This paper presents a fuzzy logic, PI controlled shunt active power filter used to compensate for harmonic distortion in three-phase systems. The Hybrid active power filter employs a simple method for the calculation of the reference compensation current based on Fast Fourier Transform. The presented Hybrid Active Power filter is able to operate in balanced, load conditions. Classic filters may...

This paper proposes a single-phase seven-level inverter for grid-connected photovoltaic systems, with a novel pulse width-modulated (PWM) control scheme. Three reference signals that are identical to each other with an offset value that is equivalent to the amplitude of the triangular carrier signal were used to generate the PWM signals. The inverter is capable of producing seven levels of outp...

This study aims to derive simple formulas for calculating the accurate Total Harmonic Distortion (THD) of Multilevel Inverter (MLIs), that considers all low and high order harmonics, for single phase and three phase MLIs., since the THD is a main criterion when judging the performance of a MLI. In addition, a formula for the percentage route mean square value of high order harmonics %VHOrms is ...

The aim of this paper is to investigate the power factor correction (PFC) of Boost Converter under an average current-mode control. Boost converter topology is used to accomplish this active power-factor correction in many discontinues/ continuous modes. The boost converter is used usually it is easy to implement and works well. In this paper comparative evaluation of different techniques for h...

We describe the design of a micropower digital pulsewidth modulator (PWM) for a hearing instrument Class D amplifier. The PWM embodies a novel delta-compensation ( C) sampling process and a novel pulse generator. The C process is sampled at the same low rate as reported algorithmic sampling processes and it features a similar low total harmonic distortion (THD). Its arithmetic computation is ho...

Power Inverters have a high range of applications not only in domestic appliances but also in industries for performing variety of operations regarding switching and conversion of electrical energy. The purpose of this research paper is to analyze a three phase inverter using PWM topology to obtain a smooth and pure sinusoidal wave form of good quality which ensures better operation for sensiti...

In order to control the cascaded H-bridges (CHB) converter with staircase modulation strategy in a real-time manner, a real-time and closed-loop control algorithm based on artificial neural network (ANN) for three-phase CHB converter is proposed in this paper. It costs little computation time and memory. It has two steps. In the first step, hierarchical particle swarm optimizer with time-varyin...

Fuel cells have been considered as the primary energy source for the distributed power generation as they are highly efficient, modular and clean. The main drawback is that the dc voltage generated by a single fuel cell varies from 0.7V to 1V. Due to the low input voltage in fuel cells, a suitable power conditioner is required to interface to the utility grid or local loads. To meet this requir...