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International Journal of Computer and Electrical Engineering, Vol. 1, No. 2, June 2009 1793-8163 Enhance Ride-Through Capability of Adjustable Speed Drives by Maintaining DC-Link voltage S.S.Deswal, Ratna Dahiya, D.K.Jain ? ? The unexplained fuse blowing and/or component Abstract— Electric power quality encompasses voltage failures. transients, sags, swells, voltage distortions and momentary ? The frequent motor overheating trip and/or continuous interruptions (outages) etc There are different techniques to operation of the motor cooling system. enhance ride-through capability of ASD’s during voltage sag Although, there are number of power quality problems conditions. These are aimed at maintaining the DC-link voltage constant by injecting energy from an external source. such as transients, interruption, sag/under-voltage, swell/ Ultracapacitors, as storage device, are of reduced size as over- voltage, waveform distortion, voltage fluctuations and compared to batteries and provide fast energy exchange. In this frequency variations; voltage sag is the major reason for paper, the improved performance of ASD’s with ASDs’ shutdown. Voltage sag is a reduction of AC voltage at Ultracapacitors at DC- link during various electric power a given frequency for the duration of 0.5 cycles to 1 minute’s system faults is demonstrated using MATLAB simulation.and time. Common causes of sags include starting large loads and physical experiments were carried out to verify the correctness and validity of proposed ASD ride through topology and control remote fault clearing performed by utility equipment. strategies.The performance of ASD under healty and abnormal Similarly, the starting of large motors inside an industrial