• Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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• 제10권1호
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• pp.195-204
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• 2015

In this paper, the development of a cost-effective active power filter/uninterruptible power supply (APF/UPS) system with seamless mode transfer is described. The proposed scheme employs a pulse-width-modulation (PWM) voltage-source inverter and has two operational modes. First, when the source voltage is normal, the system operates as an APF, which compensates for the harmonics and power factor while boosting the DC-link voltage to be ready for the disturbance, without an additional DC charging circuit. A simple algorithm to detect the load current harmonics is also proposed. Second, when the source voltage is out of the normal range (owing to sag, swell, or outage), it operates a UPS, which controls the output voltage constantly by discharging the DC-link capacitor. Furthermore, a seamless transfer method for the single-phase inverter between the APF mode and the UPS mode is also proposed, in which an IGBT switch with diodes is used as a static bypass switch. Dissimilar to a conventional SCR switch, the IGBT switch can implement a seamless mode transfer. During the UPS operation, when the source voltage returns to the normal range, the system operates as an APF. The proposed system has good transient and steady-state response characteristics. The APF, charging circuit, and UPS systems are implemented in one inverter system. Finally, the validity of the proposed scheme is investigated with simulated and experimental results for a prototype APF/UPS system rated at 3 kVA.

• 조명전기설비학회논문지
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• 제20권5호
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• pp.49-56
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• 2006

양방향 컨버터는 연료전지 발전 시스템의 인버터 dc link와 저전압 배터리를 연결시켜 준다. 방전 모드(boost)에서는 저전압(battery: 48[V])측에서 고전압(dc link: 380[V])측으로, 충전 모드(buck)에서는 저전압측 배터리로 전력이 전달된다. 본 논문에서는 방전모드 시 MOSFET으로 구성된 1.5[kW] 능동 클램프 전류원 풀 브리지 컨버터가 동작하고 배터리 충전 시 IGBT로 구성된 전압원 하프 브리지 컨버터가 동작한다.

• 전력전자학회:학술대회논문집
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• 전력전자학회 2016년도 전력전자학술대회 논문집
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• pp.365-366
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• 2016

This paper presents a single-phase transformerless photovoltaic (PV) power converter systems based on the AC/DC boost inverter, which is capable of solving the leakage current and second-order ripple power issues. By eliminating the inherent ripple power in single-phase inverter, the bulky electrolytic capacitor can be replaced by a small film capacitor. The validity of the proposed scheme has been verified by the simulation results.

• 전력전자학회:학술대회논문집
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• 전력전자학회 1998년도 연구회 합동 학술발표회 논문집
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• pp.64-67
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• 1998

This paper proposes the hybrid PWM scheme that can obtain less harmonic characteristics in GTO inverters. By employing the variable of the dc-link voltage Vdc, the hybrid PWM pattern can ideally compensate the dc input fluctuation together with selected harmonics elimination. The transient behavior, which the magnetic flux and torque are altered and the large current flows instantly, may be produced when the mode change. To reduce such an undesirable transient behavior, it is also presented the technique for the gear changing of inverter operated with the hybrid PWM. The results are verified by simulations and experiments.

• Journal of Power Electronics
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• 제15권2호
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• pp.411-418
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• 2015

In this paper, a new method for the online estimation of equivalent series resistances (ESR) of the DC-link capacitors in induction machine (IM) drive systems with a front-end diode rectifier is proposed, where the ESR estimation is conducted during the regenerative operating mode of the induction machine. In the first place, a regulated AC current component is injected into the q-axis current component of the induction machine, which induces the current and voltage ripple components in the DC-link. By processing these AC signals through digital filters, the ESR can be estimated by a recursive least squares (RLS) algorithm. To acquire the AC voltage across the ESR, the DC-link voltage needs to be measured at a double sampling frequency. In addition, the ESR current is simply reconstructed from the stator currents and switching states of the inverter. Experimental results have shown that the estimation error of the ESR is about 1.2%, which is quite acceptable for condition monitoring of the capacitor.

• 전력전자학회논문지
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• 제19권3호
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• pp.201-210
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• 2014

In this paper, dc-link voltage control of a grid-connected QZSI is presented. Since the input current of the ZSI is discontinuous, a capacity with relatively large capacitance should be connected to the output of the PV array in order to reduce the current ripple. Due to the presence of the impedance network inductor in series with the PV array, the QZSI can achieve continuous input current flow. Several dc-link voltage control methods are compared and the method for power quality improvement is also presented. The performance of the proposed method is verified through both simulation and experimental results.

• 대한전기학회논문지:전기기기및에너지변환시스템부문B
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• 제54권5호
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• pp.231-237
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• 2005

Many conventional multi-level inverters have detected switching faults by using the over voltage and current. However, fault detection of the switching elements is very difficult because the voltage and current due to each switching fault decrease more than the normal operation. Moreover, the dc-link unbalancing voltage causes a serious problem in the safety and reliability of system when the 3-level inverter faults occur Therefore, this paper proposes the simple fault diagnose method and the neutral-point-voltage control method that can protect the 3-level inverter system from the unbalancing voltage of the do-link capacitors when the faults of switching elements occur in the 3-level inverter that is very efficient in ac motor drives of the high voltage and high power applications. Through experiment results, the validity of the proposed method is demonstrated.

• 전력전자학회:학술대회논문집
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• 전력전자학회 2010년도 추계학술대회
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• pp.234-237
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• 2010

This paper proposes a balancing control of DC-link voltages of a H-bridge multilevel inverter for STATCOM application. Individual DC link voltage is controlled by simply adjusting the d-q voltage reference through a PI controller in each cell while the main controller carries out the reactive power control. The correctness and effectiveness of the method are validated by PSIM simulation with unbalanced load condition data taken from a typical arc furnace load, showing the adverse effects of load unbalance to DC link voltage significantly suppressed.

• 전력전자학회논문지
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• 제14권2호
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• pp.105-111
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• 2009

현재 생활의 이기인 자동차 등에서 구동되는 기기의 전원은 배터리 전원을 주로 사용하고 있으며, 또한 산업체에 사용되는 인버터를 사용하는 기기에서도 DC 전원 사용이 확대되고 있다. 이와 같이 DC 전원이 사용되는 곳에서 전력선을 활용한 데이터 통신방식에 대한 수요가 급증할 것으로 사료된다. 본 논문에서는 DC 전원을 기반으로 하는 DC 전력선 통신을 이용하여 BLDC(Brushless DC) 전동기 구동시스템을 제안한다. 이 시스템의 특징은 인출되는 DC 전원으로 사용되는 2 선만으로 구성하여 데이터 통신을 할 수 있는 장점이 있다. 외부 설정치와 지령치로 사용되는 신호선을 제거하고 전력선과 엔코더 신호선의 단축으로 신뢰성 확보되며, 또한 멀티 제어 시 배선수의 최소화 및 회전기기 장착 시 슬립링 수를 최소화 할 수 있다. 위험한 환경에서도 안정성이 증가되며, 시스템 제작단가를 저감할 수 있다. 마지막으로 제안된 방식에 대한 우수성을 검증하기 위해서 PSIM 및 MATLAB를 활용하여 시뮬레이션을 실시하였고, 실제 프로토타입을 제작하여 실험을 통하여 그 타당성을 검증하였다.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제13권2호
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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.