Terminal characteristics measurements and analysis of the three‐phase Active Front‐End converter building block
Open Access
- 6 July 2021
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) in IET Electric Power Applications
- Vol. 15 (10), 1399-1410
- https://doi.org/10.1049/elp2.12107
Abstract
The safe and reliable operation of a modern power system imposes the need to describe and estimate the system stability through impedance-admittance measurement and identification. The integration and operation of medium voltage equipment in existing infrastructure requires impedance-admittance measurement devices which are currently few in number and often limited in output voltage level and output bandwidth. The four-quadrant Cascaded H-Bridge (CHB) topology, featuring a three-phase Active Front-End (AFE) and a single-phase H-Bridge inverter presents itself as a potential solution to this problem. To support the development of the CHB topology the AFE hardware and control platforms require implementation and testing. The testing aspect of the process additionally includes the measurement of terminal characteristics such as the input admittance and the output impedance. The complexity of the CHB converter and its increased number of power electronics building blocks requires the use of industrial control platforms. This work defines the hardware implementation and control principle of the three-phase AFE of a CHB converter as well as the system for measuring its terminal characteristics. The results obtained show that the proposed system can be successfully used to measure the input admittance and output impedance of the AFE upon which the development of the CHB is based.This publication has 15 references indexed in Scilit:
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