Active power filter continues to be a powerful tool to control harmonics in power systems thereby enhancing the power quality. This paper presents a fuzzy tuned PID controller based shunt active filter to diminish the harmonics caused by non linear loads like thyristor bridge rectifiers and imbalanced loads. Here Fuzzy controller provides the tuning of PID, based on firing of thyristor bridge r...

This paper presents the analysis of a photovoltaic bases three-phase five level voltage source inverter (VSI) supplying induction motor driven water pump. The VSI uses a unipolar PWM technique for producing three phase 5 level voltage output and this output is used to drive three-phase induction motor driving a pump load. Multilevel inverters are used for generating AC voltage from several leve...

This paper proposes a neuron adaptive harmonic detection algorithm which can adaptively,rapidly and precisely calculate the voltage and current reference signals in presence of the system frequency variation, according to which, a Double Integration Control (DIC) strategy is applied in Unified Power Quality Conditioner (UPQC) as an interface between the hybrid power system and the load.Generall...

Nowadays renewable energy sources are essential to meet the real power demand. All the Distributed Energy Resources are connected to the common grid through three phase Voltage Source Inverter (VSI). The reliable operation of microgrid can be achieved by controlling three phase voltage source inverter. Voltage and frequency of the Distributed Energy Resources are continuously varying and they d...

ABSTRACT—The Z-Source Inverter (ZSI) overcomes the disadvantages of the traditional Voltage-Source Inverter (VSI) and Current-Source Inverter (CSI).It can buck and boost its output voltage by utilizing the shoot-through state which is forbidden in traditional VSI. Different Pulse Width Modulation (PWM) techniques are available for the control of Z-Source Inverters. In the traditional PWM techni...

Solar energy is one of the important infinite source that maintains life on earth and is of clean energy. This energy can be converted to different forms as per our requirements. In this paper digital implementation of Photo Voltaic (PV) based cascaded boost converter (CBC)for voltage source inverter (VSI) fed induction motor is presented. The proposed PV model is based on a behavioral cell mod...

In this paper, the overmodulation region voltagegain characteristics and waveform quality of carrier-based pulsewidth-modulated (PWM) methods are investigated. Through detailed analytical study, voltage-gain characteristics are extracted independent of carrier frequency. The influence of blanking time and minimum pulsewidth (MPW) control on the inverter gain characteristics are studied and show...

1,2 Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Sree Buddha College Of Engineering Abstract—This paper highlights the performance of a five level inverter fed ac drive system. The presence of harmonics in the output voltage and current waveforms of traditional voltage source inverter (VSI) causes significant amount of energy loss. Multilevel inverters can reduce this harmonic content in the output ...

This paper proposes a three-phase four-wire currentcontrolled Voltage Source Inverter (CC-VSI) for both power quality improvement and PV energy extraction. For power quality improvement, the CC-VSI works as a grid current-controlling shunt active power filter to compensate for harmonic and reactive power of loads. Then, the PV array is coupled to the DC bus of the CC-VSI and supplies active pow...

The voltage sag detection algorithm and control algorithm synthesis of the dynamic voltage restorer (DVR) are proposed. The double synchronous reference frame phase-locked loop (DSRF-PLL) is applied for the voltage sag detection, which is able to calculate the phase angle of the positive-sequence fundamental component of grid voltages even under unbalanced and distorted grid voltages. The effec...