This article investigates the characteristics of a pure residential load through field tests. Staged voltage perturbations by station transformer tapchanging are induced both with and without switching ON the feeder shunt capacitors. Sudden voltage deviations by capacitor switching are attempted. Static load parameters are derived from the recorded load response to voltage variations. It is fou...

Topology for reactive power compensation of dynamic load in closed loop is presented. The scheme consists of Thyristor Binary Switched Capacitor (TBSC) banks and a Thyristor Controlled Reactor (TCR). TBSC is based on a chain of Thyristor Switched Capacitor (TSC) banks arranged in binary sequential manner. TCR capacity is chosen to be smallest of TBSC step size. A transient free switching of TBS...

In power distribution network, distribution static compensator (DSTATCOM) is used for enhancing power quality. This paper investigates the application of DSTATCOM with non-stiff source connected to distribution network to enhance power quality. The model discussed in this paper is designed to have reduced DC-link voltage rating without compromising compensation capability when non-linear loads ...

In this paper, a suitable LaSalle principle for continuous-time linear switched systems is used to characterize invariant sets and their associated switching laws. An algorithm to determine algebraically these invariants is proposed. The main novelty of our approach is that we require no dwell time conditions on the switching laws. By not focusing on restricted control classes we are able to de...

This paper reports a 10-bit 50MS/s SAR ADC with a set-and-down capacitor switching method. Compared to the conventional method, the average switching energy is reduced about 81%. At 50MS/s and 1.2V supply, the ADC consumes 0.92mW and achieves an SNDR of 52.78dB, resulting in an FOM of 52fJ/Conversion-step. Fabricated in a 0.13μm 1P8M CMOS technology, the ADC only occupies 0.075mm active area.

A dual GTO current source converter topology with sinusoidal inputs is proposed for high power applications. The sinusoidal input current is realized by using PWM techniques to eliminate 11th and 13th harmonics and a transformer to cancel Sth, 7th, 17th and 19th harmonics. Three switching patterns are proposed with a switching frequency of 360Hz or 420Hz. The combination of these switching patt...

This paper presents a high efficiency asymmetrical pulse width modulated dc-dc converter for photovoltaic application. The proposed dc-dc converter reduces the switching losses and current loss by zero voltage switching techniques. Moreover, the resonant circuit composed of the leakage inductance of the transformer and the blocking capacitor provides the zero-current switching (ZCS) turn-off fo...

This paper presents a detailed theoretical analysis and performance assessment of the capacitor voltage balancing strategies for staircase modulated modular multilevel converters (MMC) in terms of the algorithm structures, voltage balancing effect, and switching frequency. A constant-frequency redundancy selection (CFRS) method with minimal switching loss is proposed and the function realizatio...

Inrush currents in transformers are non-sinusoidal, high magnitude currents generated due to flux saturation in the core during energization. For protection purpose, in this paper an efficient method for detection of inrush current in distribution transformer based on wavelet transform is presented. Using this method inrush current can be discriminated from the other switching transients such a...