The lack of reactive energy flow control in distribution networks causes an increase of electrical losses and problems with the voltage profile. The main objective of this work is to develop a fuzzy control system for automatic capacitor banks applied to distribution feeders, which was focused on the improvement of the equipment performance allowing a better correction of the system reactive an...

In all multilevel topology with several DC link, the voltage balancing problem of DC capacitors is a key problem. This paper proposes a new topology of chopper circuit for dc capacitor voltage balancing in diode clamped multilevel inverters (DCMLI). In the presented topology the number of switches is reduced respect to other proposed topology in literatures. Suggested topology is modular and ha...

This paper is a licentiate compilation-thesis that aims to bring clarity to the dimensioning aspects and limiting factors of modular multilevel converters. The dc-capacitor in each submodule is a driving factor for the size and weight of the converter. This means that it is important to distribute the stored energy evenly among all submodule capacitors. Typically, an increased switching frequen...

Abstract: Due to the low cost, small size, and ease of control, the switched-capacitor (SC) battery equalizers are promising among active balancing methods. However, it is difficult to achieve the full cell equalization for the SC equalizers due to the inevitable voltage drops across Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field Effect Transistor (MOSFET) switches. Moreover, when the voltage gap among cells ...

BAWA, GAURAV. Switched-Capacitor Filter Based Type-III Compensation for VoltageMode Control of Switched-Mode Buck Converters. (Under the direction of Dr. Alex Q. Huang). In this dissertation, we propose a novel technique for the voltage-mode control of switchedmode fixed-frequency Buck Converters using Switched-Capacitor Filters (SCF). The salient features of the analog sampled-data Type-III fi...

The research work considers the simulation and analysis of transition processes in linear electrical circuits using MatLab software package. occurring following were analyzed: RL equivalent circuit case connecting relay control winding to a DC voltage source; RC capacitor through limiting resistor source disconnecting it from RLC discharge an inductor; this shall be pre-charged branched first o...

This paper presents a single-phase transformerless bidirectional power factor corrector (PFC). A capacitor is inserted into conventional full-bridge PFC by connecting the ac line terminal and of DC voltage. The functions this have two roles: to bypass common-mode leakage current from stray capacitor; form an LCL filter reduce inductor ripple. hybrid modulation method employed in PFC. unipolar s...

A soft-switched inverter is derived from the passively clamped quasi-resonant link circuit with three different clamps: coupled inductor, diode clamp and coupled inductor and capacitor. The proposed soft-switching inverter is formed from the traditional pulse-width modulated (PWM) inverter by simply augmenting with auxiliary resonant circuits, and the soft switching is achieved through applying...

Optimal switching between different topologies in step-down dc-dc voltage converters, with nonideal inductors and capacitors, is investigated in this paper. Challenges including constraint on the inductor current and voltage leakages across the capacitor (due to switching) are incorporated. The objective is generating the desired voltage with low ripples and high robustness toward line and load...