Electrical Performance Study of a Large Area Multicrystalline Silicon Solar Cell Using a Current Shunt and a Micropotentiometer

In this paper, a new technique using a Current Shunt and a Micropotentiometer has been used to study the electrical performance of a large area multicrystalline silicon solar cell at outdoor conditions. The electrical performance is mainly described by measuring both cell short circuit current and open circuit voltage. The measurements of this cell by using multimeters suffer from some problems because the cell has high current intensity with low output voltage. So, the solar cell short circuit current values are obtained by measuring the voltage developed across a known resistance Current Shunt. Samples of the obtained current values are accurately calibrated by using a Micropotentiometer (μpot) thermal element (TE) to validate this new measuring technique. Moreover, the solar cell open circuit voltage has been measured. Besides, the cell output power has been calculated and can be correlated with the measured incident radiation.

Temperature Effects on the Electrical Performance of Large Area Multicrystalline Silicon Solar Cells Using the Current Shunt Measuring Technique

The temperature effects on the electrical performance of a large area multicrystalline silicon solar cell with back-contact technology have been studied in a desert area under ambient conditions using the current shunt measuring technique. Therefore, most of the problems encountered with traditional measuring techniques are avoided. The temperature dependency of the current shunt from 5oC up to 50oC has been investigated. Its temperature coefficient proves to be negligible which means that the temperature dependency of the solar cell is completely independent of the current shunt. The solar module installed in a tilted position at the optimum angle of the location, has been tested in two different seasons (winter and summer). The obtained solar cell short circuit current, open circuit voltage and output power are correlated with the measured incident radiation in both seasons and all results are discussed.

Numerical Simulation of Non-Inductive Current Driven Scenario in EAST Using Neutral Beam Injection

For achieving the scientific mission of long pulse and high performance operation,experimental advanced superconducting tokamak（EAST） applies fully superconducting magnet technology and is equiped with high power auxiliary heating system.Besides RF（Radio Frequency） wave heating,neutral beam injection（NBI） is an effective heating and current drive method in fusion research.NBCD（Neutral Beam Current Drive） as a viable non-inductive current drive source plays an important role in quasi-steady state operating scenario for tokamak.The non-inductive current driven scenario in EAST only by NBI is predicted using the TSC/NUBEAM code.At the condition of low plasma current and moderate plasma density,neutral beam injection heats the plasma effectively and NBCD plus bootstrap current accounts for a large proportion among the total plasma current for the flattop time.

Neural network prediction of the shunt current in resistance spot welding

An error back propagation （BP） neural network prediction model was established for the shunt current compensation in series resistance spot welding. The input variables for the neural network consist of the resistivity of the material, the thickness of workpiece and the spot spacing, and the shunt rate is outputted. A simplified calculation for the shunt rate was presented based on the feature of the constant-current resistance spot welding and the variation of the resistance in resistance spot welding process, and then the data generated by simplified calculation were used to train and adjust the neural network model. The neural network model proposed was used to predict the shunt rate in the spot welding of 20# mlid steel （in Chinese classification） （in 2. 0 mm thickness） and 10# mild steel （in 1.5 mm and 1.0 mm thickness）. The maximum relative prediction errors are, respectively, 2. 83%, 1.77% and 3.67%. Shunt current compensation experiments were peoCormed based on the neural network prediction model proposed to check the diameter difference of nuggets. Experimental results show that maximum nugget diameter deviation is less than 4% for both 10# and 20# mlid steels with spot spacing of 30 mm and 50 mm.

Suppressing Leakage Currents and Improving Performance of Indoor Organic Photovoltaic Devices

Organic photovoltaic(OPV) devices hold great promise for indoor light harvesting,offering a theoretical upper limit of power conversion efficiency that surpasses that of other photovoltaic technologies.However,the presence of high leakage currents in OPV devices commonly constrains their effective performance under indoor conditions.In this study,we identified that the origin of the high leakage currents in OPV devices lay in pinhole defects present within the active layer(AL).By integrating an automated spin-coating strategy with sequential deposition processes,we achieved the compactness of the AL and minimized the occurrence of pinhole defects therein.Experimental findings demonstrated that with an increase in the number of deposition cycles,the density of pinhole defects in the AL underwent a marked reduction.Consequently,the leakage current experienced a substantial decrease by several orders of magnitude which achieved through well-calibrated AL deposition procedures.This enabled a twofold enhancement in the power conversion efficiency(PCE) of the OPV devices under conditions of indoor illumination.

Online Learning Control for Harmonics Reduction Based on Current Controlled Voltage Source Power Inverters

Nonlinear loads in the power distribution system cause non-sinusoidal currents and voltages with harmonic components.Shunt active filters(SAF) with current controlled voltage source inverters(CCVSI) are usually used to obtain balanced and sinusoidal source currents by injecting compensation currents.However,CCVSI with traditional controllers have a limited transient and steady state performance.In this paper,we propose an adaptive dynamic programming(ADP) controller with online learning capability to improve transient response and harmonics.The proposed controller works alongside existing proportional integral(PI) controllers to efficiently track the reference currents in the d-q domain.It can generate adaptive control actions to compensate the PI controller.The proposed system was simulated under different nonlinear(three-phase full wave rectifier) load conditions.The performance of the proposed approach was compared with the traditional approach.We have also included the simulation results without connecting the traditional PI control based power inverter for reference comparison.The online learning based ADP controller not only reduced average total harmonic distortion by 18.41%,but also outperformed traditional PI controllers during transients.

Non-Inductive Start up of QUEST Plasma by RF Powert

Both start-up and sustainment of plasma were successfully achieved by fully non- inductive current drive using microwave with a frequency of 8.2 GHz. Plasmas current of 15 kA was implemented for 1 s. Magnetic surface reconstruction exhibited a plasma shape with an aspect ratio of below 1.5. The plasma current was dependent significantly on the launched microwave power and vertical magnetic field, while not affected by the mode of launched wave and the toroidal refractive index. Hard X-ray （HXR） emitted from energetic electrons accelerated by the microwave was observed, and the discharge with a plasma current over 4 kA followed the same trend as the number of photons of 10 keV to 12 keV. This suggests that the plasma current may be driven by energetic electrons. Based on the experimental conditions, alternative explanations of how the plasma current could be driven are discussed.

A novel digital control strategy of three-phase shunt active power filter under non-ideal mains voltages

A novel control strategy for three-phase shunt active power filter (SAPF) was proposed to improve its performance under non-ideal mains voltages. The approach was inspired by our finding that the classic instantaneous reactive power theory based algorithm was unsatisfactory in terms of isolating positive sequence fundamental active components exactly under non-ideal mains voltages. So, a modified ip-iq reference current calculation method was presented. With usage of the new method, not only the positive sequence but also the fundamental active current components can be accurately isolated from load current. A deadbeat closed-loop control model is built in order to eliminate both delay error and tracking error between reference voltages and compensation voltages under unbalanced and distorted mains voltages. Computer simulation results show that the proposed strategy is effective with better tracking ability and lower total harmonic distortion (THD). The strategy is also applied to a 10 kV substation with a local electrolysis manganese plant injecting a large amount of harmonics into the power system, and is proved to be more practical and efficient.

AC current automatic calibration using two different TCC designs

AC currents are automatically calibrated by two different thermal current converter(TCC)designs.The two designs are different in the used number of the thermal-elements(TEs).Consequently they differ in their output electro motive force(EMF).Studying the effect of changing the output EMF is done in this paper through calibrating AC currents.5 mA and 5 A are accurately calibrated at different frequencies 55 Hz,1 kHz and10 kHz by the two TCCs.A comparison is made between the results to evaluate the effect of the output EMF value on the accuracy and the uncertainty of the low and higher AC current calibration.A LabVIEW program is designed for this accurate automatic calibration to overcome the problems of the manual calibration on the thermal converters.

Buck Converter Current Measurement Using Differential Amplifier

The accuracy of the measured current is a preeminent parameter for Current Control based Power Converter applications to ensure genuine operation of the designed converter.The current measurement accuracy can be affected by several parameters which includes the type of technology used,components used for the selected technology,aging,usage,operating and environmental conditions.The effect of gain resistors and their manufacturing tolerances on differential amplifier-based buck converter current measurement is investigated in this work.The analysis mainly focused on the output voltage variation and its accuracy with respect to the change in gain resistance tolerances.The gain resistors with 5%,1%,0.5%and 0.1%manufacturing tolerances taken for the worst-case analysis and the calculated performance results are compared and verified with the simula-tion results.The Operational amplifiers(Op-Amp)for high frequency power con-verter applications must operate in a high frequency noise environment and the intended current measuring system must manage common mode noise distur-bances paired with the signal to be measured.Based on the Common Mode Rejec-tion Ratio(CMRR)the common mode voltages and noise signals will effectively getfiltered out.Lesser CMRR results in lower common mode signal rejection,resulting in poor precision and noise rejection.In differential amplifiers,the CMRR predominantly depends on gain resistors.So,the variations in Common Mode Rejection Ratio due to gain resistor tolerances also analyzed and compared with the output voltage variations.Besides the effects of resistor tolerances,this paper also examines the effect of Op-Amp offset voltage on output accuracy spe-cifically for low magnitude input currents.The obtained results from this analysis clearly shows that the gain resistors with 0.1%tolerance gives maximum accuracy with improved CMRR and accuracy at low magnitude input currents will get well improved by using Op-Amps with Low Offset voltage specifications.

Shunt分流电阻在新能源电动车的应用

在新能源电动车动力电池领域,电流检测主要通过两种方式,一种为霍尔电流传感器,主要代表车系为东亚系,电流检测的原理为霍尔原理,其优点为无功率损耗,绝缘耐压等级高,缺点为体积大,初始偏移大,噪音及信号干扰,线性度差,稳定性低、高温度系数,测量范围有限且成本高昂;另一种为SHUNT精密电阻,主要代表车系为欧美系,其电流检测原理为欧姆定律,即I=U/R,其优点为体积小,无初始偏移,低噪,线性度好,极好的长期稳定性,低温度系数,超宽测量范围,高分辨率,价格成本低,缺点为存在一定功率损耗。随着未来车辆向集成化与轻量化的设计方向发展,小体积的SHUNT在集成化的设计中将会扮演者越来越重要的角色,针对性探讨目前SHUNT的关键技术参数提升以及如何在应用上进行集成化开发。

The Design of a 10 000 Ampere Impulse Current Generator Using Low Voltage Components

More and more applications of ZnO arrester in electrical system experienced more problems.One thing,that is still under some investigation,is the effect of multiple lightning strike to the performance of ZnO arrester.As we know,the design of ZnO arrester for transmission system and for distribution system differs in the point of view of the number of ZnO blocks.Transmission system,due to its higher nominal voltage than distribution system,has more numbers of ZnO blocks inside an arrester tube.In term of the current rating of an arrester,it is found that there is some different value of the current rating.The current rating of an arrester installed closer to electrical substation is higher than that of some further away from the substation.To the respond of a lightning impulse strike,the arrester will let a high value of impulse current flowing.It tends to heat the ZnO material of the arrester.If the number of impulse strike is quite high then it may give the effect to the change of the arrester performance.This condition will endanger the equipment that is protected by the arrester from lightning strikes.During this research,the scope of work is limited to making an impulse current generator toward to one having 8/20 μs wave-shape.This kind of impulse current wave-shape is the one that is used for studying the performance of ZnO block.The effect of the inductance and capacitance of the impulse current generator were also studied.A 10 fused cut out was blown by an impulse having 10321 A of 17.8/37.8 μs.A ZnO arrester block brokendown/allowed large value of current :10982 A flowing under the voltage of 10.5

Improved PLL Tuning of Shunt Active Power Filter for Grid Connected Photo Voltaic Energy System

This research work brings out the unique predictive current control method for attaining an efficient grid connected Photo Voltaic (PV) system by Shunt Active Power Filter (SAPF) as grid connected converter. The major objective of the research work is to address the presence of Direct Current (DC) component, frequency improvement, quicker theta response, voltage magnitude estimation in the input signal of the Phase Locked Loop (PLL) which is challenging. This work focuses on tuning the PLL block (Kp, Ki, Kv and Ko) through Artificial Bee Colony (ABC) optimization algorithm. The proposed ABC based modified three-phase PLL method is based on adding a new loop inside the PLL structure. In power converters, ABC algorithm is used to select the optimal switching states. The voltage vector which minimizes a cost optimization function is selected. Simulation is carried out for both balanced and unbalanced system and the results validate that the performance of the proposed approach is better in terms of harmonic compensation as per the IEEE standards within ±5%, power factor improvement of the system, quicker theta tracking and suppression of frequency jump with the interconnection of PV system.

An Efficient Particle Swarm Optimization Technique for 4-Leg Shunt Active Power Filter

This paper describes the mitigation of harmonics in source and neutral current in three phase four wire system based on 4-leg shunt active power filter under balanced and unbalanced load conditions. Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) and conventional Proportional Integral (PI) controller are used as control techniques to analyze the control performance of 4-leg shunt active power filter. The synchronous reference frame (SRF) method is used to extract reference current in 4-leg shunt active filter. The Hysteresis Current Controller (HCC) is used to generate gate pulses for Voltage Source Inverter (VSI) based 4-leg shunt active power filter. The proposed PSO technique gives less percentage of Total Harmonic Distortion (THD) value in source and neutral current and settling time of the DC capacitor voltage compared to conventional PI controller technique. The model of the proposed system performance was validated using MATLAB/Simulink environment.

基于虚拟导纳的LCL型并联有源电力滤波器鲁棒电流控制

基于电网电流和逆变侧电流的双环电流控制策略因其固有的有源阻尼作用而成为LCL型并联有源电力滤波器的研究热点,但控制回路中不同有源阻尼共存将导致系统特性难以确定。对此,通过虚拟导纳模型准确评估了系统的阻尼特性,发现其有源阻尼区域会随电网阻抗波动而变化,最大接近1/3采样频率;考虑LCL初始谐振频率处于不同的频率范围情况,利用开环极点及鲁棒性分析得到适用于不同情况的统一稳定性约束条件,并对应提出了一套鲁棒控制参数设计方法,从而充分保证电网阻抗波动下并联有源电力滤波器的稳定运行。在一台380V、45A的实验样机上验证了所提理论及控制策略的有效性。

并联电抗器补偿方案对500 kV海底电缆沿线过电压的分布影响

交流海底电缆是海上风电场交流输电技术的重要组成部分,但其充电电流问题限制了其在远距离、大容量海上风电中的应用。文中基于HYJQF41-F290/500 kV型号的单芯交流海底电缆,研究了该电缆在远距离、高压输电中不同工况下的沿线过电压分布情况。首先,建立该电缆的仿真模型,并对其参数进行修正。然后,针对并联电抗器的不同补偿度,对单端补偿、两端补偿等配置方案下并联电抗器的容量进行分析计算。最后,基于高压、远距离风电场模型中单相接地故障、合分闸等工况,对不同无功补偿方案下海底电缆沿线过电压的分布规律进行仿真研究。研究结果表明,海底电缆的最大过电压随着补偿方案的不同而出现在不同的位置。基于此,文中给出了在不同补偿方案下高压海底电缆选型以及变电站设备绝缘水平设计时过电压的选取方法,对工程实际具有一定指导意义。

SF_(6)断路器投切66 kV并联电容器组仿真分析

针对500 kV变电站66 kV侧投切电容器组的暂态过程,通过仿真模拟正常投切、非同期合闸、单相重燃和两相重燃工况下的五种抑制措施,包括串联电阻、相控断路器、L-R过电压保护装置、RC阻容保护装置和金属氧化物避雷器,并对这五种措施抑制效果进行评估。结果显示,这五种方法对过电压有不同程度的抑制作用,在选择时需综合考虑其优缺点。最后,推荐使用串联电阻或相控断路器进行抑制,并选择适当的避雷器接线方式作为保护措施。

直流分流器电阻测量结果的不确定度评定

测量不确定度是直流分流器校准的一项重要内容。但实际校准过程中经常会因为测量模型不准确、不确定度传播率计算错误、不确定度分量考虑不全面和不确定度分量重复计算等原因而导致无法得到较为准确、客观的不确定度。分别介绍了使用直流标准源法、标准分流器法、直流电流比较器法和直流电阻电桥法校准直流分流器电阻参数时的不确定度评定过程,并给出了各校准方法下的测量模型、不确定度传播率、不确定度来源,以及各不确定度分量、合成标准不确定度和扩展不确定度的计算方法,以期对相关人员有所帮助。

Model Predictive Current Control for Low-Cost Shunt Active Power Filter

Performance of a three-phase shunt active power filter(SAPF)relies on the capability of the controller to track the reference current.Therefore,designing an accurate current controller is crucial to guarantee satisfactory SAPF operation.This paper presents a model predictive current controller(MPCC)for a low-cost,four-switch,shunt active power filter for power quality improvement.A four-switch,B4,converter topology is adopted as an SAPF,hence offering a simple,robust,and low-cost solution.In addition,to further reduce overall cost,only two interfacing filter inductors,instead of three,are used to eliminate switching current ripple.The proposed SAPF model MPCC is detailed for implementation,where simulation and experimental results validate effectiveness of the proposed control algorithm showing a 20%improvement in total harmonic distortion compared with a conventional hysteresis band current controller.

特高压直流输电柔直阀旁路晶闸管分流能力研究

通过优化晶闸管结构参数,研制出低通态压降的柔直阀专用晶闸管。在实验室中等效出柔直阀闭锁状态下的暂态电流波形,测试并分析RZTB60系列旁路晶闸管在通过该电流时的结温变化情况,验证其工作的可靠性和安全性。