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This paper presents a 1/4-rate PAM4 receiver employing a sampling decoder with an adaptive variable-gain rectifier (AVGR) to achieve a bit efficiency of 1.38 pJ/bit. By concurrently performing gain adaptation and amplitude rectification for decoding the least significant bit (LSB), the proposed decoder greatly reduces power consumption compared with the conventional full-rate topology using three...
This paper reviews the use of UHF double class-E (class-E2) topologies for dc/dc power conversion. After introducing this attractive resonant converter in the context of the time-reversal duality principle, two different lumped-element networks are described for appropriately terminating the drain of the switching devices. Recent implementation examples, taking advantage of GaN HEMT processes, are...
Wireless power transfer (WPT) is the future solution for electric vehicles due to its merits compared to conductive charging. The main obstacles to WPT are efficiency and power transfer capability. Compensation topologies play a key role in improving efficiency and power transfer capability of WPT. This paper carries the evaluation of electrical parameters for wireless charging of an e-Rickshaw through...
A novel single-phase five-level active rectifier based on the VIENNA-type rectifier with model predictive current control is presented. The proposed topology operates in unidirectional mode, imposing a sinusoidal grid-side current with unitary power factor. A unidirectional electric vehicle battery charger is the target application in which the proposed rectifier is used; however, it can also be used...
A three-phase three-port rectifier (TPTPR), which is capable of handling an AC port, a low voltage DC port and a high voltage DC port simultaneously, is presented in this paper. To directly transfer power from the AC port to the low voltage DC port within single-stage power conversion, a modified SVPWM strategy based on asymmetric three-level vector space is analyzed and evaluated in this paper. With...
This paper introduces a single-phase matrix converter (SPMC) excited rotary transformer system to replace the slip rings of traditional wound field synchronous machine (WFSM). Compared to an inverter excited rotary transformer system, the matrix converter is compact due to the absence of a bulky DC Link capacitor. In this paper, the proposed SPMC uses a new constant volts per Hz modulation method...
An analytical approach for accurate calculation of the conduction and switching power losses associated with the switching devices in the 5-Level 3-Phase Back to Back E-Type Converter (5L3ϕ BTB E-Type Converter) has been proposed in this paper. The 5L3ϕ BTB E-Type Converter is composed by two different multilevel topologies: the 5-Level E-Type Inverter and the 5-Level E-Type Rectifier. The power losses...
The paper presents a new bridgeless buck-boost PFC with the use of the Active Virtual Ground (AVG) technique which is called Manitoba Rectifier. The proposed topology can convert the grid AC voltage to a wide range of voltage output within a single stage circuit. By using the simple structure and the bridgeless technique, an efficient system is able to be guaranteed. In addition, the proposed topology...
Current source converter (CSC) is mainly applied in high medium voltage drives. To increase the system power region and reduce the output harmonics, parallel connection is an easy-implement and practical method. There are mainly two types of parallel based topologies. The direct parallel connect of two back-to-back CSCs is the first type, the two DC links can be controlled from the rectifier side...
This paper presents dynamic analysis of a Modular Multi-Parallel Rectifier (MMR) based on state-space modelling. The proposed topology is suitable for high power motor drive or multi-parallel AC-DC applications, which can reduce line current harmonics emissions significantly. However, a proper controller is required to share and control current through each rectifier. Mathematical analysis and simulations...
Mobile power substations (MPSs) are optimally designed to be installed on a truck bed for ease of transportation in order to provide an interface between two medium-voltage distribution systems under emergency or maintenance conditions. Based on the solid-state transformer (SST), a topology of N-series modules concept is proposed for MPS. The average control methods are used to balance the voltage...
This paper investigates an economic and highly efficient power converter topology and its modulation scheme for 60kW buck-type rectifier system. The target system consists of three-phase three-switch buck-type rectifier topology. A new Carrier Based PWM scheme along with its simple implementation using logic gates is introduced. This PWM scheme replaces the diode rectifier equivalent switching state...
The Z-Source networks are recently being employed in the matrix converters (MCs) to overcome their main drawback, which is the low voltage transfer ratio (VTR). In spite of several Z-Source topologies introduced for the direct and indirect matrix converters, some important issues such as their modulation, operational modes, existing challenges in practical implementation, the design of an optimal...
With the increasing use of medium voltage drive systems in power plant, it is interesting to develop a novel internal electrification scheme based on common DC bus concept. Despite obvious improvement on efficiency increasing, one of the most concerned issues is whether reliability performance would decrease to an unacceptable level led to by introduction of common DC bus layout. To mitigate the concern,...
This paper proposes the improved topology and control strategy of three-phase cascaded bridgeless rectifier (CBR) suitable to serve as the rectifier stage for a medium/high voltage multilevel converter. Compared with traditional H-bridge based multilevel rectifiers, the proposed topology adopts much fewer fully-controlled devices, which greatly reduces the control complexity, thus increasing the system...
The paper presents a dual output AC-DC converter as a suitable candidate in emerging DC distribution systems. In accordance with the need of vast range of DC loads and standard distribution levels, the proposed Dual Output PFC Rectifier has been designed to provide simultaneous boost and buck outputs. In addition, the design ensures that the rectifier operates at unity power factor while maintaining...
Vienna rectifiers are widely utilized in various industry applications due to low cost, high reliability and better EMI performance. However, the DC bus voltage balancing is always an issue to be considered due to the 3-level structure. Several DC bus balancing control methods are proposed during last decade. But these methods either require a large amount of calculations or cause inaccuracy at voltage...
With the increasing use of medium voltage drive systems in power plant, it is interesting to develop a novel internal electrification scheme based on common DC bus concept. It has been substantiated by the author's prior work that reliability of common DC bus solutions can reach the same or even better level than conventional AC bus ones. In this paper, further study was conducted to take the factors...
In this paper, a novel three-phase rectifier based on triple line-voltage cascaded VIENNA converters has been proposed. A comprehensive analysis to the proposed converter is presented. Compared to conventional three-phase cascaded H-bridge converters, in the proposed new multilevel converters, the switch voltage stress is reduced, and fewer switches and dc capacitors are required under the similar...
The hybrid high voltage direct current (Hybrid HVDC) system based on line commutated converter (LCC) and modular multilevel converter (MMC) is a feasible solution for long distance bulk power transmission. In order to handle the dc-side short-circuit fault, two kinds of methods can be adopted. The first one is to replace half-bridge sub-modules (HBSMs) with full-bridge SMs or clamp-double SMs which...
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