A New PWM-Based Control Method to Balance the Output Voltage of Two-Level Inverters Considering the

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International Journal of Automation and Control Engineering (IJACE) Volume 3 Issue 3, August 2014 doi: 10.14355/ijace.2014.0303.01

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A New PWM-Based Control Method to Balance the Output Voltage of Two-Level Inverters Considering the Variations of dcLink Voltage Amir Behzadnia, Ebrahim Babaei Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Tabriz, Tabriz, Iran Amir_b220@yahoo.com, e-babaei@tabrizu.ac.ir Abstract In case of oscillation in the dc-link in two-level inverters, the ac voltage produced will be extremely unbalanced. Since in most of cases it is almost impossible to eliminate or even reduce the oscillation produced in the dc-link, an attempt must be made to minimize the effects of dc-link voltage oscillation on the ac side. In this paper, a new PWM-based control method is proposed to deal with the problem. Changing the reference values, the proposed method helps to balance the generated voltage and the current. To prove the accuracy of the proposed control method simulation results using PSCAD/EMTDC are presented. For the sake of validity, both static and dynamic loads were applied in the simulation process. Keywords Two-level Inverter; Unbalanced Voltage; Dc-link; PWM

Introduction With the advancement of semiconductor industry, power electronic inverters are much more economical to buy today which is the reason why power electronic inverters have gained such great popularity nowadays. One of the most popular types of power electronic inverters used today is two-level inverters with PWM modulations (Holmes & Lipo, 2006) and (Hwang & Lehn, Aug. 2010). Two-level inverters have several applications among which induction motors and static loads are the most significant. To be more precise, power electronic inverters are used in induction motors and static loads to change the amplitude and frequency. Similarly, a two-level inverter is responsible for supplying the energy needed through a dc-link (Kazmierkowski, Krishnan, & Blaabjerg, 2002. The dclink energy can be supplied in different ways such as by fuel cells, PVs and power rectifiers. The dc-link voltage should be constant. Dc-link voltage oscillation

can result in serious problems on the ac side such as an increase in machine losses, machine heating up, efficiency losses and constant trembling of the machine shaft which can shorten the average life of the machine. There are various factors that cause dc-link voltage oscillation in inverters. The most important one is unbalanced input voltage in power rectifiers that supply the energy of inverters dc-links. Distribution networks periodically experience high unbalanced voltage (Kretschmar & Nee, 1998). As a result there will be oscillation in inverters dc-link that their energy is supplied through rectifiers connected to distribution network. As unbalanced input voltage in power rectifiers causes dc-link voltage oscillation in (Liu, Xu, Zhu, Blaabjerg, & Chen, July 2013) a method proposed in order to reduce the negative impact of voltage unbalance on dc-link voltage. In this method, rectifier controller calculates the inverter active power based on inverter current and voltage references. This requires that the rectifier and inverter controller should be integrated into one controller, which causes high controller complexity. To deal with stated problem various control methods presented (Woolley & Milanovic, July. 2012) and (Woolley & Milanovic, July. 2012). In (Sudhoff, Corzine, Glover, Hegner, & Robey, Mar. 1998) a single-input space vector is used to regulate a grid-connected converter under generalized unbalanced condition in order to eliminate dc-link voltage oscillation and in (Woolley & Milanovic, July. 2012) a current control loop is added to the conventional rectifier current control loop hence dclink voltage would not be oscillating .The goal of all methods presented in (Liu, Xu, Zhu, Blaabjerg, & Chen, July 2013), (Sudhoff, Corzine, Glover, Hegner, & Robey, Mar. 1998) and (Woolley & Milanovic, July. 2012) is to produce constant dc-link voltage in

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