Sliding Mode Control of DC-DC Buck Converter

Hanifi Guldemir

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DOI: 10.4236/epe.2011.34051  9,223 Downloads  18,214 Views   Citations

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Steady State Analysis of a Doubly Fed Induction Generator

Ahmad M. Alkandari, S. A. Soliman, Mansour H. Abdel-Rahman

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DOI: 10.4236/epe.2011.34050  7,375 Downloads  12,678 Views   Citations

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