Properly sized capacitor banks are connected across induction motors for several reasons including power factor correction, reducing distortions, increasing capacity, etc. Total harmonic distortion (THD) and power factor (PF) are used in such cases to quantify the improvements obtained through connection of the external capacitor banks. On the other hand, one of the methods for assessing the mo...

An alternative method for characterizing capacitor matching is presented. The basic idea of this method is to sense the mismatch among the capacitors by amplifying the error voltage using an iterative switched-capacitor scheme. Through simulation, this method has shown attractive property for sensing capacitor mismatches down to 1% and smaller.

This paper presents the dc-link capacitor balancing control scheme and effective current regulation algorithms for the modular cascaded converters (MCCs). The analytical model for the dc-link voltage balancing and capacitor energy mechanism are presented. Based on the devised control models, an effective control method is devised for the dc-link capacitor voltages, i.e., the sum capacitor volta...

Decoupling capacitor location in DC power bus design is a critical design choice for which proven guidelines are not well established. The mutual inductance between two closely spaced vias can have a great impact on the coupling between an IC and a decoupling capacitor. This coupling is a function of the spacing between the IC and capacitor, and spacing between power and ground layers. The impa...

In deep submicron CMOS and BICMOS technologies, antenna effects affect floating gate charge of usual floating gate test structures, dedicated to capacitor matching measurement. In this paper a new pseudo-floating gate test structure is designed. After test structure and modeling presentation, testing method and results are given for several capacitor layouts (poly-poly and metal-metal). key wor...

This paper presents the most important multilevel inverter topologies like diode-clamped inverter (neutral-point clamped), capacitor-clamped (flying capacitor), and cascaded multicell( H-Bridge ) with separate dc sources. A Comparison of 5-level hybrid cascaded inverter with PWM method, 5 level diode clamped inverter & 5 level capacitor coupled inverter is also presented in this paper. This pap...

In the present deregulated environment, optimal placement of Distributed Generation (DG) and shunt capacitor in the distribution network plays a vital role in distribution system planning. In this paper, an analytical approach for optimal placement of combined DG and Capacitor units are determined with the objective of power loss reduction and voltage profile improvement. Firstly, the DG unit i...

This paper discusses the dynamic performance and the modeling of a DSTATCOM with Capacitor Bank (CB) and Ultra Capacitor Energy Storage (UCES) considering their equivalent series resistance for improving the operation of power quality in power distribution system. The proposed integrated DSTATCOM system is studied for riding through voltage sags and dynamically controlling active power independ...

The performance of D-STATCOM depends on capacitor voltage regulation. In D-STATCOM, the nonlinear controller is preferred to linear controller. Regulating and fixing the capacitor DC voltage in DSTATCOM can improve the system dynamic such as capacitor voltage response, current response and modulation index. The regulation of DC capacitor voltage based on optimal PI co-efficient. In conventional...