Source voltage sensorless estimation scheme for PWM rectifiers under unbalanced conditions

A source voltage sensorless estimation scheme is proposed for a pulsewidth-modulation (PWM) rectifier in unbalanced circumstances. The negative sequence is accompanied by the unbalance among phases, and acts as an ac disturbance to a normal-mode estimator and controller. Hence, without considering voltage unbalance, a PWM rectifier yields a voltage ripple in the dc-link voltage and large reactive currents. With the proposed sensorless scheme, both positive and negative components are estimated separately by using a full- (or reduced-) order estimator. The feasibility of the proposed sensorless scheme is confirmed through computer simulation and experiment.

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