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High Voltage and Power System
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Purification Of Silica Sand ( Sio2) From Iron By Using Electromagnetic Mechanism
Main objective of this project is to provide a hardware model for purifying silica sand, to eliminate impurities such as iron and to achieve high degree of transparency in glass by removing the impurities of Iron.
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Project Funding
1
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DOST
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0.5
Million Rupee
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Machine Condition Monitoring. Pyrometer-Design & Implementation Of Hardware
The primary objective of this project is to monitor thermal variations in machines, furnaces and combustors. The thermal imaging monitoring system includes hardware and software and interfaced with computer.The scope of project is to measure high temperature without contact using pyrometer and infrared camera, protection of machines from overheating, online detection of heat losses in bus bars, transformers and other electrical equipments, improves efficient energy usage, defense purposes.
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Project Funding
1
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ICT R&D Fund
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0.1
Million Rupee
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1KVA Standalone Photovoltaic System For Rural Areas
The rural areas of Pakistan need electricity for home usage. We are designing the standalone system of 1KVAwhose efficiency will be more than 85percent. This design include a 30-70volts variableDCinput from 1kilowatts panels which will be the output of buck converter/charge controller that will step down the dc voltage upto 14.5 volts to charge the battery of 12Vand also become the input of boost converter.Boost converter step-up the dc input from 14.5Vto 350Vthat will be the input of an Inverter which will convert this DCinput to 220V AC.
Instead of using the transformer, the battery voltage is step up using DC Converter to DC Link voltage results in high efficiency of the system.We have designed the charge controller according to the requirementsand H- Bridge inverter is also design with low pass filter. The system will provide power to the domestic user, who are still not connected to the national Grid.
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Project Funding
1
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DOST
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0.69
Million Rupee
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Design And Installation Of An Electronic Load Controller For Micro Hydro Power Generation Unit
The main objective of this project is to design and construct an alternative Electronic Load Controller (ELC) for Micro Hydro power generation unit with particular emphasis on simplicity of design, ease of Manufacture, robustness, ease of maintenance, affordability.
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Project Funding
1
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DOST
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0.5
Million Rupee
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Variable Field Electric Motor
This Machine has much higher efficiency and reliability as compared to conventional AC and DC motors. Instead of uniform magnetic field in conventional DC motors and rotating magnetic field in synchronous motors, VFEM has increasing magnetic field.
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Project Funding
1
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DOST
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0.495
Million Rupee
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Design And Analysis Of Novel Three Phase Hybrid Excited Linear Flux Switching Machine For Advanced Electric Power Train
Demands toward locomotives have been increased in the past decades which leads to global CO2 emissions. To eliminate the emissions, the most feasiblesolution at present is locomotives driven by battery-based electric motor. Electric train is an efficient, cheap, alternate green solution for light and heavy load(freight) transportations, and can be utilized for in-city transport as well as over long distances. Electric motor designed for electric train can be rotary orlinear. Rotary electric motor is conventionally used for trains (DC series traction motor is used in Pakistan) and Hybrid Electric Vehicles (HEVs). Geometrical structure and behavior of output mechanical energy for rotary motors results its best performance in case of HEVs, while Linear Motors (LM) arerecommended for translational motion as in case of Electric Trains. Several linear electric motors have been investigated for electric trains such as linear dcmotor, linear induction motor, and linear switched reluctance motor. Linear dc motor has inherent high maintenance cost due to stator faults and brushes.Linear Induction Motor shows reduced air-gap average flux linkage and thrust, additional stator faults due to stator bars, and strong nonlinearities causedby end effects. While, Linear Switched Reluctance Motors represent high force ripple and leads to vibration and acoustic noise.A new structure of Three Phase Hybrid Excited Linear Flux Switching Motor (HELFSM), consists of segmented stator and non-overlap windings is proposed.The combination should improve the mechanical strength of the motor suitable for high speed drive, reduce the copper consumption, minimizing the weightand copper loss as well as the cost. The main objective of this research is to develop a novel structure of electronically controlled HELFSM with high thrustforce and high-power densities for future light weight Advanced Electric Power Train. The operating principle of HELFSM will be investigated and the initial performances will be optimized. Finally, the optimum design of HELFSM will be fabricated and validated experimentally. It is expected that the proposedlight weight HELFSM with segmented stator and non-overlap windings will generate much higher thrust force and power densities to be applied for futureElectric Power Train.
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Project Funding
1
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Higher Education Commission Pakistan
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6.304
Million Rupee
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Design And Development Of A New Field Excitation Flux Switching Motor (FEFSM) For Axial Fan Applications
As every research leads to particular development in respective field, so the major goal of this research is to investigate a novel structure of field excitation flux switching machine (FEFSM) having low cost, better efficiency, light weight, low losses, robust structure, better torque speed characteristics as compared to induction motors presently employed in axial fan. Induction motors installed in axial fan will be replaced with low cost FEFSM machine having better performance and requires no maintenance.
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Project Funding
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Higher Education Commission Pakistan
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1.9
Million Rupee
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Design And Fabrication Of Generator For Counter Rotating Wind Turbine Application
Wind power is one of the renewable energy sources which has gained considerable attention, owing to its environmentally friendly, economical, and reliable operation. In this regard, improving the performance of its components results in a more efficient and reliable wind power generation system. Distributed wind power generation systems often require a novel approach in generator design, especially for low power machines. Gearless wind generator designs are particularly preferred for these applications. In this regard, improving the performance of the mechanical part can highly affect the whole system performance in such a way that, increasing the coefficient of wind turbine results in a higher generated power. The process of converting the kinetic energy of wind into mechanical energy of rotational motion of rotating masses using a single-rotor wind turbine in accordance with the Betz’s law is limited to 59% of available wind energy. Thus, this project is to design and fabricate a novel dual rotor counter rotating field excited flux switching generator (CR-FEFSG) for advance counter rotating wind turbine application to improve wind energy conversion efficiency. Due to dual counter rotating wind blades configuration, counter rotating wind turbine results higher power than the conventional single blade wind turbine systems. Moreover, counter rotation can be achieved in the same resource with dual rotor configuration therefore, such low cost and higher power density generators are preferable to wind turbine application. It is worth mentioning that in comparison with conventional design where both stator and rotor rotates, the proposed dual rotor configuration rotates only by eliminating the requirements of the slip rings and extra mechanical accessories. Additionally, due to direct drive configuration, the requirements of gear box are eliminated. Thus, ease in manufacturing process and eliminates constant maintenance cost in compared to existing slip ring and geared generators.
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Design And Fabrication Of Generator For Counter Rotating Wind Turbine Application 1
Wind power is one of the renewable energy sources which has gained considerable attention, owing to its environmentally friendly, economical, and reliable operation. In this regard, improving the performance of its components results in a more efficient and reliable wind power generation system. Distributed wind power generation systems often require a novel approach in generator design, especially for low power machines. Gearless wind generator designs are particularly preferred for these applications. In this regard, improving the performance of the mechanical part can highly affect the whole system performance in such a way that, increasing the coefficient of wind turbine results in a higher generated power. The process of converting the kinetic energy of wind into mechanical energy of rotational motion of rotating masses using a single-rotor wind turbine in accordance with the Betz’s law is limited to 59% of available wind energy. Thus, this project is to design and fabricate a novel dual rotor counter rotating field excited flux switching generator (CR-FEFSG) for advance counter rotating wind turbine application to improve wind energy conversion efficiency. Due to dual counter rotating wind blades configuration, counter rotating wind turbine results higher power than the conventional single blade wind turbine systems. Moreover, counter rotation can be achieved in the same resource with dual rotor configuration therefore, such low cost and higher power density generators are preferable to wind turbine application. It is worth mentioning that in comparison with conventional design where both stator and rotor rotates, the proposed dual rotor configuration rotates only by eliminating the requirements of the slip rings and extra mechanical accessories. Additionally, due to direct drive configuration, the requirements of gear box are eliminated. Thus, ease in manufacturing process and eliminates constant maintenance cost in compared to existing slip ring and geared generators.
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Project Funding
1
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Pakistan Science Foundation
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4.433
Million Rupee
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Project Members
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