Publication

Modeling and Control of the Cross-Connected Intermediate-Level Voltage Source Inverter

Related publications (32)

Inductive Power Transfer System for Auxiliary Power Supply in Medium Voltage Converters

Inductive power transfer technology is an attractive solution for medium voltage applications by eliminating the need for high voltage cables or wired connections in general. This paper introduces an inductive power transfer system which has multiple indep ...

2022

Hard and Soft Switching Losses in Power Converters: Role of Transistor Output Capacitance

Palliyage Srilak Nirmana Perera

To best utilize power converters, a sound understanding of the relationship between the circuit topology and the power-semiconductor-device characteristics is required. This is especially important in high-frequency switching, where device parasitics start ...

EPFL2022

Direct Current Transformer Impact on the DC Power Distribution Networks

Drazen Dujic, Renan Pillon Barcelos

The latest developments in dc transformer technology are enabling larger and more complex dc power distribution systems. However, the literature is scarce regarding the investigation and quantification of its impact on the dc grid. Therefore, this paper an ...

2022

Ultra-high voltage, low power and energy recovering electronics for dielectric elastomer actuators

Raphaël Johannes Charles Mottet

Heart failure is a cardiovascular disease affecting between 1 and 2% of the population of developed countries alone - more than 10 million people - with this number bound to increase due to the ageing of the population. This condition starts to develop its ...

EPFL2022

Condition Health Monitoring for Medium-Voltage High-Power Modular Multilevel Converter

Ignacio Alejandro Polanco Lobos

Among the policies to reduce the consequences of GHG emissions, the decarbonization of the electrical, transport, and manufacturing sectors has profoundly changed how the electricity is produced, transmitted, distributed, and consumed, particularly imposin ...

EPFL2022

Shoot-Through Protection for an IGCT-Based ZVS Resonant DC Transformer

Drazen Dujic, Jakub Kucka

IGCTs have successfully demonstrated to be well-suited devices for an application in medium-voltage dc transformers based on LLC resonant converter topology. This application enables unusually high switching frequencies in kHz range thanks to the zero-volt ...

2022

Modelling of AC/DC Interactions of Converter-Interfaced Resources for Harmonic Power-Flow Studies in Microgrids

Mario Paolone, Andreas Martin Kettner, Johanna Kristin Maria Becker, Yihui Zuo

Modern power distribution systems experience a large-scale integration of Converter-Interfaced Distributed Energy Resources (CIDERs). As acknowledged by recent literature, the interaction of individual CIDER components and different CIDERs through the grid ...

2022

A Generalized Phase-Shift PWM Extension for Improved Natural and Active Balancing of Flying Capacitor Multilevel Inverters

Elison de Nazareth Matioli, Georgios Kampitsis

The emergence of wide bandgap power devices has brought the attention back to the flying capacitor (FC) multilevel inverters with a large number of stages, in an effort to increase the power density by minimizing the passive components. The main challenge ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2022

Pushing the Limits of Efficiency and Power Density in High-Frequency Power Conversion Based on Wide-Band-Gap Technologies

Armin Jafari

The emergence of wide-band-gap (WBG) power transistors with low conduction losses and high-speed switching speeds has paved the way for more-than-ever efficient power electronics systems and huge energy saving potentials. Likewise, power density- the ratio ...

EPFL2021

Medium Voltage Impedance and Admittance Measurement and System Identification Techniques

Marko Petkovic

The recent trend of an increasing share of renewable energy sources in modern power systems, as well as the integration of power electronics equipment, is shaping the requirements for stable grid infrastructure. These requirements mainly come from the stab ...

EPFL2021

An IGCT Gate Unit for Zero-Voltage-Switching Resonant DC Transformer Applications

Drazen Dujic, Jakub Kucka

Recently, IGCTs have shown a great potential for the soft-switching dc transformer applications based on LLC resonant converter. The zero-voltage switching that is present in this converter topology enables an operation of IGCTs without clamping circuit an ...

2021

Enhanced-DAB Converter: Comprehensive Design Evaluation

Elison de Nazareth Matioli, Armin Jafari, Mohammad Samizadeh Nikooytabalvandani, Furkan Karakaya

Soft switching in dual-active-bridge (DAB) converters enables their efficient operation at high frequencies, where the reduction in the size of magnetic components could result in ultra-high power densities. Nonetheless, losing soft-switching at high frequ ...

IEEE2021