Power electronics building blocks for utility power system applications

Author

Wang, F. ; Rosado, S. ; Thacker, T. ; Boroyevich, D.

Author_Institution

Bradley Dept. of Electr. Eng. & Comput. Eng., Virginia Polytech. Inst. & State Univ., Blacksburg, VA

Volume

1

fYear

2004

fDate

14-16 Aug. 2004

Firstpage

354

Abstract

This paper explores using modular power electronics building blocks (PEBBs) in building power electronics based controllers for utility systems applications. The analysis of the existing and proposed controller functions identifies three basic PEBB converter functions for power system controllers: bidirectional AC switch, bidirectional AC/DC voltage source converter, and DC/DC converter. A hierarchical architecture is proposed to standardize the analysis, characterization and construction of applications based on PEBBs. Case study results on PEBB based STATCOM are presented. This work will allow us to focus on optimizing only limited number of standard PEBB converters to reduce the system cost and improve reliability

Keywords

AC-DC power convertors; DC-DC power convertors; cost reduction; hierarchical systems; optimisation; power system control; power system reliability; static VAr compensators; switching convertors; AC-DC voltage source converter; DC-DC converter; STATCOM; bidirectional AC switch; hierarchical architecture; optimization; power electronics building blocks; power system applications; power system controllers; reliability; static compensator; system cost reduction;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Power Electronics and Motion Control Conference, 2004. IPEMC 2004. The 4th International

Conference_Location

Xi´an

Print_ISBN

7-5605-1869-9

Type

conf

Filename

1377841