Analysis of A High-Power, Resonant DC-DC Converter For DC Wind Turbines

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ANALYSIS OF A HIGH-POWER, RESONANT DC–DC

CONVERTER FOR DC WIND TURBINES

INTRODUCTION
Present offshore wind farms use mainly HVAC collection
grids to transmit the energy collected from wind turbines to
onshore, while other solutions use HVAC up to a large rectifier
and then to the mainland through a HVDC transmission line.
According to , HVDC wind farms could operate with higher
efficiency when connected to a MVDC collection grid. The
motivation lays in the fact that the levelized cost of energy could
be reduced by as much as 3%, by improving the efficiency with
2% and reducing the bill of materials costs by at least 1%. It is
expected in the near future that MVDC grids will be the
preferred solution for energy distribution and collection grids.A
desired, but challenging component of such a system would be
the MV dc/dc converter located in the wind turbines. A good
candidate solution, with more benefits than deficits, could be a
unidirectional SRC.
EXISTING SYSTEM:

High availability, efficiency, and power density are targets


for the dc/dc converter and they can be achieved through the use
of SRC. Considering the HV specifications, a transformer with
high turns ratio should be employed. But HV transformers suffer
from the impact of leakage inductance, which can lead to high
overshoots across the switching semiconductors. Through the
use of a series resonant tank, the leakage inductance can now be
incorporated in the tank and actually help reducing losses. For
high-power operation, the topology has been investigated mainly
in traction applications and in solid-state transformer. Operated
at constant frequency and in sub resonant mode it is known as
half cycle DCM SRC (HC-DCMSRC). For these particular
applications, the converter couples two dc-link voltages with a
fixed voltage transfer ratio, but has no control possibilities .For a
wind turbine on the other hand, the dc/dc converter must have
the functionality of controlling the LV dc bus voltage, while
offering galvanic separation and a HV gain.
DRAWBACKS:
 Operated at resonant mode and with constant frequency,
while a front end boost converter controls the input dc-link,
increasing, thus, number of components, complexity, and
losses.
PROPOSED SYSTEM:
The proposed topology is composed of: low voltage (LV)
inverter, one monolithic transformer (with one primary and
secondary winding) and a medium voltage (MV) rectifier built
with series connected diodes.

Power flows from Vin to Vout. The switch pairs (S1/S2) and
(S3/S4)), operate at a 50% duty cycle. Determining (S1,S2) as
leading leg, will generate Q1 and Q2 subintervals. while if
(S3,S4) is the leading leg, will Commutation of switches on the
leading leg is phase shifted with respect to the conduction of
switches on the lagging leg, with a duration δ, equal to a
resonant period, resulting in a quasi square excitation voltage .
The applied square wave voltage passes through the transformer
(Vg referred to rectifier side is V_ g) and excites the tank and a
resonant tank current irs starts to flow. After rectification and
filtering it is fed into the MV network, Vout. Up to this point
there is no operational difference compared to a constant
frequency phase shift control, which is normally applied for
operation in super-resonant mode, to achieve ZVS at turn on. As
IGBTs are employed, ZCS or a low current at turn off is
necessary, so SRC# operates in sub resonant mode.
ADVANTAGES:
 High efficiency
 Low transformer size

APPLICATIONS:
 High voltage transmission system

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