{"title":"Efficient, High-Temperature Bidirectional Dc/Dc Converter for Plug-in-Hybrid Electric Vehicle (PHEV) using SiC Devices","authors":"K. Acharya, S. Mazumder, P. Jedraszczak","doi":"10.1109/APEC.2009.4802727","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/APEC.2009.4802727","url":null,"abstract":"A multiphase all-SiC dc/dc bidirectional converter for plug-in-hybrid electric vehicles (PHEV) is described in this paper that serves as a regulated charger for the intermediate high-voltage energy storage device (e.g. ultracapacitor) in the motoring mode and allows recharging of the batteries during regenerative mode. The primary focus of this paper is to describe the design of the converter and experimentally evaluate its performance (steady-state efficiency and load-sharing and dynamic performance) at high coolant temperatures (¿ 105 °C). Further, the key components of the converter losses at high temperature are identified. Because VJFET switching losses are the key component of the converter loss, the effectiveness of a soft-switching scheme that mitigates these losses is also evaluated.","PeriodicalId":200366,"journal":{"name":"2009 Twenty-Fourth Annual IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-03-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130106919","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 Improved Semi-theoretical Fluorescent Lamp Model for Dimmable Applications","authors":"D. Lin, W. Yan, S. Hui, Y. Qin","doi":"10.1109/APEC.2009.4802756","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/APEC.2009.4802756","url":null,"abstract":"Due to the energy-saving and environmentally friendly features, dimmable magnetic ballasts will be paid more attention in the future. This make a more accurate fluorescent lamp model at different dimming levels necessary at low operating frequency. This paper presents a new method that considers the effect of tube temperature at different dimming levels in the process of the analysis of the fluorescent lamp model. The model is verified favorably by the comparison between the simulation results and experimental results. It's clear that after the effect of tube temperature at different dimming levels is considered, the model becomes more accurate and reliable than before. This model can be used to design dimmable magnetic ballast. Hence, the proposed model shows a good degree of accuracy for a large dimming range at different operating frequencies.","PeriodicalId":200366,"journal":{"name":"2009 Twenty-Fourth Annual IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition","volume":"220 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-03-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126999166","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}
A. A. Bento, E. D. da Silva, Katia V. D. Almeida, C. Jacobina
{"title":"One-Cycle Controller for a Three-Leg Three-Level Single-Phase Unified Power Quality Conditioner","authors":"A. A. Bento, E. D. da Silva, Katia V. D. Almeida, C. Jacobina","doi":"10.1109/APEC.2009.4802886","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/APEC.2009.4802886","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents the application of the One-Cycle Control technique to a single-phase three-leg three-level unified power quality conditioner. The system does not use any matching transformer and has a reduced number of components, since it has only three legs. Besides having a power factor close to unity, the proposed system has fast response, stability, robustness, reduced voltage stress applied to the switches, and a low cost scheme. Simulated and experimental results verify the feasibility of the proposed converter.","PeriodicalId":200366,"journal":{"name":"2009 Twenty-Fourth Annual IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-03-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131311884","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":"Single-Stage Offline SEPIC Converter with Power Factor Correction to Drive High Brightness LEDs","authors":"Z. Ye, F. Greenfeld, Zhixiang Liang","doi":"10.1109/APEC.2009.4802711","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/APEC.2009.4802711","url":null,"abstract":"An interleaved SEPIC converter with LED current dimmable and input power factor correction is proposed as a high performance driver for the high brightness white LEDs. The converter is controlled with voltage mode PWM and run in discontinuous conduction mode so that the inductor current follows the rectified input voltage. The critical design constraints and equations for both the power stage and control loop are highlighted and detailed. A practical evaluation board with 110V input and 60V, 700mA output is developed to verify the proposed design. The proposed converter can be used to drive a wide number of high brightness LEDs for industrial or commercial lighting applications.","PeriodicalId":200366,"journal":{"name":"2009 Twenty-Fourth Annual IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition","volume":"46 1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-03-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129235669","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 Improved Repetitive Control for Active Power Filters with Three-Level NPC Inverter","authors":"Yingjie He, Jinjun Liu, Zhaoan Wang, Y. Zou","doi":"10.1109/APEC.2009.4802879","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/APEC.2009.4802879","url":null,"abstract":"Due to the difficulty of handling nonlinear loads for traditional active power filter(APF) with two-level inverter in high voltage high power grid, this paper researches three-level active power filters. This paper presents an improved repetitive scheme to control the shape of ouput current waveform. The design process of each part in the repetitive controller is presented. Q(z) is designed as a notch zero phase shift filter which degrade the high order harmonic severely with close-to-unit gain at low and medium frequency band. The revised filter, the phase compensator and the repetitive gain is also given. The control method has fast dynamic convergence rate and little static misadjustment. The experiment results illustrate that the performance of the proposed approach is satisfactory.","PeriodicalId":200366,"journal":{"name":"2009 Twenty-Fourth Annual IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition","volume":"44 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-03-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122989606","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":"A New ZVS Non-Isolated Full-Bridge Voltage Regulator Module with Gate Energy Recovery","authors":"Zhiliang Zhang, E. Meyer, Yanfei Liu, P. Sen","doi":"10.1109/APEC.2009.4802860","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/APEC.2009.4802860","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, a novel self-driven zero-voltage-switching (ZVS) non-isolated full bridge (FB) converter is presented for 12V input VRM application. Existing multiphase buck controller and buck driver can be directly used in the proposed converter. The advantages of the proposed converter are: 1) duty cycle extension; 2) significant switching losses reduction due to ZVS of all the control MOSFETs; 3) reduced reverse recovery loss and lower voltage rating synchronous rectifier (SR) MOSFET with lower RDS(on); 4) high drive voltage to reduce RDS(on) and the conduction losses of SRs due to gate energy recovery capability; 5) reduced body diode conduction and no external drive IC chips with dead time control needed for SRs due to the inherent current source gate drive circuit structure. The experimental results verify the principle of operation and significant efficiency improvement. At 12V input, 1.3V output and 1MHz switching frequency, the proposed VRM improves the efficiency from 80.7% using the buck converter to 83.6% at 50A, and from 77.9% using the buck converter to 80.5% at 60A.","PeriodicalId":200366,"journal":{"name":"2009 Twenty-Fourth Annual IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition","volume":"50 7","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-03-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120902934","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 Improved DC-Link Voltage Control Method for Multiple Grid Connected Converter in Direct Drive Wind Power Generation System","authors":"Weihao Hu, Yue Wang, Xianwen Song, Zhaoan Wang","doi":"10.1109/APEC.2009.4802938","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/APEC.2009.4802938","url":null,"abstract":"In order to reduce the current of each IGBT and reduce the harmonic current into the grid, a multiple AC-DC-AC full-scale converter which is suitable for high power direct drive wind power generation systems is adopted. The reasons of DC-link voltage fluctuation of the grid connected converter are analyzed. An improved DC-link voltage control method for multiple grid connected converter in direct drive wind power generation systems is proposed in this paper to limit the fluctuation range of the DC-link voltage. The instantaneous generator power and grid voltage feedbacks are used to improve the dynamic response of the DC-link voltage. Simulation and experimental results verify the analysis and the conclusion.","PeriodicalId":200366,"journal":{"name":"2009 Twenty-Fourth Annual IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-03-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121050036","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":"Design and Control of a Multiple Input DC/DC Converter for Battery/Ultra-capacitor Based Electric Vehicle Power System","authors":"Zhihao Li, O. Onar, A. Khaligh, E. Schaltz","doi":"10.1109/APEC.2009.4802718","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/APEC.2009.4802718","url":null,"abstract":"Battery/Ultra-capacitor based electrical vehicles (EV) combine two energy sources with different voltage levels and current characteristics. This paper focuses on design and control of a multiple input DC/DC converter, to regulate output voltage from different inputs. The proposed multi-input converter is capable of bi-directional operation and is responsible for power diversification and optimization. A fixed switching frequency strategy is considered to control its operating modes. A portion of New York City Cycle that includes these operation modes is used to perform the analyses.","PeriodicalId":200366,"journal":{"name":"2009 Twenty-Fourth Annual IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-03-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123758179","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}
M. Cacciato, A. Consoli, G. Scarcella, G. Scelba, A. Testa
{"title":"Modified Space-Vector-Modulation Technique for Common Mode Currents Reduction and Full Utilization of the DC Bus","authors":"M. Cacciato, A. Consoli, G. Scarcella, G. Scelba, A. Testa","doi":"10.1109/APEC.2009.4802641","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/APEC.2009.4802641","url":null,"abstract":"Unless overmodulation is adopted, utilization of DC bus of the Modified Space Vector Modulation (MSVM) is a drawback that has severely limited the applicability of this modulation technique. This paper presents some solutions that, looking for a good compromise between increasing the use of DC bus and reducing common mode currents, allow to apply MSVM to most electrical drives on the market. Furthermore, the choice of the switching patterns is performed according to the sign of the load currents thus reducing the common mode voltage variations to a single pulse per switching period in presence of large dead-times. Experimental results are presented in order to confirm the feasibility of the proposed approach.","PeriodicalId":200366,"journal":{"name":"2009 Twenty-Fourth Annual IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition","volume":"141 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-03-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121389195","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":"PWM Method of Matrix Converter for Reducing Output Current Ripple","authors":"Sungmin Kim, Y. Yoon, S. Sul","doi":"10.1109/APEC.2009.4802738","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/APEC.2009.4802738","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a new PWM method using a virtual DC-link voltage concept for reducing output current ripples. Matrix converter is interfaced with three phase AC voltage source. And the AC source makes three different level virtual DC-link voltages. In this paper, a generalized PWM method is proposed to use these three virtual DC-link voltages. In the case of using higher two line to line voltage as virtual DC-link, the proposed method is exactly identical with the conventional SVPWM method. Moreover, the proposed method is able to select the virtual DC-link according to the PWM purposes and/or load condition. Selecting the virtual DC-link which is adjacent to the output voltage reference, the output current switching ripple can be reduced. The feasibility of the proposed PWM method is verified by a computer simulation and experimental results. The output voltage and current of the proposed method can be identical with that of the conventional SVPWM method. Moreover, a new switching sequence to reduce the output current switching ripple can be easily adopted. Compared with the output current of the conventional PWM method, the harmonic characteristics of the proposed method can be significantly improved.","PeriodicalId":200366,"journal":{"name":"2009 Twenty-Fourth Annual IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-03-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122595649","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}