Asymmetrical firing of 12-pulse converter for controlled P-Q operation using PIC microcontroller

Author

Das, Anandarup ; Chatterjee, J.K. ; Gaja, Ajay Kumar

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Indian Inst. of Technol., New Delhi

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Abstract

In this paper asymmetrical firing pulse operation of a 12-pulse converter using PIC microcontroller PIC16F873A is presented. The study shows that it is possible to control independently the active and reactive power flow in a 12-pulse converter for a number of combinations of firing angles of the constituent 6-pulse converters. Constant VAr operation of the 12-pulse converter is experimentally verified and presented. The selection of microchip´s PIC family of microcontrollers is done based on its low cost, interface with C programming language and easy to handle built in peripheral features

Keywords

C language; load flow control; microcontrollers; power convertors; power engineering computing; 12-pulse converter; C programming language; PIC16F873A microcontroller; VAr operation; active power flow control; asymmetrical firing; p-q operation; reactive power flow control; Control systems; Costs; Microcontrollers; Passive filters; Power harmonic filters; Power system harmonics; Pulse power systems; Reactive power; Reactive power control; Voltage;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Power India Conference, 2006 IEEE

Conference_Location

New Delhi

Print_ISBN

0-7803-9525-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/POWERI.2006.1632602

Filename

1632602