A Novel High Bandwidth Current Control Strategy for SiC MOSFET Based Active Front-End Rectifiers Under Unbalanced Input Voltage Conditions

作者：Maheshwari Ramkrishan^*; Trintis Ionut; Torok Lajos; Munk Nielsen Stig; Douglass Philip James; Bede Lorand

来源：IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, 2017, 64(10): 8310-8320.

DOI：10.1109/TIE.2017.2677325

• DC-AC power converters
• silicon carbide

SiC mosfet based converters are capable of high switching frequency operation. In this paper, the converter is operated with 50-kHz switching frequency for an active front-end rectifier application. Due to high switching frequency, the grid-side filter size is reduced, and the possibility of a high bandwidth current control loop is utilized in this paper. A current control loop with bandwidth of 5 kHz is designed using a proportional-integral controller in synchronously rotating dq-reference frame. In addition, the performance of the controller is tested under unbalanced input supply conditions. During this condition, new feed-forward signals, which are added to the controller output, are proposed. The gain of the feed-forward signal can be modified to achieve balanced sinusoidal grid currents, constant dc-link voltage, or a controlled negative-sequence input current, which are typical application-depending requirements. A closed-form formula to calculate the gain of the feed-forward signal to achieve the above-mentioned requirements is also proposed in this paper. To verify the proposed method, the simulation and experimental results are presented in this paper.

• 出版日期2017-10