Title
Control of Direct Voltage Regulated Active DC Link Capacitance Reduction Circuits to Allow Plug-and-Play Operation
Abstract
A novel method for controlling direct voltage regulated active dc-link capacitance reduction circuits (ACRC) is proposed in this paper. Instead of forcing the dc-link voltage of the power conversion system to follow a constant reference, the ACRC imposes dc-bus voltage in proportion to the integral of its input current. Consequently, it resembles an adjustable value capacitor from the dc-link side. Therefore, as opposed to existing control strategies, the proposed method simultaneously allows the dc-link voltage to reflect the power balance of the system and the pulsating power component to be diverted into significantly reduced auxiliary capacitance via a bidirectional dc–dc converter. As a result, replacing bulk dc-link capacitance by the proposed circuitry does not require any modification of existing grid-connected power conversion system controllers, thus allowing plug-and-play operation. The proposed approach is validated by application to a commercial power factor correction front end by both simulations and experiments.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1109/tie.2018.2870399
IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics
Keywords
Field
DocType
Capacitance,Voltage control,Capacitors,Steady-state,Voltage measurement,Power conversion,Current measurement
Front and back ends,Capacitance,Capacitor,Control theory,Voltage,Power factor,Steady state,Engineering,Electronic circuit,Power Balance
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
66
8
0278-0046
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
2
0.44
0
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Alexei Mutovkin120.44
Vladimir Yuhimenko241.56
Martin Mellincovsky321.46
S. Schacham441.22
ALON KUPERMAN51919.41