E. Jones, P. Williford, Zhe Yang, Jianliang Chen, Fred Wang, S. Bala, Jing Xu, J. Puukko
{"title":"Maximizing the voltage and current capability of GaN FETs in a hard-switching converter","authors":"E. Jones, P. Williford, Zhe Yang, Jianliang Chen, Fred Wang, S. Bala, Jing Xu, J. Puukko","doi":"10.1109/PEDS.2017.8289268","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PEDS.2017.8289268","url":null,"abstract":"This paper establishes a methodology for maximizing the voltage and current capability of a GaN FET, while maintaining an acceptably low overshoot voltage and junction temperature to prevent damage to the device. Two key contributions of this work are the gate driver design parameters and operating conditions that impact overshoot voltage, and a heatsink design for bottom-side cooling that avoids thermal vias. Additionally, the static and dynamic characterization steps required for this methodology are described, and an example GaN-based full-bridge inverter was designed and tested for experimental verification, using GaN gate injection transistors with capacitive gate driver circuits.","PeriodicalId":411916,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE 12th International Conference on Power Electronics and Drive Systems (PEDS)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129172212","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}
Yang Li, D. M. Vilathgamuwa, S. Choi, T. Farrell, N. Tran, Joseph Teague
{"title":"Optimal control of film growth in dual lithium-ion battery energy storage system","authors":"Yang Li, D. M. Vilathgamuwa, S. Choi, T. Farrell, N. Tran, Joseph Teague","doi":"10.1109/PEDS.2017.8289208","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PEDS.2017.8289208","url":null,"abstract":"This paper examines a charging/discharging scheme for Li-ion battery energy storage system used in renewable generation systems, with the view to minimize the growth of the solid-electrolyte interphase film and to prolong the battery life. A suitable reduced-order equivalent circuit model of the lithium-ion battery is developed based on electrochemistry. The model is used in the design of the battery power flow control scheme. By solving an optimization problem using dynamic programming algorithm, a computationally-efficient heuristic control strategy is further developed in accordance with the result of the optimization. The proposed new strategy is then compared with conventional dual-battery charging method to demonstrate the use of the proposed scheme can indeed extend the battery lifetime.","PeriodicalId":411916,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE 12th International Conference on Power Electronics and Drive Systems (PEDS)","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116909181","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":"Analytical investigation of efficiency and operating range of different Modular Multilevel Converters","authors":"Christopher Dahmen, F. Kapaun, R. Marquardt","doi":"10.1109/PEDS.2017.8289151","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PEDS.2017.8289151","url":null,"abstract":"In the last years, Modular Multilevel Converters (MMC) have become state of the art for HVDC, but future applications for Multi-Terminal-DC-Grids, Wind Parks, Large Drives and others are under development [1], [2], [3], [4]. For most of these future systems, fully electronic failure management — including electronic current limitation at AC- and DC-Side — and a very wide operating range will become key requirements. The most suitable submodule topologies and a novel “Double Zero”-Submodule (DZ-SM) are investigated and compared in a generalized way. The analytic computations reveal the advantages of the novel DZ-SM, especially when SiC-Power devices are available.","PeriodicalId":411916,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE 12th International Conference on Power Electronics and Drive Systems (PEDS)","volume":"38 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132952305","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}
Febry Pandu Wijaya, Hiroyasu Kobayashi, K. Kondo, T. Iwasaki, Akihiro Tsumura
{"title":"Damping control method of regenerative brake control under light load condition utilizing over voltage resistor","authors":"Febry Pandu Wijaya, Hiroyasu Kobayashi, K. Kondo, T. Iwasaki, Akihiro Tsumura","doi":"10.1109/PEDS.2017.8289200","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PEDS.2017.8289200","url":null,"abstract":"Higher DC-link voltage of the regenerating train under light-load regenerative brake control increases the regenerative brake power. However, if the regenerating load changes suddenly, the delay in the motor current control causes the filter capacitor (FC) voltage of the traction inverter increases and may activate the over voltage protection. This paper proposes a damping control method to reduce the peak of FC voltage using the over voltage resistor (OVRe). The proposed method is verified by numerical simulation assuming an actual railway vehicle under the condition of load shutdown at the highest power region, as the worst case conditions. By means of this method, the OVRe can be effectively utilized to reduce the FC voltage spike that results in more saving the substation energy.","PeriodicalId":411916,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE 12th International Conference on Power Electronics and Drive Systems (PEDS)","volume":"141 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131692192","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 control method for on board battery power to compensate the fluctuation of line voltage in case of long distance power feeding in DC electric railway","authors":"Suguru Hiramatsu, Hiroyasu Kobayashi, Febry Pandu Wijaya, K. Kondo, Masahisa Kageyama","doi":"10.1109/PEDS.2017.8289222","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PEDS.2017.8289222","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, a control method for on board battery power to compensate the fluctuation of line voltage in case of long distance power feeding and to manage the energy of battery in DC electric railway is proposed. Then, the control method is verified by numerical simulations. And, we confirm that the control method can compensate the fluctuation of line voltage and manage the energy of battery. In addition, a practical example of the proposed control method, a method of setting control parameters when setting the minimum line voltage is shown.","PeriodicalId":411916,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE 12th International Conference on Power Electronics and Drive Systems (PEDS)","volume":"1046 ","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"113995123","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":"Study on application of multi-level converter to realize fast current control in DC micro-grid with extremely low impedance interconnections","authors":"M. Katayama, Tatsuki Ohno, H. Obara, A. Kawamura","doi":"10.1109/PEDS.2017.8289205","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PEDS.2017.8289205","url":null,"abstract":"DC micro-grid has been actively studied as a next-generation small-scale electric power network. In such small-scale DC power grid, individual line impedance between elements such as power supplies, batteries, and loads is very low because of short distance distribution. Moreover, reactive power cannot be utilized to control power flow in the DC grids unlike the AC grids. It causes that large current flows through the lines even by a slight voltage difference. Therefore, power flow controllers with abilities to realize extremely high-speed and high-precision power flow control are required in the small-scale power grid. In this paper, multi-level converters are applied as the power flow controllers and realizes high-speed and high-precision power flow in the DC micro-grid. In the multi-level converter, as the number of the output levels increases, the output filter can become smaller. This paper also presents how to design the LC filter considering the number of the output levels of the converter to satisfy a requirement of current ripple. It is experimentally verified that the multi-level converter with a smaller filter can realize the high-speed and high-precision power flow control under the condition of the low line impedance compared with the 2-level converter.","PeriodicalId":411916,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE 12th International Conference on Power Electronics and Drive Systems (PEDS)","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128459459","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}
R. Kinjo, Ryoya Ohta, Hidehito Matayosh, T. Senjyu, A. M. Howlader
{"title":"Resonant DC circuit breaker in MMC-HVDC transmission system","authors":"R. Kinjo, Ryoya Ohta, Hidehito Matayosh, T. Senjyu, A. M. Howlader","doi":"10.1109/PEDS.2017.8289169","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PEDS.2017.8289169","url":null,"abstract":"Recently, high-voltage direct current transmission system (HVDC) which can achieve large-scale system has attracted attention with increasing amount of renewable energy. In addition, it is necessary to use large capacity converter for bulk power transmission. Therefore, modular multi-level converter (MMC) is optimum as a large capacity converter. MMC composed of chopper cell is lower cost and loss than full bridge cell topology. However, chopper cell MMC doesn't have blocking function, so it is not possible to cut off the fault of the DC side. Furthermore, the blocking of DC fault is difficult because the DC systems cannot generate current zero-cross point such as AC system. The proposed circuit breaker can eliminate the fault of the DC side. This breaker generates a current zero-cross point by using the resonance current, generated by the LC circuit. In this paper, characteristic of the proposed circuit breaker is verified by simulations.","PeriodicalId":411916,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE 12th International Conference on Power Electronics and Drive Systems (PEDS)","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115850205","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}
Daniel von den Hoff, Karl Oberdieck, R. D. De Doncker
{"title":"A multi-output resonant gate-driver power supply for electric vehicle applications","authors":"Daniel von den Hoff, Karl Oberdieck, R. D. De Doncker","doi":"10.1109/PEDS.2017.8289215","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PEDS.2017.8289215","url":null,"abstract":"Traction inverters for electric vehicle applications require galvanically isolated gate-driver power supplies with multiple outputs. These power supplies must offer low capacitive coupling, reduced complexity, as well as low material and manufacturing costs. A six-output resonant converter is proposed which consists of a single half bridge and six separated transformers with individual resonant capacitors to minimize the coupling capacitances. The converter is operated at a fixed switching frequency without pulse-frequency modulation or duty-cycle control. Thus, the need for controller and output-voltage feedback is eliminated which results in minimized component count, reduced complexity, and low manufacturing costs. The resonant tank is analyzed and designed for a load-independent output voltage at fixed-frequency operation which shows a good ruggedness against variations of the resonant-tank parameters. The concept is validated by measurements of a 45 W laboratory prototype for a HybridPACK™2 IGBT package.","PeriodicalId":411916,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE 12th International Conference on Power Electronics and Drive Systems (PEDS)","volume":"116 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115906901","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}
Marc Hagemeyer, N. Frohleke, J. Bocker, Bernd Rödder, L. Assmann, B. Völkel
{"title":"Design of a flywheel energy storage system for high current pulsating loads","authors":"Marc Hagemeyer, N. Frohleke, J. Bocker, Bernd Rödder, L. Assmann, B. Völkel","doi":"10.1109/PEDS.2017.8289157","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PEDS.2017.8289157","url":null,"abstract":"In today's industrial production (e.g. cars), resistance spot welding with dynamic current control is essential. Besides the ability to control the welding current, the peak power demand at the point of common coupling of these welding systems should be as low and steady as possible, making an energy storage mandatory. Previous investigations showed, that a flywheel energy storage offers significant advantages in terms of cycle stability, volume and efficiency compared to capacitor-based solutions. This contribution describes the topology of a complete welding system including a flywheel storage and its design process. Unlike state-of-the-art systems, the proposed topology incorporates a storage and the ability of dynamic current control. This paper addresses the specific challenges of this application. On the one hand, system dynamics have to be superior to typical flywheel energy storages; on the other hand, the topology has to be compact and efficient. Finally, robustness and simplicity of the system are of great importance to be industry-tailored. Because of the systems complexity, computer based modeling is used to simulate system performance and to optimize relevant parameters such as flywheel size and speed, motor parameters, transformers leakage-inductance, capacity of DC-link capacitors, etc. with respect to the goals stated before. Using different computer-based modeling tools, a simulation of the overall system shows that the proposed topology is practical and meets the specifications regarding size, efficiency and system dynamics. Based on these results, suitable components are selected. A prototype of the last converter stage is built which confirms expectations regarding leg current symmetry, dynamics and switching performance.","PeriodicalId":411916,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE 12th International Conference on Power Electronics and Drive Systems (PEDS)","volume":"51 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116749151","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":"Analytical model of three-phase four-wire VSC operating as grid forming power converter under unbalanced load conditions","authors":"C. Nascimento, O. Diene, E. Watanabe","doi":"10.1109/PEDS.2017.8289287","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PEDS.2017.8289287","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents an analytical model of typical three-phase, three-leg, four-wire and two-level PWM controlled voltage-source converters (VSCs) suitable to investigate the harmonic generation at dc- and ac-side of the converter under sinusoidal unbalanced current condition, e.g., positive-sequence third order harmonic voltage in the VSC ac-side. The proposed model, based on instantaneous power theory as well as switching functions concepts, permits to evaluate the oscillating voltage that appears on the VSC dc-side. The effect of the zero- and negative-sequence current components are considered on the dc capacitance calculation which consequently enables to size the dc capacitor accurately in order to keep the dc voltage ripple of each split capacitor under pre-defined limits. The model also shows the exact dc-side voltage ripple due to the VSC ac-side zero- and negative-sequence currents. It shows also how to calculate the non-characteristic harmonics on the VSC ac side.","PeriodicalId":411916,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE 12th International Conference on Power Electronics and Drive Systems (PEDS)","volume":"181 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115586555","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}