Switched reluctance (SR) motors have high power density, high efficiency, high reliability, high fault tolerance, and low manufacturing cost. Thus, these motors have a high potential than other machines such as permanent magnet brushless motor, high-temperature super conductor motor, etc.; hence, it is well-suited for electric marine propulsion. This paper presents a new power converter and ana...

The modular multilevel converter (MMC) is a promising topology for medium-voltage drive applications due to its high-quality output waveforms, low device switching frequency and voltage rating. However, the large cell capacitor ripple severe challenge faced by MMC at motor speeds. Recently, hybrid (HMMC) proven be competitive solution because of lower no common-mode (CMV) problem compared with ...

Voltage sags normally do not cause equipment damage but can easily disrupt the operation of sensitive loads such as electronic Adjustable Speed Drives (ASD’s). Voltage sags cause a momentary decrease in DC-link voltage triggering an under voltage trip leading to nuisance tripping of adjustable speed drives (ASD’s) employed in continuous-process industries which contributes to loss in revenue. A...

-This paper describes an alternative STATic synchronous COMpensator (STATCOM), by connecting a number of Gate Turn Off (GTO) thyristor converters in series on the ac side of the system. Each GTO converter forms one ‘link’ of a 1-phase, full-bridge Voltage-Source-Converter (VSC) and is referred to as a ‘Chain Link Converter’ (CLC). Each GTO of a CLS, is switched ‘ON/OFF’ only once per cycle of t...

This paper proposes a high voltage ratio and low ripple interleaved boost DC-DC converter, which can be used to reduce the output voltage ripple. This converter transfers the low DC voltage of fuel cell to high DC voltage in DC link. The structure of the converter is parallel with two voltage-doubler boost converters by interleaving their output voltages to reduce the voltage ripple ratio. Besi...

This paper presents the design and develops of voltage acceptability curves for LED lamps. It is done with the mathematical representation of DC bus voltage of LED lamps internal ballast circuit during voltage sags. First, experimental analysis was done to determine the effect of voltage sag of LED lamp. From the findings on the variation of DC bus voltage during voltage sag, a mathematical equ...

This paper presents a novel control strategy for isolated 4-wires Micro Grid MG based on Wind Turbine WT driven Doubly Fed Induction Generator DFIG with an integrated Super-Capacitors SCs that act as energy storage. The proposed system comprises of variable speed DFIG, DC-link and Grid Side Power Conditioner GSPC. The GSPC is devoted for the MG voltage magnitude and frequency control, balancing...

Ultracapacitors (UCs), with their features of high power density and high current charge-discharge, have become the best choice for dynamic power compensation to improve the stability of microgrids and are increasingly being applied in microgrids. This paper presents the control of an energy storage system (ESS) based on ultracapacitors in the context of grid-connected microgrids. The ESS is co...

This paper presents a new control technique to meet the grid codes in cascaded multilevel inverters. In this paper a new selective harmonic mitigation (SHM-PWM) technique to produce waveforms with low switching frequency without compromising waveform quality, which is capable of meeting grid codes even under non equal dc link voltages. In this paper by maintaining voltage balancing and reducing...