• Journal of Power Electronics
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• 제18권6호
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• pp.1866-1878
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• 2018

This paper presents a neutral point deviation and ripple compensation control method for application to 3-level NPC converters. The neutral point deviation and its harmonic components are analyzed with a focus on the average current flowing through the neutral point of the dc-link. This paper also proposes a control scheme to compensate for the neutral point deviation and dominant harmonic components under generalized unbalanced grid operating conditions. The positive and negative sequence components of the pole voltages and ac input currents are employed to accurately explain the behavior of 3-level NPC converters. Simulation and experimental results are presented to verify the validity of the proposed method.

• Journal of Power Electronics
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• 제8권3호
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• pp.259-267
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• 2008

Power quality improvement in a three-phase four-wire system is achieved using a new topology of DSTATCOM (distribution static compensator) consisting of a star/delta transformer with a tertiary winding and a three-leg VSC (voltage source converter). This new topology of DSTATCOM is proposed for power factor correction or voltage regulation along with harmonic elimination, load balancing and neutral current compensation. A tertiary winding is introduced in each phase for a delta connected secondary in addition to the star-star windings and this delta connected winding is responsible for neutral current compensation. The dynamic performance of the proposed DSTATCOM system is demonstrated using MATLAB with its Simulink and Power System Blockset (PSB) toolboxes under varying loads. The capacitor supported DC bus of the DSTATCOM is regulated to the reference voltage under varying loads.

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 1998년도 추계학술대회 논문집 학회본부A
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• pp.131-133
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• 1998

This paper, proposed the p-q-r coordinate system where the instantaneous active power p, and the two instantaneous reactive powers $q_{q}$, $q_{r}$ were defined. The three power components are linearly independent, so the compensation for the two instantaneous reactive powers leads to control the two components of the current space vector. With the theory, the neutral current of the three-phase four-wire system can be eliminated by only compensating the instantaneous reactive power using no energy storage element.

• 대한전기학회논문지:전기기기및에너지변환시스템부문B
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• 제48권6호
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• pp.330-335
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• 1999

This paper proposed the p-q-r coordinate system where the instantaneous active power p, and the two instantaneous reactive powers qq, qr were defined. The three power components are linearly independent, so the compensation for the two instantaneous reactive powers leads to control the two components of the current space vector. With the theory, the neutral current of a three-phase four-wire system can be eliminated by only compensating the instantaneous reactive power using no energy storge element.

• Journal of Power Electronics
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• 제9권5호
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• pp.691-699
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• 2009

This paper presents the analysis of series active power filter for reactive power compensation, load balancing, harmonic elimination, and neutral current eradication in three-phase four-wire power systems. Generally, the three-phase four-wire system is widely employed in distributing electric energy to several office building and manufacturing plants. In such systems, the third harmonic and its 3rd harmonics are termed as triple and zero sequence components that do not cancel each other in the system neutral. Consequently, the triple harmonics add together creating a primary source of excessive neutral current. Regarding this concern, this paper presents a new control algorithm for a series hybrid active system, whereas the control approach it adopts directly influence its compensation characteristics. Hence, the advantage of this control algorithm is the direct extraction of compensation voltage reference without phase transformations and multiplying harmonic current value by gain and the required rating of the series active filter is much smaller than that of a conventional shunt active power filter. In order to show the effectiveness of the proposed control algorithm, experiments have been carried out.

• KIEE International Transaction on Electrical Machinery and Energy Conversion Systems
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• 제3B권1호
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• pp.59-64
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• 2003

This paper presents a new rotor position estimation method for brushless DC motors. The estimation error of the rotor position clearly provokes the phase shift angle misaligned between the phase current and the back-EMF waveforms, which causes torque ripple in brushless DC motor drives. Such an estimation error can be reduced with the help of the proposed neutral-voltage-based estimation method, which is structured as a closed loop observer. A neutral voltage appearing during the normal mode of the inverter operation is found to be an observable and control table measure, which can be used for estimating an exact rotor position. This neutral voltage is obtained from the DC-link current, the switching logic, and the motor speed values. The proposed algorithm, which can be easily implemented by using a single DC-link current and the motor terminal voltage sensors, is verified by simulation and experiment results.

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 1999년도 하계학술대회 논문집 F
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• pp.2481-2483
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• 1999

This paper proposed the p-q-r coordinate system where the instantaneous active power p, and the two instantaneous reactive powers $q_{q}$, $q_{r}$ were defined. The three power components are linearly independent, so the compensation for the two instantaneous reactive powers leads to control the two components of the current space vector. With the theory, the neutral current of a three-phase four-wire system can be eliminated by only compensating the instantaneous reactive power using no energy storage element.

• 전력전자학회:학술대회논문집
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• 전력전자학회 2005년도 전력전자학술대회 논문집
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• pp.504-506
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• 2005

This paper proposes a new neutral current reduction method using PQR instantaneous power theory on the active power filter, unbalanced nonlinear load condition in three-phase four-wire systems. For reduction of neutral line current, the single phase active power filter is used and its performance is same with the three-phase four-wire active power filter. For fully-digital implementation, ramp comparison PWM method was adopted. Simulation results verify good performance of the proposed current control strategy on the shunt APFs.

• 전력전자학회논문지
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• 제9권5호
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• pp.491-497
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• 2004

본 논문은 브러시리스직류전동기의 새로운 회전자위치추정 방법에 관한 것이다. 회전자 위치추정이 부정확하게 이루어졌을 때, 역기전력과 상전류 사이의 위상차가 나타나고 이는 다시 전동기의 토크리플을 일으킨다는 사실은 알려져 있다. 이러한 추정오차를 줄이기 위하여 인버터의 정상모드 기간 중에 나타나는 중성점전압을 기반으로 하는 새로운 방법을 제안하고 있다. 이 중성점전압이 효과적인 회전자 위치 추정오차의 한 지표임을 확인하고, 중성점전압의 발생, 획득방법, 보상방법 등을 다루고 있다. 본 알고리즘은 전동기 단자전압센서와 단일 직류링크 전류센서 만을 이용하여 실현할 수 있으며, 관련 시뮬레이션 및 실험결과는 그 타당성을 보여주고 있다.

• 전력전자학회논문지
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• 제11권2호
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• pp.172-183
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• 2006

본 논문은 Akagi에 의해 발표된 p-q 이론과 Nabae 및 Peng에 의하여 발표된 크로스벡터 이론의 대비를 통하여 3상 4선 계통에서 순시전력보상방법을 분석한다. 3상 3선 계통에서 영상성분 전압이 없는 경우 두 이론은 똑같다. 그렇지만 3상 4선 계통에서 영상성분 전압과 전류가 포함되는 경우, 두 이론은 순시무효전력과 순시유효전력을 달리 정의한다. 본 논문에서는 이론적 분석과 컴퓨터 시뮬레이션을 바탕으로 영상성분 전압과 영상성분 전류가 존재하는 3상 4선 계통에서 에너지 저장요소의 필요 없이 무효전력만의 보상을 통하여 계통의 중성선 전류를 완벽히 제거할 수 있는 순시전력보상방법을 제시한다.