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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Performance of Brushless DC Drive with Single Current Sensor Fed from PV with High Voltage-Gain DC-DC Converter
G. G RajaSekhar;
Basavaraja Banakara
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.pp33-45
This paper presents the performance of Brushless DC (BLDC) Motor drive with only one positioning sensor instead of three conventional sensors. The three sensor units are replaced with a single stator current sensor unit in DC bus which further reduces the cost increasing the reliability of the drive system. Using a single sensor in stator requires minimum electronic equipment for the purpose of measurement process. This paper evolves the BLDC motor drive fed from PV system. A high voltage-gain DC-DC converter is presented in this paper to step-up the voltage from PV system. The appropriateness of PV fed BLDC motor drive is verified for variable increamental speed with fixed torque and variable decremental speed with fixed torque operating conditions. BLDC motor drive performance is also performed for variable torque with fixed peed working condition. The proposed system and results are developed using MATLAB/SIMULINK software.
Improvement Potential and Exergy Analyses of Photovoltaic Thermal with and without ∇-absorber Collector
Saprizal Hadisaputra;
Muhammad Zohri;
Hardani Hardani;
Ahmad Fudholi
International Journal of Power Electronics and Drive Systems (IJPEDS) Vol 9, No 4: December 2018
Publisher : Institute of Advanced Engineering and Science
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DOI: 10.11591/ijpeds.v9.i4.pp1792-1798
The combination of a solar thermal and photovoltaic system is called photovoltaic thermal system (PVT). The PVT system with and without -absorber has been intended to harvest both hot air and electricity. The hot air that is produced is used in the cooling process of the photovoltaic panel and then to improve the efficiency of the photovoltaic panel. The experimental investigation was conducted at the mass flow rate from 0.0069 kg/s to 0.0491 kg/s and solar radiation of 522 W/m2 and 820 W/m2 in the National University of Malaysia. The using -absorber collector increases exergy and exergy efficiency of PVT system. The improvement potential comparatively upsurges with cumulative the mass flow rate.
Efficiency Optimized Brushless DC Motor Drive based on Input Current Harmonic Elimination
Tridibesh Nag;
Arijit Acharya;
Debashis Chatterjee;
Ashoke Kumar Ganguli;
Arunava Chatterjee
International Journal of Power Electronics and Drive Systems (IJPEDS) Vol 6, No 4: December 2015
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DOI: 10.11591/ijpeds.v6.i4.pp869-875
This paper describes efficiency improvement of a position sensorless brushless DC (BLDC) motor with improved PWM scheme for the inverter compared to existing ones. This is based on Selective Harmonic Elimination (SHE). The proposed method reduces total harmonic distortion (THD) from the input current and armature flux and thereby reducing the core losses. The effectiveness of the proposed scheme is demonstrated through simulation and experimental results.
Side Effects of Damping Element Insertion in LCL Filter for DC/AC Inverter
Faizal Arya Samman;
Ma'arif Hasan;
Tirza Damayanti
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.pp443-456
The negative impacts or side effects of a damper circuit insertion in an LCL passive filter utilized to filter DC/AC inverters output voltage is presented in this paper. For comparative study, this paper discusses two damping configurations, namely series and parallel damping, as well as the LCL filter without damping element. Four criteria are used to explore the impacts of the damper circuits, i.e. their total harmonic distortions (THDs), the output voltage amplitude, the output power and the power efficiency. Theoretically and emphirically shown by previous studies, the damper can indeed reduce the peak resonance frequency of the filter in its frequency response curve. However, in any circumstance, it can potentially reduce the inverters power and efficiency, voltage output amplitude, and cannot improve its THD reduction. The analysis results have shown that the side effects depends also on the load conditions, which are different for each damping circuit configuration.
A Tactical Chaos based PWM Technique for Distortion Restraint and Power Spectrum Shaping in Induction Motor Drives
V. Mohan;
N. Stalin;
S. Jeevananthan
International Journal of Power Electronics and Drive Systems (IJPEDS) Vol 5, No 3: 2015
Publisher : Institute of Advanced Engineering and Science
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DOI: 10.11591/ijpeds.v5.i3.pp383-392
The pulse width modulated voltage source inverters (PWM-VSI) dominate in the modern industrial environment. The conventional PWM methods are designed to have higher fundamental voltage, easy filtering and reduced total harmonic distortion (THD). There are number of clustered harmonics around the multiples of switching frequency in the output of conventional sinusoidal pulse width modulation (SPWM) and space vector pulse width modulation (SVPWM) inverters. This is due to their fixed switching frequency while the variable switching frequency makes the filtering very complex. Random carrier PWM (RCPWM) methods are the host of PWM methods, which use randomized carrier frequency and result in a harmonic profile with well distributed harmonic power (no harmonic possesses significant magnitude and hence no filtering is required). This paper proposes a chaos-based PWM (CPWM) strategy, which utilizes a chaotically changing switching frequency to spread the harmonics continuously to a wideband and to reduce the peak harmonics to a great extent. This can be an effective way to suppress the current harmonics and torque ripple in induction motor drives. The proposed CPWM scheme is simulated using MATLAB / SIMULINK software and implemented in three phase voltage source inverter (VSI) using field programmable gate array (FPGA).
Wind Turbine Mounted on A Motorcycle for Portable Charger
G. Subhashini;
Raed Abdulla;
Thinaga Raj R Mohan
International Journal of Power Electronics and Drive Systems (IJPEDS) Vol 9, No 4: December 2018
Publisher : Institute of Advanced Engineering and Science
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DOI: 10.11591/ijpeds.v9.i4.pp1814-1822
This paper aims to develop a wind energy harvesting system to charger an electronic device of 5V during traveling period from a place to another. Upon the situation faced by the two wheeler depending on the conventional power socket, this system was constructed to overcome the dependencies of power since the natural energy can be harvested to produce an electrical energy. The power storage unit system was done by integrating supercapacitor to storage the electrical energy hence an arduino microcontroller was been integrated with supercapacitor which able to display the percentage and voltage stored in the supercapacitor. The maximum speed of the geared DC generator is 1297 rpm and based on the testing carried out, it was observed that the maximum voltage produce at 1297 rpm able to produce 17V which sufficient to power up the entire system as it required 5.3V for operating. Besides, the system was converted into acrylic board since the system are to be implemented on two wheeler hence the acrylic board was design based on the conform ability of the user. In a nut shell, the functionality of the entire system was successfully achieved based on the objectives and overcoming the drawback from past research work.
Single-phase Multilevel Inverter with Simpler Basic Unit Cells for Photovoltaic Power Generation
M. S. Chye;
J. A. Soo;
Y. C. Tan;
M. Aizuddin;
S. Lee;
M. Faddle;
S. L. Ong;
T. Sutikno;
J. H. Leong
International Journal of Power Electronics and Drive Systems (IJPEDS) Vol 7, No 4: December 2016
Publisher : Institute of Advanced Engineering and Science
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DOI: 10.11591/ijpeds.v7.i4.pp1233-1239
This paper presents a single-phase multilevel inverter (MLI) with simpler basic unit cells. The proposed MLI is able to operate in two modes, i.e. charge mode to charge the batteries, and inverter mode to supply AC power to load, and therefore, it is inherently suitable for photovoltaic (PV) power generation applications. The proposed MLI requires lower number of power MOSFETs and gate driver units, which will translate into higher cost saving and better system reliability. The power MOSFETs in the basic unit cells and H-bridge module are switched at near fundamental frequency, i.e. 100 Hz and 50 Hz, respectively, resulting in lower switching losses. For low total harmonic distortion (THD) operation, a deep scanning method is employed to calculate the switching angles of the MLI. The lowest THD obtained is 8.91% at modulation index of 0.82. The performance of the proposed MLI (9-level) has been simulated and evaluated experimentally. The simulation and experimental results are in good agreement and this confirms that the proposed MLI is able to produce an AC output voltage with low THD.
Finite-Control-Set Predictive Current Control Based Real and Reactive Power Control of Grid-Connected Hybrid Modular Multilevel Converter
Rashmi Ranjan Behera;
Amarnath Thakur
International Journal of Power Electronics and Drive Systems (IJPEDS) Vol 9, No 2: June 2018
Publisher : Institute of Advanced Engineering and Science
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DOI: 10.11591/ijpeds.v9.i2.pp660-667
This paper proposes the grid application of modified three-phase topology of Modular Multilevel Converter (MMC) using finite-control-set predictive control. This topology has reduced number of switch counts compared to the conventional MMC, eliminates the problem of circulating current and having higher efficiency. A single dc source is required to produce sinusoidal outputs. The number of sub-modules (SMs) in this topology is half of the SMs required in case of MMC, in addition to a single H-bride circuit per phase. The finite-control-set predictive current control scheme for the grid connected dc source through the Hybrid Modular Multilevel Converter (HMMC). This controller controls the desired real and reactive power demand of the grid instantaneously. The simulation study of a three phase grid connected system has been done in Matlab/Simulink and the results are provided for the different real and reactive power demands, to validate the concepts.
Single Phase Power Generation System from Fuel Cell
Nageswara Rao Kudithi;
Sakda Somkun
International Journal of Power Electronics and Drive Systems (IJPEDS) Vol 9, No 4: December 2018
Publisher : Institute of Advanced Engineering and Science
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DOI: 10.11591/ijpeds.v9.i4.pp1676-1684
Power conditioning circuits are required for the fuel cell systems due to its nature in energetic state. This paper proposed the small signal average modelling of a duel active bridge (DAB) DC-DC converter with LC filter, to generate the single phase AC power by using the H1000 fuel cell system. The controller is designed for the stable operation of the system. Implemented the controller, which gives the constant output voltage to DC-bus from the DAB DC-DC converter, this DC-bus voltage fed to the inverter, which inverts the DC-bus voltage to single Phase AC power with the LC-filter. The proposed system simulated in the MATLAB/Simulink.
Design of New Single-phase Multilevel Voltage Source Inverter
Rasoul Shalchi Alishah;
Daryoosh Nazarpour;
Seyyed Hossein Hosseini;
Mehran Sabahi
International Journal of Power Electronics and Drive Systems (IJPEDS) Vol 5, No 1: 2014
Publisher : Institute of Advanced Engineering and Science
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Multilevel inverters with more number of levels can produce high quality voltage waveforms. In this paper, a new single-phase structure for multilevel voltage source inverter is proposed which can generate a large number of levels with reduced number of IGBTs, gate driver circuits and diodes. Three algorithms for determination of dc voltage sources’ magnitudes are presented which provide odd and even levels at the output voltage waveform. A comparison is presented between proposed multilevel inverter and conventional cascade topology. The proposed topology is analyzed by the experimental and simulation results.DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.11591/ijpeds.v5i1.6218