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Design, Modeling and Control of Power Converters

A special issue of Energies (ISSN 1996-1073). This special issue belongs to the section "F3: Power Electronics".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 January 2022) | Viewed by 3552

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Daniel Montesinos-Miracle

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Departament d’Enginyeria Elèctrica, Centre d’Innovació Tecnològica en Convertidors Estàtics i Accionaments, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 08034 Barcelona, Spain
Interests: power electronics and drives; green energy converters
Dr. Behrooz Bahrani

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Department of Electrical and Computer Systems Engineering, Monash University, Clayton, VIC 3800, Australia
Interests: control of power electronic converters; grid integration of renewable energy resources; energy storage; electric vehicles; microgrids

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Since the invention of semiconductor switches in the twentieth century, the share of power electronic converters in energy conversion has grown steadily. In particular, with recent advances in wide-bandgap devices, the current, voltage, and frequency rating of power electronic converters have experienced a surge leading to applications that were not previously feasible. Additionally, with increasing concerns regarding climate change and CO2 emission, improved-efficiency renewable energy generation has attracted significant attention in the last decade.

The control of power electronic converters is a key discipline in order to meet the challenges of the future of power electronics and its applications. Each application requires a dedicated control that fixes the performance of the system. However, to design better control systems for power converter systems, new modeling and design techniques have to be developed.

The scope of this Special Issue is therefore to document the latest research trends in the design, modeling, and control of power converters.

Dr. Daniel Montesinos-Miracle
Dr. Behrooz Bahrani
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • power electronics
  • control of power converters
  • modeling of power converters
  • design of power converters
  • grid forming inverters

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Design, Control and Testing of a Modular Multilevel Converter with a Single Cell per Arm in Grid-Forming and Grid-Following Operations for Scaled-Down Experimental Platforms
by Jaume Girona-Badia, Oriol Gomis-Bellmunt, Tomàs Lledó-Ponsati, Macià Capó-Lliteras, Carlos Collados-Rodriguez, Nicolaos Antonio Cutululis, Oscar Saborío-Romano, Daniel Montesinos-Miracle, Marc Pagès, Daniel Heredero-Peris and Eduardo Prieto-Araujo
Energies 2022, 15(5), 1819; https://doi.org/10.3390/en15051819 - 1 Mar 2022
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Modular multilevel converters (MMC) can be used in several applications, especially (but not only) in high-voltage direct current (HVDC) and STATCOM. In order to develop experimental scaled-down test benches for lab validation, several projects have developed MMCs with a limited number of cells, [...] Read more.
Modular multilevel converters (MMC) can be used in several applications, especially (but not only) in high-voltage direct current (HVDC) and STATCOM. In order to develop experimental scaled-down test benches for lab validation, several projects have developed MMCs with a limited number of cells, but they need to use pulse width modulation (PWM) techniques to achieve acceptable power quality (because nearest level modulation (NLM), common in HVDC applications with hundreds of levels, cannot achieve sufficient power quality unless the number of cells is high enough). The present paper proposes a new concept which is based on designing arms with a single cell. This allows to have the simplest possible converter that maintains the structure of an MMC. While all the inner controllers of large-scale HVDC MMCs are included, the only remarkable difference is that PWM is used and NLM cannot be implemented. As this is also a limitation for other low voltage MMC, the proposed concept is suggested for scaled-down low voltage applications. The paper includes the design and construction of the converter, the definition and implementation of the converter controllers, and the converter testing, with detailed dynamic simulations and an experimental setup. Full article
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