• Journal of Power Electronics
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• v.16 no.1
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• pp.329-339
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• 2016

Owing to mismatched feeder impedances in an islanded microgrid, the conventional droop control method typically results in errors in reactive power sharing among distributed generation (DG) units. In this study, an improved droop control strategy based on secondary voltage control is proposed to enhance the reactive power sharing accuracy in an islanded microgrid. In a DG local controller, an integral term is introduced into the voltage droop function, in which the voltage compensation signal from the secondary voltage control is utilized as the common reactive power reference for each DG unit. Therefore, accurate reactive power sharing can be realized without any power information exchange among DG units or between DG units and the central controller. Meanwhile, the voltage deviation in the microgrid common bus is removed. Communication in the proposed strategy is simple to implement because the information of the voltage compensation signal is broadcasted from the central controller to each DG unit. The reactive power sharing accuracy is also not sensitive to time-delay mismatch in the communication channels. Simulation and experimental results are provided to validate the effectiveness of the proposed method.

• Journal of Power Electronics
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• v.18 no.1
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• pp.195-203
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• 2018

In the variable speed Wind Turbine based on ElectroMagnetic Coupler (WT-EMC), a synchronous generator is coupled directly to the grid. Therefore, like conventional power plants, WT-EMC is able to inherently support grid frequency. However, due to the reduced inertia of the synchronous generator, WT-EMC is expected to be controlled to increase its output power in response to a grid frequency drop to support grid frequency. Similar to the grid frequency support control of Type 3 or Type 4 wind turbine, inertial control and droop control can be used to calculate the WT-EMC additional output power reference according to the synchronous generator speed. In this paper, an experimental platform is built to study the grid frequency support from WT-EMC with inertial control and droop control. Two synchronous generators, driven by two induction motors controlled by two converters, are used to emulate the synchronous generators in conventional power plants and in WT-EMCs respectively. The effectiveness of the grid frequency support from WT-EMC with inertial control and droop control responding to a grid frequency drop is validated by experimental results. The selection of the grid frequency support controller and its gain for WT-EMC is analyzed briefly.

• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Power Electronics
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• v.22 no.4
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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.

• Journal of Power Electronics
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• v.17 no.3
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• pp.766-776
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• 2017

In modern power systems, high penetration of distributed generators (DGs) results in high stress on system stability. Apart from the intermittent nature of DGs, most DGs do not contribute inertia or damping to systems. As a result, a new control method named virtual synchronous machine (VSM) was proposed, which brought new characteristics to inverters such as synchronous machines (SMs). In addition, different active power droop controls for VSMs are being proposed in literatures. However, they are quite different in terms of their dynamic characteristics despite of the similar control laws. In this paper, mathematical models of a VSM adopting different active power droop controls are built and analyzed. The dynamic performance of the VSM output active power and virtual rotor angular frequency are presented for different models. The influences of the damping factor and droop coefficient on the VSM dynamic behaviors are also investigated in detail. Finally, the theoretical analysis is verified by simulations and experimental results.

• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 2016.07a
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• pp.95-96
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• 2016

This paper presents a voltage and frequency droop control for accurate power sharing of parallel distributed generation (DG) inverters in low voltage microgrid. In practice, line impedances between inverters and the point of common coupling of a microgrid are not always equal. This inequality in line impedances often results in reactive power sharing mismatch among inverters. To address this problem, intensive researches have been conducting. Although these methods can solve the unbalanced reactive power sharing, there are still problems remain unresolved, such as complicated structure or circulating current. To overcome such problems, a new droop control scheme is proposed, which not only guarantees accurate reactive power sharing but also has simple structure so that it can be easily implemented in existing systems without any hardware modification. The simulation is performed using Matlab/Simulinks to validate the proposed scheme.

• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 2013.11a
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• pp.186-187
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• 2013

The paper presents a long-pulse modulator for klystron using a high-voltage solid-state switch and a droop compensator. The modulator guarantees the safe of klystron by limiting the amount of energy transferred to klystron in case of arc. The high performance of the modulator is also achieved by the fast transition time, high flatness and average power. The proposed prototype has produced pulses with a flat-top voltage -90[kV], pulse width 1ms and pulse frequency 200[Hz]. The validity of the long-pulse modulator for klystron has been verified by the simulation and experimental works.

• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 2013.11a
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• pp.245-246
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• 2013

본 논문에서는 DC배전용 전력변환장치를 모듈화하여 병렬운전을 하기 위한 새로운 Droop 제어를 제안한다. 제안한 방식은 동일용량의 모듈을 병렬로 용이하게 연결할 수 있으며 모듈간 제어진동을 최소화하고 순환전류를 억제한다. 이에 따라 병렬 운전 시스템이 갖는 과도응답 및 정상상태 특성 등을 시뮬레이션과 실험을 토대로 그 타당성을 검증하였다.

• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 2013.11a
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• pp.131-132
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• 2013

BESS를 대용량화 하기 위하여 병렬운전에 관련하여 많은 연구가 진행 중이다. 병렬운전 알고리즘의 제어 목표는 인버터 간의 순환전류를 제거하고, 부하 분담이 균등하게 하는 것에 있다. 이를 위하여 연구되었던 방법 중 전압 제어와 전류 제어의 인버터를 결합한 Master-Slave 방식은 통신을 통하여 정확한 부하분담이 가능하지만 통신지연 발생시 과도상태에 과전류가 발생 할 수 있다는 단점을 갖는다. 본 논문은 독립된 계통에서 BESS가 병렬운전 중 스텝부하 투입시 통신지연 시간 동안의 과도상태에서 과전류가 발생하지 않도록 하는 Droop Control를 적용한 제어 알고리즘을 제안한다.

• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 2011.07a
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• pp.520-521
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• 2011

인버터의 병렬운전은 인버터간의 특성, 선로임피던스 차이, 각 구성품들의 오차 등으로 인해 적정한 제어가 되지 않는 경우 인버터간의 순환전류가 발생하여 인버터의 무효전력 부담이 증가하여 전체 전력 시스템의 용량을 감소시키게 된다. 본 논문에서는 4병렬 인버터의 병렬제어 알고리즘으로서 전압지령치와 주파수지령치의 regulation 성능이 좋은 동기좌표계 droop 제어기법을 적용한 1.2MW급 연료전지용 EBOP를 제안한다.

• Proceedings of the Materials Research Society of Korea Conference
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• 2011.05a
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• pp.23.2-23.2
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• 2011

This presentation will include an overview of III-Nitride LED technology, applications, key areas for future improvements, challenges such as efficiency droop. GaN-based high-power light-emitting diodes (LEDs) suffer from high-current loss mechanisms that lead to a significant decrease in internal quantum efficiency at high drive currents, a well-known phenomenon commonly referred to as efficiency droop. Although many attempts have been made to uncover this LED's darkest secret, there is still a lack of consensus on the dominant mechanism responsible for this detrimental phenomenon. In this presentation, proposed origins and corresponding solutions to the droop-causing mechanisms will be reviewed and discussed.