An improved power quality direct AC-to-AC frequency

Title:
converter
Department: Electrical Engineering
Designation: Assistant Professor
Advisor: Dr. Naveed Ashraf Qualification: MSEE(UET), Ph.D. (UET)
Contact: naveed.ashraf@ee.uol.edu.pk

Advisee: Electrical Engineering students Group size: 4

Area(s): Power Electronics, control system in Engineering

AC/AC power electronic converters are used to convert the one frequency AC power to
another frequency AC power. This can be achieved by adjusting the input–output relation in
such a way that the effective output voltage value refers to a certain required output voltage.
Large size filters are required in the rectifier and inverter sides of the VFD in order to
compensate the power quality problems. A bulky multi- pulse phase-shifting transformer is
used in VFD for the rectification, which introduces harmonics to the grid. As a result, the
input power factor of the line is reduced significantly, which degrades the power quality. A
cycloconverter provides direct AC/AC power conversion, which may overcome. The issues
related to rectifier and inverter-based converter.
Most traditional AC/AC power converters suffer from power quality problems and multi-
Description: stage power conversion losses. The rectifier and inverter-based AC/AC converter topology
not only increases multi-stage power conversion losses, but also increases the volume,
weight, and cost, and decreases the longevity of the converter due to the DC-link capacitor,
line filter and electromagnetic interference (EMI) filter. High-frequency (about 10 kHz)
switching advanced pulse width modulation techniques are generally used in order to
compensate the power quality problems, which increase the switching losses and introduce
the EMI problems. In this research project a new generalized step-down single-stage line-
frequency switching AC/AC power converter topology is proposed. The proposed converter
uses line-frequency switching, and does not require any pulse width modulation techniques.
The proposed topology offers promising performances in terms of lower order harmonics,
total harmonic distortion, the elimination of DC-link capacitors and EMI filters, and
switching losses. The circuit will be designed and simulated in a MATLAB/Simulink
environment.

Tools Required: All tools are available. Required consumables:

Tools to be arranged: All tools are available.

Capacitors, Transistors, Thermistors, Diodes, transformers, isolated dc supply, Arduino

Consumables
controller, zero crossing detector, micro controller, oscilloscope, Dc power supply, MOSFET,
Required:
IGBT, Center tape transformer, microprocessor.
Strong concepts in:
• Power Electronics
• Linear Control System
• Electric Network Analysis
Pre-Requisite • Electronic Devices and circuit
Knowledge: • Linear Control System
• Embedded system
• Power electronics (can learn)
• MATLAB programming (can learn)
Engineer and Society
Power quality is a terrible effect on financial activities. The industry presented by
the power quality problem is real even in the "low technology" industry, which is
given in the despair of the actual budget. Power quality is a concern for utilities,
end customers,producers, and all other customers. In this paper, we have tried to
present that smartgrid can give the solution to recover the power quality problem
for developing economic growth. Moreover, modern consumers use programmable
logic controllers, computerized and information processing equipment. Many
customers use fluorescent lights to illuminate the facility. A large number of these
devices are susceptible to the effects of unstable power quality. Since the
assessment of poor power quality costs is a complex problem, the collaborative
System administrators can lose client confidence when more clients are dissatisfied
with the supply of power quality from the supply. For customers who have suffered
severely due to power quality opportunities, the premium power level can be the
solution for consumer and seller. Costs associated with power quality in
commercial facilities such as banks, data servers, customer profit focus that can be
very large and can range from a few thousand dollars to a large number of dollars
on one occasion.
Presently maintaining a strategic distance from the efficiency losses of low- quality
power to commercial and industrial consumers can shed billions of dollars of waste
from the economy. At present, maintaining a strategic distance from low-quality of
power economic losses for commercial and industrial consumers will remove
billions of dollars of waste from the economy. For instance, the costs associated with
power quality opportunities in commercial offices, such as banking focus, server
farm, consumer benefits, will be enormous from hundreds of thousands of dollars to
isolated opportunities. Production costs may be much higher.

Environment and
Sustainability
Clean power is significant for modern commercial and industrial equipment, which
relies on a computational control system and communication system that continues
to focus on industrial productivity. Half of the power quality damage starts with the
transmission and distribution components of the power system. The advantage of
digital economic growth means that billions of dollars have not spent on power
quality issues. Equally important is the newly open the door to digital economic
development that emerged when industries in the new century responded to calls
from a perfect power quality with reliable power supply.
Task Breakdown:
Prepare project proposal.
Learn about the use of micro controller.
Working on designing model of our project on MATLAB simulation and PROTEUS simulation.
AUTOCAD SLD schematic.
Micro-controller programing.
Printed circuit board (PCB) manufacture.
Purchasing of tool and components required.
Fitting of components in PCB.
Testing, debugging of system and demo of the hardware.
Thesis/report writing and Research paper writing

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