Stand-alone power systems based on renewable energy sources are used to replace generators based on fossil fuels. Those renewable power systems also require Energy Storage Devices (ESD) interfaced by a charger/discharger power converter, which consist of a bidirectional DC/DC converter, and a DC bus. This paper proposes a single sliding-mode controller (SMC) for the charger/discharger DC/DC con...

Medium-voltage DC electrical distribution is envisioned as a possible system for the warship of the future, bringing numerous advantages including a very power-dense architecture. This system takes the AC power produced by generators, immediately rectifies all power to DC and distributes it throughout the ship, requiring inversion back to AC for all AC loads. The question then arises whether it...

In the current source inverter (CSI)-fed inductor motor (IM) drive system, DC-bus inductance and AC-filter capacitance have a direct impact on dynamic response speed, power quality density. addition, due to addition of filter capacitors, mathematical model formed by IM capacitor is third-order which increases difficulty parameter tuning for control loop. To solve above problems in CSI, design m...

in this article our objective is to obtain steady state characteristics of shunt, series, and separately excited dc motors coupled with a centrifugal water pump supplied through a step-up, step-down, and cuk converter from photovoltaic generator. we assume that there are no storage batteries and, of course, the system must operate on maximum utilization i.e. maximum water must be pumped. it is ...

Single phase power factor correction ac-dc converters are widely used in industry for ac-dc power conversion from single phase ac mains to an required output dc voltage. In case of high power application these types of converter use an ac-dc boost converter followed by dc-dc converter. These converters has the features of excellent input power factor, continuous input and output currents, and i...

The DC/AC inverters are used in grid-coupled Photovoltaic (PV) energy fabrication systems as the power meting out interface between the PV power source and the electric grid. Compared to the grid-coupled PV inverters that have galvanic separation (either on the DC, or on the AC side),the transformer-less PV inverters have the advantages of lower cost, higher efficiency, smaller size and lower w...

A system of multi-axis networked smart motors is developed to reduce complex cable harnesses. Motor control signals are sent over the DC power bus line and received by motors with integrated power amplifiers and controllers. Unlike traditional AC power line communication, the noise level and signal attenuation are much lower for the DC power bus communication. This allows for high fidelity, bro...

Original scientific paper It is well-known that shunt active power filter (SAPF) is widely used to reduce harmonic distortion and to compensate reactive power in electrical power systems. DC bus voltage control of SAPF is very important for excellent power quality. In the control of SAPF, DC bus voltage is controlled by conventional control methods such as PI and PID controllers. However, these...

Recently, hybrid modular multi-level converters, which are configured as full and half bridge sub-modules, are developed and utilized in the wide area of applications. Compared to its non-hybrid counterpart, these converters have several advantages such as the ability to nullify the DC side fault current and controlling AC side reactive power during the faults. This paper proposes a modified ph...

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...