Thyristors are now widely used in many power electronics and motors drives applications. This is due to their several advantages such as relatively small size, low losses, market availability, and low cost. In this paper, a stator voltage control of single-phase induction motor using thyristors is analyzed and simulated. The stator voltage has been controlled by phase angle control of single-ph...

In this paper, the new hybrid particle swarm optimization (hybrid-PSO) based on particle swarm optimization (PSO), evolutionary programming (EP), and tabu search (TS) is developed. Hybrid-PSO is proposed to determine the optimal allocation of multi-type flexible AC transmission system (FACTS) controllers for simultaneously maximizing the power transfer capability of power transactions between g...

The fault level represents the maximum short circuit current that a power system causes to flow to the point of short circuit. Due to change of network configuration, the fault level at any point of the power system network changes accordingly. It is not practical to apply full short circuit on the system in order to determine the fault level. This paper describes scheme for continuous measurin...

Power modulators for pulsed microwave applications, generally utilizing a thyratron-switched PFN, typically produce 50-120 kV, 1-2 kA microsecond timescale pulses with sub-microsecond ( -100-200 nsec) risetimes. This paper will review an investigation into the feasibility of utilizing certain solid-state power switches at the relatively fast speeds required for HPM modulators. Two very differen...

Optimal supplementary damping controller design for Thyristor Controlled Series Compensator (TCSC) is presented in this paper. For the proposed controller design, a multi-objective fitness function consisting of both damping factors and real part of system electromachanical eigenvalue is used and RealCoded Genetic Algorithm (RCGA) is employed for the optimal supplementary controller parameters....

This paper presents a circuit topology to obtain current multiplication by using multiple thyristors. To gain insight into this technique, an equivalent circuit model is introduced. Proper operation of the topology was demonstrated by experiments on a small-scale setup including three thyristors. One thyristor is triggered by a trigger circuit; the other two are autotriggered and require no ext...

The principles of the traditional passive filter for suppressing harmonics are qualitatively analyzed in this study. The auto-tuning principles based on TCR are also analyzed. According to the deficiencies of these filters, a passive filter based on variable reactors is presented and the tuning method is investigated principally. This filter utilizes the anti-parallel thyristor controlled react...

For the improvement of transient stability the general methods adopted are fast acting exciters, circuit breakers and reduction in system transfer reactance. The modern trend is to employ FACTS devices in the existing system for effective utilization of existing transmission resources. These FACTS devices contribute to power flow improvement besides they extend their services in transient stabi...

An SSR problem has been noticed and caused repeated triggering of the protection. A study indicated that SSR conditions might appear for some network configurations. Thyristor Controlled Series Capacitor (TCSC) was found to eliminate the problem. The paper discusses the problem and introduce different types of protective relays for mitigation of SSR.