The objective of this research is to study the development of eco cars using power-cutting mechanism technique of Transmission System. Two eco cars had been studied. The first car was conducted with the aim of developing transmission system and clutch system by changing from gear drive transmission system and chain drive mechanical clutch to belt and pulley transmission system by new designing the belt and pulley transmission system to have propeller shaft as the device to transmit power from the right to the left side with bearings to help reduce friction. Pulley system and clutch lever were installed in which the newly built clutch can be controlled by driver. The new model of transmission system is weight 0.7 kg which is lighter than the previous weight of 0.8 kg. Based on the first testing by participating in the 22nd Honda Eco Mileage Challenge at Chang International Circuit it was found that the system with belt tension at 1 kN resulted in good performance of transmission system and clutch system with fuel efficiency value at 626.157 km/L. After that the belt tension was adjusted and set up at 1.1 kN for 3 tests at Solar Track Thailand and it was found that the maximum fuel efficiency value was 1061.18 km/L at the speed of 34 km/hr. The second car was improved in transmission system suspension system steering system and also engine. The first trial was experimented on the 22nd racing event at the Chang International Circuit where this fuel efficient prototype car could run at 18 km. The result showed that it could have good mileage which was 275 km/L. After improvement the car was tested again for three times at the Solar Track Thailand circuit where it ran at 16 kilometers. The result revealed that the best saving was equivalent to 613 km/L at the speed of 30.6 km/hr.

Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand (EGAT) encountered problems voltage swell from the changes of power system configuration high-voltage 115 kV substation name Lopburi2 to radial. Control Center closed capacitor bank caused the steel industry electric power plants and renewable energy solar tripped themselves out. As a result EGAT loosed of power produced of solar power plants. It also affected confidence in the systems power consumption. EGAT’s necessary to learn from this event. This research was simulation power system modeling of “High Voltage Substation Lopburi2” and grid connection both the system EGAT and PEA with EMTDC-PSCAD for analysis of the voltage swell caused by close capacitor bank at “Lopburi2” substation compared with actual events then calculated the voltage swell occurred at high voltage station linkage. Finally this research presents a method of reduction of their impact of close capacitor bank at “Loburi2” to avoid the voltage swell in the future.

This thesis offers the design of the impulse generator 1.2 / 50 μs which applies for studying and generating the lightning impulse to test the endurance of the electricity transmission line. Moreover this study analyses the factors which affects the impulse waveform by using Orcad program. The parts of prototype device can find in the general market. After the efficiency test of the electricity transmission line the result shown that the device should have the high capability to endure the temporarily high impulse. This minimizes the dangerous from the electricity system.

This thesis presents an assessment of voltage sags when faults are happened in the 115 kV transmission line of the Provincial Electricity Authority (PEA) when distributed generation (DG) is installed in the system. The computer program PSCAD/EMTDC (Power Systems Computer Aided Design / Electromagnetic Transient in DC system) version 4.2 is applied to provide electrical parameters for the modeling and simulation and to analyze the fault occurred which resulted in voltage sag. Test results from PSCAD/EMTDC show the values of voltage sag when 5 types of fault are occurred (Single Line to Ground Fault Double Line to Ground Fault Three Phase to Ground Fault Line to Fault and Three Phase Fault). For all cases the value of root mean square voltage before fault is 100% or 1.0 pu. It can be seen that for both radial line and closed circuit when DG are installed in the system the value of phase to ground RMS residual voltage and phase to phase RMS residual voltage at the bus of Bang-pa-in 2 substation are more than the values in case of the system without DG.

This Research purposes assessment of lightning performance on transmission system 69 kV in Metropolitan Electricity Authority (MEA). The case studies illustrated the lightning strike to direct top pole in order to guideline considering the critical flashover voltage value of insulator is able to withstand it and improvement lighting protection in the future. This solution analyzes using the Alternative Transient Program-Electromagnetic Transient Program (ATP-EMTP). The result found that voltage across insulator before and after improvement lightning protection by external ground wire. Factor effect to voltage across the insulators is the tower footing resistance wave of lightning current and interval between towers. It depends on relation with front time of wave. The analysis economics is very important. This Research is studying interruption cost of outage since back flashover so analysis the break even point of the installation external ground. The result found upon improvement lightning protection by installed external ground. The pay back period of that is 9 years installed ago. This result can conclusion is external ground able reduction interruption costs of outage.