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Item Design and Development of Multi-Phase Rectifier with Reduced Magnetic Rating(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2018) P, P.S.; Kalpana, R.; Singh, B.This paper proposes a 20-pulse asymmetric multiphase rectifier (AMPR) suitable for medium and high-power applications. Unlike the other state-of-the-art 20-pulse delta connected autotransformers, the proposed delta connected AMPR has an ability to reduce input harmonics, maintains high efficiency and requires a magnetic rating of only 30.12% of the nominal load thereby a significant reduction in space, weight, and overall cost required are the salient features of the proposed AMPR. Firstly, the proposed AMPR configuration is simulated in MATLAB/Simulink environment for evaluating its viability under different loading conditions, and the results are illustrated. Also, a prototype is developed, and the experimental measurements obtained are presented to validate the feasibility and operability of the proposed AMPR. The proposed AMPR offers a total harmonic distortion of 3.7% and can operate at near-unity power factor complying with the IEEE and IEC standards. © 2018 IEEE.Item A 36-Pulse AC-DC Converter with DC Side Tapped Interphase Bridge Rectifier for Power Quality Improvement(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2018) P, P.S.; Kalpana, R.; Chethana, K.S.; Singh, B.This paper presents a circuit configuration to reduce the harmonic contents at the AC mains of a 12-pulse zigzag configured autotransformer based 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 ZSBT 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. Further, the viability of the proposed configuration is verified by experimental results which confirm the suitability of the proposed configuration in AC-DC applications. © 2018 IEEE.Item Investigations on Single-Phasing Effect of Zigzag Autoconfigured Transformer Based 12-Pulse Rectifier(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2018) Kalpana, R.; P, P.S.; Vidyasagar, V.S.; Singh, B.High power industrial loads are often fed from front-end multi-pulse rectifier as its ability to effectively and inexpensively mitigate the harmonics on the AC side is achieved by the multi-pulse autoconfigured transformer. This paper analyzes and investigates the operability of the zigzag autoconfigured transformer based 12-pulse rectifier when one of the input terminals is open, i.e., single-phasing. Contrary to the prior art multi-pulse rectifiers, the availability of neutral point in zigzag autoconfigured transformer results in normal operation at DC side during single-phasing. A detailed MATLAB Simulation is carried out to understand the single-phasing operation of the zigzag autoconfigured transformer. Further, the experimental results from the laboratory prototype are presented to validate the simulated results. © 2018 IEEE.Item Power Quality Enhancement in AC-DC Converter Using Voltage Sensorless Control Technique(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2018) P, P.S.; Kalpana, R.; Singh, B.This paper presents the power quality improvement in power supply systems and explains the corrective measures taken by means of front-end AC-DC converter. The front-end AC-DC converter having a boost type delta connected rectifier with voltage sensorless control technique is proposed. The delta switch rectifier enables the zero-sequence component circulation and thereby reduces the third harmonic component in the input mains. Further, the input voltage sensorless control is developed for the proposed converter which can maintain the power quality well within the IEEE and IEC standards and also, yields lesser switching loss, reduced switching stress and high output voltage. The performance of the front-end AC-DC converter configuration is validated by simulating in the MATLAB Simulink environment and the results are presented. The experimental setup for the front-end AC-DC converter is implemented in the laboratory to validate the MATLAB simulation results. © 2018 IEEE.