The expected high penetration of battery chargers for electric vehicles (EV) in electric networks is foreseen as a potential problem for power quality. Battery chargers are nonlinear devices that inject harmonic currents and pollute network voltages. Thus, their harmonic emissions must be analyzed and reduced by harmonic mitigation techniques to avoid future problems. This paper analyzes and re...

DC-connected parallel inverter systems are gaining popularity in industrial applications. However, such generate excess current ripple (harmonics) at the DC-link due to harmonic interactions between inverters addition harmonics from PWM switching. These cause failure of fragile components as capacitors. This paper proposes an interleaving scheme minimize induced a system. First, optimal phase-s...

I INTRODUCTION Advancement in technology of semiconductor devices has led to a revolution in electronic technology over the past decade. However rise in the power quality (PQ) problem is due to power equipments which include adjustable-speed motor drives (ASDs), electronic power supplies, direct current (DC) motor drives, battery chargers, electronic ballasts. The distortion in current is due t...

Power Quality (PQ) parameters such as voltage RMS value, Total Harmonic Distortion (THD), and Power Factor (PF) are main topics to be considered in the connection of sensitive loads to the grid. In this paper, a Unified Power Quality Conditioner (UPQC) based on an Indirect Matrix Converter (IMC) is proposed to address some PQ issues as mitigation of voltage harmonics and compensation of sags an...

Problem statement: Harmonic analysis is a primary matter of power quality assessment. Its main intention is to check the utility whether it is delivering the loads without any deviations in voltages and currents. The problem is due to proliferation of Electronic converters and power electronics which gave birth to numerous new applications, offering unmatched comfort to the customers. Approach:...

The paper presents the analysis of harmonic distortion when non-linear load is connected in different phases of power system with STATCOM for singly excited induction generator system with wind turbine as prime mover. Now-a-days due to the drastically increased in use of non linear loads causes many power quality problems in power system network. Those problems are classified as reactive power ...

The present work is an endeavor towards analyzing the different multi-pulse converters in solving the harmonic problem in a three-phase converter system. The effect of increasing the number of pulses on the performance of AC to DC converters is analyzed.This paper presents the design and analysis of a novel 30-pulse ac–dc converter for harmonic mitigation under varying loads. The proposed multi...

Abstract:Today, one of the important issues of power quality (PQ) in power systems is the current harmonics. Increasing expansion of nonlinear loads at different parts of the electric network makes harmonic distortion flow through the network. This causes the network to have background voltage and current harmonic distortion and even affect on the PQ of linear load performance. Therefore, it is...

This paper presents an improved power quality converter (IPQC) based power supply design for high brightness Light Emitting Diode (HB-LED) low power lighting. The IPQC circuit uses a Cuk buck-boost converter to operate it in discontinuous conduction mode (DCM) using voltage follower technique for the mitigation of harmonic contents present in the AC mains current. Subsequently reduction in harm...