Several technologies are being used in distributed generation applications with variable degree of success. Among those are: wind turbines, small-scale hydropower plants, biomass, microturbines, photovoltaic arrays, and fuel cells. A fuel cell is a device that converts the chemical energy of...

This paper presents a simulation method for brushless DC motors. The purpose of this method is to provide a solution to the initial design process, where the simulation speed is important due to the numerous variables that have to be considered. The method requires a reduced number of parameters...