Latest ArticlesA novel low delay and low power consumption low-to-high level shift circuit with a logic correction function is proposed, which uses a low delay level shift circuit and a low power consumption level shift circuit to work in parallel. After the logic is corrected, the low level between 1 V and 1.5 V is converted to a high level of 5 V, so this circuit can be widely applied in GaN driver circuits. Based on the 0.5 µm BCD process, 1.5 V power supply low voltage and 5 V power supply high voltage, the circuit is verified at 5 MHz. Results show that although the layout area of this circuit increases as a whole, the rise and fall delays are reduced to 2.3 ns and 1.8 ns, respectively, with a total power consumption current of only 11 μΑ.
For an LCL-type inverter connected to weak grid, the appearance of grid impedance often results in a decrease in the phase margin, serious distortion of grid-connected current and even system instability. To solve this problem, an improved grid-connected current control strategy is proposed, in which a multi-resonance controller is introduced in the voltage feedforward loop to suppress the voltage background harmonics and a phase compensator is added to the current feedforward loop to improve the system's phase margin, so as to avoid the risk that the resonance peak of the multi-resonance link intersects with the -180° line. Theoretical analysis and simulation results show that the proposed strategy can effectively suppress the harmonics of LCL-type grid-connected current, improve the current quality and enhance the stability of the grid-connected system.
When the improved droop control based on virtual impedance is adopted in island microgrid, the problem of inaccurate distribution of reactive power and reactive power circulation will still occur with the changing line impedance due to the fixed value of virtual impedance. To solve this problem, a virtual impedance prediction model based on partial least squares regression (PLSR) is proposed, which uses the line impedance value and the system impedance value before compensation to predict the virtual impedance value and realizes the adaptive virtual impedance, thus overcoming the problem in the improved droop control based on virtual impedance. There is no need to detect the real-time power value and circulation value, and the use of communication network is not required. Furthermore, from a comparison with the prediction results obtained by neural network models, it is proved that the prediction accuracy of the virtual impedance prediction model based on PLSR is better. At last, a simulation system of microgrid is constructed in MATLAB/Simulink to verify the adaptive virtual impedance, and simulation results show the superiority of the proposed model.
At present, the physical parameters of a lithium battery cycle life model are difficult to obtain, and the parameter identification process needs a lot of experimental data and a long test time. In addition, it is difficult and expensive to simulate the cycling effect of lithium-ion batteries. On this basis, in order to explore the electrical stimulation of lithium-ion battery aging (due to cycling) and its effect on the battery capacity and internal resistance, a novel cycle life model of lithium-ion battery is proposed. First, a simple physical equation is established based on the fatigue theory and equivalent cycle counting. The parameter identification process is simple, requiring only a small amount of data in the battery data table and a limited (or short) cycle test. The proposed model is general and can represent the effects of common cycle life factors such as depth-of-discharge, temperature and C rate. Finally, two kinds of lithium-ion batteries (i.e., LFP-LiFePO4 and NMC-LiNiMnCoO2) are used to verify the model. The simulation results are close to the actual situation, and the error is within 1.5% compared with the experimental results.
A novel single-switch high-gain converter with no transformers and no coupled inductors is studied in this paper. Since the voltage lifting unit is added to the Boost converter, the voltage gain of the converter is improved, the voltage stresses of the switch and diodes are reduced, and the conduction loss of the switch is reduced under the condition of a small duty cycle. As a result, the efficiency of the converter is improved. To further improve the dynamic performance and anti-disturbance capability of the converter, the immune feedback mechanism is introduced based on the analysis of a single neuron controller. A fuzzy immune-single neuron PID control strategy is studied in this paper, in which the fuzzy immune control is combined with the single neuron smart controller to realize self-tuning of the single neuron proportional coefficient. Finally, a simulation study of the proposed converter and control strategy was carried out, and an prototype with an output of 200 V/0.5 A was designed for experimental verification. Both the simulation and experimental results show that the proposed converter can obtain a higher voltage gain under a smaller duty cycle. Compared with the traditional PID control strategy, the proposed fuzzy immune-single neuron PID control strategy can more effectively suppress system disturbances and improve the dynamic performance of the converter, indicating a stronger adaptive capability and a stronger robustness.
According to the demand of enterprises which produce UPS, a condition based maintenance(CBM) management system of UPS based on extended Kalman filter(EKF)-Markov is designed. Under the permission of users, the status data of online position and real-time operation of the equipment is visualized by using the geographic information system. Compared with the traditional post-maintenance scheme, the weighted method is used in data preprocessing to model the CBM of the data-driven collected information and reduce differences caused by different types of data. The EKF is used to eliminate the influence of noise on the sampling results, and the average error of state-of-charge(SOC)predicted using the algorithm is 0.434 3%. Combined with the Markov decision process, the UPS battery state is analyzed, the health management and CBM strategy in charge-change mode is implemented, and the maintenance time is reduced by 57.12% on average. Results show that compared with the traditional maintenance, the state prediction and health management system can improve the maintenance efficiency and accelerate the transformation from traditional planned maintenance to CBM mode.
The smooth switching between grid-connected and islanded microgrid operation modes and the stability of system frequency are important guarantees for the safe and stable operation of a master-slave microgrid system. Combined with the operating characteristics of the microgrid system, an off-grid switching method based on phase angle switching is proposed, and a pre-synchronization control module is added to make sure that the grid phase is quickly tracked and compensated when the islanded mode is switched to the grid-connected mode, thereby solving the problem of shocks in the output voltage and current from master and slave inverters in switching. To ensure the frequency stability of the microgrid system, a V-F frequency control strategy based on fuzzy droop control is proposed and further applied to the smooth switching based on phase angle switching, so that the system frequency is basically maintained at 50 Hz and the problems of large oscillations in voltage and current and frequency shocks in switching are avoided. Finally, an experimental platform was built to verify the effectiveness and stability of the proposed method.
The energy storage battery pack consists of a large number of low-voltage battery cells. The states-of-charge (SOC) of cells are different due to the difference in their characteristics, which causes some cells to be over-discharged during the charging process. To avoid this phenomenon, a equalizing charger based on multi-winding transformer and cascaded double-voltage rectifiers is proposed, and its characteristics are compared with those of a centralized passive equalizing charger. Its operation principle is analyzed, and its equivalent circuit is obtained. The buffer inductance of the novel equalizing charger and the turn ratio of the transformer are also optimized. A control strategy of single voltage-loop is put forward, which can guarantee the charging at two stages, i.e., constant-current and constant-voltage. In addition, the influence of the voltage difference between cells on the transformer operation is analyzed. Simulation results show that the proposed charger can achieve a high charging efficiency while satisfying the requirement of voltage equalization between cells.
To satisfy the low sampling frequency, low computational cost and high accuracy requirements of renewable energy generation systems in the grid voltage detection link, a high-precision discrete-time frequency-locked loop (FLL) which does not need to call trigonometric functions is proposed. First, the open-loop transfer function of discrete-time reduced-order generalized integrator (d-ROGI) is derived according to the expression of voltage based on complex numbers under the static coordinate system. Then, a d-ROGI with a low approximation error is derived according to the relationship between the unknown parameter of the open-loop transfer function and frequency. On this basis, the FLL for estimating the unknown parameter is constructed, the second-order small-signal model of the FLL is established, and the corresponding parameter tuning method is given. Finally, experimental results show that the FLL has a higher detection accuracy at a low sampling frequency than the most commonly used third-order numerical integrator discretization method. At the same time, it has a lower computational cost and requires less storage according to the comparison of computation cost.
Since the existing capacity load ratio calculation methods do not take into account the impact of different voltage levels on AC grid, they cannot ensure the optimization of the reliability and economy of AC grid at the same time. To solve this problem, a capacity load ratio calculation method for AC grid at multiple voltage levels is proposed on the basis of considering voltage levels. The power supply capacities of AC grid in high-and low-voltage modes are calculated, respectively. According to the power supply capacity, the discrete particle swarm optimization algorithm is used to calculate the particle number of capacity load ratio at different voltage levels, and the optimal capacity load ratio calculation results of AC grid at multiple voltage levels are obtained, so as to realize the capacity configuration optimization of AC grid at multiple voltage levels. Experimental results show that the proposed method can optimize the transformer's capacity load ratio, and the power supply reliability, economy and satisfaction score of AC grid are higher.