In recent decades there has been a rapidly growing demand for high quality, uninterrupted power. In light of this fact, this study has addressed some of the causes of poor power quality and control strategies to ensure a high performance level in inverter-fed power systems. In particular, specific loading conditions present interesting challenges to inverter-fed, high power systems. No-load, unbalanced loading, and non-linear loading each have unique characteristics that negatively influence the performance of the Voltage Source Inverter (VSI). Ideal, infinitely stiff power systems are uninfluenced by loading conditions; however, realistic systems, with finite output impedances, encounter stability issues, unbalanced phase voltage, and harmonic distortion. Each of the loading conditions is presented in detail with a proposed control strategy in order to ensure superior inverter performance. Simulation results are presented for a 90 kVA, 400 Hz VSI under challenging loading conditions to demonstrate the merits of the proposed control strategies. Unloaded or lightly loaded conditions can cause instabilities in inverter-fed power systems, because of the lightly damped characteristic of the output filter. An inner current loop is demonstrated to damp the filter poles at light load and therefore enable an increase in the control bandwidth by an order of magnitude. Unbalanced loading causes unequal phase currents, and consequently negative sequence and zero sequence (in four-wire systems) distortion. A proposed control strategy based on synchronous and stationary frame controllers is shown to reduce the phase voltage unbalance from 4.2% to 0.23% for a 100%-100%-85% load imbalance over fundamental positive sequence control alone. Non-linear loads draw harmonic currents, and likewise cause harmonic distortion in power systems. A proposed harmonic control scheme is demonstrated to achieve near steady state errors for the low order harmonics due to non-linear loads. In particular, the THD is reduced from 22.3% to 5.2% for full three-phase diode rectifier loading, and from 11.3% to 1.5% for full balanced single-phase diode rectifier loading, over fundamental control alone. / Master of Science

The electrification era has been marked up by an increase in volume of electric vehicles which are directly or indirectly powered by electricity. Railways, roadways and airways are being electrified as we speak at their own respective rate. In addition to that upcoming concepts for transport solution such as hyperloop also described as the fifth mode of transportation will be electrified. The current thesis work is based on developing the model and control of the propulsion system of a scaled Hyperloop pod designed by student team KTH Hyperloop representing KTH. The team competes in Hyperloop competition organized by Spacex and the goal is to achieve the highest possible speed in a given distance and track designed by SpaceX. In order to achieve the goal of being the fastest, the scaled pod uses a Double Sided Linear Induction Motor (DSLIM) as mentioned in the subsequent chapter. The motor modelling is done on Simulink and is similar to a rotary induction motor (RIM). However the presence of end effect in DSLIM makes it different from RIM and has been discussed subsequently. The control strategy uses a synchronous frame PI control for the current control and sensor based speed control for controlling the speed of the pod.The speed control output is a reference current which is used as an input to the current controller which finally gives voltage as the control output. The corresponding bandwidth for the various loops have been calculated based on motor parameters as discussed in the method section. The validation of the motor model and the corresponding controller has been discussed in the result section, where the accuracy of the controller for the designed modelled is discussed. / Elektrifieringstiden har präglats av en ökning i volym av elfordon som direkt eller indirekt drivs med el. Järnvägar, vägar och luftvägar elektrifieras just nu med deras respektive takt. Utöver det kommer kommande koncept för transportlösning som hyperloop som också beskrivs som det femte transportsättet att elektrifieras. Detta examensarbete bygger på att utveckla modellen och regleringen av framdrivningssystemet för en nedskalad Hyperloop-pod utvecklad av studentteamet KTH Hyperloop som representerar KTH. Teamet tävlar i Hyperloop-tävlingen organiserad av SpaceX och målet är att uppnå högsta möjliga hastighet på ett visst avstånd och spår framtaget av SpaceX. För att uppnå målet om att vara snabbast använder den nedskalade podden en dubbelsidig elektrisk linjär induktionsmotor (DSLIM) som nämns i det följande kapitlet. Den elektriska motormodelleringen görs i Simulink och liknar en roterande induktionsmotor(RIM). Men närvaron av ’end effect’ i DSLIM gör den annorlunda än RIM och har diskuterats därefter. Styrstrategin använder en synkron ram-PI-styrning för strömstyrning och sensorbaserad hastighetsreglering för att styra hastigheten på podden. Varvtalsstyrningsutgången är en referensström som används som en ingång till den nuvarande styrenheten som slutligen ger spänning som slutling styrning. Motsvarande bandbredd för de olika slingorna har beräknats baserat på elektriska motorparametrar som diskuterats i metodavsnittet.Valideringen av elmotormodellen och motsvarande styrenhet har diskuterats i resultatsektionen, där noggrannheten hos styrenheten för den konstruerade modellerna diskuteras.