Cascaded H-bridge inverter(CHBI) with supercapacitors(SCs) and dc-dc stage shows significant promise for medium to high voltage energy storage applications. This paper investigates the voltage balance of capacitors wi...Cascaded H-bridge inverter(CHBI) with supercapacitors(SCs) and dc-dc stage shows significant promise for medium to high voltage energy storage applications. This paper investigates the voltage balance of capacitors within the CHBI, including both the dc-link capacitors and SCs. Balance control over the dc-link capacitor voltages is realized by the dcdc stage in each submodule(SM), while a hybrid modulation strategy(HMS) is implemented in the H-bridge to balance the SC voltages among the SMs. Meanwhile, the dc-link voltage fluctuations are analyzed under the HMS. A virtual voltage variable is introduced to coordinate the balancing of dc-link capacitor voltages and SC voltages. Compared to the balancing method that solely considers the SC voltages, the presented method reduces the dc-link voltage fluctuations without affecting the voltage balance of SCs. Finally, both simulation and experimental results verify the effectiveness of the presented method.展开更多
This paper presents a combined control and modulation technique to enhance the power quality(PQ)and power reliability(PR)of a hybrid energy system(HES)through a single-phase 11-level cascaded H-bridge inverter(11-CHBI...This paper presents a combined control and modulation technique to enhance the power quality(PQ)and power reliability(PR)of a hybrid energy system(HES)through a single-phase 11-level cascaded H-bridge inverter(11-CHBI).The controller and inverter specifically regulate the HES and meet the load demand.To track optimum power,a Modified Perturb and Observe(MP&O)technique is used for HES.Ultra-capacitor(UCAP)based energy storage device and a novel current control strategy are proposed to provide additional active power support during both voltage sag and swell conditions.For an improved PQ and PR,a two-way current control strategy such as the main controller(MC)and auxiliary controller(AC)is suggested for the 11-CHBI operation.MC is used to regulate the active current component through the fuzzy controller(FC),and AC is used to regulate the dc-link voltage of CHBI through a neural network-based PI controller(ANN-PI).By tracking the reference signals fromMC and AC,a novel hybrid pulse widthmodulation(HPWM)technique is proposed for the 11-CHBI operation.To justify and analyze the MATLAB/Simulink software-based designed model,the robust controller performance is tested through numerous steady-state and dynamic state case studies.展开更多
Both Hybrid Electric Vehicles (HEVs) and Electric Vehicles (EVs) need a traction motor and a power in-verter to drive the traction motor. The requirements for the power inverter include high peak power, opti-mum consu...Both Hybrid Electric Vehicles (HEVs) and Electric Vehicles (EVs) need a traction motor and a power in-verter to drive the traction motor. The requirements for the power inverter include high peak power, opti-mum consumption of energy, low output harmonics and inexpensive circuit. In this paper, a new structure of multilevel inverter with reduced number of switches is proposed for electric vehicle applications. It consists of an H-bridge and an inverter in each phase which produces multilevel voltage by switching the dc voltage sources in series. As the number of switches are reduced, both conduction and switching losses will be de-creased, which leads to increase the efficiency of converter. The size and power consumption of driving cir-cuits are also reduced. The proposed three phase inverter can produces more number of voltage levels in the same number of the voltage source and reduced number of switches compared to the conventional inverters. This structure minimizes the total harmonic distortion (THD) of the output voltage waveforms. The structure of proposed multilevel inverter, modulation method, switching losses, THD calculation and simulation re-sults with PSCAD/EMTDC software are shown in this paper.展开更多
针对级联型中点钳位全桥(neutral point clamped H-bridge,NPC-HB)多电平逆变器模块间存在功率不均衡的问题,通过详细分析传统基于载波层叠调制策略下模块输出功率与输出电压基波有效值之间的定量关系,提出一种改进型混合调制策略。该...针对级联型中点钳位全桥(neutral point clamped H-bridge,NPC-HB)多电平逆变器模块间存在功率不均衡的问题,通过详细分析传统基于载波层叠调制策略下模块输出功率与输出电压基波有效值之间的定量关系,提出一种改进型混合调制策略。该策略将载波层叠和移相相结合,不仅能够保证各个模块输出功率的均衡,而且可提高输出电压的等效开关频率,进而有效地降低输出滤波器的体积和成本。文中对模块间功率分布情况以及模块内部各个器件损耗分布情况进行分析,并搭建含两个级联NPC-HB九电平模块的实验样机。实验结果表明该调制策略能够有效解决级联系统中各功率模块之间的功率均衡问题。展开更多
基金supported in part by the CAS Project for Young Scientists in Basic Research under Grant No. YSBR-045the Youth Innovation Promotion Association CAS under Grant 2022137the Institute of Electrical Engineering CAS under Grant E155320101。
文摘Cascaded H-bridge inverter(CHBI) with supercapacitors(SCs) and dc-dc stage shows significant promise for medium to high voltage energy storage applications. This paper investigates the voltage balance of capacitors within the CHBI, including both the dc-link capacitors and SCs. Balance control over the dc-link capacitor voltages is realized by the dcdc stage in each submodule(SM), while a hybrid modulation strategy(HMS) is implemented in the H-bridge to balance the SC voltages among the SMs. Meanwhile, the dc-link voltage fluctuations are analyzed under the HMS. A virtual voltage variable is introduced to coordinate the balancing of dc-link capacitor voltages and SC voltages. Compared to the balancing method that solely considers the SC voltages, the presented method reduces the dc-link voltage fluctuations without affecting the voltage balance of SCs. Finally, both simulation and experimental results verify the effectiveness of the presented method.
基金Assistance provided by Council of scientific and industrial research(CSIR),Government of India,under the acknowledgment number 143460/2K19/1(File:09/969(0013)/2020-EMR-I)and Siksha O Anusandhan(Deemed to be University).
文摘This paper presents a combined control and modulation technique to enhance the power quality(PQ)and power reliability(PR)of a hybrid energy system(HES)through a single-phase 11-level cascaded H-bridge inverter(11-CHBI).The controller and inverter specifically regulate the HES and meet the load demand.To track optimum power,a Modified Perturb and Observe(MP&O)technique is used for HES.Ultra-capacitor(UCAP)based energy storage device and a novel current control strategy are proposed to provide additional active power support during both voltage sag and swell conditions.For an improved PQ and PR,a two-way current control strategy such as the main controller(MC)and auxiliary controller(AC)is suggested for the 11-CHBI operation.MC is used to regulate the active current component through the fuzzy controller(FC),and AC is used to regulate the dc-link voltage of CHBI through a neural network-based PI controller(ANN-PI).By tracking the reference signals fromMC and AC,a novel hybrid pulse widthmodulation(HPWM)technique is proposed for the 11-CHBI operation.To justify and analyze the MATLAB/Simulink software-based designed model,the robust controller performance is tested through numerous steady-state and dynamic state case studies.
文摘Both Hybrid Electric Vehicles (HEVs) and Electric Vehicles (EVs) need a traction motor and a power in-verter to drive the traction motor. The requirements for the power inverter include high peak power, opti-mum consumption of energy, low output harmonics and inexpensive circuit. In this paper, a new structure of multilevel inverter with reduced number of switches is proposed for electric vehicle applications. It consists of an H-bridge and an inverter in each phase which produces multilevel voltage by switching the dc voltage sources in series. As the number of switches are reduced, both conduction and switching losses will be de-creased, which leads to increase the efficiency of converter. The size and power consumption of driving cir-cuits are also reduced. The proposed three phase inverter can produces more number of voltage levels in the same number of the voltage source and reduced number of switches compared to the conventional inverters. This structure minimizes the total harmonic distortion (THD) of the output voltage waveforms. The structure of proposed multilevel inverter, modulation method, switching losses, THD calculation and simulation re-sults with PSCAD/EMTDC software are shown in this paper.
文摘针对级联型中点钳位全桥(neutral point clamped H-bridge,NPC-HB)多电平逆变器模块间存在功率不均衡的问题,通过详细分析传统基于载波层叠调制策略下模块输出功率与输出电压基波有效值之间的定量关系,提出一种改进型混合调制策略。该策略将载波层叠和移相相结合,不仅能够保证各个模块输出功率的均衡,而且可提高输出电压的等效开关频率,进而有效地降低输出滤波器的体积和成本。文中对模块间功率分布情况以及模块内部各个器件损耗分布情况进行分析,并搭建含两个级联NPC-HB九电平模块的实验样机。实验结果表明该调制策略能够有效解决级联系统中各功率模块之间的功率均衡问题。
文摘混合频率载波调制法可以解决混合级联7电平逆变器的功率环流问题,但其输出电压的谐波特性较差。为此,提出了一种改进的混合频率载波调制策略,该策略使得高压单元运行在单极倍频正弦脉宽调制(sinusoidal pulse width modulation,SPWM)下,从而提高了高压单元的等效开关频率。此外,对高、低压单元的开关策略进行了优化改进,减少了开关次数。相比于改进前的方法,在高压单元开关频率相同时,其等效开关频率可提高1倍,逆变器输出电压的谐波将分布在更高的频段,从而改善了逆变器输出的电能质量,同时消除了功率环流。由仿真结果可知,在相同开关频率下,改进后的方法使得输出电压的较低次谐波由约1 k Hz提高到了约2 k Hz,并且不会出现功率环流现象。研究结果对所提出的改进的混合频率或波调制策略的实用化有一定意义。
