Extended Capabilities of the Power Quality Management System of the Power Distribution Grid for Data Exchange

The actual operation of the power distribution systems asks for high power quality (PQ). This fully justifies the investments in improving the metrics of power grid performances. But maintaining a PQ data infrastructure in a numerous locations is time-consuming and prohibitive. Moreover, each PQ monitor releases its own data format. These considerations justified using of a central PQ management system able to manipulate elliptical and time discontinuous information. The paper presents the characteristics of a webbased application designed to collect the data measured with different technologies of monitors and translate them into a common PQ data interchange format allowing comprehensive and long-duration grid operation assessment. The unitary formatted data generated by this customized software tool can be further processed by a proprietary software platform for PQ management owned by the network operator. The present version of this conversion tool is applicable only for one product family operating in the local power distribution grid. Further development is planned for integrating other two monitor vendors/families

Extended Capabilities of the Power Quality Management System of the Power Distribution Grid for Data Exchange

The actual operation of the power distribution systems asks for high power quality (PQ). This fully justifies the investments in improving the metrics of power grid performances. But maintaining a PQ data infrastructure in a numerous locations is time-consuming and prohibitive. Moreover, each PQ monitor releases its own data format. These considerations justified using of a central PQ management system able to manipulate elliptical and time discontinuous information. The paper presents the characteristics of a webbased application designed to collect the data measured with different technologies of monitors and translate them into a common PQ data interchange format allowing comprehensive and long-duration grid operation assessment. The unitary formatted data generated by this customized software tool can be further processed by a proprietary software platform for PQ management owned by the network operator. The present version of this conversion tool is applicable only for one product family operating in the local power distribution grid. Further development is planned for integrating other two monitor vendors/families

Impact analysis of changing the neutral treatment solution in an MV electrical station on the system performance

The actual operation of the power distribution systems asks for high standards concerning the performance of the system in terms of continuity and safety in supplying consumers on the one hand and the quality of the delivered energy on the other hand. Thus, the paper aims to present a complete analysis of the impact that the modification of the neutral treatment system in a 110 kV / MV station belonging to Energy Distribution Oltenia (DEO), has on both the number and the type of unwanted events or phenomena as well as on the network parameters and the transient regime which occurs as a result of some defects with the earth. All of these have been analyzed taking into account the new performance standards that distribution systems have to respect

Impact analysis of changing the neutral treatment solution in an MV electrical station on the system performance

The actual operation of the power distribution systems asks for high standards concerning the performance of the system in terms of continuity and safety in supplying consumers on the one hand and the quality of the delivered energy on the other hand. Thus, the paper aims to present a complete analysis of the impact that the modification of the neutral treatment system in a 110 kV / MV station belonging to Energy Distribution Oltenia (DEO), has on both the number and the type of unwanted events or phenomena as well as on the network parameters and the transient regime which occurs as a result of some defects with the earth. All of these have been analyzed taking into account the new performance standards that distribution systems have to respect

Scaffold-Type Structure Dental Ceramics with Different Compositions Evaluated through Physicochemical Characteristics and Biosecurity Profiles

The design and development of ceramic structures based on 3D scaffolding as dental bone substitutes has become a topic of great interest in the regenerative dentistry research area. In this regard, the present study focuses on the development of two scaffold-type structures obtained from different commercial dental ceramics by employing the foam replication method. At the same time, the study underlines the physicochemical features and the biological profiles of the newly developed scaffolds, compared to two traditional Cerabone® materials used for bone augmentation, by employing both the in vitro Alamar blue proliferation test at 24, 48 and 96 h poststimulation and the in ovo chick chorioallantoic membrane (CAM) assay. The data reveal that the newly developed scaffolds express comparable results with the traditional Cerabone® augmentation masses. In terms of network porosity, the scaffolds show higher pore interconnectivity compared to Cerabone® granules, whereas regarding the biosafety profile, all ceramic samples manifest good biocompatibility on primary human gingival fibroblasts (HGFs); however only the Cerabone® samples induced proliferation of HGF cells following exposure to concentrations of 5 and 10 µg/mL. Additionally, none of the test samples induce irritative activity on the vascular developing plexus. Thus, based on the current results, the preliminary biosecurity profile of ceramic scaffolds supports the usefulness for further testing of high relevance for their possible clinical dental applications