• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2006.07b
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• pp.972-973
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• 2006

본 논문에서는 고압전동기를 직접 드라이브 할 수 있는 H-브릿지 멀티레벨 인버터를 제안한다. 전동기의 부하장치로는 에디커런트 다이나모메타를 사용하였다. H-브릿지 멀티레벨 인버터는 여러 개의 단상 Power Cell을 직렬로 연결함으로써 저전압 전력용 반도체를 사용하여 고전압을 얻을 수 있고, 정현파에 가까운 출력전압 파형을 얻을 수 있는 멀티레벨 인버터 토폴로지이다. H-브릿지 멀티레벨 인버터의 주요 장점은 Power Cell의 모듈화, 셀 단위의 보호동작 용이, 확장성 향상 그리고 제어 신호 및 Power Cell의 신뢰성 향상에 있다. 본 논문에서 제안하는 H-브릿지 멀티레벨 인버터는 상당 3개의 Power Cell이 직렬로 연결되어 총 9개의 Power Cell로 구성이 되어, 선간전압은 13레벨이며 dv/dt가 적으며 입력 단 THD를 크게 낮출 수 있다. 정격용량 180kVA 이고 출력전압이 480V인 H-브릿지 멀티레벨 인버터를 제작하여 와전류 다이나모메타 부하 시험을 통해 제안된 방법의 타당성과 신뢰성을 입증하였다.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Marine Environment & Safety
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• v.25 no.6
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• pp.802-808
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• 2019

DC motors are used extensively on shipboard, including as the ship's winch operating motor, owing to their simple speed control and excellent output torque characteristics. Moreover, they were used as propulsion motors in the early days of electric propulsion ships. However, mechanical rectifiers, such as brushes, used in DC motors have certain disadvantages. Hence, brushless DC (BLDC) motors are increasingly being used instead. While the electrical characteristics of both types of motors are similar, BLDC motors employ electronic rectifying devices, which use semiconductor elements, instead of mechanical rectifying devices. The inverter system for driving conventional BLDC motors uses a two-phase excitation method so that the waveform of the back electromotive force becomes trapezoidal. This causes harmonics and torque ripple in the phase current switching period in which the winding wire through which the current flows is changed. Researchers have studied and presented various methods to reduce the harmonics and torque ripple. This study applies a cascaded H-bridge multilevel inverter, which implements a proportional-integral speed current controller algorithm in the driving circuit of the BLDC motor for electric propulsion ships using a power analysis program. The simulation results of the modeled BLDC motor show that the driving method of the proposed BLDC motor improves the voltage waveform of the input side of the motor and remarkably reduces the harmonics and torque ripple compared with the conventional driving method.

• Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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• v.10 no.6
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• pp.2277-2287
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• 2015

In recent times, multilevel inverters are given high priority in many large industrial drive applications. However, the reliability of multilevel inverters are mainly affected by the failure of power electronic switches. In this paper, open-switch and short-switch failure of multilevel inverters and its identification using a high performance diagnostic system is discussed. Experimental and simulation studies were carried out on five level cascaded H-Bridge multilevel inverter and its output voltage waveforms were analyzed at different switch fault cases and at different modulation index values. Salient frequency domain features of the output voltage signal were extracted using the discrete wavelet transform multi resolution signal decomposition technique. Real time application of the proposed fault diagnostic system was implemented through the LabVIEW software. Artificial neural network was trained offline using the Matlab software and the resultant network parameters were transferred to LabVIEW real time system. In the proposed system, it is possible to precisely identify the individual faulty switch (may be due to open-switch (or) short-switch failure) of multilevel inverters.

• Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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• v.12 no.4
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• pp.1519-1528
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• 2017

The paper proposes a well structured, component count waned single phase multilevel inverter (MLI) topology, which drives three different modules viz. Stipulation Based Sources Insertion (SBSI) module, Level Count Increasing (LCI) module and Inter-Linking H-Bridge (ILHB) module. The SBSI module confronts the number of basic sources needed in series/parallel to achieve required magnitude for any particular level. The LCI possesses an offsetting dc source and opuses to increase the number of levels and the ILHB module links the SBSI and LCI modules. A developed Hybrid Pulse Width Modulation (HPWM) strategy has PWM pulses for the switches of LCI module while the switches of the remaining two modules function at fundamental switching frequency. A fifteen level version of the proposed stipulation based sources insertion MLI (SBSIMLI) topology is simulated in MATLAB R2010a and a prototype of the similar specifications is constructed to validate the performance by experimental results. The comparison between the developed SBSIMLI topology and the competent topologies shows many interesting facts.

• 한국신재생에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2008.10a
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• pp.391-394
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• 2008

Global warming and air pollution have increased the amount $CO_2$ in the atmosphere. In order to decrease the amount of $CO_2$, lots of researches are conducted toward using Hydrogen energy. Because of its high efficiency energy level and environmental friendly features, many companies have researched on developing hydrogen engine system and distributed generation system. Especially, the focus of this research provides the operation method of linear generator for hydrogen fuel combustion linear engine. During an ignition, linear generator is operated by motor to create the initial condition of engine combustion. Once the engine combustion is stabilized, the generator supplies electric power to grid. In order to stabilize the engine, linear generator is required to control mover frequency, direction, and force; Hence the PCS(Power Conversion System) place three H-bridge type inverter stacks in parallel to control phase current independently. As well, by using Back-to-Back method, it can receive electric power from both end.

• Journal of Magnetics
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• v.18 no.4
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• pp.487-493
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• 2013

The automotive industry is showing widespread interest in belt-driven electric motor-assisted (e-Assist) systems. A belt-driven assist system (BAS) starts and assists the combustion engine in place of the conventional generator. In this study, a water-cooled wound rotor synchronous motor (WRSM) for the e-Assist system was designed and analyzed. The performance of the WRSM was compared with that of an interior permanent magnet synchronous motor (IPMSM). The WRSM efficiency can be improved for the BAS by adjusting the field flux at high speeds. The field current map to obtain the maximum efficiency based on the speed and torque was developed. To control the field flux via field current control in the WRSM, a general H-bridge circuit was added to the WRSM inverter to get the rapid current response in the high-speed region; the characteristics were compared with the chopper circuit. A WRSM developed for the belt-driven e-Assist system and a prototype 115 V power electronic converter to drive the WRSM were tested with a 900 cc combustion engine. The test results showed that the WRSM-type e-Assist system had good characteristics and could successfully start and assist the 900 cc combustion engine.

• Journal of Power Electronics
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• v.19 no.3
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• pp.727-743
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• 2019

This paper presents a pulse-width modulation strategy to eliminate the common mode voltage (CMV) with reduced CMV spikes in multilevel inverters since a high CMV magnitude and its fast variations dv/dt result in bearing failure of motors, overvoltage at motor terminals, and electromagnetic interference (EMI). The proposed method only utilizes the zero CMV states in a space vector diagram and it is implemented by a carrier-based pulse-width modulation (CBPWM) method. This method is generalized for odd number levels of inverters including neutral-point-clamped (NPC) and cascaded H-bridge inverters. Then it is extended to the over-modulation mode. The over-modulation mode is implemented by using the two-limit trajectory principle to maintain linear control and to avoid look-up tables. Even though the CMV is eliminated, CMV spikes that can cause EMI and bearing current problems still exist due to the deadtime effect. As a result, the deadtime effect is analyzed. By taking the deadtime effect into consideration, the proposed method is capable of reducing CMV spikes. Simulation and experimental results verify the effectiveness of the proposed strategy.

• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 2008.06a
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• pp.559-561
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• 2008

본 논문에서는 실용적이며 신뢰성 있는 고전압 대용량 유도전동기 구동용 H-브릿지 멀티레벨 인버터를 개발하여 산업 현장에 적용한 내용을 소개하였다. 실용적인 PWM (Pulse Width Modulation)과 PEBB (Power Electronics Building Blocks)에 기초한 신뢰성 있는 분산 제어를 적용하였으며, H-브릿지 멀티레벨 인버터를 이용한 유도 전동기 벡터 제어시의 위상지연을 보상하여 제어 성능을 향상시켰다. 또한, Power Cell 고장 발생시 시스템을 정지하지 않으면서 효율적 운전을 가능하게 하는 3상 불평형 제어를 이용하여 잉여성을 확보하였다. 다양한 전압과 용량의 H-브릿지 멀티레벨 인버터를 설계 및 제작하여 각종 부하 실험, 산업 현장 적용을 통해 적용된 방법의 타당성과 실용성을 입증하였다. 또한 실제 제품 설계, 생산, 판매, 유지 보수 과정을 통해 설계의 유연성, 생산의 효율성, 유지 보수의 편리함, 그리고 사용자 요구에 대한 대응성이 우수함을 확인하였다.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2001.07c
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• pp.1703-1705
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• 2001

The pulsed Nd:YAG laser is used widely for materials processing and medical instrument etc. It is important to control the laser energy in those fields using a pulsed Nd:YAG laser. In this paper, constant-frequency current resonant half-bridge inverter and Cockcroft-Walton circuit are used to charge the energy storage capacitor variably. This laser power supply is designed and fabricated which has no high-voltage transformer, less switching losses, compact size and capability in varying the laser output power. Also, the output characteristics of this Nd:YAG laser system are investigated. The tested results are described.

• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 2016.07a
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• pp.493-494
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• 2016

본 논문에서는 계통연계형 단상 인버터의 데드타임 영향을 보상하는 새로운 알고리즘을 제시한다. 데드타임은 전력용 반도체 스위치를 제어하기 위한 PWM 신호 출력시 인버터의 동일 레그에서 두 스위칭 소자가 동시에 턴-온 되는 경우 발생하는 단락을 방지하기 위해 삽입된다. 이러한 데드타임은 인버터 출력전압에 전원주파수의 기본파 및 홀수차 고조파를 야기하며 그로 인해 상전류 역시 왜곡이 발생된다. 본 논문에서는 H-bridge 인버터의 구조를 가지는 계통연계형 단상 인버터에서 데드타임에 의한 인버터 출력전압 및 상전류의 영향을 분석하고 계통측 상전류에 포함된 고조파 성분을 제거하기 위하여 SOGI(Second-order Generalized Integrator)를 활용한 새로운 보상 알고리즘을 제안한다. 시뮬레이션과 실험을 통해 제안하는 알고리즘의 효용성을 검증한다.