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Item Design and Implementation of Sensorless Voltage Control of Front-End Rectifier for Power Quality Improvement in Telecom System(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2018) P, P.S.; Kalpana, R.; Singh, B.; Bhuvaneswari, G.In this paper, a three-phase three-switch three-level boost (Vienna) type pulse-width modulation rectifier is proposed as an active front-end power factor correction (PFC) rectifier for power quality improvement in telecom load. A sensorless voltage control technique is proposed and it does not rely on any input voltage information results in reliable and robust operation. A brief description on the principle of operation and the most advantageous modulation method of the proposed system are discussed. The feasible switching states are identified for the proposed active front-end converter resulting in reduced switching stress and dc ripples. A triangular carrier based control logic is applied and the input current reaches sinusoidal shape without the need of sensing the input voltage. The detailed analysis of front-end PFC converter is carried out by equivalent circuit analysis. Also, the complete loss and efficiency calculation of the converter is explicitly carried out with the help of hardware design guidelines. The performance of the proposed system and its capability of operating satisfactorily in the event of failure of one phase of the mains is verified through MATLAB Simulation, and the results obtained are presented. The experimental setup rated for 9 kW is developed in the laboratory to validate the simulation results. From the simulation and hardware results, it is observed and recorded that the power quality parameters are improved and are well within the IEEE and IEC standards. © 1972-2012 IEEE.Item Power Quality Improvement in Utility Interactive Based AC-DC Converter Using Harmonic Current Injection Technique(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2018) P, P.S.; Kalpana, R.; Singh, B.; Bhuvaneswari, G.This paper highlights the power quality issues and explains the remedial measures taken by means of hybrid front-end third harmonic current injection rectifiers. Here, a zig-zag transformer is used as the current injection device so that the advantages pertaining to the zig-zag transformer are effectively utilized. The third harmonic current injection device along with three-level boost converter at the output stage will increase the dc-link voltage. With less boost inductance, generally half of the conventional boost converter inductance is sufficient to implement the proposed converter structure resulting in reduced ripple current and also the device rating is reduced by half of the output voltage. Moreover, the power quality is well improved using third harmonic current modulated front-end structure, which is well appropriate for medium/higher power applications. The experimental prototype of hybrid front-end converter is developed in the laboratory to validate the MATLAB simulation results. © 1972-2012 IEEE.Item A Novel Seven level inverter with Common-Leg Configuration by Employing Transformers(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2022) Nageswar Rao, B.; Yellasiri, Y.; Shiva Naik, B.S.; Aditya, K.This paper proposes a new multilevel inverter with a common leg structure using three transformers and eight power semiconductor devices. The intended configuration contains of one traditional H-bridge and two half bridges supplied from a single dc source. The switching power circuit powered three transformers with series connections, which produced seven levels (3VDC, 2VDC, VDC, 0, -VDC, -2VDC, -3VDC) at the inverter output from the source VDC. Further, this circuit demonstrates the benefit of fewer switches and drivers in comparison to the traditional circuits for the production of the same load voltage levels. Thus, the suggested topology complexity, volume, and cost are reduced. Finally, the effectiveness of the suggested inverter is performed using MATLAB, and the simulation studies are incorporated. © 2022 IEEE.Item Novel Nine-level Inverter Topology with Boosting Ability for Electric Vehicle Application(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2023) Aditya, K.; Yellasiri, Y.; Shiva Naik, B.S.; Nageswar Rao, B.N.; Karunakaran, E.; Reddy, R.D.This paper proposes a new switched-capacitor (SC) based multilevel inverter (MLI) with a boosting gain of four for electric vehicle (EV) applications. The proposed SC-based ninelevel quadruple boost inverter (SC-NLQBI) topology consists of 13 semiconductor switches, three capacitors, and a single input DC supply. It generates nine level voltage waveform, which lessens the requirement for extra filters. Compared to the current nine-level inverter, the new SC-NLQBI topology is simple, compact, and requires fewer parts. Here, a simple triangular carrier signal-based sinusoidal pulse width modulation (SPWM) method is used to generate the required gating pulses. While the proposed topology is being modeled in a MATLAB/Simulation platform using both normal and problematic conditions, the results are analyzed. © 2023 IEEE.