This paper includes modeling and simulation of 180 MW units of pumped storage power plant with Variable speed machines. In this method, voltage source inverters are used instead of traditional cyclo-converters. This paper aims to control the voltage source inverters and maintain DC voltage at a constant value. AC/ DC/ AC converter is used in system configuration structure in order to control an...

A new optimization method is proposed in this paper for finding the firing angles in multi-level voltage source inverters to eliminate low-order selective harmonics and reduce total harmonic distortion (THD) value of the output voltage. For thid end, Fourier series is used for calculating objective function and selecting specific harmonics. Regarding the nature and complexity of the employed no...

In this paper, properties of reflection phase in one-dimensional quaternary photonic crystals combining dispersive meta-materials and positive index materials are investigated by transfer matrix method. Two omnidirectional band gaps are located in the band structure of considered structure. However, we limit our studies to the frequency range of the second wide band gap. We observe that the val...

control of three phase inverters has been an important issue in recent years. this paper proposes active disturbance rejection control (adrc) scheme for controlling three phase inverters. the main advantage of adrc that motivated us for using this controller for inverter is that it is model independent.  this controller is used in a double loop structure including an inner current loop and oute...

Methods for calculating Available Transfer Capability (ATC) of the transmission systems may be grouped under Static and Dynamic methods. This paper presents a fast dynamic method for ATC calculations, which considers both Transient Stability Limits and Voltage Stability Limits as terminating criteria. A variation of Energy Function Method is used to determine the transient stability limit and t...

Methods for calculating Available Transfer Capability (ATC) of the transmission systems may be grouped under Static and Dynamic methods. This paper presents a fast dynamic method for ATC calculations, which considers both Transient Stability Limits and Voltage Stability Limits as terminating criteria. A variation of Energy Function Method is used to determine the transient stability limit and t...

Power electronic devices are non-linear loads that create harmonic distortion and can be susceptible to voltage dips if not adequately protected. The most common economically damaging power quality problem encountered involves the use of variable-speed drives. Variable-speed motor drives or inverters are highly susceptible to voltage dip disturbances and cause particular problems in industrial ...

A capacitive angular position sensor capable of covering 360" is presented. It is made up of four quadrants, each of which consists of a parallel plate capacitor whose higher potential plate (HPP) has a specific shape. A grounded semi-circular plate, whose angular position is measured, moves between these capacitors. When these capacitors are supplied with sinusoidal voltages of mutually shifte...