{"title":"Optimized total harmonics distortion PWM and multi-carries PWM: Comparison","authors":"K. Imarazene, E. Berkouk, H. Chekireb","doi":"10.1109/POWERENG.2015.7266340","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/POWERENG.2015.7266340","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, the comparison between the optimized total harmonic distortions OTHD PWM and the traditional multi-carriers PWM is studied to generate high quality output spectrum in five level inverter. For the OTHPWM, the switching angles are computed by solving a non-linear equation using the differential evolution method. The five level inverter feed a three-phase induction motor (IM). This association allows evaluating the algorithm performances on the bases the THD of both output voltage and IM current waveform, Torque motor ripples.","PeriodicalId":334135,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE 5th International Conference on Power Engineering, Energy and Electrical Drives (POWERENG)","volume":"56 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-05-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130254149","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}
P. Lukasiak, P. Antoniewicz, D. Świerczyński, W. Kolomyjski
{"title":"Technology comparison of energy recuperation systems for DC rail transportation","authors":"P. Lukasiak, P. Antoniewicz, D. Świerczyński, W. Kolomyjski","doi":"10.1109/POWERENG.2015.7266345","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/POWERENG.2015.7266345","url":null,"abstract":"Nowadays the needs concerning energy consumption are becoming increasingly demanding. The ever growing requirements for more reliable and cost efficient systems also apply to traction systems. On one hand vehicles have the capability of dynamic braking that allows the energy to be returned to the traction grid and utilized by other vehicles. On the other hand, very often substations are integrated with energy storage systems to manage smooth energy flow in traction grids. Transferring the recuperated energy to the AC grid is also interesting. This paper compares two technologies available for energy recuperation systems: hybrid, which combines diode rectifier with IGBT inverter, and four quadrant converter. Simulation study shows possible efficiency improvements in traction networks.","PeriodicalId":334135,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE 5th International Conference on Power Engineering, Energy and Electrical Drives (POWERENG)","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-05-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127314171","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":"DC grid control through the pilot voltage droop concept: Mitigating consequences of time delays","authors":"B. Berggren, R. Majumder, K. Linden","doi":"10.1109/POWERENG.2015.7266307","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/POWERENG.2015.7266307","url":null,"abstract":"The control of the individual converters in a voltage-source-converter high-voltage dc (VSC-HVDC) based multi-terminal dc grid is central for the overall performance of the system. A few different variants of power drooped against dc voltage control have been proposed in the literature for the purpose of distributing the power mismatch, following a disturbance, on several converters. One such variant is the pilot voltage droop control concept which involves communication. As is always the case when communication is involved, there is a risk of latencies and even communication failure. This paper proposes a way to mitigate the consequences of latencies for the pilot voltage droop concept. The approach may also have bearing on other control problems, involving communication, where the aim is to adjust the steady state solution based on remote measurements. The proposed solution is established in a stepwise fashion starting from the basic control principle, and the performance is exemplified by time domain simulations with a four station dc grid using Digsilent's Powerfactory platform.","PeriodicalId":334135,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE 5th International Conference on Power Engineering, Energy and Electrical Drives (POWERENG)","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-05-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127617987","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":"Electric vehicles in the concept of smart cities","authors":"L. Gračkova, I. Oleinikova, G. Klāvs","doi":"10.1109/POWERENG.2015.7266374","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/POWERENG.2015.7266374","url":null,"abstract":"The Smart City concept allocates a significant role in transport issues in the city. The integration of the electric vehicles on the example of the electricity distribution network of a single microdistrict of Riga in the concept of Smart Cities is analysed in this article. To perform the estimation it was necessary to determine: the number of consumers in the single urban microdistrict which are distributed into three respective sectors - the household sector, the public sector and the commercial sector; a time period of maximum and minimum daily electricity consumption for each sector and the load factors; the number of EVs that could be integrated in a single microdistrict's network. The estimation of the average daily load schedules of electricity consumers' of urban microdistrict in the working day for three sectors was performed in the two cases (with EV and without EV). The obtained results illustrate that the integration of EVs at the urban microdistrict improve the overall load schedule and the load factor.","PeriodicalId":334135,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE 5th International Conference on Power Engineering, Energy and Electrical Drives (POWERENG)","volume":"73 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-05-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129234036","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":"Bidirectional DC/AC energy flow measurement","authors":"P. Apse-Apsitis, A. Avotiņš, L. Ribickis","doi":"10.1109/POWERENG.2015.7266362","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/POWERENG.2015.7266362","url":null,"abstract":"Bidirectional energy flow monitoring near 230 V AC or 600 V DC micro-grid consumers - industrial devices or household consumers - rise questions regarding measurement methods and devices self power consumption, price and precision. Article deals with overall 3×230V+N AC and 600V DC micro-grid bidirectional monitoring system design as well as measurement modules communication and data logging.","PeriodicalId":334135,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE 5th International Conference on Power Engineering, Energy and Electrical Drives (POWERENG)","volume":"54 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-05-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123955649","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":"Zero-voltage switching implementation of a virtual infinite capacitor","authors":"Guy Yona, G. Weiss","doi":"10.1109/POWERENG.2015.7266311","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/POWERENG.2015.7266311","url":null,"abstract":"We define the virtual infinite capacitor (VIC) as a nonlinear capacitor that has the property that for an interval of the charge Q (the operating range), the voltage V remains constant. We propose a lossless zero-voltage switching realization for the VIC using a switched power converter and capacitors. This circuit is simple but it requires a complex control algorithm that we describe. There are two controllers needed to operate a VIC: the voltage controller acts fast to maintain the desired terminal voltage, while the charge controller acts more slowly and maintains the charge Q in the desired operating range by influencing the incoming current. The VIC is useful as a filter capacitor for various applications, for example power factor compensators (PFC), as we describe. In spite of using small capacitors, the VIC can replace a very large capacitor in applications that do not require substantial energy storage. We give simulation results for a PFC working in critical conduction mode with a VIC for output voltage filtering.","PeriodicalId":334135,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE 5th International Conference on Power Engineering, Energy and Electrical Drives (POWERENG)","volume":"60 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-05-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115794223","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":"Condition monitoring for DC-link capacitors based on artificial neural network algorithm","authors":"H. Soliman, Huai Wang, B. Gadalla, F. Blaabjerg","doi":"10.1109/POWERENG.2015.7266382","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/POWERENG.2015.7266382","url":null,"abstract":"In power electronic systems, capacitor is one of the reliability critical components. Recently, the condition monitoring of capacitors to estimate their health status have been attracted by the academic research. Industry applications require more reliable power electronics products with preventive maintenances. However, the existing capacitor condition monitoring methods suffer from either increased hardware cost or low estimation accuracy, being the challenges to be adopted in industry applications. New development in condition monitoring technology with software solutions without extra hardware will reduce the cost, and therefore could be more promising for industry applications. A condition monitoring method based on Artificial Neural Network (ANN) algorithm is therefore proposed in this paper. The implementation of the ANN to the DC-link capacitor condition monitoring in a back-to-back converter is presented. The error analysis of the capacitance estimation is also given. The presented method enables a pure software based approach with high parameter estimation accuracy.","PeriodicalId":334135,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE 5th International Conference on Power Engineering, Energy and Electrical Drives (POWERENG)","volume":"42 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-05-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130832127","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":"Smart meters as enablers for feedback information induced energy efficiency and demand response: Case analysis in Latvia","authors":"U. Bariss, Ā. Dandens, D. Blumberga","doi":"10.1109/POWERENG.2015.7266297","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/POWERENG.2015.7266297","url":null,"abstract":"Energy efficiency and demand response has been an important part of the policy to rollout of smart meters. There has been demonstrated that timely and appropriate feedback of consumption information can facilitate energy efficiency improvements and increase demand side flexibility mitigating peak loads. This paper attempts to identify possible load profile changes just from consumption reduction activities. The results suggest that in order to achieve peak load shaving the rollout of smart meters and energy efficiency activities should be coupled with dynamic pricing systems such as time-of-use tariffs or real time prices.","PeriodicalId":334135,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE 5th International Conference on Power Engineering, Energy and Electrical Drives (POWERENG)","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-05-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127531759","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":"Experience of transformer's inrush current modeling for the purposes of relay protection","authors":"A. Dolgicers, J. Kozadajevs","doi":"10.1109/POWERENG.2015.7266310","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/POWERENG.2015.7266310","url":null,"abstract":"In case of transformer failure there is a high risk of losing part of power system, which can result in disruption for consumer power supply. This is main reason for power transformer protection requirement to be so high. Power transformer is a complicated object considering its protection. Sensitivity level is a key element in inter-winding faults detection. Our idea is in creating an additional function that will use an inrush current surge as an information source for inter-winding fault detection within transformers. However it is absolutely impossible to perform multiple tests with real megawatt class transformer. That is the key why it is so important to make a correct model and to be sure that model is identical to real transformer. We choose Matlab+Symulink+Symscape+SymPowerSystem combination as modeling environment, we have tried multiple environments and selected this one as best performing. To verify our model we use measured data from small test transformer.","PeriodicalId":334135,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE 5th International Conference on Power Engineering, Energy and Electrical Drives (POWERENG)","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-05-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117007925","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":"Monitoring of electro-mechanical system \"diesel-synchronous generator\"","authors":"A. Gasparjan, A. Terebkov, A. Zhiravetska","doi":"10.1109/POWERENG.2015.7266303","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/POWERENG.2015.7266303","url":null,"abstract":"A lot of methods exist for the diagnostics of synchronous generators and diesel engine installations. One of these methods is the diagnostics with the help of currents and voltages spectrum analysis. The spectral composition of the output currents and voltages is influenced by technical condition of the synchronous generator - wear of bearing units, short-circuit of some turns of windings, etc. Such approach to the monitoring of the electro-mechanical \"diesel-generator\" system gives an opportunity to discover faults in the primary motor-diesel, non-uniformity of the operating process in its cylinders, and in the synchronous generator itself. This method of technical diagnostics does not require a deep interference into the diesel system and generator scheme, and can be applied without breaking of the operation of the installation. Mathematical modelling of the diesel-generator system was realised with the help of special software. The software realises the mathematical modelling of diesel engine, generator and provides the dynamic balance of the system. A ship diesel-generator has been taken for the experimental investigations.","PeriodicalId":334135,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE 5th International Conference on Power Engineering, Energy and Electrical Drives (POWERENG)","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-05-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115308604","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}