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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Track the maximum power of a photovoltaic to control a cascade five-level inverter a single-phase grid-connected with a fuzzy logic control
Chaithanakulwat, Arckarakit
International Journal of Power Electronics and Drive Systems (IJPEDS) Vol 10, No 4: December 2019
Publisher : Institute of Advanced Engineering and Science
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DOI: 10.11591/ijpeds.v10.i4.pp1863-1874
This research presents tracking the maximum power of a photovoltaic to control a five-level inverter, a cascade type connecting a single-phase grid-connected system with a fuzzy logic control model. Maximum power tracking control In this research, the principle of controlling the maximum current amplitude of the photovoltaic multiplied by the sine signal per unit that used as a reference current compared to the grid current. Signal comparison with the PID controller allows the creation of five levels of PWM of cascade control of five-level inverter connects single-phase grids. The results of the simulation test using the program MATLAB/Simulink to compare with the generated prototype found that the fuzzy logic principle was used to control the maximum power tracking conditions of the P&O method, when the amount of radiation light intensity decreases suddenly, making it possible to track the maximum power of the photovoltaic. Also, when the inverter connected to the grid by controlling the power angle to compare results between the simulation and the prototype — found that the current flowing into the grid increases according to the power angle control. Resulting in a nearby waveform, sine wave and an out of phase angle to the grid voltage because the system is in the inverter mode, and the harmonic spectrum of the grid currently has total harmonic distortion (THD) is reduced as an indication of the proposed system can be developed and applications.
Wind turbine doubly-fed asynchronous machine diagnosis defects using stator and rotor currents lissajous curves
Fatima El Hammouchi;
L. El Menzhi;
A. Saad;
Y. Ihedrane;
B. Bossoufi
International Journal of Power Electronics and Drive Systems (IJPEDS) Vol 10, No 2: June 2019
Publisher : Institute of Advanced Engineering and Science
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DOI: 10.11591/ijpeds.v10.i2.pp961-970
In the current paper, a method is developed to diagnose potential electrical defects attacking doubly fed induction generator in Moroccan wind turbines firms. The proposed method is based on stator and rotor currents Lissajous curves analysis. Firstly, we focus on modeling of a non-defected wind conversion systems based on mathematic model created in Matlab Simulink which is able to reflect the behaviour of the wind turbine during asynchronous generator defects-free operation. After that, an indirect stator field vector oriented control is applied to obtain the wind system performance. Finally, stator and rotor currents Lissajous curves are analyzed in case of a non-defected generator that represents the system reference curves for diagnosing defects. The simulations had been realized by Matlab Simulink. Their results showed the effectiveness of the proposed method.
A fuzzy logic controller based brushless DC motor using PFC cuk converter
Kumar, Sanatan;
Roy, Debanjan;
Singh, Madhu
International Journal of Power Electronics and Drive Systems (IJPEDS) Vol 10, No 4: December 2019
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DOI: 10.11591/ijpeds.v10.i4.pp1894-1905
This paper presents a PFC (Power Factor Correction) Cuk converter fed BLDC (Brushless DC) motor drive and the speed of BLDC motor is controlled using fuzzy logic implementation. The PFC converters are employed to enhance the power quality. The Brushless DC motor speed is under the control of DC-bus voltage of VSI-Voltage Source Inverter in which switching of low frequency is used. This helps in the electronic commutation of BLDC motors thus decreasing the switching losses in VSI. A DBR (Diode Bridge Rectifier) next to the PFC Cuk converter controls the voltage at DC link maintaining unity power factor. The characteristics of Cuk converter in four dissimilar modes of operation are studied such as continuous and discontinuous conduction modes (CCM and DCM) respectively. The entire system is simulated using Matlab/Simulink software and the simulation results are reported to verify the performance investigation of the proposed system.
Simulation Models of Energy Cables in SPICE
Uma Balaji
International Journal of Power Electronics and Drive Systems (IJPEDS) Vol 9, No 2: June 2018
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DOI: 10.11591/ijpeds.v9.i2.pp744-749
Accurate modeling of cables is important to study the behavior of high frequency disturbances in power converter systems. This paper reviews and compares two popular methodologies to model energy cables – an improved per unit length parameters based model and a Laplace SPICE element based model. The two models presented take into account the frequency dependence of the parameters of the cable. A ladder network is used for this purpose in the per unit length based model. The Laplace SPICE element model is generated from from a rational function approximation for the admittance parameters that are frequency dependant. The rational function approximation is obtained using a well known vector fitting algorithm. The time and frequency domain solutions of a two wire energy cable, obtained from the two models, agree well.
Robust power control methods for wind turbines using DFIG-generator
El Karaoui, Imane;
Maaroufi, Mohammed;
Bossoufi, Badre
International Journal of Power Electronics and Drive Systems (IJPEDS) Vol 10, No 4: December 2019
Publisher : Institute of Advanced Engineering and Science
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DOI: 10.11591/ijpeds.v10.i4.pp2101-2117
The purpose of this work is to present the advantages of the power control (active and reactive) of a wind energy system in order to improve the quality of the energy produced to the grid by presenting two control strategies applied to the conversion system of wind energy equipped with an asynchronous generator with dual power supply. Both techniques are studied and developed and consist of a field control (FOC) and a sliding mode control. They find their strongest justifications for the problem of using a nonlinear control law that is robust to the uncertainties of the model. The goal is to apply these two commands to independently control the active and reactive powers generated by the decoupled asynchronous machine by flow orientation. Thus, a study of these commands will be detailed and validated in the Matlab / Simulink environment with the simultaneous use of the "Pitch Control" and "Maximum Power Point Tracking (MPPT)" techniques. The results of numerical simulations obtained show the increasing interest of the two controls in the electrical systems. They also attest that the quality of the active and reactive powers and voltages of the wind system is considerably improved.
MRAS-based Sensorless Speed Integral Backstepping Control for Induction Machine, using a Flux Backstepping Observer
Mohamed Horch;
Abdelmadjid Boumediene;
Lotfi Baghli
International Journal of Power Electronics and Drive Systems (IJPEDS) Vol 8, No 4: December 2017
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DOI: 10.11591/ijpeds.v8.i4.pp1650-1662
This paper presents a study concerning a sensorless vector control of an induction machine fed by a voltage source inverter. The aim is to provide a scheme to control the speed and the rotor flux using a sensorless integral backstepping control approach. The rotor speed estimation is done by an observer using the model reference adaptive system (MRAS) technique whereas the nonlinear backstepping observer is used to get the rotor flux. The main objective is to achieve a robust control, adaptive and efficient, which will allow us to test and evaluate the performance of the proposed observer, combined with a sensorless control of the induction machine. Tests and validation are done using numerical simulations with MATLAB/SIMULINK-PSB (Power System Block set) toolbox. The results show good performance in terms of robustness regarding machine parameter variations and show the excellent quality of the control law associated with the observer, despite the observability problems when the machine operates at low speed.
Adaptive integral backstepping controller for linear induction motors
Omar Mahmoudi;
Abdelkrim Boucheta
International Journal of Power Electronics and Drive Systems (IJPEDS) Vol 10, No 2: June 2019
Publisher : Institute of Advanced Engineering and Science
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DOI: 10.11591/ijpeds.v10.i2.pp709-719
Linear induction motors offer the possibility to perform a direct linear motion without the nead of mechanical rotary to linear motion transformers. The main problem when controlling this kind of motors is the existence of indesirable behaviours such as end effect and parameter variations, which makes obtaining a precise plant model very complicated. This paper proposes an adaptive backstepping control technique with integral action based on lyapunov stability approach, which can guarantee the convergence of position tracking error to zero despite of parameter uncertainties and external load disturbance. Parameter adaptation laws are designed to estimate mover mass, viscous friction coefficient and load disturbance, which are assumed to be unknown constant parameters; as a result the compensation of their negative effect on control design system. The performance of the proposed control design was tested through simulation. The numerical validation results have shown good performance compared to the conventional backstepping controller and proved the robustness of the proposed controller against parameter variations and load disturbance.
Analysis and design of single phase voltage-frequency converter with optimized PI controller
M. Asna;
H. Shareef;
S.N. Khalid;
A. Al Dosari;
B. Hamad;
M. Alhammadi;
N. Aldarmaki
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.pp522-529
This paper proposes a new voltage frequency converter (VFC) that converts both voltage and frequency to the required level of voltage and frequency in low voltage networks used in various countries. The proposed converter could be used as a universal power supply for sensitive AC loads. The converter is composed of, input voltage and frequency detection circuitry, full bridge boost rectifier and a DC to AC inverter. In addition, to improve the feasibility and performance of the converter, synchronous reference based PI (SRFPI) controller is adopted, where the system behaves similar to a DC-DC converter. The parameter selection of PI controller is done using a recent optimisation technique called Lightning Search Algorithm (LSA). The simulation of VFC is conducted in MATLAB/Simulink environment. The simulation results shows that LSA based PI controller provides better output voltage regulation with respect to the reference value under various load and input conditions.
Single Phase Asymmetrical Cascaded MLI with Extreme Output Voltage Levels to Switch Ratio
Mahrous Ahmed;
Essam Hendawi;
Mohamed K. Metwaly
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.pp712-721
This paper proposes an asymmetrical cascaded single phase H-bridge inverter. The proposed inverter consists of two modules with unequal and isolated dc sources. Each module is composed of dc source, conventional four switches H-bridge and single bidirectional switch. To increase the output voltage levels, the tertiary ratio, 1:3, between its two dc sources is adopted. Both the fundamental frequency and the multicarrier pulse width modulation (PWM) control schemes are employed to generate switches signals. By controlling the inverter modulation index, the proposed inverter can generate an output voltage having up to seventeen levels by using only two modules. The proposed topology has also the feature of modularity which means that it can be extended to any levels by adding new modules. The proposed topology is simulated using an inductive load and some selected simulation results have been provided to validate the proposed inverter.
Voltage tracking of bridgeless PFC cuk converter using PI controller
W. M. Utomo;
N. A. A. Isa;
A. A. Bakar;
A. F. H. A. Gani;
B. E. Prasetyo;
H. Elmunsyah;
Y.M.Y Buswig
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.pp367-373
This paper proposes a Proportional-Integral (PI) control voltage tracking of Bridgeless Power Factor Correction (BPFC) Cuk converter. In order to investigate the behaviour of different output voltages during overshoot, steady state and step response, P.I controller is designed to set the -42 V, -48 V, -54 V output voltages. The simulation results show that the proposed PI controller able to control the output voltage and achieve fast steady state and step response of BPFC Cuk converter. When the value of output voltage increase, the overshoot voltage will become higher but the steady state respond will be faster. Furthermore, BPFC Cuk converter with P.I controller have low output voltage ripples.