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Microinverters connect a single photovoltaic (PV) module to the grid, and therefore require a high voltage step-up conversion ratio. This is usually achieved in a two-stage approach with a step-up dc-dc converter followed by a step-down inverter. More recently single-stage step-up inverters have been proposed under the assumption that less stages improves efficiency. This paper compares these two...
Power system restoration takes place where power systems experience a blackout and might be splitted into several islands with limited number of black start units. The main challenge of the restoration process is to keep both frequency and voltage within allowable limits while restoring the network through energizing lines and transformers as well as load pickup. The load pickup scheme is determined...
Electric models of battery have to take into account the effect of temperature for the state-of-charge estimation. As a matter of fact, at low temperature the driving range of the vehicle can be overestimated up to more than 20% with electric only models. We propose to couple thermal and electric battery models for improving the range estimation.
This paper proposes a single-switch circuit derived from buck boost converter which converts input DC voltage into desirable AC and DC voltages. The switching strategy used is sinusoidal pulse width modulation with a DC offset-known as augmented sinusoidal pulse width modulation (ASPWM). The ASPWM waveform is obtained by sine triangle comparison method where the modulating signal is the combination...
A large area (150mm) high voltage (6.5kV) Reverse Conducting-Integrated Gate Commutated Thyristor (RC-IGCT) has been developed for low frequency high power electronics applications. The devices were fabricated with GCT to diode active area ratio of 1.4. The RC-IGCT wafers were designed with an outer ring gate structure to minimize the stray impedance for the gate signal and also to improve the thermal...
A 15 kVA power electronic system with a battery energy storage system is presented in the paper. The system is designed for areas where a problem with the quality of the electrical power arises. The system is intended for households and small industrial facilities and provides a variety of functionalities such as: ability of providing high quality voltage for the customers load, uninterruptible power...
Direct torque control (DTC), which is one type of PMSM drive system, can realize maximum-torque-per-ampere (MTPA) control and flux-weakening control by yielding an optimum target magnetic flux. In this paper, we propose armature reaction flux control that can achieve flux weakening control for PMSM control systems using DTC. Our proposed control focuses on the equivalence of the reactive power, which...
The implementation of 15 kV Silicon Carbide (SiC) MOSFETs in a three-phase, three-level active power filter of 100 kVA for a 10 kVAC grid and their challenges is shown. Due to the high switching frequency of 16 kHz, respectively 32 kHz ripple frequency, it will perfectly suited for active filtering of harmonics in the medium voltage grid.
A new single-stage three-phase resonant ac-dc quad-active-bridge (QAD) converter is proposed. It uses a new modulation scheme designed for use with a tuned LCL resonant network that achieves unity power factor at both network ports, which leads to reduction in rms bridge currents and conduction loss. The line-frequency phase currents are individually controllable by modulating the ac-side and dc-side...
Localization of series arc faults in dc microgrids is an important requirement to guarantee operational safety and uninterrupted power to end users. In the previous EPE-ECCE proceeding, a theoretical proof was provided for the selective series arc detection using a novel algorithm. In the current paper, the concept is validated by showcasing real time localized detection when series arc is initiated...
The effect of humidity on SiC Power MOSFET modules is investigated in an industrial application. Four modules are operated outdoor and four modules are operated indoor in identical setups, while their breakdown voltages are monitored regularly. The evolution of the leakage current, indicating humidity-induced degradation is observed.
The impact of capacitor voltage changes during the modulation period is examined in order to improve the arm voltage of a modular multilevel converter. Different methods are used to predict and compensate for the capacitor voltage change and the resulting arm voltage error, whereby two of the improvements provide a possibility to easily upgrade existing modulation algorithms. Simulation and measurement...
This paper proposes a three-phase six-inductor double-switch PFC circuit which is suitable for high frequency UPS application. This PFC circuit not only achieves high power factor correction in grid-connected mode of UPS, but also improves bus voltage in battery mode of UPS. This new PFC removes the independent boost design in common UPS and the whole cost can be reduced. The topology structure and...
This paper will present different modulation schemes for optimizing the efficiency of low-voltage traction drives. The converter of the vehicle automatically has to select the most suitable modulation or control scheme depending on the present operating point in order to maximize the efficiency of the complete drive train. Furthermore, the functional principles and algorithms of the individual modulation...
A helical-type fusion facility uses a large-scale superconducting DC magnet. To maintain the coil current of this magnet during steady-state operation, a large output current supplied by a very-low-voltage power supply is necessary. For this purpose, a DC power supply using a mechanical contact as a switching device was designed, and a small model of the contact was tested.
Interior permanent magnet synchronous motors (IPMSMs) are currently widely utilized as traction motors. The permanent magnets used in IPMSMs are an important factor; thus, high-coercivity permanent magnets with lesser rare-earth elements are in development. This paper proposes two modified versions of double-layered IPMSMs containing a strong magnet to improve their efficiency and reduce their size...
This paper proposes a novel approach to photovoltaic (PV) module level power electronics (MLPE). Functionally, it is a hybrid of PV power optimizer and microinverter with such key features as shade-tolerant (or global) maximum power point tracking (MPPT), galvanic isolation, direct AC connectivity, PV module level monitoring and safety cut-off, flexibility of installation and PV power system sizing...
This paper presents an adaptive slope compensation method for peak current mode control of digital controlled DC-DC converters, which controls the quality factor of the complex conjugated poles at half the switching frequency. Using quality factor control enables optimization of the dynamic performance and stability of current mode control. The presented method adapt to DC-DC converter operating conditions...
This paper proposes an analytical spectral calculation method based on 3-D Fourier integral to obtain accurate spectra of both output voltage and input current of a scalar modulated matrix converter. The matrix converter (MC) is a direct AC-AC power converter without an intermediate DC link; three-phase output is synthesized by three-phase input through nine bidirectional switches. At present, there...
This paper presents a model-based method to increase the dynamics of a current control loop within field-oriented control. The improvement is achieved by compensating for time delays within the control loop. The presented method is verified both through simulations using MATLAB/Simulink and with measurements using a rapid-control prototyping platform.
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