The use of intelligent nanocomposites in sensing and actuation applications has become quite common over the past decade. In this article, electro-thermo-mechanical nonlinear dynamic buckling of an orthotropic piezoelectric nanocomposite (PNC) cylindrical shell conveying viscous fluid is investigated. The composite cylindrical shell is made from Polyvinylidene Fluoride (PVDF) and reinforced by ...

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 presents an improved method for determining the contribution of harmonic distortion generated by utility and customer at the Point of Common Coupling (PCC) in a distorted power system. For this purpose, first the magnitude and phase of voltage and current at the PCC in each frequency are estimated by adaptive Kalman filter. Then the parameters of Thevenin equivalent circuits of load ...

Distorted voltage and current waveforms is one of the problems associated to electric power quality. Continuous use of non-linear loads provokes the existence of voltage waveforms with a high distortion. Thus, it is necessary to know the responsible of this problem by means of the commonly named distortion sources identification. In this paper, the problem is analyzed through the harmonic power...

This project aims to design and implementation of high efficiency and high step –up non-isolated DC-DC converter. The high power non –linear loads and low power loads produce voltage fluctuations, harmonic currents and an imbalance in network which results into lower Power factor operation of power supply. There is a need of improved Power factor and reduced harmonic current in input line. In t...

Original scientific paper Accurate estimation of harmonic parameter is an important task in signal processing of power system. A new class of flat-top windows is proposed, which is generated by self-convolutions of the fast-decaying minimum-sidelobe flat-top (FDMS-FT) window in the time-domain. The mainlobe and sidelobe features of the new window are studied. In addition, to improve the flatnes...

The increasing application of nonlinear hundreds might cause distribution system power quality problems. so as to utilize distributed generation (DG) unit interfacing converters to actively compensate harmonics, this paper proposes associate increased current management approach, that seamlessly integrates system harmonic mitigation capabilities with the first weight unit power generation opera...

With the widespread use of harmonic generating devices, the control of harmonic currents to maintain a high level of power quality is becoming increasingly important. An effective way for harmonic suppression is the harmonic compensation by using active power filter. This paper presents a comprehensive survey of active power filter (APF) control strategies put forward recently. It is aimed at p...

Power quality management is the main problem that the industry is facing today. This is mainly affected by the generation of harmonics. The growing use of electronic equipment produces a large amount of harmonics in distribution systems because of non-sinusoidal currents consumed by non-linear loads. As we know for the better quality of power, the voltage and current waveforms should be sinusoi...

—In this paper, analysis and synthesis approach for two new variants within the Class-EF power amplifier (PA) family is elaborated. These amplifiers are classified here as Class-amplifier topologies developed in this paper simultaneously satisfy the Class-EF optimum impedance requirements at fundamental frequency, second, and third harmonics as well as simultaneously providing matching to the c...