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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Experimental Prototype Model of IDVR for Bidirectional Voltage Compensation
Ramchandra Nittala;
Alivelu M. Parimi;
K. Uma Rao
International Journal of Power Electronics and Drive Systems (IJPEDS) Vol 9, No 1: March 2018
Publisher : Institute of Advanced Engineering and Science
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DOI: 10.11591/ijpeds.v9.i1.pp297-304
Interline Dynamic Voltage Restorer (IDVR) is an optimum solution to compensate voltage sag in multiple lines. The IDVR consisting of two or more DVRs connected to different feeders in a power system sharing a common DC link energy. This paper presents the hardware implementation of novel bidirectional voltage sag compensation by the IDVR in multiple feeders at same instance. A two line feeder power system with IDVR installed is considered. The IDVR is implemented using two VSI with filter. The control system of IDVR is developed using DSPACE 1103.
A New Structure of the Nine Level Inverter Used as Active Power Filter with a Reduced Number of Swiches
Fethi Chouaf;
Salah Saad
International Journal of Power Electronics and Drive Systems (IJPEDS) Vol 9, No 1: March 2018
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DOI: 10.11591/ijpeds.v9.i1.pp198-209
In the scope of this work, a new structure of the nine level inverter is proposed using a reduced number of power switches. This inverter is used as a shunt active power filter to compensate harmonic currents and the reactive power. The modeling and simulation of the proposed model were carried out in Matlab/Simulink environment. The simulation results show that the filtering performances were achieved despite the reduction of the switches number. It was found that the current waveform becomes purely sinusoidal with a reduction in the harmonic distortion rate (THD) to 2.68%. This implies good compensation of both harmonics and reactive power with a power factor closer to unity. Reducing the switches number allows reducing the switching losses and lowering the duration of the applied voltage supported by the semiconductors. The proposed topology also allows to get simple structure of the inverter with a reduced cost.
Review on Exergy and Energy Analysis of Solar Air Heater
Ahmad Fudholi;
Kamaruzzaman Sopian
International Journal of Power Electronics and Drive Systems (IJPEDS) Vol 9, No 1: March 2018
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DOI: 10.11591/ijpeds.v9.i1.pp420-426
Solar air heater (SAH), which is the most essential component of solar drying systems, receive solar energy and convert it into thermal energy. This review presents descriptions and previous works conducted on performances analysis of SAHs. Exergoenviroeconomic, exergoenvironmental, environmental, and exergy analyses are also presented. In addition, results on the performances of SAHs are summarized. The exergy and energy efficiencies of SAHs at laboratorium testing range from 8% to 61% and from 30% to 79%, respectively.
MPPT & Power Factor Control for Grid Connected PV Systems with Fuzzy Logic Controllers
Taoufik Laagoubi;
Mostafa Bouzi;
Mohamed Benchagra
International Journal of Power Electronics and Drive Systems (IJPEDS) Vol 9, No 1: March 2018
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DOI: 10.11591/ijpeds.v9.i1.pp105-113
Two fuzzy logic controllers are proposed in this paper to control a three phase inverter for grid connected photovoltaic system. The first controller was used to predict the DC voltage that allows the three phase inverter to track the maximum power point of photovoltaic array under different environmental conditions such as irradiances and temperature. The second was used to control the active power and reactive power injected into the grid in order to inject the maximum active power produced by photovoltaic systems into grid with high efficiency and low total harmonic distortion using the same three phase inverter. The system components are photovoltaic array, DC link voltage, three-phase inverter, inverter control, LC filter, transformer and grid. To verify the effectivnesse of the introdueced system, modeling and simulation are verified in Matlab/Simulink due to its frequent use and its effectiveness.
Performance Analysis of H-bridge and T-Bridge Multilevel Inverters for Harmonics Reduction
S. Usha;
C. Subramani;
A. Geetha
International Journal of Power Electronics and Drive Systems (IJPEDS) Vol 9, No 1: March 2018
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DOI: 10.11591/ijpeds.v9.i1.pp231-239
This paper deals with the design of cascaded 11 level H- bridge inverter. It includes a comparison between the 11 level H-bridge and T-bridge multilevel inverter. The cascaded inverter of higher level is a very effective and practical solution for reduction of total harmonic distortion (THD).These cascaded multilevel inverter can be used for higher voltage applications with more stability. As the level is increased the output waveform becomes more sinusoidal in nature. The inverter is designed using multicarrier sinusoidal pulse width modulation technique for generating triggering pulses for the semiconductor switches used in the device. Through this paper it will be proved that a cascaded multilevel H-bridge topology has higher efficiency than a T-bridge inverter, as whichever source input voltage is provided since input is equal to the output voltage. In T-bridge inverter, the output obtained is half of the applied input, so efficiency is just half as compared to H-bridge. The output waveform is distorted and has higher THD. The simulation is performed using MATLAB /Simulink 2013 software.
Review on Solar Collector for Agricultural Produce
Ahmad Fudholi;
Kamaruzzaman Sopian
International Journal of Power Electronics and Drive Systems (IJPEDS) Vol 9, No 1: March 2018
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DOI: 10.11591/ijpeds.v9.i1.pp414-419
Among the most important components of solar energy systems, solar collectors are devices that receive solar energy and convert it into thermal energy, as most essential components of solar dryer. This review presents description and previous work performed on performances of solar air collector for agricultural produce. In addition, various solar collectors are classified and described. Solar air collectors for drying application of agricultural produce are presented and summarize. The energy and exergy efficiency of the solar air collector ranges from 28% to 62% and from 30% to 57%, respectively.
Implementation of Cascaded based Reversing Voltage Multilevel Inverter using Multi Carrier Modulation Strategies
S. Nagaraja Rao;
D. V. Ashok Kumar;
Ch. Sai Babu
International Journal of Power Electronics and Drive Systems (IJPEDS) Vol 9, No 1: March 2018
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DOI: 10.11591/ijpeds.v9.i1.pp220-230
In this paper, a cascaded based reversing voltage (CBRV) multilevel inverter structure is proposed inorder to compensate the major drawbacks in the conventional multilevel inverters. The proposed topology requires less number of components, less carrier signals and gate drives when compared to existing multilevel inverters particularly at higher levels. Therefore, the complexity and overall cost are greatly reduced particularly for higher output voltage levels. This paper also presents the most relevant control and modulation methods by a triangular based multi carrier pulse width modulation (PWM) scheme for the proposed CBRV inverter topology. This paper presents a comparison between different modulation strategies for CBRV inverter topology based on sinusoidal and space vector references with multi triangular carrier waves. The work strive hard to present the scrutiny that has been made between various PWM control techniques for 1–Ф seven level CBRV inverter structure. The comparison is made in terms of Total Harmonic Distortion (THD) and fundamental RMS voltage. Finally, the simulation results are included to verify the effectiveness of the proposed CBRV inverter topology and validate the proposed theory. A hardware set up was developed for a 1–Ф seven level CBRV inverter topology using FPGA based pulse generation.
Review of Sliding Mode Observers for Sensorless Control of Permanent Magnet Synchronous Motor Drives
Ganapathy Ram;
Santha K R
International Journal of Power Electronics and Drive Systems (IJPEDS) Vol 9, No 1: March 2018
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DOI: 10.11591/ijpeds.v9.i1.pp46-54
Permanent magnet synchronous motors (PMSMs) are increasingly used in high performance variable speed drives of many industrial applications. PMSM has many features, like high efficiency, compactness, high torque to inertia ratio, rapid dynamic response, simple modeling and control, and maintenance free operation. Presence of position sensors presents several disadvantages, such as reduced reliability, susceptibility to noise, additional cost and weight and increased complexity of the drive system. For these reasons, the development of alternative indirect methods for speed and position control becomes an important research topic. Advantages of sensorless control are reduced hardware complexity, low cost, reduced size, cable elimination, increased noise immunity, increased reliability and decreased maintenance. The key problem in sensorless vector control of ac drives is the accurate dynamic estimation of the stator flux vector over a wide speed range using only terminal variables (currents and voltages). The difficulty comprises state estimation at very low speeds where the fundamental excitation is low and the observer performance tends to be poor. Moreover, the noises of system and measurements are considered other main problems. This paper presents a comprehensive study of the different sliding mode observer methods of speed and position estimations for sensorless control of PMSM drives.
Design of Optimal LLCL Filter with an Improved Control Strategy for Single Phase Grid Connected PV Inverter
K. Arulkumar;
D. Vijayakumar;
K. Palanisamy
International Journal of Power Electronics and Drive Systems (IJPEDS) Vol 9, No 1: March 2018
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DOI: 10.11591/ijpeds.v9.i1.pp114-125
The third order LLCL filter is gaining more attractive in grid connected PV inverter in terms of material cost saving than LCL filter. Several active and passive damping techniques prevail in mitigating the resonance problem for maintaining the grid power quality standards. In this paper an improved passive damping is examined with reduction of power loss for the LLCL filter. Particularly, it reduces the switching ripple much better than LCL filter, with a decrease in volume of the inductance. The filter design is also developed for the operation of stiff grid. Mathematical operations and transfer function are derived with frequency response for the accuracy of the filter design. In addition, comparative analysis of passive and improved passive damping control is proposed. The control strategy is improved with feedback linearization in order to avoid the glitches in inverter control and is verified with prototype grid connected PV inverter.
Real Time Validation of EKF Estimator for Low Speed Estimation in DTC IMD
Mini R;
Binoj P.V.;
B. Hariram Satheesh;
Dinesh M.N.
International Journal of Power Electronics and Drive Systems (IJPEDS) Vol 9, No 1: March 2018
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DOI: 10.11591/ijpeds.v9.i1.pp433-442
Low speed estimation in DTC IMD is not accurate due to the presence of transient offset, drift and domination of ohmic voltage drop in the measured stator voltages and currents used for estimating the stator flux required for accurate estimation of speed. EKF is a nonlinear, recursive adaptive algorithm capable of estimating speed ranging from very low speed to rated speed using equation of motion from noisy measured currents and voltages based on state space technique. In the previous work a new state space model of IM was developed for estimation in EKF by feeding load torque profile as an input variable instead of estimating it by considering load torque as constant, validated using MATLAB-Simulink software. In this paper real time validation of the EKF controller with load profile fed as input for speed estimation in DTC IMD is carried out using OPAL-RT simulator and real time results validates the simulation results and proves the effectives of the new EKF for low speed estimation in DTC IMD