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In the case of the presence of ferroresonance in distribution transformer due to a faulty switching operation, ferroresonance signals should be discriminated among its initiations due to opened single-phase, opened two-phases, and opened three-phases, so that ferroresonance mitigation can be conducted appropriately. However, the performance of mitigation system itself is highly determined by its accuracy...
LLC resonant converter is most frequently effective DC/DC converter to improve the power density and efficiency of DC charging module in electric vehicle power supply. Soft-switching technique can be applied in the topology to reduce the switch losses. However, DC charging module brings about 27% of failures in Electric vehicles (EV) charge device. The aim of this paper is to evaluate the reliability...
In modern distributed energy systems (DES), there is a shift in focus from conventional centralized approach to more advanced distributed architecture. Modeling and analysis of these complex systems is more challenging, as multiple energy sources are connected with different loads through power electronics converters. Due to vastly different dynamic characteristics of these converters, it is necessary...
In this paper a novel and fast open-circuit fault detection and localization method is proposed for Five-level active-neutral-point-clamped (5L-ANPC) converter. The method is based on comparing the measured output voltage with the reference voltage and the voltage obtained from the fault analysis. The implementation scheme of the method is presented; and all the practical aspects including capacitors...
This paper deals with the interruption scheme designed using Vacuum Circuit Breaker (VCB) based on zero crossing characteristics, implemented electromechanically for High Voltage Direct Current (HVDC) system. The operation is carried out using Mechanical scheme as it has minimum energy loss in comparison to Solid-State and Hybrid schemes. The Mechanical scheme consists of series connection of multiple...
The modular multilevel converters (MMC) has become an attractive research subject of power electronics due to its special topology. In this paper, a novel sub-module circuit for the MMC is proposed. Compared with the traditional sub-module circuits, the number of power semiconductors used in the proposed circuit is reduced by a quarter. Then, an improved three-phase multilevel topology is also constructed...
Model mismatch from parameter uncertainties and disturbance is a challenge of controller design for DC-DC boost converters. To deal with this problem, a composite cascade adaptive controller is proposed in this paper. The outer loop is a PI controller combined with a feedforward compensator to generate the current signal from the output voltage reference and the inner loop is a finite horizon Model...
A novel sub-module circuit is proposed in this paper based on the controllability theory. At first, traditional full bridge sub-modules (FBSM) of the MMC is modeled as a switched linear system, then controllability of the switched linear system model of the sub-module circuit is studied. It is found that the sub-module circuit is state controllable with only four operation modes adopted in the model...
This paper presents a full-order equivalent circuit model of Dual Active Bridge (DAB) converter. The proposed equivalent circuit facilitates the in-depth knowledge on the physical insight of DAB converter and can precisely retain both the steady state and dynamic behavior of the original system. This equivalent circuit can be divided into two parts: ac branch and dc branch. Both ac branch and dc branch...
Droop control is widely used in distributed generators for relating their terminal parameters to power generation. These generators are usually assumed to have enough capacities for supplying the required power. This is however not always true, especially with renewable sources with no or insufficient storage. To deal with this issue, an improved droop-based control is proposed for single-phase two-stage...
The paper presents a new four-level voltage source converter (VSC). Compared to conventional four-level converters, this proposed converter has fewer components and can be used for a higher power density system in low and medium voltage applications. Its principles and advantages are studied in this paper. The effect of various redundant switching states on the voltages of flying capacitors is analyzed...
Wireless power transfer (WPT) using double-sided LCC compensation features with a proportional relation between input voltage and output current, which is load independent. It lays a solid base for primary-side DC/DC control. In this paper, a novel switching converter control strategy — one cycle control (OCC) combined with proportion differentiation (PD) is proposed to form a robust, fast and precise...
Modular Multilevel Converter (MMC) has great application prospects for the flexible HVDC transmission, high-power motor drive and so on. In this paper, a discrete-time model of the MMC based on the virtual ergodic method is proposed for the typical MMC topology. First, the MMC topology is analyzed and its continuous-time model is established. Then, the state equation in the continuous-time model is...
Due to the presence of power electronics interfaced generation, voltage stability is a key design goal for converter control systems, such as in Medium-Voltage DC in naval vessels. In the presence of power electronic converter interfaced loads that can display high-bandwidth constant power load (CPL) behavior, the nonlinearity of the negative incremental resistance can induce instability. This paper...
Modular multilevel converter (MMC) is a promising topology of Voltage Source Converter based High voltage Direct Current (VSC-HVDC) system with many outstanding advantages such as low switching frequency, low voltage distortion and harmonics. Pre-charge process is one of the core issues of MMC based system, especially for the MMC with DC fault blocking capability. In this paper, considering a novel...
The multilevel converter is a prospective topology for both Medium Voltage and High Voltage Direct Current (HVDC) applications. In high power application, the forward topology is applied to increase the power region. In this paper, a novel forward-mode five-level inverter is presented which combines the features of the conventional multilevel converters and forward topology. The converters can transfer...
A passive lossless snubber for soft-switching Bidirectional Buck/boost Converter (BBC) is proposed in this paper. Although the conventional lossless snubbers can effectively alleviate the switching losses during turn on and turn off transients, they can be applied to only the unidirectional converters, but not a bidirectional converter. On the other hand, the proposed lossless snubber is able to improve...
This paper proposes an approach to model switched Ethernet communication within a model- and component-based software development framework for vehicular distributed embedded systems. The paper also presents a method to extract the network timing model from the systems that use switched Ethernet networks. In order to provide a proof of concept, an existing industrial component model and its tool suite,...
This paper studies the balance problems of neutral-point potential in three level neutral-point clamped inverter. Based on double modulation wave pulse control strategy, a new offset voltage algorithm is proposed. This control strategy can completely eliminate the low-frequency fluctuations in neutral-point potential. The size of neutral-point current is changed by changing the zero-state duty cycle...
This paper proposes a distributed filtering scheme over sensor networks with topology switching and topology-dependent event-triggered transmission schemes. A new monitoring mechanism is introduced to identify the topology switching instants, and the system output is sampled by sensors when the network topology switches. Based on the time-varying sampled-outputs, a group of distributed topology-dependent...
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