Suitability and Optimization of High-Voltage IGBTs for Series Connection With Active Voltage Clamping

2005 ◽  
Vol 20 (6) ◽  
pp. 1244-1253 ◽  
Author(s):  
F. Bauer ◽  
L. Meysenc ◽  
A. Piazzesi
2015 ◽  
Vol 734 ◽  
pp. 901-905
Author(s):  
Zhi Xia Wang ◽  
Zou Ge ◽  
Zhong Yuan Chen ◽  
Ying Ying Su

Because of the high voltage, high current and easy to be driven, IGBT become the optimal selection of the power convert system. As the improvement of power electronics, the voltage becomes higher and higher, such as high inverter, HVDC and Flexible HVDC system. The voltage should be dozens of kilo-volt. Single device cannot be used in these occasions. Thus, IGBTs for series connection is necessary.In the series connection of IGBTs, as the result of the different parameters and the delay of the drive signals, the main problem is unequal sharing of voltage respectively. The devices which withstand over voltage might be broken down and result in the fault of the whole circuit. Therefore, it is necessary to protect the over voltage of the IGBT.The method of active voltage clamping for the High-Voltage IGBTs for series connection is presented. The transient voltage suppressor(TVS) lied between the collector and gate of IGBT is adopted as active clamping circuit, and the clamping voltage value is decided by rated IGBT voltage and the working voltage. When turning of on the IGBT, TVS is broken down by over voltage, and the voltage between collector and emitter is clamped.


2018 ◽  
Vol 176 ◽  
pp. 01036
Author(s):  
Zhao Yifu ◽  
Liu Lihua ◽  
Geng Zhi ◽  
Liu Xiaojun

A bipolar triangular wave current pulse inverter for shallow TEM survey is described. It can generate a peak current more than 10A and the PRF of the bipolar current pulse is between 1Hz and 10kHz. The proposed inverter contains a high voltage source circuit for the rising edge and a Zener diodes circuit with constant voltage clamping for the falling edge. Measurement results are presented, which show the high quality triangular wave current pulse with linear rising edge and rapidly turnoff falling edge.


2011 ◽  
Vol 347-353 ◽  
pp. 843-847
Author(s):  
Ting Jiang ◽  
Jian Feng Jiang ◽  
Xi Jun Yang

Charge storage is an important research topic in smart grid and distributed generation system, pumped storage as one of the most popular large-scale charge storage methods has attracted increasing attention. However, the motor generator of the pumped charge station has high input voltage and heavy load, so in order to get grid connected safely, being soft started by a high voltage converter is necessary. In the view of the existing high voltage high power converters, only the voltage source inverter Multi-stage Series-connection high voltage frequency converters are suitable for this application, and this paper gives analysis of such converters. Based on Carrier Wave Phase-Shifted modulation, this paper proposes a multi-stage Series-connection high voltage frequency converter with balanced output power of the step-down transformer’s secondary windings, in which a winding burdens three symmetry three-phase to single-phase MC outputs, and the same phase outputs of the MC are cascaded at the secondary side of the transformers, letting out one phase of high-voltage AC output. The circuit is consisted of a step-down industry frequency transformer at the network side, three-phase to single-phase MC arrays, a step-up high frequency transformer at the load side and filter components. The simulation result based on MATLAB/SIMULINK shows that the proposed multi-stage Series-connection high voltage frequency converter is feasible and low-cost.


2016 ◽  
Vol 52 (11) ◽  
pp. 921-923
Author(s):  
S.N. Easwaran ◽  
S.K. Venugopal ◽  
R. Weigel

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