Meng Zhou, W. Xiang, W. Zuo, Weixing Lin, J. Wen, Ruizhang Yang, Binye Ni, Xiaojun Lu
{"title":"Active Current-Limiting Control to Handle DC Line Fault of Overhead DC Grid","authors":"Meng Zhou, W. Xiang, W. Zuo, Weixing Lin, J. Wen, Ruizhang Yang, Binye Ni, Xiaojun Lu","doi":"10.23919/icpe2019-ecceasia42246.2019.8797284","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/icpe2019-ecceasia42246.2019.8797284","url":null,"abstract":"To handle with the DC line faults in a DC grid, this paper proposed an active current-limiting controller for hybrid MMC. With this active current-limiting control strategy, the requirement of interruption current of DCCB will be significantly decreased, and the investment of DC grid will be reduced obviously. Firstly, the control architecture of active current-limiting controller is disclosed. To avoid the overvoltage of submodule capacitors during DC fault, a dynamic limiter for the reference value of the DC current controller is proposed. To decrease the peak of fault current, the feedforward controller of DC voltage is put forward. The decoupling controllability of the AC/DC voltage of hybrid MMC is disclosed. The current-limiting mechanism of the active current-limiting controller is analysis. Then, the validity of the active current-limiting control strategy is verified by RTDS.","PeriodicalId":423158,"journal":{"name":"2019 10th International Conference on Power Electronics and ECCE Asia (ICPE 2019 - ECCE Asia)","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-08-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128094809","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":"Use of IGCTs in Modular Multilevel Converters for HVDC Link: Influence of the Modulation Method on the Efficiency","authors":"Davin Guédon, P. Ladoux, M. Kanoun, S. Sanchez","doi":"10.23919/icpe2019-ecceasia42246.2019.8797134","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/icpe2019-ecceasia42246.2019.8797134","url":null,"abstract":"The efficiency of high-power converters, especially for high-voltage direct current (HVDC) power transmission, represents a crucial issue. For modular multilevel converters (MMCs), a simple way to improve the efficiency is to drop the switching frequency. Nevertheless, to insure a proper control of the converter, the choice of the modulation method is essential. From this observation, the study throws light on two multilevel modulation methods to estimate their impact on converter efficiency. An average difference of 0.13 % on the total efficiency of the converter is obtained between the two methods, with the possibility of using IGCTs optimized for low frequency operation.","PeriodicalId":423158,"journal":{"name":"2019 10th International Conference on Power Electronics and ECCE Asia (ICPE 2019 - ECCE Asia)","volume":"102 3","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-08-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120863321","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}
Yi-Yuan Chung, T. Liang, Wei-Jing Tseng, Jwo-Hann Liu
{"title":"Voltage Clamping Balance for Charging/Discharging Battery Module","authors":"Yi-Yuan Chung, T. Liang, Wei-Jing Tseng, Jwo-Hann Liu","doi":"10.23919/icpe2019-ecceasia42246.2019.8797233","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/icpe2019-ecceasia42246.2019.8797233","url":null,"abstract":"This paper proposes a voltage clamping balance (VCB) method applied with battery power module (BPM) system. The VCB method, which indicates that battery balance is activated after the battery voltage reached its rated value, can save the cost of battery state of charge (SOC) estimation and increases system reliability while keeping the battery voltage in safe operating region. Otherwise, a VCB discharging experimental result shows that the proposed method can release more charge from battery than conventional discharging method in this paper. The proposed system composed of several BPMs and a system control circuit can provide energy as a DC voltage source in discharge mode, and can be charged by an external DC voltage source in charge mode. Meanwhile, the characteristics of BPM system such as high flexibility and capability of hot-swapping can be achieved by the proposed system. Finally, a 24-V LiFePO4 BPM system prototype containing 4 BPMs with 200-W power rating for each BPM is built to verify the feasibility of the proposed VCB method and the proposed BPM system.","PeriodicalId":423158,"journal":{"name":"2019 10th International Conference on Power Electronics and ECCE Asia (ICPE 2019 - ECCE Asia)","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127613898","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}
C. Lim, Ki-Mok Kim, Dongmin Kim, Taewoo Kim, G. Moon
{"title":"Hybrid DC-DC Converter Using Center-Tapped Clamp Circuit in Wide Range of High Output Voltage","authors":"C. Lim, Ki-Mok Kim, Dongmin Kim, Taewoo Kim, G. Moon","doi":"10.23919/icpe2019-ecceasia42246.2019.8797120","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/icpe2019-ecceasia42246.2019.8797120","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, a hybrid converter with a new clamp circuit is presented. This hybrid converter has the structure of combining a phase-shifted full-bridge (PSFB)converter with a half-bridge (HB)LLC converter. On the primary side, the lagging-leg of PSFB converter is shared by HB LLC converter. On the secondary side, the full-bridge rectifiers of two converters are connected in series. Due to the series-connected structure on the secondary side, this hybrid converter is suitable for high output voltage applications. In addition, by using a new center-tapped clamp circuit, which consists of two diodes and two capacitors with connected to the center of the transformer, the proposed converter can solve many drawbacks of PSFB converters in wide range of output voltage. Finally, the performance in efficiency, power density, and cost can be improved. In order to validate the feasibility of the proposed converter, a 3.3-kW prototype was tested.","PeriodicalId":423158,"journal":{"name":"2019 10th International Conference on Power Electronics and ECCE Asia (ICPE 2019 - ECCE Asia)","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126502763","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}
Jung-Kyu Han, Keon-Woo Kim, C. Lim, Dongmin Kim, G. Moon
{"title":"A New Full-Bridge Converter with Phase-Shifted Coupled Inductor Rectifier","authors":"Jung-Kyu Han, Keon-Woo Kim, C. Lim, Dongmin Kim, G. Moon","doi":"10.23919/icpe2019-ecceasia42246.2019.8797253","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/icpe2019-ecceasia42246.2019.8797253","url":null,"abstract":"A conventional phase-shifted full-bridge (PSFB) converter is one of the most promising topologies in high power/high efficiency applications because of its small RMS current, inherent zero-voltage switching (ZVS) capability, and clamped voltage stress of the primary switches. However, when it is designed to satisfy a hold-up time requirement, it operates with small effective duty-ratio in nominal state which causes a large RMS current in the primary side. To solve these problems, secondary-side phase-shifted controlled full-bridge converter with a new coupled inductor rectifier is proposed in this paper. In the nominal state, the proposed rectifier uses synchronous rectification to reduce the conduction loss in the rectifier. And, by shifting the phase of rectifier switches, the proposed converter obtains additional voltage gain during the hold-up state. As a result, the proposed converter can be designed regardless of the hold-up time which results in high efficiency in entire load condition. The effectiveness and feasibility of the proposed converter is verified with 320–400 V input and 56 V/12.8 A output prototype converters.","PeriodicalId":423158,"journal":{"name":"2019 10th International Conference on Power Electronics and ECCE Asia (ICPE 2019 - ECCE Asia)","volume":"83 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133934534","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}
C. Lim, Yeonho Jeong, Minsu Lee, Young-Dal Lee, G. Moon
{"title":"High Efficient Hybrid Converter Using Center-tapped Clamp Circuit","authors":"C. Lim, Yeonho Jeong, Minsu Lee, Young-Dal Lee, G. Moon","doi":"10.23919/icpe2019-ecceasia42246.2019.8797008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/icpe2019-ecceasia42246.2019.8797008","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, a hybrid converter combining a phase-shifted full-bridge converter and a resonant half-bridge converter with a new center-tapped clamp circuit is proposed to achieve high efficiency in electric vehicle battery charging systems. The proposed converter has the benefit of half-bridge integrated converters such as the extended zero-voltage-switching range. In addition, by using a new center-tapped clamp circuit, which consists of two diodes and two capacitors, the proposed converter can solve the drawbacks of conventional PSFB converters, such as the substantial circulating current and the severe voltage stress and the significant switching loss in the secondary full-bridge rectifier. With these advantages, the efficiency is considerably increased. In order to validate the feasibility of the proposed converter, a 3.3-kW prototype was tested.","PeriodicalId":423158,"journal":{"name":"2019 10th International Conference on Power Electronics and ECCE Asia (ICPE 2019 - ECCE Asia)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128395974","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}
Minsu Lee, C. Lim, Keon-Woo Kim, Moo-Hyun Park, G. Moon
{"title":"A Phase-Shift Full-Bridge Converter with Novel Voltage Oscillation Clamping Circuit for Electric Vehicle on-Board Charger","authors":"Minsu Lee, C. Lim, Keon-Woo Kim, Moo-Hyun Park, G. Moon","doi":"10.23919/icpe2019-ecceasia42246.2019.8796489","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/icpe2019-ecceasia42246.2019.8796489","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, a novel clamping circuit is proposed to solve the voltage oscillation problem of the phase-shift full-bridge converter for electric vehicle on-board charger. The proposed clamping circuit, consist of a single capacitor, suppresses the voltage oscillation of the secondary diodes. Besides, this clamping circuit can reduced output filter because it applies the voltage to the output inductor even in the freewheeling period. Therefore, the proposed converter can achieve high efficiency by utilizing the higher performance diode and achieve high power density by the simple clamping circuit and reduced output filter. In the proposed clamping circuit, the amount of voltage oscillation reduction is determined by the ratio of the leakage inductors. Thus, in this paper, the design guideline of leakage inductances is also provided. The feasibility of the proposed converter has been verified with the experimental results under 270–420 VDC output voltage range at 3.3kW.","PeriodicalId":423158,"journal":{"name":"2019 10th International Conference on Power Electronics and ECCE Asia (ICPE 2019 - ECCE Asia)","volume":"32 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132144933","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}
Moo-Hyun Park, Yeonho Jeong, Dong-Kwan Kim, Ki-Mok Kim, G. Moon
{"title":"Pre-Regulating Boost Converter with Asymmetric Half-bridge LLC Converter for DC Server Power Supply","authors":"Moo-Hyun Park, Yeonho Jeong, Dong-Kwan Kim, Ki-Mok Kim, G. Moon","doi":"10.23919/icpe2019-ecceasia42246.2019.8796913","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/icpe2019-ecceasia42246.2019.8796913","url":null,"abstract":"This paper proposed an boost pre-regulating converter with an asymmetric half-bridge double-ended LLC converter for DC server power supply. Proposed converter consists of boost converter for pre-regulating stage and LLC converter for stand-by stage. Due to the integration of the switches, the switch for stand-by stage can be eliminated. Two output voltages, main output voltage and stand-by output voltage, are regulated by using both pulse width modulation and pulse frequency modulation controls. The switches in the proposed structure achieve zero-voltage-switching (ZVS) in the nominal state. As a result, the proposed structure that contains boost pre-regulating converter and LLC stand-by converter has higher efficiency than the conventional structure which has flyback stand-by converter. The feasibility of the proposed structure is confirmed with 260-380V input and 400V/500W main output, 12V/25.2W stand-by output prototype.","PeriodicalId":423158,"journal":{"name":"2019 10th International Conference on Power Electronics and ECCE Asia (ICPE 2019 - ECCE Asia)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128692229","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":"State-Space Modeling of Grid-Connected Power Converters Considering Power-Internal Voltage Characteristics","authors":"Q. Peng, Yongheng Yang, F. Blaabjerg","doi":"10.23919/icpe2019-ecceasia42246.2019.8797023","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/icpe2019-ecceasia42246.2019.8797023","url":null,"abstract":"To analyze the stability of power electronics-dominated systems, this paper develops a state-space model of power converters including the DC-link voltage control, where the power-internal voltage (PIV) characteristics of the power converters are considered. The PIV concept comes from the inertia characteristic and swing equation of synchronous generators. It reflects the relationship between the output power and converter internal voltage, the converter response to grid disturbances, and finally, the impact of power converters on the grid stability. In the proposed model, the inputs are the outer controller references and the converter output power, i.e., the power at the point of common coupling (PCC). The output of the model is the internal voltage that determines the grid power distribution, including the power at the PCC. The power will be fed back to the converters as an input, and thinks the closed-loop model of the converter-based system is obtained. Importantly, the parameters of the proposed model are independent of the power grid, but related to the converter operation points and parameters. This makes the model more general and can be employed to analyze multiple converter-based systems. Furthermore, a case study is conducted in this paper to demonstrate the model and the stability analysis.","PeriodicalId":423158,"journal":{"name":"2019 10th International Conference on Power Electronics and ECCE Asia (ICPE 2019 - ECCE Asia)","volume":"2014 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127548775","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":"Design of Optimized Coupling Factor for Minimum Inductor Current Ripple in DC-DC Converter using Multi-winding Coupled Inductor","authors":"Taewon Kang, Jacho Lee, Y. Suh","doi":"10.23919/icpe2019-ecceasia42246.2019.8797286","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/icpe2019-ecceasia42246.2019.8797286","url":null,"abstract":"The magnetic coupling of filter inductors is widely utilized in various power electronics application fields, including dc-dc converters in EV charger systems, in order to enhance the filtering performance while maintaining the minimal filter size. The optimal distribution of self and mutual inductance of the coupled inductor is regarded as one of the important design tasks with respect to the coupled inductor. This paper proposes a novel method to design the optimal coupling factor for a generalized n-winding coupled inductor, which generates the least size of inductor current ripple in phase-staggered multi-paralleled dc-dc converters. The explicit mathematical form of the optimal coupling factor for a generalized n-winding coupled inductor in n- phase staggered multi-paralleled dc-dc converters is presented. The general equations for the n-winding coupled inductor are verified through the example case of the 3-winding coupled inductor. The experimental results successfully confirmed the newly proposed method of obtaining the optimal coupling factor.","PeriodicalId":423158,"journal":{"name":"2019 10th International Conference on Power Electronics and ECCE Asia (ICPE 2019 - ECCE Asia)","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123544346","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}