Table of Content

Chapter 1 Introduction…………………………………………………………… 1
1.1 Introduction……………………………………………………… 1
1.2 Issues in the Modern Power System…………………………….. 2
1.2.1 Active and Reactive Power Flow………………………... 3
1.2.2 Transient Stability……………………………………….. 3
1.2.3 Protection and Safety……………………………………. 4
1.2.4 Synchronization…………………………………………. 5
1.2.5 Power Quality…………………………………………… 5
1.3 Motivation………………………………………………………. 6
1.4 Overview of the Thesis………………………………………….. 7
Chapter 2 Literature Survey……………………………………………………… 9
2.1 Literature Review on Frequency Estimation Techniques……….. 11
2.1.1 Frequency Domain Techniques………………………….. 11
2.1.2 Time Domain Techniques……………………………….. 13
2.2 Research Gap……………………………………………………. 23
2.3 Problem Statement and Scope of work………………………….. 24
Chapter 3 Phase-Locked Loop…………………………………………………… 26
3.1 Single-Phase PLL………………………………………………... 27
3.1.1 Basic Power pPLL………………………………………. 27
3.1.2 T/4 Delay Operator PLL…………………………………. 34
3.1.3 Inverse-Park Transform PLL……………………………. 37
3.1.4 Enhanced Phase-Locked Loop…………………………... 40
3.1.5 Second Order Generalized Integrator-PLL……………… 43
3.2 Performance Analysis of Single-Phase PLL…………………….. 45
3.3 Three-Phase PLL………………………………………………… 48
3.3.1 Synchronous Reference Frame-PLL…………………….. 48
3.3.2 Decoupled Double Synchronous Reference Frame-PLL... 54
3.3.3 Dual Second Order Generalized Integrator-PLL………... 59
3.4 Performance Analysis of Three-Phase PLL…………………….. 63
3.5 Summary………………………………………………………… 65
Chapter 4 Frequency-Locked Loop……………………………………………… 67
4.1 Second Order Generalized Integrator-FLL……………………… 67
4.1.1 Gain Tuning of SOGI-OSG……………………………… 70
 4.1.2 Gain Tuning of FLL……………………………………... 72
4.2 Dual Second Order Generalized Integrator-FLL………………... 73
4.3 Proposed Modified Dual SOGI-FLL……………………………. 77
4.4 Simulation and Experimental Results…………………………… 82
4.5 Summary………………………………………………………… 93
Chapter 5 Harmonic Mitigation with MDSOGI-FLL based Shunt Active
Power Filter……………………………………………………………. 94
5.1 System Configuration……………………………………………. 95
5.2 Reference Current Generation…………………………………… 96
5.3 Estimating the PSC using MDSOGI-FLL……………………….. 98
5.4 Simulation and Experimental Results…………………………… 100
5.4.1 Simulation Results……………………………………….. 100
5.4.2 Hardware Description……………………………………. 111
5.4.3 Experimental Results…………………………………….. 114
5.5 Summary………………………………………………………… 125
Chapter 6 Summary Conclusions and Future Scope………………………….. 126
6.1 Summary of the Contributions…………………………………… 126
6.2 Conclusions……………………………………………………….. 127
6.3 Scope of the future work………………………………………….. 128
List of References……………………………………………………… 130
List of Publications……………………………………………………. 140
List of Appendices……………………………………………………... 141