Development of a modular configurable multi-megawatt power amplifier

This paper details the design and development work for fabricating a modular and configurable multi-megawatt power amplifier. The impetus for creating the amplifier was to enable electric grid code standards testing for interconnection of large wind turbines. However, the flexible nature of the amplifier topology and control readily enables its use as a multipurpose power interconnect converter.

[1]  Giri Venkataramanan,et al.  Complex phasor modeling and control of modular multilevel inverters , 2011, 2011 IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition.

[2]  Mehdi Abolhassani,et al.  Power quality enhancement in high power multi-level drives , 2010, 2010 IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition.

[3]  V. Blasko,et al.  A novel control to actively damp resonance in input LC filter of a three-phase voltage source converter , 1997 .

[4]  Holmes,et al.  Pulse width modulation for power converters , 2003 .

[5]  M. Steurer,et al.  Synchronization of three-phase converters and virtual microgrid implementation utilizing the Power-Hardware-in-the-Loop concept , 2010, 2010 Twenty-Fifth Annual IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition (APEC).

[6]  Michael Steurer,et al.  A Megawatt-Scale Power Hardware-in-the-Loop Simulation Setup for Motor Drives , 2010, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics.

[7]  A. Monti,et al.  Implementation of a low-cost real-time virtue test bed for hardware-in-the-loop testing , 2005, 31st Annual Conference of IEEE Industrial Electronics Society, 2005. IECON 2005..

[8]  P. W. Hammond,et al.  A new approach to enhance power quality for medium voltage AC drives , 1997 .

[9]  Minwon Park,et al.  Performance analysis and evaluation of a multifunctional grid-connected PV system using power hardware-in-the-loop simulation , 2011, 2011 Twenty-Sixth Annual IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition (APEC).

[10]  B. Kroposki,et al.  A methodology for characterizing and modeling inverters for grid integration studies using Power Hardware-in-the-Loop , 2012, 2012 IEEE Power and Energy Society General Meeting.

[11]  Marcelo A. Pérez,et al.  High Power Synchronous Machine fed by a Cascaded Regenerative Inverter , 2008, 2008 IEEE Industry Applications Society Annual Meeting.

[12]  Thomas A. Lipo,et al.  Pulse Width Modulation for Power Converters: Principles and Practice , 2003 .

[13]  T.A. Lipo,et al.  A dual three-phase drive system with a reduced switch count , 1998, Conference Record of 1998 IEEE Industry Applications Conference. Thirty-Third IAS Annual Meeting (Cat. No.98CH36242).

[14]  N. Ginot,et al.  Active loads for hardware in the loop emulation of electro-technical bodies , 2005, 31st Annual Conference of IEEE Industrial Electronics Society, 2005. IECON 2005..

[15]  Mohammad Reza Emami,et al.  Dynamic Load Emulation in Hardware-in-the-Loop Simulation of Robot Manipulators , 2011, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics.

[16]  T.A. Lipo,et al.  A control scheme in hybrid synchronous-stationary frame for PWM AC/DC converter under generalized unbalanced operating conditions , 2004, Conference Record of the 2004 IEEE Industry Applications Conference, 2004. 39th IAS Annual Meeting..

[17]  Daniel W. Hart,et al.  Introduction to Power Electronics , 1996 .