• Journal of Power Electronics
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• v.16 no.3
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• pp.960-969
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• 2016

High-power three-level voltage-source converters are widely utilized in high-performance AC drive systems. In several ultra-power instances, the harmonics on the grid side should be reduced through multiple rectifications. A combined harmonic elimination method that includes a dual primary-side series-connected winding transformer and selective harmonic elimination pulse-width modulation is proposed to eliminate low-order current harmonics on the primary and secondary sides of transformers. Through an analysis of the harmonic influence caused by dead time and DC magnetic bias, a synthetic compensation control strategy is presented to minimize the grid-side harmonics in the dual primary side series-connected winding transformer application. Both simulation and experimental results demonstrate that the proposed control strategy can significantly reduce the converter input current harmonics and eliminates the DC magnetic bias in the transformer.

• Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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• v.13 no.1
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• pp.280-286
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• 2018

A sensorless active damping scheme for LCL filters in grid-connected parallel inverters for battery energy storage systems is proposed. This damping method is superior to the conventional notch filter and virtual damping methods with respect to robustness against the variation of the resonance of the filter and unnecessary additional current sensors. The theoretical analysis of the proposed damping method is explained in detail, along with the characteristic comparison to the conventional active damping methods. The performance verification of the proposed sensorless active damping method shows that its performance is comparable to that of the conventional virtual damping method, even without additional current sensors. Finally, simulation and experimental results are provided to examine the overall characteristics of the proposed method.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Illuminating and Electrical Installation Engineers
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• v.26 no.5
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• pp.48-57
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• 2012

This paper analyzes the characteristic of gird connected photovoltaic power generation system which is available to connect the utility. Renewable energy photovoltaic power system has been linked to the system to analyze the impact of photovoltaic system. It is measured that power data for the Grid connected photovoltaic power plant with instantaneous measuring and 3-sec measuring for 7 days. Harmonic field measurements have shown that the harmonic contents of a waveform varies with time. A cumulative probability approach is the most commonly used method to solve time varying harmonics. So, it is used 50[%] cumulative probability approach. This paper provides an in depth analysis on power quality field measurement of the Grid connected photovoltaic power plant.

• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Power Electronics
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• v.16 no.4
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• pp.396-404
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• 2011

This paper proposes a performance improvement of a grid-connected wind turbine using sliding-mode based direct power control under an unbalanced grid fault. The proposed control method has some advantages for grid connected control. At first, it doesn't need the synchronous phase angle of the grid voltage. It has also fast dynamic characteristics compared with a conventional current controller. In addition, it is suitable for an unbalance compensation control. The effectiveness and robustness of the proposed algorithm are verified by simulations and experiments.

• Journal of IKEEE
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• v.22 no.3
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• pp.539-547
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• 2018

Grid-connected inverter is required to cut off the power supplied to the grid at the islanding condition, immediately. For this reason, an islanding detection is an indispensable function for grid-connected distributed generation system. Slip-Mode frequency Shift (SMS) islanding detection method is very popular method to determine the grid state. SMS method supplies the reactive power to the load according to the grid frequency. In the islanding condition of grid, this injected reactive power pulls out the grid frequency from the allowable range, then the inverter system can detect the islanding condition of the grid. The SMS method can detect the islanding state well and does not generate any harmonics of the grid current. However, the reactive power would be generated and the power quality is reduced even though the grid is not islanding condition, but normal condition. In this paper, a modified SMS method is proposed to remove the reactive power in the normal condition. The performance of the proposed method is evaluated by 600W single phase inverter experimental results.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Illuminating and Electrical Installation Engineers
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• v.24 no.5
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• pp.129-135
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• 2010

It is well known that distributed generation(DG) system using renewable energy is an alternative to solve the problems which result from the exhaustion of fossil fuel and the environmental pollution. A PWM inverter is required for a power flow control in the DG systems. This paper proposes a SRF power flow control method considering grid impedance in grid-connected single-phase inverter systems. The proposed SRF power flow control method can provide a voltage-reference for the single-phase inverter even without any grid impedance estimation so that the single-phase inverter system could operate in stand-alone mode and grid-connected mode based on the known nominal value of grid impedance. Also independent controls of active and reactive power are achieved by the proposed control method. The effectiveness and the validity of the proposed control method are demonstrated through simulations. The simulation results show that the proposed control method can control properly power flow in grid-connected single-phase inverter systems.

• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 2011.07a
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• pp.491-493
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• 2011

In this paper, a 15kW grid-connected battery charging and discharging system was proposed. AC regenerative device which consisted of an inverter using IGBTs and LCL filter transferred surplus power to grid. Phase locked loop(PLL) was used to resolve three-phase unbalance. AC regeneration function is able to improve the rate of energy use and the cost savings of energy is expected.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 1998.07g
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• pp.2436-2438
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• 1998

The operating characteristics of a 3 kW grid-connected photovoltaic (PV) power system was studied by analying annual photovoltaic data. The system performance for grid connection was investigated using a DC/ AC inverter. The results of a demonstration test show that the system utilization rate is 15.6% and the system efficiency is 8.03%.

• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 2015.07a
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• pp.441-442
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• 2015

This paper proposes a new single-phase seven-level grid-connected inverter. Operational principle with switching function are analyzed. A digital proportional-integral current-control algorithm was implemented in a TMS320F28335 DSP to keep the current injected into the grid sinusoidal. To verify the performance of the proposed inverter, PSIM simulation and experimental results are also shown in this paper.

• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Power Electronics
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• v.20 no.1
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• pp.72-80
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• 2015

In distributed generation systems, a grid-connected inverter should operate with synchronization to grid voltage. Considering that synchronization requires the phase angle of grid voltage, a phase locked loop (PLL) scheme is often used. The synchronous reference frame phase locked loop (SRF-PLL) is generally known to provide reasonable performance under ideal grid voltage. However, this scheme indicates performance degradation under the harmonic distorted or unbalanced grid voltage condition. To overcome this limitation, this paper proposes a phase and harmonic detection method of grid voltage using fast Fourier transform (FFT). To reduce the calculation time of FFT algorithm, minimum sampling data is taken from the voltage measurement to determine the phase angle and the magnitude of harmonic components. An experimental test setup for a grid-connected inverter system has been constructed. By comparative simulations and experiments under various abnormal grid voltage conditions, the proposed scheme has been proven to effectively track the phase angle of the grid voltage.