Multilevel static power conversion (MSPC) technology has ability to process high voltages and generate multitier voltage waveforms with high spectral quality. This technology is increasingly being used in acdc, dc-ac converters and power conditioning applications. In view of this, a comprehensive review of MSPC technology is presented in this paper, which includes configurations, control strate...

This paper presents a design of microgrid (MG) with enhanced dynamic performance. Distributed energy resources (DER) are widely used in MGs to match the various load types and profiles. DERs include solar PV cells, wind energy sources, fuel cells, batteries, micro gas-engines and storage elements. MG will include AC/DC circuits, developed power electronics devices, inverters and power electroni...

Power quality is one of major concerns in the present area. It has become important, especially, with the introduction of sophisticated devices, whose performance is very sensitive to the quality of power supply that results in a failure of end use equipment’s. One of the major problems dealt here is the voltage sag. To solve this problem, custom power devices are used. One of those devices is ...

Generally uninterruptible power supply (UPS) is used to maintain a stable electric power supply to critical loads with high quality power protecting them against unexpected power failure. For example, medical facilities and data-storage computer systems require fast response, compensation and immediate availability of electrical power. Considerably affect these characteristics is energy storage...

Due to large amount of non-linear power electronic equipment’s impact and fluctuating loads , problems of power quality have become more and more serious with each passing day. Active power filtering has gained much more importance in the power quality arena as it gives the best solution for all power quality issues. Shunt active filtering is effective and the performance of such units largely ...

Information Communication technologies are coming up to the decisive limits of silicon in terms of conduit width, power supply and speed. By moving towards these limits, circuits are becoming increasingly receptive to noise, which will result on intolerable rates of soft-errors. Furthermore, imperfection behavior is becoming increasingly complex resulting on increasing number of timing faults t...

Three-phase multipulse AC–DC converters (MPC) are developed for improving power quality to reduce harmonics in ac mains and ripples in dc output. This study, based on technical and economic factors, compares different autotransformer-based 30-pulse AC–DC converters. In this paper, the comparison of two topologies of autotransformer-based 30-pulse AC–DC converter has been presented. In topology ...

with increase in traffic and speed railway became one of the major load on supply grid .AC-DC convertor used in locomotive of traction system draws rich harmonics content current results in poor power quality and failure or missed operation of utility causing derating of grid and affect the reliability. This paper provide framework for issue like harmonics, voltage sage ,voltage unbalance, poor...

The given paper deals with uninterruptible power supplies utilizing supercapacitors (ultracapacitors). Different types of supercapacitor are described. Various opportunities of supercapacitor implementation are discussed, pros and cons are compared. Experimental comparison of lead-acid battery with supercapacitor is done.

This paper introduces a versatile control scheme for unidirectional ac–dc boost converters using fuzzy logic controller for the purpose of mitigating grid power quality. Since most power factor correction circuits available in the commercial market utilize unidirectional ac– dc boost converter topologies, this is an almost nocost solution for compensating harmonic current and reactive power in ...