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