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http://dx.doi.org/10.6113/JPE.2016.16.2.786

Development of a Novel 30 kV Solid-state Switch for Damped Oscillating Voltage Testing System  

Hou, Zhe (School of Electrical Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong University)
Li, Hongjie (School of Electrical Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong University)
Li, Jing (Electric Power Research Institute of Guangxi Power Grid Co., Ltd.)
Ji, Shengchang (School of Electrical Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong University)
Huang, Chenxi (School of Electrical Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong University)
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Journal of Power Electronics / v.16, no.2, 2016 , pp. 786-797 More about this Journal
Abstract
This paper describes the design and development of a novel semiconductor-based solid-state switch for damped oscillating voltage test system. The proposed switch is configured as two identical series-connected switch stacks, each of which comprising 10 series-connected IGBT function units. Each unit consists of one IGBT, a gate driver, and an auxiliary voltage sharing circuit. A single switch stack can block 20 kV-rated high voltage, and two stacks in series are proven applicable to 30 kV-rated high voltage. The turn-on speed of the switch is approximately 250 ns. A flyback topology-based power supply system with a front-end power factor correction is built for the drive circuit by loosely inductively coupling each unit with a ferrite core to the primary side of a power generator to obtain the advantages of galvanic isolation and compact size. After the simulation, measurement, and estimation of the parasitic effect on the gate driver, a prototype is assembled and tested under different operating regimes. Experimental results are presented to demonstrate the performance of the developed prototype.
Keywords
Damped oscillating voltage testing system; Flyback converter; High voltage switch; Insulated gate bipolar transistor (IGBT); Series connection;
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