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Voltage Balancing Methods for Inner and Outer Switches of Three-level Resonant DC-DC Converter for Solid State Transformers

  • Harbin Institute of Technology

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Abstract

In the solid state transformers application, the three-level series resonant converter (TL-SRC) based on neural point clamped (NPC) half bridge has become popular in recently. Compared with the full bridge (FB), NPC half bridge can help adopt the low voltage IGBTs with excellent switching characteristics to build high voltage power module (PM) and reduce the number of medium frequency transformers (MFT). However, when TL-SRC operates in backward, there existed voltage imbalanced in the NPC half bridge between inner and outer switches, which increased a risk of overvoltage of the switches in the NPC half bridge. Therefore, this paper proposed two voltage balancing methods for inner and outer switches, and the experimental results verified the validity of the proposed voltage balancing methods through a 150kW back-to-back prototype.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2020 IEEE 9th International Power Electronics and Motion Control Conference, IPEMC 2020 ECCE Asia
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages517-522
Number of pages6
ISBN (Electronic)9781728153018
DOIs
StatePublished - 29 Nov 2020
Event9th IEEE International Power Electronics and Motion Control Conference, IPEMC 2020 ECCE Asia - Nanjing, China
Duration: 29 Nov 20202 Dec 2020

Publication series

Name2020 IEEE 9th International Power Electronics and Motion Control Conference, IPEMC 2020 ECCE Asia

Conference

Conference9th IEEE International Power Electronics and Motion Control Conference, IPEMC 2020 ECCE Asia
Country/TerritoryChina
CityNanjing
Period29/11/202/12/20

Keywords

  • inner and outer switches
  • neural point clamped (NPC)
  • solid state transformer
  • three-level series resonant converter (TL-SRC)
  • voltage balancing

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