Current and voltage waveforms of a distribution or a transmission system are not pure sinusoids. There are distortions in these waveforms that consist of a combination of the fundamental frequency, harmonics and high frequency transients. This paper presents an enhanced measurement scheme for identification and tracking of harmonics in power system. The proposed technique is not limited to stat...

The photovoltaic (PV) system exhibits a nonlinear current-voltage (I-V) characteristic that its maximum power point (MPP) varies with solar insolation and temperature. In this paper, a maximum power point tracking (MPPT) method using fuzzy logic control (FLC) is presented. This method is based on the concept of perturbation and observation (P & O) algorithm to track the MPP. The two stage grid ...

It is well known that undesirable harmonic line currents may be generated during a transformer-rectifier combination. The rectification of AC power to DC power itself may in general produce undesirable current harmonics. These non-linear loads cause severe current harmonics that may not be tolerated by either a shutdown of the device or unacceptable powering of the devices. The great majority o...

Harmonics in power distribution system are current or voltage that are integer multiples of fundamental frequency. For example if the fundamental frequency 50 Hz, then the 2-nd harmonics is 100Hz, the 3-rd is 150Hz, etc. A pure voltage or current sine wave has no distortion and no harmonics but non sinusoidal wave has distortion and harmonics. To quantify the distortion, the term total harmonic...

This paper presents a Z-source inverter which has been proposed as an alternative power conversion concept for adjustable speed AC drives. It is having both voltages buck and boost capabilities as they allow inverters to be operated in the shoot through state. It utilizes an exclusive Z-source network (LC component) to DC-link in between main inverter circuit and the DC source (rectifier). By c...

A combination of rectifier and DC – DC chopper is useful in feeding DC loads where the DC input to the loads needs to be stepped up or down. Both rectifier and chopper are based on power electronic switches which inject harmonics in the system. This harmonics is an undesirable effect which should be mitigated effectively. For this, passive harmonic filters are used. Passive harmonic filters are...

Due to the wide spread of power electronics equipment in modern electrical systems, the increase of the harmonics disturbance in the ac mains currents has became a major concern due to the adverse effects on all equipment. Power electronic converters are commonly used for interfacing distributed generation (DG) systems to the electrical power network. However, the unbalanced voltage compensatio...

Three-Phase four-wire distribution systems are facing severe power quality problems such as poor voltage regulation, high reactive power and harmonics current burden, load unbalancing, excessive neutral current, etc.This creates excessive neutral current both of fundamental and harmonic frequency and the neutral conductor gets overloaded. By integrating phase shifting into an extremely low zero...

The Electrical power system contains a wide range of electrical and power electronics components in industrial and commercial applications. The power quality will be affected by various factors like ripples contamination, voltage sag and voltage swells due to the increase in loads of non-linear type like large power electronics converters such as IGBT and GTO, rectifiers, voltage and current gl...

This paper presents a new three-phase hybrid active power filter configuration that interconnects a passive high-pass filter in parallel with an active power filter and a photovoltaic system. The proposed configuration can improves the filtering performance of the conventional active power filter, as well as simultaneously supply the power from the photovoltaic arrays to the load and utility. T...