This project presents reactive power compensation in a distribution power system. DSTATCOM (distribution static compensator) is a reactive power compensator for power quality improvement in a three phase four wire distribution system. A voltage source converter (VSC) based DSTATCOM with a zig-zag transformer is used for the compensation of reactive power for voltage regulation along with load b...

This paper presents a new method for evaluation and simulation of inrush current in various transformers using operational matrices and Hartley transform. Unlike most of the previous works, time and frequency domain calculations are conducted simultaneously. Mathematical equations are first represented to compute the inrush current based on reiteration and then Hartley transform is used to stud...

Theoretically, controlled switching taking into account the residual flux is able to fully eliminate inrush currents. Due to non-idealities in the field (closing time scatter, residual flux measurement uncertainty) that significantly affect the performance of controlled switching, inrush currents of 1.0 pu must be tolerated. To calculate the maximum acceptable tolerances of both nonidealities i...

Multilevel inverters are a source of high power, often used in medium-voltage application. Multilevel converters have received increased interest recently due to high quality output waveform and decrease the harmonic distortion in the output waveform without decreasing the inverter power output. A multilevel inverter uses a series of semiconductor power converters, thus generating higher voltag...

Internal Turn-Turn faults (TTF) are the most common failures in power transformers, which could seriously reduce their life expectancy. Although common protection schemes such as current-baseddifferential protection are able to detect some of the internal faults, some other minor ones (such as TTFs andshort circuit near the neutral point) cannot be detected by such schemes. Likewise, these rela...

The traditional infrastructure of power system industry is presently going through large amount of change that consensus over the improvement of power quality for fulfilling this requirement electronically automated devices having high sensitivity toward the disturbance in the power system signals are under the major consensus of research activities. The low power quality signal is responsible ...