Performance of an Ocean Energy Conversion System with DFIG Sensorless Control

The 2009/28/EC Directive requires Member States of the European Union to adopt a National Action Plan for Renewable Energy. In this context, the Basque Energy Board, EVE, is committed to research activities such as the Mutriku Oscillating Water Column plant, OWC. This is an experimental facility whose concept consists of a turbine located in a pneumatic energy collection chamber and a doubly fed induction generator that converts energy extracted by the turbine into a form that can be returned to the network. The turbo-generator control requires a precise knowledge of system parameters and of the rotor angular velocity in particular. Thus, to remove the rotor speed sensor implies a simplification of the hardware that is always convenient in rough working conditions. In this particular case, a Luenberger based observer is considered and the effectiveness of the proposed control is shown by numerical simulations. Comparing these results with those obtained using a traditional speed sensor, it is shown that the proposed solution provides better performance since it increases power extraction in the sense that it allows a more reliable and robust performance of the plant, which is even more relevant in a hostile environment as the ocean.

Análisis del comportamiento de un rodamiento de vuelco mediante elementos finitos y técnicas de subestructuras

[ES]estudio del comportamiento de un rodamiento de vuelco situado en la unión buje-pala de un aerogenerador mediante diferentes técnicas de modelización por elementos finitos y su comparación. Los análisis realizados son: estático con contacto Rough, estático con contacto Bonded y mediante técnicas de subestructuras. En el estudio se ha utilizado ANSYS Mechanical APDL.

A Game-Theoreteic Analysis of Minority Language Use in Multilingual Societies

This chapter studies multilingual democratic societies with highly developed economies. These societies are assumed to have two languages with official status: language A, spoken by every individual, and language B, spoken by the bilingual minority. We emphasize that language rights are important, but the survival of the minority language B depends mainly on the actual use bilinguals make of B. The purpose of the present chapter is to study some of the factors affecting the bilingual speakers language choice behaviour. Our view is that languages with their speech communities compete for speakers just as fi rms compete for market share. Thus, the con ict among the minority languages in these societies does not take the rough expressions such as those studied in Desmet et al. (2012). Here the con flict is more subtle. We model highly plausible language choice situations by means of choice procedures and non-cooperative games, each with different types of information. We then study the determinants of the bilinguals ' strategic behaviour with regard to language. We observe that the bilinguals' use of B is shaped, essentially, by linguistic conventions and social norms that are developed in situations of language contact.

Caracterización del error en el corte de desbaste de trayectorias circulares mediante WEDM.

[ES]En la actualidad el proceso de mecanizado mediante electroerosión por hilo (WEDM) posee varias problemáticas a la hora de la ejecución de los cortes para producir diferentes formas, ya sean esquinas, radios de redondeo o de acuerdo y por último la realización de círculos. Es por ello por lo que se elabora el presente trabajo cuya finalidad es llegar a caracterizar los errores cometidos en el corte de desbaste de probetas con trayectorias circulares y tecnología estándar. De esta manera se podrá cuantificar las desviaciones que se producen en las piezas en función del espesor y de sus radios. Toda la información obtenida en el trabajo permitirá una futura actuación en diversos parámetros máquina, elaborando nuevas tecnologías o bien poder mitigarlos realizando correcciones geométricas, ajustando sus tolerancias.