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Digitized Feedforward Compensation Method For High Power Density Three-Phase VIENNA PFC Converter
Digitized Feedforward Compensation Method For High Power Density Three-Phase VIENNA PFC Converter
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Abstract-This paper presents one front-end three-phase .
AC/DC power factor correction (PFC) rectifier, which is based on The dedicated application of VIENNA topologies is to
three-level bidirectional-switch VIENNA topology. On one hand, maximize the power density of three-phase power supplies for
the rectifier, which is designed to operate in telecommunication applications [5]-[8]. Due to the developments
continuous-conduction mode (CCM) at full power, operates at on semiconductors devices, magnetic materials, capacitor and
reduced load, discontinuous-conduction mode (DCM) occurs in a cooling technologies, the VIENNA rectifiers remain as one of
zone which is close to the crossover of the line voltage. On the the preferred candidates when power density is a design
other hand, with the reduced input inductance, the DCM mode objective [5][6][8]. Nowadays, on one hand, electrical or hybrid
occurs even when the rectifiers operate at full power. In this vehicles where both power density and reduced weight are of
paper, the digitized feedfoward compensation method is proposed most importance have become a potential user for this kind of
for the rectifier to reduce the impact of the switch between DCM rectifiers, on the other hand, the VIENNA rectifiers have also
and CCM. The theoretical analysis of the proposed method is been recently considered for industrial motor drives[9]-[11]. and
deduced, furthermore, the control design strategy is given. The UPS systems. The term “VIENNA type rectifiers” is usually
experimental results are obtained by using a digitally controlled used to represent the whole non-regenerative three-level boost
VIENNA rectifier, which validated the proposed compensation rectifier family.
method. In order to reduce the volume of the converter, the inductance
of the input filter needs to be reduced and the switching
frequency needs to be increased. Due to the high device stresses
I. INTRODUCTION
and problems with conducted emission, the use of converters
The grid connected voltage source PWM rectifier has the operating in DCM is limited to the low-power range (less than
advantages of low harmonic distortion (THD) of currents. 250W). Therefore, the converters for the higher power range are
Besides, it can offer controllable power factor (PF)[1]. The commonly designed for CCM. Whereas, DCM will appear close
development of a high power density three-phase AC/DC to the crossover of the line voltage at reduced load [12], causing
converter has been a hot topic in power electronics due to the the VIENNA rectifier to switch between CCM and DCM in
increasing requirement in applications like electric vehicles every half line period (this operation mode will be named as
(EV), aircraft and aerospace, where light weight or a small MCM). Both the erroneous sampling in a digitally controlled
volume is usually requested. With the emerging high frequency system and the switching between different operation modes in
device technology[2], the operating frequency of the converter the converter dynamics cause a major deterioration of the input
can be potentially pushed to tens of kHz to hundreds of kHz at current [12][13]. In reference [14], a dedicated controller is applied,
high voltages and high power conditions. The extended wherein the switching frequency and controller are dependent on
switching frequency range brings opportunities to further the load of the rectifier for DCM and CCM operation modes.
improve the power density of the converter. Due to the flexibility, decreased cost and increased performance
The family of non-regenerative three-level rectifier is of digital controllers, various digitized control strategies were
characterized by reduced number of active switching devices, widely developed and reported[15]-[18]. By DSP controller, a fixed
high PF, and low voltage stress, which make it a suitable switching frequency during the entire power range can be
topology for medium- and high-power applications with high realized even when fast load changes occur [19], or when low
power density. The VIENNA rectifier was originally evolved switching frequencies are undesirable.
from these topologies, where together with the latter new ones This paper proposes one digital control method to solve the
forms a family of functionally equivalent circuit topologies problem of MCM for the VIENNA topology by adopting
duty-ratio feedforward compensation method. Based on the
This work was supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China
physical decoupling of three-phase four-wire VIENNA topology,
(50907059).
Dap Dbp Dcp In order to simplify the analysis, the following assumption
1/2Uo should be made:
VA ia La Sa C1 1) The circuit is of steady state.
VB ib Lb Sb Vn
Vn
VC ic Lc Sc R Uo 2) The grid voltage vin, the output voltage of C1 and C2 uup
CA
CB
Dan Dbn Dcn C2 -1/2Uo and udown are constant during the every switching frequency, i.e.
CC
uup=udown=uo/2.
VN
3) All of the devices and lines are regarded as ideal
components.
Fig. 1.Non-regenerative three-level four-wire bidirectional-switch
A. CCM
VIENNA rectifier By using averaged state model, the state function of the
circuit shown in Fig.2 during every switching period can be
obtained as follows,
II. PHYSICAL DECOUPLING OF THREE-PHASE VIENNA
RECTIFIER
⎧ (1 − dccm ) uo
⎪⎪ vin −
d iL iL > 0
L =⎨ 2
⎪ vin + (
As shown in Fig.1, the non-regenerative three-level dt 1 − d ccm ) uo
bidirectional-switch VIENNA rectifier considered in this paper is iL < 0
⎪⎩ 2
presented. VA,VB, and VC are the three-phase voltage of the grid. Sa,
Sb and Sc are the bidirectional switches, which consist of two Wherein, dccm is the duty-ratio of CCM. <x> is the averaged
MOSFETS which are connected in series. La, Lb and Lc are the value of the variable x during every switching period. When <iL>
input inductors and Uo is the output voltage. As shown in the can track <vin> perfectly, the functions of positive and negative
figure, the neutral point Vn of three-phase line voltage is half period are the same, so the half positive period function is
connected with the output capacitors C1 and C2. analyzed.
It is supposed that the output capacitor is large enough so that By disturbing and linearizing the system, the linearized AC
the output voltage can be regarded as a constant. When the small signal model and the static operating function for CCM can
neutral point is introduced, this converter can be decoupled to be obtained,
three single phase three-level power factor correction (PFC)
converter, i.e. phase A, phase B, phase C can be controlled as
PFC converter respectively [20]. In order to simplify the analysis, diˆL vˆin 1 − Dccm U
= − uˆo + o dˆccm (1)
the parameters of each phase are supposed to be the same. dt L 2L 2L
Considering the load sharing for each phase, the output resistor
of the decoupled single-phase rectifier is triple of the VIENNA 2Vin = (1 − Dccm )U o (2)
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X represents the static point of valuable x, is the Therefore, the transfer function of inductor current to
disturbance near its static operating point, therefore the transfer duty-ratio can be obtained as well,
function of inductor current to duty-ratio can be deduced, Uo
iL ( s )U iL ( s ) L
= o (3) = (9)
d ccm ( s) 2 Ls d dcm ( s ) U o − 2Vin
s+
B.DCM Vin DdcmT
If a normal averaged-state strategy is adopted, it can be
obtained that d iL dt ≡ 0 . In the system, <iL> cannot be the C. Comparison between CCM model and DCM model
state variable, there is only one state variable and the reduced
order averaged model can be obtained. The system performance Considering equation (3), (9) and the static operating point,
of low frequency and DC can be deduced, the high frequency the output power of single phase is supposed to be 1667W (the
performance cannot be accurately obtained. Therefore, the other parameters of the circuit are given in the experiment part.),
full-order averaged model should be used to analyze. the Bode diagrams of inductor current to duty-ratio for CCM and
It is assumed that d1 and d2 are respective the duty-ratio when DCM are presented in Fig. 4. It can be noted that the gain of
the current iL is increasing and decreasing. During the CCM is much larger than the gain of DCM during low frequency
positive half line period, the inductor current of every switching sector, whereas, during high frequency sector, the gain of CCM
period can be illustrated as Fig.3. Therefore, the averaged is almost the same as that of DCM. In addition, the gain of DCM
inductor current can be obtained, is increased when the input voltage Vin is increased, therefore,
1 1 vin when the rectifier operates in DCM, the gain of the circuit is
iL = imax ( d1 + d 2 ) = d1T ( d1 + d 2 ) time-variable during the whole line period. As shown in Fig.4,
2 2 L (4) during the switching between DCM and CCM, the gain changes
Thus, the following equation between d1 and d2 can be suddenly.
obtained,
2 L iL
d2 = − d1 (5)
d1T vin
iL
t
Fig.3 Inductor current in DCM for positive half line period
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much smaller than that of CCM during low frequency sector, not to calculate the whole desired duty-ratio.
which is illustrated in Section III. During the switching between
DCM and CCM, the gain changes suddenly. The controller gain C. Duty-ratio feedforward for MCM
of DCM should be larger than that of CCM so that the same open
loop gain can be assured in two modes. The conventional It is supposed that the input voltage is vin = 2Vin , rms sin ω g t ,
controller can only adapt to one of two modes. When the wherein Vin,rms is the root mean square value of the input voltage.
controller dedicated to CCM works in DCM, the current track In order to simplify the analysis, the following assumption
deteriorates because the controller gain is smaller than that is should be made,
requested. When the controller dedicated to DCM works in CCM, 4) In static state, the output voltages of C1 and C2 equals with
the resonance of input current occurs, furthermore, the instability each other, namely, uup=udown=uhalf=uo/2.
is introduced because the gain is too large. In this paper, a digital 5) The sign of the transient value of iL is unchangeable for
duty-ratio feedforward strategy is proposed for VIENNA rectifier. each switching period, which is the same as that of <iL>.
In comparison to the variable frequency controller, this method is 6) <vs> and vin always have the same sign.
more flexible to be implemented. The performance of the input When the rectifier operates in CCM, the voltage applied on S
current for MCM can be improved greatly, the THDi can be can be obtained,
reduced.
⎧ (1 − d ccm ) uhalf vin > 0
vs =⎨
⎩− (1 − d ccm ) uhalf vin < 0
ccm
B. Theoretical analysis of duty-ratio feedforward (10)
It is supposed <vs>ccm=vin, the duty-ratio of positive and
As shown in Fig.2, the single-phase rectifier is non-linear, the negative half line period can be obtained and combined as
averaged-state model for the switching period is obtained as follows,
shown in Fig.5 (a). <vs> is the averaged value of switching vin
d ff ,ccm = 1 − (11)
period for the switch S. Each variable shown in Fig.5 is the uhalf
sinusoidal function of line period, which can be represented in The value of <vs>dcm can be similarly obtained,
Fig.5 (b) by using vectors. The averaged inductor current vector
of <iL> lags behind the averaged line voltage vector of <vin>,
⎧ d u + (1 − d1 − d 2 )vin vin > 0
the angle is supposed to be θ .The vector of jωg L ⋅ iL leads 90 vs = ⎨ 2 half
⎩− d 2 uhalf + (1 − d1 − d 2 )vin vin < 0
dcm
degree before <iL>, which are vertical with each other, wherein (12)
ωg is the line angle frequency. Once the PF is unit, <iL> can
track <vin> by using the current controller, they are in phase, It is supposed that <vs>dcm=vin. Considering (5) and perfect
i.e. θ = 0 , as shown in Fig.5(c). The vectors of <vs>,<vin> and track of <iL> to vin, namely <iL> =vinge,the following equation
jωg L ⋅ iL construct one right-triangle. When the output power can be obtained,
is constant, vin and jω g L ⋅ iL are constant, therefore, <vs> 2 Lg e
d2 = − d1
can be adjusted to construct the right-triangle of these three d1T (13)
vectors, then <iL> and <vin> can be assured to be in phase.
Thus, the duty-ratio of feedforward for DCM can be obtained,
L
2 Lg e (uhalf − vin )
d ff ,dcm = = 2 Lge fd ff ,ccm (14)
uhalf T
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feedforward duty-ratio for this point can be obtained as
dff,cccm=2Lfge. Thus, when L and f are constant, dff,cccm is
M
proportional to ge. It should be pointed that dff,cccm is larger than
2Vin , rms
1− (which is the minimum of dff,ccm), and is smaller
uhalf Min(,)
than 1(which is the maximum of dff,ccm). During static state,
considering P=Vin,rms2ge, when the system works in MCM, the
power range of the system should satisfy the following relation:
(uhalf − 2Vin ,rms )Vin2, rms Fig.7 Current control loop of MCM with duty-ratio-feedforward
Pmin<P<Pmax, being Pmin = and
2 Lfuhalf
side of X1 and right side of X2, the system works in DCM, thus
Vin2, rms dff=dff,dcm(the smaller value). It can be concluded that he desired
Pmax = .
2 Lf feedforward duty-ratio curve is the lower one between the solid
and dotted line, namely the smaller value of dff,ccm and dff,dcm is
chosen to be dff whenever the system operates in CCM, DCM or
MCM. Fig.7 gives the current control loop with duty-ratio
feedforward, which can be implemented in DSP controller.
V. EXPERIMENTAL RESULTS
1
When P ≥ Pmax ( g e ≥ ), the relation of dff,dcm>dff,ccm can
2 Lf
be satisfied during the whole line period, the system works in
CCM, which points to the curve of 4000W in Fig.6. Thus the
feedforward loop output of dff should be dff,ccm, namely the
smaller value.
dff,dcm<dff,ccm can be satisfied during the whole line period, the with(right) and without(left) feedforward
system works in DCM, which points to the curve of 200W in
As shown in Fig.8, the input voltage and current waveforms
Fig.6. Thus the feedforward loop output of dff should be dff,dcm,
are illustrated for one of the three phases respectively at different
namely the smaller value.
load with and without feedforward loop. It can be concluded that
As shown in Fig. 6, according to the characteristic of the the current can track the input voltage much better due to the
rectifier, the system operating mode switches from CCM to separated control of the CCM feedforward and DCM
MCM, finally to DCM when the power level decreases. DCM feedforward during the whole line period. When the system
firstly appears near the crossover point of line input voltage, works at full load, the tested PF value is 0.995 and THDi is 4.8%
extending further to both sides when the input current decreases, at rated input and output voltage.
finally to the whole line period. As shown in Fig.6, the curve of
dff,dcm for “1667W” is illustrated here. It crosses the curve of
dff,ccm at the points of X1 and X2. The system works in CCM VI. CONCLUSION
between X1 and X2, thus dff=dff,ccm(the smaller value). On the left
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