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    Mass Flow Control Strategy for Maximum Energy Extraction in Thermal Energy Storage Tanks
    <jats:title>Abstract</jats:title> <jats:p>This paper introduces an experimental approach to enhance thermal energy storage (TES) tank performance by employing a novel control strategy and an automatic flow valve. The valve adjusts mass flow to minimize heat loss and maximize useful heat within a specified input–output temperature range. Experiments were conducted indoors, simulating input heat via an electric heating element, and adhering to ANSI/ASHRAE 93-2010 standards. In the proposed control strategy, the set point is self-regulated based on an input value which in this case is the heat introduced into the TES system. In this way, when there is more input heat available, the mass flow will increase to obtain more useful heat at the output and, on the contrary, when there is less heat available, the mass flow will be reduced to obtain greater exergy. A comparison between this strategy and conventional on–off control systems was conducted, evaluating their performance based on useful heat obtained over an 8-h period with varying input heat levels. Results demonstrate that the proposed flow control methodology consistently outperforms on–off control, achieving a maximum 13.56% increase in useful heat under optimal conditions. This underscores the effectiveness of the novel control strategy in maximizing thermal energy storage tank efficiency.</jats:p>
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    Energy Recycling Laboratory Experimental Test Bench for Three-Phase FACTS Devices Prototypes
    (2019)
    Jesus E. Valdez-Resendiz
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    Mayo Maldonado, Jonathan
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    Armando Llamas-Terres
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    Cama semiautomática medidora para esterilización de animales
    (IMPI, 2022-12-13) ; ;
    Rosa Sierra, Luis Alberto
    La presente invención consiste en una cama semiautomática medidora para esterilización de animales y su proceso de utilización, la cual cuenta con una cama que puede medir el peso y la temperatura de forma automática mediante sensores, arrojando la cantidad exacta de anestesia a utilizar en el proceso de esterilización. Además, cuenta con sensores de oxigenación y ritmo cardiaco para monitorear los signos vitales del animal y reportarlos en una pantalla táctil que cuenta con leds y sonido que se activan como alerta en caso de que estos signos se encuentren cerca de los parámetros – altos o bajo – fijados según la epecie, raza y genero del animal a esterilizar. La cama esta provista de pasos a seguir para su correcta y eficiente utilización, además de estar diseñada como una unidad desplegable para trabajo en campo y ser trasladada fácilmente.
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    Comparison Between Reactive and Proactive Protocols of Wireless Sensor Networks: Railway Application
    <jats:p>Railway is a critical application; hence, all systems that compose the railway infrastructure must meet two conditions: availability and safety. The availability ensures continuous operation of the system; on the other hand, safety is achieved when the device works properly regardless of the environmental or operating conditions. In addition, Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) are used to perform tasks previously performed manually. However, it is necessary to analyse what protocol is appropriate for the railway industry, since availability and safety are the required attributes. In this work, a recently proposed routing protocol, the Multi-Parent Hierarchical (MPH), has been compared with a well-known protocol, the Ad-hoc On-Demand Distance Vector (AODV), in order to find the most suitable one for the railway applications. For this purpose, a simulator has been developed, which faithfully reifies the workings of a given protocol, considering a fixed, reconfigurable ad-hoc network given by the number and location of participants, and general network conditions.</jats:p>
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    Channel Characterization and SC-FDM Modulation for PLC in High-Voltage Power Lines
    <jats:p>Digital communication over power lines is an active field of research and most studies in this field focus on low-voltage (LV) and medium-voltage (MV) power systems. Nevertheless, as power companies are starting to provide communication services and as smart-grid technologies are being incorporated into power networks, high-voltage (HV) power-line communication has become attractive. The main constraint of conventional HV power-line carrier (PLC) systems is their unfeasibility for being migrated to wideband channels, even with a high signal-to-noise ratio (SNR). In this scenario, none of the current linear/non-linear equalizers used in single carrier schemes achieve the complete compensation of the highly dispersive conditions, which limits their operation to 4 kHz channels. In this paper, a new PLC-channel model is introduced for transmission lines incorporating the effects of the coupling equipment. In addition, the use of the single-carrier frequency-division modulation (SC-FDM) is proposed as a solution to operate PLC systems in a wide bandwidth, achieving transmission speeds above those of the conventional PLC system. The results presented in this paper demonstrate the superior performance of the SC-FDM-PLC over conventional PLC systems, obtaining a higher transmission capacity in 10 to 30 times.</jats:p>
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    Stochastic Characterization of MAC-Level Reliability and Reassociation Dynamics in IEEE 802.15.4 Networks for Smart Grid Applications
    Wireless communication networks based on IEEE 802.15.4 and ZigBee PRO constitute a critical component of smart grid infrastructures, where reliability and availability requirements exceed those typically assumed in low-power wireless deployments. Despite extensive analytical modeling, most existing studies rely on independence assumptions for packet errors and simplified abstractions of reassociation dynamics. This work presents stochastic reliability characterization grounded on real MAC-layer traffic capture from an operational IEEE 802.15.4/ZigBee PRO network. The methodology combines statistical hypothesis testing, first-order Markov modeling, spectral-gap analysis, large-deviation theory, renewal processes, and survival analysis of realignment intervals. Empirical results reject the hypothesis of independent frame errors and demonstrate significant temporal dependence with geometric mixing behavior. The estimated transition structure reveals burst-error persistence, inflating long-run variance relative to memoryless models. Furthermore, coordinator realignment intervals deviate from exponential behavior, exhibiting non-constant event rates consistent with regenerative dynamics. These findings indicate that effective communication reliability is governed not only by average frame error probability but also by dependence structure and regeneration mechanisms. The proposed probabilistic framework provides a rigorous and reproducible methodology for dependence-aware reliability assessment in smart grid communication systems.
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