DC-Link Capacitor Optimization in AC–DC Converter by Load Current Prediction

Alternating Current–Direct Current(AC–DC)converters require a high value bulk capacitor or afilter capacitor between the DC–DC conversion stages,which in turn causes many problems in the design of a AC–DC converter.The component package size for this capacitor is large due to its high voltage rating and capacitance value.In addition,the high charging current creates more pro-blems during the product compliance testing phase.The shelf life of these specific high value capacitors is less than that of Multilayer Ceramic Capacitors(MLCC),which limits its use for the highly reliable applications.This paper presents a fea-sibility study to overcome these two problems by adding a few sensing mechan-isms to the typical AC–DC converter topology.In majority of the AC–DC converter,Al-Elko capacitor takes approximately 3%to 5%of the converter size.The proposed method reduces this to approximately 50%size and so it effectively approximates 2%to 3%size reduction in converter size.The proposed method basically works based on the load current prediction method and hence it is highly suitable for the constant load application.Moreover,the converter response time increases in this method,which limit its application in high-speed systems.The high temperature application of Al-Elko capacitor is limited because of its poor performance,which is significantly rectified by replacing the Al-Elko with MLCC as it delivers good performance in high temperature.

Estimating the Limits in System Design for 48 V Automotive Power Applications

The design process in power electronics is driven by increased utilisation level of the used components to gain performance whilst keeping cost low. This article provides an overview on challenges in low-voltage high-current systems, e.g. used in automotive applications. The main content points are： topology selection--single systems vs. cascaded systems, PCB manufacturing technology overview, current measurement methods, bulk capacitor design （ceramic DC link） and PCB design instructions for high-current systems. The PCB design instructions target on optimised thermal design for maximised PCB utilisation and on optimised track design for a low inductance DC link interconnection. The paper bases on calculations, measurements and simulations.

Preventive Control for Power System Transient Security Based on XGBoost and DCOPF with Consideration of Model Interpretability

This paper proposes a new approach for online power system transient security assessment(TSA)and preventive control based on XGBoost and DC optimal power flow(DCOPF).The novelty of this proposal is that it applies the XGBoost and data selection method based on the 1-norm distance in local feature importance evaluation which can provide a certain model interpretability.The method of SMOTE+ENN is adopted for data rebalancing.The contingency-oriented XGBoost model is trained with databases generated by time domain simulations to represent the transient security constraint in the DCOPF model,which has a relatively fast speed of calculation.The transient security constrained generation rescheduling is implemented with the differential evolution algorithm,which is utilized to optimize the rescheduled generation in the preventive control.Feasibility and effectiveness of the proposed approach are demonstrated on an IEEE 39-bus test system and a 500-bus operational model for South Carolina,USA.

High-voltage output triboelectric nanogenerator with DC/AC optimal combination method

The high-voltage power source is one of the important research directions of triboelectric nanogenerator(TENG).In this paper,a high-voltage output TENG(HVO-TENG)is proposed with direct current/alternating current(DC/AC)optimal combination method for wind energy harvesting.Through the optimal design of a direct current generation unit(DCGU)and an alternating current generation unit(ACGU),the HVO-TENG can produce DC voltage of 21.5 kV and AC voltage of 200 V,simultaneously.The HVOTENG can continuously illuminate more than 6,000 light emitting diodes(LEDs),which is enough to drive more possible applications of TENG.Besides,this paper explored application experiments on HVO-TENG.Demonstrative experiments indicate that the high-voltage DC output is used for producing ozone,while the AC output can light up ultraviolet(UV)LEDs.The HVOTENG can increase the ozone concentration(C)in an airtight container to 3 parts per million(ppm)after 7 h and continuously light up UV LEDs.All these demonstrations verify that the HVO-TENG has important guiding significance for designing high performance TENG.

Sparse Signal Recovery via Exponential Metric Approximation

Sparse signal recovery problems are common in parameter estimation, image processing, pattern recognition, and so on. The problem of recovering a sparse signal representation from a signal dictionary might be classified as a linear constraint l_0-quasinorm minimization problem, which is thought to be a Non-deterministic Polynomial-time（NP）-hard problem. Although several approximation methods have been developed to solve this problem via convex relaxation, researchers find the nonconvex methods to be more efficient in solving sparse recovery problems than convex methods. In this paper a nonconvex Exponential Metric Approximation（EMA）method is proposed to solve the sparse signal recovery problem. Our proposed EMA method aims to minimize a nonconvex negative exponential metric function to attain the sparse approximation and, with proper transformation,solve the problem via Difference Convex（DC） programming. Numerical simulations show that exponential metric function approximation yields better sparse recovery performance than other methods, and our proposed EMA-DC method is an efficient way to recover the sparse signals that are buried in noise.