This project proposes a novel three phase nine switch AC/AC converter topology. This converter features sinusoidal inputs and outputs, unity power factor, and more importantly, low manufacturing cost. The Operating principle of the Converter is elaborated, its modulation schemes are also discussed, and experimental results from a 5kVA prototype system are provided.

Railway traction is a more stochastic heavy load connected system. Due to the usage of ac-dc converters and ac-ac converters, the various power quality issues become the major problems in the electric system. This paper presents a review on power quality conditioners suitable for Railway traction based on the configuration, components involved and on the technical and economic considerations. M...

Safe Ambients (SA) are a variant of the Ambient Calculus (AC) in which types can be used to avoid certain forms of interferences among processes called grave interferences. An abstract machine, called GcPan, for a distributed implementation of typed SA is presented and studied. Our machine improves over previous proposals for executing AC, or variants of it, mainly through a better management o...

The presented paper deals with the implementation of the Switching Table Based Direct Torque Control (ST-DTC) in the matrix converter-fed induction motor drive. In order to improve the control of the matrix converter input power factor, the use of the simplified Indirect Space Vector Modulation (ISVM) was proposed. To verify the feasibility of the proposed solution, experimental results were pr...

This paper presents a new method to compensate the nonlinearity for matrix converter drives using disturbance observer. The nonlinearity of matrix converter drives such as commutation delay, turn-on and turn-off time of switching device, and on-state switching device voltage drop is modeled by disturbance observer and compensated. The proposed method does not need any additional hardware and of...

ISSN 2250 – 1088 | © 2011 Bonfring Abstract--This paper describes active power control in a grid connected variable speed wind electric generation system (WEG) using squirrel cage induction machine. The chosen variable speed WEG system consists of a wind turbine, squirrel-cage induction generator, an AC-DC-AC interface and the power grid. In this work the generator side converter is controlled ...

State estimators for induction motors are generally designed based on standard simplified models, assuming linear magnetic characteristics. Since they are actually nonlinear, especially for high power machines, the mentioned state estimators are likely not able to achieve the estimation accuracy they have been designed for. In this paper, a new state estimator is developed for a (uniform air-ga...

The machining quality on computerized numerically controlled (CNC) machine tools is sensitive to the machining parameters. With modern machine tools, an operator still manually adjusts controlling parameters, such as feed rate and cutting speed. The adjusted values mainly depend on operator experience and knowledge. Standard machining catalogues and commercial cutting condition prediction softw...

Open-ended winding induction machines fed from standard two-level Voltage Source Inverters (VSI) provide an attractive arrangement for AC drives. An alternative approach is to use a dual output Indirect Matrix Converter (IMC). It is well known that the IMC provides fully bidirectional power flow operation, with small input size filter requirements. Whilst a standard IMC consists of an AC-DC mat...