Study of Star-Delta Soft Switch to Extend AC Motor High Speed Operation Region

In traction application,speed range of motor is an important index for motor drives.In AC motor control,the maximum speed of the motor is limited by the output voltage capability of the traditional three-phase inverter with star connenction of windings.Switching the star connection to delta connection in high-speed range can extend the speed range.In order to extend the speed operation region,star-delta switch proposed by many literatures relies on mechanical relay,which needs a dead zone of tens of milliseconds and seriously affects torque output.Besides,the traditional method will cause current overshoot during the switch transient process,decreasing the device security and reliability.Aiming at the defects existing in the star-delta hard switching,this paper proposes a star-delta soft switching method.Without adding extra power electronics devices,DC-bus capacitor is used to provide the path of zero axis current in the transient process,which helps to achieve the smooth torque output and zero current switch in the transient.Experiments have been done to validate the performance of the proposed method.The switching transient from star to delta connection in the motor drive can be much more stable than hard switching method.

Selection of Carrier Waveforms for PWM Inverter

In this paper the influence of different carrier waveforms upon the output characteristics of PWM inverter is described in detail. When a triangular carrier waveform is used in hard-switching PWM inverters, harmonics exist in the neighborhood of the output frequency of the inverter output voltage and current due to the dead time. The triangular carrier waveform used in soft-switching PWM inverter will cause difficulties in controlling resonance-trigger time, higher loss in the resonant circuit, and less utilization of the DC bus voltage. If a sawtooth carrier is used in hard-switching PWM inverter, there will be severe distortion in the current waveform. When sawtooth carriers with alternate positive and negative slopes are used in soft-switching PWM inverters, the resonance-trigger time is easy to control, and distortion in the output voltage and current caused by the dead time will not appear.

Application research on ZVZCS full-bridge converter technique

Based on ZVZCS （zero voltage zero current switching） full bridge converter technique, a novel inverter welding power supply is designed, in which the secondary side of the transformer adopts passive clamping circuit to reduce voltage stress of rectifying components. This supply can realize power switches ZVS （zero voltage switching ） or ZCS （zero current switching） within a very wide range of load; Only through setting up blocking capacitor in the primary side of transformer, the power transformer＇s bias in the full-bridge converter is suppressed and the primary current can be reset easily. In addition, how to calculate the blocking capacitor and its influence to power supply performance are also subjects discussed in this paper.

A State Space Modeling of Non-Isolated Bidirectional DC-DC Converter with Active Switch

In this paper, analysis, design and implementation of non-isolated soft-switching bidirectional DC-DC converter with an active switch are described. The proposed topology gives the output voltage as twice as the input voltage and enhances the efficiency up to 94.5% and 92.9% for boost and buck mode operation by proper selection of the duty cycle. Soft switching can be achieved at both steps up and step down operating modes. Small signal analysis based on state space averaging and transfer functions have been presented in detail for the proposed converter. Finally, the feasibility of the desired converter is confirmed to mat lab simulation and investigational results.

Design and Experimentation of FPGA-Based Soft-Switched Interleaved Boost Converter for Telecommunication System

This paper proposes the design and experimentation of digital control of soft-switched interleaved boost converter using FPGA for Telecommunication System. The switching devices in the proposed converter are turned on and off with Zero Voltage Switching (ZVS) and Zero Current Switching (ZCS) respectively. The circuit is operated in Continuous Conduction Mode (CCM) with various load ranges having duty cycle of more than 50%. The proposed converter is studied by developing the simulation module in MATLAB/SIMULINK. A PI controller is designed and implemented in FPGA to obtain a regulated DC output for line and load variations. Simulation and experimentation results are verified with a prototype development of the proposed converter. The results indicate that the converter performance is enhanced with closed loop control.

Analysis and Implementation of Dual-ZCS forward DC/DC Converter

As the switching frequency in DC/DC converter increases, original ‘hard-switch’ working mode is not compatible. Another problem is the reliability, which is puzzled in single-ended forward, push-pull or bridge-like structures. In this paper, a new dual-ZCS (zero current switches) forward topology is proposed. The operating principle of soft-switch is analyzed, showing the relationship between voltage and current in time domain. Then how to calculate the key parameters of resonant network is . Finally, a prototype ZCS SMPS is implemented and tested. The results consisted with the analyzing results well, and illustrated the advantages of the proposed structure.