Power Quality: Infrastructures and Control

This book presents novel idea and concepts developed by the researchers/academia and practicing engineers working in the domain of the power sector infrastructures where power electronics infrastructures are used for improving the system reliability and efficiency in on-grid and off-grid systems. The infrastructures of distributed power generation based on wind, solar, hydro and many other renewable energy sources have increased manifold since last decade due to availability of efficient power converters and small rating generators. The application of power electronics switching devices has made job much easier to make such system infrastructures more reliable and controllable. The power quality (PQ) issues in infrastructures of distributed power generation system are a major concern for customers. The custom power devices such as voltage source converter are used to mitigate the PQ and other issues such as voltage and frequency control under different loading conditions on the supply system. The operation of these custom power devices or other power converters is dependent on the duty cycles generated by control algorithm. The scope of control algorithm may be varying from model predictive control techniques, machine learning techniques to other artificial intelligence-based techniques. In addition to it, some classical control algorithm and adaptive-type control algorithm may also be used for power converter operation. This book creates awareness among teachers, research students and industry persons about better utilization of infrastructures of distributed power generation system by making it more efficient with the use of power electronics and its control.

Ashutosh K Giri received his Ph.D. from the Department of Electrical Engineering, Sardar Vallabhbhai National Institute of Technology, Surat, India, in 2020. In May 2011, he joined the Department of Electrical Engineering, Government Engineering College, Bharuch, as an assistant professor. He has authored and co-authored more than 30 research papers in reputed journals such as IEEE TRANSACTIONS, IET Journal, Wiley, Tailor Francis, Springer. He has also co-authored one book which is published in Springer Publication, Singapore. He has received the sponsored research grant of Rs. 25 Lacs from the director of technical education, Gujarat state, under STEM Scheme. He is working as a principal investigator in this project. He has coordinated 5 STTP including recently concluded ATAL FDP. He has delivered national- and international-level expert talk at various reputed universities across India. He had received Research Opportunity Week (ROW) scholarship and visited Technical University of Munich, Germany, in March–April 2019. He has also served as a technical program committee member in conferences organized at Scientific Federation of Dallas, USA, and Kenitra, Morocco. He has also chaired as technical session in IEEE sponsored international conference at IIITDM Kancheepuram, Chennai. He had organized special session in world most reputed IEEEECCE2020 Conference at Detroit, Michigan, USA, and in ECCE-ASIA 2021 at Singapore. He is also serving as a potential reviewer in various reputed journals such as IEEE TRANSACTIONS OF POWER ELECTRONICS, IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INDUSTRIAL ELECTRONICS, IET, Wiley. He was nominated the best researcher of the year 2019 at electrical department, SVNIT, Surat, in 2019. He is also serving as an honorary ad visor (Technical Services) in GMDT Marine and Industrial Engineering Pvt. Ltd, Ahmedabad, India. He is also serving as an honorary advisor (Technical Services) in CUBATICS INDUSTRIES Pvt. Ltd, Surat. India. He is a life member of Indian Society of Technical Education. Recently, he was included in Advisory Board as a member in Society of Power Engineers, Vadodara Chapter.Sabha Raj Arya (M’1 2, SM’15) received Bachelor of Engineering degree in Electrical Engineering from Government Engineering College, Jabalpur, in 2002; Master of Technology in Power Electronics from Motilal National Institute of Technology, Allahabad, in 2004; and Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi, New Delhi, India, in 2014. He is joined as an assistant professor of the Department of Electrical Engineering, Sardar Vallabhbhai National Institute of Technology, Surat. January 2019, he is promoted as an associate professor in same institute. His fields of interest include power electronics, power quality, design of power filters, and distributed power generation. He received Two National Awards, namely INAE Young Engineer Award from Indian National Academy of Engineering, and POSOCO Power System Award from P