International Journal of Applied Power Engineering (IJAPE)
International Journal of Applied Power Engineering (IJAPE) focuses on the applied works in the areas of power generation, transmission and distribution, sustainable energy, applications of power control in large power systems, etc. The main objective of IJAPE is to bring out the latest practices in research in the above mentioned areas for efficient and cost effective operations of power systems. The journal covers, but not limited to, the following scope: electric power generation, transmission and distribution, energy conversion, electrical machinery, sustainable energy, insulation, solar energy, high-power semiconductors, power quality, power economic, FACTS, renewable energy, electromagnetic compatibility, electrical engineering materials, high voltage insulation technologies, high voltage apparatuses, lightning, protection system, power system analysis, SCADA, and electrical measurements.
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Statistical t-test assessment on performance of power system stabilizer for oscillation damping
Wai Myat Thu;
Kyaw Myo Lin
International Journal of Applied Power Engineering (IJAPE) Vol 10, No 3: September 2021
Publisher : Institute of Advanced Engineering and Science
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DOI: 10.11591/ijape.v10.i3.pp271-280
The statistical operation is necessary to validate the analytical procedure since the most important common operation is the comparison of result data to quantify accuracy and precision. In this paper, a statistical process is proposed to ensure the impact of power system stabilizers (PSSs) in 202-bus, 40-machine MEPE test system. The eigenvalue analysis is utilized for detecting the lowest damping modes and evaluating the damping ratio of system oscillation, and these modes are applied as input for statistical analysis. A t-test analysis was performed on the difference of damping performance by proposed designed PSS, tuned PSS, and without PSS to support the hypothesis. The t-test results validated that the MEPE test system with designed PSS is most applicable for the improvement of oscillation damping in the power system.
A comprehensive study on energy meters and power tampering attempts
Shagufta Khan;
Manoj saini
International Journal of Applied Power Engineering (IJAPE) Vol 10, No 4: December 2021
Publisher : Institute of Advanced Engineering and Science
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DOI: 10.11591/ijape.v10.i4.pp315-325
Electricity is the basic need of today’s scenario. In the 21st generation, growth and development is totally dependent on electricity. Thus, measurement of consumption of electricity becomes much more important. Energy meter used to measure consumed electricity by building or electrical equipment of various end users. This paper focuses on review of energy meters and power tampering attempts. It will highlight the development of meters from electromechanical meters to smart meters. The need of an era is to develop a more reliable and intelligent smart energy meters. This paper also discussed type of power tampering efforts in energy meters for power theft. The concept of smart meters for removing the power tampering efforts is also discussed.
A 24-sectors direct power control-feedforward neural network method of DFIG integrated to dual-rotor wind turbine
Habib Benbouhenni
International Journal of Applied Power Engineering (IJAPE) Vol 10, No 4: December 2021
Publisher : Institute of Advanced Engineering and Science
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DOI: 10.11591/ijape.v10.i4.pp291-306
In this work, a 24-sector direct power control (24-sector DPC) of a doubly-fed induction generator (DFIG) based dual-rotor wind turbine (DRWT) is studied. The major disadvantage of the 24-DPC control is the steady-state ripples in reactive and active powers. The use of 24 sectors of rotor flux, a feedforward neural network (FNN) algorithm is proposed to improve traditional 24-sector DPC performance and minimize significantly harmonic distortion (THD) of stator current and reactive/active power ripple. The proposed method is modeled and simulated by using MATLAB/Simulink software under different tests and compared with conventional 24-sector DPC.
Optimal placement and sizing of distributed generation for loss minimization using ABC optimization
Madhu Valavala
International Journal of Applied Power Engineering (IJAPE) Vol 10, No 4: December 2021
Publisher : Institute of Advanced Engineering and Science
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DOI: 10.11591/ijape.v10.i4.pp347-354
The distributed generation (DG) refers to the use of the nearby units of small generation or in the sleefelzentres. Revisions have shown that unfitting choice of the position and scope of the DG can lead to bigger system sufferers than DG's sufferers. Public services are already available before the high loss of energy loss and of the mediocre voltage profile, in particular developing countries cannot tolerate any increase in losses. From optimal allocation, public services in the reduction of system losses improve tension adjustment and improve delivery reliability. This article aims to minimalize the annual system's annual loss through the appropriate positioning and size of the DG units. The artificials bee colony (ABC) of EPA are inspired by the behavior of the API feeding, this method is incredibly conventional, a stroke or a peoplated stochastic optimization algorithm to meet the solution of the specified problem. At MATLAB, a probabilistic approach is simulated to reach the target indicates that the size of the DGs to be installed to reduce almost the same loss as a percentage that the situation in which the load power is considered constant.
Microgrids dynamic stability interconnected through low voltage AC network
Vinit Kumar Singh;
Ashu Verma;
T. S. Bhatti
International Journal of Applied Power Engineering (IJAPE) Vol 10, No 4: December 2021
Publisher : Institute of Advanced Engineering and Science
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DOI: 10.11591/ijape.v10.i4.pp326-336
Renewable energy based microgrids have main challenges of maintaining its frequency-voltage characteristics and system becomes more complex when they are interconnected. These sources being intermittent in nature need to be supported by other resources like diesel/biogas such that at time of small variation in load or natural sources (wind/solar), power requirement is met through support provided by diesel/biogas-based system. Also, the controller should be fast enough to minimize the changes such that system reaches steady state. In this paper, renewable based rural microgrid consisting of wind, solar and biogas is modeled and interconnected through low voltage AC (LVAC) line. Also, one of the microgrid modeled is connected to the main grid as well as drawing power from the other microgrid. Control approach have been developed in such a way that whenever there is disturbance in the system due to increase/decrease in load or input to the renewable energy sources the biogas-based system of individual microgrid increases/decreases its generation to support the system requirement. No extra power is drawn either from the LVAC network or main grid as desired. modeling of system and its dynamic Study has been carried out in MATLAB/Simulink.
Simulation of boost AC-AC converter using single-phase matrix converter
Zeynep Bala Duranay;
Hanifi Guldemir
International Journal of Applied Power Engineering (IJAPE) Vol 10, No 4: December 2021
Publisher : Institute of Advanced Engineering and Science
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DOI: 10.11591/ijape.v10.i4.pp307-314
Generally, AC-AC converters are implemented using thyristors. These converters generate harmonics and have a low power factor. To eliminate these problems matrix converters (MC) are become used as AC-AC converter. Matrix converters have the capability of being used as frequency changer, rectifier, inverter and chopper. In this work, it is proposed to achieve the desired output of AC-AC Boost converter using single phase matrix converter (SPMC). The operation of single-phase AC-AC boost converter using MC is studied in this paper. The output voltage of this boost converter is higher than the AC input supply voltage. insulated gate bipolar transistors (IGBTs) are used as the switching elements in the SPMC power circuit. Sinusoidal Pulse width modulation (SPWM) technique is applied to generate switching signals to obtain the output voltage. The model of the matrix converter is constructed in MATLAB/Simulink programming software package. The behavior of SPMC is simulated with various switching frequencies. The simulation results together with harmonic spectrum and total harmonic distortion (THD) values are presented. Successful operation of boost SPMC is achieved.
Dynamic voltage restorer using sliding mode controller: Experimental studies
Toumi Toufik;
Benabedellah Abdelkader;
Abdelkhalek Othmane;
Allali Ahmed;
Benhamou Aissa;
Hafsi Oussama
International Journal of Applied Power Engineering (IJAPE) Vol 10, No 4: December 2021
Publisher : Institute of Advanced Engineering and Science
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DOI: 10.11591/ijape.v10.i4.pp337-346
The simulation and implementation of a sliding mode control strategy for a single-phase dynamic voltage restorer (DVR) to mitigate load voltage sag swell and harmonics is presented in this work. The control strategy's goal is to compensate for the required voltage by regulating the DVR's voltage via an injection transformer while keeping the load voltage constant. The ability of the DVR to achieve a good performance greatly depends on its control strategy. The controller used in this work is based on SMC theory, which consists of creating a passivation output and a storage function to use as a function of Lyapunov. The proposed control scheme of the DVR is initially evaluated in simulations using MATLAB and validated using a laboratory-scale prototype of the entire system, including a source, the DVR circuit and a load. The control scheme is implemented on a dSPACE 1104 board and the MATLAB real-time toolbox. Both the experimental results have demonstrated the effectiveness the proposed control strategy of DVR in mitigating power qualities issues and therefore enhancing the performance of the network.
Intelligent stability margin improvement using series and shunt controllers
Mahdi Karami;
Norman Mariun;
Mohd Amran Mohd Radzi;
Gohar Varamini
International Journal of Applied Power Engineering (IJAPE) Vol 10, No 4: December 2021
Publisher : Institute of Advanced Engineering and Science
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DOI: 10.11591/ijape.v10.i4.pp281-290
Electric market always prefers to use full capacity of existing power system to control the costs. Flexible alternate current transmission system (FACTS) devices introduced by Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) to increase the usable capacity of power system. Placement of FACTS controllers in power system is a critical issue to reach their maximum advantages. This article focused on the application of FACTS devices to increase the stability of power system using artificial intelligence. Five types of series and shunt FACTS controllers are considered in this study. Continuation power flow (CPF) analysis used to calculate the collapse point of power systems. Controlling parameters of FACTS devices including their locations are determined using real number representation based genetic algorithm (RNRGA) in order to improve the secure margin of operating condition of power system. The 14 and 118 buses IEEE standard test systems are utilized to verify the recommended method. The achieved results manifestly proved the effectiveness of proposed intelligent method to increase the stability of power system by determining the optimum location and size of each type of FACTS devices.
Comparative analysis of fuzzy and ANFIS based MPPT controller for wind power generation system
Annamalai Muthu
International Journal of Applied Power Engineering (IJAPE) Vol 10, No 4: December 2021
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DOI: 10.11591/ijape.v10.i4.pp355-363
In recent years, huge developments in wind energy production and meet consumer demand. Numerous researchers have focused on maximum energy generation techniques for the wind system. The main reason for this work is to compare the different smart controllers for the maximum power generation techniques in the wind system. In this article, we developed and modeled a 250-watt wind power system in a MATLAB environment and simulated it in different weather conditions. Based on the simulation results, two intelligent controllers, such as fuzzy and ANFIS, were proposed and compared to obtain the maximum energy generation techniques in the wind system. Finally, the optimal smart controller was chosen based on performance.
A grid interconnected nested neutral-point clamped inverter with voltage synchronization using synchronous reference frame controller
Sirisha Bogimi
International Journal of Applied Power Engineering (IJAPE) Vol 10, No 4: December 2021
Publisher : Institute of Advanced Engineering and Science
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DOI: 10.11591/ijape.v10.i4.pp364-372
Nested neutral-point clamped multi level inverter with inter connection to grid through the synchronous reference frame (SRF) controller for synchronization of voltage to the grid is demonstrated. The system's main feature is that voltage stress in each inverter switching device is kept to a minimum, and redundant inverter switching states are utilised for neutral point and flying capacitor voltage balancing with sinusoidal pulse-width modulation (PWM) technique, synchronisation to grid voltages, and power injection with low harmonic generation. The inverter receives its input from a photovoltaic (PV) source that is coupled to DC-DC booster converters that are regulated by the maximum power point (MPP) tracking incremental conductance algorithm to maintain a constant dc voltage. The system is examined under various load conditions with MATLAB/Simulink model.