A novel control concept for reliable operation of a three-phase three-switch buck-type unity power factor rectifier with integrated boost output stage under heavily unbalanced mains condition

In this paper the reliable operation of a three-phase three-switch buck-type PWM unity power factor rectifier with integrated boost output stage under heavily unbalanced mains, i.e. mains voltage unbalance, loss of one phase, short circuit of two phases or earth fault of one phase is investigated theoretically and experimentally. The analytical calculation of the relative on-times of the active switching states and of the DC link current reference value is treated in detail for active and deactivated boost output stage. Based on the theoretical considerations a control scheme which allows to control the system for any mains condition without change-over of the control structure is described. Furthermore, digital simulations as well as experimental results are shown which confirm the proposed control concept for different mains failure conditions and for the transition from balanced mains to a failure condition and vice versa. The experimental results are derived from a 5 kW prototype, input voltage range 208-480 V_rms line-to-line, output voltage 400 V_DC of the rectifier system, where the control is realized by a 32-bit digital signal processor.