Abstract: Example approaches for power quality monitoring in a power distribution grid are described. In an example, monitoring data is received by a communication gateway from a node coupled to it. In an example, there may be multiple nodes in the power distribution grid. Local insights for power quality monitoring may be estimated, based on the monitoring data, using predictive analytics at the communication gateway. The monitoring data and the local insights associated with each of the plurality of nodes is transmitted to the server. Global insights for power quality monitoring may be estimating, using predictive analytics performed at the server, based on the monitoring data and the local insights. An indication to an operator is generated, based on the estimated local insights, global insights and the monitored data, to carry out preventive or corrective action for maintaining the power quality in the power distribution grid.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a dielectric-insulation or arc-extinction fluid for an apparatus for the generation, the transmission, the distribution and/or the usage of electrical energy, the fluid being a mixture comprising a fluoroolefin and oxygen. According the fluoroolefin is a monohydrofluoroolefin containing from 4 to 5 carbon atoms, the hydrogen atom being bound to a carbon atom of the double bond or directly adjacent to the double bond.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a fibre reinforced polymer (FRP) tube, the tube comprising a plurality of concentric layers of an FRP material forming a shell of the tube. At least one blind threaded longitudinal bolt hole is provided from a transverse end surface of the shell. The bolt hole extends in at least three of the plurality of layers, a middle layer encompassing a plane passing through a center of the bolt hole, an inner layer encompassing a plane of an innermost extent of the bolt hole, and an outer layer encompassing a plane of an outermost extent of the bolt hole. The fibre filament of each of the inner and outer layers has been wound at a first angle to the longitudinal axis and the fibre filament of the middle layer has been wound at a second angle to the longitudinal axis.

Abstract: A disconnector device is connectable to pole-mounted equipment in a power grid. The disconnector device is activated in case of an overload condition, thereby disconnecting the pole-mounted equipment. The disconnector device comprises a passive radio device to be enabled via an incoming radio signal. The passive radio device, upon being enabled, transmits, in at least one state of the disconnector device, an indicator radio signal indicative of the respective state of the disconnector device, the state being one of an activated state and a deactivated state of the disconnector device.

Abstract: A power diode comprises a plurality of diode cells (10). Each diode cell (10) comprises a first conductivity type first anode layer (40), a first conductivity type second anode layer (45) having a lower doping concentration than the first anode layer (40) and being separated from an anode electrode layer (20) by the first anode layer (40), a second conductivity type drift layer (50) forming a pn-junction with the second anode layer (45), a second conductivity type cathode layer (60) being in direct contact with the cathode electrode layer (60), and a cathode-side segmentation layer (67) being in direct contact with the cathode electrode layer (30). A material of the cathode-side segmentation layer (67) is a first conductivity type semiconductor, wherein an integrated doping content of the cathode-side, which is integrated along a direction perpendicular to the second main side (102), is below 2·1013 cm?2, or a material of the cathode-side segmentation layer (67) is an insulating material.

Abstract: A transformer tank for a shell type transformer includes a wall, the wall surrounding a tank interior, a clamping arrangement for exerting a clamping force on a magnetic core of the shell type transformer. The clamping arrangement includes a beam fixed on the wall, and a plunger, the plunger including a first axial end configured to exert the clamping force on the magnetic core. The plunger is movable with respect to the beam along its longitudinal axis and a value of the clamping force is settable depending on the position of the plunger relative to the beam.

Abstract: Disclosed is a vertical silicon carbide power MOSFET with a 4H-SiC substrate of n+-type as drain and a 4H-Si C epilayer of n?-type, epitaxially grown on the 4H-SiC substrate acting as drift region and a source region of p++-type, a well region of p-type, a channel region of p-type and a contact region of n++-type implanted into the drift region and a metal gate insulated from the source and drift region by a gate-oxide. A high mobility layer with a vertical thickness in a range 0.1 nm to 50 nm exemplarily in the range of 0.5 nm to 10 nm is provided at the interface between the 4H-SiC epilayer and the gate-oxide.

Abstract: The invention relates to a spliced optical fiber comprising a first and second polarization-maintaining optical fiber connected at ends by splicing; to fiber optic current sensors; and to a method for protecting the spliced optical fiber against mechanical stress and/or humidity. A protection tube is arranged around the spliced optical fiber in a splice section of the spliced optical fiber. A first and second end of the protection tube is sealed to the spliced optical fiber by first and second sealing arrangement for protecting the splice.

Abstract: A method can be used for channel access in an industrial wireless network. A network controller allocates time/frequency resource units in a set of guaranteed timeslots to packet transceivers in the industrial wireless network. The guaranteed timeslots are timewise divided into slots and frequency wise divided into channels, where one slot-channel pair defines one time/frequency resource unit. The network controller provides to the packet transceivers information about the time/frequency resource units allocated to the packet transceivers. The packet transceivers map packets of their own traffic flows to their allocated time/frequency resource units in each set of guaranteed timeslots. The packets for each packet transceiver are mapped according to priority-based scheduling of its own traffic flows and independently of any mapping of packets of other packet transceivers in the industrial wireless network.

Abstract: A condenser core for being positioned around a high voltage main electrical conductor, the condenser core including an electrically insulating body; a longitudinal through hole for accommodating the main electrical conductor; a plurality of electrically conductive foils encircling the through hole and being surrounded by the body such that each foil is insulated from any other of the foils; a potential electrical conductor for establishing an electrical connection between one of the foils and the main electrical conductor when the main electrical conductor is accommodated in the through hole; and a fastening device configured to mechanically connect the potential electrical conductor to the main electrical conductor when the main electrical conductor is accommodated in the through hole. A bushing, a high voltage application and a method of producing a bushing are also provided.

Abstract: A system for controlling a vacuum interrupter for a power diverter switch comprises a main driving shaft which is configured to drive the control cam. The system further comprises the vacuum interrupter which is configured to separate electrical contacts in a vacuum by use of a contact rod, and a transmission unit which is configured to transmit the force generated by the main driving shaft to the contact rod. The transmission unit comprises a plurality of rollable guiding elements and a lever mechanism which is coupled to both the control cam and the contact rod of the vacuum interrupter such that a rotation of the control cam generated by the main driving shaft causes a movement of the contact.

Abstract: Technologies for detecting cyber-attacks against electrical distribution devices include a controller. The controller includes circuitry to determine a first measured value of a first operational parameter of a transformer based upon one or more signals received from one or more sensors of the transformer. The circuitry is also to determine a second measured value of a second operational parameter of the transformer based upon one or more signals received from the one or more sensors of the transformer, calculate a first expected value of the first operational parameter based on the second measured value of the second operational parameter and a model of the transformer that relates the first and second operational parameters, compare the first measured value of the first operational parameter to the first expected value of the first operational parameter, and identify when a difference between the first measured value and the first expected value exceeds a first threshold.

Abstract: A three-phase transformer including a transformer housing, a shell-form five-limb transformer core wherein main limbs include two outer main limbs and a middle main limb, three coil arrangements including two outer coil arrangements each arranged around a respective one of the outer main limbs, and a middle coil arrangement arranged around the middle main limb. The outer coil arrangements have an inter-coil insulation configured to electrically insulate the coil arrangements from the transformer housing and from the respective other ones of the coil arrangements, and wherein no inter-coil insulation is provided to the middle coil arrangement.

Abstract: A transformer assembly for electric grids including: an electric transformer including a magnetic core, a first side including one or more first windings enchained with said magnetic core and adapted to be electrically connected to a first grid section and a second side including one or more second windings enchained with said magnetic core and adapted to be electrically connected to a second grid section; a tap changer operatively associated with said electric transformer to vary the number of turns enchained with said magnetic core for said first windings; a control unit to: acquire input data indicative of an electrical connectivity condition of said second grid section with said second windings; determine whether said transformer is in a load condition or in a no-load condition; and, in a no-load condition, command said tap changer to set a maximum available number of turns for said first windings.

Abstract: In at least one embodiment, the liquid circulation system comprises a rotor located within a tank, a stator having a plurality of coils outside the tank, and an exterior tank wall that is non-magnetic and that is located next to the rotor and between the rotor and the stator, wherein an axis (R) of rotation of the rotor is in parallel with the exterior tank wall, the coils of the stator are arranged along the axis (R) of rotation of the rotor so that the rotor is configured to be rotated by the stator in a touchless manner through the exterior tank wall by means of a varying electromagnetic field driven by the stator to circulate a liquid within the tank.

Abstract: A method of controlling a microgrid comprises receiving, by a power management system, PMS, of the microgrid, operating point values for a plurality of controllable assets. The method comprises determining, by the PMS, an asset headroom. The method comprises determining, by the PMS, a modified operating point value that is dependent on the received operating point value of the controllable asset, the determined asset headroom of the controllable asset, and a total power offset of the microgrid. The method comprises controlling, by the PMS, the controllable assets for which the modified operating point values have been determined in accordance with the modified operating point values.

Abstract: An inspection system for inspecting a machine includes an inspection vehicle constructed for wireless operation while submersed in a dielectric liquid medium. The inspection vehicle is self-propelled. A controller is operative to direct the activities of the inspection vehicle. A plurality of status interrogation systems is disposed on the inspection vehicle. The status interrogation systems are operative to capture inspection data regarding a plurality of inspection procedures performed on the machine.

Abstract: An insulator for electrically insulating an electrical conductor. The insulator includes a roll defining a central longitudinal through hole along a longitudinal axis of the insulator. The through hole is arranged for allowing an electrical conductor to pass there through. The insulator also includes at least one shed arranged on an outer surface of the roll. The shed includes a shed tip having an outer non-flat curvature defined by a plurality of different radii of curvature and including a most distal point of the shed. An end radius of curvature at the most distal point of the curvature is larger than a first radius of curvature at one side of the most distal point and a second radius of curvature at the other side of the most distal point.

Abstract: An electromagnetic induction device comprising a magnetic core having a limb and at least one winding wound around the limb is presented. The winding comprises: an electrical conductor forming a plurality of radially overlapping layers around an axis; an electrically insulating material positioned between the radially overlapping layers of the electrical conductor; at least one magnetic material end-fill positioned at at least one axial end of the winding in electrical in contact with the layers of the electrical conductor so to be at the same electrical potential with the latter.

Abstract: A conductor arrangement for a circuit breaker interrupter, the conductor arrangement including: a tubular body conductor including a first metal material, and an at least partly tubular contact conductor including a second metal material; wherein a tubular end portion of the tubular body conductor is mechanically and electrically joined with a tubular end portion of the tubular contact conductor in an circumferential overlap region formed by longitudinally press-fitting one of the tubular body conductor and the tubular contact conductor into the other one of the tubular body conductor and the tubular contact conductor, wherein the outer one of the tubular end portions of the tubular body conductor and the at least partly tubular contact conductor at the overlap region includes copper and the inner one includes aluminum.