Title :
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
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;
Conference_Titel :
Power India Conference, 2006 IEEE
Conference_Location :
New Delhi
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-9525-5
DOI :
10.1109/POWERI.2006.1632602
