Stepped 2-Level Operation of Three-Port Modular DC/DC Converter Applied in HVDC Application

High-voltage dc/dc converter is the key equipment to interconnect high-voltage dc (HVdc) systems with different voltage levels and to build dc grid. This paper presents a novel three-port modular dc/dc converter (TP-MDCC) to interconnect three HVdc systems, and it offers the following merits: 1) hig...

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Main Authors: Hongcheng You, Xu Cai
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IEEE 2018-01-01
Series:IEEE Access
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Online Access:https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8464039/
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Summary:High-voltage dc/dc converter is the key equipment to interconnect high-voltage dc (HVdc) systems with different voltage levels and to build dc grid. This paper presents a novel three-port modular dc/dc converter (TP-MDCC) to interconnect three HVdc systems, and it offers the following merits: 1) high efficiency for the elimination of multiple dc/ac conversion stages and transformers; 2) modular design and small submodule (SM) capacitance requirement; 3) low dv/dt stress; and 4) the sorting algorithm of the SM capacitor voltages needs only to be executed twice in a period, which poses small computation burden. In this paper, the operation principle and the control strategy of the TP-MDCC are analyzed, and the simulation and experimental results verify the effectiveness of the converter.
ISSN:2169-3536