{"title":"Multi-level inverter with H-bridge clamp circuit for single-phase three-wire grid connection suitable for Super-junction/SiC MOSFET","authors":"Y. Noge, J. Itoh","doi":"10.1109/IPEMC.2012.6258861","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IPEMC.2012.6258861","url":null,"abstract":"A multilevel inverter with H-bridge clamp circuit is proposed for single-phase three-wire (1P3W) utility connected applications such as PV system. The proposed inverter consists of two n-level inverters and a H-bridge clamp circuit. The proposed inverter features high compatibility with next generation semiconductors because the uses of a high voltage H-bridge clamp circuit at grid frequency switching. The proposed inverter requires only 12 controllable switches to obtain a 5-level output voltage. In conventional multi-level converters with grounded neutral point of the DC-bus, 16 switches are required. The control strategy is discussed in this paper. Moreover, a numerical parameter design method is considered and then verified by simulation. Finally, conduction loss of the clamp circuit is shown lower than that comparing with the conventional active neutral point clamped (ANPC) inverter using Super-junction MOSFET or SiC MOSFET.","PeriodicalId":236136,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of The 7th International Power Electronics and Motion Control Conference","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-06-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131050964","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":"Transformerless high voltage grid-connected inverter based on carrier phase-shifted control","authors":"G. Liu, Hui Zhang, Xiangyang Luo","doi":"10.1109/IPEMC.2012.6259071","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IPEMC.2012.6259071","url":null,"abstract":"As far as the problem of high voltage transformation in wind power concerned, a module of transformerless high voltage grid-connected converter based on carrier phased-shift control strategy is proposed. The working condition of cascaded power modules is elaborated, and the analysis of four operating states is introduced as well in this paper. Furthermore, with the technology of unipolar dual-frequency Carrier Phase shift PWM modulation (CPS-SPWM), the corresponding simulation and experiments for three units cascaded converter confirm the control method's effects.","PeriodicalId":236136,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of The 7th International Power Electronics and Motion Control Conference","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-06-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131980829","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}
Wensheng Song, Xiaoyun Feng, Chenglin Xiong, X. Ge
{"title":"Single phase three-level SVPWM algorithm and its relationship with carrier-based PWM with zero-sequence voltage injection","authors":"Wensheng Song, Xiaoyun Feng, Chenglin Xiong, X. Ge","doi":"10.1109/IPEMC.2012.6259081","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IPEMC.2012.6259081","url":null,"abstract":"A significant problem of three-level neutral-point clamped (NPC) converters is the fluctuation of the neutral-point voltage. A SVPWM strategy with neutral point voltage balancing for single phase three-level converters adopted widely in railway traction drive system is proposed in this paper. The relationship between the adopted SVPWM and carrier-based pulse width modulation (CBPWM) with a zero-sequence voltage injection (ZSVI) is analyzed in details. Theoretical analysis shows that SVPWM is a special type of CBPWM-ZSVI methods. Performance of the proposed SVPWM scheme is verified by simulation and experimental test.","PeriodicalId":236136,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of The 7th International Power Electronics and Motion Control Conference","volume":"51 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-06-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130890602","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 damping control method for a matrix converter with a boost-up AC chopper","authors":"K. Koiwa, J. Itoh","doi":"10.1109/IPEMC.2012.6258935","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IPEMC.2012.6258935","url":null,"abstract":"This paper proposes a circuit topology for a matrix converter with a boost-up AC chopper in the input stage. In order to suppress the input filter resonance, the authors have developed a stabilization control for the input current using a V-connection AC chopper. However, the input current is required as the signal for the damping control. In this paper, the damping control using the existing filter capacitor voltage is proposed. In order to verify effectiveness of the proposed damping control, the proposed circuit is demonstrated by a 1.8-kW prototype. As a result, it was confirmed that the input current THD can be suppressed approximately 72.5% improved by applying the input current-type or the filter capacitor voltage-type damping controls.","PeriodicalId":236136,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of The 7th International Power Electronics and Motion Control Conference","volume":"279 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-06-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131606292","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}
Riccardo Pittini, Zhe Zhang, Z. Ouyang, M. Andersen, O. C. Thomsen
{"title":"Analysis of planar E+I and ER+I transformers for low-voltage high-current DC/DC converters with focus on winding losses and leakage inductance","authors":"Riccardo Pittini, Zhe Zhang, Z. Ouyang, M. Andersen, O. C. Thomsen","doi":"10.1109/IPEMC.2012.6258778","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IPEMC.2012.6258778","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper an analysis of two planar transformers designed for high-current switching applications is presented. Typical converter application is represented by fuel and electrolyser cell converters. The transformer designs are based on E+I and ER+I planar cores while the analysis focuses on winding resistance and leakage inductances which represent the main concerns related to low-voltage high-current applications. The PCB winding design has a one to one turn ratio with no interleaving between primary and secondary windings. The main goal was to determine if ER planar core could provide a significant advantage in terms of winding losses compared to planar E cores. Results from finite element analysis highlight that low frequency winding resistance is lower for the ER core since it is dominated by the lower mean turn length however, as the AC-resistance becomes dominating the winding eddy current losses increases more in the ER core than in the E core design. Calculated and simulated leakage inductances for the analyzed cores do not show relevant differences. A laboratory prototype based on E64 planar core is used as reference. Laboratory measurements highlight that FEM analysis provides more realistic results when computing the winding AC-resistance.","PeriodicalId":236136,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of The 7th International Power Electronics and Motion Control Conference","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-06-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128758440","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}
Qianhong Chen, Lang Mao, X. Ren, X. Ruan, Leilei Jiang
{"title":"Research of the current-injection-based P-type 12-pulse ATRU","authors":"Qianhong Chen, Lang Mao, X. Ren, X. Ruan, Leilei Jiang","doi":"10.1109/IPEMC.2012.6258841","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IPEMC.2012.6258841","url":null,"abstract":"P-type 12-pulse auto-transformer rectifier unit (ATRU) is a very attractive harmonic solution in aviation situation for its lower volt-ampere rating of transformer compared with other multi-pulse methods. However, the input current THD of 12-pulse ATRU is about 15% larger than 10% THD requirement by the related standards. Current-injection method is an effective harmonic mitigation method for 12-pulse rectifiers. This paper analyzed the input current waveform based on triangle current-injection method for P-type 12-pulse ATRU. It also points that the key to get the required injection current taking use of the voltage difference across interphase reactors is to emulate a resistor. The optimum equivalent current injection resistance is derived in this paper. And a novel harmonic injection scheme based on DCM flyback converter is proposed and analyzed. Experimental results from three 4kW P-type 12-pulse ATRU testify the effectiveness of the theoretical analysis and the proposed harmonic injection method.","PeriodicalId":236136,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of The 7th International Power Electronics and Motion Control Conference","volume":"1991 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-06-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125509407","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}
Yong Yu, Mingjun Zhu, Lianghui Yu, T. Zhou, Dianguo Xu
{"title":"Novel method of inverter switch open-circuit fault diagnosis based on wavelet transform","authors":"Yong Yu, Mingjun Zhu, Lianghui Yu, T. Zhou, Dianguo Xu","doi":"10.1109/IPEMC.2012.6259219","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IPEMC.2012.6259219","url":null,"abstract":"In the AC speed control system, the DC bus current can be divided into three parts, which are the total loss equivalent current, the electromagnetic-power equivalent current and the reactive fluctuated current. Firstly, according to the electro-magnetic torque and speed, the currents of first two parts are reconstructed. Then the DC bus fluctuated current, which is the difference between inverter's DC bus current and the above reconstruction current, is decomposed through the wavelet transform to get the coefficients of wavelet transform decomposition, and the root mean square value of the coefficients are regarded as the feature of single-switch or double-switches open-circuit fault. Finally, with the root mean square value of three-phase currents, the faulty switches can be localized. The theoretical analysis and simulation results proved the effectiveness of the proposed method.","PeriodicalId":236136,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of The 7th International Power Electronics and Motion Control Conference","volume":"42 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-06-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126785331","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":"Simulation of a battery charging system with small wind power generator","authors":"W. Guo, Yue Wang","doi":"10.1109/IPEMC.2012.6258888","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IPEMC.2012.6258888","url":null,"abstract":"This paper focuses on a battery charging technology utilized in the small wind power generation system, in which the cost should be especially emphasized. An algorithm to make the input voltage track its reference rapidly is proposed in this paper. Meanwhile, a new control strategy is adopted to restrain the charging current by means of dynamically confining the duty-cycle of the buck converter. At the same time, a variable-step maximum power point tracking (MPPT) operation can be realized by adjusting the DC side voltage with regard to a wind power system with a permanent magnet synchronous generator (PMSG) and a diode rectifier.","PeriodicalId":236136,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of The 7th International Power Electronics and Motion Control Conference","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-06-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123188497","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":"Low-cost digitally controlled DC/DC converter for HID electronic ballast","authors":"Wang Bin, Li Jun","doi":"10.1109/IPEMC.2012.6259333","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IPEMC.2012.6259333","url":null,"abstract":"A low-cost digitally controlled DC/DC switching power supply for high intensity discharge (HID) electronic ballast is presented along with the theoretical analysis and experimental tests. A microcontroller is set up to manage operation of an additional PWM control chip to accomplish a digital control loop. According to the start-up characteristics of the HID lamp, a new control algorithm is proposed for power-feedback control mode. A breadboard of the DC/DC converter is designed and tested on a HID lamp. Experimental results show that the proposed digitally controlled DC/DC converter can be applied for HID ballast.","PeriodicalId":236136,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of The 7th International Power Electronics and Motion Control Conference","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-06-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123339532","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}
D. Peftitsis, Jang-Kwon Lim, J. Rąbkowski, G. Tolstoy, H. Nee
{"title":"Experimental comparison of different gate-driver configurations for parallel-connection of normally-on SiC JFETs","authors":"D. Peftitsis, Jang-Kwon Lim, J. Rąbkowski, G. Tolstoy, H. Nee","doi":"10.1109/IPEMC.2012.6258832","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IPEMC.2012.6258832","url":null,"abstract":"Due to the low current ratings of the currently available silicon carbide (SiC) switches they cannot be employed in high-power converters. Thus, it is necessary to parallel-connect several switches in order to reach higher current ratings. This paper presents an investigation of parallel-connected normally-on SiC junction field effect transistors. There are four crucial parameters affecting the effectiveness of the parallel-connected switches. However, the pinch-off voltage and the reverse breakdown voltage of the gates seem to be the most important parameters which affect the switching performance of the devices. In particular, the spread in these two parameters might affect the stable off-state operation of the switches. The switching performance and the switching losses of a pair of parallel-connected devices having different reverse breakdown voltages of the gates is investigated by employing three different gate-driver configurations. It is experimentally shown that using a single gate-driver circuit the switching performance of the parallel-connected devices is almost identical, while the total switching losses are lower compared to the other two configurations.","PeriodicalId":236136,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of The 7th International Power Electronics and Motion Control Conference","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-06-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123467302","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}