A novel switching control method for soft-switching DC-DC converter is proposed. The proposed control method is keeping the zero voltage switching (ZVS) switches off until snubber capacitors discharged. This method is simple and effectively achieves ZVS at light load. Without adding any auxiliary resonant component, it can provide compact and high efficient converter. Furthermore, by taking voltage fluctuation into consideration, the control method can achieve high reliability. This proposed method is applied to soft-switching DC-DC converter including ZVS arm.
{"title":"Novel switching control method for soft-switching DC-DC converter at light loads","authors":"H. Kon, H. Kira","doi":"10.1109/PCC.2002.997589","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PCC.2002.997589","url":null,"abstract":"A novel switching control method for soft-switching DC-DC converter is proposed. The proposed control method is keeping the zero voltage switching (ZVS) switches off until snubber capacitors discharged. This method is simple and effectively achieves ZVS at light load. Without adding any auxiliary resonant component, it can provide compact and high efficient converter. Furthermore, by taking voltage fluctuation into consideration, the control method can achieve high reliability. This proposed method is applied to soft-switching DC-DC converter including ZVS arm.","PeriodicalId":320424,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Power Conversion Conference-Osaka 2002 (Cat. No.02TH8579)","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-08-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115476973","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
In this paper, an angstrom order positioning system using a giant magnetostriction actuator is proposed and developed. This newly developed system can precisely control several /spl Aring/ positioning over several /spl mu/m stroke range for practical use. This system can also deliver high power output to move payload ranging from several gf to several tons. Moreover, this system has achieved state-of-the-art backlash free positioning by using the newly developed elastic displacement table and a newly developed giant magnetostriction actuator.
{"title":"Angstrom positioning system using a giant magnetostriction actuator for high power applications","authors":"H. Nakano","doi":"10.1109/PCC.2002.998126","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PCC.2002.998126","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, an angstrom order positioning system using a giant magnetostriction actuator is proposed and developed. This newly developed system can precisely control several /spl Aring/ positioning over several /spl mu/m stroke range for practical use. This system can also deliver high power output to move payload ranging from several gf to several tons. Moreover, this system has achieved state-of-the-art backlash free positioning by using the newly developed elastic displacement table and a newly developed giant magnetostriction actuator.","PeriodicalId":320424,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Power Conversion Conference-Osaka 2002 (Cat. No.02TH8579)","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-08-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125220750","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Small scale energy storage system incorporating a battery bank has attracted special interest as a promising load leveling system. Because battery bank voltage of this system is low, it is important to use a bidirectional chopper suitable for large step-up/step-down ratio. In this paper we propose a circuit topology of bidirectional chopper appropriate for small scale load leveling system and present the analytical and experimental results.
{"title":"Circuit configuration of bidirectional DC/DC converter specific for small scale load leveling system","authors":"K. Hirachi, M. Yamanaka, K. Kajiyama, S. Isokane","doi":"10.1109/PCC.2002.997586","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PCC.2002.997586","url":null,"abstract":"Small scale energy storage system incorporating a battery bank has attracted special interest as a promising load leveling system. Because battery bank voltage of this system is low, it is important to use a bidirectional chopper suitable for large step-up/step-down ratio. In this paper we propose a circuit topology of bidirectional chopper appropriate for small scale load leveling system and present the analytical and experimental results.","PeriodicalId":320424,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Power Conversion Conference-Osaka 2002 (Cat. No.02TH8579)","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-08-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126774135","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
R. Bojoi, M. C. Caponet, G. Grieco, M. Lazzari, A. Tenconi, F. Profumo
Multiphase AC motor drives (with more than three phases) have some potential advantages as widely discussed in the literature. The DC-link capacitor size depends on the current RMS value, in particular, if the drive is supplied by a DC source, the current requested to the capacitor is basically determined by inverter input current AC component. The analytical computation of the capacitor current RMS value in the DC link of a voltage source PWM inverter, driving an induction motor, is extended from the common 3-phase systems to multiphase systems in general. In particular the six-phase-double star case has been analyzed in detail. The consistency of the analytical results have been tested through digital simulations. Furthermore, a 6-phase voltage source PWM inverter prototype has been designed and built to supply a multiphase induction motor drive: the experimental results confirm the validity of the mathematical/simulation approach.
{"title":"Computation and measurements of the DC link current in six-phase voltage source PWM inverters for AC motor drives","authors":"R. Bojoi, M. C. Caponet, G. Grieco, M. Lazzari, A. Tenconi, F. Profumo","doi":"10.1109/PCC.2002.998097","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PCC.2002.998097","url":null,"abstract":"Multiphase AC motor drives (with more than three phases) have some potential advantages as widely discussed in the literature. The DC-link capacitor size depends on the current RMS value, in particular, if the drive is supplied by a DC source, the current requested to the capacitor is basically determined by inverter input current AC component. The analytical computation of the capacitor current RMS value in the DC link of a voltage source PWM inverter, driving an induction motor, is extended from the common 3-phase systems to multiphase systems in general. In particular the six-phase-double star case has been analyzed in detail. The consistency of the analytical results have been tested through digital simulations. Furthermore, a 6-phase voltage source PWM inverter prototype has been designed and built to supply a multiphase induction motor drive: the experimental results confirm the validity of the mathematical/simulation approach.","PeriodicalId":320424,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Power Conversion Conference-Osaka 2002 (Cat. No.02TH8579)","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-08-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126935281","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
An adhesion control performance in low-speed region considering a low-resolution pulse generator (PG) and experiment results are reported. In the proposed adhesion control methods, the wheel speed is required. However, in the railway field, the PG used for the wheel speed measurement is attached on the main motor and with only 60 pulse-per-revolution (ppr). Therefore, in the low-speed region, the speed value cannot be obtained in each control period. To solve this problem, a disturbance-instantaneous speed observer is proposed in this paper. The effectiveness of the proposed adhesion control with instantaneous wheel speed estimation has been verified by simulations and experiments.
{"title":"Adhesion control in low-speed region and experiment verification with considering low-resolution pulse generator","authors":"M. Cao, K. Takeuchi, T. Furuya, A. Kawamura","doi":"10.1109/PCC.2002.997636","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PCC.2002.997636","url":null,"abstract":"An adhesion control performance in low-speed region considering a low-resolution pulse generator (PG) and experiment results are reported. In the proposed adhesion control methods, the wheel speed is required. However, in the railway field, the PG used for the wheel speed measurement is attached on the main motor and with only 60 pulse-per-revolution (ppr). Therefore, in the low-speed region, the speed value cannot be obtained in each control period. To solve this problem, a disturbance-instantaneous speed observer is proposed in this paper. The effectiveness of the proposed adhesion control with instantaneous wheel speed estimation has been verified by simulations and experiments.","PeriodicalId":320424,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Power Conversion Conference-Osaka 2002 (Cat. No.02TH8579)","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-08-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116439312","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
A. Koyanagi, H. Nakamura, M. Kobayashi, Yasunori Suzuki, R. Shimada
This paper focuses on a maximum power point tracking for wind turbine generator (WTG) with a flywheel. Power coefficient C/sub p/, which has the optimum point, depends on a tip speed ratio (TSR). If we can adjust the angular velocity of WTG to wind speed with the frequency converter, we can realize the maximum power point tracking (MPPT) for WTG. Firstly, this paper explains a mechanism of wind power capture and necessity of flywheel. Secondly, we compare the difference between power ratio with and without a flywheel. We compare between fixed speed rotation operation and MPPT operation with data of the Tappi-zaki WTG system. As a result, a total power increase of up to 2 times has been obtained when the average wind speed is around 6.2 m/s (rated power is 275 kW). Finally, we proposed a simple small WTG system with permanent magnet type synchronous generator (rated power is 150 W) and wind turbine of 3-blades (rotor diameter is 1.24 m). We can make various wind speeds with the electric fan, so that we can evaluate MPPT operation with the experimental studies.
{"title":"Study on maximum power point tracking of wind turbine generator using a flywheel","authors":"A. Koyanagi, H. Nakamura, M. Kobayashi, Yasunori Suzuki, R. Shimada","doi":"10.1109/PCC.2002.998568","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PCC.2002.998568","url":null,"abstract":"This paper focuses on a maximum power point tracking for wind turbine generator (WTG) with a flywheel. Power coefficient C/sub p/, which has the optimum point, depends on a tip speed ratio (TSR). If we can adjust the angular velocity of WTG to wind speed with the frequency converter, we can realize the maximum power point tracking (MPPT) for WTG. Firstly, this paper explains a mechanism of wind power capture and necessity of flywheel. Secondly, we compare the difference between power ratio with and without a flywheel. We compare between fixed speed rotation operation and MPPT operation with data of the Tappi-zaki WTG system. As a result, a total power increase of up to 2 times has been obtained when the average wind speed is around 6.2 m/s (rated power is 275 kW). Finally, we proposed a simple small WTG system with permanent magnet type synchronous generator (rated power is 150 W) and wind turbine of 3-blades (rotor diameter is 1.24 m). We can make various wind speeds with the electric fan, so that we can evaluate MPPT operation with the experimental studies.","PeriodicalId":320424,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Power Conversion Conference-Osaka 2002 (Cat. No.02TH8579)","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-08-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121899709","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
A new 3-phase-bridge PWM current-source-type (CST) (or buck-mode) PFC rectifier for telecommunications energy systems is introduced. The necessity, the advantages and disadvantages of this type PWM rectifier in the application are discussed. Then, a new power circuit topology and modulation scheme to eliminate or mitigate the disadvantages and obtain further new advantages of the PWM-current-source-type PFC rectifier are introduced. The features of the new rectifier obtained by the new PWM scheme have been confirmed through experimental results obtained from a 12 kW real product. Furthermore, variation of the efficiency and total-harmonic-distortion of the input line current for several DC-inductor arrangements are evaluated.
{"title":"Three-phase PWM-current-source type PFC rectifier (theory and practical evaluation of 12kW real product)","authors":"Y. Nishida, T. Kondoh, M. Ishikawa, K. Yasui","doi":"10.1109/PCC.2002.998146","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PCC.2002.998146","url":null,"abstract":"A new 3-phase-bridge PWM current-source-type (CST) (or buck-mode) PFC rectifier for telecommunications energy systems is introduced. The necessity, the advantages and disadvantages of this type PWM rectifier in the application are discussed. Then, a new power circuit topology and modulation scheme to eliminate or mitigate the disadvantages and obtain further new advantages of the PWM-current-source-type PFC rectifier are introduced. The features of the new rectifier obtained by the new PWM scheme have been confirmed through experimental results obtained from a 12 kW real product. Furthermore, variation of the efficiency and total-harmonic-distortion of the input line current for several DC-inductor arrangements are evaluated.","PeriodicalId":320424,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Power Conversion Conference-Osaka 2002 (Cat. No.02TH8579)","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-08-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129703907","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
A novel single-phase soft-switched current-source inverter, which connects the photovoltaic arrays with the utility grid, is studied. To provide the soft-switching capability under the pulse width modulation for a line-commutated thyristor inverter, an auxiliary resonant switch to bypass the current on the DC side is connected across the DC input of a thyristor inverter. The arrangement tested, using two insulated-gate bipolar transistors and a single-phase thyristor bridge, is implemented to investigate the operation under the sinusoidal pulse width modulation. The operation is also simulated using PSpice. The experimental and simulated results confirm that the utility current can be sinusoidally waveshaped with a near unity power factor.
{"title":"Single-phase soft-switched current-source inverter for utility interactive photovoltaic power generation system","authors":"H. Oishi, H. Okada, K. Ishizaka, R. Itoh","doi":"10.1109/PCC.2002.997591","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PCC.2002.997591","url":null,"abstract":"A novel single-phase soft-switched current-source inverter, which connects the photovoltaic arrays with the utility grid, is studied. To provide the soft-switching capability under the pulse width modulation for a line-commutated thyristor inverter, an auxiliary resonant switch to bypass the current on the DC side is connected across the DC input of a thyristor inverter. The arrangement tested, using two insulated-gate bipolar transistors and a single-phase thyristor bridge, is implemented to investigate the operation under the sinusoidal pulse width modulation. The operation is also simulated using PSpice. The experimental and simulated results confirm that the utility current can be sinusoidally waveshaped with a near unity power factor.","PeriodicalId":320424,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Power Conversion Conference-Osaka 2002 (Cat. No.02TH8579)","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-08-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123392940","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The adjustable speed synchronous machine drive has been established as a high quality drive. Unity power factor control of the machine is expected to be of higher efficiency for the machine and for the inverter. The only existing method is for feedback control of the phase angle between input voltage and current to be zero. The control procedure is complex. This paper reports a newly developed forward control scheme for unity power factor control of the synchronous machine. Simulation shows good performance of the scheme.
{"title":"Novel control scheme for adjustable speed synchronous machine drives","authors":"T. Chin, M. Nakano","doi":"10.1109/PCC.2002.998160","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PCC.2002.998160","url":null,"abstract":"The adjustable speed synchronous machine drive has been established as a high quality drive. Unity power factor control of the machine is expected to be of higher efficiency for the machine and for the inverter. The only existing method is for feedback control of the phase angle between input voltage and current to be zero. The control procedure is complex. This paper reports a newly developed forward control scheme for unity power factor control of the synchronous machine. Simulation shows good performance of the scheme.","PeriodicalId":320424,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Power Conversion Conference-Osaka 2002 (Cat. No.02TH8579)","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-08-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121507585","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This paper proposes a novel modulation method of a single-phase bridge inverter, which decreases the temperature rise of the power semiconductor devices and improves utilization factor of the devices. In case of conventional modulation methods, there is a temperature difference between the power devices of the four arms. This comes from unequal conducting and switching losses of the devices. Our proposed method eliminates the temperature difference by interchanging the lead and lag arms of the inverter every few cycles. We have confirmed the effect of the new modulation method by MATLAB simulation. In addition, the usefulness of the proposed modulation method has been verified by the experiment.
{"title":"Novel modulation method of single-phase bridge inverter for improved utilization of power devices","authors":"K. Kawaguchi, S. Godo, T. Kawabata","doi":"10.1109/PCC.2002.998096","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PCC.2002.998096","url":null,"abstract":"This paper proposes a novel modulation method of a single-phase bridge inverter, which decreases the temperature rise of the power semiconductor devices and improves utilization factor of the devices. In case of conventional modulation methods, there is a temperature difference between the power devices of the four arms. This comes from unequal conducting and switching losses of the devices. Our proposed method eliminates the temperature difference by interchanging the lead and lag arms of the inverter every few cycles. We have confirmed the effect of the new modulation method by MATLAB simulation. In addition, the usefulness of the proposed modulation method has been verified by the experiment.","PeriodicalId":320424,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Power Conversion Conference-Osaka 2002 (Cat. No.02TH8579)","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-08-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124454969","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}