Hysteresis Current Control Technique Research Articles

Validation of a power conditioning unit for a fuel cell power system

Distributed power systems can be implemented using different renewable energy sources including fuel cell, one of whose important component is a Power Conditioning Unit. This work focuses on designing and implementing a real-time, multi-stage power conditioning unit for fuel cell-based distributed generation system. The multi-stage unit comprises a fuel cell, DC-DC converter and a single-phase DC-AC inverter. This cascaded boost converter implementation efficiently elevates the voltage which is then fed into inverter to get the desired voltage. The Voltage Mode Control and Hysteresis Current Control techniques govern the Power Conditioning Unit implementation. The simulation setup shows an increased efficiency of 2.71% over the existing power conditioning units. The validation of our simulation models are carried out by establishing a prototype model of the fuel cell power system using a reconfigurable computing unit, NI-cRIO thus making the implementation adaptable to design changes. The hardware implementation matches with our simulation results.

Power Quality Improvement using Shunt Active Power Filter: An Industrial Zone Case Study

Power quality (PQ) improvement using active power filters (APF) is a topic of growing interest. APFs are effective in reducing harmonic distortion and improving power factor. They can be used in a variety of applications to improve the performance and reliability of electrical equipment. To address concerns with PQ improvement, this study offers an application of shunt APF in an industrial zone smart grid. the non-linear loads and unpredictable harmonics produced by on-grid PV inverters that represent the architecture of an industrial smart grid. Utilizing the MATLAB/SIMULINK software suite, a detailed design of the APF and associated hysteresis current control technique is provided. The findings demonstrate that APF is a useful tool for reducing total harmonic distortion (THD) and has a quick dynamic reaction to control grid voltage and power factor.

Hybrid Switching Control-Based DC to AC Inverter for Microgrid Using Renewable Energy Sources

Hybrid switching control-based direct current (DC) to alternating current (AC) inverter is a method of controlling the flow of power from DC sources such as solar panels or wind turbines to AC loads in a microgrid. In a microgrid, renewable energy sources are often used to supplement traditional sources of energy and improve overall energy efficiency. To simulate micro-grid systems, an effective three-legged IGBT inverter has been developed using Matlab R2016a/Simulink. The inverter switches are controlled by a pulse controller, which creates the switching gate pulses. This work models the output voltage and current waveforms of the three-phase 180° voltage source inverter that supplies nonlinear loads. To lower the total harmonic distortion (THD) of the current and voltage outputs of the three-phase voltage source converter (VSC), a filter circuit and a two-level pulse width modulation (PWM) generator have been presented. This pulse-width modulation generator compares the modulating signal and a high-frequency triangular carrier wave. Sinusoidal pulse width modulation (SPWM) is used for PWM control. Moreover, the hybrid switching control-based DC-to-AC inverter utilizes a combination of pulse width modulation (PWM) and hysteresis current control techniques to maintain a constant AC output voltage and frequency. PWM control is used to regulate the voltage, while hysteresis current control is used to regulate the current. Additionally, an inductor-capacitor-inductor (LCL) filter is used to improve the stability of the power converter by providing a damping effect on the system. Overall, the LCL filter is a versatile and effective tool for improving the performance of power inverters, especially in applications where high efficiency and low harmonic distortion are important. IUBAT Review—A Multidisciplinary Academic Journal, 6 (1): 25-46

The novel algorithm-based hysteresis current control technique (HCCT) to eliminate sub and inter harmonics (SIH) in load current

PurposeThis study aims to propose a unique algorithm-based hysteresis current control technique (HCCT) for induction motor using a single-phase voltage source inverter (SPVSI) to eliminate both sub and inter harmonics (SIH) and electromagnetic interference (EMI). The total harmonic distortion (THD) of the load current also reduces in comparison to standard HCCT and modified technique-based existing HCCT.Design/methodology/approachMatlab simulation has been carried out to develop an SPVSI model and the unique algorithm-based HCCT. The same platform has also been used to develop a few existing HCCTs such as standard, dual-band and modified. The switching frequency and harmonic analysis of load currents for all the HCCTs have been compared in the paper. The hardware implementation of the proposed algorithm-based HCCT was also verified and compared with the simulation results.FindingsThe proposed unique algorithm-based HCCT provides the benefits of both unipolar and bipolar switching techniques. It reduces the switching frequency as unipolar switching scheme and eliminates the EMI. It also reduces THD and nullifies SIH of the load current. This enables an improvement in the overall performance and efficiency of the motor.Practical implicationsThis proposed HCCT eliminates the SIH and improves the overall efficiency of the motor, hence can prevent overheating, vibration, acoustic noise, pulsating torque and braking of the rotor shaft of the motor and increasing the reliability of the system.Social implicationsIt can be implemented for the motors that are used in household applications and electric vehicles through one-phase inverter.Originality/valueThis proposed HCCT has detected the zero crossing point of reference current, allowed samples and shifted the necessary amount of hysteresis band at zero crossing region to eliminate SIH and THD.

A Novel Application of Random Hysteresis Current Control: Acoustic Noise and Vibration Reduction of a Permanent Magnet Synchronous Motor Drive

This article presents a novel application of the random hysteresis current control (RHCC) technique on a permanent magnet synchronous motor (PMSM) drive to reduce acoustic noise and vibration (ANV). The proposed RHCC approach brings a significant reduction in torque ripples and ANV in the motor, thereby enhancing the performance of the complete drive system under operation. Among various available spread-spectrum techniques, RHCC has recently applied to unipolar and bipolar pulsewidth modulation (PWM)-fed power electronics converters to reduce harmonics in voltage and currents, with promising results. Furthermore, in-depth theoretical background and analysis of the performance of RHCC in reducing the torque ripples, vibration, and acoustic noise of a PMSM drive are presented. Appropriate simulation as well as experimental analysis have been carried out. The results show a substantial reduction of ANV in a PMSM drive through the proposed RHCC technique. The performance of the proposed method is compared with pseudorandom triangular PWM, hysteresis current control (HCC), and sinusoidal PWM (SPWM) techniques.

Reactive Power Compensation and Harmonic Mitigation in Single-Phase Distribution System using Multilevel Converter Based D-STATCOM

This paper presents a study of a single-phase cascaded H-bridge multilevel converter-based Distribution Static Synchronous Compensator (D-STATCOM) with active harmonic filtering capability. For the proper operation of the proposed D-STATCOM, a constant voltage is maintained at its DC bus link using a proportional and integral (PI) controller. Based on instantaneous current errors, gate pulses for controlling duty cycles of the D-STATCOM operation are generated using the hysteresis current control (HCC) technique. The proposed D-STATCOM was modeled and simulated in MATLAB. Simulation results show that the proposed method effectively compensates for reactive power and mitigates current harmonics. The proposed method offers structural simplicity and efficiency without complex calculations.

Mikroşebeke Enerji Sistemlerinde Kullanılan Tek Fazlı İki Yönlü AC/DC Dönüştürücünün Modellenmesi ve Kontrolü

In this study, bidirectional single-phase PWM AC/DC converter that is used in microgrid systems at connection point to the grid, is modelled and controlled. PWM signals of the converter is generated with hysteresis current control technique. The mathematical model is developed in Matlab/Simulink. The converter with 5 kW active power capability is examined in rectifier and inverter mode for steady-state and transient response. Two operation modes of the converter is existed by changing power of the DC load and source. The converter transfers the energy from grid to DC bus in rectifier mode while the energy in the DC bus is transferred to grid in inverter mode. The grid current THD% values meet IEEE 1547 and IEEE 519 standards in both modes with 1.52%. The reactive power support of the converter with phase angle control of the grid current is presented. In both modes, reactive power of 500-900 VAr are provided. The obtained results show the availability of the modelling and control of the converter for active and reactive power generating.

Microgrid Power Quality Improvement Using Active Power Conditioner

This paper discusses power system power quality issues and possible remedies using power electronics. Several worldwide standards This research shows how a Shunt active power filter can improve power quality in a microgrid system at the distribution level. The major goal of this study is to find an appropriate pulse generating strategy for improving the shunt active power filter's compensation capabilities. The device's compensating capability is mostly determined by the DC link capacitor voltage regulation. A fixed hysteresis current control approach has been employed in the past. An adaptive hysteresis current control technique has been developed here to improve the performance of a shunt active power filter. The suggested technique's performance has been verified in the MA TLAB/SIMULINK model platform under various operating conditions.

A Power Control Method for Hybrid Electrical Accommodation Systems

This paper presents a power control method for a hybrid electrical system, which enhances a conventional main AC grid by adding a DC sub-grid in parallel. In this system, each prosumer connects to the sub-grid via a couple of half-bridge inverters of a device called a power router. All of the power routers connected to the sub-grid are controlled such that they maintain the voltage of the sub-grid equally, which is an essential feature of peer-to-peer power accommodation without synchronization. This paper proposes an adaptive hysteresis current-control technique for controlling sub-grid-connected inverters that maintains the voltage of the sub-grid while accommodating a given power. The proposed control method also balances currents between positive and negative lines of the sub-grid simultaneously. The proposed control method is implemented on a high-speed FPGA-based digital controller and is evaluated on three prototypes of the power router. The experimental results show that the proposed method yields fast and stable responses and enables the power router to accommodate power with a high accuracy.

COMPARATIVE STUDY OF SINGLE-PHASE PWM RECTIFIER CONTROL TECHNIQUES

In this study, 2.5 kW single-phase pulse-width modulated rectifier is simulated with three different control techniques to investigate the performance of controllers. Rectifier simulation is performed in Matlab / Simulink environment by using hysteresis current control, sinusoidal pulse width modulation and voltage oriented control techniques. In the performance comparison of the control techniques, considering the switching frequencies, the total harmonic content of the current drawn from the grid, the phase difference between the grid voltage and the grid current, and the DC bus voltage regulation at the output are considered as comparison criteria. The switching frequency is set to 35 kHz in sinusoidal pulse width modulation and voltage oriented control techniques. Since the switching frequency is variable in the hysteresis current control technique, the average and instantaneous switching frequency are calculated for different hysteresis band values. In the results with the technique, the switching frequency varies between 18.52 kHz and 47.6 kHz, while the average switching frequency is 34.6 kHz. As a result, the total harmonic distortion of the grid current with hysteresis current control, sinusoidal pulse width modulation and voltage oriented control techniques is 3.69%, 1.12% and 1.82%, respectively. The synchronization with the grid voltage is achieved with all techniques, and the DC voltage is regulated with active power.

Condition monitoring and severity estimation of rotor demagnetisation fault using magnetic flux measurement data

This article studies and investigate the magnetic characteristics of a surface mounted permanent magnet (SPM)-type brushless direct current (BLDC) motor when subjected to demagnetisation fault conditions. The proposed research subjugates the limitation of estimating the State of Health (SoH) of a BLDC motor drive when deployed in electric vehicle (EV) applications. Demagnetisation faults adversely affect the performance of a machine and indirectly the EV drive system, bringing significant transformation in the machine’s characteristics and quantities. The novel method of measuring the radial magnetic field (Bg) across the machine airgap assists in diagnosing and estimating the % severity of faults under the subjected fault conditions. A numerical co-simulation-based model of a BLDC motor is developed to investigate the performance of the machine under both healthy and fault conditions. The BLDC motor being studied is operated using a field programmable gate array (FPGA) based control drive adopting a hysteresis current control (HCC) technique. The experimental investigation of a complete BLDC motor test drive is carried out with an FPGA-based algorithm developed on the Xilinx ISE tool. The outcomes obtained are validated with the numerical results obtained through a finite element (FE) analysis. The proposed study uses a fluxgate sensor for experimental measurement of the flux density of a BLDC motor drive, which is vital for estimating the fault severity and scheduling the maintenance accordingly. The experimental investigations are found to be in validation with the proposed techniques in estimating the health of a BLDC motor-driven EV drive system.

Harmonics Analysis of Input Current of 3-Phase PWM Rectifier

Rectifier is a non-linier load that causes harmonic distortion in the power system. Pulse-width modulation (PWM) method is an effective method in pressing the magnitude of harmonics in a rectifier application, it provides an almost sinusoidal input current. However, the variation of loads that supplied by a rectifier cause the harmonics that arise can still beyond the applicable standard. The amount of harmonics in the operating range of a rectifier need to be identified to determine the filter on the input side. In this research article, 3-phase PWM rectifier was designed with hysteresis current control technique using PSCAD software simulation. Harmonic compensation was carried out by applying an active filter based on P-Q theory to reduce the harmonic distortion that occurs in the input current, thus giving a low total harmonic distortion (THD) value. Based on the simulation, 3-phase PWM rectifier operation starting at a power level of 150 kW, giving a THD value above 5-10% by the increasing the amount of load supplied by the rectifier. The application of active filter based on the P-Q theory is able to compensate harmonics in the input current wave with a THD value below 5% in the rectifier operating range.

Simulation Design and Harmonics Analysis of SPV-Wind Energy-based Hybrid Energy System under Different Nonlinear Load Condition

In this paper, a solar PV (SPV) and wind energy-based hybrid power system is design using MATLAB simulation and its harmonics level is analysis by integrating a shunt active power filter (SAPF). The SAPF is designed by using a synchronous reference frame technique for reference current generation, hysteresis current controller technique for switching pulse generation and conventional proportional and integral based DC-link voltage controller. The foremost objective of the proposed research is to design a SPV and wind energy-based hybrid power system using simulation and its power quality, mainly harmonics level is analysis. The analysis is carried out on the simulated results by connecting nonlinear load in the proposed hybrid system.

Simulation and experimental validation of hysteresis current control technique for speed control of brushless DC motor

Brushless DC Motors (BLDC) are finding wide applications in household appliances and electrical vehicles. Microcontroller are widely used for controlling the BLDC motors however the realization of BLDC drive requires expertise in microcontroller programming. In this paper modelling, simulation and easy hardware implementation of BLDC motor having shaft encoder using STM32F4 series ARM Cortex-M4 microcontroller is demonstrated. A simple method of controlling the BLDC motor in closed loop, using a hysteresis current controller is implemented. The hall sensors are used to find the exact rotor position for the electronic commutation and the encoder is used to measure actual motor speed. The closed loop operation consists of an inner loop which is hysteresis current controller. The gate pulses for the three phase inverter bridge are produced by comparing the actual currents with the reference currents. The outer speed loop consists of a PI controller which compares the actual speed with the reference speed to obtain smooth speed control under varied load condition. The complete hardware circuits and MATLAB/Simulink environment blocks for programming are discussed in detail. The hardware results demonstrate the easy and accurate realisation of closed loop speed control of BLDC Motor.

Modified Control Technique of DFIG for Power Quality Improvement

In this paper, a modified control technique for doubly fed induction generator (DFIG) is presented to improve its power quality by controlling (minimizing) grid current harmonics. The problems of harmonics injection in grid current, especially due to the presence of nonlinear loads, are very crucial. The proposed control technique can transfer the power from grid to DFIG and vice versa and can also control the DC link voltage (Vdc ) against wide variations in wind speeds. The maximum power point tracking (MPPT) is used in rotor side converter (RSC) to control the power flow through the DFIG. The MPPT extracts the maximum electromagnetic torque Tem from wind energy even during wide variations in wind speeds. A comparison of hysteresis current control (HCC) and space vector pulse width modulation (SVPWM) techniques for harmonic mitigation is presented considering all wind speeds. Also, the control technique for RSC and GSC is discussed in detail in this paper. Finally, the performance of the modified control technique to improve DFIG power quality is checked with the help of MATLAB/SIMULINK software considering 2.6 MW DFIG connected to a power grid.

Sliding Mode Controller with Integral Action for DC-Link Voltage Control of Grid-Integrated Domestic Photovoltaic Systems

The grid integration of photovoltaic systems is preferred over the islanded mode of operation as the former does not require additional storage element, hence less maintenance and no chemical pollution. To regulate power exchange between the grid and the photovoltaic system, a robust DC-link voltage controller capable of withstanding the intermittent nature of solar energy and sudden variations in load is inevitable. A proportional–integral controller is used for DC-link voltage control, exhibiting oscillations during steady state and overshoot during transients. However, the conventional sliding mode controller reduces the overshoot at the expense of increased steady-state error. This paper proposes a robust sliding mode controller for DC-link voltage control to reduce steady-state error by incorporating integral action to the conventional sliding mode controller. The harmful effect of chattering phenomenon is minimised by limiting the error in the control variable using a signum function. The added features of the work include an incremental conductance method for obtaining maximum power from the photovoltaic system, instantaneous pq theory-based self-tuning filter for the extraction of fundamental component and inverter switching pulse generation using hysteresis current control technique. The grid-integrated photovoltaic system along with all features is modelled and simulated in MATLAB/Simulink platform. The results of numerical simulations carried out for various system conditions illustrate that the proposed controller provides superior performance when compared to proportional integral controller and conventional sliding mode controller in terms of harmonic compensation, power flow balance and speed of response at all system conditions.

A novel hybrid space vector-based modulation technique for power quality improvement in a wind energy conversion system

The paper develops a novel hybrid space vector pulse width modulation (HSVPWM) for improving the quality of power transfer from a permanent magnet synchronous generator (PMSG) based wind energy conversion system (WECS) to a three phase induction motor load. It includes a Vienna rectifier (VR) based ac-dc converter in the front end and a voltage source inverter (VSI) for providing the variable frequency, variable voltage requirements of the induction motor load. The Vienna rectifier attempts to offer almost a unity power factor and early sinusoidal input as the input to the VSI as part of resurrecting the shape of the supply side waveform to the motor. The formulation involves a three-phase three-level HSVPWM along with a novel hysteresis current control technique for generating the firing pulses to the power switches in the VSI. The simulation results reveal a higher fundamental component a lower total harmonic distortion (THD) and harmonic spread factor (HSF) for the inverter output voltage over the similar other pulse width modulation (PWM) schemes and allow it claim a space for its use in real world utilities.

Design of Solar Pv Based Shunt Active Filter for Nonlineasr Load

Elevation of power electronics technology, converter are the main causes for power quality issues, because of their high switching characteristics.so to reduce the harmonics injected by the nonlinear load, the filters are play a major role to improve a power quality improvement, particularly shunt active filter is more reliable for reduce a harmonic in power system network. This novel technique proposed for design a shunt active filter with solar photovoltaic array integrated into nonlinear load using a Point of Common Coupling (PCC) technique. Zero crossing detection technique are used to extract the magnitude of a fundamental active components of distorted load currents. The estimation of harmonic isolator and current compensation are controlled by Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) controller, different types of compensation techniques are used in this work Synchronous reference frame theory, instantaneous reactive power theory (PQ) and hysteresis current control technique. These techniques enable extraction of active power, regulates a load voltage and maintain a phasor sequence at PCC under the voltage sag and swell. Simulation is carried out by MATLAB/SIMULINK for different compensations techniques and Total Harmonics Distortion (THD) values are tabulated.

Performance evaluation of multilevel inverter based hybrid active filter using soft computing techniques

In this paper, a multilevel inverter based shunt hybrid active filter is used, which is composed of passive filter and shunt active filter, used for enhancing the quality of power, by reducing the total harmonic distortions below 5% as per IEEE-519 standard and managing the reactive power as well as correcting the power factor. The objective of this paper is to advance the power quality by reducing the harmonic distortions in the distribution line, which are affected because of utilising non-linear loads across the load end. For reference current generation and for controlling the switching signal, conventionally PI controller was used with different reference signal detection techniques. But with the evolution of different intelligence approaches, made more advantageous than the PI controller. In this paper, two artificial intelligence methods, i.e, artificial neural network and adaptive neuro-fuzzy interference system (ANFIS) are applied. Comparison of the results of the proposed methods is analysed using MATLAB/ SIMULINK tool. For reference current generation, synchronous reference frame theory is used and hysteresis current control technique is employed for generating the gating signal.

Comprehensive Analysis of Demagnetization Faults in BLDC Motors Using Novel Hybrid Electrical Equivalent Circuit and Numerical Based Approach

Brushless Direct Current (BLDC) motors are the type of Permanent Magnet Synchronous Motors (PMSMs) with trapezoidal back-EMF. Due to high proliferation of BLDC motors in industrial applications, these motors are extensively been operated for longer durations. During the continuous heavy operation, these motors are subjected to environmental, physical and thermal stresses which can lead to faults. Fault can be on the stator windings or on the Permanent Magnets (PMs) of the rotor of a machine, which can manifest into electrical quantities like currents and/or voltages, magnetic quantities like flux density and thermal characteristics of a machine. This paper shall explore in detail about the demagnetization fault in PMs of a BLDC motor. Modeling of a machine can be done through different available techniques such as Electrical Equivalent Circuit (EEC) based method or analytical method which accounts several assumptions in order to simplify the analysis. While the Numerical Methods (NM) such as Finite Element Method Magnetics (FEMM) gives more authoritative solutions. This paper aims to combine both these approaches and contribute by developing a novel Hybrid EEC-FEMM model for a closed loop BLDC motor drive using a Hysteresis Current Control (HCC) technique. The developed model is simulated both under healthy and faulty conditions. In order to simulate the effects of fault in the machine, demagnetization is introduced in the PM through various methods like change in magnetic coercivity, placement of broken magnets, partial demagnetization and lastly by replacement of a PM with a non-magnetic material which is an extreme case of demagnetization. The investigation on the machine performance through change in quantities like stator current, back-EMF, electromagnetic torque, mechanical speed and magnetic flux density is analyzed. Further using the Maxwell 2D tool, a Finite Element (FE) model of a BLDC motor is developed and its performance is examined under both healthy and demagnetization fault conditions. The experimental validation of demagnetization fault supports the inferences drawn from the simulation results.