Title :
Design and evaluation of a cellular rectifier system with distributed control
Author :
Perreault, David J. ; Kassakian, John G.
Author_Institution :
Lab. for Electromagn. & Electron. Syst., MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA
Abstract :
This paper presents the design and experimental evaluation of a six-cell, six-kilowatt cellular (parallel) rectifier system which operates at nearly unity power factor. The parallel power converter system implements both distributed load sharing and distributed ripple cancellation, eliminating the need for any centralized control. The implemented system mitigates some of the major drawbacks of its single-converter counterpart, and achieves performance levels that cannot be attained with an equivalent single converter
Keywords :
distributed control; power factor; rectifying circuits; 6 kW; cellular rectifier system; distributed control; distributed load sharing; distributed ripple cancellation; nearly unity power factor; parallel rectifier system; performance levels; switched mode rectification; Centralized control; Costs; Distributed control; Laboratories; Manufacturing automation; Power system reliability; Prototypes; Reactive power; Rectifiers; Switching converters;
Conference_Titel :
Power Electronics Specialists Conference, 1998. PESC 98 Record. 29th Annual IEEE
Conference_Location :
Fukuoka
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-4489-8
DOI :
10.1109/PESC.1998.701989
