{"title":"Zero-voltage-transition with dual resonant tank for bridgeless boost PFC rectifier with low current stress","authors":"F. Tahami, Farzad Yazdani","doi":"10.1109/PEDSTC.2016.7556868","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PEDSTC.2016.7556868","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, a novel zero-voltage-switching topology for power factor correction bridgeless boost rectifier is proposed. By employing an improved switch cell, ZVS for all the main switches is achieved without additional current or voltage stress. The zero-current-switching is also provided for the auxiliary switch. In all modes of operation of this converter, the input current flows through only two semiconductors. Therefore, conduction loss of this converter is as low as the conventional parent converter. With these features, the efficiency of the proposed converter is very high. A 500 W prototype is designed and simulated to verify the system performance.","PeriodicalId":307121,"journal":{"name":"2016 7th Power Electronics and Drive Systems Technologies Conference (PEDSTC)","volume":"71 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131742131","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}
H. Mehrabian-Nejad, B. Farhangi, S. Farhangi, S. Vaez‐Zadeh
{"title":"DC-DC converter for energy loss compensation and maximum frequency limitation in capacitive deionization systems","authors":"H. Mehrabian-Nejad, B. Farhangi, S. Farhangi, S. Vaez‐Zadeh","doi":"10.1109/PEDSTC.2016.7556863","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PEDSTC.2016.7556863","url":null,"abstract":"Currently, shortage of the water resources is a global issue. Water desalination is a solution that can be used to solve the water shortage problem. Capacitive deionization (CDI) is an effective water desalination method. CDI offers relatively low energy consumptions and low initial costs. This paper improves energy exchange between CDI units used in efficient CDI systems. Traditionally, hysteresis control is employed for transferring energy through power converters; this control method induces switching losses. Converter losses cause CDI systems not to operate in nominal voltage. In this paper, a buck converter and a CDI selector are proposed to compensate the losses. The maximum switching frequency is limited to prevent high switching losses. Simulation results validate the proposed scheme.","PeriodicalId":307121,"journal":{"name":"2016 7th Power Electronics and Drive Systems Technologies Conference (PEDSTC)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131139265","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. Soori, S. A. Saremi Hasari, A. Salemnia, S. Khosrogorji
{"title":"An improved method for power management and voltage control of PV unit in DC microgrid","authors":"S. Soori, S. A. Saremi Hasari, A. Salemnia, S. Khosrogorji","doi":"10.1109/PEDSTC.2016.7556882","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PEDSTC.2016.7556882","url":null,"abstract":"According to growing of DC loads such as LEDs and computers, DC Microgrids will play an undeniable role in power systems in future. One of important power sources in DC Microgrids is photo voltaic (PV) unit which usually is composed of PV panel, super-capacitor (SC) and battery. In this paper, using models of PV panel, SC and battery, an improved method is suggested for providing the load power by participation of PV, SC and battery with considering the SOC of battery and SC. The final aim of power management is controlling the DC link voltage at desired amount and improving its quality when some disturbances like load current or PV output power changing are occurred. The performance of the presented method is verified using simulations carried out in MATLAB/SIMULINK software.","PeriodicalId":307121,"journal":{"name":"2016 7th Power Electronics and Drive Systems Technologies Conference (PEDSTC)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130732623","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":"Implementation of drirect torque control method on brushless doubly fed induction machines in unbalenced situations","authors":"Ali Ghaffarpour, F. Barati, H. Oraee","doi":"10.1109/PEDSTC.2016.7556840","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PEDSTC.2016.7556840","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a new method for implementing the direct torque control (DTC) on the brushless doubly fed induction machines (BDFM) in presence of turbulence in voltage grid. It is supposed irrupts in three phase voltage grid suddenly. Effects of these events on closed-loop operation are inevitable and in some cases could lead to system instability. It presumed that grid voltages disturbance effect on back-to-back converter's outputs is negligible. Control of a complex machine is problematic. Hence, firstly has explained performance of the control method on BDFM, Proposed a new method for reducing turbulence effects of system operation afterward. Simulation results on BDFM model with prototype parameters in MATLAB/Simulink shows the validity of the presented method.","PeriodicalId":307121,"journal":{"name":"2016 7th Power Electronics and Drive Systems Technologies Conference (PEDSTC)","volume":"41 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115497665","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}
Ramtin Sadeghi, S. M. Madani, M. R. Agha Kashkooli
{"title":"Grid synchronization of brushless Doubly Fed Induction Generator using direct torque control","authors":"Ramtin Sadeghi, S. M. Madani, M. R. Agha Kashkooli","doi":"10.1109/PEDSTC.2016.7556837","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PEDSTC.2016.7556837","url":null,"abstract":"A direct torque control (DTC) method is developed for grid synchronization of Brushless Doubly Fed Induction Generator (BDFIG). The presented method and the dynamic model of BDFIG are conferred in a reference frame aligned to the stator of control machine. The proposed controller has high performance, i.e., grid connection with minimum current overshoot and fast dynamic response, during the BDFIG loading. The robustness and efficiency of the proposed controller are verified by both simulation and experimental tests.","PeriodicalId":307121,"journal":{"name":"2016 7th Power Electronics and Drive Systems Technologies Conference (PEDSTC)","volume":"62 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124185136","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 super-capacitor SOC in a railway transit network","authors":"E. Rahimi, A. Dastfan, S. Ahmadi","doi":"10.1109/PEDSTC.2016.7556867","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PEDSTC.2016.7556867","url":null,"abstract":"This paper proposes a control strategy for Energy Storage System (ESS) in railway transit network. The system includes a super-capacitor (SC) and a DC-DC convertor. The super-capacitor is used for energy storing and regulating the DC line voltage which is achieved by a bidirectional DC-DC convertor. First the structure of the metro network is introduced, then the model of ESS and its control strategy are explained. An important feature of this simple and effective control strategy is the use of appropriate reference current for charging and discharging of SC. Simulation in MATLAB/Simulink showed that DC bus voltage fluctuation is limited, which is acceptable, and the super-capacitor voltage changes are kept within the allowable range and total input energy of substations is reduced considerably.","PeriodicalId":307121,"journal":{"name":"2016 7th Power Electronics and Drive Systems Technologies Conference (PEDSTC)","volume":"65 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116933150","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":"Reduced size single-phase PHEV charger with output second-order voltage harmonic elimination capability","authors":"H. Rezaie, H. Rastegar, M. Pichan","doi":"10.1109/PEDSTC.2016.7556910","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PEDSTC.2016.7556910","url":null,"abstract":"The single-phase PWM rectifier is one of the converter types applicable for the Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicles (PHEVs) chargers. A primary challenge with the single-phase rectifiers is the input alternative power with twice the grid frequency, which should be filtered out properly. The lack of proper filtering leads to significant second-order voltage harmonic at the charger output. This results overheating and decreasing of the battery lifetime and performance. In this paper, an active method to filter out the second-order voltage harmonic is proposed. In the proposed method, the input alternative power of the charger is absorbed by an inductive auxiliary energy storage element. Using the proposed method, the size, weight and implementation cost of the charger are decreased, as well as its power density and reliability are increased. The effectiveness of the proposed method has been verified by detailed simulation studies in MATLAB/Simulink.","PeriodicalId":307121,"journal":{"name":"2016 7th Power Electronics and Drive Systems Technologies Conference (PEDSTC)","volume":"277 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123429095","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}
Morteza Esteki, Nasrin Einabadi, E. Adib, H. Farzanehfard
{"title":"A high step-down DC-DC converter with low switch voltage stress and extremely low output current ripple","authors":"Morteza Esteki, Nasrin Einabadi, E. Adib, H. Farzanehfard","doi":"10.1109/PEDSTC.2016.7556851","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PEDSTC.2016.7556851","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, an interleaved high step-down DC-DC converter with low switch voltage stress is proposed. The proposed converter provides an extended duty cycle for switches and also, the voltage stress across two switches and two didoes is one fourth of the input voltage and for the other semiconductor elements is smaller than half of the input voltage. This voltage stress is much lower than that of conventional interleaved buck which makes it possible to use switches and diodes with lower voltage rating. As a results both switching and conduction losses, can be reduced and consequently the overall efficiency can be improved. Another advantage of the proposed converter is its extremely low output current ripple which requires an additional small inductor. All these benefit are obtained without applying additional stress on active components or using transformers. The simulation results based on a 480W, 400 to 48 V dc/dc prototype verify the effectiveness of the theoretical analysis.","PeriodicalId":307121,"journal":{"name":"2016 7th Power Electronics and Drive Systems Technologies Conference (PEDSTC)","volume":"132 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127484913","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":"New asymmetrical commutation cell for multilevel inverters with reduced number of components","authors":"M. Vizheh, M. Rezanejad, Emad Samadaei","doi":"10.1109/PEDSTC.2016.7556854","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PEDSTC.2016.7556854","url":null,"abstract":"This paper proposes a new topology of multilevel inverters with asymmetrical commutation cell that consists of three sources and six switches to synthesize asymmetrical output voltage level. This category of topologies is typically used in voltage AC generation. The structure provides multilevel waveform utilizing reduced number of components as compared to the conventional topologies. The performance and operation of the proposed inverter is introduced in two modes: 1) six level asymmetrical, 2) eleven level symmetrical output voltage. A comparison between the proposed and conventional structures is established. The proposed inverter is simulated in MATLAB/Simulink software. To validate proper operation of the proposed circuit, experimental setups are implemented in the laboratory in two modes.","PeriodicalId":307121,"journal":{"name":"2016 7th Power Electronics and Drive Systems Technologies Conference (PEDSTC)","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125455571","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":"Coupled inductor based boost DC/DC converter","authors":"Simin Sakhavati, E. Babaei","doi":"10.1109/PEDSTC.2016.7556860","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PEDSTC.2016.7556860","url":null,"abstract":"The boost dc-dc converters are used to increase the magnitude of dc voltage. The renewable energy sources such as photovoltaic and fuel cell generate low magnitudes of voltage. To solve this problem, it is necessary to use a boost dc/dc converter. In this paper, a new boost dc-dc converter by using coupled inductor is proposed. In the proposed converter, by choosing the suitable value of the coupled inductor coefficient, it is possible to obtain minimum output ripple. In the proposed converter as same as the conventional boost dc-dc converters by changing the value of duty cycle, the output voltage could be controlled. Finally, the accuracy performance of the proposed converter is reconfirmed through the simulation results in PSCAD/EMTDC software.","PeriodicalId":307121,"journal":{"name":"2016 7th Power Electronics and Drive Systems Technologies Conference (PEDSTC)","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125582709","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}