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    Medium sized industrial motor solutions to mitigate the issue of high inrush starting current
    Starting of a medium or large induction motors generate such a large current during direct-on-line (DOL) starting process to the point that it can drop the voltage of power supply. The induction motor can be broken, its characteristics can be changed, and performances of the motor can be worsened. A significant higher starting current than the rated current can generate mechanical and thermal stress on the motor and the loads. High-voltage fluctuations, dips and sags can arise in electrical power systems associated with the motor. To overcome this problem, various starters were designed. There are several types of starters in which can be divided into conventional starters and power electronic drives. Conventional starters are such as direct-online, star-delta and autotransformer whereas the example for power electronics are matrix converter, frequency inverter and soft starter. In this paper, the design of autotransformer and soft starter are focused in order to compare inrush current during the start-up three phase medium sized industrial induction motor by using MATLAB/Simulink software. Both starters were targeted to resolve the problems inherent in the dynamic operation of induction motors, which included current and torque surges during the motor start up. The autotransformer gives the choice to consumer in selecting different tap values, in which is the advantage to consumer to vary their starting current and starting torque according to its application. On the other hand, the three-phase soft starter employs two anti-parallel connected switches in each phase. Thyristors act as the switches due to their higher power rating and high efficiency. Then, both methods will be compared to prove the best performance in mitigate high inrush current. The best of the two is likely to be the answer for mitigating the issue of high inrush starting current for a medium size motor at industries.
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    Effect of concrete orientation as an enhancement material in grounding system
    To achieve an excellent grounding system, an alternative solution was developed by using enhancement material to modify the soil surrounding the rod. These materials can effectively reduce soil resistivity and grounding resistance for a better grounding system. To achieve this goal, the fundamental part must be taken into account. In this study, the main objective is to analyze different concrete orientations as enhancement material in the grounding system. A 3-D orientation of concrete has been designed using Finite Element Method (FEM) software to analyze the performance of the electric field in the grounding system with different orientation of concrete. Every orientation of concrete had been clarified into four different cases which are full concrete, half concrete, three-quarter concrete, and a quarter concrete. From the result, full concrete is the best orientation of concrete design to be employed at the grounding site as it has a low electric field compared to the other concrete orientation.
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    Transient stability for IEEE 14 bus power system using power world simulator
    Nowadays, demand for electricity is increasing every single day. This is due to the deep requirements in current economy. Generating electricity is an important element to ensuring a system operates in good condition and not being affected. At the same time, some problems have arisen as a phenomenon of transient stability. Hence, analysis needs to be done to control energy stability in rivalling current demand. Power system stability can be further divided into 3 sub-analysis starting with rotor angle stability which is the ability of synchronous machines of an interconnected power system to remain in synchronism after being subjected to a disturbance, voltage stability which is the ability of a power system to maintain steady voltages at all buses in the system after being subjected to a disturbance and also frequency stability which the ability of a power system to maintain steady frequency following a severe system disturbance resulting in a significant imbalance between generation and load. This analysis is used the IEEE Bus System 14 and analyzed using Power World Simulator (PWS) software. The variations in power angle, bus voltage and system frequency were studied with the help of three-phase balanced fault. Fast fault clearing times were analysed for a three-phase balanced fault in order to re-establish the stability of the system. Furthermore, impact of fault location on system was also computed to observe whether it affected the stability of the systems.
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    Maximum efficiency scheme using superimposed and Taguchi method wireless charging for mobile phone
    ( 2020-01-07)
    Hanif M.H.M.
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    Wai C.L.
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    Aminudin A.
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    Zhe L.W.
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    The magnetic resonance inductive coupling energy transfer from transmitter to receiver is designed in this project through magnetic inductive coupling. The transmitter sends energy through induction to the electrical devices from the transmitter to the receiver and then stores the energy in the batteries. Because the transmitter coil has a gap with the receiver coil. This wireless charging using two methods to show the output, first using the Taguchi Method and second using Superimposed Technique. The Result shows that output voltage must high than the input voltage and the same at secondary coil because using the same number of turns. The output voltage at the voltage regulator shows the output must in 5 Volts to charging the mobile phone with high efficiency.
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    Synchronized cell balancing charging of supercapacitors using PI control
    (IOP Publishing, 2020)
    M.A Rashed
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    M M Azizan
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    C L Wai
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    N F Rosle
    This paper covers the synchronized cell balancing charging of supercapacitors using pi control. The main objective of this project is to design a balanced circuit for supercapacitor and balance the voltage for each supercapacitor in series using pi control. This project aims to introduce a switch resistor design for a supercapacitor to balance the cell. Due to its low cost, easy to implement, and charge/discharge, the switch resistor design was chosen as the balanced circuit. The switch resistor design process was accomplished taking into account all the calculation for the design parameters. Using the pi control given to the circuit the stability and balancing in the voltage. The pi control design process was accomplished with the calculation for the design parameters.
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    Fault detection and classification in three phase series compensated transmission line using ANN
    Series compensation consists of capacitors in series is used in the transmission lines as a tool to improve the performance after disturbed by a fault. Transmission line needs a protection scheme to protect the lines from faults due to natural disturbances, short circuit and open circuit faults. The fault can happen in any location of transmission line and it is important to know which location has been affected. So that, the fault can be eliminated and can maintain the optimum performance. Therefore, in this paper Artificial Neural Network (ANN) is used to detect and classified the fault happen in single line to ground fault and three phase to ground fault. Two different tests of each types of fault have been tested in order to prove the effectiveness of ANN to detect the fault location by using different length and fault resistance. The simulation has been accomplished in MATLAB with ANN fitting tool which build and train the network before evaluated its performance using regression analysis. The analysis shows that the ANN can accurately detect the different types of faults and classified it into the respective category even the random vectors are put on the system are used.
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    Performance of Galvanized - Steel and Copper Grounding Electrodes Using Bentonite and Coconut Husk Ashes as an Additives Material to Grounding System
    Natural enhancement material often uses to improve performance of the soil resistivity in grounding system. Due to the different soil condition, focus for effective grounding go to the soil itself. Soil resistivity, moisture content and surrounding environment contribute to the impedance of the grounding. The usage of material to enhance the grounding can be considering important to maintain the grounding system performance. There are several techniques used to treat the soil using chemical substance known as grounding enhancement material. This technique produces low resistivity to the grounding electrode however the soil become contaminated. This paper will discuss about the performance of coconut husk ashes and bentonite as natural enhancement material and method being used to evaluate the results.
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    Total Harmonic Distortion Comparison Analysis between High-Power Density Inverter and Multilevel Inverter
    The inverter is one of the most common things in converting electrical energy supply and it is a very important concept in the current modern electrical power system to utilize the maximum potential by generating the unit while considering the environment within the surrounding area and avoid pollution is the most ideal concept of energy management. The main purpose of this study is to consider which one of the inverters is more suitable for energy saving. There are two kinds of inverter that have been tested for this research which are the High-power density inverter (HPDI) and Multilevel inverter (MLI). In High-power density inverter (HPDI) it uses electrical components such as Insulated-gate Bipolar Transistor (IGBT) as the main component. As for the Multilevel inverter (MLI) it uses electrical components Metal- oxide-semiconductor field-effect-transistor (MOSFET) as the main component. Both inverters are being implemented and running by using MATLAB Simulink software. Besides that, the result is obtained by comparing the Total Harmonic Distortion (THD), the output of the waveform and energy efficiency for both inverters.
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    Flexible sector detector-based mismatch supply voltage in direct torque control doubly fed induction machine: an experimental validation
    (Elsevier, 2023) ;
    Auzani Jidin
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    Muhammad Mokhzaini Azizan
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    Khairunnisa Hasikin
    Direct Torque Control (DTC) of Induction Motors (IMs) is popular in motor drive applications because of its robust and simple control structure. The IM winding can be controlled on both sides using dual inverter technique which more effective for Electric Vehicle (EV) with a greater number of voltage vectors. However, the battery performance of the dual inverter will deteriorate unevenly on both sides, resulting in fluctuating voltages for the EV system. This will lead to the generation of distorted stator currents and a significant droop in the stator flux, which in turn can increase the total harmonic distortion (THD) in the system. Additionally, the performance of torque may not be able to regulate effectively. This paper examines the effect of unstable voltage on voltage vector mapping performance with tilted angles and proposes new sector definitions based on voltage ratio conditions. Moreover, the proposed sector for each predefined voltage ratio is tested under three-speed conditions. The proposed technique effectiveness is validated through hardware experiments using a dSPACE 1104 controller and retuning the stator current for proper waveform. This approach improves the stator current waveform, improves stator flux droop, enhances torque regulation and minimizes the THD in the DTC system.
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    Investigation and Performance Analysis of DC-DC Boost Converter System
    This paper presents the analysis of a closed loop DC-DC boost converter for renewable energy applications such as PV. Most of renewable energy resources produce DC voltage that implied with DC-DC converters to convert their input voltage into a higher or lower voltage level accordingly to their application. However, there are numerous types of devices or applications that used renewable energy. Thus, it means the evolution of using a closed loop boost converter system must occur. The closed-loop system DC-DC boost converter is used to step up the low-level DC voltage to a high level of DC voltage. By varying the input voltage, the performance of boost converter in terms of its output voltage can be obtained and analysed. Several studies were conducted and validated with hardware implementation. All the results are recorded and show that various levels of input voltage can be converted into a fixed value of output voltage by using this converter. To emphasise, the boost converter generated 73.33 V output when an input voltage of 12 V. Whereas this experiment is conducted to analyse the boost converter performance so that can consider if this converter is compatible with the IR dryer system.
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