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Paralleling power modules is designed to share system loads (stresses) equally to improve system reliability. Due to variations in the parameters in the power converter system, temperature mismatches may occur. These mismatches may lead to unequal life expectancy of individual converters in the total system. It is believed that equalizing the operating temperature of the semiconductor devices may improve total system reliability. In this paper a new thermal-based load-sharing scheme for parallel converters is proposed. In this scheme, the load current is redistributed among parallel converters based on the temperature of the converters. The main goal is to minimize the relative temperature... 

This paper presents an effective control scheme in dc microgrids to precisely share the load current oscillatory and dc components among distributed generation (DG) units. The proposed control strategy includes current and voltage control blocks. The current control block consists of oscillatory and dc current-sharing units. The main idea of the proposed method is to share the load current oscillatory and dc components among the DG units based on their rated power, by assigning appropriate output impedance values and droop coefficients to each DG unit. The voltage control block is a multiloop voltage control unit employed to control the microgrid voltage. The detailed model of the proposed... 

The commutation issue is the most important limiting factor of expanding AC chopper applications, which in most cases are solved by employing snubber circuits, implementing sensor-based selective switching patterns and utilising resonant circuits. To overcome the commutation problem, this study proposes a novel non-resonant AC/AC buck converter with no snubber circuits and no sensor-based switching patterns. The introduced hardware configuration and the proposed control strategy provide a path for an inductive load current in all switching states. This converter offers higher reliability and efficiency as well as lower cost compared to the AC choppers with snubber circuits or voltage and... 

Non-linear loads such as rectifiers are growing in industry. Three phase inverter with non-linear load can lead to highly distorted output voltage. This paper proposes a method for reducing voltage THD in three phase inverters with non-linear load. The proposed method considers the load current as a disturbance and provide a control strategy to reject it using the disturbance observer method. This method doesn't need any additional sensors or hardware and is implemented digitally in controller. Simulation results show that the presented method will reduce the total harmonic distortion of the output voltage. © 2017 IEEE  

Nowadays, Programmable Electronic AC Load (PEAL) is widely used to test various devices such as solar inverters, UPSs, filters, generators, and generally test all AC power and measuring devices. In this paper, Model Predictive Current Control (MPCC) is used for control of a programmable AC load. In each period, switching state that minimizes the cost function is selected and applied to the converter. Cost function is the square of the current components error. The effect of the horizon of prediction on the quality of the load current is investigated. To decrease the calculations burden, a limited search pool is used. Simulation results confirm that using two steps prediction horizon with... 

This paper depicts a new configuration for modular hybrid power conversion systems, namely, multi-hybrid generation system (MHGS), and parallel connection at the output, such that the converter of each unit shares the load current equally. This is a significant step towards realizing a modular power conversion system architecture, where smaller units can be connected in any series/parallel grouping to realize any required unit specifications. The supercapacitor (SC) as a complementary source is used to compensate for the slow transient response of the fuel cell (FC) as a main power source. It assists the FC to meet the grid power demand in order to achieve a better performance and dynamic... 

This paper presents a new unified power-quality conditioning system (MC-UPQC), capable of simultaneous compensation for voltage and current in multibus/multifeeder systems. In this configuration, one shunt voltage-source converter (shunt VSC) and two or more series VSCs exist. The system can be applied to adjacent feeders to compensate for supply-voltage and load current imperfections on the main feeder and full compensation of supply-voltage imperfections on the other feeders. In the proposed configuration, all converters are connected back to back on the dc side and share a common dc-link capacitor. Therefore, power can be transferred from one feeder to adjacent feeders to compensate for... 

An ac neutral wire is connected to the midpoint of the dc bus of the three level/phase NPC rectifiers and then a new dual Lagrangian model of the rectifier is presented in this paper. At first, the load current can be obtained in two forms: 1. the load current involving the current of capacitor C1 2. The load current involving the current of capacitor C2 and then the new model is founded based on the superposition law, the load current and The Euler-Lagrange description of the rectifier. The new model is two nonlinear state space equations and as a result we define two positive definite Lyapunov function candidates based on two equations. Finally two Lyapunov-based controllers are designed... 

The load current of three level/phase neutral point clamped rectifier could be expressed in two forms: the load current involving the current of capacitor C1, and the load current involving the current of capacitor C2. Using the Euler-Lagrange model based on the superposition law and the obtained load current, a new dual Lagrangian model of the rectifier is founded in this paper and then the two obtained nonlinear state space models are developed in dq0 reference frame. According to the new model, two positive definite Lyapunov function candidates are defined and a Lyapunov-based control is applied to the rectifier. Each of the function is utilized to control its corresponding output voltage... 

This paper proposes a hierarchical active power management strategy for a medium voltage (MV) islanded microgrid including a multihybrid power conversion system (MHPCS). To guarantee excellent power management, a modular power conversion system is realized by parallel connection of small MHPCS units. The hybrid system includes fuel cells (FC) as main and supercapacitors (SC) as complementary power sources. The SC energy storage compensates the slow transient response of the FC stack and supports the FC to meet the grid power demand. The proposed control strategy of the MHPCS comprises three control loops; dc-link voltage controller, power management controller, and load current sharing... 

This paper addresses a nonlinear model predictive controller design for a single-phase PFC rectifier exploiting the Sheppard-Taylor converter. After approximation of the tracking error in the receding horizon by its Taylor-series expansion to any specified order, an analytic solution to the MPC is developed and a closed-form nonlinear predictive controller is introduced. The proposed nonlinear model predictive control (NMPC) derived using approximation can stabilize the original nonlinear systems if certain conditions, which can be met by properly choosing predictive times and the order for Taylor expansion, are satisfied. The main advantage of this digital control method is that unity power... 

This paper presents an input/output feedback linearization control strategy for the three-level three-phase neutral-point-clamped rectifier using it's dual Lagrangian modeling, which is obtained based on the superposition law, the load current and The Euler-Lagrange description of the rectifier. The load current can be given in two forms: 1. the load current involving the current of capacitor C1 and 2. The load current involving the current of capacitor C2 Applying the obtained load current to the Euler-Lagrange parameters of the rectifier, two nonlinear models of the system are derived. Also two the power-balance equations between the input and output sides are obtained by considering the... 

Single-phase ac-dc Power Factor Correction (PFC) rectifiers have attracted considerable attention in recent years due to the adoption of increasingly stringent power quality regulations. In this paper a nonlinear model predictive controller design for a single-phase Flyback PFC rectifier is presented. After approximation of the tracking error in the receding horizon by its Taylor-series expansion to a specified order, an analytic solution to the model predictive control (MPC) is developed and a closed-loop nonlinear predictive controller is introduced. The main advantage of this digital control method is that unity power factor can be achieved over wide input voltage, load current range and...