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This paper investigates a multilevel inverter composed of series/parallel-connected H-bridges. The presented structure can be used for applications in which is intended to use semiconductor switches with low voltage and low current rating. A comprehensive system model to control the circulating current, an overall control strategy to adjust the output voltage with constant magnitude and frequency,...
In this paper, a zero-voltage switching DC-AC inverter is designed and realized. The neutral point clamped topology and fix-frequency PWM control are used in the proposed inverter to implement a single-phase DC-AC inverter. Also, an auxiliary inductor and two auxiliary switches are adopted to achieve zero-voltage switching, which can improve the inverter efficiency. In this paper, the proposed DC-AC...
This paper proposes a 5-level single-phase multilevel inverter topology with reduced number of components. In order to validate the proposed structure, simulation and experimental results are presented. In addition, the proposed topology is compared with an existing counterpart structure in terms of number of levels and number of devices and value of power supply.
In this paper, a new critical-conduction-mode (CRM)-based modulation is proposed for three-phase inverters. With this modulation, soft switching is achieved and the efficiency of the inverter is improved, especially for high frequency operation with SiC MOSFET. In three-phase string PV inverter applications, by operating at switching frequency above 300 kHz, power density of the inverter is estimated...
To improve light load efficiency, a three-phase photovoltaic (PV) based microinverter may operate in single-phase, two-phase or three-phase mode depending on the available input power. Therefore, its DC link capacitor may be subjected to large peak-to-peak voltage ripple when operating in phase skipping mode. This paper determines the minimum value of the DC link capacitor by allowing the maximum...
This paper introduces the differential-mode circulating current (DMCC) and zero-sequence circulating current (ZSCC) reduction method for paralleled inverters with zero common-mode (CM) PWM algorithm. By analyzing the reason of current jump in phase-leg, the method based on the freedom of PWM signal exchange and active voltage vector sequence exchange can be adopted which can keep volt-seconds balance...
This paper proposes a model predictive control-space vector modulation (MPC-SVM) method to achieve current ripple reduction and neutral-point voltage balance in three level inverter. The proposed MPC-SVM method is based on subdivision strategy for improving the performance of the conventional model predictive control (MPC) method. The proposed subdivision strategy consists of two parts: current controller...
A conventional medium-voltage large-capacity bidirectional chopper used in a battery energy storage system for dc electric railways is equipped with a heavy and bulky inductor for current smoothing. This paper presents a bidirectional chopper for the purpose of reducing the size and volume of an inductor, which is characterized by using an auxiliary converter in addition to the main converter. The...
Interleaved DC-DC converter employing close-coupled inductors is a popular topology among other power converters topologies. Close-coupled inductors allow the power converter to achieve high power density and high efficiency. This paper proposes a novel magnetic structure of close-coupled inductors suitable for increasing the thermal handling capability. The proposed magnetic structure is combined...
This paper presents an Integrated switched-coupled-inductor boost-flyback converter (abbreviated as SCIBFC), which has benefits of both Integrated boost-flyback converter (IBFC) and switched coupled-inductor boost converter. The principle of the proposed converter, analysis of operation (including the effects of parasitic parameters), and design guideline are included. SCIBFC achieves soft-switching...
A Visible Light Communication (VLC) transmitter based on the use of DC-DC power converters is presented in this work. The architecture is made up of two DC-DC power converters in output-series connection. One of them is responsible for performing the communication functionality by operating at high switching frequency (10 MHz), whereas the second one fulfills the illumination functionality by ensuring...
Traditionally, single-input-multi-output power converters are used to power different parts of a system assembled on a printed circuit board (PCB). The imperfections of this strategy are well-known and include complicated PCB design and thermal management, poor load side voltage regulation, and reduced power density and efficiency. A DC distributed bus, obtained using a resonant LLC bus converter,...
LLC resonant converters are widely employed in industrial applications due to their high efficiency and power density. The design of closed-loop controllers for these converters is particularly challenging due to its non-linear behaviour and many different operating modes. The traditional linear techniques that are usually employed for this application require complex analysis or the use of empirical...
The difficulty of modeling a resonant converter is the fact that, unlike a pulse-width-modulation (PWM) converter, an average concept doesn't work. The only successful equivalent circuit model, proposed by E. Yang, is based on fundamental approximation and harmonic balance theory. However, it is conceptually hard to understand because of an unidentified “equilibrium state.” A resonant converter was...
This paper introduces a closed-loop control architecture for an impedance control network (ICN) resonant dc-dc converter that regulates the converter's output voltage while achieving soft-switching across wide operating ranges. This architecture is based on enhanced phase-shift control of the ICN converter, in which the inverter and rectifier phase-shifts are simultaneously controlled to regulate...
In this paper, a novel effective duty cycle method is introduced to predict the RMS and average current for power components in discontinuous conduction mode (DCM) AC-DC boost power factor correction (PFC) topologies. The proposed model can be used for power component conduction losses estimation. The RMS current and average current of power components are derived. PSIM simulation and experimental...
This paper presents the design of a digital controller for a 600 W Boundary-Conduction-Mode (BCM) interleaved boost converter used in an ac-dc Power-Factor-Correction (PFC) power supply. The output voltage of a typical boost PFC rectifier contains a 2nd harmonic ripple. Therefore to achieve good power factor, the output voltage compensator must have a low bandwidth, in order to sufficiently attenuate...
This paper proposes new modulated carrier control (MCC) method for power factor correction (PFC) rectifier which provides high power factor (PF) and low total harmonic distortion (THD) regardless of continuous conduction mode (CCM) and discontinuous conduction mode (DCM). The proposed control method employs a modified MCC control circuit based on the conventional MCC using average current sensing...
Classical induction machine design generally focuses on achieving high steady state efficiency. In contrast, automotive applications consist of almost continuous transients, where the flux linkage is varied along the driving cycle to save energy. With conventional induction machines designed for high steady state efficiency, higher peak current and excessive machine losses can occur during the transient...
In this paper, we investigate the variation in characteristics of variable speed induction motors fed by inverters with grades of core materials used for stators and rotors from both results of measurement and finite element analysis. Identical shaped stator/rotor cores are manufactured by using several kinds of electrical steel sheets from low to high grades. Then, the characteristics of these motors...
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