{"title":"A single-stage solar PV power fed Open-End Winding Induction Motor pump drive with MPPT","authors":"Ramsha Karampuri, Sachin Jain, V. T. Somasekhar","doi":"10.1109/PEDES.2014.7041977","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PEDES.2014.7041977","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper a single-stage solar Photo Voltaic (PV) system feeding the power to an Open-End Winding Induction Motor (OEWIM) via a dual-inverter is presented. The OEWIM is coupled to a centrifugal pump for water pumping application. The dual-inverter fed OEWIM is chosen, as it requires low debus voltage which helps in optimal arrangement of PV modules, which could avoid large strings. In the proposed system a single PV source is connected to both the inverters, which results in zero-sequence current and hence the harmonics in the system. So as to nullify the zero-sequence current in the average sense Sample-Averaged Zero-sequence Elimination (SAZE) Pulse Width Modulation (PWM) technique is adopted. This algorithm ensures the clamping of one of the inverter when the other is being switched; this reduces the switching losses and efficiency may increase which is important factor to be considered in PV system. Also the above algorithm reduces the current ripple at higher modulation indices. The modulation index is tuned by using Maximum Power Point Tracking (MPPT) algorithm for the variations in the insolation and ambient temperature. The detailed explanation of the control algorithm for the proposed system and its simulation results under different environmental conditions are presented.","PeriodicalId":124701,"journal":{"name":"2014 IEEE International Conference on Power Electronics, Drives and Energy Systems (PEDES)","volume":"52 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128895844","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Detection and identification of stator inter-turn faults in three-phase induction motor in presence of supply unbalance condition","authors":"N. R. Devi, D. Sarma, P. Rao","doi":"10.1109/PEDES.2014.7042142","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PEDES.2014.7042142","url":null,"abstract":"Induction machines play a vital role in process industries due to their low cost, ruggedness and low maintenance. Even though the induction machine is very reliable, many failures can occur due to their non-ideal operating conditions. Literature survey reveals that stator faults occupy a prominent place among the reasons for such failures. In particular, an undetected stator inter-turn fault may progressively lead to a permanent damage of the machine. Hence, early detection of stator inter-turn faults is essential for preventing damage to the adjacent coils and the core of the stator. Also, detection of stator inter-turn faults in the presence of supply unbalance is another challenging task. This paper proposes a new adaptive approach based on wavelet multi-resolution analysis for detecting and identifying the stator inter-turn faults. A fault index is defined based on the slope of detail coefficients to compare with an adaptive threshold for setting the flags. A fault is detected when the flag count reaches 6 over a moving window of 10 samples. Severity of the fault is identified by defining a sensitivity index based on the three phase energies of 4th level approximate coefficients. The proposed method is verified by using experimental data considering supply unbalance as well. Results indicate the effectiveness of the proposed method.","PeriodicalId":124701,"journal":{"name":"2014 IEEE International Conference on Power Electronics, Drives and Energy Systems (PEDES)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129065350","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Coupled inductor based derivatives of Current-Fed Switched Inverter","authors":"S. Nag, S. Mishra","doi":"10.1109/PEDES.2014.7042029","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PEDES.2014.7042029","url":null,"abstract":"Current-Fed Switched Inverter (CFSI) was proposed as a single-stage, high-boost, EMI immune inverter. It provides very high voltage boost by utilizing the shoot-through of the inverter legs, although this puts restriction on the upper limit of the modulation index. In this paper, various coupled inductor derived topologies of CFSI are proposed which enables the inverter to operate at higher modulation index and provide higher voltage-boost at the same time. Six possible coupled inductor derived topologies are discussed in this paper out of which two topologies are discussed in details. Operation of these inverters is validated by the experimental results which show good correlation with the theoretical analysis.","PeriodicalId":124701,"journal":{"name":"2014 IEEE International Conference on Power Electronics, Drives and Energy Systems (PEDES)","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127842437","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A grid simulator to evaluate control performance of grid-connected inverters","authors":"B. A. Karuppaswamy, Srinivas Gulur, V. John","doi":"10.1109/PEDES.2014.7042076","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PEDES.2014.7042076","url":null,"abstract":"Grid simulators are used to test the control performance of grid-connected inverters under a wide range of grid disturbance conditions. In the present work, a three-phase back-to-back connected inverter sharing a common dc bus has been programmed as a grid simulator. Three phase balanced disturbance voltages applied to three-phase balanced loads has been considered in the present work. The developed grid simulator can generate three phase balanced voltage sags, voltage swells, frequency deviations and phase jumps. The grid simulator uses a novel disturbance generation algorithm. The algorithm allows the user to reference the disturbance to any of the three phases at any desired phase angle. Further, the exit of the disturbance condition can be referenced to the desired phase angle of any phase by adjusting the duration of the disturbance. The grid simulator hardware has been tested with different loads - a linear purely resistive load, a non-linear diode-bridge load and a grid-connected inverter load.","PeriodicalId":124701,"journal":{"name":"2014 IEEE International Conference on Power Electronics, Drives and Energy Systems (PEDES)","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127912869","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A single-phase two-stage grid interfaced SPV system with adjustable DC link voltage for VSC under non ideal grid conditions","authors":"Chinmay Jain, Bhim Singh","doi":"10.1109/PEDES.2014.7041983","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PEDES.2014.7041983","url":null,"abstract":"This paper deals with single phase grid interfaced SPV (Solar Photo Voltaic) system. A two stage power circuit topology is used in the presented work, in which the first stage is a boost converter, which serves the purpose of MPPT (Maximum Power Point Tracking) and the second stage is a PV inverter which serves the purpose of feeding extracted energy into the grid. A feed-forward term for solar contribution is used to improve the dynamic response. The PV inverter DC link voltage is continuously adjusted according to PCC (Point of Common Coupling) voltage, which in turn helps in reduction of power losses. A PI (Proportional Integral) controller is used to regulate the DC link voltage to desired reference voltage. The system is modeled and simulated on MATLAB based platform. A wide range of simulation results are shown to demonstrate all features of proposed system. The system is tested considering realistic non ideal grid conditions. The proposed system is advantageous in cases of frequent and sustained grid voltage variations (such is the case of far radial ends of Indian grid). The performance of proposed system is found satisfactory for wide variation of grid voltage. The THD (Total Harmonics Distortion) of grid current has been found well under IEEE-519 standard.","PeriodicalId":124701,"journal":{"name":"2014 IEEE International Conference on Power Electronics, Drives and Energy Systems (PEDES)","volume":"45 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120948724","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Voltage regulation and stabilization of DC/DC buck converter under constant power loading","authors":"Suresh Singh, D. Fulwani","doi":"10.1109/PEDES.2014.7042054","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PEDES.2014.7042054","url":null,"abstract":"The low and medium voltage renewable energy based dc distribution systems are catching increased attention world-wide due to their inherent benefits over ac systems. Higher efficiency, simple control, more suitable for integration of the sources producing dc power, are some of the main benefits of the dc systems. However, these systems are prone to serious stability issues caused by the constant power load (CPL) nature of the point-of-load converters (POLs). This paper deals with the stabilization and voltage regulation of dc/dc buck converter feeding a combination of the constant voltage resistive load (CVL) and CPL in a dc micro-grid application. A sliding mode controller is proposed which ensures supply of constant power demanded by the CPL and tight voltage regulation (error less than 0.1 V) of the output voltage. The effectiveness of the controller is validated through simulation results under different operating conditions. It is shown that the controller is robust to the large changes in supply voltage and the load.","PeriodicalId":124701,"journal":{"name":"2014 IEEE International Conference on Power Electronics, Drives and Energy Systems (PEDES)","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115555991","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Optimal DG placement in unbalanced mesh distribution system for loss reduction and voltage profile improvement","authors":"B. R. Teja, Ashwani Kumar","doi":"10.1109/PEDES.2014.7042015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PEDES.2014.7042015","url":null,"abstract":"Integration of renewable energy based Distributed Generation (DG) units provides potential benefits to conventional distribution system. In this paper, the analysis of unbalanced mesh distribution system (UMDS) has been done with and without DG placement in an optimal location. The location of DG can be determined by using voltage index analysis and the size of DG can be computed with the help of variational technique algorithm. The impact of different power factors (unity and 0.9 lagging) on optimal placement of DG is analyzed.","PeriodicalId":124701,"journal":{"name":"2014 IEEE International Conference on Power Electronics, Drives and Energy Systems (PEDES)","volume":"41 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131593226","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Electrical source emulation using modular multilevel converter","authors":"M. R. Sreejith, M. Chandorkar","doi":"10.1109/PEDES.2014.7042022","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PEDES.2014.7042022","url":null,"abstract":"Source emulation is a power level hardware-in-the-loop simulation of different electrical sources. In this method, the mathematical model for an electrical source is solved in real time, and power electronic converter is used to emulate the source characteristics. Source emulation helps in performing the realistic evaluation of different active front-end power electronic converters and grid connected power electronic converters for renewable energy generation systems. Thus, it ensures increased reliability and quality and more efficient development of systems, with reduced testing cost and risk. This paper discusses a source emulator using one of the multilevel converters called modular multilevel converter (MMC). MMC has a modular arm structure with cascade connection of multiple bidirectional chopper cells with floating capacitors. The control and modulation of MMC should be selected such that the sub-module capacitor voltages are equal and independent of load conditions. In the source emulator, an over-current limiting control by virtual resistance principle is implemented to avoid the test equipment damage. The simulation results for the source emulator acting as a grid emulator producing different conditions such as voltage dips, unbalanced voltages, over voltages, frequency changes and harmonic disturbances are presented. The emulation of a synchronous generator is also discussed with simulation results.","PeriodicalId":124701,"journal":{"name":"2014 IEEE International Conference on Power Electronics, Drives and Energy Systems (PEDES)","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127022498","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Inter leaved buck converter based active power filter control using artificial neural network","authors":"D. Suresh, S. Singh","doi":"10.1109/PEDES.2014.7042017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PEDES.2014.7042017","url":null,"abstract":"This paper present a novel shunt active power filter based on the interleaved buck DC to AC converter. The `shoot through' problem mainly occurs in the conventional active power filter when the same limb of the switches are fired at the simultaneously. The problems encountered with `shoot through' are reduced efficiency, increased temperature in the power switches and electromagnetic interference (EMI). However, the conventional active power filters suffer from `shoot through'. In order to avoid the `shoot through' dead time control could be introduced but it deteriorates the harmonic compensation level. An active power filter based on interleaved buck DC to AC converter with neural network based controller is presented. The compensation process proposed is simple, which is based on sensing line currents and regulating the dc link voltage. Artificial neural network (ANN) control is used to control the dc link voltage in place of the conventional PI controller. The ANN controller trained using data from PI controller. The performance of the ANN controller is compared with the PI controller by MATLAB/Simulink simulation study.","PeriodicalId":124701,"journal":{"name":"2014 IEEE International Conference on Power Electronics, Drives and Energy Systems (PEDES)","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124272319","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Investigation of ANN tuned PI speed controller of a modified DTC induction motor drive","authors":"A. Verma, Bhim Singh, Deepti Yadav","doi":"10.1109/PEDES.2014.7042146","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PEDES.2014.7042146","url":null,"abstract":"The snag in a DTC scheme based induction motors is the presence of high content of torque ripples in the output torque. This has been reduced by modifying the three-level torque controller to five-level torque controller. Moreover, the controllability of the torque in motor with no overshoot and minimal ripples, good transient and steady state responses forms the basis of performance analysis. This paper presents an improvement in the performance of the modified DTC induction motor drive using artificial neural network based tuning of PI Speed Controller. Since induction motor is a non-linear system therefore ANN has been preferred as it is an excellent estimator for such nonlinear system. The comparison of the simulated results of the proposed method with the conventional method of tuning based on time response specifications shows that the proposed method has improved the performance to a large extent under various operating conditions along with successfully reducing ripples in the torque for the modified DTC drive.","PeriodicalId":124701,"journal":{"name":"2014 IEEE International Conference on Power Electronics, Drives and Energy Systems (PEDES)","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114231975","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}