Electrical Construction & Maintenance

Short Circuit Fault Calculations

A power system functions normally until after the occurrence of a fault in the system. The good news is fault events can be minimized or avoided through diligent electrical design, accurate record ...
Electrical Construction & Maintenance

Short Circuit Current Duties of Circuit Breakers and Fuses — Part 2

This is the second part of a two-part series on the methodologies used to find the short circuit current duties of circuit breakers and fuses. The first part, Short Circuit Current Duties of Circuit ...
EDN

GaN prolongs short-circuit withstand time

Gallium nitride (GaN) semiconductor devices must pass stringent robustness tests to survive extreme conditions with both high current and high voltage. Here, short-circuits survivability is the most ...
pv magazine International

Machine learning-based fault detection technique for bifacial PV

CNN and random forest model to detect multiple faults in bifacial PV systems, including dust, shading, aging, and cracks. Using simulated I-V curves and a 180-day synthetic dataset, the model achieved ...
pv magazine International

Temperature coefficient of short circuit current may not be proper metric for perovskite-silicon tandem solar cells

Researchers at the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) in Saudi Arabia have investigated whether the temperature coefficient of the short circuit current in perovskite-silicon ...