Single-Phase AC-DC-AC Multilevel Converter Using High-Frequency Link to Improve Power Quality

Author(s):  
Rodrigo P. de Lacerda ◽  
Cursino B. Jacobina ◽  
Edgard L. L. Fabricio ◽  
Alan Santana Felinto
Energies ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (9) ◽  
pp. 2650
Author(s):  
Jorge Lara ◽  
Lesedi Masisi ◽  
Concepcion Hernandez ◽  
Marco A. Arjona ◽  
Ambrish Chandra

This paper presents a novel single-phase (SP) active-neutral point clamped (ANPC) five-level bidirectional converter (FLBC) for enhancing the power quality (PQ) during the grid-to-vehicle (G2V) and vehicle-to-grid (V2G) operation of an electric vehicle (EV) charger connected in series. This EV charger is based on a dual-active half-bridge DC-DC converter (DAHBC) with a high frequency isolation transformer. Unlike the comparable ANPC topologies found in literature, the proposed one has two more switches, i.e., ten instead of eight. However, with the addition of these components, the proposed multilevel converter not only becomes capable of properly balancing the voltage of the DC-link split capacitors under various step-changing conditions but it achieves a better efficiency, a lower stress of the switching devices and a more even distribution of the power losses. The resulting grid-tied ANPC-SPFLBC and DAHBC are accurately controlled with a cascaded control strategy and a single-phase shift (SPS) control technique, respectively. The simulation results obtained with MATLAB-SimPowerSystems as well as the experimental results obtained in laboratory validate the proposed ANPC-SPFLBC for a set of exhaustive tests in both V2G and G2V modes. A detailed power quality analysis carried out with a Fluke 43B alike demonstrates the good performance of the proposed topology.


Author(s):  
Vishal Anand ◽  
Anirban Pal ◽  
Balasubrahmanyam Kuchibhatla ◽  
Ranganathan Gurunathan ◽  
Kaushik Basu

Author(s):  
Fredi Z. Ferrigolo ◽  
Diego B. Ramos ◽  
Jeferson M. Correa ◽  
Felix A. Farret ◽  
Luciano P. Lima

2015 ◽  
Vol 655 ◽  
pp. 182-185
Author(s):  
Ke Lan Yan ◽  
Run Hua Fan ◽  
Min Chen ◽  
Kai Sun ◽  
Xu Ai Wang ◽  
...  

The phase structure, and electrical and magnetic properties of La0.7Sr0.3MnO3(LSMO)-xAg (xis the mole ratio,x=0, 0.3, 0.5) composite were investigated. It is found that the sample withx=0 is single phase; the samples withx=0.3 and 0.5 present three phase composite structure of the manganese oxide and Ag. With the increasing of Ag content, the grain size of the samples increases and the grain boundaries transition from fully faceted to partially faceted. The permittivity of spectrum (10 MHz - 1 GHz) and the theoretical simulation reveal that the plasma frequencyfpincrease with Ag content, due to the increasing of free electron concentration, which is further supported by the enhancement of conductivity. While for the permeability (μr'), theμr'decrease with the increasing of Ag content at low frequency range (f< 20 MHz), while at the relative high frequency range (f> 300 MHz), theμr'increased with Ag content. Therefore, the introduction of elemental Ag resulted in a higherμr'at the relative high frequency range.


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