Browsing School of Electrical Systems Engineering (Theses) by Title
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Design of a hybrid controller for solar and ocean wave energy harvester
This thesis presents an approach of hybrid system implementation between Photovoltaic and ocean waves. These renewable energy sources are abundant, clean and beneficial compared to existing fossil fuel. Common method of ... -
Design of controller for boost converter to regulate voltage output
(Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP)School of Electrical System Engineering, 2015)Capacitor can be used as an energy storage element to supply small power in replacing a battery. The advantage of using capacitor is the charging time is much faster than charging a battery. But the disadvantage is that ... -
Design of DC-AC inverter using microcontroller PIC control
(Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP)School of Electrical Systems Engineering, 2015)This project aims to design single-phase sine wave DC-AC power inverter integrated with a microcontroller (PIC16F877A), simulated by using proteus software and implementation inverter circuit and discuss the result to ... -
Design of DC-DC buck-boost non-inverting converter using PIC microcontroller
(Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP)School of Electrical System Engineering, 2015)Switching MOSFET of DC-DC converters were widely used in different types of portable and non-portable electronic devices. The main aim of this research is the input voltage, which comes from a varaible sources. It is ... -
Design of micro-wind turbine for stand alone application
This thesis is about the design and development of micro-wind turbine for standalone application. The design will consider the types of generator, rectifier, voltage regulator and energy storage. Several factors including ... -
Design of microcontroller based dual braking mechanism for micro-wind turbine
The work proposes dual braking mechanism. It consisted of dynamic braking and yaw control. Both mechanism is used to provide safety to the micro-wind turbine. It protects from over speed and also functioning as speed ... -
Design of photovoltaic and wind power hybrid system for DC air conditioning application
The achievement of optimum performance for the hybrid system, besides having the efficient design of the system, a lot of study on the behaviour of the weather needs to be made because both of the resources hybrid system ... -
Design of syncronized photovoltaic and wind hybrid power generation system for street lighting application
Fluctuation of wind energy and solar radiation that is inconsistent become a major challenge to build alternative power generation. The uncertainties to two energy sources is a problem in synchronizing. To build a plant, ... -
Design of vibration energy harvester for low voltage power supply using finite element methods (FEM) analysis
The rapid growth of electronic devices miniaturization attract the researchers interest either to save space or for cost reduction. The main purpose of miniaturization is to implement the concept of portable in order to ... -
Determination of optimized soft starter firing angle to mitigate high inrush current during motor starting using PSCAD
Starting of an induction motor is a process that creates many challenging problems for the motor and operations of the power system. The induction motor can be damaged, characteristic can be changed and performance of ... -
Development of a microcontroller-based inverter for photovoltaic application
(Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP)School of Electrical Systems Engineering, 2011)Presented in this thesis is the development of a microcontroller-based inverter for photovoltaic systems. A single 8-bit microcontroller generated switching pulses for both stages of the inverter’s dc-dc converter and ... -
Development of an active cooling mechanism to increase the efficiency of photovoltaic module
(Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP)School of Electrical System Engineering, 2012)In this thesis, the influence of the temperature of photovoltaic (PV) module on the energy conversion efficiency have been thoroughly investigated and analysed. The objectives of this research are to study the suitability ... -
Development of an improved microgrid-centralize power sharing scheme using fuzzy logic controller
A microgrid is a local energy grid with control capability, which means it can be connected to or disconnected from the traditional grid and operate autonomously. Recently, the droop control techniques are widely used to ... -
Development of automatic power factor correction system by using PIC microcontroller through simulation study
(Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP)School of Electrical Systems Engineering, 2015)This thesis presents the design and analysis of an automatic power factor correction system using PIC microcontroller for single phase low voltage distribution system (230V/50Hz). Power factor plays a great role in an ... -
Development of early warning voltage and frequency fluctuation system
(Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP)School of Electrical Systems Engineering, 2015)A microcontroller PIC 16F877 – based monitoring circuit was designed, simulated and implemented. The circuit has been intended to monitor main power supply and gives a warning to protect electronic devices against voltage ... -
Development of savonius and darrieus vertical axis hybrid wind turbine to increase effectiveness in wind energy conversion system
(Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP)School of Electrical System Engineering, 2013)This thesis presents the investigation of the potential of wind energy in Perlis and the development of Savonius and Darreius Vertical Axis Hybrid Wind Turbine for the low wind speed application (below 2 m/s). The objectives ... -
Development of solar water pump for small scale paddy field irrigation
(Universiti Malaysia PerlisSchool of Electrical Systems Engineering, 2010)In this thesis, the solar powered water pump have been thoroughly investigated and analyzed in terms of the Photovoltaic (PV) module electrical output, performance, field observation, and modeling of solar radiation. The ... -
Dielectric properties and electrical conductivity of Ternary Zinc Magnesium Phosphate Glass-derived hydrogel
Leakage problem and contact resistance are the major problems for liquid electrolyte and solid-state electrolyte, respectively. In this research, a highly viscous ternary phosphate glass-derived hydrogel was proposed as ... -
Dynamic model of distribution network cell using artificial intelligence approach
(Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP)School of Electrical System Engineering, 2013)The aim of this project is to develop a dynamic model of distribution network cell (DNC) using artificial intelligence approach. The increasing number of distributed generation (DG) technology has lead to difficulty in ... -
Dynamic model of distribution network cell using system identification approach
(Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP)School of Electrical System Engineering, 2014)The centralised generation is generally a passive network. The interconnection of distributed generation (DG) to this centralised generation have changed this passive network perspective to become an active power network. ...