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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New DTC strategy of multi-machines single-inverter systems for electric vehicle traction applications
Taibi Ahmed;
Hartani Kada;
Allali Ahmed
International Journal of Power Electronics and Drive Systems (IJPEDS) Vol 11, No 2: June 2020
Publisher : Institute of Advanced Engineering and Science
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DOI: 10.11591/ijpeds.v11.i2.pp641-650
In high power traction system applications two or more machines are fed by one converter. This topology results in a light, more compact and less costly system. These systems are called multi-machines single-converter systems. The problems posed by different electrical and mechanical couplings in these systems (MMS) affect various stages of the systems and require control strategy to reduce adverse effects. Control of multi-machines single-converter systems is the subject of this paper. The studied MMS is an electric vehicle with four in-wheel PMS motors. A three-leg inverter supplies two permanent magnet synchronous machines which are connected to the front right and rear right wheels, and another inverter supplies the left side. Several methods have been proposed for the control of multi-machines single-inverter systems, the master-slave control structure seems best adapted for our traction system. In this paper, a new control structure based on DTC method is used for the control of bi-machine traction system of an EV. This new control has been implanted in simulation to analyze its robustness in the presence of the various load cases involved in our electric vehicle traction chain. Simulation results indicated that this structure control allowed the stability of the traction system.
R&D of Photovoltaic Thermal (PVT) Systems: an Overview
Ahmad Fudholi;
Kamaruzzaman Sopian
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.pp803-810
Photovoltaic thermal (PVT), which is the popular technology for harvesting solar energy, receive solar energy and convert it into electrical and thermal energy simultaneously. In this review, design, heat transfer, energy modelling and performance analysis of PVT systems are presented. Four types of PVT systems base on heat transfer medium; air-based PVT system, water-based PVT system, the combination of water/air-based PVT system, and nanofluid-based PVT system are presented. In addition, major finding on energy and exergy analysis of PVT systems are summarized.
Hardware Implementation of Solar Photovoltaic System based Half Bridge Series Parallel Resonant Converter for Battery Charger
Rakhi K;
Ilango Karuppasamy;
Manjula G Nair
International Journal of Power Electronics and Drive Systems (IJPEDS) Vol 8, No 4: December 2017
Publisher : Institute of Advanced Engineering and Science
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DOI: 10.11591/ijpeds.v8.i4.pp1622-1630
The long established battery chargers are having many drawbacks such as prominent ripple charging current, less efficiency and bulky in size. To overcome these drawbacks of conventional battery charger, several charging circuits have been proposed and inevitability force to design a high-performance battery charger with small in size and improved efficiency. In this paper solar photovoltaic system based half-bridge series–parallel resonant converter (HBSPRC) charger is proposed for battery interface. The converter is designed to abolish low and high-frequency ripple currents and thus take full advantage of the life of secondary battery circuit. This is achieved by designing converter switches turn on at zero current and zero voltage with switching frequency greater than that of resonance frequency which leads to freewheeling diodes need not have very fast reverse-recovery characteristics. The performance of the power converters depends upon the control method adopted; in this work fuzzy logic controller is used for controlling the output voltage of HBSPRC. The fuzzy control scheme for the HBSPR converter has been designed and validated in hardware implementation of HBSPRC switching technique. From the results, it is found that the proposed battery charging system which reduces the switching loss and voltage stress across the power switches which increases the efficiency of the converter.
High performance PV system based on artificial neural network MPPT with PI controller for direct current water pump applications
Hussain Attia
International Journal of Power Electronics and Drive Systems (IJPEDS) Vol 10, No 3: September 2019
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DOI: 10.11591/ijpeds.v10.i3.pp1329-1338
This paper presents a new design of a standalone photovoltaic system which is supplying the required power to a direct current water pump that have difficulty to supply by the utility electricity. The system is controlled by an artificial neural networks (ANN) algorithm with function softening by PI controller that to guarantee the maximum power point tracking (MPPT) working conditions. A parallel connected PV array is designed to supply the required power to the water pump. The proposed design considers Permanent Magnet DC motor (PMDC) of 48 Volts, and 500 Watts as a water pump’s motor, the direct current (DC) pump is adopted to avoid the complexity of the alternating current AC pumping system which includes inverter, power filter, and insulated step up transformer, so the presented design avoids the mentioned AC system components. A feed forward ANN algorithm is adopted in this study to produce the reference voltage for the MPPT functioning of the PV system, Proportional Integral (PI) controller is inserted to soften the MPPT controller performance. System design, MATLAB simulation with results and the results’ analysis all are presented in this paper. The study conclusion confirms the effectiveness of the proposal as a successful system for practical applications.
Performance identification of the asynchronous electric drives by the spectrum of rotor currents
Vladimir L. Kodkin;
Aleksandr Sergeevich Anikin;
Aleksandr A. Baldenkov
International Journal of Power Electronics and Drive Systems (IJPEDS) Vol 10, No 1: March 2019
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DOI: 10.11591/ijpeds.v10.i1.pp211-218
The efficiency of analyzing the rotor currents of asynchronous electric drives with frequency control is substantiated in the article. To assess the quality of torque generation in the engine it is suggested to use the spectral analysis of these currents and the fundamental harmonic, as the most accurate "conformity" of slip in an asynchronous motor. The proposed method showed that "sensorless vector" control leads to the appearance of high-frequency harmonics with significant amplitude. Because of these harmonics, a non-sinusoidal electromagnetic moment is created and the performance of the drive is decreased. The most effective method of torque generation is the frequency control with positive stator current feedback. This control is dominated by pronounced harmonic components, which indicates the proximity of this structure to linear and significantly better controllability of the drives, which makes promising their use in high-tech mechanisms, in particular, in industrial robots. Simulation and experiments confirm the proposed theoretical propositions.
A new approach to extract reference currents for multilevel shunt active filter in three phase systems
Abdelkader Yousfi;
Tayeb Allaoui;
Abdelkader Chaker
International Journal of Power Electronics and Drive Systems (IJPEDS) Vol 11, No 3: September 2020
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DOI: 10.11591/ijpeds.v11.i3.pp1459-1467
In this article, we present a new study of technique to extract reference currents for three-level shunt active filter controlling by fuzzy logic. The APFs is realized using three phase voltage and the carrier-based PWM strategy. A new technique for identifying reference currents will be developed. It is based on concordia method using multi-variable filter, and makes the total or selective extraction harmonic currents of references, and by consequence making their compensations, total or selective. The results of digital simulation in the Matlab-Simulink environment of a system of power to thyristor outputs on an inductive load show well the effectiveness of this new technique of extraction of the harmonics of reference.
Evaluation of Selective Harmonic Elimination Pulse Width Modulation Technique for Unipolar Single-Phase H-Bridge Inverter: Comparative Study
Hussain Attia
International Journal of Power Electronics and Drive Systems (IJPEDS) Vol 9, No 3: September 2018
Publisher : Institute of Advanced Engineering and Science
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DOI: 10.11591/ijpeds.v9.i3.pp1157-1165
In this paper, a detailed comparative study about evaluating the single phase inverter performance based on selective harmonic elimination pulse width modulation (SHE PWM) technique is presented. Set of nonlinear equations are derived, four groups of switching angles are calculated using the numerical iterative method of Newton-Raphson. These angles are representing the ideal solutions to eliminate the low order harmonics from inverter output voltage and load current. Inverter effectiveness is evaluated by comparing the performance based on SHE PWM and based on the conventional constant switching frequency PWM (CSF PWM) technique. Same parameters setting is selected with considering the constant switching frequency value for each case separately as equivalent to the number of switching angles. Moreover, different rated load powers are investigated to explain the merit of SHE PWM within high power applications. MATLAB / Simulink simulation results are clearly indicating the priority of the SHE PWM at all groups of calculated angles and at different load power as well.
Fuel Cell Emulator with MPPT Technique and Boost Converter
Maaspaliza Azri;
Nur Hidayah Abu Khanipah;
Zulkifilie Ibrahim;
Nasrudin Abd. Rahim
International Journal of Power Electronics and Drive Systems (IJPEDS) Vol 8, No 4: December 2017
Publisher : Institute of Advanced Engineering and Science
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DOI: 10.11591/ijpeds.v8.i4.pp1852-1862
This paper presents the simulation between fuel cell model and interleaved DC-DC boost converter (IBC) using a constant voltage maximum power point tracking (MPPT) technique. The main advantage of this method is it had the simplest algorithm and can be computed for the high efficiency IBC. The MPPT technique forces the fuel cell to meet the maximum power that the fuel cell can generate. To test the IBC along with the MPPT algorithm, MATLAB/Simulink simulation is carried out. This MPPT method increases the efficiency of power delivered from the fuel cell. The IBC has also chosen for its advantages of reduction of passive component's size, as well as reduced the current ripple that could affect the fuel cell stack. It is envisaged that the MPPT method of constant voltage gives a handful of help in designing a low cost and high efficient fuel cell system along with the interleaved boost converter chosen
Fuzzy sliding mode control of doubly-fed induction generator driven by wind turbine
Meriem Benmeziane;
S. Zebirate;
A. Chaker;
Z. Boudjema
International Journal of Power Electronics and Drive Systems (IJPEDS) Vol 10, No 3: September 2019
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DOI: 10.11591/ijpeds.v10.i3.pp1592-1602
This paper present a hybrid nonlinear control based on fuzzy sliding mode to control wind energy conversion system using a doubly fed induction generator (DFIG). Consiting of coupling fuzzy logic control and sliding mode control this technique is introduced to avoid the major disadvantage of variable structure systems, namely the chattering phenomenon. Effectiveness and feasibility of the proposed control strategy are verified by simulation results in Matlab Simulink.
Adaptive fuzzy sliding mode based MPPT controller for a photovoltaic water pumping system
Sabah Miqoi;
Abdelghani El Ougli;
Belkassem Tidhaf
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.pp414-422
The applications of photovoltaic energy are steadily increasing. However, the output power of a photovoltaic system is influenced by the meteorological conditions (temperature and irradiation), which can affect the production and efficiency of the photovoltaic panel energy. So to ensure that the photovoltaic panel produces its maximum power possible at any time and regardless of the external conditions, we use the equipment called MPPT (maximum power point tracker). Sliding mode control is recognized by its stability and robustness and widely used in non-linear systems but represents a disadvantage because of the chattering phenomena. So in order to overcome this problem and improve this control, we opted to add to it the adaptive fuzzy control which will adapt the switching gain. This controller is named AFSMC (adaptive fuzzy sliding mode control) and will be compared the sliding mode controller SMC in order to see the difference and to the P&O (perturb & observe) method to validate this controller. Our system consists of a photovoltaic panel a DC-DC boost converter and a centrifugal pump with a DC motor. All simulations are carried out under MATLAB/SIMULINK and the extracted results show the efficiency of the AFSMC controller and confirm that the new methods have improved energy efficiency and production