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    A 36-Pulse AC-DC Converter with DC-Side Tapped Interphase Bridge Rectifier for Power Quality Improvement
    (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2021) P, P.P.; Kalpana, R.; Chethana, K.S.; Singh, B.
    This article presents a circuit configuration to reduce the harmonic contents at the ac mains of a 12-pulse zigzag configured autotransformer-based diode bridge rectifier (DBR). The proposed circuit configuration employs a tapped interphase bridge rectifier at the dc side of 12-pulse DBR that results in higher pulses in the supply current, thus reducing the harmonic content and, thereby, improving the power quality of the system. Since the autotransformer employed is zigzag configured, the need for zero-sequence blocking transformer is eliminated. Moreover, the proposed circuit configuration at the dc side shapes the supply current near to a sine wave. Further, the proposed configuration is analyzed, simulated in MATLAB/Simulink, and the simulation results are presented, which confirms the improvement in power quality parameters in the input ac line current. Furthermore, the viability of the proposed configuration is verified by the experimental results that confirm the suitability of the proposed configuration in ac-dc applications. © 1972-2012 IEEE.
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    Improvement in Harmonic Reduction of a Zigzag Autoconnected Transformer Based 12-Pulse Diode Bridge Rectifier by Current Injection at DC Side
    (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2017) Vidyasagar, V.; Kalpana, R.; Singh, B.; P, P.P.
    In this paper, to improve the harmonic reduction ability in the input line current of a 12-pulse diode bridge rectifier using zigzag autoconnected transformer with a dc side current injection technique is presented. Conventional 12-pulse rectifier does not meet the IEEE-519 standard and therefore current injection technique at dc side is used to shape the converter current to minimize the harmonic distortion in the input line current. The proposed converter configuration uses a zigzag autoconnected transformer with inherent ability to block zero-sequence components, which eliminates the requirement of a zero-sequence blocking transformer, and thereby reduces the overall rating of the converter. The current injection technique at dc side enables to alter the dc side currents, which further shapes the input line currents to near sinewave with total harmonic distortion of less than 1% and power factor close to unity. The proposed converter configuration is simulated and analyzed in MATLAB/Simulink. The effects of variation in the magnitude of injected current on the input line current harmonics in terms of power quality indices are analyzed. A prototype of the proposed converter configuration is developed, and experimental results are presented to validate the theoretical design, analysis, and simulation results. © 1972-2012 IEEE.