Abstract

An electric spring (ES) can well maintain the balance between supply and demand to compensate for the intermittent nature of small-scale renewable energy resources (RES). Despite its popularity, the second generation of ES (ES-2) is deemed to have a few practical problems. The most conspicuous one is the requirement of accurate dead-time control is in the ES circuit to avoid bridge shoot-through problem, which is necessitated by the series-connection of multiple voltage sources and/or converters to realize a wide voltage range. This however could cause output voltage waveform distortions. In this study, inspired by the Z-source network structure, we propose a novel ES topology with a specifically designed impedance network, i.e., an impedance-network-based (i.e., a network of passive devices such as inductors and capacitors) ES (IN-ES), which intrinsically has a wide voltage range and is immune to the bridge shoot-through issue (i.e., switch tubes on the same bridge arm of the inverter are turned ON/OFF at the same time). Detailed theoretical derivation, simulation and experimentation are conducted in this study, which verify the unique advantageous features of the proposed IN-ES, demonstrating a wide voltage operation range, undistorted waveforms and safe operations.

Highlights

  • In recent years, renewable energy resources such as wind and solar have been widely recognized as a favorable alternative to mineral-based energy resources, due to their environmentally friendliness and inexhaustible availability [1], [2]

  • We propose a novel impedance-network-based electric spring (ES), as shown in Fig.1(d), and the IN-ES topology is analyzed with reference to the analytical methods of quasi Z-source inverter topologies in [27]–[29]

  • SIMULATION STUDY In order to verify the effectiveness of the proposed IN-ES, we conduct simulations in MATLAB/Simulink environment, which is compared to the popular ES-2 under different input voltages

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Summary

A Novel Impedance-Network-Based Electric Spring

GUIDONG ZHANG 1, (Member, IEEE), ZIYANG WU1, SAMSON SHENGLONG YU 2, (Member, IEEE), AND YUN ZHANG 1.

INTRODUCTION
OPERATING PRINCIPLE
EFFICIENCY ANALYSIS
STABILITY ANALYSIS
SIMULATION STUDY
EXPERIMENTAL VERIFICATION
Findings
CONCLUSION

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