{"title":"Elimination of low order harmonics in nine-level cascaded H-bridge converter","authors":"A. Abrishamifar, M. Arasteh, F. Golshan","doi":"10.1109/PEDSTC.2016.7556916","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PEDSTC.2016.7556916","url":null,"abstract":"MULTILEVEL converters compare with the conventional two-level converters provide noticeable advantages such as lower harmonic distortion, lower switching frequency, lower switching losses, and lower stress across the semiconductor switches. To improve the output quality of multilevel converters, different modulation techniques have been suggested in the literature. The most suitable modulation technique for high-power high-voltage applications is selective harmonic elimination (SHE) due to having fundamental switching frequency. In this paper, a simple method for elimination of low order harmonics in nine-level CHB converter is proposed. Using this technique, there is no need to solve complex trigonometric equations and therefore, this technique can be implemented in real time using a simple processor. Furthermore, all CHB modules operate at the fundamental switching frequency and power consumption is shared identically among them. To demonstrate the validity of the proposed method, simulation for a three phase nine-level CHB inverter is presented.","PeriodicalId":307121,"journal":{"name":"2016 7th Power Electronics and Drive Systems Technologies Conference (PEDSTC)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124371606","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 hardware device to simulate the movement of electric train wheel on rail","authors":"S. Sadr, D. Khaburi, M. Rivera","doi":"10.1109/PEDSTC.2016.7556843","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PEDSTC.2016.7556843","url":null,"abstract":"In all of the control speed systems one of the main factor to analysis the performance of the system, is the speed control in the acceleration mode. The enhancing speed control in acceleration mode is like magnifying the brake performance. The goal of both speed control system in acceleration mode and braking system, is reducing the time duration of speed changes. Braking control systems is common between, cars, trucks, motorcycles, trains, etc. For this reason several project to improve the performance of the braking systems have been done. The most famous of this advances is Anti-lock Braking System (ABS). The base of ABS, is using the maximum of the friction between tire and road surface. In order to reducing energy consumption, train wheels and rails are built from iron. Since wheel and rails are built from iron, the friction between them is weak. Hence when the propulsion system tries to push forward the train, the driven will began to rotation and the speed of the driven wheel is more than the train actual speed. The name of this phenomena is wheel slip. As described in this paper wheel slip has a significant impact on the adhesion between wheel and rail. In the other hand train acceleration is function of the adhesion between wheel and rail. Therefore in order to improve the train acceleration, the maximum of the adhesion should be utilized. For these reasons in this paper a hardware simulator to implement and test the adhesion control methods is proposed.","PeriodicalId":307121,"journal":{"name":"2016 7th Power Electronics and Drive Systems Technologies Conference (PEDSTC)","volume":"171 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114191439","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":"Ultra step-up DC-DC converter based on three windings coupled inductor","authors":"Seyed Mohsen Salehi, S. Dehghan, S. Hasanzadeh","doi":"10.1109/PEDSTC.2016.7556857","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PEDSTC.2016.7556857","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, an ultra-step-up DC-DC converter using a three-winding coupled inductor and a voltage multiplier cell are proposed to achieve high step-up voltage. The important advantages of the proposed converter are as: Only one active switch is required without extreme duty cycle that high voltage is attained, The voltage stress on the active switch and diodes are reduced by increasing the turns ratio of the secondary windings of the coupled inductor, and the energy of the leakage inductance of the coupled inductor is recycled by switched capacitor and directly transfers to the load. The operation principle and steady state analysis of continuous conduction mode are used to determine voltage gain and switch voltage stress. Also the extension of the proposed converter to attain more step-up voltage gain are presented. The simulation results are used to verify the performance and validity.","PeriodicalId":307121,"journal":{"name":"2016 7th Power Electronics and Drive Systems Technologies Conference (PEDSTC)","volume":"72 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129163603","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":"Improved Direct Torque Control of DFIG with reduced torque and flux ripples at constant switching frequency","authors":"M. R. Kashkooli, Seyed M. Madani, Ramtin Sadeghi","doi":"10.1109/PEDSTC.2016.7556838","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PEDSTC.2016.7556838","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a modified hysteretic controller to improve Direct Torque Control (DTC) of the Doubly-Fed Induction Generator (DFIG) to achieve constant switching frequency and reduced torque and flux ripples. The proposed controller generates appropriate voltage vector with variable magnitude and angle, in order to reduce those ripples. The Space Vector Modulation is employed to apply the reference voltage vector to rotor windings. Other advantages of DTC methods such as fast dynamic response and simple coordinate transforms are preserved. The experimental results verify the advantages of this method compared to conventional DTC.","PeriodicalId":307121,"journal":{"name":"2016 7th Power Electronics and Drive Systems Technologies Conference (PEDSTC)","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114813044","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":"Application of multiband hysteresis modulation in field oriented control based IPMSM drive fed by asymetrical multilevel cascaded H-Bridge inverter","authors":"A. Ejlali, D. Khaburi, J. Soleimani","doi":"10.1109/PEDSTC.2016.7556836","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PEDSTC.2016.7556836","url":null,"abstract":"Recently, Inner permanent magnet synchronous Machines are widely used in several applications such as hybrid electric vehicles (HEVs), starters/alternators, power steering, and air conditioning motors. This paper presents multiband hysteresis modulation to Field Oriented Controlled (FOC) IPMSM fed by a 9-level asymmetrical Cascaded Half Bridge (CHB) inverter. For this reason, hysteresis controllers have 9-band current error. The CHB is more attractive choice due to its modular structure and higher number of output voltage level for the same number of semiconductors in comparison with symmetrical CHB. The results show several advantages of this method such as high accuracy, fast dynamic response, insensitivity to parameter variations and simple implementation.","PeriodicalId":307121,"journal":{"name":"2016 7th Power Electronics and Drive Systems Technologies Conference (PEDSTC)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130805496","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":"Virtual flux based direct power control of a three-phase rectifier connected to an LCL filter with sensorless active damping","authors":"Mehran Maghamizadeh, S. Fathi","doi":"10.1109/PEDSTC.2016.7556907","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PEDSTC.2016.7556907","url":null,"abstract":"This paper proposes a simple method for connecting an LCL filter to a three-phase pulse-width modulation (PWM) rectifier with direct power control space vector modulation (DPC-SVM) strategy. The goal is to improve the transient response and reduce the harmonic distortion, as well as size and cost reduction of the input filter. Since the proposed method is sensorless, the AC line voltage sensors are eliminated and the virtual flux block would be used instead. The cost and size of the filter could be reduced since the LCL-filter has lower inductance values and also the harmonic distortions could be reduced as well. The only drawback of the LCL-filter is producing resonance oscillations due to the resonance frequency of its third-order transfer function. In order to eliminate the oscillations, a simple method of active damping is utilized. Finally, simulation results have shown an excellent dynamic response compared with a three-phase converter that uses a conventional L-filter.","PeriodicalId":307121,"journal":{"name":"2016 7th Power Electronics and Drive Systems Technologies Conference (PEDSTC)","volume":"56 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115095649","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}
S. Mousavi, Reza Rezaii, R. Beiranvand, A. Y. Varjani
{"title":"A high step-up switched-capacitor converter with zero current switching technique for using in solar system applications","authors":"S. Mousavi, Reza Rezaii, R. Beiranvand, A. Y. Varjani","doi":"10.1109/PEDSTC.2016.7556879","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PEDSTC.2016.7556879","url":null,"abstract":"Small size, low cost, high efficiency, and step-up voltage-ratio converters are the most significant features required for solar system applications. In this paper, a high step-up zero current switching switched-capacitor converter is introduced. Its high power density, low cost, and soft switching features meet all the solar system's requirements. To supply a single phase ac load, a half-bridge inverter is used in the second stage. Mathematical analyses of the proposed converter are given, in detail. To verify the given analyses, a 17 V to 68 V switched-capacitor converter has been simulated and implemented at 50 kHz switching frequency. The prototype converter has been tested under different conditions. The experimental and simulated results are in good agreement with the mathematical analyses.","PeriodicalId":307121,"journal":{"name":"2016 7th Power Electronics and Drive Systems Technologies Conference (PEDSTC)","volume":"39 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130993863","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":"Control of storage system in series collection grid in offshore wind farm for limiting DC/DC converter overvoltaging","authors":"Diana Florez Rodriguez, E. Enferad, C. Saudemont","doi":"10.1109/PEDSTC.2016.7556891","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PEDSTC.2016.7556891","url":null,"abstract":"DC series collection system is a low cost collection grid for integrating offshore wind power to the HVDC grid. The main advantage is to step-up the MVDC voltage level to HVDC level without using extra equipment. However, an effective control system to enable extract and deliver the fluctuation wind power to series collection grid. Previously, a control system has been proposed by authors to this aim, while the propose control system causes overvoltage on DC/DC converter of wind units. In this study a solution is investigated to this limitation. In this paper, utilization of storage system has been considered as a solution for avoiding overvoltage on DC/DC converter. To this aim, the control system is developed for both managing storage system and delivering fluctuating power of wind unit to series collection grid.","PeriodicalId":307121,"journal":{"name":"2016 7th Power Electronics and Drive Systems Technologies Conference (PEDSTC)","volume":"94 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133134936","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. Siami, Hamed Kiani Savadkoohi, A. Abbaszadeh, D. Khaburi, José R. Rodríguez, M. Rivera
{"title":"Predictive torque control of a permanent magnet synchronous motor fed by a matrix converter without weighting factor","authors":"M. Siami, Hamed Kiani Savadkoohi, A. Abbaszadeh, D. Khaburi, José R. Rodríguez, M. Rivera","doi":"10.1109/PEDSTC.2016.7556930","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PEDSTC.2016.7556930","url":null,"abstract":"Finite control set model predictive control is a flexible control scheme with fast dynamic. The standard form of this controller is based on the minimization of a cost function. The cost function needs weighting factors that is dependent to the system parameters and operating point. The tuning of the weighting factors requires nontrivial process. This paper presents a predictive direct torque and stator flux control of a permanent magnet synchronous motor fed by a matrix converter without weighting factor. The proposed method uses a multiobjective optimization based on a ranking approach instead of a cost function. Therefore, the tuning of weighting factors is unnecessary. Simulation results are presented to confirm the good performance of the proposed method.","PeriodicalId":307121,"journal":{"name":"2016 7th Power Electronics and Drive Systems Technologies Conference (PEDSTC)","volume":"44 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-08-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128698870","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}
Margarita Norambuena, C. Garcia, José R. Rodríguez
{"title":"The challenges of predictive control to reach acceptance in the power electronics industry","authors":"Margarita Norambuena, C. Garcia, José R. Rodríguez","doi":"10.1109/PEDSTC.2016.7556934","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PEDSTC.2016.7556934","url":null,"abstract":"Model Predictive Control (MPC) has emerged as a very attractive alternative for the control of electrical energy. This paper discusses the challenges faced by (MPC) to reach industrial acceptance. Some of these issues are operation with fixed switching frequency and simple calculation of the weighting factors. The main conclusions are that the algorithm must remain simple and must demonstrate that it brings operating advantages in comparison to the classical linear control with Pulse Width Modulation. These problems have not been solved yet.","PeriodicalId":307121,"journal":{"name":"2016 7th Power Electronics and Drive Systems Technologies Conference (PEDSTC)","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-08-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123093589","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}