{"title":"Design of a pulse modulator based on transmission lines for generating fast current pulses for plasma drilling","authors":"Oliver Keel, Melissa Artiglia, J. Biela","doi":"10.23919/EPE20ECCEEurope43536.2020.9215837","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/EPE20ECCEEurope43536.2020.9215837","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents the design procedure of a pulse modulator based on parallel connected transmission lines for plasma drilling. The procedure focuses on minimizing the parasitic capacitances/inductances of the modulator to achieve a fast current rise time, which is necessary for plasma drilling. Furthermore, a concept for a scaled prototype system is presented.","PeriodicalId":241752,"journal":{"name":"2020 22nd European Conference on Power Electronics and Applications (EPE'20 ECCE Europe)","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133095632","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}
L. Horrein, J. Cravero, P. Delarue, A. Bouscayrol, D. Aguglia, Carmen Ortega-Perez
{"title":"Dead-Time influence on fast switching pulsed power converters design - A high current application for accelerator's magnets","authors":"L. Horrein, J. Cravero, P. Delarue, A. Bouscayrol, D. Aguglia, Carmen Ortega-Perez","doi":"10.23919/EPE20ECCEEurope43536.2020.9215727","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/EPE20ECCEEurope43536.2020.9215727","url":null,"abstract":"Dead-time in IGBT-based DC-DC power converters is a well-known issue that causes a limitation of the output voltage and the distortion of the output voltage and current. These distortions are more critical when the converter switching frequency increases and in applications requiring high di/dt. This is especially true for power converters used to supply pulsed electro-magnets in particle accelerators where output waveforms with high slew rates are needed. Several solutions exist to compensate the distortions caused by dead-time; however, in fast and precise applications, the compensation method should be analysed in conjunction with design choices, such as the selection of switching frequency, output filter's inductances and topology. At CERN, hybrid capacitor discharge/switch mode power converters have been developed to supply electro-magnets used for PS beam injection. For standardisation and cost reduction. Because of this design option, dead-time represents 16 % of the switching period thus widely affecting the converter performances. This paper illustrates the effects of dead-time on various design aspects of these hybrid power converters able to produce precise 1ms long current pulses with maximal output current up to 2,5 kA. The converter control loops that have been designed using Energetic Macroscopic Representation approach can partly compensate for the dead-times effects. However, a dead-time compensation technique based on the inductor current sign measurement is nevertheless required to improve the converter performances. It is experimentally demonstrated that this classical compensation method is effective, even in interleaved switching module.","PeriodicalId":241752,"journal":{"name":"2020 22nd European Conference on Power Electronics and Applications (EPE'20 ECCE Europe)","volume":"56 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115027775","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":"Investigation of Bond Wire Lift-Off by Analyzing the Controller Output Voltage Harmonics for the Purpose of Condition Monitoring","authors":"Firat Yüce, M. Hiller","doi":"10.23919/EPE20ECCEEurope43536.2020.9215692","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/EPE20ECCEEurope43536.2020.9215692","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a new approach in the field of condition monitoring of power semiconductors in power converters. The new approach avoids additional sensors and uses only the data that is already available in a power electronic system. This results in advantages such as saving extra costs and eliminating potential sources of failure. In this paper, the aging mechanism of bond wire lift-off is investigated. First, it is shown by simulations that output voltage harmonics of the current controller contain information about the bond wire lift-off aging mechanism. For testing the new approach in practice, real data are recorded in a test bench for a power module with unharmed bond-wires in order to train an algorithm for normal behavior. Then the aging mechanism bond wire lift-off is induced by cutting off bond wires of a power module with the aim of testing the functionality of the algorithm. The results of this investigation show that the proposed approach is able to detect the anomaly in the data set.","PeriodicalId":241752,"journal":{"name":"2020 22nd European Conference on Power Electronics and Applications (EPE'20 ECCE Europe)","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115342114","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}
Jarno Kukkola, Ville Pirsto, M. Routimo, M. Hinkkanen
{"title":"Estimation of an Unbalanced Grid Impedance Using a Three-Phase Power Converter","authors":"Jarno Kukkola, Ville Pirsto, M. Routimo, M. Hinkkanen","doi":"10.23919/EPE20ECCEEurope43536.2020.9215676","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/EPE20ECCEEurope43536.2020.9215676","url":null,"abstract":"This paper proposes a real-time method for estimating an unbalanced grid impedance using a three-phase converter. In the method, a periodic single-frequency or multi-frequency excitation signal is added to the converter voltage reference. The converter measures currents and voltages at the point of common coupling. The impedance estimate is obtained from the measurements using sliding discrete Fourier transform (SDFT). The method is experimentally validated.","PeriodicalId":241752,"journal":{"name":"2020 22nd European Conference on Power Electronics and Applications (EPE'20 ECCE Europe)","volume":"135 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115582729","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 Control Strategy for Renewable energy sources (RES) based DC microgrid with enhanced System Stability and Control Performance","authors":"M. A. Mumtaz, Zheng Yan","doi":"10.23919/EPE20ECCEEurope43536.2020.9215717","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/EPE20ECCEEurope43536.2020.9215717","url":null,"abstract":"With the increasing penetration of renewable energy sources (RESs) into electrical power systems, DC microgrids bring an appealing solution to overcome the integration challenges. Due to the massive integration of RES into the electrical power system among DC microgrids, critical challenges have been aroused in controller design and its operation. In large-scale DC microgrids, complexities and control requirements are complicated than small scale grid. Existing primary and secondary cooperative control structures rely on PI controllers that make them vulnerable at higher nodes. In this paper, by considering the DC microgrid control requirements, structural improvements have been suggested to improve controller stability and performance. A droop-less control scheme has been proposed in this paper by augmenting a finite gain controller in voltage loop with PI controller in the current control loop of DC/DC converter. A different strategy has been employed at distributed secondary control for the estimation of average voltage and current difference. The proposed droop-less controller offers several benefits such as simplicity in the control structure, higher stability, higher scalability, and overall better system reliability. The simulation results in MATLAB/Simulink setup verify the controller efficiency and feasibility. Moreover, voltage control bandwidth comparison is presented while considering communication delays and in the presence of a higher system nodes.","PeriodicalId":241752,"journal":{"name":"2020 22nd European Conference on Power Electronics and Applications (EPE'20 ECCE Europe)","volume":"61 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114115520","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":"Mitigating Drain Source Voltage Oscillation with Low Switching Losses for SiC Power MOSFETs Using FPGA-Controlled Active Gate Driver","authors":"Zheming Li, R. Maier, M. Bakran","doi":"10.23919/EPE20ECCEEurope43536.2020.9215813","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/EPE20ECCEEurope43536.2020.9215813","url":null,"abstract":"In order to improve the switching performance of SiC MOSFETs at turn-off, the drain-source voltage oscillation should be mitigated with low switching losses. To achieve this improvement, an approach, which uses an FPGA-controlled active gate driver with two level switchable gate resistances, is investigated and presented in this paper. To ensure the performance of this approach for varying operating points in a wide range, three methods are shown and compared to find the best solution.","PeriodicalId":241752,"journal":{"name":"2020 22nd European Conference on Power Electronics and Applications (EPE'20 ECCE Europe)","volume":"2012 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114753841","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":"Loss Separation in Hard- and Soft-Switching GaN HEMTs operated in a 10 kW Isolated DC/DC Converter","authors":"J. Böcker, S. Heucke, S. Dieckerhoff","doi":"10.23919/EPE20ECCEEurope43536.2020.9215843","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/EPE20ECCEEurope43536.2020.9215843","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, GaN power transistors are operated in a 10 kW isolated DC/DC converter, investigating their loss distribution. Based on a combination of calorimetric loss-, and clamped drain source voltage measurements, the losses are separated in conduction and switching losses. Furthermore, the influence of dynamic $R_{mathrm{on}}$ effects is identified during continuous operation. The chosen ZCZVS topology allows for comparison of hard- and soft-switching operation of the GaN devices. The loss separation reveals almost twice of additional dynamic $R_{mathrm{on}}$ losses in the hard switching leg. In this case, the dynamic losses account for about one third of the conduction losses.","PeriodicalId":241752,"journal":{"name":"2020 22nd European Conference on Power Electronics and Applications (EPE'20 ECCE Europe)","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114867133","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":"Characteristics of an integrated motor controlled independently by multi-inverters to achieve high efficiency and a wide speed range","authors":"K. Sakai, Yano Hideaki","doi":"10.23919/EPE20ECCEEurope43536.2020.9215732","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/EPE20ECCEEurope43536.2020.9215732","url":null,"abstract":"For electric vehicles, motor operation is achieved by using a highly efficient variable-speed drive. In this paper, we describe the characteristics of a novel motor capable of pole and phase changes; it is a high-performance motor because it has multiple windings combined with multi-inverters. The pole changes will allow the motor to operate with a large torque at a low speed by using a small number of poles; the motor can operate at high efficiency at high speeds by using a large number of poles. The motor had three groups of three-phase windings consisting of 18 coils. One group of the three-phase windings was consisted of 6 coils. Three three-phase inverters that connected the three groups of three-phase windings directly controlled the current phase of each winding, which helped change the number of poles and phases. The results of our analyses confirmed that the motor produced a large torque at a low speed of 3000 rpm for the eight-pole mode, and operated with a high efficiency of approximately 96% at a high speed of 6000 rpm for the four-pole mode.","PeriodicalId":241752,"journal":{"name":"2020 22nd European Conference on Power Electronics and Applications (EPE'20 ECCE Europe)","volume":"446 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116755108","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":"Impact of Combined Thermo-Mechanical and Electro-Chemical Stress on the Lifetime of Power Electronic Devices","authors":"F. Hoffmann, S. Schmitt, N. Kaminski","doi":"10.23919/EPE20ECCEEurope43536.2020.9215807","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/EPE20ECCEEurope43536.2020.9215807","url":null,"abstract":"In this work, the impact of previous thermo-mechanical stress on the humidity ruggedness of IGBTs was investigated. For this purpose, a combined power cycling test (PCT) and high humidity, high temperature, reverse bias (H3TRB) reliability test was performed. In order to quantify a possible impact based on the amount of previous stress, devices of different health conditions were used. Some devices were subject to power cycling for 50% of their estimated cycles to failure before being tested in an H3TRB test. Other devices were preconditioned in power cycling until the end of life criterion was reached before they were subject to the H3TRB test. The results of this work indicate that previous thermo-mechanical stress does have an impact on the H3TRB performance of at least some of the tested devices. Furthermore, the test results do not clearly indicate a significant difference between the devices, which were preconditioned with 50% of their cycles to failure and the devices, which were subject to power cycling until end of life.","PeriodicalId":241752,"journal":{"name":"2020 22nd European Conference on Power Electronics and Applications (EPE'20 ECCE Europe)","volume":"36 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117124606","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":"Estimation of the winding losses of Medium Frequency Transformers with Litz wire using an equivalent permeability and conductivity method","authors":"M. Kharezy, M. Eslamian, T. Thiringer","doi":"10.23919/EPE20ECCEEurope43536.2020.9215900","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/EPE20ECCEEurope43536.2020.9215900","url":null,"abstract":"To achieve the highest efficiency of a Dual Active Bridge converter, it is crucial to accurately calculate the winding losses of the Medium Frequency Transformer (MFT) situated inside it. In this article, an effective numerical method for calculation of the copper losses in MFTs with rectangular-shaped windings made up of Litz wire, is utilized and practically verified.","PeriodicalId":241752,"journal":{"name":"2020 22nd European Conference on Power Electronics and Applications (EPE'20 ECCE Europe)","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115735337","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}