International Journal of Power Electronics and Drive Systems (IJPEDS)
International Journal of Power Electronics and Drive Systems (IJPEDS, ISSN: 2088-8694, a SCOPUS indexed Journal) is the official publication of the Institute of Advanced Engineering and Science (IAES). The scope of the journal includes all issues in the field of Power Electronics and drive systems. Included are techniques for advanced power semiconductor devices, control in power electronics, low and high power converters (inverters, converters, controlled and uncontrolled rectifiers), Control algorithms and techniques applied to power electronics, electromagnetic and thermal performance of electronic power converters and inverters, power quality and utility applications, renewable energy, electric machines, modelling, simulation, analysis, design and implementations of the application of power circuit components (power semiconductors, inductors, high frequency transformers, capacitors), EMI/EMC considerations, power devices and components, sensors, integration and packaging, induction motor drives, synchronous motor drives, permanent magnet motor drives, switched reluctance motor and synchronous reluctance motor drives, ASDs (adjustable speed drives), multi-phase machines and converters, applications in motor drives, electric vehicles, wind energy systems, solar, battery chargers, UPS and hybrid systems and other applications.
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Parameter estimation of DC motor through whale optimization algorithm
Byamakesh Nayak;
Sangeeta Sahu
International Journal of Power Electronics and Drive Systems (IJPEDS) Vol 10, No 1: March 2019
Publisher : Institute of Advanced Engineering and Science
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DOI: 10.11591/ijpeds.v10.i1.pp83-92
This article estimates the unknown dc motor parameters by adapting the adaptive model with the reference model created by experimental data onto armature current and speed response from separately excited dc motor .The field flux dynamics, which is usually ignored, is included to model the dynamics of the motor. The block diagram including the flux dynamics and model parameters is considered as the adaptive model. The integral time square error between the instant experimental data and the corresponding adaptive model data is taken as cost function. The Whale optimization algorithm is used to minimize the cost function. Additionally, to improve the performances of optimization algorithm and for accurate result, the experimental data is divided into three intervals which form the three inequality constraints. A fixed penalty value is added to the cost function for violating these constraints. The effectiveness of estimation with two different methods is validated by convergence curve.
Solution for optimal power flow problem in wind energy system using hybrid multi objective artificial physical optimization algorithm
P. Nagalashmi
International Journal of Power Electronics and Drive Systems (IJPEDS) Vol 10, No 1: March 2019
Publisher : Institute of Advanced Engineering and Science
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DOI: 10.11591/ijpeds.v10.i1.pp486-503
Normally, the character of the wind energy as a renewable energy sources has uncertainty in generation. To resolve the Optimal Power Flow (OPF) drawback, this paper proposed a replacement Hybrid Multi Objective Artificial Physical Optimization (HMOAPO) algorithmic rule, which does not require any management parameters compared to different meta-heuristic algorithms within the literature. Artificial Physical Optimization (APO), a moderately new population-based intelligence algorithm, shows fine performance on improvement issues. Moreover, this paper presents hybrid variety of Animal Migration Optimization (AMO) algorithmic rule to express the convergence characteristic of APO. The OPF drawback is taken into account with six totally different check cases, the effectiveness of the proposed HMOAPO technique is tested on IEEE 30-bus, IEEE 118-bus and IEEE 300-bus check system. The obtained results from the HMOAPO algorithm is compared with the other improvement techniques within the literature. The obtained comparison results indicate that proposed technique is effective to succeed in best resolution for the OPF drawback.
Droop control technique for equal power sharing in islanded microgrid
A. W. N. Husna;
M. A. Roslan;
M. H. Mat
International Journal of Power Electronics and Drive Systems (IJPEDS) Vol 10, No 1: March 2019
Publisher : Institute of Advanced Engineering and Science
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DOI: 10.11591/ijpeds.v10.i1.pp530-537
This paper presents a droop control technique for equal power sharing in islanded microgrid. In this study, the proposed controller is based on the frequency droop method, is applied to a robust droop controller in parallel connected inverters. The previous robust droop controller deals with voltage droop method. A modification has been formed against this controller by adding a fuzzy logic controller with the frequency droop method. The only sharing error which is concentrated in this paper is the error in sharing the rated frequency among the inverters. By adapting fuzzy in the robust droop, it tries to eliminate the frequency error, hence that the frequency reference of the inverters keeps maintain at 50Hz. A derivation of generalized models of a single-phase parallel-connected inverter system is shown. The simulation results show that the proposed controller with FLC is able to improve the stability of frequency reference and the performance of power sharing between the inverters under the inductive line impedance.
Smart database concept for Power Management in an electrical vehicle
Chokri Mahmoudi;
Flah Aymen;
Sbita Lassaad
International Journal of Power Electronics and Drive Systems (IJPEDS) Vol 10, No 1: March 2019
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DOI: 10.11591/ijpeds.v10.i1.pp160-169
As world population continues to grow and the limited amount of fossil fuels begin to diminish, it may not be possible to afford the needed amount of energy demanded by the world by only using fossil fuels. Meanwhile, the abundant nature of renewable energy sources brings new beginning for next generations. Greater penetration of electric vehicles will play an important role in building green and healthy world. The main remaining issue to make the switch from conventional to electric vehicle is performance cost; Efficient EVs that can drive for long distances, on single charge, are still expensive for ordinary consumer. To address this range problem, many attempts have been made during last decade. The goal was to conceive a power efficient electric vehicle, capable of managing its energy and reach longer distances. It depends on the electrical architectures and used algorithms.This paper adds new perspective for power Management in EVs; The proposed methodology introduces a new power management architecture based on communication and car learning. The conventional software level in EV has been replaced with self readjustable software. EVs are connected through a database, and can upload or download adjustment parameters while software is running.To take advantage of the new architecture, a new learning technique concept is introduced too, based on Cloud experience exchange between Electric Vehicles. This enhancement aims to build a better EV experience in power management through Cloud sharing and definitely cut with conventional architecture that may have reached its boundaries.
The design of auto-tuning capacitive power transfer for rotary applications using phased-locked-loop
N. Nabila;
Shakir Saat;
Y. Yusop;
M.S. M Isa;
A.A. Basari
International Journal of Power Electronics and Drive Systems (IJPEDS) Vol 10, No 1: March 2019
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DOI: 10.11591/ijpeds.v10.i1.pp307-318
Wireless power transfer (WPT), through the transmission of contactless energy, is not only being used for charging batteries in smartphones, but it is also being increasingly used in the field of industrial applications. The capacitive based approach is utilized in this paper because of its ability to transmit power in a metal surrounding environment where the inductive-based approach failed to perform. This work focuses on the coupling study of a rotary CPT application where the power supply is stationary while the load rotates and therefore allows the load to rotate 360o free rotation. The Class E MOSFET power inverter is used here due to its ability to achieve high efficiency compared to other class of converters at high frequency. The prototype of the CPT for rotary application has also been successfully developed with disk plate thickness of 1mm-2mm. Overall, the developed CPT system for rotary application is able to deliver 5.5Watt with 83.33% efficiency. To enhance the power efficiency and ZVS conditions, a self-tuning circuit using phased-locked-loop has been proposed in this paper. The efficiency of the developed system with self-tuning circuit is increased to 97.%.
NSGA-II and MOPSO based optimization for sizing of hybrid PV/wind/battery energy storage system
Mohamed Izdin Hlal;
Vigna K. Ramachandaramurthya;
Sanjeevikumar Padmanaban;
Hamid Reza Kaboli;
Aref Pouryekta;
Tuan Ab Rashid bin Tuan Abdullah
International Journal of Power Electronics and Drive Systems (IJPEDS) Vol 10, No 1: March 2019
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DOI: 10.11591/ijpeds.v10.i1.pp463-478
This paper presents a Stand-alone Hybrid Renewable Energy System (SHRES) as an alternative to fossil fuel based generators. The Photovoltaic (PV) panels and wind turbines (WT) are designed for the Malaysian low wind speed conditions with battery Energy Storage (BES) to provide electric power to the load. The appropriate sizing of each component was accomplished using Non-dominated Sorting Genetic Algorithm (NSGA-II) and Multi-Objective Particle Swarm Optimization (MOPSO) techniques. The optimized hybrid system was examined in MATLAB using two case studies to find the optimum number of PV panels, wind turbines system and BES that minimizes the Loss of Power Supply Probability (LPSP) and Cost of Energy (COE). The hybrid power system was connected to the AC bus to investigate the system performance in supplying a rural settlement. Real weather data at the location of interest was utilized in this paper. The results obtained from the two scenarios were used to compare the suitability of the NSGA-II and MOPSO methods. The NSGA-II method is shown to be more accurate whereas the MOPSO method is faster in executing the optimization. Hence, both these methods can be used for techno-economic optimization of SHRES.
Critical evaluation of soft computing methods for maximum power point tracking algorithms of photovoltaic systems
Norazlan Hashim;
Zainal Salam
International Journal of Power Electronics and Drive Systems (IJPEDS) Vol 10, No 1: March 2019
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DOI: 10.11591/ijpeds.v10.i1.pp548-561
With the proliferation of numerous soft computing (SC)–based maximum power point tracking (MPPT) algorithms for photovoltaic (PV) systems, determining which algorithm performs better than others is becoming increasingly difficult. This is primarily due to the absence of standardized methods to benchmark their performances using consistent and systematic procedures. Moreover, the module technology, power ratings, and environmental conditions reported by numerous publications all differ. Based on these concerns, this paper presents a critical evaluation of the five most important and recent SC-based MPPTs, namely, genetic algorithm (GA), cuckoo search (CS), particle swarm optimization (PSO), differential evolution (DE), and evolutionary programming (EP). To perform a fair comparison, the initialization, selection, and stopping criteria for all methods are fixed in similar conditions. Thus, the performance is determined by its respective reproduction process. Simulation tests are performed using the MATLAB/SIMULINK environment. The performance of each algorithm is compared and evaluated based on its speed of convergence, accuracy, complexity, and success rate. The results indicate that EP appears to be the most promising and encouraging SC algorithm to be used in MPPT for a PV system under the multimodal partial shading condition.
4-level capacitor-clamped boost converter with hard-switching and soft-switching implementations
A.N. Kasiran;
Asmarashid Ponniran;
A.A. Bakar;
M.H. Yatim
International Journal of Power Electronics and Drive Systems (IJPEDS) Vol 10, No 1: March 2019
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DOI: 10.11591/ijpeds.v10.i1.pp288-299
This paper presents parameters analysis of 4-level capacitor-clamped boost converter with hard-switching and soft-switching implementation. Principally, by considering the selected circuit structure of the 4-level capacitor-clamped boost converter and appropriate pulse width modulation (PWM) switching strategy, the overall converter volume able to be reduced. Specifically, phase-shifted of 120° of each switching signal is applied in the 4-level capacitor-clamped boost converter in order to increase the inductor current ripple frequency, thus the charging and discharging times of the inductor is reduced. Besides, volume of converters is greatly reduced if very high switching frequency is considered. However, it causes increasing of semiconductor losses and consequently the converter efficiency is affected. The results show that the efficiency of 2-level conventional boost converter and 4-level capacitor-clamped boost converter are 98.59% and 97.67%, respectively in hard-switching technique, and 99.31% and 98.15%, respectively in soft-switching technique. Therefore, by applying soft-switching technique, switching loss of the semiconductor devices is greatly minimized although high switching frequency is applied. In this study, passive lossless snubber circuit is selected for the soft-switching implementation in the 4-level capacitor-clamped boost converter. Based on the simulation results, the switching loss is approximately eliminated by applying soft-switching technique compared to the hard-switching technique implementation.
Motion control applications: observer based DC motor parameters estimation for novices
Branesh M Pillai;
Jackrit Suthakorn
International Journal of Power Electronics and Drive Systems (IJPEDS) Vol 10, No 1: March 2019
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DOI: 10.11591/ijpeds.v10.i1.pp195-210
Estimation of motor inertia and friction components is a complex and challenging task in motion control applications where small size DC motors (<100W) are used for precise control. It is essential to estimate the accurate friction components and motor inertia, because the parameters provided by the manufacturer are not always accurate. This research proposes a Sensorless method of determining DC motor parameters, including moment of inertia, torque coefficient and frictional components using the Disturbance Observer (DOB) as a torque sensor. The constant velocity motion test and a novel Reverse Motion Acceleration test were conducted to estimate frictional components and moment of inertia of the motor. The validity of the proposed novel method was verified by experimental results and compared with conventional acceleration and deceleration motion tests. Experiments have been carried out to show the effectiveness and viability of the estimated parameters using a Reaction Torque Observer (RTOB) based friction compensation method.
Performance evaluation of SEPIC, Luo and ZETA converter
Niranjana Siddharthan;
Baskaran Balasubramanian
International Journal of Power Electronics and Drive Systems (IJPEDS) Vol 10, No 1: March 2019
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DOI: 10.11591/ijpeds.v10.i1.pp374-380
DC-DC converters are devices which convert direct current (DC) from one voltage level to another by changing the duty cycle of the main switches in the circuits. These converters are widely used in switched mode power supplies and it is important to supply a constant output voltage, regardless of disturbances on the input voltage. In this work, the performance of three different converters such as Single-Ended Primary-Inductance Converter (SEPIC), Luo converter and ZETA converter have been analyzed. Further, the parameters values such as ripple voltage, switching losses and efficiency of the proposed three different converters were compared with each other. Also, the simulation work has been carried out using MATLAB/SIMULINK software. From the comparison of obtained results, it is observed that the ZETA converter has high significance than the SEPIC and Luo converter.