Space Microgrids for Future Manned Lunar Bases: A Review [PDF]
IEEE Open Access Journal of Power and Energy, 2021 Several space organizations have been planning to establish a permanent, manned base on the Moon in recent years. Such an installation demands a highly reliable electrical power system (EPS) to supply life support systems and scientific equipment and ...
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New Horizons for Microgrids: From Rural Electrification to Space Applications [PDF]
Energies, 2023 The microgrid concept has evolved from the humble origins of simple remote electrification applications in rural environments to complex architectures.
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Mission Critical Microgrids: The Case of the Alcântara Space Center [PDF]
Energies, 2022 This article reports the conception and design of a mission critical microgrid to serve a critical infrastructure application, namely, the Alcântara Space Launch Center, a government military facility in Brazil.
César Augusto Santana Castelo Branco +11 more
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Improved State-space Modelling for Microgrids Without Virtual Resistances [PDF]
Journal of Modern Power Systems and Clean EnergyPower converters and their interfacing networks are often treated as modular state-space blocks for small-signal stability studies in microgrids; they are interconnected by matching the input and output states of the network and converters.
Paranagamage S. A. Peiris +2 more
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State Space Modeling of Inverter Based Microgrids Considering\n Distributed Secondary Voltage Control [PDF]
2017 North American Power Symposium (NAPS), 2017 Appropriate control of high penetration renewable energies in power systems requires a complete modeling of the system. In this paper, a comprehensive state space modeling of voltage source inverters, networks and loads are studied. We have modeled a secondary voltage control that utilizes the nominal set points of the output voltage as the input for ...
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Space Microgrids: New Concepts on Electric Power Systems for Satellites [PDF]
IEEE Electrification Magazine, 2020 The electric power systems (EPSs) are of a paramount importance in satellites. These systems are responsible for power generation, storage, delivery, and conditioning. A failure in an EPS may hinder all the aforementioned functionalities, which consequently, leads to a failure of the whole space mission.
Abderezak Lashab +4 more
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Hierarchical Control of Space Closed Ecosystems: Expanding Microgrid Concepts to Bioastronautics
IEEE Industrial Electronics Magazine, 2021 One of the main challenges of human space exploration is the development of artificial ecosystems, which can be used as Life Support Systems (LSSs) to enable long duration human space missions. In an open LSS, no food generation or waste treatment is provided in space and supply from earth is necessary. According to Fig.
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Optimal Sizing and Siting of PV and Battery Based Space Microgrids Near the Moon’s Shackleton Crater [PDF]
IEEE Access, 2023 Space mission cost and feasibility depend mainly on the size and mass of the payload. This paper investigates the optimal photovoltaic (PV) array and battery size and mass for an islanded PV-battery powered space microgrid (MG) at the lunar south pole ...
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Identifying Parameter Space for Robust Stability in Nonlinear Networks: A Microgrid Application [PDF]
2019 American Control Conference (ACC), 2019 As modern engineering systems grow in complexity, attitudes toward a modular design approach become increasingly more favorable. A key challenge to a modular design approach is the certification of robust stability under uncertainties in the rest of the network.
Soumya Kundu +4 more
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Faroe Islands Wind-Powered Space Heating Microgrid Using Self-Excited 220-kW Induction Generator [PDF]
IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy, 2014 Energy is fundamental to modern society. Increase in the oil price as well as environmental concerns have spurred the use of alternative renewable energy sources. In the Faroe Islands the readily available wind energy is an obvious source for space heating. Seasonal correlation exists between wind energy and required space heating and mismatches can be
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