Accurate equivalent circuit modeling of a medium-voltage and high-frequency coaxial winding DC-link transformer for solid state transformer applications

Abstract

The 12kV-400V dc-dc stage of a distribution level solid state transformers (SST) has been under research and development. Development of a 15kV SiC Mosfet allows a single stage of the dc-dc converter to operate at medium voltage at an operating frequency of over 20kHz. Nonetheless, the high rising and falling time during pulse switching in the dual active bridge operation is another significant obstacle to realize this technology. In order to understand and predict the frequency response with pulse switching and consider common-mode response via circuit analysis accurately, lumped-element equivalent circuit model has been developed for broadband coaxial winding transformer (CWT) with analytic expressions. The simple lumped-element equivalent circuit introduced in this paper has been verified by measurement results from a prototype for a medium-voltage (MV) and high frequency (HF) coaxial winding power transformer up to the frequency where the length of the coaxial body is a quarter of a wavelength and further study up to 30MHz has been described.