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The transformerless grid-connected PV system suffers from leakage current and neutral voltage imbalance if three-level inverters are utilized. This paper first investigates the common-mode voltage (CM voltage) reduction/elimination methods in three-phase PV inverters, especially three-level inverters. Several mainstream common-mode voltage reduction/elimination methods, including AZSPWM, 2MV1Z, 3MV,...
This paper proposes reduced switching random PWM (RPWM) techniques based on Space Vector PWM (SVPWM) technique for conventional two-level inverters. In the proposed RPWM techniques, the switching frequency is randomized within a band lower than the nominal switching frequency at and around the peaks of the three-phase output currents. For the rest of the fundamental cycle, the switching frequencies...
This paper proposes a variable sampling frequency model predictive control (VSF-MPC) to achieve fixed-switching frequency operation for a neutral-point clamped (NPC) inverter. The proposed control technique simultaneously considers load current control, balancing of DC-link capacitor voltages, mitigation of common-mode voltage, and elimination of even-order and inter-harmonics in the load current...
Reducing the power loss of a converter without increasing volume or cost in hardware has always been a much sought-after, but challenging goal. This paper discusses a scheme to improve the system overall efficiency while still meeting a given THD requirement by implementing variable instantaneous switching frequency method without any hardware changes. This paper aims at minimizing the combined switching...
An output filter design is presented for high bandwidth high power inverter in this paper. Various filter topologies are compared to eliminate the switching frequency components effectively while generating various output voltage waveforms up to 10 kHz without distortion. This ultimate design consists of an R-C series branch connected in parallel with the C of conventional L-C filter resulting in...
By utilizing next-gen wide band-gap (WBG) devices, such as GaN and SiC, at high switching frequency in a single-phase Quasi-Z-Source PV inverter (qZSI), the impedance network can be significantly reduced. Although, the reduced qZS impedance network will decrease cost and improved power density, it will also result in frequency resonance that will introduce oscillations in the capacitor voltage and...
Predictive current control (PCC) methods have been widely implemented for grid-connected voltage source inverters (VSIs) recently to achieve better output performance, however, facing the challenge of high sensitivity to uncertain system disturbances and inevitable time delay. In this paper, a new PCC scheme has been proposed for a single-phase VSI to improve the quality of the current fed to the...
Soft magnetic composite (SMC) is considered as an alternative solution for core materials of inductors used in LCL filters in power converter applications. Performance of SMC inductors in damping a range of harmonics caused by voltage switching is an interesting topic. The method used in this paper is to test the inductors together with a 70 kW PWM inverter to examine the filtering effects for different...
Microinverters mounted on each photovoltaic (PV) panels are gaining popularity due to their benefits such as incremented energy harvest and plug-play operation. This paper proposes a single-stage zeta microinverter for PV applications. The proposed topology is based on a high frequency (HF) transformer isolated zeta converter with a single low side switch on the primary side of transformer. The unique...
Static power converters have widespread applications, such as ground power units (GPU) for airplanes. A modified static ground power unit based on 5-level Active Natural Point Clamped (5L-ANPC) multilevel converter is proposed in this paper. A new LS-PSC-PWM switching method for the 5L-ANPC converter is defined in this paper. The provided THD value of proposed converter will be less than those the...
Parabolic current control is an attractive current control method with fast transient response and constant switching frequency. Due to the good dynamics of parabolic current control, it can be employed in voltage source inverters to improve the system performance such as minimizing the distortion of current waveforms or voltage waveforms. To implement parabolic current control, a current sensor is...
This paper presents a novel single-stage isolated pulse-width-modulated (PWM) half-bridge cyclo-converter based microinverter for photovoltaic (PV) application. The proposed topology is a single stage microinverter with reduced number of components, and provides high frequency (HF) transformer isolation. This microinverter can be operated both as grid-connected and stand-alone off-grid inverter. The...
This paper presents a decoupled power control method for a single-phase grid-tied inverter that uses model predictive control (MPC) to minimize the number of switch state changes required to control the output bridge while simultaneously constraining the output current harmonics. On one hand, minimizing the number of switch state changes in the output bridge of the inverter results in minimizing switching...
In this paper a new active output filter” (AOF) for variable speed constant frequency power system in aerospace applications is proposed. The proposed AOF is envisioned as a power semiconductor filter block. In the proposed system the passive L-C output filter components are replaced by an H-bridge. The H-bridge is operated at high frequency to inject voltage harmonics to achieve a sinusoidal output...
The distributed inverters generally are integrated into power grid without any switching sequence coordinated control capability since they are equipped with their own micro controllers to command the output quantities. The switching ripples of all distributed inverters will then be randomly accumulated at the point of common coupling. The recently proposed global synchronous pulsewidth modulation...
This paper investigates various random PWM (RPWM) techniques for conventional two-level inverter-fed traction drives and proposes a discrete RPWM technique for acoustic noise reduction. The proposed RPWM technique randomizes within a set of predefined switching frequencies compared with the continuous nature of randomization in conventional RPWM techniques. The proposed method was compared with conventional...
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