An IOT-Enabled Generator for Power Monitoring and Load Management with Power Factor Improvement

The quality of power supply and reliability play a vital role in the smooth operation and maintenance of commercial use. These requirements have significant applications when dealing with residential areas, hospitals, industries, educational sectors, banks and airports, etc. In this regard, backup diesel generators are considered the most important source for an uninterrupted supply of electricity. However, there is an emergent need to avoid sudden shutdown of generators in the events of overload, shortage of fuel flow, service interval and lagging of power factor. These common problems can be addressed through monitoring of power generator parameters, for instance, real time remote monitoring to measure the health of the generator, the problem of load management due to high demand of power during peak hours and power factor improvement due to exceeding inductive load. In this paper, our proposed architecture—based on an IOT solution—consists of different sensors, namely a current transformer for measuring load, fuel gauge for fuel level monitoring, and temperature measurement with the energy module to determine the power factor of the system. Our proposed system is operated and tested on a real trolley-mounted 25 KVA generator.

Power factor improvement for a three-phase system using reactive power compensation

For all industrial and distribution sites, the lagging power factor of electrical loads is a common problem. In the early days, it was corrected manually by adding the capacitor banks of certain values in parallel. Automatic power factor correction (APFC) using a capacitor bank helps to make a power factor that is close to unity. It consists of a microcontroller that processes the value of the power factor to enable the system and monitor the power factor if it falls below (0.77) from the specified level. This paper presents the automatic correction of the power factor by adding the capacitors banks automatically of the desired value in a three-phase system in the form of binary coding (0-7). The main purpose of this system is to maintain the power factor as close as to unity, for the experimental case, it is set to (0.93) which helps to decreases the losses and ultimately increase the efficiency of the system.

A Novel Design of Electric Vehicle Battery Charger using Modified Bridgeless Landsman Converter

This paper includes the design and implementation of a new electric vehicle charger, which is powered using a battery consisting of an enhanced power factor frontend. The traditional diode that is at the source end is omitted in the proposed design using the conventional power factor improvement inverter. The inverter has its parameters closer to the configuration of a basic push pull converter. The above-mentioned converter works with the phenomenon of electric vehicle battery control. Two modes of operation are incorporated out of which the former one is constant current mode and the latter is constant voltage mode. To obtain the desired regulation of DC voltage at the point of coupling and also to improve the operational efficiency to unity power factor, the proposed Landsman converter is operated using a single sensed individual. This method yields improved power quality, less harmonics in comparison with a conventional one. A prototype is constructed and tested by charging a 48V electric vehicle battery of 100Ah size under the transients in input voltage to display the proposed charger to an IEC61000-32 standard. All the cases are said to be satisfied by performance of the charger.

Reduction in Processing Time in Ca3Co4O9+δ Ceramics through Nanoprecursors Produced by an Easily Scalable and Environmentally Friendly Process

Attrition milling is an easily scalable and environmentally friendly process used to produce Ca3Co4O9+δ nanoprecursors in a relatively short time. Sintered materials produced through the classical solid-state method, involving ball milling, show much larger grain sizes and slightly lower density than those obtained in samples produced from attrition-milled precursors. On the other hand, electrical resistivity has been drastically decreased, accompanied with a slight decrease in the Seebeck coefficient in samples obtained from these attrition-milled precursors. Moreover, the use of an attrition milling process leads to a very important reduction in processing time (around 75%), together with a slight power factor improvement of around 10%, when compared to the classically prepared samples.