Utilization of Active Diodes in Self-powered Sensorless Three-phase Boost-rectifiers for Energy Harvesting Applications

Alejandro Tapia-Hernandez; Mario Ponce-Silva; Victor Hugo Olivares-Peregrino; Jesus Elias Valdez-Resendiz; Leobardo Hernandez-Gonzalez

Utilization of Active Diodes in Self-powered Sensorless Three-phase Boost-rectifiers for Energy Harvesting Applications

Alejandro Tapia-Hernandez

Mario Ponce-Silva

Victor Hugo Olivares-Peregrino

Jesus Elias Valdez-Resendiz

Leobardo Hernandez-Gonzalez

Vol. 17, No. 4, pp. 1117-1126, Jul. 2017

10.6113/JPE.2019.17.4.1117

Active diodes

Boost-rectifier

Energy Harvesting

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Abstract

The main contribution of this paper is the use of sensorless active diodes to generate the gate signals for a three-phase boost-rectifier with a self-powered control scheme. The sensorless operation is achieved making use of the gate control signals generated by the active diode schemes on each of the switching devices using a pulse width half-controlled boost rectifier modulation technique (PWM-HCBR). The proposed scheme synchronizes the gate control signals with a three phase voltage supply. Autonomous operation is obtained making use of the output DC bus to feed the control circuitry, the active diodes and the driver circuitry. The three-phase boost-rectifier is supplied by a three-phase permanent magnet electric generator powered by a solar concentrator dish with variable voltage and variable frequency conditions. Experimental results report an efficiency of up to 94.6% for 25 W and an input of 3.6 V peak per phase with 450.

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[IEEE Style]

A. Tapia-Hernandez, M. Ponce-Silva, V. H. Olivares-Peregrino, J. E. Valdez-Resendiz, L. Hernandez-Gonzalez, "Utilization of Active Diodes in Self-powered Sensorless Three-phase Boost-rectifiers for Energy Harvesting Applications," Journal of Power Electronics, vol. 17, no. 4, pp. 1117-1126, 2017. DOI: 10.6113/JPE.2019.17.4.1117.

[ACM Style]

Alejandro Tapia-Hernandez, Mario Ponce-Silva, Victor Hugo Olivares-Peregrino, Jesus Elias Valdez-Resendiz, and Leobardo Hernandez-Gonzalez. 2017. Utilization of Active Diodes in Self-powered Sensorless Three-phase Boost-rectifiers for Energy Harvesting Applications. Journal of Power Electronics, 17, 4, (2017), 1117-1126. DOI: 10.6113/JPE.2019.17.4.1117.