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Silicon carbide bipolar junction transistors (SiC-BJT) are promising power semiconductor devices for high efficient motor drive inverters. Especially with the very low on-state voltage drop and high switching speed it challenges the state of the art device - the silicon IGBT. The main disadvantage is the high driver loss in on-state compared to its voltage driven competitors, though. With the one-step...
The control of SRM was discussed: current chopping control, angle position control. This paper presents a inverter circuit and a fuzzy sliding mode control method to minimize the torque fluctuation and noise of the SRM. Based on the experimental results, Using the inverter circuit and fuzzy sliding mode control method can effectively minimize the torque fluctuation and noise of the SRM, For the switched...
Conventional anti-islanding techniques used in grid-tied photovoltaic (PV) systems pose many disadvantages at high levels of PV deployment. One such issue is the inability of these systems to ride-through grid disturbances. In this paper, the use of a Power Line Carrier Communications (PLCC) Permissive anti-islanding scheme is investigated as a means of safely enabling ride-through operation of grid-tied...
This paper proposes the use of a 3-level Cascaded H-Bridge Multilevel Inverter (CHMI) topology which results in further torque ripple minimization compared to the 2-level inverter-based Direct Torque Control (DTC). This is due to the increase in the inverter switching voltage vectors that allows minimization of the torque error. This in turn can reduce the Total Harmonic Distortion (THD) of the output...
This paper outlines a controller that balances the flux of the isolation transformer in a multi-stage high-frequency-link (HFL) bi-directional inverter. It comprises a primary-side high-frequency (HF) dc/ac converter (referred to as Bridge I) followed by cascaded ac/pulsating-dc and pulsating-dc/ac converters (referred to as Bridge II and Bridge III) on the secondary side of the transformer. The overall...
Static Compensator (STATCOM) has been widely proposed for power quality and network stability improvement. It is easily connected in parallel to the electric network and has many advantages for electrical grids. It can improve network stability; power factor, power transfer rating. It can also avoid disturbances such as voltage sag (dip) and swell which is the main concern of this paper. This paper...
A Spread Spectrum Modulation scheme based on Space Vector for three level inverter is proposed in this paper. The scheme disperses the power spectrum of the inverter output voltage as a wide-spectrum noise. The vector space of inverter reference space vector region is divided into voronoi regions to find out switching vectors. A new method is presented to code these voronoi regions with Vector Quantization...
This paper presents a new micro-inverter topology that is intended for single-phase grid-connected PV systems. The features of the proposed topology are: (1) eliminating the double-frequency power ripple using small film capacitor; (2) improving the maximum-power-point tracking (MPPT) performance; (3) using long life-time film capacitors, which will improve the reliability of the inverter; and (4)...
SiC-JFET based inverters can achieve very fast switching, hence reducing the commutation losses, at the cost of increased Electro-Magnetic Interferences (EMI). To keep the EMI conducted emissions within reasonable limits, we propose to integrate some small-values capacitors directly into the power module. Common Mode (CM) is investigated and compared with a standard configuration. The high frequency...
In the transformerless photovoltaic (PV) system, the common mode ground leakage current may appear due to the galvanic connection between the PV array and the ground, which causes the safety issues and reduces the efficiency. To solve this problem, a novel inverter topology with switched capacitors is proposed in this paper. By connecting one pole of the PV cell directly to the neutral line of the...
This paper presents a high-frequency transformer link single-phase inverter system using a series resonant soft-switching scheme applied to photovoltaic AC modules. The proposed high-frequency transformer link inverter circuit consists of a full-bridge inverter, a series resonant circuit, an isolation transformer with center tap winding in secondary side and low-frequency distribution switches synchronized...
In this paper the issue of dynamic equalization of the dc bus voltages unbalance is considered in the case of single-phase split-capacitor three-level neutral-point-clamped (NPC) half-bridge inverters for photovoltaic (PV) inverters. The lack of a proper equalization strategy would lead to a rapid drift of dc bus voltages, causing stability problems to the inverter output current control loop and...
The conventional voltage source inverter is only a buck converter and conventional current source inverter is only a boost converter. By adding a Z-Source network, the buck-boost capability can be achieved. The recently proposed Quasi-Z-Source inverter (qZSI) is an important improvement to Z-Source inverter (ZSI), which greatly reduces the passive component stress. The current-fed qZSI can buck-boost...
In this paper, a high gain single-stage buck-boost grid-connected system is proposed. The proposed system consists of a high voltage gain - high efficiency - switched inductor buck-boost converter (SIBBC) and a folded cascade H-bridge inverter. The proposed converter switch is derived with a sinusoidal modulation, so that the converter output voltage is a rectified sine wave which requires only a...
This paper presents a modified small-signal model of a voltage source inverter (VSI) that captures model nonlinearities such as dead time and modulation effects that were not presented in the literature. Previous research has concentrated on developing compensation methods for these types of phenomena in a switching model, but none actually derived an analytical model that can predict them. In this...
In order to improve power reliability of critical load, distributed generation (DG) should be with intentional islanding operation when utility is outage. This paper proposes a novel control strategy for three phase inverter in DG to realize transferring between grid-tied and islanding modes, which is with an inner inductor current loop and outer capacitor voltage loop in the synchronous rotating...
For dc-microgrid applications, a power supply system requires a bi-directional inverter to control the power flow between dc bus and ac grid, and to regulate the dc bus to a certain range of voltages. Its microcontroller has to determine operational modes and current commands for the inverter cycle by cycle. For using the memory space of the microcontroller efficiently and increasing current-command...
This paper presents a simple, ultra-compact and isolated gate driver system used to drive power switches. Using two legs of a CMOS inverter, a high frequency transformer and two zener diodes connected with the gate of power switch, this driver provides an optimal gate driver waveform with a high gate voltage to switch on the transistor, and a negative bias gate voltage during OFF state. In the paper,...
This paper describes the analysis and design of a DC-DC converter topology which is operational at frequencies in the Very High Frequency (VHF) band ranging from 30 MHz-300 MHz. The presented topology, which consists of a class E inverter, class E rectifier, and self-oscillating gate driver, is inherently resonant, and switching losses are greatly reduced by ensuring Zero Voltage Switching (ZVS) of...
Vehicle to grid (V2G) power transfer has been under research for more than a decade because of the large energy reserve of an electric vehicle battery and the potential of thousands of these connected to the grid. In this study a complete analysis of the front end inverter of a non-isolated bidirectional EV/PHEV charger capable of V2G reactive power compensation is presented.
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