Recently, the demand for portable electronics and embedded systems has increased. These devices need low-power circuit designs because they depend on batteries as an energy resource. Moreover, multi-valued logic (MVL) circuits provide notable improvements over binary circuits in terms of interconnect complexity, chip area, propagation delay, and energy consumption. Therefore, this paper proposes new ternary circuits aiming to lower the power delay product (PDP) to save battery consumption. The proposed designs include new ternary gates [standard ternary inverter (STI) and ternary nand (TNAND)] and combinational circuits [ternary decoder (TDecoder), ternary half-adder (THA), and ternary multiplier (TMUL)] using carbon nano-tube field-effect transistors (CNFETs). This paper employs the best trade-off between reducing the number of used transistors, utilizing energy-efficient transistor arrangement such as transmission gate, and applying the dual supply voltages (V dd and V dd /2). The five proposed designs are compared with the latest 15 ternary circuits using the HSPICE simulator for different supply voltages, different temperatures, and different frequencies; 180 simulations are performed to prove the efficiency of the proposed designs. The results show the advantage of the proposed designs in reduction over 43% in terms of transistors' count for the ternary decoder and over 88%, 99%, 98%, 86%, and 78% in energy consumption (PDP) for the STI, TNAND, TDecoder, THA, and TMUL, respectively. INDEX TERMS Carbon nano-tube field effect transistors (CNFET), ternary combinational circuits, ternary logic gates, multi-valued logic (MVL), power delay product.

Recent interest in the integration of renewable energy sources (RES) into the power grid has raised concerns in synchronization of the various RES. Grid variables such as voltage, phase angle and frequency should be continuously monitored to guarantee correct operation and synchronization of power converters connected to the power grid. Numerous synchronization methods have been presented over the years to address issues such as unbalanced condition and frequency variation. This paper presents a review of past studies on synchronization methods for grid-connected converters together with their control and modeling techniques. Various estimation techniques for phase angle, frequency and harmonic are discussed and examined. Key challenges for a smart and efficient synchronization are briefly overviewed and possible future works are also recommended. A consolidated review is the particular focus of this paper, as is the provision of information on the best method for synchronizing grid-connected converters.

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Plug-in Electric Vehicle (PEV) is a new atypical load in power systems. In future, PEV load will play a significant role in the distribution grids. This integrated load into the power grid may overload the system components, increase power losses and may violate system constraints. Currently, the most common method of Electric Vehicle (EV) modeling is to consider the EV loads as constant power elements without considering the voltage dependency of EV charging system during state of charges (SOC). EV load demand cannot be considered as a constant power, as modeling as a constant power load will not provide accurate information about the behavior of charging system during charging process. As several research projects on smart grids are now looking into realistic models representing the realistic behavior of an EV loads, this paper proposes a methodology for modeling of EV charger integrated to an electricity grid in order to understand the impacts of EV charging load. A charging system was designed to capture the EV load behavior and extract the coefficients of the EV ZIP load model. A comparative study was carried out with different types of load models. The results indicate that the assumptions of load demand as a constant power to analysis the effect of PEVs on power grid would not be effective in real time application of PEVs. Abstract --Plug-in Electric Vehicle (PEV) is a new atypical load in power systems. In future, PEV load will play a significant role in the distribution grids. This integrated load into the power grid may overload the system components, increase power losses and may violate system constraints. Currently, the most common method of Electric Vehicle (EV) modeling is to consider the EV loads as constant power elements without considering the voltage dependency of EV charging system during state of charges (SOC). EV load demand cannot be considered as a constant power, as modeling as a constant power load will not provide accurate information about the behavior of charging system during charging process. As several research projects on smart grids are now looking into realistic models representing the realistic behavior of an EV loads, this paper proposes a methodology for modeling of EV charger integrated to an electricity grid in order to understand the impacts of EV charging load. A charging system was designed to capture the EV load behavior and extract the coefficients of the EV ZIP load model. A comparative study was carried out with different types of load models. The results indicate that the assumptions of load demand as a constant power to analysis the effect of PEVs on power grid would not be effective in real time application of PEVs.Index Terms--Plug-in electric vehicle; EV load modeling, Battery charger, Battery state of charge