RAJIV GANDHI PROUDYOGIKI VISHWAVIDYALAYA, BHOPAL

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Electrical Engineering, VIII-Semester

Course: EE 801 Power Quality Improvement & Mitigation Technique

COURSECONTENTS
UNIT-I
Introduction, power quality -voltage quality, power quality evaluations procedures term and definition: general
classes of power quality problem, causes & effect of power quality disturbances.

UNIT-II
Loads that causes power quality problems, State of art on Passive shunt and series compensation, Classification and
working of passive shunt and series compensation, Classification, Principle and control of active shunt compensator:
DSTATCOM, Active series compensators, working and its control.
UNIT-III
Introduction to unified power quality compensators, classification, working and operation of UPQC.

UNIT-IV
Voltage sags and interruption: sources of sags and interruption, estimating voltages sag performance, fundamental
principles of protection, monitoring sags. Transients over voltages: sources of transient over voltages, principles of
over voltages protection, utility capacitor switching transients, fundamentals of harmonics and harmonics distortion,
harmonics sources from commercial load and from industrial loads.
UNIT-V

Applied harmonics : harmonics distortion evaluations, principles for controlling harmonics, harmonics studies
devices for controlling harmonic distortion, Shunt active and passive filters, their operation and control.

Reference Books:
1. Power Quality- by R.C. Duggan
2. Power System harmonics –by A.J. Arrillga
3. Power electronic converter harmonics –by Derek A. Paice

List of experiments:
1. Simulation showing the effect of power quality problems.
2. Simulation of reactive power compensation of linear load.
3. Simulation of harmonic analysis of balanced non-linear loads.
4. Simulation of harmonic analysis of un-balanced non-linear loads.
5. Simulation of active shunt filters for harmonics compensation.
6. Simulation of compensation device showing power factor correction.
7. Simulation of compensation device showing voltage regulation.
8. Simulation of hybrid filter as a combination of active series and passive shunt filters.
9. Simulate the effect of neutral current.
10. Simulate the effect of dynamic load connected to 3-phase system.
 RAJIV GANDHI PROUDYOGIKI VISHWAVIDYALAYA, BHOPAL

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Electrical Engineering, VIII-Semester

Departmental Elective EE 802 (C) EHV A.C. and D.C. Transmission

COURSE CONTENTS

UNIT-I
Constitution of EHV a.c. and d.c. links, Kind of d.c. links, Limitations and Advantages
of a.c. and d.c. transmission, Principal application of a.c. and d.c. transmission,
Trends in EHV a.c. and d.c. transmission, Power handling capacity. Converter
analysis garetz circuit, Firing angle control, Overlapping.

UNIT-II
FACTS devices, basic types of controller, series controller, static synchronous
series compensator(SSSC), thyristor-controlled series capacitor(TCSC), thyristor
controlled series reactor(TCSR), shunt controller (STATCOM), static VAR
compensator(SVC),series-seriescontroller,combinedseries-shuntcontroller,unified
power flow controller(UPFC), thyristor controlled phase shiftingtransformer(TCPST).

UNIT-III
Components of EHV d.c. system, converter circuits, rectifier and inverter valves,
Reactive power requirements, harmonics generation, Adverse effects, Classification,
Remedial measures to suppress, filters, Ground return. Converter faults & protection
harmonics misoperation, Commutation failure, Multiterminal D.C. lines.

Unit-IV
Control of EHV d.c. system desired features of control, control characteristics,
Constant current control, Constant extinction angle control. Ignition Angle control.
Parallel operation of HVAC & DC system. Problems & advantages.

Unit-V
Travelling waves on transmission systems, Their shape, Attenuation and distortion,
effect of junction and termination on propagation of traveling waves. Over voltages
in transmission system. Lightning, switching and temporary over voltages: Control of
lighting and switching overvoltages
 RAJIV GANDHI PROUDYOGIKI VISHWAVIDYALAYA, BHOPAL

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Electrical Engineering, VIII-Semester

Open Elective EE 803 (B) Power Electronics Converters for Renewable Energy

UNIT- I Introduction to renewable sources: world energy scenario, Wind, solar, hydro, geothermal,
availability and power extraction. Introduction to solar energy: Photovoltaic effect, basics of power
generation, P-V & I-V characteristics, effect of insolation, temperature, shading; Modules,
connections, ratings; Power extraction (MPP), tracking and MPPT schemes; standalone systems, grid
interface, storage, AC-DC loads.

Unit-II Power converters for solar: Micro converter, DC-DC buck/boost/buck-boost /flyback
/forward/cuk, bidirectional converters; Inverters: 1ph, 3ph inverters Multilevel Neutral point clamp,
Modular multilevel, CSI; Control schemes: unipolar, bipolar.

Unit- III Single phase and three-phase back Controllers. Triggering techniques for power factor and
harmonic controls. Design and analysis of phase control circuits. Solid state transfer switches. Concept
of three-phase to single phase and single phase to three-phase cyclo-converter. Effect of source
inductance. Concept of PWM techniques single and multiple pulse form. Working of STATCON, SVC,
UPS, SMPS.

Unit- IV Intro to wind energy: P-V, I-V characteristic, wind power system: turbine-generator-inverter,
mechanical control, ratings; Power extraction (MPP) and MPPT schemes. PLL and synchronization,
power balancing / bypass, Parallel power processing; Grid connection issues: leakage current,
Islanding mode, harmonics, Mitigation of harmonics, filters, passive filters, Active filters,
active/reactive power feeding, unbalance.

Unit-V Generators for wind: DC generator with DC to AC converters; Induction generator with & w/o
converter; Synchronous generator with back to back controlled/ uncontrolled converter; Doubly fed
induction generator with rotor side converter topologies; permanent magnet based generators.
Battery: Types, charging discharging.

References:

1. Sudipta Chakraborty, Marcelo G. Sim303265es, and William E. Kramer. Power Electronics for
Renewable and Distributed Energy Systems: A Sourcebook of Chetan Singh Solanki, Solar
Photovoltaics: fundamentals, Technologies and Applications, Prentice Hall of India, 2011.

2. N. Mohan, T.M. Undeland& W.P. Robbins, Power Electronics: Converter, Applications & Design,
John Wiley & Sons, 1989

3. Remus Teodorescu, Marco Liserre, Pedro Rodriguez, Grid Converters for Photovoltaic and Wind
Power Systems, John Wiley and Sons, Ltd., 2011.