Three-Phase PWM Inverter and Rectifier with Two-Switch Auxiliary Resonant DC Link Snubber-Assisted

Shinichiro Nagai; Shinji Sato; Takayuki Matsumoto

Three-Phase PWM Inverter and Rectifier with Two-Switch Auxiliary Resonant DC Link Snubber-Assisted

Shinichiro Nagai

Shinji Sato

Takayuki Matsumoto

Vol. 5, No. 3, pp. 233-239, Jul. 2005

10.6113/JPE.2005.5.3.233

Soft switching

Auxiliary Resonant DC Link Snubber

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Abstract

In this paper, a new conceptual circuit configuration of a 3-phase voltage source, soft switching AC-DC-AC converter using an IGBT module, which has one ARCPL circuit and one ARDCL circuit, is presented. In actuality, the ARCPL circuit is applied in the 3-phase voltage source rectifier side, and the ARDCL circuit is in the inverter side. And more, each power semiconductor device has a novel clamp snubber circuit, which can save the power semiconductor device from voltage and current across each power device. The proposed soft switching circuits have only two active power semiconductor devices. These ARCPL and ARDCL circuits consist of fewer parts than the conventional soft switching circuit. Furthermore, the proposed 3-phase voltage source soft switching AC-DC-AC power conversion system needs no additional sensor for complete soft switching as compared with the conventional 3-phase voltage source AC-DC-AC power conversion system. In addition to this, these soft switching circuits operate only once in one sampling term. Therefore, the power conversion efficiency of the proposed AC-DC-AC converter system will get higher than a conventional soft switching converter system because of the reduced ARCPL and ARDCL circuit losses. The operation timing and terms for ARDCL and ARCPL circuits are calculated and controlled by the smoothing DC capacitor voltage and the output AC current. Using this control, the loss of the soft switching circuits are reduced owing to reduced resonant inductor current in ARCPL and ARDCL circuits as compared with the conventional controlled soft switching power conversion system. The operating performances of proposed soft switching AC-DC-AC converter treated here are evaluated on the basis of experimental results in a 50kVA setup in this paper. As a result of experiment on the 50kVA system, it was confirmed that the proposed circuit could reduce conduction noise below 10 MHz and improve the conversion efficiency from 88. 5% to 90.5%, when compared with the hard switching circuit.

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[IEEE Style]

S. Nagai, S. Sato, T. Matsumoto, "Three-Phase PWM Inverter and Rectifier with Two-Switch Auxiliary Resonant DC Link Snubber-Assisted," Journal of Power Electronics, vol. 5, no. 3, pp. 233-239, 2005. DOI: 10.6113/JPE.2005.5.3.233.

[ACM Style]

Shinichiro Nagai, Shinji Sato, and Takayuki Matsumoto. 2005. Three-Phase PWM Inverter and Rectifier with Two-Switch Auxiliary Resonant DC Link Snubber-Assisted. Journal of Power Electronics, 5, 3, (2005), 233-239. DOI: 10.6113/JPE.2005.5.3.233.