Active DC bus capacitor harmonic current minimization method for back-to-back converters

Author

Lei Shen ; Asher, Greg ; Bozhko, Serhiy ; Chintanbhai, Patel ; Wheeler, Pat

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Electrionic Eng., Univ. of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK

fYear

2014

fDate

8-10 April 2014

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

An active DC bus capacitor harmonic current reduction method is proposed for 2-level back-to-back converter in this paper. According to the fundamental frequency of converters and predefined look-up tables, the frequency and phase of the carrier signals are tuned, so that the phase of the most significant DC bus harmonic currents from each converter is in phase, and the capacitor harmonic current is minimized. The feasibility of the proposed method is verified by simulation.

Keywords

capacitor switching; harmonics suppression; signal processing; switching convertors; table lookup; 2-level back-to-back converter; active DC bus capacitor harmonic current minimization method; active DC bus capacitor harmonic current reduction method; carrier signal frequency tuning; carrier signal phase tuning; convertor fundamental frequency; predefined look-up tables; 2-level converter; DC bus capacitor; PWM carrier; back-to-back converter; harmonics reduction;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

iet

Conference_Titel

Power Electronics, Machines and Drives (PEMD 2014), 7th IET International Conference on

Conference_Location

Manchester

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-84919-815-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1049/cp.2014.0488

Filename

6836877