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In this paper, a new active method for power factor correction (PFC) is presented and applied to a single-stage AC/DC flyback converter to reduce the total harmonic distortion of the input current, achieve better power factor compensation, and improve converter reliability. The proposed circuit consists of a low-power portable dual-purpose inverter that can work in 2 main modes. In the normal mode of converter operation, the PFC circuit operates as an active harmonic filter compensator. In the second mode, which occurs in converter outage conditions, the inverter behaves as a sinusoidal backup voltage power supply for the converter by using a backup battery and the SPWM control method. In this technique, the main switch of the converter operates in borderline conduction mode, but the RMS input current as well as peak and ripple currents are reduced significantly. Simulation analysis and experimental results are presented. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents a novel integer-value modeling for optimal under voltage load shedding (UVLS) problem. The real-value modeling of UVLS is encountered to some drawbacks which lead to an ineffective practical solution. The proposed integer-value modeling overcomes these drawbacks by considering the load feeders of load buses in the modeling as well as assigning interruption penalty factors and participation penalty factors to feeders and buses respectively. Applying these factors to the proposed UVLS integer-value modeling result achieving objectives such as minimizing the total number of participating feeders in the load shedding, minimizing the total number of participating buses in the load shedding, minimizing the total amount of load to be shed, minimizing the total interruption cost and combination sets of the objectives. Without any limitation of applying the proposed modeling to large scale networks, it is implemented on IEEE 14-bus and 30-bus test systems and the results verify the effectiveness of the proposed method. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]