• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Power Electronics
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• v.3 no.1
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• pp.1-7
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• 1998

Due to the increase in capacity of auxiliary machinery in power plant, the importance of energy saving has been greatly emphasized. If the speed of fans or pumps is controlled in accordance with the variation of load, large electric energy can be saved. Large capacity inverter, 2MVA GTO inverter, has been developed by operating two of 1MVA unit inverters in parallel. The parallel operation of the unit inverter is accomplished through two output transformers of which the secondary windings are connected in series. The system is composed of one control cubicle, one rectifier cubicle and 2 unit inverter cubicles. This inverter system was applied to the sea water lift pump(SLP) driven by a 6.6KV 1500KW induction motor in Seo-Inchon power plant to save the electric energy. The parallel operation of inverters by 180 degrees apart in switching frequency helps to reduce the harmonic components.

• Journal of Power Electronics
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• v.19 no.5
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• pp.1182-1192
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• 2019

In order to improve the conversion efficiency and mitigate the EMI problem of conventional hard-switching inverters, a new soft-switching DC-AC inverter with a compact structure and a low modulation complexity is proposed in this paper. In the proposed structure, resonant inductors are connected in series for the arm branches, and resonant capacitors are connected in parallel for the neutral point branches. With the help of resonant components, the proposed structure achieves zero-current switching on the arm branches and zero-voltage switching on the neutral point branches. When compared with state-of-art soft-switching topologies, the proposed topology does not need auxiliary switches. Moreover, the commutation algorithm to realize soft-switching can be easily implemented. In this paper, the principle of the resonant operation of the proposed soft-switching converter is presented and its performance is verified through simulation studies. The feasibility of the proposed inverter is evaluated experimentally with a 2.4-kW prototype.

• Journal of Power Electronics
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• v.16 no.4
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• pp.1455-1468
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• 2016

This paper presents a grid-connected dual stator-winding induction generator (DWIG) wind power system suitable for wide wind speed ranges. The parallel connection via a unidirectional diode between dc buses of both stator-winding sides is employed in this DWIG system, which can output a high dc voltage over wide wind speed ranges. Grid-connected inverters (GCIs) do not require booster converters; hence, the efficiency of wind energy utilization increases, and the hardware topology and control strategy of GCIs are simplified. In view of the particularities of the parallel topology and the adopted generator control strategy, we propose a novel excitation-capacitor optimization solution to reduce the volume and weight of the static excitation controller. When this excitation-capacitor optimization is carried out, the maximum power tracking problem is also considered. All the problems are resolved with the combined control of the DWIG and GCI. Experimental results on the platform of a 37 kW/600 V prototype show that the proposed DWIG wind power system can output a constant dc voltage over wide rotor speed ranges for grid-connected operations and that the proposed excitation optimization scheme is effective.

• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Power Electronics
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• v.8 no.6
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• pp.504-511
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• 2003

In this paper, inverter type neon power supply using a piezoelectric transformer is fabricated and its characteristic is investigated. Developed neon power supply is composed of basic circuit and blocks, such as rectifier part, frequency oscillation part and piezoelectric transformer and resonant half bridge inverters. In this paper for complement the low power limitation, piezoelectric transformer at parallel connected driving by inverter is studied for noon tubes system of high power. When piezoelectric transformer is connected with parallel, LC filter connection method with parallel and selection of inductance L and capacitor C of primary side is suggested for reduce unbalanced current at the terminal of each transformer. Piezoelectric transformers use piezoelectric ceramic devices. Thus it is wireless therefore it has high power density, high Isolation level, low loss, more light, and miniaturization. In addition, high voltage transfer ratio is expected because there is no leakage inductance. Also, it has economic merit that the electrical loss Is low because structure is simple, small and tighter weight.

• Journal of Power Electronics
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• v.16 no.1
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• pp.297-309
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• 2016

Grid-connected inverters (GCIs) with an LCL output filter have the ability of attenuating high-frequency (HF) switching ripples. However, by using only grid-current control, the system is prone to resonances if it is not properly damped, and the current distortion is amplified significantly under highly distorted grid conditions. This paper proposes a synchronous reference frame equivalent proportional-integral (SRF-EPI) controller in the αβ stationary frame using the parallel virtual resistance-based active damping (PVR-AD) strategy for grid-interfaced distributed generation (DG) systems to suppress LCL resonance. Although both a proportional-resonant (PR) controller in the αβ stationary frame and a PI controller in the dq synchronous frame achieve zero steady-state error, the amplitude- and phase-frequency characteristics differ greatly from each other except for the reference tracking at the fundamental frequency. Therefore, an accurate SRF-EPI controller in the αβ stationary frame is established to achieve precise tracking accuracy. Moreover, the robustness, the harmonic rejection capability, and the influence of the control delay are investigated by the Nyquist stability criterion when the PVR-based AD method is adopted. Furthermore, grid voltage feed-forward and multiple PR controllers are integrated into the current loop to mitigate the current distortion introduced by the grid background distortion. In addition, the parameters design guidelines are presented to show the effectiveness of the proposed strategy. Finally, simulation and experimental results are provided to validate the feasibility of the proposed control approach.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 1998.07f
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• pp.2033-2035
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• 1998

This paper describes a DC-DC converter connected two unites inverters, a half-bridge type of high frequency resonance inverter, at the input with parallel. The proposed paper certified that theorem waveforms are equal to experiment waveforms, in addition, it estimated characteristics such as characteristic of average power, characteristic of average output voltage, characterisic of output voltage ripple etc., for designing the device with normalized parameter value.

• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 2013.07a
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• pp.378-379
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• 2013

마이크로그리드 내의 ESS는 독립운전 및 계통연계 두 가지 운전모드가 가능해야 하며 인버터는 용량의 확장성, 시스템의 보수 편리, 신뢰성 향상 등의 장점 때문에 주로 모듈화 한다. 이때 모듈간의 오차, 비동기 된 PWM의 문제로 순환전류가 발생하기 때문에 병렬운전 제어기법이 필요하다. 본 논문에서는 3-레벨 NPC인버터 병렬연결 시 순환전류 제거에 적합하고 독립운전에서 계통연계로 모드전환이 가능하며 PWM동기화 기능을 갖는 마스터-슬레이브 방식의 병렬운전 시스템을 제안하였고 실험을 통해 타당성을 검증하였다.

• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 2013.07a
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• pp.423-424
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• 2013

수 MW이상의 인버터 시스템을 구성하기 위해서는 계통연계형 인버터 다수가 PCC에 연결되어 계통과 연결된다. 이러한 경우 단일 인버터의 공진주파수가 LCL필터 값에 의해 결정되는 반면 각각의 인버터들이 서로 영향을 주고받아 공진주파수가 변화한다. 또한 공진주파수가 상용주파수에 가까워짐에 따라 시스템이 불안정해지고 기존의 액티브 댐핑기법으로 공진성분을 억제할 수 없다. 본 논문에서는 다수의 인버터가 계통연계 시 발생하는 공진 현상을 인버터 모델링을 통해 분석하고, 이러한 시스템에 적합한 액티브 댐핑기법을 제안한다.

• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 2014.07a
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• pp.343-344
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• 2014

마이크로그리드에서 ESS용 PCS를 모듈화하면 용량의 확장성, 신뢰성 향상 등의 장점을 갖는다. 모듈화 된 인버터는 병렬구조를 갖고 인버터 모듈간의 접속점(PCC)에 공통으로 중요부하를 공유하고 있어 독립운전 시 정확한 부하분담이 요구된다. 또한 독립운전 및 계통연계 모드전환 시 제어기 변동으로 인한 과도상태로 인해 접속점에 연결된 중요부하에 악영향을 끼칠 수 있다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 ESS용 PCS로서 모듈화 된 병렬 인버터가 모드전환 시 과도상태가 없는 무순단 절체 기능을 갖는 마스터-슬레이브 제어알고리즘을 제안한다.

• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 2012.07a
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• pp.488-489
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• 2012

본 논문은 계통연계형 인버터의 병렬 운전 시 생기는 문제점을 해결하기 위한 방안으로 커플링된 필터 인덕터를 제안한다. 이 방식은 필터 인덕터의 전류 리플의 감소효과와 함께 인터리빙 기법을 적용하여 커플링된 필터 인덕터의 출력 전류 리플 또한 감소시킨다. 인덕터 전류의 리플 감소를 통해서 인덕터의 코어손실 감소 효과는 물론이고, 필터 인덕터의 커플링을 통해서 두 개의 인덕터가 하나로 합쳐짐에 따라 그 부피 또한 감소시킬 수 있으며, 병렬 운전하는 인버터간 순환전류 또한 저감되는 효과가 있다. 10kW 시제품을 통해 제안된 방식 우수성을 검증하였다.