scholarly journals Solid State Transformers for Ship’s Electrical Power System

2018 ◽  
Vol 54 (1) ◽  
pp. 53-60
Author(s):  
Aleksandar Cuculić ◽  
JaSMIN Čelić ◽  
Rene Prenc
Keyword(s):  
Solid State ◽  
Power Distribution ◽  
Distribution Systems ◽  
Electrical Power ◽  
Electrical Power System ◽  
Nonlinear Loads ◽  
Fully Integrated ◽  
Solid State Transformers ◽  
Power Semiconductor ◽  
History Of Use

Traditional transformers have an important role and a long history of use in shipboard power distribution systems. The introduction of fully integrated electrical propulsion systems and other high power nonlinear loads onboard modern vessels, together with increased number of ports with high voltage shore connection systems, causes considerable power quality issues which also affect the operation and the design process of traditional power transformers. Some of the challenges and shortcomings of conventional transformers can be partially overcome by using solid state transformers (SST). Thanks to the availability of advanced power semiconductor devices capable of handling medium voltage levels, there is a significant growth in the use of the SST technology in the smart-grid and traction application. This paper has analysed the possibility of SST implementation on ships.

Power Quality Issues and Solutions – Review

2015 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 357-384 ◽  
Author(s):  
Suresh Mikkili ◽  
Anup Kumar Panda
Keyword(s):  
Power Quality ◽  
Power Distribution ◽  
Distribution Systems ◽  
Reactive Power ◽  
Electrical Power ◽  
Economic Loss ◽  
Nonlinear Loads ◽  
Broad Perspective ◽  
Three Phase ◽  
Quality Issues

Abstract Electrical power quality has been an important and growing problem because of the proliferation of nonlinear loads such as power electronic converters in typical power distribution systems in recent years. Particularly, voltage harmonics and power distribution equipment problems result from current harmonics produced by nonlinear loads. The Electronic equipment like, computers, battery chargers, electronic ballasts, variable frequency drives, and switch mode power supplies, generate perilous harmonics and cause enormous economic loss every year. Problems caused by power quality have great adverse economic impact on the utilities and customers. Due to that both power suppliers and power consumers are concerned about the power quality problems and compensation techniques. Power quality has become more and more serious with each passing day. As a result active power filter gains much more attention due to excellent harmonic and reactive power compensation in two-wire (single phase), three-wire (three-phase without neutral), and four-wire (three-phase with neutral) ac power networks with nonlinear loads. However, this is still a technology under development, and many new contributions and new control topologies have been reported in the last few years. It is aimed at providing a broad perspective on the status of APF technology to the researchers and application engineers dealing with power quality issues.

Distributed Generation Placement for Power Distribution Networks

2014 ◽  
Vol 24 (01) ◽  
pp. 1550009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiaodao Chen ◽  
Shiyan Hu
Keyword(s):  
Smart Grid ◽  
Distributed Generation ◽  
Power Distribution ◽  
Power Loss ◽  
Distribution Systems ◽  
Optimization Technique ◽  
Electrical Power ◽  
Distribution Networks ◽  
Ocean Energy ◽  
Electrical Power System

Growing concerns on the energy crisis impose great challenges in development and deployment of the smart grid technologies into the existing electrical power system. A key enabling technology in smart grid is distributed generation, which refers to the technology that power generating sources are located in a highly distributed fashion and each customer is both a consumer and a producer for energy. An important optimization problem in distributed generation design is the insertion of distributed generators (DGs), which are often renewable resources exploiting e.g., photovoltaic, hydro, wind, ocean energy. In this paper, a new power loss filtering based sensitivity guided cross entropy (CE) algorithm is proposed for the distributed generator insertion problem. This algorithm is based on the advanced CE optimization technique which exploits the idea of importance sampling in performing optimization. Our experimental results demonstrate that on large distribution networks, our algorithm can largely reduce (up to 179.3%) power loss comparing to a state-of-the-art sensitivity guided greedy algorithm with small runtime overhead. In addition, our algorithm runs about 5× faster than the classical CE algorithm due to the integration of power loss filtering and sensitivity optimization. Moreover, all existing techniques only test on very small distribution systems (usually with < 50 nodes) while our experiments are performed on the distribution networks with up to 5000 nodes, which matches the realistic setup. These demonstrate the practicality of the proposed algorithm.

scholarly journals Review of Solid State Transfer Switch on Requirements, Standards, Topologies, Control, and Switching Mechanisms: Issues and Challenges

Electronics ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (9) ◽  
pp. 1396 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohammad Faisal ◽  
Mahammad Abdul Hannan ◽  
Pin Jern Ker ◽  
Muhamad Safwan Bin Abd Rahman ◽  
Mohammad Sazib Mollik ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Solid State ◽  
Power Distribution ◽  
Distribution Systems ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Electrical Power ◽  
Design Procedure ◽  
Transfer Time ◽  
Financial Loss ◽  
Hybrid Topology ◽  
State Transfer

Large-scale industrial loads, sensitive loads, and electrical power distribution systems suffer from power quality issues such as voltage interruptions, flickering, and sags which can cause a significant financial loss. The semiconductor based solid-state transfer switch (SSTS) can utilize the dual power feeders to protect the loads against these power disturbance issues. Conventional SSTS often requires more than quarter cycles to complete the transfer process because of load dependent commutation. Numerous researchers proposed the improved SSTS with impulse commutated circuit, which can reduce the transfer time and provide better ride-through capability against voltage sags. However, the SSTS specification depends on the application types and design procedure. Recently, hybrid SSTS has been introduced by the researchers to overcome all these issues. It has been investigated that not much papers are available in literature so far to aggregate all these issues. Therefore, towards the novel contribution of research, this review critically described the requirements, standards, and specifications of SSTS; control and switching mechanisms; and application of SSTS as single or hybrid topology, to give a comprehensive idea to the future researchers about the design of SSTS for a specific application. This paper also contributes to analyzing the key issues related to the SSTS applications, which can provide an easy control strategy and reduce the transfer time significantly. Overall, this research will strengthen the efforts of the researchers and industrialists to select, develop, and design the appropriate SSTS for a particular application.

scholarly journals FCM and Statistical Based Approach for Classification and Location of Faults in Electrical Distribution System

2011 ◽  
pp. 64-68
Author(s):  
Pratul Arvind ◽  
Rudra prakash Maheswari
Keyword(s):  
Expectation Maximization ◽  
Power Distribution ◽  
Distribution System ◽  
Fault Location ◽  
Electrical Power ◽  
Electrical Power System ◽  
Power Distribution System ◽  
Electric Power Distribution ◽  
Node Distribution ◽  
System Restoration

Electric Power Distribution System is a complex network of electrical power system. Also, large number of lines on a distribution system experiences regular faults which lead to high value of current. Speedy and precise fault location plays a pivotal role in accelerating system restoration which is a need of modern day. Unlike transmission system which involves a simple connection, distribution system has a very complicated structure thereby making it a herculean task to design the network for computational analysis. In this paper, the authors have simulated IEEE 13- node distribution system using PSCAD which is an unbalanced system and current samples are generated at the substation end. A Fuzzy c-mean (FCM) and statistical based approach has been used. Samples are transformed as clusters by use of FCM and fed to Expectation- Maximization (EM) algorithm for classifying and locating faults in an unbalanced distribution system. Further, it is to be kept in mind that the combination has not been used for the above purpose as per the literature available till date.

Lifetime Study of Electrical Power Distribution Systems Failures

2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matheus S. S. Fogliatto ◽  
Luiz Desuó N. ◽  
Rafael R. M. Ribeiro ◽  
José Roberto B. A. Monteiro ◽  
João B. A. London ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Power Distribution ◽  
Distribution Systems ◽  
Electrical Power ◽  
Power Distribution Systems

Solid-State Transformers for Distribution Systems–Part II: Deployment Challenges

2019 ◽  
Vol 55 (6) ◽  
pp. 5708-5716 ◽  
Author(s):  
Saleh A. Saleh ◽  
Emre Ozkop ◽  
Basim Alsayid ◽  
Chistian Richard ◽  
Xavier Francis St. Onge ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Solid State ◽  
Distribution Systems ◽  
Solid State Transformers

scholarly journals Design and Testing of a Low Voltage Solid-State Circuit Breaker for a DC Distribution System

Energies ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 338
Author(s):  
Leslie Tracy ◽  
Praveen Kumar Sekhar
Keyword(s):  
Solid State ◽  
Power Distribution ◽  
Distribution System ◽  
Distribution Systems ◽  
Low Voltage ◽  
Circuit Breaker ◽  
Solid State Circuit ◽  
Dc Distribution ◽  
High Side ◽  
Solid State Circuit Breaker

In this study, a low voltage solid-state circuit breaker (SSCB) was implemented for a DC distribution system using commercially available components. The design process of the high-side static switch was enabled through a voltage bias. Detailed functional testing of the current sensor, high-side switch, thermal ratings, analog to digital conversion (ADC) techniques, and response times of the SSCB was evaluated. The designed SSCB was capable of low-end lighting protection applications and tested at 50 V. A 15 A continuous current rating was obtained, and the minimum response time of the SSCB was nearly 290 times faster than that of conventional AC protection methods. The SSCB was implemented to fill the gap where traditional AC protection schemes have failed. DC distribution systems are capable of extreme faults that can destroy sensitive power electronic equipment. However, continued research and development of the SSCB is helping to revolutionize the power industry and change the current power distribution methods to better utilize clean renewable energy systems.

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