DC CURRENT BALANCING CONTROL OF A THREE-PHASE FIVE-LEVEL BIDIRECTIONAL BUCK+BOOST-TYPE CONVERTER

Lisandra Kittel Ries

Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia de Santa Catarina

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Marcelo Lobo Heldwein

Federal University of Santa Catarina - UFSC

Marcelo Lobo Heldwein (S’99-M’08-SM'13) received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering from the Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC), Florianópolis, Brazil, in 1997 and 1999, respectively, and his Ph.D. degree from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich), Zurich, Switzerland, in 2007. He is currently an Adjunct Professor with the Electronics and Electrical Engineering Department at the UFSC.From 1999 to 2003, he worked with industry, including research at the Power Electronics Institute, Brazil and Emerson Network Power, Brazil and Sweden. He was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the ETH Zurich and at the UFSC from 2007 to 2009. Dr. Heldwein is a member of the Brazilian Power Electronic Society (SOBRAEP).His research interests include Power Electronics, Power Distribution and Electromagnetic Compatibility.

Abstract

This work proposes a dc current balancing control for a three-phase high-power factor five-level buck+boost-type converter. The converter act as both a rectifier or as an inverter interfacing residential dc power distribution... [ view full abstract ]

Authors

  1. Lisandra Kittel Ries (Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia de Santa Catarina)
  2. Marcelo Lobo Heldwein (Federal University of Santa Catarina - UFSC)

Topic Areas

AC-DC Converters , Multilevel and Matrix Power Converters , Power Distribution and Control

Session

OP-5A » Multilevel Converters II (16:00 - Tuesday, 1st December, Rubi)