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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Design and implementation of high frequency induction heating with LLC resonant load matching using ELTA
Suganthi Karuppusamy;
Sunandhitha V;
Suraj R;
Roja T S;
Sundararaman K
International Journal of Power Electronics and Drive Systems (IJPEDS) Vol 11, No 1: March 2020
Publisher : Institute of Advanced Engineering and Science
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DOI: 10.11591/ijpeds.v11.i1.pp178-188
Induction heating is a non-contact method of producing heat which can be used to perform various processes like hardening, annealing, tempering, welding, brazing, melting, forging, etc. This paper discusses the design and implementation of induction heating on a given work-piece, using an LLC resonant circuit and a transformer for impedance matching, so as to transfer a maximum power of 5KW to the load. The load parameters are found out using ELTA software which calculates the values based on the dimensions of the work piece, operating frequency and temperature. The inverter used is based on SiC MOSFETs which minimizes the losses at high frequencies and high temperatures. The theoretical and simulated results from MATLAB are analysed and verified. The hardware is implemented for the LLC circuit with transformer and the results are presented.
Design of fractional order controllers using constrained optimization and reference tracking method
Manoj D Patil;
K. Vadirajacharya;
Swapnil Khubalkar
International Journal of Power Electronics and Drive Systems (IJPEDS) Vol 11, No 1: March 2020
Publisher : Institute of Advanced Engineering and Science
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DOI: 10.11591/ijpeds.v11.i1.pp291-301
In recent times, fractional order controllers are gaining more interest. There are several fractional order controllers are available in literature. Still, tuning of these controllers is one of the main issues which the control community is facing. In this paper, online tuning of five dierent fractional order controllers is discussed viz. tilted proportional-integral-derivative (T-PID) controller, fractional order proportional-integral (FO-PI) controller, fractional order proportional-derivative (FO-PD) controller, fractional order proportional-integral-derivative (FO-PID) controller. A reference tracking method is proposed for tuning of fractional order controllers. First order with dead time (FOWDT) system is used to check feasibility of the control strategy.
Enhancement of real-time IoT-based air quality monitoring system
Wei Jian Ng;
Zuraini Dahari
International Journal of Power Electronics and Drive Systems (IJPEDS) Vol 11, No 1: March 2020
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DOI: 10.11591/ijpeds.v11.i1.pp390-397
Air pollution is one of the biggest threat for the environment and the human’s health. The monitoring of air pollution based on several atmospheric pollutants is becoming critical in most countries including Malaysia. This paper presents a development and enhancement features of real-time Internet of Things (IoT)-based environmental monitoring system for air quality. The proposed system will be beneficial to monitor the real-time data for a specific set of air quality parameters such as temperature, humidity and concentration of carbon monoxide, liquified petroleum gas (LPG) and smoke. An alarm system will be triggered if the concentration of carbon monoxide exceeds 50 ppm. Users can use their smartphone to view these data via Wi-Fi by installing an application called “AirProp”. Based on the collected data, this paper also analyses other contributing factors such as time and traffic condition on the temperature, humidity and concentration of pollutant gases at different locations. The advantage of the real-time system is it serves as the data base platform to store data up to certain duration of time. The data can be further analysed and leveraged by governments and researchers to mitigate air pollution.
Dual axis solar tracker with IoT monitoring system using arduino
Siti Amely Jumaat;
Mohamad Nur Aiman Mohd Said;
Clarence Rimong Anak Jawa
International Journal of Power Electronics and Drive Systems (IJPEDS) Vol 11, No 1: March 2020
Publisher : Institute of Advanced Engineering and Science
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DOI: 10.11591/ijpeds.v11.i1.pp451-458
This project aims to develop dual axis solar tracker with IOT monitoring system using Arduino. Generally, solar energy is the technology to get useful energy from sunlight. Solar energy has been used in many traditional technologies over the centuries and has been widely used in the absence of other energy supplies. Its usefulness is widespread when awareness of the cost of the environment and the supply is limited by other energy sources such as fuel. The solar tracking system is the most effective technology to improve the efficiency of solar panels by tracking and following the sun's movement. With the help of this system, solar panels can improve the way of sunlight detection so that more electricity can be collected as solar panels can maintain a sunny position. Thus the project discusses the development of two-axis solar-tracking developers using Arduino Uno as main controller the system. For develops this project, four light-dependent resistors (LDRs) have been used for sunlight detection and a maximum light intensity. Two servo motors have been used to rotate the solar panel according to the sun's light source detected by the LDR. Next a WIFI ESP8266 device is used as an intermediary between device and IOT monitoring system. The IOT monitoring system is a website that functions to store data. The efficiency of this system has been tested and compared with a single axial solar tracker. As a result, the two-axis solar tracking system generates more power, voltage and current.
Intelligent fuzzy sliding mode controller based on FPGA for the speed control of a BLDC motor
Arun Prasad K.M.;
Usha Nair
International Journal of Power Electronics and Drive Systems (IJPEDS) Vol 11, No 1: March 2020
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DOI: 10.11591/ijpeds.v11.i1.pp477-486
Brushless DC (BLDC) motors are one of the most widely used motors for various industrial applications due to their high efficiency, high torque to weight ratio and elimination of mechanical commutator. These motors operate in wide range of speeds and necessitate precise speed control techniques, for their nonlinear model, insenseitive to parameter variations and external disturbances, when used in various sensitive applications. Conventional PI and other existing controllers produce high overshoot and increased rise time and settling time. The performance of BLDC motor is enhanced using a Fuzzy Sliding Mode Controller (FSMC) whose gain is intelligently varied with the help of a Fuzzy Inference System (FIS). For this purpose, a suitable FSMC is designed, simulated and implemented using FPGA. The simulation results are validated using Hardware in the loop (HIL) simulation as well as actual hardware implementation. Great improvement in the transient performance is achieved when compared to chatter free SMC, Fuzzy PI and conventional PI controller.
Symmetrical high voltage gain half-bridge inverter based double-Y-source networks with reduced voltage stress
Hussain Sayed;
Oday A Ahmed;
Dhari Y Mahmood;
Kanaan A. Jalal;
Waleed H. Habeeb
International Journal of Power Electronics and Drive Systems (IJPEDS) Vol 11, No 1: March 2020
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DOI: 10.11591/ijpeds.v11.i1.pp515-522
A single-stage symmetrical high voltage gain half-bridge (HB) DC-AC converter is proposed in this paper. Using two Y-source impedance networks, the following key features are utilized from the proposed topology: single stage inverter with very high voltage gain compared to conventional HB inverter, symmetrical output voltage waveform, low voltage stress across the passive components because it is distributed across two impedance networks, and only two switching devices are needed for the converter. Furthermore, important merit of the proposed topology is that the current drawn by the Y-coupled inductors is symmetrical around the X-axis which helps to prevent the Y-network cores from reaching the saturation state. And the last compelling feature is a virtual neutral point for the load connection is inherited in the proposed double Y-source impedance networks converter with no need for DC-Link capacitors. For low voltage sources such as photovoltaic (PV) and fuel cell, the converter is designed to achieve continuous input current operation. The operation modes and principles of the inverter are analyzed and discussed deeply in this paper. A detailed mathematical equations system is derived and verified for the presented converter. Finally, PSpice simulation tools are used to simulate the converter and verify the derived mathematical formulas.
Frequency response analysis for transformer tap changer damage detection
S. Al-Ameri;
A. A. Alawady;
M. F. M. Yousof;
H. Ahmad;
Ali. A. Salem;
M. A. Talib
International Journal of Power Electronics and Drive Systems (IJPEDS) Vol 11, No 1: March 2020
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DOI: 10.11591/ijpeds.v11.i1.pp350-358
Frequency response analysis (FRA) method has been proven to detect the transformer winding damage. However, there is no practical study which investigates the damages on transformer tap changer even though it has a high failure rate. Hence, this paper investigates normal and faulty transformer tap changer using FRA. The FRA measurements conducted using four different test configurations. Also, normal tap changer, pitting and coking tap changer contact were investigated. In addition to FRA measurement, winding resistance measurement has been conducted. The transformer turn ratio measurement also conducted to identify the taps positions. This study results significant to understand the effect of pitting and coking tap changer on the transformer frequency response. The results showed that pitting has a slight influence on the frequency response. However, coking shows a huge variation in low-frequency response. This effect observed during the winding resistance measurement.
Design and implementation of an impressed current cathodic protection system for buried metallic pipes (part II) (considering Al-Quds gas station in Baghdad)
Saif al deen H Mohammed;
Isam M Abdulbaqi
International Journal of Power Electronics and Drive Systems (IJPEDS) Vol 11, No 1: March 2020
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DOI: 10.11591/ijpeds.v11.i1.pp275-283
In this part, the implementation of the Cathodic Protection (CP) station in a new position is done due to the analytical study of the part (I) [1]. Also, a PV fed self-adjusted DC-DC converter is designed and implemented for this purpose, and Aluminum anodes designed and manufactured for the sake of approving the proposed CP station operation. A field test shows enhanced results due to the National Association of Corrosion Engineering NACE standard. An edit has been made on the main empirical formula that is previously intended for the design of the same CP system. The proposed CP station is very flexible, more accurate, of lower cost, and needs little maintenance as compared with the already existing CP station.
Improvement of direct torque control applied to doubly fed induction motor under variable speed
Hala Alami Aroussi;
Elmostafa Ziani;
Manale Bouderbala;
Badre Bossoufi
International Journal of Power Electronics and Drive Systems (IJPEDS) Vol 11, No 1: March 2020
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DOI: 10.11591/ijpeds.v11.i1.pp97-106
This work is dedicated to the study of an improved direct torque control of the doubly fed induction motor (DFIM). The control method adopts direct torque control 'DTC' because of its various advantages like the ease of implementation which allows a good performance at transient and steady state without PI regulators and rotating coordinate transformations. To do this, the modeling of the motor is performed. Subsequently, an explanation of the said command is spread out as well as the principle of adjusting the flux and the electromagnetic torque according to the desired speed. Then, the estimation method of these two control variables will be presented as well as the adopted switching table of the hysteresis controller model used based on the model of the multilevel inverters. Finally, the robustness of the developed system will be analyzed with validation in Matlab/Simulink environment to illustrate the performance of this control.
Voltage control of switched reluctance generator using grasshopper optimization algorithm
Mohamed Bahy;
Adel S. Nada;
Sayed H. Elbanna;
Mohamed A. M. Shanab
International Journal of Power Electronics and Drive Systems (IJPEDS) Vol 11, No 1: March 2020
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DOI: 10.11591/ijpeds.v11.i1.pp75-85
This paper presents a terminal voltage control approach of a Switched Reluctance Generator (SRG) based wind turbine generating systems. The control process is employed using a closed loop stimulated by the error between the reference voltage and the generator output voltage due to load and wind speed variation. This error feeds the tuned Proportional Integral controller (PI).Tuning of PI controller by conventional analysis methods is difficult by the existence of a significant non-linearity. A novel strategy method is presented here to determine optimum PI controller parameters of voltage control of SRG using Grasshopper Optimization Algorithm (GOA). This proposed approach is a simple and effective algorithm that is able to solve many optimization problems. The simplicity of algorithm provides high quality tuning of optimal PI controller parameters. The integral of time weighted squared error (ITSE) is used as the performance of the proposed GOA-PI controller. The effectiveness of the proposed strategy is tested with the three-phase 12/8 structure SRG. Outcomes indicate the supremacy of GOA over Whale Optimization Algorithm (WOA) and Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) in terms of control performance measures.