Amplitude Of Inverter Output Voltage Research Articles

A Fault-Tolerant Control Method Based on Reconfiguration SPWM Signal for Cascaded Multilevel IGBT-Based Propulsion in Electric Ships

Electric ships have been developed in recent years to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. In this system, inverters are the key equipment for the permanent-magnet synchronous motor (PMSM) drive system. The cascaded insulated-gated bipolar transistor (IGBT)-based H-bridge inverter is one of the most attractive multilevel topologies for modern electric ship applications. Usually, the fault-tolerant control strategy is designed to keep the ship in operation for a certain period. However, the fault-tolerant control strategy with hardware redundancy is expensive and slow in response. In addition, after fault-tolerant control, the ship’s PMSM may experience shock and overheating, and IGBT life is reduced due to uneven switching frequency distribution. Therefore, a stratified reconfiguration carrier disposition Sinusoidal Pulse Width Modulation (SPWM) fault-tolerant control strategy is proposed. The proposed strategy can achieve fault tolerance without any extra hardware. A reconfiguration carrier is applied to improve the fundamental amplitude of inverter output voltage to maintain the operation of the ship’s PMSM. In addition, the available states of faulty H-bridge are fully used to contribute to the output. These can improve the life of IGBTs by reducing and balancing the power loss of each H-bridge. The principles of the proposed strategy are described in detail in this study. Taking a cascaded H-bridge seven-level inverter as an example, simulation and experimental results verify that the proposed strategy, in general, has a potential future application on electric ships.

Study of the operating modes of the high voltage power source for barrier type discharge excitation

The issues related to the features of operation and modes setting of a high-voltage switching power source based on a sequential autonomous resonant inverter with reverse diodes used to excite an atmospheric pressure barrier type discharge are discussed in the article. It is indicated that the characteristic features of the autonomous resonant inverters operation are the occurrence of damped voltage fluctuations in the LC circuit of the inverter, as well as the dependence of the output alternating voltage on the ratio of the inverter operating frequency (thyristor switching frequency) to the natural resonant frequency of the LC circuit. Depending on this ratio, the inverter can operate in discontinuous, boundary and continuous current mode. The amplitude and shape of the inverter output voltage were controlled using a 1:1000 voltage divider with a C1-65A oscilloscope. The shape of the gate trigger pulses was obtained using a C1-167 oscilloscope. It is established that when the gate trigger pulses are asymmetrical relative to each other due to the operation features of the step-up transformers, the value of the alternating high-voltage at the inverter output is insufficient to excite the atmospheric pressure barrier type discharge. In the case of the gate trigger pulses symmetry, the output voltage of the inverter stage reaches the values required for the breakdown of the dielectric medium. Oscillograms of the inverter output voltage while adjusting its operating frequency are obtained. It is shown that the amplitude value of the voltage at the gas-discharge load increases as the operating frequency of the inverter increases. For the gate trigger pulses frequency of 250 Hz the value of the inverter output voltage amplitude was 3.4 kV, for 460 Hz – 4.0 kV, and for 550 Hz – 4.2 kV.

A Control Strategy with Series-Parallel Inverter for Micro-Grid Operation

For the different operation mode of micro-grid, an improved droop control method and a parallel inverter was proposed depending on the study of micro-grid inverter. Grid-connected interface contains a series inverter and a parallel inverter, and can be switched to select different work mode. The parallel inverter can eliminate harmonic, compensate three-phase imbalanced current to improve the quality of the power delivered to the utility grid. In islanding operation mode, the improved droop control strategy was applied, where an integral controller was introduced. So it can reduce the inverter output voltage amplitude. Thereby it can restrain circulation and realize the power of self-distribution. The effectiveness and feasibility are verified by the simulation result.

A Precise Model-Based Design of Voltage Phase Controller for IPMSM

This paper presents a model-based design method of voltage phase controller for IPMSM. The voltage phase controller controls the torque with the output voltage phase only in high-speed region where the inverter output voltage amplitude is saturated. However, voltage phase control cannot achieve quick torque response because it is designed in defiance of transient characteristic. Due to the nonlinear characteristic between torque and voltage phase, a model-based design has not yet been carried out. In this paper, a model-based design is proposed by linearizing the relationship between torque and voltage phase. The analysis of the proposed model describes that the plant is a nonminimum phase system. Simulation results and experimental results show the effectiveness of the model-based design method which uses the proposed model. Furthermore, the stable analysis shows that the conventional design method has low bandwidth due to an unstable zero of the plant.