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Item Effect of Partial Shading on PV Fed Induction Motor Water Pumping Systems(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2019) Mudlapur, M.; Ramana, V.V.; Damodaran, R.; Balasubramanian, B.; Mishra, S.Partial shading is one of the certain conditions in photovoltaic (PV) power plants. Often the panels get partially shaded due to soiling, clouds, and trees. The effect of shading is of high concern and importance especially in applications such as water pumps due to agricultural environments in which they are employed in. However, the research focus on PV fed pumps till date has been restricted to only uniform shading conditions. Unlike uniform shading conditions during maximum power tracking, where the panel voltage remains almost constant for an entire range of irradiance, partial shading offer conditions such as highly variable panel voltage and transitions of intermediate DC-DC power converter from continuous conduction mode to discontinuous conduction mode. These effects severely affect the performance of the power converter and, therefore, the power output of the pump. This paper presents a study on the effects caused by partial shading conditions on pumps through simulations and verified by experimentations. The simulation and experimental results are found to be in good agreement with each other. This research thus helps in understanding the detrimental effects caused by partial shading conditions and thus serves as a reference tool for practitioners who wish to study PV fed pumps. © 1986-2012 IEEE.Item Standalone Single Stage PV-Fed Reduced Switch Inverter Based PMSM for Water Pumping Application(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2020) Koothu Kesavan, K.K.; Karthikeyan, A.; Varsha, S.; Venkatesa Perumal, B.V.; Mishra, S.This article proposes a standalone single stage photovoltaic (PV) fed reduced switch inverter (RSI) based permanent magnet synchronous motor (PMSM) drive for water pumping application. The proposed system aims at reducing the switching losses and overall cost by using reduced switch inverter. The proposed system comprises a PMSM drive, fed by PV source through an inverter employing reduced number of switches. The inverter uses only four switches whereas the conventional voltage source inverter utilizes six switches. Field oriented control scheme is employed to control the PMSM drive. Perturb and observe maximum power point tracking technique is used to generate a speed reference to PMSM drive. The proposed system is simulated using MATLAB/Simulink platform, and it is also experimentally verified with field programmable gate array (FPGA) controller based 400 W laboratory prototype PMSM drive. The simulation and experimental results demonstrate the efficacy of the proposed system. © 1972-2012 IEEE.Item A Novel AC Current Sensorless Hysteresis Control for Grid-Tie Inverters(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2020) Damodaran, R.; Mudlapur, A.; Ramana, V.V.; Balasubramanian, B.; Mishra, S.Amongst the modulation techniques used for grid-Tie inverters (GTIs), hysteresis current control (HCC) facilitates simple, stable and rugged control with improved dynamic response. However the variable switching frequency of HCC demands high precision AC current sensors (CS) which introduce noise in the power circuit in addition to measurement noise and delay. Therefore, this brief presents a hysteresis current control without AC current sensor based on switching instant computation for a two-level GTI. The proposed control strategy uses the DC link and instantaneous grid voltages to calculate the switching instants. The conventional methods of calculating switching instant of HCC can result in tracking errors. Hence the computations are modified in the proposed algorithm considering the effects of non-linearity in error current and dynamic variations due to supply and load changes. A single-phase GTI is simulated with the proposed control and the results are verified experimentally. The proposed method is observed to considerably reduce the computational time, DC shift and total harmonic distortion compared to the commonly used sensorless current control. © 2004-2012 IEEE.