Impact of the Intermittency of Photovoltaic Power Plants on the Frequency Management: Case of the Senegalese Electricity Grid

This paper investigates the impact of the intermittency of the photovoltaic (PV) power plants on the electric grid frequency management and the consequences that can occur. To meet these purposes, three years data of the Senegalese grid frequency are used, combined with three PV power plants data since their starting-up. Using these data, we analyzed two days of heavily disturbed operation of the Senegalese grid in order to emphasize the real impact of the presence of PV power plants on the electrical grid. Our study has highlighted that how the intermittency of photovoltaic power plants affects frequency management. It obviously appears that the PV production curves follow the irradiation variations. Instantaneous variations of PV production make it difficult to manage the grid frequency leading to more frequent load shedding as we have shown with the data after the commissioning of the PV power plants. We also estimate the power then energy losses during the load shedding induced by the PV integration on the power grid by comparing a period corresponding to one month before (February 2017) and one month after (February 2018) the integration of variable PV production.

Time-Reversal UWB Positioning Beacon for Railway Application

This paper studies a new positioning beacon for railway transport using Ultra Wideband (UWB) radio and Time Reversal (TR) techniques. UWB radio has the potential to offer a good level of performance in terms of localization accuracy. Time Reversal channel pre-filtering facilitates signal detection and also helps increasing the received energy in the targeted area. In this paper, we evaluate the characteristics of TR technique in terms of temporal focusing. The theoretical and simulation results for Power Delay Profile, equivalent channel model and focusing gain of TR-UWB are given. We analyze the contribution of Time Reversal associated with UWB technology to enhance the localization resolution. The IEEE 802.15.3achannel models are used to evaluate the performance of this system. In terms of localization error, the theoretical and simulation results show that TR-UWB technique delivers improved performance over the UWB localization approach.

Variable range hopping conduction in n-CdSe samples at very low temperature

We reanalyzed experimental data already published in Friedman J R, Zhang Y, Dai P, et al. Phys Rev B, 1996, 53（15）： 9528. Variable range hopping （VRH） conduction in the insulating three-dimensional n-CdSe samples has been studied over the entire temperature range from 0.03 to 1 K. In the absence of a magnetic field, the low temperature conductivity a of the three samples （A, B and C） obeys the Mott VRH conduction with an appropriate temperature dependence in the prefactor （a = σ0 exp [- （T0/T）]^p with p ≈ 0.25）. This behavior can be explained by a VRH model where the transport occurs by hopping between localized states in the vicinity of the Fermi level, EF, without creation of the Coulomb gap （CG）. On the contrary, no Efros-Shklovskii VRH is observed, suggesting that the density is constant in the vicinity of the EF.

Electrical properties of ^(70)Ge:Ga near the metal–insulator transition

The results of the metal-insulator transition （MIT） induced by impurity concentration are presented in the case of metallic and insulating samples 70Ge：Ga p-type. The eight samples studied have Ga concentrations N ranging from 1.848 × 1017 to 1.912 × 10^17 cm-3. The conductivity measurements were carried out at low temperature in the range 1 to 0.019 K. We provide physical explanations to explain the behaviors of the temperature dependence of the electrical conductivity in both sides of the MIT. The data are for a 70Ge：Ga sample prepared and reported by Itoh et aL in Ref. [Itoh K M, Watanabe M, Ootuka Y, et al. J Phys Soc Jpn, 2004, 73（1）： 173].