• Journal of Power Electronics
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• 제16권2호
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• pp.769-777
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• 2016

This work focuses on current sharing between punch-through insulated gate bipolar transistors (IGBTs) connected in parallel and evaluates the mechanisms that allow overall current balancing. Two different control strategies are presented. These strategies are based on the modification of transistor gate-emitter control voltage V_GE by using an active gate driver circuit. The first strategy relies on the calculation of the average value of the current flowing through all parallel-connected IGBTs. The second strategy is proposed by the authors on the basis of a current cross reference control scheme. Finally, the simulation and experimental results of the application of the two current sharing control algorithms are presented.

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 1998년도 추계학술대회 논문집 학회본부A
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• pp.156-158
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• 1998

This paper presents parallel operation of two 3-phase PWM converters whose Power and control schemes can be directly applied to a large capacity system. This paper describes power circuit, dc voltage regulation, input power factor correction and balancing load control of two converters. Switching device Is IGBT and CPU of control is 32-bit floating point DSP for real time instantaneous control. Simulations and experimental results for 20kw model conform the validity of proposed schemes.

• 조명전기설비학회논문지
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• 제24권9호
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• pp.79-84
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• 2010

This paper discusses the control of generator field using dual IGBT PWM regeneration method to target brushless synchronous generator. If one of PWM bridges happens to fault, it transfers automatically and can be in charge of full load. Also it has an advantage of the operation which UPS connected in parallel with PWM bridge can supply power to excitation system in condition of main power loss. This PWM system supplies field current to generator in one quadrature operation, regenerates field coil energy to main power supplier in four quadrature operation. We designed, manufactured and applied the first trial product at J-power plant.

• 대한전기학회논문지:전기기기및에너지변환시스템부문B
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• 제48권8호
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• pp.455-460
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• 1999

A novel zero-voltage-transition (ZVT) PWM converter for switched reluctance motor (SRM) drives is proposed. A simple auxiliary circuit which consists of one active switch, one resonant inductor, and three diodes provides ZVS condition to all main switches and diodes allowing high frequency operation of the converter with high efficiency. The auxiliary circuit is placed in parallel with the main power flow path and thus it handles only a small fraction of the main power. So, the power rating of the auxiliary circuit can be very small (about 30% of main power). So, the auxiliary circuit can be realized with small power rating and low cost. Operation, features and characteristics of the proposed converter are illustrated and verified on a 1.5 kW, 50 kHz IGBT based (a MOSFET for the auxiliary with) experimental circuit.

• 한국산학기술학회논문지
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• 제17권5호
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• pp.269-274
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• 2016

본 연구는 호퍼와 같은 공정에서 필연적으로 발생하는 스케일 또는 막힘 현상을 방지하기 위해 적용할 수 있는 저주파 전자해머 구동 시스템의 개발에 관한 것이다. 전자기계식 hammering 구동 방식은 진동과 충격량을 동시에 발생시키는 방식으로, 본 논문에서는 전자해머의 특성을 고찰하기 위하여 전자해머에 장착된 직/병렬 스프링 상수 해석을 하였고 발생에너지는 E코어에 부착된 스프링 상수가 모두 같을 경우에 계산된 등가 스프링 상수와 E코어와 I코어 사이의 동작 변위의 곱으로 계산할 수 있음을 보였다. 또한 전자해머의 충격량을 최대화하기 위하여 맥동파 구동 알고리즘을 적용하였으며, 이 알고리즘은 논리 AND 연산과 마이크로 콘트롤러(atmega128)의 타이머 인터럽트와 PWM 기능을 사용하여 구현하였다. 전자해머의 구동회로는 IGBT로 구성된 H-브리지 방식으로 설계하였고, 가속도계 측정법으로 개발한 전자 해머 시스템의 성능을 검증하였다. 실험 결과 제안한 시스템이 기계적 에너지를 양호하게 발생시킬 수 있으며, 호퍼와 같은 공정에 적용할 수 있음을 보였다.

• Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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• 제1권2호
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• pp.216-225
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• 2006

This paper presents a new circuit topology of DC busline switch and snubbing capacitor-assisted full-bridge soft-switching PWM inverter type DC-DC power converter with a high frequency link for low voltage large current applications as DC feeding systems, telecommunication power plants, automotive DC bus converters, plasma generator, electro plating plants, fuel cell interfaced power conditioner and arc welding power supplies. The proposed power converter circuit is based upon a voltage source-fed H type full-bridge high frequency PWM inverter with a high frequency transformer link. The conventional type high frequency inverter circuit is modified by adding a single power semiconductor switching device in series with DC rail and snubbing lossless capacitor in parallel with the inverter bridge legs. All the active power switches in the full-bridge inverter arms and DC busline can achieve ZVS/ZVT turn-off and ZCS turn-on commutation operation. Therefore, the total switching losses at turn-off and turn-on switching transitions of these power semiconductor devices can be reduced even in the high switching frequency bands ranging from 20 kHz to 100 kHz. The switching frequency of this DC-DC power converter using IGBT power modules is selected to be 60 kHz. It is proved experimentally by the power loss analysis that the more the switching frequency increases, the more the proposed DC-DC converter can achieve high performance, lighter in weight, lower power losses and miniaturization in size as compared to the conventional hard switching one. The principle of operation, operation modes, practical and inherent effectiveness of this novel DC-DC power converter topology is proved for a low voltage and large current DC-DC power supplies of arc welder applications in industry.

• 전력전자학회논문지
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• 제22권4호
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• pp.360-368
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• 2017

This paper proposes the 80-kW high-efficiency bidirectional hybrid SiC boost/buck converter using droop control for DC nano-grid. The proposed converter consists of four 20-kW modules to achieve fault tolerance, ease of thermal management, and reduced component stress. Each module is constructed as a cascaded structure of the two basic bi-directional converters, namely, interleaved boost and buck converters. A six-pack hybrid SiC intelligent power module (IPM) suitable for the proposed cascaded structure is adopted for high-efficiency and compactness. The proposed converter with hybrid switching method reduces the switching loss by minimizing switching of insulated gate bipolar transistor (IGBT). Each module control achieves smooth transfer from buck to boost operation and vice versa, since current controller switchover is not necessary. Furthermore, the proposed parallel control using DC droop with secondary control, enhances the current sharing accuracy while well regulating the DC bus voltage. A 20-kW prototype of the proposed converter has been developed and verified with experiments and indicates a 99.3% maximum efficiency and 98.8% rated efficiency.