Differential buck single phase grid connected AC-DC converter with active power decoupling using a flipping Capacitor

This paper introduces a new single-phase AC-DC converter capable of achieving independent voltage control across a dedicated power decoupling capacitor, by exploiting the same full bridge that controls the grid current in combination with two bidirectional switches, soft com¬mutated at the line freq...

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Main Authors: Gottardo, Davide, De Lillo, Liliana, Empringham, Lee, Costabeber, Alessando
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Published: 2017
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Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/46550/
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author Gottardo, Davide
De Lillo, Liliana
Empringham, Lee
Costabeber, Alessando
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De Lillo, Liliana
Empringham, Lee
Costabeber, Alessando
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description This paper introduces a new single-phase AC-DC converter capable of achieving independent voltage control across a dedicated power decoupling capacitor, by exploiting the same full bridge that controls the grid current in combination with two bidirectional switches, soft com¬mutated at the line frequency (ZVS). A suitable control of the capacitor voltage is used to completely decouple pulsating grid power from the DC-link, enabling the use of smaller film capacitors instead of electrolytic capacitors for power decoupling, improving reliability and increasing power density. This is achieved without additional high switching frequency devices. Furthermore, the interference occurring between rectified grid current and power decoupling capac¬itor current is exploited in order to reduce the RMS current in the full bridge, thus improving conversion efficiency. This work is being developed at University of Nottingham within the framework of project SENSIBLE.
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spelling nottingham-465502020-05-04T18:42:02Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/46550/ Differential buck single phase grid connected AC-DC converter with active power decoupling using a flipping Capacitor Gottardo, Davide De Lillo, Liliana Empringham, Lee Costabeber, Alessando This paper introduces a new single-phase AC-DC converter capable of achieving independent voltage control across a dedicated power decoupling capacitor, by exploiting the same full bridge that controls the grid current in combination with two bidirectional switches, soft com¬mutated at the line frequency (ZVS). A suitable control of the capacitor voltage is used to completely decouple pulsating grid power from the DC-link, enabling the use of smaller film capacitors instead of electrolytic capacitors for power decoupling, improving reliability and increasing power density. This is achieved without additional high switching frequency devices. Furthermore, the interference occurring between rectified grid current and power decoupling capac¬itor current is exploited in order to reduce the RMS current in the full bridge, thus improving conversion efficiency. This work is being developed at University of Nottingham within the framework of project SENSIBLE. 2017-04-18 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed Gottardo, Davide, De Lillo, Liliana, Empringham, Lee and Costabeber, Alessando (2017) Differential buck single phase grid connected AC-DC converter with active power decoupling using a flipping Capacitor. In: 8th International Symposium on Power Electronics for Distributed Generation Systems (PEDG 2017), 17-20 Apr 2017, Florianópolis, Brazil. Stress Power electronics http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7972438/
spellingShingle Stress
Power electronics
Gottardo, Davide
De Lillo, Liliana
Empringham, Lee
Costabeber, Alessando
Differential buck single phase grid connected AC-DC converter with active power decoupling using a flipping Capacitor
title Differential buck single phase grid connected AC-DC converter with active power decoupling using a flipping Capacitor
title_full Differential buck single phase grid connected AC-DC converter with active power decoupling using a flipping Capacitor
title_fullStr Differential buck single phase grid connected AC-DC converter with active power decoupling using a flipping Capacitor
title_full_unstemmed Differential buck single phase grid connected AC-DC converter with active power decoupling using a flipping Capacitor
title_short Differential buck single phase grid connected AC-DC converter with active power decoupling using a flipping Capacitor
title_sort differential buck single phase grid connected ac-dc converter with active power decoupling using a flipping capacitor
topic Stress
Power electronics
url https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/46550/
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