{"title":"Analysis and control of DC-DC Buck converter using average power balance control (APBC)","authors":"S. K. Kollimalla, Mahesh Kumar Mishra","doi":"10.1109/ICSET.2012.6357437","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSET.2012.6357437","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, average power balance control (APBC) scheme is designed and analyzed for a buck converter. The proposed scheme consists of two control loops, the fast inner current loop uses sliding mode control (SMC) and outer voltage loop uses the average power balance algorithm (APBA), which contains average power balance equation (APBE) and PI controller. The existence condition of SMC is derived using Lyapunov stability theorem such that the stable tracking performance can be ensured under occurrence of system uncertainties. The proposed APBC scheme is modelled and simulated using MATLAB / SIMULINK. The effectiveness of APBC in terms of voltage tracking, transient response and robustness to uncertainties in parameters are verified by simulation results.","PeriodicalId":256740,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE Third International Conference on Sustainable Energy Technologies (ICSET)","volume":"116 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-11-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122227215","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 power interface topology for DC grid connected LED lighting system","authors":"N. Sarangan, Y. Tan","doi":"10.1109/ICSET.2012.6357414","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSET.2012.6357414","url":null,"abstract":"Uniting represents an important area of research owing to its status of being one of the largest consumers of electricity in buildings. With increasing emphasis on the realization of net zero energy buildings (NZEB) to achieve energy conservation, more attention is being devoted to the design of high efficiency lighting systems. LED lighting has been enjoying higher favor because of significant advantages that it has over traditional lighting sources such as incandescent lamps, CFLs and so on. Due to the DC nature of the LED lights, it makes greater sense to employ a low voltage DC (LVDC) grid to power the system instead of a traditional AC one. This eliminates additional power converter stages, leading to greater efficiency. This paper aims to explore the feasibility of such an LVDC powered system with a single-stage universal driver to power LED lighting loads.","PeriodicalId":256740,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE Third International Conference on Sustainable Energy Technologies (ICSET)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-11-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129618277","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":"Modelling of multi-pick-up bi-directional Inductive Power Transfer systems","authors":"A. Swain, Srikanth Devarakonda, U. Madawala","doi":"10.1109/ICSET.2012.6357371","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSET.2012.6357371","url":null,"abstract":"Bi-directional Inductive Power Transfer (IPT) systems allow contactless power transfer between two sides and across an air-gap, through weak magnetic coupling. These systems essentially constitute high order resonant circuit and their complexity increases with increasing number of pick-ups. A mathematical model which provides an insight into the behaviour of bi-directional IPT systems with multiple pick-ups would therefore be invaluable at design stage. This paper develops a multivariable dynamic model for bi-directional IPT system with multiple pick-ups. A 1.5 kW bi-directional IPT system with 3 pick-ups is simulated in PLECS and the results are presented with comparisons to demonstrate the validity of the proposed model. Results of the simulation indicate that the proposed model accurately predicts the behaviour of bi-directional IPT system with multiple pick-ups and can therefore be used as a valuable tool for both dynamic analysis and controller design.","PeriodicalId":256740,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE Third International Conference on Sustainable Energy Technologies (ICSET)","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-11-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123188211","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":"Design of a standalone wind energy conversion system using sensorless MPPT approach","authors":"N. Adhikari, B. Singh, A. Vyas","doi":"10.1109/ICSET.2012.6357433","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSET.2012.6357433","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a design and modeling of a sensorless maximum power point tracking (MPPT) controller using a permanent magnet brush-less DC (PMBLDC) generator for a wind energy conversion system (WECS). A low power WECS is designed with an isolated flyback dc-dc converter, a battery and a voltage source inverter (VSI). The sensor-less MPPT control is based on the power-speed curve of a wind turbine for different wind speeds. The wind speed and the rotor speed are estimated for calculating the reference power generation. The standalone WECS is designed and the system is modeled in Matlab/Simulink. The response of the controller is illustrated in cases of sudden and random variations in the wind speed and the results are also presented to validate the system performance for variation in consumer loads.","PeriodicalId":256740,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE Third International Conference on Sustainable Energy Technologies (ICSET)","volume":"67 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-11-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124538289","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":"Current control techniques for utility interface converters with low THD","authors":"Wei-Hsiang Wang, Y. Tzou","doi":"10.1109/ICSET.2012.6357381","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSET.2012.6357381","url":null,"abstract":"This paper discusses current control techniques for utility interface converters with low total harmonic distortion (THD), fast dynamic responses, and high stability for transient responses. A repetitive control technique with designed phase margin has been developed to reduce the THD of a single-phase boost AC/DC converter operating over a wide range of load variations. A green-mode control strategy is developed to adjust the control mode as well as the switching frequency for efficiency improvement. A predictive current loop controller is used to achieve fast dynamic response under wide input voltage variation range and a repetitive controller is designed to minimize periodic errors within the current loop bandwidth. A single-chip DSP controller is used to realize the proposed control scheme. Simulation and experimental results confirm the feasibility and performances of the proposed control scheme.","PeriodicalId":256740,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE Third International Conference on Sustainable Energy Technologies (ICSET)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-11-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130931959","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":"Comparison of performances of hysteresis and dead beat controllers in active power filtering","authors":"R. Panigrahi, P. C. Panda, B. Subudhi","doi":"10.1109/ICSET.2012.6357413","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSET.2012.6357413","url":null,"abstract":"A comparative evaluation of the performances of two current control techniques namely dead beat controller and hysteresis current controller is presented in this paper. A discrete Kalman Filter is used for reference current estimation for compensating delays occurring due to digital signal processing. In order to test the effectiveness of these two controllers, simulation has been carried out considering single phase SAPF (Shunt Active Power Filter) using MATLAB. From the obtained results, it is observed that the hysteresis controller outperforms the dead beat controller in terms of exhibiting fast transient response and computational simplicity.","PeriodicalId":256740,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE Third International Conference on Sustainable Energy Technologies (ICSET)","volume":"84 10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-11-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127979904","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":"Analysis of high temperature thermal energy storage for solar power plant","authors":"B. Nandi, S. Bandyopadhyay, R. Banerjee","doi":"10.1109/ICSET.2012.6357438","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSET.2012.6357438","url":null,"abstract":"Integration of storage system plays an important role for economic success of solar thermal power plant. At present two-tank, thermocline, concrete, castable ceramic and phase change material (PCM) are most common existing storage options, each of these storage system have own unique feature. A comparative analysis is done for the storage system by fixing the size of solar power plant of 50MW and storage duration of 6 hour. A cost and energy analysis is carried out to evaluate economic and energy requirement of storage system. The study evaluates the specific cost of each system. From this analysis thermocline thermal storage is come as preferred option. The performance parameter like efficiency, Levelized electric cost (LEC) are also been evaluated in this study.","PeriodicalId":256740,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE Third International Conference on Sustainable Energy Technologies (ICSET)","volume":"45 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-11-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114067787","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 ZVS-PWM interleaved transformer-isolated boost DC/DC converter with a simple zvs-pwm auxiliary circuit","authors":"Chien-Ming Wang, Chang-Hua Lin, Shih-Yung Hsu","doi":"10.1109/ICSET.2012.6357415","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSET.2012.6357415","url":null,"abstract":"A zero-voltage-switching pulse-width-modulation (ZVS-PWM) interleaved transformer-isolated boost dc/dc converter with a simple ZVS-PWM auxiliary circuit is proposed in this paper. The proposed interleaved transformer-isolated boost dc/dc converter can provide a high step-up voltage ratio with a simple and compact configuration. And, the proposed converter uses a simple ZVS-PWM auxiliary circuit to provide ZVS function in main switches. Thus, except for the switch in the section of ZVS-PWM auxiliary circuit, all power semiconductor devices in proposed converter operate at ZVS turn on and turn off. The switch in the section of ZVS-PWM auxiliary circuit operates at zero-current-switching (ZCS) turn-on and turn-off. Besides operating at constant frequency, the proposed converter has no voltage stress and current stress on the main switch compared to the hard switching converter counterpart. Auxiliary components rated at very small current are used. The principle of operation, theoretical analysis, and experimental results of the proposed ZVS-PWM interleaved transformer-isolated boost dc/dc converter, rated 800W and operated at 40 kHz, are provided in this paper to verify the performance.","PeriodicalId":256740,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE Third International Conference on Sustainable Energy Technologies (ICSET)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-11-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131199009","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}
C. J. M. Emmott, A. A. Jaoude, A. Urbina, N. J. Ekins-Dawkes, J. Nelson
{"title":"Life cycle analysis of an off-grid solar charging kiosk","authors":"C. J. M. Emmott, A. A. Jaoude, A. Urbina, N. J. Ekins-Dawkes, J. Nelson","doi":"10.1109/ICSET.2012.6357368","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSET.2012.6357368","url":null,"abstract":"Solar power has a huge potential in electrifying rural communities, particularly in the developing world. It offers the possibility of a clean, affordable energy source which may reduce the environmental impact of existing, fossil fuel based sources. The life-cycle carbon emissions resulting from off-grid solar powered lighting solutions are an important factor influencing the environmental impact of implementing such solutions. This issue is particularly relevant when assessing the case for carbon financing for such a project. However, few studies have addressed the carbon saving potential of such off grid systems. Here, we analyse a distribution model known as a Solar Charging Kiosk which enables access to photovoltaic electricity for rural, off-grid communities. Using a kiosk which has been established in the Bugesera region of Rwanda as a model system, the carbon savings avoided from reduced use of kerosene based lighting are calculated based on real system performance and usage data of customers of the kiosk. Strategies to further increase the emissions mitigation potential of the system are proposed.","PeriodicalId":256740,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE Third International Conference on Sustainable Energy Technologies (ICSET)","volume":"113 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-11-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133673336","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":"Grid interfaced solar photovoltaic power generating system with power quality improvement at AC mains","authors":"Aran Kumar Verma, Bhim Singh, D. Shahani","doi":"10.1109/ICSET.2012.6357394","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSET.2012.6357394","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a novel concept of utilizing solar photovoltaic (SPV) generating systems to improve the power factor to unity or to regulate a voltage at point of common coupling (PCC) of a three phase system. A three-phase VSC (voltage source converter) of this system eliminates harmonics currents, balances loads and compensates reactive power for power factor correction (PFC) or zero voltage regulation (ZVR) at AC mains. The VSC consists of a DC bus capacitor at its DC bus which is fed by SPV energy. DC voltage PI controller regulates the DC bus voltage at the time of load variation. The grid interfaced solar PV power generating system is tested for PFC and ZVR mode of operation along with harmonics currents elimination and load balancing of linear and nonlinear loads.","PeriodicalId":256740,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE Third International Conference on Sustainable Energy Technologies (ICSET)","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-11-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127082409","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}