The novel resonant DC link three-level soft-switching inverter

ABSTRACT

In the paper, the novel topology of the resonant DC link three-level soft-switching inverter is proposed to reduce switching losses and improve the efficiency of three-level inverter at high switching frequency. Symmetrical auxiliary resonant circuits are set in the DC link of three-level hard-switching inverter. Moreover, the terminal voltage of the resonant capacitors between the DC buses periodically drops to zero via the resonance of auxiliary circuits. Furthermore, under such condition, the main switches of the three-level inverter would be operated, in order to achieve zero-voltage switching. Based on the equivalent circuits in different operating modes, the paper analyses the working process of the soft-switching inverter in detail. In addition, a 3 kW laboratory prototype of resonant DC link three-phase three-level soft-switching inverter is built. The experimental results show that the main switches and auxiliary switches of the inverter are operated under soft-switching conditions, and the efficiency is significantly improved compared with the three-level hard-switching inverter. Therefore, the proposed topology can effectively reduce switching losses and prove to be more practical in engineering.     

具有低能耗辅助电路的并联谐振直流环节逆变器

为提高逆变器的转换效率,提出了一种具有低能耗辅助谐振电路的并联谐振直流环节逆变器.在传统硬开关逆变器的直流环节添加辅助谐振电路,使直流母线电压周期性地归零,实现逆变桥主开关器件的零电压开关,而且辅助开关器件也可以实现零电压关断和零电流开通.此外,其辅助谐振电路只有一个辅助开关器件,控制简单;辅助开关和谐振元件都位于直流母线的并联支路上,有利于降低辅助谐振电路的能耗.对其工作原理进行分析,给出不同工作模式下的等效电路图和软开关的实现条件.制作一个5kW的实验样机,通过实验结果验证该软开关逆变器的有效性.     

辅助电路与主开关并联的单相全桥节能逆变器

为了改善逆变器的性能,提出了一种辅助电路与主开关并联的单相全桥节能逆变器.逆变器采用受限单极式正弦脉宽调制（Sinusoidal Pulse Width Modulation,SPWM）方法,在每个开关周期,只需要控制1个主开关和1个辅助开关的切换,辅助开关可以采用固定占空比控制,而且不需要设定谐振电流阈值来控制辅助开关.在每个开关周期的换流过程中,需要切换的主开关所并联的谐振电容的电压能变化到零,主开关能实现零电压软开通.辅助电路中无器件直接串联在直流母线上,可有效降低辅助电路通态损耗.分析了电路工作原理,实验结果表明主开关和辅助开关都实现了软切换.因此该拓扑能有效降低开关损耗和提高逆变器效率.     

The three-phase resonant DC link inverter with soft-switching function

ABSTRACT

In order to realise the energy-saving operation of the three-phase inverter, a three-phase resonant DC link inverter with soft-switching function is proposed. The auxiliary resonant circuit on the DC side participates in the commutation process, so that the DC link voltage can change to zero before the main switch on the bridge arm is switched. Therefore, the main switch can complete the zero-voltage soft-switching and realise the energy-saving operation of the inverter by reducing the switching power loss. The circuit workflow and parameter design rules in each switching period are analysed. As indicated from the experimental results, the switching device is in the soft-switching state when it is switched, and when the output power reaches the rated value of 2.5 kW, the efficiency of the prototype is 98.4%, which is higher than that of the same type of soft-switching inverters. Thus, the auxiliary resonant circuit structure has reference value for the research and development of energy-saving three-phase inverters.     

具有提升直流环节稳态电压功能的单相全桥 谐振直流环节逆变器

为改善直流电压利用率,提出了一种具有提升直流环节稳态电压功能的单相全桥谐振直流环节软开关逆变器,利用辅助电路中的变压器可以将电能补充到直流母线上等效为电压源的钳位电容,使直流环节稳态电压高于直流电源电压,提高了逆变器输出线电压的基波幅值和直流电压利用率.文中分析了电路的工作状态.在4kW样机上的实验结果表明逆变器的主开关和辅助开关能完成软切换.因此,该拓扑结构对于研发高性能谐振直流环节逆变器具有一定的借鉴意义.     

中小功率三相高频节能型谐振直流环节逆变器

为使中小功率三相逆变器实现在高开关频率下的节能运行,首次提出了一种新型三相谐振直流环节逆变器拓扑结构.设置在逆变器直流环节的辅助电路参与换流过程时,桥臂输入端的直流环节电压能周期性形成零电压状态,主开关和辅助开关都能完成零电压软切换.在高频金属氧化物半导体场效应晶体管（Metal Oxide Semiconductor Field Effect Transistor,MOSFET）作为该逆变器的开关器件时,实现零电压软切换能消除MOSFET的容性开通损耗,有利于优化逆变器效率.文中分析了电路的工作流程.2.5kW样机上的实验结果表明开关器件都处于零电压软切换.因此,该拓扑结构对于研发高性能的中小功率三相逆变器具有参考价值.     

节能型谐振直流环节逆变器

为改善逆变器的运行效率,提出了一种节能型三相谐振直流环节软开关逆变电路,在直流环节增设了辅助电路.当主开关需要切换时,提前使辅助电路进入谐振状态,将直流环节电压变化到零,保证主开关完成零电压软切换,并且辅助开关也能完成软切换.通过控制辅助开关切换的间隔时间来调节直流环节电压保持为零的时间,使逆变器能根据需要来调整脉宽调制策略.详细说明了电路的工作过程.实验结果表明逆变器主开关和辅助开关能完成软切换.因此,该拓扑结构对于研发高性能谐振直流环节逆变器具有借鉴意义.     

Novel soft-switching inverter for brushless DC motor variable speed drive system

Brushless DC motor has been widely used in industrial applications because of its low inertia, fast response, high power density, high reliability and maintenance-free. It is usually supplied by a hard-switching PWM inverter, which normally has low efficiency since the power losses across the switching devices are high. In order to reduce the losses, many soft switching inverters have been designed. Unfortunately, there are many drawbacks, such as high device voltage stress, large DC link voltage ripple, complex control scheme and so on. This paper introduces a novel soft-switching inverter which generates notches of the DC bus voltage becomes to zero during chopping switches commutation to guarantee all switches working in zero voltage state. The result of this investigation will be very useful for industrial applications.     

具有软开关功能的三相谐振直流环节逆变器

为实现三相逆变器节能运行,提出一种具有软开关功能的三相谐振直流环节逆变器.直流侧的辅助谐振电路将参与换流过程,使直流环节电压在桥臂上的主开关动作之前变化到零,主开关能完成零电压软切换动作,通过降低开关损耗来实现逆变器节能运行.分析了1个开关周期内的电路工作流程.实验结果显示开关器件动作时处于软切换.因此,该辅助谐振电路结构对于研发节能型三相逆变器具有参考价值.     

电流型零电压开关节能整流器

为解决电流型脉冲宽度调制（Pulse Width Modulation,PWM）整流器在高开关频率下硬切换时的开关损耗问题,提出了一种电流型零电压开关节能整流器,其辅助谐振电路位于直流环节,且与直流母线并联,只有1个辅助开关.在换流过程中,主开关能实现零电压切换,辅助开关能实现零电流切换,而且当整流器采用多电平PWM控制策略时,辅助电路在每个开关周期只需工作1次.分析了谐振换流过程,仿真结果表明特征仿真波形符合理论分析,开关器件切换时处于软开关状态,整流器能平稳运行.该电流型零电压开关节能整流器可以在高开关频率和大功率的应用场合实现高效率运行.     

新型单相全桥谐振直流环节逆变器

为改善单相全桥逆变器的性能,提出了一种新型单相全桥谐振直流环节逆变器.位于直流环节的辅助电路能提升直流母线电压稳态值,减少直流母线电压的零状态对直流电压利用率的负面影响.文中分析了逆变器的换流过程.实验结果表明开关器件完成了软切换,逆变器性能得到了改善.     

Design and Application for PV Generation System Using a Soft-Switching Boost Converter With SARC

In order to improve the efficiency of energy conversion for a photovoltaic (PV) system, a soft-switching boost converter using a simple auxiliary resonant circuit, which is composed of an auxiliary switch, a diode, a resonant inductor, and a resonant capacitor, is adopted in this paper. The conventional boost converter decreases the efficiency because of hard switching, which generates losses when the switches are turned on/off. During this interval, all switches in the adopted circuit perform zero-current switching by the resonant inductor at turn-on, and zero-voltage switching by the resonant capacitor at turn-off. This switching pattern can reduce the switching losses, voltage and current stress of the switching device. Moreover, it is very easy to control. In this paper, we have analyzed the operational principles of the adopted soft-switching boost converter, and it is designed for PV generation system. Simulation and experimental results are presented to confirm the theoretical analysis.      

中小功率三相高频节能型谐振极逆变器

作为中小功率发电系统重要环节的三相逆变器的开关频率增大时,开关损耗也显著增大,不利于节能。为实现中小功率三相逆变器的高频化和节能化,提出了一种三相零电压开关谐振极逆变器拓扑结构.当桥臂上的辅助谐振电路处于工作状态时,开关器件并联的电容的电压能周期性变化到零,使开关器件完成零电压软切换,这有利于高频金属氧化物半导体场效应晶体管（Metal Oxide Semiconductor Field Effect Transistor,MOSFET）作为逆变器的开关器件.分析了电路的工作流程,实验结果表明开关器件处于零电压软切换.因此,该拓扑结构对于研发高性能的中小功率三相逆变器具有参考价值.     

A three-phase soft-transition inverter with a novel controlstrategy for zero-current and near zero-voltage switching

This paper proposes a new soft-transition control strategy for a three-phase zero-current-transition (ZCT) inverter circuit. Each phase leg of the inverter circuit consists of an LC resonant tank, two main switches, and two auxiliary switches. The proposed strategy is realized by planning the switching patterns and timings of these four switches based on the load current information. It enables all the main switches and auxiliary switches to be turned on and turned off under zero-current conditions, and achieves a near zero-voltage turn-on for the main switches. Compared with existing ZCT strategies, the diode reverse recovery current and switching turn-on loss are substantially reduced, the current and thermal stresses in the auxiliary devices are evenly distributed over every switching cycle, and the resonant capacitor voltage stress is reduced from twice the DC bus voltage to 1.3-1.4 times the DC bus voltage. The proposed strategy is also suitable for three-phase power-factor-correction (PFC) rectifier applications. The operation principles, including a detailed analyst based on the state-plane technique, and a design rule are described in this paper. The circuit operation is first verified by a computer simulation, and is then tested with a 50-kW three-phase inverter to the full power level together with a three-phase induction motor in a closed-loop speed/torque control. Significant reductions in switching losses and voltage/current stresses over existing techniques have been experimentally demonstrated     

中小功率单相全桥节能型谐振极逆变器

中小功率单相全桥逆变器常以金属氧化物半导体场效应晶体管（Metal Oxide Semiconductor Field Effect Transistor,MOSFET）作为开关器件,为实现逆变器在高开关频率下的节能运行,本文提出了一种单相全桥节能型谐振极逆变器拓扑结构,其桥臂上分别并联相同的辅助谐振电路.桥臂上的主开关开通前,其并联的谐振电容的电压能周期性变为零,使主开关完成零电压软开通,可消除MOSFET的容性开通损耗,有利于逆变器的节能运行.本文分析了电路的工作模态,实验结果表明主开关器件处于零电压软切换.因此,该拓扑结构对于研发高性能的中小功率单相全桥逆变器具有参考价值.     

直流环节逆变器的相平面分析及软开关条件研究

 新型谐振直流环节逆变器具有PWM和软开关双重优点,然而辅助谐振直流环节有4个换能元件,使逆变器具有复杂的动力学行为和高维时变特性,用解微分方程的方法研究系统的动态特性和求解软开关条件及设计规则是相当复杂和困难的.结合相平面法分析的特点,该文将4维电路分解在3个相平面研究了系统的动力学行为、软开关条件以及设计规则.文中详细阐述了相平面的构建和分析过程,利用相平面分析结果和解析几何方法求取了软开关条件及设计规则.利用设计规则,搭建了逆变器驱动无刷直流电机的实验,实验结果验证了相平面分析的正确性和设计规则的可行性.     

节能型单相全桥零电流开关谐振极逆变器

为改善以绝缘栅双极型晶体管（Insulated Gate Bipolar Transistor,IGBT）作为开关器件的单相全桥逆变器的效率,提出了一种节能型单相全桥零电流开关谐振极逆变器,在每个桥臂上分别并联1组辅助电路.在工作过程中,主开关和辅助开关都能完成零电流软切换,可消除IGBT拖尾电流造成的关断损耗.分析了电路工作过程,在2kW样机上的实验结果表明开关器件实现了零电流软切换.因此,该拓扑结构可实现以IGBT作为开关器件的单相全桥逆变器的节能运行.     

节能型单相全桥谐振极逆变器

单相全桥逆变器处于硬开关状态时,随着开关频率的增大,开关损耗明显增大,影响逆变器效率的提高.为解决这一问题,提出了一种节能型单相全桥谐振极逆变器,在逆变器处于死区状态时,将要开通的主开关并联的谐振电容的电压能减小至零,主开关动作时能完成零电压软切换,双向辅助开关动作时能完成零电流软切换.讨论了电路的工作流程,实验结果表明主开关和辅助开关完成了软切换动作.该单相全桥软开关逆变器可以向高开关频率的场合推广应用.     

新型单相软开关AC-DC-AC变换器

为改善单相AC-DC-AC变换器的性能,提出了一种单相谐振直流环节零电压开关AC-DC-AC功率变换器拓扑结构,由图腾柱式单相整流器,位于直流环节的辅助谐振电路和单相全桥逆变器组成.利用同一组辅助电路能分别将整流器输出端电压和逆变器输入端电压变化到零,使整流器和逆变器桥臂上的开关器件分别实现零电压切换.分析了电路的工作流程,在1.2kW样机上的实验结果表明开关器件完成了软切换.该拓扑结构对于研发节能型单相AC-DC-AC变换器具有借鉴意义.     

Soft-switched current-source inverter for single-phase utilityinterfaces

A novel soft-switched current-source inverter for single-phase utility interfaces is presented. To provide the soft-switching capability under the pulsewidth modulation for a single-phase line-commutated thyristor inverter, an auxiliary resonant switch to bypass the current on the DC side is connected across the DC input of a thyristor inverter