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 analysis of double stator HE-FSM for aircraft applications
Hassan Ali;
Erwan Sulaiman;
Mahyuzie Jenal;
Irfan Ali;
Laili Iwani Jusoh;
Zarafi Ahmad;
Mohd Firdaus
International Journal of Power Electronics and Drive Systems (IJPEDS) Vol 12, No 1: March 2021
Publisher : Institute of Advanced Engineering and Science
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DOI: 10.11591/ijpeds.v12.i1.pp51-58
The main objective of aerospace industry is to produce all electric aircraft (AEA) equipped by electrical devices in coming developments. Electrical machines that provide higher torque densities are gaining more interest for researchers to obtain sustainable direct-drive electrical propulsion system for aircraft applications. In addition to lesser weight and higher torque density, a machine should be “fault tolerant” to applied in aerospace applications. A novel machine for high starting torque, identified as flux switching machine (FSM) was established over the last decade. FSMs comprise all effective sources on stator including robust rotor structure. These machines exhibited higher “torque-to-weight ratios” and reliability. Nonetheless, the challenge of developing a machine suitable for aircraft applications goes far beyond electromagnetic design and much deeper into the field of mechanical systems than traditional ones. Thus, a new double stator (DS) hybrid excitation (HE) FSM design employing segmented rotor is proposed and analyzed in this research work. The suggested design for DS HE-FSM comprises of six field excitation coils (FECs) and six permanent magnets (PMs) as their excitation sources. In this research, investigation of DS HE-FSM is accomplished with respect to flux linkage, back EMF, cogging torque and torque analysis based on 2D FEA.
Performance analysis of 30 MW wind power plant in an operation mode in Nouakchott, Mauritania
Bamba Heiba;
Ahmed Med Yahya;
Mohammed Qasim Taha;
Nadhira Khezam;
Abdel Kader Mahmoud
International Journal of Power Electronics and Drive Systems (IJPEDS) Vol 12, No 1: March 2021
Publisher : Institute of Advanced Engineering and Science
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DOI: 10.11591/ijpeds.v12.i1.pp532-541
In this paper, the performance analysis of a 30 MW wind power plant is performed. The farm consists of fifteen (T1-T15) G9 7/2000/GAMESA 2 MW grid-connected turbines. The farm is in operation mode installed 28 km south of Nouakchott city in Mauritania. The analyzed data are monitored from July 1st, 2015 (the first operation day of the power plant) to December 31st, 2019. The parameters of performance evaluation are power generation, capacity factor, machine availability, grid availability, and system availability. It is observed from data analysis, the wind farm supplies a total energy of 507.39 GWh to the power grid and have a high average capacity factor of 42.55%. T1 produces the highest amount of electrical energy among the other turbines with a total energy output of 35.46 GWh, an average capacity factor of 44.97%, and operating hours of 33,814 hours. While T12 produced the minimum amount of energy in this period, the difference in energy compared to T1 is 4.563 GWh. It is observed that the availability of the network is unstable and needs improvement, varying between 90.86% in 2016 and 93.16% in 2018. In the first year of operation, 97.06% of the turbines were available. However, the average availability of the wind farm is approximately 94% during the total study period.
Design of eddy current brake for electric motorcycle braking system
Mufti Reza Aulia Putra;
Muhammad Nizam;
Dominicus Danardono Dwi Prija Tjahjana
International Journal of Power Electronics and Drive Systems (IJPEDS) Vol 12, No 1: March 2021
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DOI: 10.11591/ijpeds.v12.i1.pp41-50
Braking systems in motor vehicles generally use a braking system that utilizes friction. The braking performance will decrease caused by using friction rapidly. To overcome this, as an alternative, an electromagnetic braking system can be used by utilizing eddy currents, such as eddy current brakes (ECB). Eddy currents are generated when the rotor pass the magnetic field of the electromagnet. The research aim is to design an ECB system. The performance of the disk design will be determined in this study. The study is about the tendency of the ECB properties. The finite element (FEM) method is used by modeling ECB performance. The experimental results were used to validate the result. The test showed the results of braking using aluminum disk showed the best performance in 12.03 Nm. From these results, the combination of the disks is needed by an appropriate disk design.
Reactive power sharing among distributed generators in a microgrid by using virtual current
Eder A. Molina-Viloria;
John Edwin Candelo Becerra;
Fredy Edimer Hoyos Velasco
International Journal of Power Electronics and Drive Systems (IJPEDS) Vol 12, No 1: March 2021
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DOI: 10.11591/ijpeds.v12.i1.pp99-111
This paper presents a new autonomous effective power distribution control strategy for three-phase parallel inverters. The proposal uses a controller that can provide the system with accurate power sharing among distributed generators installed in the microgrid once some load variations are presented in the network. The methodology uses a virtual current loop introduced into the current controller of the inverter to optimize the output signal, which goes directly to the PWM. This virtual current is obtained by using a virtual impedance loop. Furthermore, a small-signal model of the system is used to check stability of the proposed control strategy, which was developed for island mode operation of the microgrid. Simulations were performed for a microgrid with two generators and a load with five households and implemented in MATLAB/Simulink software. The results show that the model provides a wide margin of stability and a rapid response when electrical loads change, thus fulfilling the reactive power sharing among generators. The proposed method shows a large margin of stability and a rapid transient response of the system.
Soft start-up strategy of pulse-density-modulated series-resonant converter for induction heating application
Pavlo Herasymenko;
Volodymyr Pavlovskyi
International Journal of Power Electronics and Drive Systems (IJPEDS) Vol 12, No 1: March 2021
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DOI: 10.11591/ijpeds.v12.i1.pp258-272
This paper presents a soft start-up strategy of pulse-density-modulated series-resonant converter for induction heating application. The pulse-density modulation (PDM) technique is widely used in converters based on voltage-source series-resonant inverters (SRIs) to control the output current or power. However, during a start-up process, PDM has some disadvantages both in inrush current limiting and providing a zero-voltage switching operation of SRI transistors. In the paper, different PDM techniques are considered and basic moments of PDM using within the start-up process are analyzed. A new soft start-up strategy of PDM converter for induction heating application is proposed. The main features of the proposed strategy include an interleaved or a stepped PDM control, an initial combination of PDM at the beginning of the start-up process, and an operating algorithm during the start-up process. The proposed strategy was verified by a 2.5 kW experimental setup of the pulse-density-modulated interleaved converter with an operating frequency from 50 kHz up to 100 kHz. Experimental results confirm the effectiveness of the proposed start-up strategy and show that the maximum current amplitude within start-up processes exceeds the maximum steady-state current amplitude by no more than 30%.
Impact of the hybrid reactive power compensator on the power grid used a fuzzy PI regulator
Abdelkader Rahmouni
International Journal of Power Electronics and Drive Systems (IJPEDS) Vol 12, No 1: March 2021
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DOI: 10.11591/ijpeds.v12.i1.pp170-182
The work presented in this article is a contribution to the problem of controlling reactive powers and voltages in an electrical network. Among these control tools, the static reactive power compensator (SVC) was chosen because of its simplicity of control. SVC is one of the Alternative Flexible Current Transmission Systems (FACTS) devices which help to solve the problems encountered in the operation of electrical networks, either on the distribution side or on the transport side. To increase its compensation efficiency in the face of harmonic currents which cause voltage distortion, we have introduced a three-phase harmonic filter. This new hybrid SVC is used to control the reactive power, the voltage and in addition to reduce the voltage distortion and the correction of the power factor in the electrical energy transport network. In order to improve its efficiency, two voltage regulation systems have been chosen in the control system for this compensator, the fuzzy PI regulator and the PIP regulator.
Load flow analysis using Newton-Raphson method in presence of distributed generation
Tebbakh Noureddine;
Labed Djamel
International Journal of Power Electronics and Drive Systems (IJPEDS) Vol 12, No 1: March 2021
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DOI: 10.11591/ijpeds.v12.i1.pp489-498
Distributed generations (DG), specially including renewable sources such as wind and sun are offering several opportunities for the currently in existence distribution networks and becoming one of the keys of treatment of its problems. Knowing the effects of each kind of DG on distribution networks is a primordial task because DG impacts differ from one kind to another. In this paper, we have analyzed and compared the effects of two kinds of DG, DG which provides real power only and DG which provides real power and reactive power at the same time connected at the critical bus in DN on the voltage profile, real and reactive power losses. We have proposed Newton Raphson method using Matlab to investigate the impacts of these two kinds of DG on 57-bus IEEE distribution test system. The obtained results have been exposed in detail at the end of this paper.
Harmonics elimination for DC/DC power supply based on piezoelectric filters
Hasan Ma Almgotir;
Enaam A. Khaliq Ali;
Wedian H. Abd al ameer;
Mustafa A. Fadel Al-Qaisi
International Journal of Power Electronics and Drive Systems (IJPEDS) Vol 12, No 1: March 2021
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DOI: 10.11591/ijpeds.v12.i1.pp356-363
This research presents a study, modelling and simulation of the piezoelectric material work as filters (piezoelectric filter) used to eliminate the harmonics in power electronic circuits, high order harmonics are generating due to the high switching frequencies and circuit equipment, detailed simulation is achieved for the piezoelectric filter tested in full-bridge DC/DC converter circuit with resistive load works as dc power supply (12 to 48 volt). As a result, the uses of piezoelectric filters have a great impact on harmonics elimination, which leads to reduce the overall total harmonic distortion leads to increase the efficiency, as well as the output voltage from the dc power supply remain constant by varying the load resistance over a wide range. The dc power supply circuit including the piezoelectric filter has been simulated using PSIM (V9.1) power electronic circuit simulation software.
The cascade methods of doubly-fed induction machine for generator system
Diep-Dung Nguyen;
Ngoc-Hoan Than;
Duc-Tuan Hoang
International Journal of Power Electronics and Drive Systems (IJPEDS) Vol 12, No 1: March 2021
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DOI: 10.11591/ijpeds.v12.i1.pp112-120
This paper presents two solutions to cascade the doubly-fed induction machines in the power generator systems. The first solution is a traditional one with the power control circuit located on the stator-side. The second solution is a new one with the power control circuit located on the rotor-side. After analysis and evaluation, it is shown that the solution with the power control circuit located on the rotor side has advantages over the solution with the power control circuit located on the stator-side. Therefore, the authors chose the solution which is a power control circuit located on the rotor side to study, analyze in-depth and run the simulation. The results show that the proposed solution has a very good quality, the output voltage of the generator always follows the grid-voltage even when changing the gird-voltage or changing the speed of the generator.
Effect of blade pitch angle on the aerodynamic characteristics of a twisted blade horizontal axis wind turbine based on numerical simulations
Rajendra Roul;
Awadhesh Kumar
International Journal of Power Electronics and Drive Systems (IJPEDS) Vol 12, No 1: March 2021
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DOI: 10.11591/ijpeds.v12.i1.pp511-519
The present work includes a study of the impact of varying pitch angles and angular velocity on the performance parameters of a horizontal axis wind turbine using computational fluid dynamics. Simulations have been made using commercial Ansys 15 software. Seven pitch angles are chosen for study, i.e., 0° , 5 ° , 10° , 15° , 20° , 25° , and 28°, and two angular velocity values of 1.57 rad/sec and 2.22 rad/sec are used for simulation. The turbulence model used is shear stress transport (SST) K-ω. A detailed study of the influence of pitch angle on the aerodynamic characteristics of the wind turbine is highlighted. Performance parameters like torque and power have been found to exhibit random variability with a change in wind velocity and pitch angle. The verification of computational fluid dynamics (CFD) with the standard empirical formula is highlighted. The best pitch angle is noted for the best power coefficient.