Ministry of Information Technology

Government of Pakistan

National Grassroots ICT Research Initiative (2015-16)

Final Year Project (FYP) Nomination Form
University/Institute Detail:
Name of
University/Institution

University of Engineering and

Technology (UET) Lahore, Pakistan

042-99029358

Telephone & Fax No:

Department Name:

Lahore

City:

University/Campus
Address:

University of Engineering and

Technology GT Road Lahore, Pakitstan

Electrical
Punjab

Province:

Nominated Project Details:Project Supervisor

Name and
Designation:

Dr. Syed Abdul Rahman Kashif

Contact Details:

(Assistant Professor)

Project Supervisor
Qualification:

No of Publications
of Supervisors:

PhD
Sajjad Ahmed
1._____________________

Students Name(s):

Students CGPA

Degree Programme/
Title:

Email: abdulrahman@uet.edu.pk
Cell No 0345-4092528
Off No: 0345-4092528

0304-6166582
1.________________

Muhammad Sohaib Shahid

2.______________________
Hamid Razzaq
3.______________________
Muhammad Umair Aslam
4._______________________

Students Mobile
No:

0301-4034995
2._________________
0320-5959280
3._________________
0311-4036594
4.________________

3.697/4.0
1._______________________
3.422/4.0
2._______________________
2.748/4.0
3._______________________
2.880/4.0
4._______________________

Students Email:

sajjadahmed.uet@gmail.com
1.________________
muhammadsohaibshahid@gmail.com
2.________________
umair94aslam@gmail.com
3.________________
hamidrazzaq95@gmail.com
4.________________

BS Electrical Engineering

Area of
Specialization:

Electrical Power

Final Year Project Details:

A.
B.
C.
D.

Project Title:
Project Start Date:
Project Finish Date:
Project Summary (less than 200
words)

Grid Tied Multilevel Inverter with Power Quality Monitoring

May 2016
May 2017 Tentatively

The Project is concerned with GRID TIED MULTI-LEVEL INVERTER with Power Quality Analysis and

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Monitoring. Power quality (PQ) regulation is a major issue in industrial and domestic power consumption.
Left unattended it will directly pollute entire power distribution system through Point of Common Coupling
(PCC). As of today, the industry cannot safely run the motive loads without PQ monitoring. For having
longer machine life, better machine performance and more profit in transmitting power, the maintenance
of PQ at international standard is necessary. The main objective of the project is to improve the quality
output voltage of the multilevel inverter. The project will have a Graphics Touch LCD with a user friendly
Graphical User Interface developed in it. That LCD will display the Grid parameter as well as will take
various commands to manually set the desired parameters by the means of touch. A five level improved
diode clamped Inverter with minimum Total Harmonic Distortion (THD) required by the WAPDA will be
developed for grid connectivity. An important aspect of this multilevel inverter design is that to generate
nearly sinusoidal output voltage waveform and to eliminate lower order harmonics. Multilevel Inverters not
only can generate the output voltages with very low distortion, but also can reduce the dv/dt stresses,
therefore electromagnetic compatibility (EMC) problems can be reduced. Besides this, the Power Quality
Monitoring part will play an important roll in the project. That will be accomplished using synchronization of
all the required parameters like phase sequence, frequency, voltage etc. The overall grid connectivity of
the Inverter will be automatically controlled by the National Instruments myRIO FPGA (and Microcontroller)
without having to have any manual operation.

E. Project Objectives:

Grid Connectivity of Multi-level Inverter with Renewable Energy Sources

Improvement in Total Harmonic Distortion
Automatic synchronization with WAPDA supply
User friendly interface for Grid Connectivity of Multilevel Inverter

F. Project Implementation Method

An improved diode clamped multi-level (five level) inverter will be implemented for grid
connectivity. The Graphics Touch LCD will be interfaced with the myRIO FPGA using serial
interfacing like SPI or I2C. A Graphical User Interface will be developed on the LCD. Power
quality monitoring will be driven by the demand for improving the system wide power quality
performance.

G. Key Milestones of the Project with

dates

S.No
1.

Elapsed time since start of the

project
1 Month

Milestone
One fifth of project will be
completed

Deliverable
Touch LCD Interfacing with myRIO
and development of GUI on LCD

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2.

4 Months

One third of project will be

completed

3.

6 Months

One half of project will be

completed

4.

8 Months

Two third of project will be

completed

5.

10 Months

Full project will be completed

Inverter Implementation
Simulations of Inverter, testing and
starting of Power Quality Monitoring part

Power Quality Monitoring

Integration of all parts, final
testing of hardware and report

Please add rows if required

H. Final Deliverable of the Project:
Hardware System
Software Simulation results

(Please tick one of the following)

Software System
Comparative Study

HW/SW integrated system

Theoretical Design/Architecture

Simulator Design
Other Please specify
I. Please Specify Technical Details of
Final Deliverable
All the parameters like frequency, voltage and phase of the multilevel inverter will be automatically
synchronised using the microcontroller. A Graphical User Interface on the LCD will be used for user
inputs as well as display of different parameters and can be used to acquire the parameters given by the
user. An improved diode clamped multi-level (five level) inverter will be implemented for grid connectivity.
The inverter will use the diodes as clamping devices. All of the software implementation will be done
using National Instruments LabVIEW.

J. Equipment required for making

(Please indicate in tabular form the required
prototype/working model:
equipments along with estimated cost)
S.No Item Name No of Units Per Unit Cost (in Rs) Total (in Rs)
1

NI myRIO FPGA

Inverter Components

Touch LCD Panel

Miscellaneous

1
1

Grand Total

K. Benefits of the Project

50,000

50,000

35,000

35,000

20,000

20,000

15,000

15,000
120,000 PKR

(Please specify Direct/Indirect beneficiaries)

As Pakistan is a country facing with severe Energy Crisis so need of the hour is to look for new Energy Generating
Resources and to improve the efficiency of presently available resources. Renewable Energy Resources such as
Photovoltaics, Wind, Low Head Hydro and GEO-Thermal are the expected Energy Resources of the future. The
general function of Multilevel Inverter is to synthesize a desired AC voltage from several levels of DC voltages.

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For this reason, Multilevel Inverters are ideal for connecting either in series or in parallel to an AC grid with Renewable
Energy Sources such as Photovoltaics or fuel cells. Moreover, there will be no need of human efforts for Grid Connectivity of Renewable Energy Systems. All the necessary parameters will be auto controlled. User friendly interface will
allow everyone to visualize the ongoing operations. All the necessary parameters of grid supply can be visualized on
the Graphics Touch LCD Panel. Moreover, Multilevel inverter will also tend to increase the overall efficiency of
the whole system as compared to simple inverters.

Grid Tied Multilevel Inverter with Power Quality Monitoring

It is certified that the FYP titled ___________________________________________
has been
approved and is being undertaken by the above mentioned students as their Final Year Project.

It is undertaken that the undersigned have understood the terms & conditions of the
program, and further reiterate that, if the subject FYP is approved for funding, the disbursed
funds shall be utilized as per terms & conditions and the undersigned will be liable to
reimburse/refund the unutilized amount and other cost not approved by the National ICT R&D
Fund, if any.
It is further undertaken that after utilization of funds, the said Fund Utilization Report shall be
furnished along with the other required deliverables as and when required by the National ICT
R&D Fund.
1. Name, Designation & Signature of Supervisor:______________________________
2. Name & Signatures of HOD:
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(Please encircle the status of FYP)
Project Status
Evaluators Name

Approved
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Evaluators Signatures------------------------

Not Approved