{"title":"Impact of Choice of Neutral Point Clamped and H-Bridge Multilevel Inverters for PV Systems","authors":"A. Rechach, S. Ghoudelbourk, Mihoub Mohamed Larbi","doi":"10.18280/ejee.240406","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18280/ejee.240406","url":null,"abstract":"The exploitation of solar energy and the universal interest in photovoltaic systems have increased nowadays due to galloping energy consumption and current geopolitical and economic issues. This has led to high technical and economic requirements. The PV system still faces major obstacles such as high cost and low efficiency compared to other renewable technologies. In addition, the photovoltaic system suffers from the rate of undesirable harmonics of the generated power which could alter the quality of energy and the performance requested by users. In order to remedy this problem, the use of the multi-level inverter is in these cases one of the most promising solutions. Indeed, the multi-level technology seems to be well suited to photovoltaic applications to help fill the need for several sources on the DC side of the converter. The technical performance and reliability of the multi-level inverter used to connect the PV modules to the electrical power distribution networks can improve and make profitable the power produced. In this work, we compare two multi-level inverter topologies for PV systems: H-Bridge (HB) and Neutral Point Clamped (NPC). The comparison between these inverters is based on the criteria of spectral quality of the output voltage and the complexity of the power circuits.","PeriodicalId":340029,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Electrical Engineering","volume":"63 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-08-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131526548","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}
Noureddine Fares, Zoubir Aoulmi, T. Thelaidjia, D. Ounnas
{"title":"Learning Machine Based on Optimized Dimensionality Reduction Algorithm for Fault Diagnosis of Rotor Broken Bars in Induction Machine","authors":"Noureddine Fares, Zoubir Aoulmi, T. Thelaidjia, D. Ounnas","doi":"10.18280/ejee.240402","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18280/ejee.240402","url":null,"abstract":"Induction machine health monitoring is considered a developing technology for the online detection of faults that occur even at the initial stage. The objective of this study is to present an artificial intelligence (AI) technique for the detection and localization of adjacent and distant broken bar faults in the induction machine, through a multi-winding model for the simulation of these cases. In this work, it was found that the application of Artificial Neural Networks (ANN) based on Mean Squared Error (MSE) and Random Forest (decision tree) plays an important role in detecting and locating defaults. The stator current signal Ias of a motor in the dynamic state was acquired from a healthy and faulty motor with a broken rotor bar fault. 9 statistical features and 8 wavelet packet parameters are extracted from the stator current signal. These features were employed as an input vector to train and test the ANN and random fores29t and determine whether the motor was running under normal conditions or defective. For optimizing the rotor bar defect classification procedure, feature selection algorithms are adopted, such as BBAT and BPSO. For feature reduction, we used the principal component analysis (PCA) algorithm, to reduce the number of features. The results showed that the random forest classifier based on statistical parameters and wavelet packet parameters followed by PCA can detect the defective with high accuracy (98.3333%) compared to other methods.","PeriodicalId":340029,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Electrical Engineering","volume":"2009 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-08-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127336794","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}
G. Pellecuer, J. Huselstein, T. Martiré, F. Forest, A. Chrysochoos, M. Jebli
{"title":"IGBT Wirebonds Ageing: A New Test Bench Development for Dedicated Modules Assemblies","authors":"G. Pellecuer, J. Huselstein, T. Martiré, F. Forest, A. Chrysochoos, M. Jebli","doi":"10.18280/ejee.240401","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18280/ejee.240401","url":null,"abstract":"Wirebonds ageing in power modules used in electric vehicles is a main concern for the development of reliable inverters. The development of a specific test bench to study the evolution of their properties over time has allowed conclusions to be drawn on the possibility of accelerating or not accelerating ageing tests without distorting the mechanisms actually involved in ageing. Through the use of specifically developed test bench in terms of electrical and thermal properties the studied wirebonds samples are more easily thermally controllable, equipped with measuring devices and the energy consumption at a given cycle is divided by ten compared to a classical bench. The entire process of designing and producing the specific samples and the associated test bench and a description of the first results obtained to demonstrate the relevance of the approach is given.","PeriodicalId":340029,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Electrical Engineering","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-08-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116920502","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":"Maximum Active Power Transmission Efficiency and Apparent Power Definition with Arbitrary Waveforms","authors":"H. Tacca","doi":"10.18280/ejee.240405","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18280/ejee.240405","url":null,"abstract":"A proof of the theorem giving the maximum available active power with constant transmission losses (i.e., maximum efficiency) valid for arbitrary waveforms, is proposed. This makes it possible to rigorously generalize the definitions of power factor based on the definition of apparent power as the maximum power available to apply them to systems with non-symmetric, non-sinusoidal, and eventually time-varying (i.e., non-periodic) waveforms or DC grids, thus extending its application to hybrid multi-wire systems with asymmetrical phases, with different voltages, frequencies or waveforms (i.e., non-sinusoidal waves, such as rectangular or PWM) and even DC, which can be combined eventually sharing the neutral conductor. Finally, an example of application to a hybrid system composed of DC and unbalanced load inverter-based non-sinusoidal AC subsystems is included.","PeriodicalId":340029,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Electrical Engineering","volume":"161 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-08-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127406673","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}
Fatima Zohra Boukahil, O. Charrouf, S. Abdeddaim, A. Betka, Abdelkrim Menadi
{"title":"The Shading Effect on Photovoltaic Generator (GPV) Based on Reverse Osmosis (RO) Desalination System in Algeria","authors":"Fatima Zohra Boukahil, O. Charrouf, S. Abdeddaim, A. Betka, Abdelkrim Menadi","doi":"10.18280/ejee.240403","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18280/ejee.240403","url":null,"abstract":"This paper investigates the performances analysis of PV-RO desalination system under uniform and non-uniform irradiance conditions. The main objective is the application of Extremum Seeking Control (ESC) to the GPV side in order to overcome the generated power and water quantity losses to improve the performance of the whole system. The technical design of the developed system is based on an existing RO desalination unit beside that real climatic data taken from a local mast are involved in this study. The modeling of the whole system and the control techniques adopted in this study are fully formulated. The whole system is modeled and controlled using MATLAB/Simulink. Different scenarios (healthy and shaded) based on real climatic data have been used to carry out the results. The ESC used shows its effectiveness to extract maximum power under shaded conditions for all the proposed scenarios. Compared with conventional controllers, this technique can offer extra power surrounding 685W in several cases. Furthermore, the shading conditions can affect widely freshwater production whose losses are estimated at around 82.91% for critical scenarios. The findings results are very significant for industrialists working in this field.","PeriodicalId":340029,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Electrical Engineering","volume":"60 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-08-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116701724","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":"I_V Characteristic of Vertical Double Diffused Metal Oxide Semiconductor (VDMOS) Power Transistor Using Silvaco-TCAD","authors":"Mourad Bella, M. Ghoumazi","doi":"10.18280/ejee.240407","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18280/ejee.240407","url":null,"abstract":"Today's electronics scenario finds itself with the advancement in the field of foremost important component MOSFET. Though one-step ahead of MOSFET, power MOS transistor such as VDMOS has recently begun to rival bipolar devices in power handling capability. In this paper, the results of simulation of VDMOS transistor have been presented. Additionally, the transfer characteristics of the VDMOS transistor are simulated. The drain current (Ids) as a function of the gate voltage and of the drain voltage was simulated for different work function values as well as for several oxide thickness and gate lengths, respectively. The results obtained show that when the work function and the oxide thickness as well as the gate length increase, the threshold voltage also increases. The VDMOS transistor is virtually fabricated using ATHENA software and simulation is done with help of ATLAS software and all graphs are plotted using Tonyplot in Silvaco.","PeriodicalId":340029,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Electrical Engineering","volume":"51 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-08-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130459868","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":"Capacitor Converter DC Circuit Breaker with Current Limiting Function","authors":"Baoge Zhang, Yuemin Jiao, Shanyan Ping, Boxiang Wu","doi":"10.18280/ejee.240303","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18280/ejee.240303","url":null,"abstract":"DC circuit breaker is the core equipment for the safe and stable operation of DC transmission system. In order to design a DC circuit breaker with low cost and current limiting function, a capacitor converter DC circuit breaker with current limiting function is proposed in this paper. The topology uses capacitance to replace IGBT to realize the switching of circuit state, which greatly reduces the number of IGBT, moreover, through the use of current limiting branch, the peak value and rate of current are restrained, the requirements of energy absorption capacity of lightning arrester are reduced, the fault cut-off time is shortened, and the cost and technical difficulty are greatly reduced. In this paper, the working principle of the extracted topology is studied and analyzed in stages, and then the parameters are designed. Finally, the system simulation model is built by using PSCAD software to verify the simulation model. Compared with the typical circuit breaker design scheme, the rationality and superiority of the proposed scheme are proved.","PeriodicalId":340029,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Electrical Engineering","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125043227","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":"Classification of Induction Motor Bearing Failures Through Retro-Propagation Neural Network Algorithm and Adaptive Neuro-Fuzzy Inference System of Type Takagi-Sugeno","authors":"Abla Bouguern, S. Ghoudelbourk, A. Boukadoum","doi":"10.18280/ejee.240304","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18280/ejee.240304","url":null,"abstract":"The goal of this work was to study the best technique for fault diagnosis in bearing induction motors. Degraded operating modes may occur during the life of the induction motors. One of the main causes of these failures is the defects of the bearings. To improve the operational safety of the drives, monitoring facilities can be placed to perform preventive maintenance. We present a classification of the vibration vector signal based on the vibration data obtained from the vector signal for four types of bearing defects (healthy, ball defect, inner ring and outer ring defect). The automatic diagnosis of these vectors is performed using artificial intelligence techniques that combine retro-propagation neural network algorithm and fuzzy inference system adaptive network of type Takagi-Sugeno. These techniques give accurate results that are confirmed by numerical simulation.","PeriodicalId":340029,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Electrical Engineering","volume":"50 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129723208","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}
S. Meddour, D. Rahem, P. Wira, H. Laib, A. Cherif, Ihssane Chtouki
{"title":"Design and Implementation of an Improved Metaheuristic Algorithm for Maximum Power Point Tracking Algorithm Based on a PV Emulator and a Double-Stage Grid-Connected System","authors":"S. Meddour, D. Rahem, P. Wira, H. Laib, A. Cherif, Ihssane Chtouki","doi":"10.18280/ejee.240301","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18280/ejee.240301","url":null,"abstract":"This research article proposes the optimization of a grid-connected photovoltaic system based on the PV emulator (PVE), the Boost converter, and a single-phase full-bridge inverter. The main objective is to track and extract the highest amount of power from the PV system working under variable solar irradiation while reducing losses and time response in each stage of the converter. As none, the main flaw of the classical maximum power point tracking algorithm (MPPT) is its performance. The control law design is based on a PI controller in the PVE, a meta heuristic whale optimization algorithm (WOA) in the MPPT, and a reduced switching finite set model predictive control (RS-FS-MPC) for the single-phase full-bridge inverter. The proposed control techniques inherit the property of robustness and successfully deal with the nonlinear behavior of the system. The performance validation and effectiveness of the proposed control techniques is supported by MATLAB/SIMULINK simulations and is also verified experimentally on various systems carried out under varying solar irradiation.","PeriodicalId":340029,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Electrical Engineering","volume":"129 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116934975","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 Robust LQR-Based Fuzzy-Immune PID Applied for a Greenhouse Temperature Networked Control","authors":"Ibtihal Banharkou, S. Gherbi, Lamine Mehennaoui","doi":"10.18280/ejee.240302","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18280/ejee.240302","url":null,"abstract":"Bioinspired control system strategies have received considerable attention in recent years, demonstrating their effectiveness to control various classes of systems. This paper presents a new robust LQR-based fuzzy-immune PID controller synthesis method, the particularity of this structure is the combination of the features granted by the linear quadratic regulator LQR and the fuzzy-immune PID controller as: robustness, optimization and self-adapting. The proposed approach is applied to the temperature control of a greenhouse system over Ethernet network. Such control loop is bound to be affected by several uncertainties such as communication delays, packet dropout... etc., it is therefore necessary to adopt a robust control strategy that can handle these problems. MATLAB/Simulink is used to simulate the proposed controller structure under several perturbations/uncertainties scenarios. The results show better time domain performance and greater robustness against uncertainties, in comparison with other PID structures (classic and fuzzy immune PID).","PeriodicalId":340029,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Electrical Engineering","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126694756","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}