A hybrid inverter system for medium voltage applications using a low voltage auxiliary CSI

Hybrid converters consist of a main inverter processing the bulk of the power with poor waveform performance and a fast and versatile auxiliary inverter to correct the distortion. In this paper, the main converter is a medium voltage NPC inverter and the auxiliary inverter is a low-voltage and low-...

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Main Authors: Papadopoulos, Savvas, Rashed, Mohamed, Klumpner, Christian, Wheeler, Patrick
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Published: 2014
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Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/34810/
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author Papadopoulos, Savvas
Rashed, Mohamed
Klumpner, Christian
Wheeler, Patrick
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Rashed, Mohamed
Klumpner, Christian
Wheeler, Patrick
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description Hybrid converters consist of a main inverter processing the bulk of the power with poor waveform performance and a fast and versatile auxiliary inverter to correct the distortion. In this paper, the main converter is a medium voltage NPC inverter and the auxiliary inverter is a low-voltage and low- current rated current source inverter (CSI), with series capacitor being used to minimize the CSI voltage stress. The result is a high output current quality which is obtained with a very low switching stress in the main converter and a very small added installed power (<4%) in the CSI. This paper expands this concept by investigating the hybridization of a medium voltage inverter with an existing LCL filter and investigates the additional challenges related to resonances and proposes a solution for stabile operation.
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spelling nottingham-348102024-08-15T15:16:04Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/34810/ A hybrid inverter system for medium voltage applications using a low voltage auxiliary CSI Papadopoulos, Savvas Rashed, Mohamed Klumpner, Christian Wheeler, Patrick Hybrid converters consist of a main inverter processing the bulk of the power with poor waveform performance and a fast and versatile auxiliary inverter to correct the distortion. In this paper, the main converter is a medium voltage NPC inverter and the auxiliary inverter is a low-voltage and low- current rated current source inverter (CSI), with series capacitor being used to minimize the CSI voltage stress. The result is a high output current quality which is obtained with a very low switching stress in the main converter and a very small added installed power (<4%) in the CSI. This paper expands this concept by investigating the hybridization of a medium voltage inverter with an existing LCL filter and investigates the additional challenges related to resonances and proposes a solution for stabile operation. 2014-09-14 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed Papadopoulos, Savvas, Rashed, Mohamed, Klumpner, Christian and Wheeler, Patrick (2014) A hybrid inverter system for medium voltage applications using a low voltage auxiliary CSI. In: 2014 IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition (ECCE 2014), 14-18 Sept 2014, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. Distortion Invertors http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=6953779 10.1109/ECCE.2014.6953779 10.1109/ECCE.2014.6953779 10.1109/ECCE.2014.6953779
spellingShingle Distortion
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Papadopoulos, Savvas
Rashed, Mohamed
Klumpner, Christian
Wheeler, Patrick
A hybrid inverter system for medium voltage applications using a low voltage auxiliary CSI
title A hybrid inverter system for medium voltage applications using a low voltage auxiliary CSI
title_full A hybrid inverter system for medium voltage applications using a low voltage auxiliary CSI
title_fullStr A hybrid inverter system for medium voltage applications using a low voltage auxiliary CSI
title_full_unstemmed A hybrid inverter system for medium voltage applications using a low voltage auxiliary CSI
title_short A hybrid inverter system for medium voltage applications using a low voltage auxiliary CSI
title_sort hybrid inverter system for medium voltage applications using a low voltage auxiliary csi
topic Distortion
Invertors
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