DC micro-grid is a novel ideal of advanced electricity delivery infrastructure which actively integrates a variety of renewable sources, energy storages, and loads within a local network; this type of lumped system organization can offer a fast, high quality and survivable solution for future residential and industrial power network. DC micro-grids can be the building block of future smart-grid...

Low voltage high-efficiency DC-DC conversion circuits are integral components of battery operated portable systems. This paper presents the design of a pulse width modulated (PWM) controller for a milliwatt level DC-DC converter. Low power control circuitry is constructed by utilizing a delay line based PWM generator and low-resolution feedback. A IDC-DC converter has been fabricated which deli...

An on-going extensive research on multi-level and matrix converters requires physically meaningful easy-to-calculate criteria to compare numerous suggested converter topologies and voltage modulation strategies. Frequency domain voltage Total Harmonic Distortion (THD) criterion approach is too complicated and non-transparent as it involves multiple Fourier integral and results in multiple serie...

This paper presents a technique for calculating the ac line-to-output and control-to-output transfer characteristics of dc/dc converters, in which the time instants switching from one topology to the next one are a priori unknown and are determined by threshold conditions (i.e., by the time evolution of the converter waveforms). Describing functions are defined for small perturbations in either...

This paper presents Maximum Power Point Tracking (MPPT) controller design of Doubly Fed Induction Generator (DFIG) using Genetic Algorithm (GA). Essential feature of proposed controller is that it is used to trace the maximum power when wind speed is lower than the rated wind speed. Doubly-Fed Induction Generator DFIG has stator terminals are connected directly to the grid. However, the rotor t...

This paper introduces a novel Bi-directional DC-DC converter with artificial neural network controller (ANN).Bidirectional power flow is obtained by the same power components and provides a simple, efficient, and galvanically isolated converter. In the presence of DC mains the converter operates as buck converter and charges the battery. When the DC main fails, the converter operates as boost c...

This paper presents the modeling and simulation of a proton exchange membrane fuel cell (PEMFC) generation system for off-grid and on-grid operation and configuration. A fuel cell DG system consists of a fuel cell power plant, a DC/DC converter and a DC/AC inverter. The dynamic model for fuel cell array and its power electronic interfacing are presented also a multi-input single output (MISO) D...

It is needless to say that four quadrant principle plays a vital role in industrial applications .Running a machine both in motoring and generating action illustrates the four quadrant operation. In electric locomotives, the motor may run clock wise and anti clockwise, and the torque may act either with or against the direction of rotation. In other words the speed and torque may be positive or...

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...

In this paper wind and solar based stand-alone hybrid energy system is presented for the remote area power system applications. The wind, solar, battery, fuel cell and dump load (i.e., aqua-electrolyzer) are connected to the common dc bus. An ac load is connected to dc bus through a pulse width modulation (PWM) based inverter. Ac voltage at load bus can be maintained at rated value by regulatin...