Special Issue "Sustainable Variable Speed Drives: Power Electronics Topologies, Monitoring, Operation and Control"

A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Engineering and Science".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2021.

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Mahdi Shahparasti
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School of Technology and Innovations, Electrical Engineering, School of Technology and Innovations, University of Vaasa, 65200 Vaasa, Finland
Interests: power electronics; power conversion; power quality; renewable energy integration; microgrids
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Prof. Dr. Hannu Laaksonen
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School of Technology and Innovations, Electrical Engineering, University of Vaasa, 65200 Vaasa, Finland
Interests: microgrids, smart grids and flexible power systems; protection and control of low-inertia power systems (Smart Grids and microgrids) with distributed energy resources (DER); active management of distributed and flexible energy resources in future smart energy systems; future-proof technology and market concepts for smart grids
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Dr. Amirhossein Rajaei
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Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Shiraz University of Technology, Shiraz 71557-13876, Iran
Interests: power electronic converters, modelling and design; microgrid power interface; high-frequency converters with WBG devices

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

We invite you to contribute to this Special Issue in Sustainability with your latest research on power electronics topologies, monitoring, operation, and control schemes in Variable Speed Drives (VSDs).

Controlling DC and AC machines by power electronic converters has been considered the heart of power conversion systems in different applications such as industrial variable speed drives, electrical vehicles (EVs), trains, AC/DC shipboards, wind turbines, and microturbines. On the other hand, electrification of various traditionally inefficient systems such as transportation systems is at the forefront, wherein they have highly demanding performance requirements from the electric machines and drive systems. VSDs contribute to more sustainable usage of electric power with reducing energy consumption, especially in variable flow applications such as fans, pumps, or compressors.  Currently, there are still some challenges in terms of the system cost, efficiency, and robustness which must be overcome by the development of new power converter topologies and control schemes.

This Special Issue requests articles that address the original advancements, technical challenges impeding advancement, and novel solutions to these issues. Topics of interest for this Special Issue include, but are not limited to:

  • Sustainable drive system
  • Architecture and hardware design of VSDs
  • Speed control of AC machines
  • Speed control of DC machines
  • Speed/torque control of electrical vehicles
  • New power electronics topologies
  • Enhanced control schemes for VSDs
  • New modulation schemes for VSDs
  • Sensorless control for machine drives
  • Machine side control in wind turbines
  • Design for reliability, resilience, and robustness
  • Integration of renewable energy resources
  • Control and power-sharing between VSDs
  • Power quality aspects
  • Industrial, experimental, and hardware-in-the-loop tests and validation

Dr. Mahdi Shahparasti
Prof. Dr. Hannu Laaksonen
Dr. Amirhossein Rajaei
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • sustainable drive system
  • variable speed drive
  • variable frequency drive
  • transport electrification
  • PM machine
  • induction machine
  • DC machine
  • sensorless control
  • model predictive control
  • direct torque control
  • power quality
  • power electronics
  • energy management systems
  • energy saving

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Low Sensitivity Predictive Control for Doubly-Fed Induction Generators Based Wind Turbine Applications
Sustainability 2021, 13(16), 9150; https://doi.org/10.3390/su13169150 - 16 Aug 2021
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In this paper, a deadbeat predictive control (DBPC) technique for doubly-fed induction generators (DFIGs) in wind turbine applications is proposed. The major features of DBPC scheme are its quick dynamic performance and its fixed switching frequency. However, the basic concept of DBPC is [...] Read more.
In this paper, a deadbeat predictive control (DBPC) technique for doubly-fed induction generators (DFIGs) in wind turbine applications is proposed. The major features of DBPC scheme are its quick dynamic performance and its fixed switching frequency. However, the basic concept of DBPC is computing the reference voltage for the next sample from the mathematical model of the generator. Therefore, the DBPC is highly sensitive to variations of the parameters of the DFIG. To reduce this sensitivity, a disturbance observer is designed in this paper to improve the robustness of the proposed DBPC scheme. The proposed observer is very simple and easy to be implemented in real-time applications. The proposed DBPC strategy is implemented in the laboratory. Several experiments are performed with and without mismatches in the DFIG parameters. The experimental results proved the superiority of the proposed DBPC strategy over the traditional DBPC technique. Full article
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