Shuyan Zhao, Yao Wang, R. Kheirollahi, Yashraj Shanker, Jeremy Wartenberg, Dana Murphy, Hua Zhang, F. Lu
{"title":"Modular Scalable Power Electronics Building Block Based MVDC Solid State Circuit Breakers","authors":"Shuyan Zhao, Yao Wang, R. Kheirollahi, Yashraj Shanker, Jeremy Wartenberg, Dana Murphy, Hua Zhang, F. Lu","doi":"10.1109/APEC43580.2023.10131219","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/APEC43580.2023.10131219","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a design methodology of modular medium-voltage direct current (MVDC) solid-state circuit breakers (SSCBs) based on scalable power electronics building block (PEBB) units. Regarding the PEBB, 1) isolated gate drive, 2) natural convection cooling and 3) voltage clamping circuit are introduced. There are three major contributions of this paper. First, the PEBB concept is proposed for MVDC SSCB design for the first time. Second, a novel hybrid MOV based voltage clamping circuit is proposed to increase PEBB voltage rating thence enhancing SSCB efficiency. Third, a PEBB parallel packaging method is proposed based on economic analysis of compromise between efficiency enhancement and cost. A symmetrical busbar layout is proposed to ensure parallel switches consistency. A 1.33kV/40A PEBB prototype is successfully implemented, which is experimentally validated by 40A/1hour continuous conduction test and 1.33kV/200A fault interruption test. A 1.33kV/400A power disk prototype is then implemented based on 10 paralleled PEBBs and symmetrical busbar connections. A 400A/1hour continuous dc conduction test is conducted to verify its state-of-the-art 99.98% steady state efficiency, which paves the way for the next generation of high efficiency ultrafast solid-state breakers for MVDC systems.","PeriodicalId":151216,"journal":{"name":"2023 IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition (APEC)","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125697187","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Haoran Li, Diego Serrano, Shukai Wang, T. Guillod, Min Luo, Minjie Chen
{"title":"Predicting the B-H Loops of Power Magnetics with Transformer-based Encoder-Projector-Decoder Neural Network Architecture","authors":"Haoran Li, Diego Serrano, Shukai Wang, T. Guillod, Min Luo, Minjie Chen","doi":"10.1109/APEC43580.2023.10131497","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/APEC43580.2023.10131497","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a transformer-based encoder-projector-decoder neural network architecture for modeling power magnetics B-H hysteresis loops. The transformer-based encoder-decoder network architecture maps a flux density excitation waveform (B) into the corresponding magnetic field strength (H) waveform. The predicted B-H loop can be used to estimate the core loss and support magnetics-in-circuit simulations. A projector is added between the transformer encoder and decoder to capture the impact of other inputs such as frequency, temperature, and dc bias. An example transformer neural network is designed, trained, and tested to prove the effectiveness of the proposed architecture.","PeriodicalId":151216,"journal":{"name":"2023 IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition (APEC)","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126020130","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Partial Discharge Characterization of Solid-Dielectric-Based Transformer Under High Frequency High dv/dt PWM Voltage for MV Applications","authors":"Zhehui Guo, Hui Li, P. Cheetham, Nagaraju Guvvala","doi":"10.1109/APEC43580.2023.10131602","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/APEC43580.2023.10131602","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, the partial discharge (PD) of a solid-dielectric-based coreless transformer applied in an isolated gate driver power supply for 10-kV SiC MOSFETs is experimentally evaluated under a high frequency, high dv/dt PWM voltage. A PD test platform is built with a 10-kV SiC power module to generate high frequency, high dv/dt PWM voltage. Different PD detection equipment, including the photomultiplier tube (PMT), ultra-high frequency (UHF) antenna and high frequency current transform-er (HFCT) are adopted to detect PD signals. Experimental results validated that the solid-dielectric-based coreless transformer achieves PD free at 100-kHz, up to 75-V/ns, 5-kV PWM voltage excitation. The PD results under high frequency, high dv/dt PWM voltage and 60- Hz ac voltage are also compared.","PeriodicalId":151216,"journal":{"name":"2023 IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition (APEC)","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121963093","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Output Voltage Control via Dynamic Cancellation of a GaN-Based High-Power-Density Single-Phase Transformer-Less Online UPS","authors":"Maida Farooq, K. Afridi","doi":"10.1109/APEC43580.2023.10131624","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/APEC43580.2023.10131624","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a dynamic cancellation control strategy for the inversion stage of the recently proposed high-power-density common-neutral single-dc-bus (CN-SDB) single-phase online uninterruptible power supply (UPS). The inversion stage operates in buck or buck-boost mode depending on the polarity of the output voltage reference and produces a sinusoidal output voltage. Owing to the dual-mode nature of the inversion stage, output voltage regulation with standard feedback control results in a large dc-offset and poor total harmonic distortion (THD), which is unacceptable for practical applications. To substantially improve the output voltage dc-offset and THD, a dynamic cancellation control strategy is proposed for the buck-boost mode of the dual-mode inversion stage. An analytical model capturing the dynamics of the inversion stage with dynamic cancellation control strategy is also presented to facilitate the controller design. A 1-kVA GaN-based prototype of online UPS is designed, built, and tested, and the output voltage THD is experimentally measured across a wide output voltage range. Standard feedback control strategy results in a 10% output voltage THD whereas the dynamic cancellation control strategy offers a significant improvement of 68% and results in a 3.2% output voltage THD.","PeriodicalId":151216,"journal":{"name":"2023 IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition (APEC)","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127943493","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Bo Yao, Yichi Zhang, Pedro Correia, R. Wu, Sungyoung Song, I. Trintis, Haoran Wang, Huai Wang
{"title":"Accelerated degradation testing and failure phenomenon of metalized film capacitors for AC filtering","authors":"Bo Yao, Yichi Zhang, Pedro Correia, R. Wu, Sungyoung Song, I. Trintis, Haoran Wang, Huai Wang","doi":"10.1109/APEC43580.2023.10131420","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/APEC43580.2023.10131420","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents the degradation testing and failure mechanisms analysis of metalized film capacitors used for AC filtering in MW power converters. Based on more than 2,800 hours of accelerated testing under accelerated AC voltage, temperature, and AC current, various electro-thermal parameter data are recorded. The results reveal that capacitance values have negligible reduction until the testing samples catastrophically fail. The capacitor hot spot temperature and case temperature are measured along the testing, which are increasing. The observations provide a new perspective on the possible failure mechanisms and condition monitoring of film capacitors in AC filtering applications.","PeriodicalId":151216,"journal":{"name":"2023 IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition (APEC)","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121444481","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Yuchen He, Yuan Li, Bokang Zhou, Yuntao Zou, F. Peng
{"title":"An Ultra-Fast Inrush-Current-Free Startup Method for Grid-tie Inverter without Voltage Sensors","authors":"Yuchen He, Yuan Li, Bokang Zhou, Yuntao Zou, F. Peng","doi":"10.1109/APEC43580.2023.10131356","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/APEC43580.2023.10131356","url":null,"abstract":"This paper proposes an ultra-fast inrush-current-free startup method for grid-tie inverters without voltage sensors and phase-locked loop (PLL). Traditionally, the grid-tie inverter needs the voltage measured from points of common couplings (PCC) to generate the phase angle via PLL for inverter pulse-width-modulation (PWM) signals. The startup procedure is slow and inrush current occurs if the initial PWM does not match the unknown grid voltage well. This paper proposes a startup method that only uses measured inverter ac currents to generate the initial PWM by controlling the current to zero. The generated PWM pattern can be used to reproduce the real grid voltage regardless of the grid impedance. The zero-crossing points of the grid voltage are detected and then used for grid synchronization. The proposed startup procedure only needs a few cycles (16.67 ms/cycle) to reliably synchronize the inverter to the grid without any inrush current. Simulation and experimental results are presented to verify the effectiveness of this control strategy.","PeriodicalId":151216,"journal":{"name":"2023 IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition (APEC)","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121727480","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Electrothermal Modeling Based Digital Twin Method for Degradation Parameters Identification of DC-DC Converter","authors":"Chuangchuang Lu, Weiyang Zhou, Ke-feng Jin","doi":"10.1109/APEC43580.2023.10131640","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/APEC43580.2023.10131640","url":null,"abstract":"For most digital twin (DT) method, it is challenge to achieve high accuracy parameters identification due to the digital model is not a perfect replica of physical model. In this paper, a novel DT approach based on electrothermal model, which features more realistic than ideal model, is firstly proposed to obtain accurate parameters identification. By calculating the power loss of the proposed digital model, the temperature of self-heating devices in the digital model, such as MOSFETs, diodes and capacitors, can be obtained, so that the values of the temperature-dependent parameters in these devices can be updated, and hence more accurate results can be guaranteed. The proposed method is validated on a 500W buck converter and the experimental results show that the maximum estimated error of the on-state resistances of MOSFET is 0.6%, which is hundreds of times higher accuracy than conventional DT methods.","PeriodicalId":151216,"journal":{"name":"2023 IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition (APEC)","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121744563","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Liqi Zhang, Zhicheng Guo, Soumik Sen, Chen Chen, A. Q. Huang
{"title":"A Novel Series-Parallel Design of The 3.6kV/400A SiC Austin SuperMOS","authors":"Liqi Zhang, Zhicheng Guo, Soumik Sen, Chen Chen, A. Q. Huang","doi":"10.1109/APEC43580.2023.10131669","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/APEC43580.2023.10131669","url":null,"abstract":"A 3.6kV/400A SiC half-bridge intelligent power module (IPM) is developed based on a novel series-parallel approach of lower voltage devices. Twenty-four 1200V SiC MOSFETs are integrated in the IPM together with a high isolation voltage gate power supply, gate driver and overcurrent protection. This paper proposes and analyzes the novel series-parallel approach which guarantees dynamic voltage sharing amount series connected devices and current sharing among paralleled branches. Experimental results are included to demonstrate the superior performance of the developed high power IPM.","PeriodicalId":151216,"journal":{"name":"2023 IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition (APEC)","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130152686","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An Optimal Clustering Algorithm for Second Use of Retired EV Batteries Using DBSCAN and PCA Schemes Considering Performance Deviation","authors":"Jeyeong Lim, Eui-Seong Han, Dong Hwan Kim, B. Lee","doi":"10.1109/APEC43580.2023.10131499","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/APEC43580.2023.10131499","url":null,"abstract":"This paper proposes an optimal clustering algorithm considering performance deviation of parameters and data preprocessing method for reusing retired batteries. The proposed method regroups batteries by considering the density and performance deviation of the retired battery dataset through a clustering algorithm using density-based spatial clustering of applications with noise (DBSCAN). Additionally, the performance of the algorithm was improved through data preprocessing using a principal component analysis (PCA) that prevents the computational complexity and overfitting of clustering algorithm. The feasibility of the proposed algorithm is verified by comparing with general clustering algorithms such as the k-means clustering and Gaussian mixture model.","PeriodicalId":151216,"journal":{"name":"2023 IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition (APEC)","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134413933","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ruomu Hao, Bradford Houska, Decheng Yan, Kartavya Agarwal, Aniruddh Marellapudi, Shreyas Kulkarni, J. Benzaquen, D. Divan
{"title":"A Single-Stage Isolated Bi-directional Micro-inverter Building Block for Off-grid Energy Access","authors":"Ruomu Hao, Bradford Houska, Decheng Yan, Kartavya Agarwal, Aniruddh Marellapudi, Shreyas Kulkarni, J. Benzaquen, D. Divan","doi":"10.1109/APEC43580.2023.10131293","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/APEC43580.2023.10131293","url":null,"abstract":"Energy access to off-grid communities has been historically limited by the availability and cost of the bulk power system interconnection. Modern technologies with steep, sustained learning rates, e.g., solar and batteries, are capable of disrupting this trend and making energy available equitably across the population, especially if solar and storage are combined to create a dispatchable resource. Nonetheless, a cost-effective and scalable solution that integrates solar, storage, and output ac power remains the key roadblock toward distributed energy access. In this paper, a single single-stage, isolated, bi-directional micro-inverter design with reduced switch and sensor count, which interfaces with the battery, PV, and grid, is presented. It excludes large DC-link capacitors, which are commonly seen among prevailing PV converter options, and retains efficiency benefits from its design and operation. With a power rating of 1-kW, this converter can be stacked easily to scale up the total system power rating due to its current-source inverter nature. Throughout this paper, the operating principle, design, and control of the proposed micro-inverter are presented. Lastly, A 1-kVA/480-Vac hardware prototype is built to demonstrate the proposed microinverter.","PeriodicalId":151216,"journal":{"name":"2023 IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition (APEC)","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131712509","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}