• JSTS:Journal of Semiconductor Technology and Science
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• 제16권4호
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• pp.451-462
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• 2016

Photovoltaic energy conversion becomes main focus of many researches due to its promising potential as source for future electricity and has many advantages than the other alternative energy sources like wind, solar, ocean, biomass, geothermal etc. In Photovoltaic power generation multilevel inverters play a vital role in power conversion. The three different topologies, diode-clamped (neutral-point clamped) inverter, capacitor-clamped (flying capacitor) inverter and cascaded h-bridge multilevel inverter are widely used in these multilevel inverters. Among the three topologies, cascaded h-bridge multilevel inverter is more suitable for photovoltaic applications since each pv array can act as a separate dc source for each h-bridge module. This paper presents a single phase Cascaded H-bridge five level inverter for grid-connected photovoltaic application using sinusoidal pulse width modulation technique. This inverter output voltage waveform reduces the harmonics in the generated current and the filtering effort at the input. The control strategy allows the independent control of each dc-link voltages and tracks the maximum power point of PV strings. This topology can inject to the grid sinusoidal input currents with unity power factor and achieves low harmonic distortion. A PID control algorithm is implemented in Arm Processor LPC2148. The validity of the proposed inverter is verified through simulation and is implemented in a single phase 100W prototype. The results of hardware are compared with simulation results. The proposed system offers improved performance over conventional three level inverter in terms of THD.

• Journal of Power Electronics
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• 제5권4호
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• pp.289-304
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• 2005

This paper describes a simple control structure and power conditioning system for an indirect vector controlled stand-alone induction generator (IG) used to operate under variable speed. The required reactive power for the IG system is supplied by means of a capacitor bank and a voltage-source PWM converter. Using a capacitor bank to transfer the reactive power to the IG under the rated speed and no-load conditions starts the IG operation and reduces the PWM converter size. The vector control structure for the variable speed IG power conditioning system compensates for changes in the electrical three-phase and DC loads while considering the magnetizing curve of the IG. The vector control structure is developed to regulate the DC link voltage of the PWM converter and the IG output voltage. The experimental and simulated performance results of the IG power conditioning system at various speeds and loads are given and show that this proposed scheme can be used efficiently for a variable speed, wind energy conversion system.

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 2007년도 제38회 하계학술대회
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• pp.230-231
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• 2007

계통연계형 태양광 시스템을 구성하고 있는 전력변환장치인 PCS(power conditioning system)는 일반적으로 그 내부에 입력전력 평활용 Capacitor, DC-DC Converter, DC link Capacitor, DC-AC Inverter 및 L-C Filter 등으로 구성된다. 이러한 태양광 시스템의 구성은 주로 태양광 어레이와 PCS의 DC-DC Converter 및 DC-AC Inverter의 수와 연결 방법에 따라 여러 가지로 구성할 수가 있다. 본 논문에서 제안할 시스템의 구성은 하나의 태양광 어레이를 다수의 계통 연계형 태양광 PCS가 공유하는 형태인데, 이러한 시스템의 주요 장점은 첫째, 일사량에 따라 각각의 PCS가 모두 정격에서 운전하도록 하여 변환효율을 개선할 수 있다는 점과 둘째, 태양광 어레이의 용량 확장에 따른 PCS 장치의 용이한 확장성 그리고 셋째, 연결되어 있는 다수의 PCS 중 하나의 태양광 PCS가 고장으로 인하여 유지 및 보수가 필요할 때에도 그 외의 다른 정상적인 태양광 PCS는 지속적인 발전이 가능한 장점 등을 갖는다. 본 논문에서는 태양광 어레이의 출력을 공유하는 병렬운전용 태양광 PCS의 구성에 대하여 연구하고, 그 병렬운전기법을 제시하여 이에 대한 타당성을 시뮬레이션으로 검증하고자 한다.

• Journal of Power Electronics
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• 제3권4호
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• pp.230-238
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• 2003

Electric vehicles (EV) demands for greater acceleration, performance and vehicle range in pure electric vehicles plus mandated requirements to further reduce emissions in hybrid electric vehicles (HEV) increase the appeal for combined on-board energy storage systems and generators. And the power electronics plays an important role in providing an interface between fuel cells (FC) and loads. This paper deals with a multiple input DC-DC power converter devoted to combine the power flowing of multi-source on energy systems. The multi-source is composed of (i) FC system as a prime power demands, (ii) super capacitor banks as energy storage devices for high and intense power demands, (iii) superconducting magnetic energy storage system (SMES), (iv) multiple input DC-DC power converter and (v) a three phase inverter-fed permanent magnet synchronous motor as a drive. In this system, It is used super capacitor banks and superconducting magnetic energy replaces from the battery system. The modeling and transient performance simulation is effective for reducing transient influence caused by sudden charge of effective load. The main purpose of power electronic converters is to convert the DC power output from the fuel cell and other to a suitable AC voltage, which can be connected to electric loads directly (PMSM). The fuel cell and other output is connected to the DC-DC converter, which regulates the DC link voltage.

• 전력전자학회논문지
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• 제25권4호
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• pp.293-302
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• 2020

This study proposes a triple-loop current control method for the auxiliary power unit of fuel cell trains. The auxiliary power unit of fuel cell trains has a grid-connected function when power is supplied to the utility grid. Moreover, the auxiliary power unit of trains has a 1500 V DC link voltage; thus, PWM frequency cannot be increased to a high frequency. Owing to this low PWM frequency condition, creating a triple-loop design is difficult. In this study, a triple-loop controller is developed for a capacitor voltage controller in standalone mode that operates as an auxiliary power supply for trains and for a grid current controller in grid control mode with an inner capacitor voltage controller. The voltage controller employs an inductor current controller inner loop. To overcome low PWM frequency, a design method for the bandwidth of the capacitor voltage controller considering the bandwidth of the inner inductor current controller is described. The effectiveness of the proposed method is proven using PSIM simulation.

• 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.

• Journal of Power Electronics
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• 제14권1호
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• pp.48-60
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• 2014

Multilevel inverters have been widely used for high-voltage and high-power applications. Their performance is greatly superior to that of conventional two-level inverters due to their reduced total harmonic distortion (THD), lower switch ratings, lower electromagnetic interference, and higher dc link voltages. However, they have some disadvantages such as an increased number of components, a complex pulse width modulation control method, and a voltage-balancing problem. In this paper, a novel nine-level reduced switch cascaded multilevel inverter based on a multilevel DC link (MLDCL) inverter topology with reduced switching components is proposed to improve the multilevel inverter performance by compensating the above mentioned disadvantages. This topology requires fewer components when compared to diode clamped, flying capacitor and cascaded inverters and it requires fewer carrier signals and gate drives. Therefore, the overall cost and circuit complexity are greatly reduced. This paper presents modulation methods by a novel reference and multicarrier based PWM schemes for reduced switch cascaded multilevel inverters (RSCMLI). It also compares the performance of the proposed scheme with that of conventional cascaded multilevel inverters (CCMLI). Simulation results from MATLAB/SIMULINK are presented to verify the performance of the nine-level RSCMLI. Finally, a prototype of the nine-level RSCMLI topology is built and tested to show the performance of the inverter through experimental results.

• Journal of Power Electronics
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• 제13권5호
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• pp.877-883
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• 2013

This paper discussed a transformer-less shunt static synchronous compensator (STATCOM) with consideration of the following aspects: fast compensation of the reactive power, harmonic cancelation and reducing the unbalancing of the 3-phase source side currents. The STATCOM control algorithm is based on the theory of instantaneous reactive power (P-Q theory). A self charging technique is proposed to regulate the dc capacitor voltage at a desired level with the use of a PI controller. In order to regulate the DC link voltage, an off-line Genetic Algorithm (GA) is used to tune the coefficients of the PI controller. This algorithm arranged these coefficients while considering the importance of three factors in the DC link voltage response: overshoot, settling time and rising time. For this investigation, the entire system including the STATCOM, network, harmonics and unbalancing load are simulated in MATLAB/SIMULINK. After that, a 35KVA STATCOM laboratory setup test including two parallel converter modules is designed and the control algorithm is executed on a TMS320F2812 controller platform.

• 전력전자학회논문지
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• 제15권5호
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• pp.387-393
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• 2010

본 논문에서는 3상 AC/DC/AC PWM 컨버터에서 직류커패시터 용량의 정확한 추정을 위하여 동작온도 변화에 따른 커패시턴스의 변화를 보정하는 방법을 제안한다. 제안된 방법에서는 커패시터의 동작온도를 측정하고 이에 따라 변화하는 커패시터 용량을 상온에서의 값으로 보정한다. 온도 측정을 위해 써미스터를 사용하고 써미스터에 나타나는 전압의 변화로 온도를 감지하여 동작온도에서 추정된 커패시턴스 값을 상온에서의 값으로 환산한다. 동작온도를 고려한 커패시턴스 보정 기법은 실험을 통하여 그 타탕성이 검증된다.

• 전력전자학회논문지
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• 제10권1호
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• pp.61-69
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• 2005

NPC 인버터는 많은 수의 전력용 반도체 소자로 구성되어 있으므로 다른 고장의 유형보다 전력용 반도체 스위치의 고장 발생 가능성이 더욱 크다. 고장발생시에 시스템의 연속적인 운전을 위한 대책의 개발은 매우 필요하며, 이러한 고장은 제안된 방법을 이용함으로써 시스템의 고장 허용 능력을 향상할 수 있다. 제안된 방법은 하나의 전력용 반도체 고장발생시 고장난 전력용 반도체가 포함된 고장상을 직렬 연결된 커패시터의 접속점에 연결한 후 나머지 두상을 이용하여 제어함으로써 직류-링크 전압을 유지하고, 일정한 크기를 가지는 출력 부하상전류를 연속적으로 시스템에 공급할 수 있다. 제안된 방법은 몇가지 특별한 분야에서 값비싼 다른 대안책들보다 더 경제적인 대안이다.