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ABSTRACT

The switching frequency is an important control parameter of P WM rectifier to reduce switching losses and E MI noise. This paper proposed a variable switching frequency P WM (VS F P WM) strategy for DC-link voltage ripple control in two-level rectifier. DC-link current directly determines the DC-link voltage ripple, and predicts synchronously with P WM signals. A real-time prediction model of DC-link voltage ripple is derived for a common voltage oriented control (V O C) P WM rectifier.

Then,

introduced a VS F P WM control, which changes the switching frequency cycle to cycle with a restriction of DC-link voltage ripple peak value. Furthermore, also observes the dynamic behavior with  the adoption of the proposed VS F P WM control scheme. Detail simulation and experimental comparisons between V S F P WM and normal constant switching frequency P WM (CS F P WM) demonstrate the advantages of the proposed method.

 

BLOCK DIAGRAM:

Fig.1 Control structure of A FE rectifier

EXPECTED SIMULATION RESULTS

Fig.2 Comparison between the prediction and the simulation results of the

DC-link voltage ripple in one line-cycle

Fig.3 DC-link voltage ripple comparison

Fig.4 Switching frequency comparison

Fig.5 AC-side current

Fig.6 Spectrum comparison (a) AC-side (2) DC-link

Fig.7 Step response (a) Step response of DC-link voltage (f) The change of switching frequency with VS F P WM

CONCLUSION

The contribution of this paper is to develop the VS F P WM strategy for DC-link voltage ripple control. Different from the previous work on the AC-side current ripple or torque ripple, P WM current ripple of AC-side does not affects the DC-link voltage ripple. In a rectifier system, P WM method determines the DC-link voltage ripple and load current, and the peak value of it is important for DC-link capacitor design or selection. The proposed VS F P WM fully utilizes the freedom of switching frequency, which is often neglected in the P WM module.

However,

the proposed VS F P WM is different from the random P WM [24], which changes the switching frequency based on the statistics and no prediction model is used. It should be noted that the proposed technique can be applied to a different power factor than the unitary one and not can be applied direct to the rectifier with neutral wire (four wire). Few conclusions can be derived as follows:

(1)

DC-link voltage ripple prediction model can be built in the time-based-domain. With the three-phase duty cycles, AC-side current and load current measured by the current sensors, the DC-link voltage ripple peak can be predicted for updating the switching frequency in next cycle. The prediction method also applies to other P WM methods, and also be used for design and analysis of DC capacitors and DC battery reliability.

(2)

In a whole line period, the switching frequency of VS F P WM continuously varies below the designed constant switching frequency, keeping the DC-link voltage ripple always under the requirement. Using the proposed VS F P WM strategy, the switching losses decrease significantly, and E MI noise reduces markedly.

(3)

Typical closed-loop control system  investigates the dynamic property of VS F P WM. In fact, VS F P WM still has a good dynamic response, without nearly impairing the tracking performance shown in common CS F P WM. The open-loop Bode plot indicates the VS F P WM methods just decrease a little bit of bandwidth of both voltage control loop and the current in CS F P WM because of the reduction of average switching frequency.

 

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