Modulation and control strategies of ZCT three-level choppers for SMES application

Author

Peng, Dengming ; Lee, Dong-Ho ; Lee, Fred C. ; Borojevic, Dusan

Author_Institution

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

Volume

1

fYear

2000

fDate

2000

Firstpage

121

Abstract

This paper presents a new, optimized PWM scheme and control approaches for a three-level two-quadrant chopper in a superconducting magnetic energy storage (SMES) power conditioning system (PCS). It solves the trickle charging and discharging issues related to the SMES coil, and gets wide system bandwidth for bi-directional operation. Experimental tests verified the effectiveness of the presented methods

Keywords

PWM power convertors; choppers (circuits); closed loop systems; control system analysis; control system synthesis; superconducting coils; superconducting magnet energy storage; voltage control; SMES application; SMES coil discharging; ZCT three-level choppers; bi-directional operation; control strategies; modulation strategies; optimized PWM scheme; power conditioning system; superconducting magnetic energy storage; trickle charging; two-quadrant chopper; Bandwidth; Bidirectional control; Choppers; Control systems; Personal communication networks; Power conditioning; Pulse width modulation; Samarium; Superconducting coils; Superconducting magnetic energy storage;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Power Electronics Specialists Conference, 2000. PESC 00. 2000 IEEE 31st Annual

Conference_Location

Galway

ISSN

0275-9306

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5692-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PESC.2000.878819

Filename

878819