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DC-bus Capacitor Sizing in the Back-to-Back Converter

KNOBLOCH, J.; RUBEŠ, O.; CIPÍN, R.

Original Title

DC-bus Capacitor Sizing in the Back-to-Back Converter

English Title

DC-bus Capacitor Sizing in the Back-to-Back Converter

Type

Paper in proceedings (conference paper)

Original Abstract

Renewable energy sources as wind power and hydropower plants are growing due to reducing environmental pollution. As the airspeed and river flow varies, it is advantageous to change a speed of the generator. For this purpose, it is necessary to use a back-to-back converter, which provides changing of both voltage and frequency. Optimizing the converter is an aim of this paper, namely regulating the converter to minimize ripple current to DC-link capacitor. This capacitor is huge and expensive part of the converter. Through appropriate controlling of the converter, it is possible to minimize the ripple current, thus to minimize the capacitor. Methods to control the converter are presented in this paper and simulated to determine the ripple current. Finally, the methods are compared, and the size of the capacitor is established.

English abstract

Renewable energy sources as wind power and hydropower plants are growing due to reducing environmental pollution. As the airspeed and river flow varies, it is advantageous to change a speed of the generator. For this purpose, it is necessary to use a back-to-back converter, which provides changing of both voltage and frequency. Optimizing the converter is an aim of this paper, namely regulating the converter to minimize ripple current to DC-link capacitor. This capacitor is huge and expensive part of the converter. Through appropriate controlling of the converter, it is possible to minimize the ripple current, thus to minimize the capacitor. Methods to control the converter are presented in this paper and simulated to determine the ripple current. Finally, the methods are compared, and the size of the capacitor is established.

Keywords

three phase inverter; back-to-back converter; dc-link capacitor; control

Key words in English

three phase inverter; back-to-back converter; dc-link capacitor; control

Authors

KNOBLOCH, J.; RUBEŠ, O.; CIPÍN, R.

RIV year

2019

Released

12.06.2018

Publisher

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.

Location

Palermo, Italy

ISBN

978-1-5386-5185-8

Book

Conference proceedings 2018 IEEE International Conference on Environment and Electrical Engineering and 2018 IEEE Industrial and Commercial Power Systems Europe (EEEIC / I&CPS Europe)

Pages from

1934

Pages to

1937

Pages count

4

BibTex

@inproceedings{BUT151038,
  author="Jan {Knobloch} and Ondřej {Rubeš} and Radoslav {Cipín}",
  title="DC-bus Capacitor Sizing in the Back-to-Back Converter",
  booktitle="Conference proceedings 2018 IEEE International Conference on Environment and Electrical Engineering and 2018 IEEE Industrial and Commercial Power Systems Europe (EEEIC / I&CPS Europe)",
  year="2018",
  number="1",
  pages="1934--1937",
  publisher="Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.",
  address="Palermo, Italy",
  doi="10.1109/EEEIC.2018.8493725",
  isbn="978-1-5386-5185-8"
}