• Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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• v.6 no.2
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• pp.215-225
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• 2011

In this paper, a buck DC-DC bridge converter is used as a power factor correction (PFC) converter for feeding a voltage source inverter (VSI) based permanent magnet brushless DC motor (PMBLDCM) drive. The front end of the PFC converter is a diode bridge rectifier (DBR) fed from single phase AC mains. The PMBLDCM is used to drive the compressor of an air conditioner through a three-phase voltage source inverter (VSI) fed from a variable voltage DC link. The speed of the air conditioner is controlled to conserve energy using a new concept of voltage control at a DC link proportional to the desired speed of the PMBLDC motor. Therefore, VSI operates only as an electronic commutator of the PMBLDCM. The current of the PMBLDCM is controlled by setting the reference voltage at the DC link as a ramp. The proposed PMBLDCM drive with voltage control-based PFC converter was designed and modeled. The performance is simulated in Matlab-Simulink environment for an air conditioner compressor load driven through a 3.75 kW, 1500 rpm PMBLDC motor. To validate the effectiveness of the proposed speed control scheme, the evaluation results demonstrate improved efficiency of the complete drive with the PFC feature in a wide range of speed and input AC voltage.

• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Power Electronics
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• v.5 no.3
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• pp.254-260
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• 2000

일반적으로 3상 PWM AC/DC 컨버터는 정상상태에서의 효과적인 오차제거 및 빠른 과도응답 특성을 얻기 위해 동기좌표계상으로 모델링하여 제어한다. 그러나 이와 같은 제어기는 입력전압이 평형일 경우를 전제조건으로 하므로, 입력전압이 불평형일 경우 입력전류와 직류링크 전압에 2차 고조파 성분이 나타나게 된다. 본 논문에서는 불평형 입력전압 하에서 컨버터 시스템의 입력전류와 직류링크 전압에 발생하는 2차 고조파 성분을 최소화하기 위한 새로운 제어기법을 제안하였다. 입력측 역기전력 성분으로 간주할 수 있는 동기좌표계상의 전압을 입력전압의 상태에 따라 변동하였으며, 전류지령치를 무효전력과 2차 고조파 유효전력을 선택적으로 제거하도록 선정하였다. 입력전압의 분석은 동기좌표계상에서 수행되어지며, 각 상의 위상과 진폭의 검출이 불필요하다. 제안한 제어기법은 매우 간단하며 불평형 입력전압 상태에서 입출력 시스템의 고조파 왜란을 효과적으로 제어할 수 있다.

• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 2011.11a
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• pp.305-306
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• 2011

본 논문에서는 3상 양방향 AC-DC 컨버터의 계통사고 검출기법을 제안한다. 3상 양방향 AC-DC 컨버터는 동기좌표법을 이용하여 PLL(Phase locked loop)을 구현하였고, PLL제어에 있어서 dq변환을 수행한다. dq변환은 입력의 크기 정보와 위상정보를 포함하기 때문에 이를 이용하여 계통사고의 검출이 가능하다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 3상 양방향 AC-DC 컨버터를 이용하여, 계통사고에 대한 검출 기법을 제안하였으며, 계통의 d축, q축 전압대하여 사고를 정의하였다.

• Journal of Power Electronics
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• v.10 no.3
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• pp.293-299
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• 2010

In this paper, a single-phase PFC (Power Factor Correction) dual boost converter based on input voltage estimation is studied for DC inverter air conditioner. It is focused on improving input power factor and power quality to satisfy the recent harmonic current regulation standards. Furthermore the input voltage estimation is introduced for price competitive products. A low cost and reasonable control system is implemented using a specified high-speed 32-bit microprocessor. Their effectiveness are verified through theoretical analysis and experiments.

• The Transactions of The Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers
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• v.61 no.10
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• pp.1442-1447
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• 2012

In this paper, direct power control system for three-phase PWM AC/DC converter without the source voltage sensors is proposed. The sinusoidal input current and unity effective power factor are realised based on the estimated flux in the observer. Both active and reactive power calculated using estimated flux. The estimation of flux is performed based on the Reduced-order flux observer using the actual currents and the command control voltage. The source voltage sensors are replaced by a flux estimator. The active and reactive powers estimation are performed based on the estimated flux and Phase anble. The proposed algorithm is verified through simulation and experiment.

• Journal of Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems
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• v.13 no.2
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• pp.154-162
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• 2007

In this paper, we propose a new AC-DC converter control method to comply with harmonics regulation(IEC 61000-3) effective for the inverter system of an air conditioner whose power consumption is less than 2,500W. There are many different ways of AC-DC converter control, but this paper focuses on the converter control method that is adopting an input reactor with low cost silicon steel core to strengthen cost competitiveness of the manufacturer. The proposed control method controls input current every half cycle of the line frequency to get unit power factor and at the same time to reduce switching loss of devices and acoustic noise from reactor. This kind of converter is known as a Partial Switching Converter(PSC). In this study, theoretical analysis of the PSC has been performed using Matlab/Simulink while a 16-bit micro-processor based converter has been used to perform the experimental analysis. In the theoretical analysis, electrical circuit models and equations of the PSC are derived and simulated. In the experiments, micro-processor controls input current to keep the power factor above 0.95 by reducing the phase difference between input voltage and current and at the same time to maintain a reference DC-link voltage against voltage drop which depends on DC-link load. Therefore it becomes possible to comply with harmonic regulations while the power factor is maximized by optimizing the time of current flow through the input reactor for every half cycle of line frequency.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 1999.07f
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• pp.2656-2658
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• 1999

This paper presents a control scheme for a three-phase PWM converter system without any voltage sensors. Two input currents and one load current are measured. In a general PWM converter system, the required AC input and DC output voltage values in order to control the converter are estimated using the differential equations of the converter from the measured input currents and load current values in the switch modes of the converter circuit. The PI controller is used as DC voltage controller and sinusoidal tracking controller which tracks directly AC input current is used as input current controller. The Proposed method is verified by simulations. This paper describes the estimation method and configuration of the controller, and discusses steady state and transient performances of the converter

• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers
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• v.36 no.3
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• pp.179-187
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• 1987

Dual converter using diode bridge and 6-thyristor is discussed and the characteristics of this converter depending on their switching mode is revealed. The switching modes of converter operation are identified on both ac and dc sides. The circuit has the ability to accept or deliver DC current without change of nominal DC voltage magnitude or polarity and has the capability not only to instantaneously change from motoring to generating and vice versa, but to operate cycloconverter.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 1995.07a
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• pp.268-270
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• 1995

This paper proposes a novel PWM technique for a three phase current fad type converters. A minor loop compensation method is introduced to compensate leading current and to minimize input line current (Iu) distortion resulting from the resonance between AC filter capacitor and source inductance of power system. This PWM converter has excellent characterics as next. The control system is simply designed, and the operation with unity power factor can be easily obtained by automatic compensating the leading current of the filter circuit. Also. the three phase sinusoidal input current can be obtained.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Illuminating and Electrical Installation Engineers
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• v.21 no.2
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• pp.54-63
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• 2007

Recently, a fuel cell with low voltage and high current output characteristics is remarkable for new generation system. It needs both a DC-DC step-up converter and DC-AC inverter to be used in fuel cell generation system. Therefor, this paper, consists of an isolated DC-DC converter to boost the fuel cell voltage $380[V_{DC}]$ and a PWM inverter with LC filter to convent the DC voltage to single-phase $220[V_{AC}]$. Expressly, a tapped inductor filter with freewheeling diode is newly implemented in the output filter of the proposed high frequency isolated ZVZCS PWM DC-DC converter to suppress circulating current under the wide output voltage regulation range, thus to eliminate the switching and transformer turn-on/off over-short voltage or transient phenomena. Besides the efficiency of 93-97[%]is obtained over the wide output voltage regulation ranges and load variations.