Srikanth Sambu

The efficiency of power systems is largely determined by the effectiveness of the inbuilt power equipment. Monitoring transmission lines for faults and quick isolation of the system from faults helps to improve the efficiency of the power systems reliability. Technologies such as Power line carrier communication and the use of wireless based communication systems have their respective merits. In this project we present the study of the use of GSM technology, along with robust hardware circuits a reliable monitoring and fault detection system.

Control scheme of cascaded H-bridge Statcom in three-phase power systems. Cascaded H-bridge Statcom has merits in point of switching losses, output harmonics, and the number of circuit components. But every H-bridge cell has isolated dc capacitors. So the balancing problem of capacitor voltages exists. Since Statcom is often requested to operate under asymmetrical condition by power system faults such as one line grounding or two-line short circuit. Recently, several methods of voltage balancing between phase clusters are proposed. One method is based on zero-sequence voltage injection. However it needs wide margin of dc capacitor voltage compared with rated power system voltage when the unbalance of power system voltage is large. The other method handles the capacitor voltage unbalance by independently controlling active power of individual phase cluster, but unbalance of power system voltage is not considered.

Most of the industrials motors are used today are in fact induction motors. Induction motors have been used in the past mainly in applications requiring a constant speed because conventional methods of their speed control have either been expensive or highly inefficient. Various methods have been designed to achieve the best performance of the motor and the approaches used can be classified into three different types. The first, so called "loss model controller" (LMC). The second type, named "search controller" (SC). The third one uses "look up tables".