Sunday, 11 August 2013

Control of Improved Full-Bridge Three-Level DC/DC Converter for Wind Turbines in a DC Grid

Abstract—This paper presents an improved full-bridge threelevel (IFBTL) dc/dc converter for a wind turbine in a dc grid by inserting a passive filter into the dc/dc converter to improve the performance of the converter. The passive filter can effectively reduce the voltage stress of the medium frequency transformer in the IFBTL dc/dc converter. A modulation strategy, including two operation modes, is proposed for the IFBTL dc/dc converter. Then, a voltage balancing control strategy is proposed for the IFBTL dc/dc converter. Furthermore, the control of thewind turbine based on the IFBTL dc/dc converter in a dc-grid system is presented. Finally, a small-scale IFBTL dc/dc converter prototype was built and tested in the laboratory, and the results verify the theoretical analysis.

(Index Terms—DC/DC converter, dc grid, full-bridge three-level (FBTL), permanentmagnet synchronous generator, wind turbines.)

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