• Journal of Power Electronics
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• v.16 no.4
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• pp.1541-1550
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• 2016

This paper presents a theoretical analysis and comparisons of active power filter (APF) and hybrid power filter (HPF) systems, given terminal constraints of harmonic compensations in nonlinear loads. Despite numerous publications for the two types of filters, the features and differences between them have not been clearly explained. This paper presents a detailed analysis of the operations of a HPF inverter along with those of passive power filters (PPFs). It also includes their effects on the power factor at the grid. In addition, a theoretical analysis and a systematic comparison between the APF and HPF systems are addressed based on system parameters such as the source voltage, output power, reactive component size, and power factor at the grid terminals. The converter kVA ratings and dc-link voltage requirements for both topologies are considered in the presented comparisons

• The Transactions of The Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers
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• v.58 no.3
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• pp.523-530
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• 2009

This paper presents a study on a small scale single-phase UPFC preliminary researches on power quality compensating schemes of electrical railway. As the UPFC is very complicated power-electronic system consisting of grid-connected transformers, four single phase inverters interconnected with dc-link capacitors and various electrical apparatuses, multiple controllers and control algorithms are needed, and entire UPFC has been modelled in the form of block diagrams and simulated by using Simulink. The main purpose of the compensating system is to manage reactive and active powers with the four single phase inverters, so, the control effort has been focused on the power flow control and has been realized through the hysteresis current control of the single phase inverters. And transport-delayed PLL with additional delay-time compensating term has been used to synchronize a grid voltage and the simulation results have shown that the compensating term could improve PLL performance under some frequency variation of the voltage.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2001.07b
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• pp.1110-1112
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• 2001

This paper presents a high frequency electronic ballast with high efficiency and high power factor. The proposed ballast have driven by the half bridge inverter which is linked diode rectifier without DC link capacitor. Minimized elements of circuit configurations can make the efficiency of the ballast increase. High input power factor which is up to 0.96 can be achieved and the crest factor of lamp current waveforms is controlled with below 1.75 by using a novel control scheme which has PFM and PWM methods simultaneously. In this paper, the circuit configurations of the proposed ballast and the control schemes are described. The usefulness of the proposed ballast is confirmed with the simulation results.

• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 2014.11a
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• pp.115-116
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• 2014

기존의 2-레벨 인버터에 비해 더 나은 출력특성을 갖는 멀티레벨 인버터가 등장함에 따라 이를 좀 더 효율적으로 사용하고자 많은 연구가 진행되어 왔다. 멀티레벨 인버터 종류의 하나로 Neutral-Point-Clamped 인버터를 들 수 있는데, 이를 구동하기 위한 방식으로 여러 가지 PWM 기법들이 사용되고 있다. 기존의 방식들에서는 dc-link단의 커패시터에서 저주파수리플이 발생하는 문제가 있다. 이에 관하여, virtual space vector PWM 기법이 제안된 바 있다. 본 논문에서는 이 기법을 계통연계 방식에 적용하여 그 결과를 시뮬레이션을 통해 확인하였다.

• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 2014.11a
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• pp.13-14
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• 2014

본 논문에서는 유사 DC-Link 타입의 태양광 마이크로 인버터에서 요구되는 대용량의 전해 커패시터의 단점을 지적하고 이를 제거하기 위해 shunt 방식으로 연결되는 양방향 벅-부스트 컨버터 제어방법을 제안한다. 태양광 마이크로 인버터는 동작 특성상 PV 입력단에 120Hz 리플이 존재하지만 대용량의 전해 커패시터를 적용함으로써 리플을 제거할 수 있다. 하지만 전해 커패시터의 짧은 수명이 전체 시스템의 신뢰성을 저하시키기 때문에 이를 극복하기 위한 부가적인 회로가 필요하다. 본 논문에서는 제안한 1차측의 플라이백 스위치 전류 제어기의 레퍼런스를 공유함으로써 전류 센서수를 감소시키고 PV 입력단 Capacitance를 낮출 수 있는 양방향 벅-부스트 회로의 제어기를 시뮬레이션을 통하여 검증하였다.

• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 2014.11a
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• pp.187-188
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• 2014

본 논문에서는 3-레벨 NPC(Neutral Point Clamped) 인버터에서 상단 커패시터 전압과 하단 커패시터의 전압의 불균형 시 나타나는 출력 상전류 왜곡에 대한 보상기법에 대하여 제안한다. 스위칭 기법은 SVPWM(Space Vector Pulse Width Modulation)을 사용하였고 상단 커패시터 전압과 하단 커패시터 전압의 불균형이 DC-Link 전압의 0% 15% 35%일 때의 보상 전과 보상 후를 비교 분석 하여 시뮬레이션으로 출력 상전류 보상기법을 검증하였다.

• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 2002.07a
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• pp.551-554
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• 2002

This paper describes a new interactive inverter between a photovoltaic(PV) array and single-phase utility that avoid the bulky input (60Hz) transformer on the AC side. The interface employs a pwm boost converter on the DC side followed by a pwm current-forced single-phase rectifier for injecting the power from the PV array into the mains. The current waveform at the AC side remains sinusoidal and exactly in phase at all time. The circuit also has the advantage of requiring fewer switching device than high-frequency link system. This paper describes modeling of PV array and new system topology. Simulation results on the performance of the connection are also presented.

• Journal of Power Electronics
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• v.12 no.2
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• pp.276-284
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• 2012

AC/AC power conversion is widely used to feed AC loads with a variable voltage and/or a variable frequency from a constant voltage constant frequency power grid or to connect critical loads to an unreliable power supply while delivering a very balanced and accurate sinusoidal voltage system of constant amplitude and frequency. The load specifications will clearly impose the requirements for the inverter stage of the power converter, while wider ranges of choices are available for the rectifier. This paper investigates the utilization of a buck-type current source rectifier as the active front-end stage of an AC/AC converter for applications that require an adjustable DC-link voltage as well as elimination of the low-frequency common mode voltage. The proposed solution is to utilize a combination of two or more zero current vectors in the Space Vector Modulation (SVM) technique for Current Sources Rectifiers (CSR).

• Journal of Power Electronics
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• v.12 no.3
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• pp.509-517
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• 2012

This paper presents control strategies for cascaded H-bridge multilevel active power filters (APFs). A current loop controller is implemented using a proportional-resonant (PR) regulator, which achieves zero steady-state error at target frequencies. The power balancing mechanism for the dc-link capacitor voltages is analyzed and a voltage balancing controller is presented. To mitigate the picket-fence effect of the conventional FFT algorithm under asynchronous sampling conditions, the Hanning Windowed-FFT algorithm is proposed for reference current generation (RCG). This calculates the frequency, amplitude and phase of individual harmonic components accurately and as a result, selective harmonic compensation (SHC) is achieved. Simulation and experimental results are presented, which verify the validity and effectiveness of the devised control algorithms.

• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Power Electronics
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• v.21 no.6
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• pp.525-529
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• 2016

In the case of a motor system that converts electrical energy into mechanical energy, the region of the motor and that of the generator coexists. In the case of an escalator, the ascending escalator is operated by the motor, whereas the descending escalator is operated by the generator according to the load. To evaluate the proposed method, this study reduces the power of the ascending escalator up to approximately 35% by sharing the regeneration power of the descending escalator. The loss of transfer power nearly exists in the case of the proposed method. Furthermore, the lifetime of the DC link condenser can be extended because it is connected in parallel, thus leading to a twofold increase in capacity.