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Hybrid LV ac/dc microgrids are being considered for commercial buildings which bring new design requirements for the multiport converter aimed to interface both ac and dc grids. In this paper, we explore the potential to use two well-developed topologies for this targeted application. An optimization-based genetic algorithm which allows to find the best possible choices among different off-the-shelf...
For manifolds with topologies that strongly differ from the standard topology of Rn, using common filters created for linear domains can yield misleading results. While there is a lot of ongoing research on estimation on the unit circle, higher-dimensional problems particularly pose a challenge. One important generalization of the unit circle is the unit hypersphere. In this paper, we propose a recursive...
Renewable energy resources are connected to power grid through voltage source inverters. In these systems, the electric current entering into the grid is supposed to fulfill the IEEE criteria, so that high quality of power with less distortion is transported. Due to this, low pass filters like L, LC or LCL are applied by means of the inverter to minimize the harmonics getting into the grid. LCL filters...
With the increasing penetration of renewable energy generations such as solar and wind power, negative impacts of the large-scale integration of renewable energy on the bulk grid cannot be ignored. Thus, grid integration testing of inverter-coupled renewable energy is essential. For this reason, a high power gird simulator capable of emulating various types of realistic grid conditions is needed for...
This paper presents the design and control of a three-phase ground power supply unit for aircraft servicing. A new mixed technology converter composed by a three-phase Silicon Carbide (SiC) full bridge unit and a three-phase full bridge IGBT unit connected across the same dc link is used instead of the conventional full bridge configuration. In order to satisfy the stringent requirements of the output...
Multilevel topology and selective harmonic compensation (SHC) can control active power, reactive power, and to provide ancillary functions to support the grid. However, researchers find that with conventional L or LCL filter, multilevel SHC would act as noise source and inject harmonics to the grid by itself. Moreover, the output current of the multilevel converter is sensitive to the error of the...
A hybrid active filter with a new voltage synchronization control loop is proposed to improve the harmonic content of nonlinear active front end converters for mobile mining equipment. This hybrid filter topology utilizes the DC bus established by the AFE and provides load harmonics at the PCC. Unlike traditional hybrid active filters, this topology uses no real power or control loops to maintain...
The three-level T type inverter has been extensively used in photovoltaic (PV) generation. Various PV panels in cascaded connection normally require unequal dc voltage to accomplish separate maximum power point tracking (MPPT). This paper proposes a DPWM-controlled three-level T type inverter for two strings of PV panels in cascaded connection. The proposed modulation is developed based on the so-called...
The trends in power DC/DC conversion are not only size and weight reduction together with a good efficiency; EMI and mass production are a must as well. In this context, piezoelectric transformers seem to be the ideal solution, since they allow higher switching frequencies (size and weight reduction) while also providing high efficiencies. Additionally, they are not magnetic devices, which facilitates...
This paper presents dynamic analysis of a Modular Multi-Parallel Rectifier (MMR) based on state-space modelling. The proposed topology is suitable for high power motor drive or multi-parallel AC-DC applications, which can reduce line current harmonics emissions significantly. However, a proper controller is required to share and control current through each rectifier. Mathematical analysis and simulations...
This paper presents a harmonic suppression control strategy under unbalanced point of common coupling (PCC) voltage for modular multilevel converter based shunt active power filter (MMC-SAPF). Harmonics are extracted by multiple synchronous reference frame (MSRF) algorithm to generate the compensation current references of positive- and negative-sequence control for MMC-SAPF. The proposed independent...
Wireless electric vehicle (EV) charger has become increasingly popular because of its improved convenience and safety and its advantage of smaller green-house gas (GHG) emissions. The power control method of the wireless power transfer (WPT) system has great impact on the performance of the charger. In order to simplify the power electronics converters and improve the reliability of the system closed-loop...
The star-configured modular multilevel converter is a promising topology for grid-connected storage as well as power-quality applications and motor drives. During operation, the ac output power generates substantial current pulsation at twice the output frequency in the modules, which causes additional loss and requires an increase of the module capacitance. This paper presents a common-mode voltage...
This paper proposes a new modulation technique for an interleaved H-bridge qZS inverter that is intended for the single-phase photovoltaic systems. The potential benefits of this topology are reduced passive components and improved quality of energy generation. The modulation technique developed allows the maximum boost control for a better utilization of the dc-link. It is developed with the required...
The Vienna rectifier is a common used topology for three-phase PFC converters in many applications. However, apart from many apparent advantages which ensure reliability and efficiency, it has an inherent problem, current distortions at zero-crossing points, due to its own structure. The filter is necessary at the grid side, with conventional carrier-based PWM (CB-PWM) method implemented, the current...
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...
PFC converters are widely used in industrial drive systems. The modulation scheme and the topology of the converter have a considerable impact not only on the switching losses, but also on the volume of the passive components, i.e. the EMI filter (CM and DM) and the dC link capacitors. In order to evaluate this impact, different modulation schemes for 2L and 3L topologies are analysed in this paper...
ISOV (Input Series Output Parallel) modular DAB (Dual Active Bridge) converter based topologies have been mostly considered for solid-state transformer (SST) based power substation design, involving multilevel converters at the medium-voltage side. As DAB converter is one of the core components of this topology, an important question to address is thus the freewheeling currents of DAB which increases...
This paper presents an improved single phase seven-level active rectifier architecture controlled by finite control set model predictive control (FCS-MPC). The FCS-MPC is designed to enable power conversion with a unity power factor and generate seven level voltage waveform at the input. The proposed active rectifier architecture reduces harmonic contents of the rectifier input current by producing...
This paper is mainly focus on bidirectional on-board charger with high performance and low cost. With SiC MOSFET, it is possible to make the on-board charger high efficiency, high power density and light weight. However, the price of the SiC MOSFET is higher than Si based MOSFET. Therefore, a high performance on-board charger with a small number of SiC MOSFET is the key factor to limit the cost of...
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