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Active front-end-converter,
model verifications
and design challenges
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Active front-end-converter,
SINTEF Energy Research model verifications and design challenges
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Olve Mo
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This memo present results of the Strategic Institute Programme (SIP) “Power electronics and
energy storage technologies for cost- and energy efficient power systems” funded by The
Research Council of Norway.
A simulation model of the active front-end converter prototype has been established and has been
documented in [1]. Simulated behaviour has now been compared to measurements taken on the
laboratory prototype. These comparisons are presented in this memo as a verification of the
simulation model.
The agreement between simulated and measured quantities is considered to be good. Proposals for
further model refinement are included, although the model is already sufficient for its intended
use in future investigation and improvement of active front-end converters. This includes effect in
the frequency range from DC quantities up to well above switching frequency. The model is
however not developed and suited for analysis of phenomena in the radio frequency range.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Page
1 THE SIMULATION MODEL.......................................................................................... 3
2 MEASUREMENTS ON THE PROTOTYPE .................................................................. 4
2.1 The converter prototype ........................................................................................ 4
2.2 Case description .................................................................................................... 4
2.3 Laboratory equippment ......................................................................................... 4
3 COMPARISON OF MEASURED AND SIMULATED RESULTS ............................... 5
3.1 Illustration of the selected case ............................................................................. 5
3.2 Simulated versus measured quantities .................................................................. 6
4 DISCUSSION AND CONLUSIONS ON MODEL VERIFICATION .......................... 10
4.1 Compliance between simulation and measurement ............................................ 10
4.2 Likely explanations to observed deviations ........................................................ 10
4.3 Conclusion........................................................................................................... 10
5 FURTHER INVESTIGATION ...................................................................................... 11
5.1 Resonance between AC network and AC filter capacitor................................... 11
5.2 Oscillations due to other harmonic sources ........................................................ 12
5.3 AC-filter design................................................................................................... 13
5.4 Active damping ................................................................................................... 13
5.5 Common mode interference................................................................................ 13
5.6 DC-link voltage controller bandwidth ................................................................ 14
5.7 Response to failure and transients in AC-network.............................................. 14
5.8 Reliability and cost of measurements ................................................................. 14
6 REFERENCES ............................................................................................................... 15
APPENDIX A EMTDC/PSCAD MODEL ................................................................... 16
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