Volume 15, no.2 of 4 per year, is here with 41 papers. They illustrate diverse subjects in power electrical and electronics engineering, quite a few papers refer to modern power grids and power quality electronics and high performance electric drives. Quite a few papers have experimental work, but not enough. As this is a key acceptance condition (50% rejection rate in 2014), we urge the authors to come up with competitive papers with strong theoretical and experimental contributions. I also urge the associate editors to put in more time in reviewing thoroughly more papers in due time (3 months) as the failure to do so contributes strongly to an increased backlog of papers which is against the interest of the authors. You may be interested to know that this is the second consecutive issue that will be sent to ISI for evaluation. Finally, thanks are due to the authors of this issue which come from a large geographic area. Sincerely, Ion Boldea, IEEE Life Fellow Editor in Chief of www.jee.ro

Published: 2013-11-20

NEURAL NETWORK AND SPEED DEVIATION BASED GENERATOR OUT-OF-STEP PREDICTION

Emmanuel Asuming Frimpong, Johnson Asumadu, Philip Yaw Okyere

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LEAD ACID BATTERY MODELING FOR PHOTOVOLTIAC APPLICATIONS

Rami HADDAD, Youakim KALAANI, Adel El Shahat

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Improving Congestion of Transmission Systemby Optimal Placement of FACTS Devices

Mr.D.Venugopal Mr.D.Venugopal, Dr.A.JayaLaxmi Dr.A.JayaLaxmi

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Energy Saving Smart Light Switching System

Ramesh Lal Das, Shishir Ranjan, Sreenivasappa B. V.

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A SIMPLE ANALYTICAL APPROACH FOR THE ANALYSIS OF A SELF-EXCITED INDUCTION GENERATOR FEEDING AN INDUCTION MOTOR

Professor Dr. Ibrahim A. M. Abdel-Halim, FIET, Dr. Mahmoud A. Al-Ahmar, Dr. Mohammed E. Elfaraskoury

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A NOVEL APPROACH FOR THE ANALYSIS OF A THYRISTOR- CONTROLLED INDUCTION MOTOR

Dr. Mohammed E. Elfaraskoury, Dr. Mahmoud A. Al-Ahmar, Professor Dr. Ibrahim A. M. Abdel-Halim, FIET, Eng. Ehab M. MAHMOUD

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DEVELOPMENTAL STUDIES OF A SUBMERGED ARC FURNACE TRANSFORMER

Ramaswamy T.V, Shruti EASWARAN, Ashwini KRISHNA, Meghana S, Rachana K S

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a high order sliding mode control for autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV)

chenafa mohamed, mansouri abdellah, daaou bachir, bouhamida mohamed

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VOLTAGE AND FREQUENCY REGULATION WITH SYNCHRONIZATION OF MICRO GRID UNDER ISLANDING OPERATION

Monika JAIN, Sushma GUPTA, Deepika MASAND, Shailendra JAIN, Gayatri AGNIHOTRI

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COMBINATIONAL PROTECTION ALGORITHM EMBEDDED WITH SMART RELAYS

Wagdy M. MANSOUR, Nader SH. ABDELHAKEEM, Mohamed A. ALI

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ESTIMATION OF ARC RESISTANCE, INTERNAL INDUCTANCE AND ESR OF HIGH VOLTAGE CAPACITORS

G.R.Nagabhushana G.R.Nagabhushana, Archana Sharma, Ritu Agarwal

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LQG CONTROLLER FOR ENHANCEMET POWER SYSTEM OPERATION

Ali M. YOUSEF, Mohamed ZAHRAN, Ghareeb Moustafa

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OPTIMAL DESIGN AND CONTROL OF ELECTRIC VEHICLE POWER CHAIN

Ajmia BELGACEM, Mohamed Amine FAKHFAKH, Souhir TOUNSI

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