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Harmonic injection is commonly used in permanent magnet synchronous motor torque ripple minimization (TRM) of electric vehicle. Traditional inverter switching frequency limits TRM application at high speed due to harmonic modulation accuracy and inverter loss. To achieve TRM in the whole speed range and reduce inverter loss, a novel online calculated low carrier ratio pulsewidth modulation (LCRPWM) is proposed in this article. The carrier ratio determining regular according to the injected harmonics is established first. The relationship between injected harmonics and LCRPWM switching angle is revealed and a set of nonlinear equations is established. Thus, the problem is transformed from solving nonlinear equations into optimization by establishing a cost function. The analytical solutions of nonlinear equations are obtained, which avoids iterative operation and plunging into local minimum. Therefore, the switch angle solution method is suitable for online calculation. The LCRPWM is verified in simulation compared with the traditional regularly sampled space vector PWM, which achieves better results in voltage harmonic injection and flux tracking at a much lower switching frequency. At last, the LCRPWM is used in a test bench experiment that shows good TRM effects. The influence of sideband harmonics on torque ripple is analyzed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Miniaturization and low cost contribute to the development and popularization of wireless power transfer (WPT). Reducing the number of power conversion stages can reduce the volume and cost of the WPT converter, and even make it possible to improve the efficiency. A single-stage WPT converter with constant current (CC) and constant voltage (CV) output and its asymmetric modulation method are proposed in this paper. A direct AC-AC converter is applied to the primary side of the WPT converter to directly convert line-frequency AC to high-frequency AC. The applied direct AC-AC converter that can replace the commonly used multi-stage primary converter reduces the number of circuit devices, thereby reducing the volume and cost of primary converter. The proposed WPT converter can realize zero voltage switching (ZVS) and power factor correction (PFC). In order to achieve CC and CV output, a switchable hybrid compensation topology is applied to the proposed WPT converter. A 720-W experimental prototype was manufactured to verify the rationality of the proposed WPT converter and the correctness of the theoretical analysis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A class of single-stage multi-input Buck type high-frequency link's inverters with series and simultaneous power supply are proposed in this article, and the key technologies such as circuit structures and topological family, energy management control strategy (EMCS), power supply modes, steady-state principle characteristics are studied in depth, from which some important conclusions are obtained. The circuit structure is composed of a multi-input-single-output high-frequency inverter, high-frequency transformer, cycloconverter, and output filter in sequence. The EMCS is to generate bipolar tri-state multilevel sinusoidal pulse width modulation (SPWM) waves by phase shifting between right and left arms of the high-frequency inverting bridge, and the cycloconverter demodulates it into a unipolar tristate multilevel SPWM wave and performs commutation when the unipolar tristate multilevel SPWM wave is zero. In addition, the EMCS realizes the, smooth switching of different power supply modes and the stability of output voltage. 1 kVA multi-input inverter prototype is designed and developed, which has the advantages of single-stage power conversion, high-frequency electrical isolation, small volume and weight, wide duty cycle regulation range, high conversion efficiency, high output voltage waveform quality and strong load adaptability. It provides a kind of effective method for a variety of new energy joint power supply. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Different from the conventional photovoltaic (PV) inverters, a three-phase PV solid-state transformer (SST) based on the cascaded H-bridge (CHB) topology can be regarded as consisting of three single-phase CHB inverters in essence. During the low-voltage ride through (LVRT), some phases of three-phase PV SST may inversely absorb active power from ac grid affected by negative-sequence voltages, resulting in that the dc bus voltages of all H-bridges in these phases continue to rise, and that the system will shut down due to overvoltage protection. To deal with this problem, in this article, we study the mechanism of active power backflow during LVRT, analyzes and compares the main methods for suppressing active power backflow, and then proposes an LVRT control strategy based on the zero-sequence voltage compensation, which not only ensures that all modules in three-phase PV SST transmit the almost same active power but also can avoid effectively active power backflow problem even if the total output active of PV array is relatively low. The validity of the proposed method is verified by the simulation and experimental results. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A nonlinear pulse width modulation-controlled single-phase boost mode photovoltaic grid-connected inverter with limited storage inductance current is proposed in this paper. The circuit topology, control strategy, steady-state principle characteristic, and design criterion for the key circuit parameters of this kind of inverter are investigated in depth, and important conclusions are obtained. The inverter's regenerating energy duty ratio 1–D which decreases with the decline of the grid-connected voltage is real time adapted by sampling and feeding back the inverting bridge modulation current, and the average value of the modulation current in each switching cycle tracks the reference sinusoidal signal to get high-quality grid-connected current. The active control of the energy storage inductance current and the balance of the voltage step-up ratio are realized by adding a bypass switch connected in parallel with the energy storage inductance and using two kinds of switching pattern namely boost pattern and freewheeling pattern. The theoretical analysis and experimental results of the 1 kVA 110 VDC/220 V50 Hz photovoltaic grid-connected inverter prototype show that it has the advantages such as single-stage boost conversion, high conversion efficiency, high quality of grid-connected current waveform, low value of energy storage inductance, simple control, etc. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A circuit configuration, a circuit topological family, a buck-mode active clamped circuit, and an instantaneous output voltage feedback control strategy of combined bidirectional buck–boost dc–dc chopper-mode inverter with high-frequency (HF) link (HFL) were proposed and fully investigated in this paper. The steady principle characteristic and the design criteria for the key circuit parameters were given in this paper. The circuit configuration is composed of two identical isolated bidirectional buck–boost dc–dc choppers with the same input and output filters. These two choppers in parallel at input end and in series at output end generate unipolarity sinusoidal pulsewidth modulation current waveforms with positive and negative half low-frequency cycles separately. The circuit topological family includes four circuit topologies, such as one-transistor mode. Taking the one-transistor mode circuit topology as an example, the 750VA48VDC/220V50HzAC prototype is designed and implemented. The theoretical analysis and principle test show the inverters have excellent performance. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]