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This paper presents the design process of a 13.56 MHz 10 kW and high efficiency inverter for wireless power transfer systems. The new 650V E-mode GaN is used in multiphase resonant topology to obtain high output power. The optimized efficiency design and the driver design are presented in detail. The circuit simulation results show that the inverter achieves 10 kW output power with the efficiency...
A capacitor voltage balancing method for a three phase modular multilevel DC-DC converter (MMDC) is proposed in the paper. The MMDC is derived from a three phase DAB and a modular multilevel converter (MMC) and inherits desirable features of both topologies. To guarantee stable operation of the MMDC, submodule (SM) capacitor voltages are required to be balanced. The proposed balancing method is to...
Multilevel inverters are high voltage, high power devices with wide electrical applications due to their lower output harmonic component and device stress management capabilities. Manifold control strategies have been proposed and implemented for MLIs and fundamental frequency switching strategies are especially suited due to their ability to provide for higher efficiency. This paper proposes a hybrid...
A semi-active hybrid energy storage system, consisting of a Li-ion battery pack, dc/dc converter, and Li-ion capacitor pack is developed for a range extended plug-in vehicle application. The vehicle has a series-parallel drivetrain with two electric motors, a gas engine, gearbox, and a clutch to allow the engine to run decoupled from the gearbox in range extending mode. The peak dc electrical requirement...
Since the capacitor equivalent series resistance (ESR) above 1kHz almost stays constant, dc-link current root-mean-square (RMS) closed form equation is an easy way to evaluate the capacitor losses from the switching harmonic currents (SHCs). But when the ac current contains multiple low order harmonics (LOHs), their impacts on the dc-link has not been systematically studied. In this paper, a straightforward...
This paper proposes possibilities of Y-connected three-leg topologies, that are built from combinations of two-level and three-level legs (hybrid structures). Therefore, four topologies are studied and compared in aspects such as harmonic distortion of output voltages and rating of power switches. Additionally, semiconductor losses comparisons in different scenarios of load (either high current or...
This paper proposes a modular multilevel converter (MMC) topology, designed particularly for load balancing in 50 Hz railway applications. The asymmetrical character of the traction load requires higher device rating for a Double-star or Delta-connected MMC compared to a symmetrical static compensator. This is due to the symmetrizing components to rebalance the capacitor voltages in the submodules...
Modular multilevel converter (MMC) has been proved a prospective topology in high voltage and high power occasions. Hybrid MMC mixed with half-bridge (HB) and full-bridge submodules (FBSMs), which achieves a good tradeoff between power devices quantity and dc short circuit fault handling capability, attracts extensive attention. In this paper, the characteristics of SM capacitor voltage ripples are...
This paper presents an indirect model predictive control to develop a direct power regulator for a modular multilevel converter connected to a high voltage direct current bus line, where the main task is to bidirectionally transfer active power to the grid and simultaneously compensate reactive power. The main advantage, of the proposed dynamic matrix control methodology, is to capture the system...
This paper discusses a MHz isolated HV/LV DC-DC converter for automotive applications. The proposed circuit is constructed with a low cost structure by using multitransformer and Si-MOSFETs to achieve frequency multiplying. Three circuit configurations namely, cascaded-type, parallel-type and cascaded-parallel-type, are considered and discussed. Fundamental control and switching behaviors are explained...
A delta-structured switched-capacitor equalizer (DSSCE) is proposed to achieve the automatic any-cells-to-any-cells (AC2AC) balancing for a long battery string, leading to the fast-speed and high-efficiency balancing. Only two switches are required for each battery cell, and one capacitor is set for any two cells, materializing the delta-structured switched capacitors (SC). All MOSFETs are triggered...
High voltage and wide bandgap (WBG) semiconductor devices like the 15 kV SiC MOSFET have attracted a lot of attention because of their potential applications in high voltage and high power converters. However, they are not commercially available at present and their high cost might be a hindrance to their widespread adoption in future. To address the commercial unavailability and the high cost issues...
The symmetrical compensation is widely used in inductive power transfer (IPT) system due to the advantages of achieving good coupling coefficient when the coils are perfectly aligned and easy to design. This paper investigates a general tuning method for voltage-fed symmetrical higher-order resonant networks for achieving load-independent transconductance. With the proposed tuning method, a resonant...
Owing to economic aspects, Central inverter is the dominating candidate in large scale PV installations despite its lower energy harvest compared to other topologies like string inverters especially under partial shading conditions. In this paper a new voltage balancing topology is introduced to enable better energy yield from central inverters. The proposed topology is characterized by its fractional...
A highly flexible and reliable control strategy is proposed to achieve bounded voltage and precise current sharing, which is implemented in a reverse-droop-based dc Micro-Grid. To acquire the fast-dynamic response, the reverse droop control is used to replace the V-I droop control in the primary level. In the secondary level, the containment-based controller is proposed to bound the bus voltages within...
Compared with the conventional high voltage DC power supply, the high voltage pulse power supply can significantly improve the dust removal efficiency of electrostatic precipitator and reduce the energy consumption. This paper presents a new type of high voltage pulse electrostatic precipitator power supply topology, the symmetric cascaded structure of the low voltage side which can significantly...
An isolated high-voltage high-frequency pulsed power converter for non-thermal plasma ozone generation is proposed in this paper. With an input of 500 VDC, the output pulsed voltage can reach −12 kV through the inductor-capacitor resonance together with a step-up transformer. The pulse duration is designed as 1.66 μs. An anti-series connected switch pair at the input terminal enables the energy stored...
Due to the increasing demands of safe and efficient renewable energy systems, isolated DC-DC converters became widely used in this field as the essential power conversion blocks. At the same time, such converters are demanded for wide input voltage range and fault tolerance as desirable features. This paper proposes a isolated boost full bridge DC-DC converter which features wide input range and resilient...
A wide range current controlled CMOS transconductor is presented. The proposed circuit relies on a current controlled current amplifier that uses an unbalanced current mirror. A fifth-order Butterworth low pass filter based on the novel transconductor is also presented as application.
Lifetime of aluminum electrolytic capacitors is of paramount importance, since in many power electronic voltage source converter systems this capacitor type is used in the DC-link. Thermal stress is one of the most critical stressors for electrolytic capacitors leading to wear-out and failures. Therefore, methods to perform online monitoring of the hotspot temperature of capacitors would lead to beneficial...
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