Quad-active-bridge as cross-link for medium voltage modular inverters

Levy F. Costa, Giampaolo Buticchi, Marco Liserre

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Abstract

The Smart Transformer, a Solid-State transformer with control functionalities, is a promising smart grid technology. One of the main challenge of this system lies in making available a Medium-Voltage dc link, which can be tackled with modular solution. Thus, several isolated dc-dc converter can be used as a basic modules. In this paper, a Quad-Active-Bridge (QAB) dc-dc converter is used as modules for the entire dc-dc conversion stage of a ST. Besides the feature of high power density and soft-switching operation (also found in others converters), this converter offers an additional power path, named 'MV crosslink' through the HF transformer in the Medium-Voltage (MV) side, increasing the power controllability among the MV cell without involving the LV side. To ensure soft-switching for all operation range of the QAB converter, the triangular current mode modulation strategy, previously study for the dual-active-bridge converter, is extended to the QAB converter in this work. In addition, it is considered to use in the MV side the H-Bridge cell and the multilevel neutral-point-clamped cell, to reduce the required voltage rating of the semiconductors. The theoretical analysis is performed for both converters. The theoretical analysis is verified by simulation and experimental results.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2015 IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition, ECCE 2015
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages645-652
Number of pages8
ISBN (Electronic)9781467371506
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 27 Oct 2015
Externally publishedYes
Event7th Annual IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition, ECCE 2015 - Montreal, Canada
Duration: 20 Sept 201524 Sept 2015

Publication series

Name2015 IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition, ECCE 2015

Conference

Conference7th Annual IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition, ECCE 2015
Country/TerritoryCanada
CityMontreal
Period20/09/1524/09/15

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Energy Engineering and Power Technology
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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