JP6140007B2 - Power converter - Google Patents

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  The present invention relates to a power conversion device that performs power transfer between a three-phase AC voltage source and a DC voltage source.

  Conventionally, a power conversion device that performs power transfer between a three-phase AC voltage source and a DC voltage source is known (see, for example, Patent Document 1). FIG. 5 is a circuit diagram illustrating an example of a conventional power converter that performs power transfer between a three-phase AC voltage source and a DC voltage source. The three-phase full bridge converter 83 is connected to a three-phase AC voltage source 80 via an AC reactor (ACL) 82. In addition, since the output of the three-phase full bridge converter 83 is connected to the capacitor 85, power can be transferred to and from the capacitor 85. However, since the voltage of the capacitor 85 cannot be lower than the maximum line voltage of the three-phase AC voltage source 80, the power transfer between the capacitor 85 and the DC voltage source 6 is performed using the step-up / down chopper 84. Is going. That is, the AC reactor 82, the three-phase full bridge converter 83, the capacitor 85, and the step-up / step-down chopper 84 realize power transfer between the three-phase AC voltage source and a DC voltage source having an arbitrary voltage.

JP 2003-348834 A

  However, in the conventional power converter shown in FIG. 5, the voltage across the switching element is not always zero or the flowing current is zero at the time of switching of the switching element of the three-phase full-bridge converter 83 or the buck-boost chopper 84. Since there is nothing, hard switching occurs and switching loss occurs. Since the switching loss is proportional to the switching frequency, the switching frequency cannot be increased in order to increase the efficiency of the system. Then, in order to suppress the ripple current flowing in the inductor in the AC reactor 82 and the step-up / down chopper 84, it is necessary to increase the inductance of the inductor in the AC reactor 82 and the step-up / down chopper 84. As a result, the AC reactor 82 and the There is a problem that the size of the inductor in the step-up / down chopper 84 becomes large. In addition, because of hard switching, there is a problem that the temporal change rate of the current and voltage in the circuit becomes very large at the time of switching, and large electromagnetic noise is generated due to switching.

  An object of the present invention made in view of such circumstances is to provide a power conversion device capable of transferring power between a three-phase AC voltage source and a DC voltage source while maintaining soft switching. .

  In order to solve the above problems, a power conversion device according to the present invention includes a three-phase AC voltage source, three power conversion units, and a DC voltage source, a capacitor is connected in parallel to a switching element, and a diode is connected in antiparallel. A power conversion device that transfers power between a three-phase AC voltage source and a DC voltage source using the switched snubber switch, wherein the power conversion unit is a switch with a snubber in which a cathode of a diode is connected to a positive terminal A first phase bridge, a second phase bridge, a third phase bridge, and a fourth phase bridge connected in series in the same direction via a connection terminal to a switch with a snubber whose anode is connected to the anode of a diode The first phase bridge and the second phase bridge are connected in parallel, the third phase bridge and the fourth phase bridge are connected in parallel, and The phase bridge and the second phase bridge, and the third phase bridge and the fourth phase bridge are connected via a load, and each positive terminal of the first phase bridge is the three-phase bridge. Connected to each phase of the AC voltage source, the respective negative terminals are short-circuited to each other, the fourth phase bridge is short-circuited to each positive terminal, the respective negative terminals are short-circuited, and the first The DC voltage source is connected in parallel to any one of the four phase bridges, and a primary voltage which is a voltage of the connection terminal of the first phase bridge with respect to the connection terminal of the second phase bridge is half The snubbered switch of the first phase bridge and the second switch so as to alternately repeat the voltage of the three-phase AC voltage source and the inverted voltage of the voltage in a phase period γ through a zero voltage every cycle. Phase bridge The switch with a nut is switched, and the secondary voltage, which is the voltage of the connection terminal of the third phase bridge with respect to the connection terminal of the fourth phase bridge, has the same frequency as the primary voltage, and the phase is higher than the primary voltage. The third voltage is alternately delayed by (180 degrees−control angle δ), and the voltage of the DC voltage source and the inverted voltage of the voltage are alternately repeated in the phase period γ via a zero voltage every half cycle. The switch with snubber of the fourth phase bridge and the switch with snubber of the fourth phase bridge are switched.

  Furthermore, in the power converter according to the present invention, the load of the power converter is connected to a first inductor connected to a connection terminal of the first phase bridge and a connection terminal of the third phase bridge. A primary winding is connected between the second inductor formed, and the connection terminal of the first inductor and the second phase bridge, and the connection terminal of the second inductor and the fourth phase bridge And a transformer to which a secondary winding is connected.

  Furthermore, in the power converter according to the present invention, the phase period γ is a linear function of the control angle δ with a value of zero or more as an intercept.

  According to the present invention, it is possible to transfer power while maintaining soft switching between a three-phase AC voltage source and a DC voltage source. Therefore, there are effects that electromagnetic wave noise and switching loss can be reduced, the switching frequency can be increased, and the inductor can be reduced. Furthermore, AC reactors can be reduced.

It is a circuit diagram showing the 1st example of the power converter concerning one embodiment of the present invention. It is a circuit diagram showing an example of a power converter which performs electric power transfer between direct-current voltage sources. It is a figure which shows the example of an operating voltage waveform of the circuit diagram of FIG. In the power converter device which concerns on one Embodiment of this invention, it is a figure which shows the voltage waveform of the positive electrode terminal seen from the negative electrode terminal of each phase bridge | bridging. It is a circuit diagram showing an example of the power converter circuit between the conventional three-phase alternating current voltage source and direct current voltage source. It is a circuit diagram showing the 2nd example of the power converter device concerning one embodiment of the present invention.

  Hereinafter, an embodiment of a power conversion device according to the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings.

  FIG. 2 is a circuit diagram illustrating an example of a power converter that performs power transfer between DC voltage sources. The power conversion device 100 includes a DC voltage source 5, a power conversion unit 30, and a DC voltage source 6. The phase bridge 1 includes a switch 21 with a snubber whose cathode terminal is connected to the positive electrode terminal and a switch 22 with a snubber whose anode terminal is connected to the anode of the diode in series in the same direction via the connection terminal. Consists of. Similarly, the phase bridge 2 includes a switch 23 with a snubber and a switch 24 with a snubber, the phase bridge 3 includes a switch 25 with a snubber and a switch 26 with a snubber, and the phase bridge 4 includes a switch 27 with a snubber and a switch 28 with a snubber. Consists of Here, the switch with snubber means a switch in which a diode is connected in antiparallel to a switching element capable of switching a unidirectional current, and a capacitor is connected in parallel.

  Phase bridge 1 and phase bridge 2 are connected in parallel, and phase bridge 3 and phase bridge 4 are similarly connected in parallel. The phase bridge 1 and the phase bridge 2, and the phase bridge 3 and the phase bridge 4 are connected via a load. In FIG. 2, external inductors 11 and 12 and a transformer 8 are used as loads. As another example, an inductor is connected between the connection terminal of the phase bridge 1 and the connection terminal of the phase bridge 3. The connection terminal 2 and the connection terminal of the phase bridge 4 may be short-circuited.

  The high potential side of the DC voltage source 5 is connected to the positive terminals of the phase bridge 1 and the phase bridge 2, and the low potential side of the DC voltage source 5 is connected to the negative terminals of the phase bridge 1 and the phase bridge 2. The phase bridge 1 and the phase bridge 2 constitute a bridge circuit. Similarly, the high potential side of the DC voltage source 6 is connected to the positive terminals of the phase bridge 3 and the phase bridge 4, and the low potential side of the DC voltage source 6 is connected to the negative terminals of the phase bridge 3 and the phase bridge 4. The voltage source 6, the phase bridge 3 and the phase bridge 4 constitute a bridge circuit.

  The primary winding of the transformer 8 is connected to the external inductor 11 and the connection terminal of the phase bridge 2, and the other external inductor 11 is connected to the connection terminal of the phase bridge 1. Similarly, the secondary winding of the transformer 8 is connected to the external inductor 12 and the connection terminal of the phase bridge 4, and the other external inductor 12 is connected to the connection terminal of the phase bridge 3.

  All switches with snubbers perform switching at the same frequency with a duty ratio of 50%. The snubbered switches 22, 24, 26, and 28 perform switching in an inverting operation through the dead times of the snubbered switches 21, 23, 25, and 27, respectively.

FIG. 3 is a diagram illustrating operation waveforms of the power conversion device 100 illustrated in FIG. 2. The voltage V ₁ is the voltage (primary voltage) of the connection terminal of the phase bridge 1 with respect to the connection terminal of the phase bridge 2, and there is a zero voltage period every half cycle. The voltage V ₂ is the voltage at the connection terminals of the phase bridge 3 for connecting terminals of a phase bridge 4 (secondary voltage), the zero voltage period exists for each half cycle. The phase of the secondary voltage V ₂ is delayed from the primary voltage V ₁ by (180 degrees−control angle δ). The control angle δ is determined by the transmission power amount and is given by the control. When the control angle δ is zero, the polarities of the primary voltage V ₁ and the secondary voltage V ₂ are reversed. When the control angle δ is given as shown in FIG. 3, power can be transferred from the DC voltage source 5 to the DC voltage source 6.

The phase period γ is a phase period in which the primary voltage V ₁ or the secondary voltage V ₂ outputs the voltage or the inverted voltage of the DC voltage sources 5 and 6. Further, the control angle δ is changed from the phase in which the secondary voltage V ₂ is switched from the inverted voltage −E ₂ of the DC voltage source 6 to the zero voltage, and the primary voltage V ₁ is switched from the voltage E ₁ of the DC voltage source 5 to the zero voltage. The period up to the phase. The magnitudes of the currents I _{1 to} I _{4 at} the times t _{1 to} t _{8 at which the} primary voltage V ₁ and the secondary voltage V _{2 in} FIG. 3 are switched are expressed by the equations (1) to (4). Further, for the transmission power P, when the primary voltage V ₁ , the secondary voltage V _2, and the current I are shown in FIG. 3, the equation (5) can be derived from the waveform of the primary voltage V _{1 and} the waveform of the current I.

  Here, the angular frequency ω = 2πf, f is the switching frequency, L is the inductance of the load, and in the example shown in FIG. 2, it is the combined inductance of the external inductors 11 and 12 and the transformer 8. Since Expression (5) shows that the transmission power P can be controlled using the control angle δ, the control angle δ can be used as the control angle of the transmission power P.

In the switching operation at time t ₁ when the primary voltage V ₁ switches from zero voltage to + E ₁ , the snubbered switch 22 is turned off, and the snubbered switch 21 is turned on after the dead time period elapses. Since turn-off snubber with the switch 22 is rising rate of the voltage across the snubber with the switch 22 by the capacitor C ₂ of the snubber with the switch 22 is suppressed, the switching loss of the snubber with the switch 22 can be turned off at zero voltage switching of zero.

When the polarity of the current I when the snubber with the switch 22 is turned off as the time t ₁ is negative, the current I is diverted to the capacitor C ₂ of the capacitor C ₁ and the snubber with the switch 22 of the snubber with the switch 21, the capacitor Resonance with C ₁ , C ₂ , the external inductors 11 and 12, and the leakage inductor of the transformer 8 starts. Current I discharges the C ₁ by charging the C _2, the voltage of C ₂ conducts the diode D ₁ is the the snubber with the switch 1 discharge until the voltage of the charged C ₁ is zero to E _1.

In this case, it is the absolute value of the current I is to conduct the diode D ₁ and capacitor C ₁ during the dead time period greater than the predetermined value I _min is discharged to zero voltage. Therefore, at the time of turn-on of the snubber with the switch 21 be turned on in a state in which current flows through diode D _1, switching loss can be turned on at zero voltage switching of zero. It is a soft switching by zero voltage switching in the same phenomenon at time t ₂ ~t _8. However at each switching point of time _t 1 ~t _8, the polarity of the time _{t 2, t 3, t 4} , t 5 the current I is positive, the time _{t 1,} the polarity at _{t 6,} t _7, t ₈ is negative The absolute value of the current I needs to be larger than the predetermined value _Imin .

For example, conditions for the primary voltage V ₁ is performing zero voltage switching at toggle its time t ₁ to the voltage E ₁ of the zero voltage is the polarity of the current I is negative, the absolute value of I is equal to or higher than the predetermined value I _min That is. Here, the predetermined value I _min is the minimum current required for charging and discharging the snubber capacitor during the dead time period. In order to make I ₁ to I ₄ equal to or greater than the predetermined value I _min , from FIG. 3, | I ₃ |, | I ₄ |> | I ₁ |, | I ₂ |, so | I ₁ |, | I ₂ |> I _min . Conditions for soft switching are expressed by equations (1) and (2) to equation (6). When the phase period γ is obtained from Equation (6), Equation (7) is obtained. Expression (7) is decomposed into Expression (8) and Expression (9), and G in Expression (9) takes a value of 1 to 2.

The max (E ₁ , E ₂ ) in the equations (6), (7), (9) means that the larger _one of E ₁ and E ₂ is selected. As described above, γ is a phase period during which the voltage E ₁ of the DC voltage source 5 or its inverted voltage −E ₁ is output to the primary voltage V ₁ , and the voltage E ₂ of the DC voltage source 6 or its inverted voltage. -E ₂ is also a phase period is output to the _{V 2.} Since the value of β (referred to as “adjustment angle” in this specification) in Equation (8) does not fluctuate greatly, assuming that it is a constant value obtained in advance, the phase period γ has the adjustment angle β as an intercept and the control angle δ. It becomes a proportional linear function and can be easily obtained.

Thus, the phase period γ can be obtained from the adjustment angle β and the control angle δ. Therefore, if the switching is performed so that the primary voltage V ₁ has a waveform as shown in FIG. 3, a current I having an absolute value equal to or greater than the predetermined value I _min may flow at all switching points from time t ₁ to time t _8. And soft switching by zero voltage switching is possible.

  FIG. 1 is a circuit diagram showing a power converter according to an embodiment of the present invention. The power converter 10 shown in FIG. 1 includes a three-phase AC voltage source 80, three power converters 30 shown in FIG. In the connection method, each phase of the three-phase AC voltage source 80 is connected to the positive terminal of the phase bridge 1 of each power conversion unit 30, and all three negative terminals of the phase bridge 1 are short-circuited. Further, the DC voltage source 6 is one for the entire power converter 10 and is connected in parallel to any one of the three phase bridges 4. In addition, all three positive terminals of the phase bridge 4 are short-circuited, and similarly, all three negative terminals of the phase bridge 4 are short-circuited.

Similar to the voltage waveform shown in FIG. 3, the primary voltage V ₁ , which is the voltage waveform of the connection terminal of each phase bridge 1 from the connection terminal of each phase bridge 2, passes through the zero voltage every half cycle. The switches 21 and 22 with snubbers of the phase bridge 1 and the switches 23 and 24 with snubbers of the phase bridge 2 so that the voltage of each phase of the three-phase AC voltage source 80 and the inverted voltage of the voltage are alternately repeated in the period γ. Are switched. The secondary voltage V ₂ is a voltage at the connection terminals of each phase bridge 3 from the connection terminals of each phase bridge 4, the phase from the primary voltages V ₁ at the same frequency as the primary voltages V ₁ (180 ° - The switch 25 with the snubber of the phase bridge 3 is alternately delayed by the control angle δ) so that the voltage of the DC voltage source 6 and the inverted voltage of the voltage are alternately repeated in the phase period γ through the zero voltage every half cycle. , 26 and switches 27, 28 with snubber of phase bridge 4 are switched.

  The power converter 10 shown in FIG. 1 is connected to the phase bridge 1 in parallel with each phase of the three-phase AC voltage source 80 instead of the DC voltage source 5 as compared with the power converter 100 shown in FIG. The difference is that it is connected to. The negative terminal of the phase bridge 1 is a neutral point of the three-phase AC voltage source 80.

  FIG. 4 is a diagram illustrating a voltage waveform of the positive terminal viewed from the negative terminal of each phase bridge 1. 0 indicates the neutral point potential. By reducing the potential at the neutral point as shown in FIG. 4, the potential at the positive terminal viewed from the negative terminal of the phase bridge 1 of each power converter 30 is always positive. In FIG. 4, the minimum voltage of the positive terminal viewed from the negative terminal of the phase bridge 1 is assumed to be higher by A [V] than the potential at the neutral point. The voltage of the three-phase AC voltage source 80 has a larger amount of change than the DC voltage source 5 of the circuit of FIG. 2, but if the voltage polarity is regarded as a constant DC voltage, soft switching is performed according to the method shown in FIG. Power conversion is possible.

  FIG. 6 is a circuit diagram illustrating a modification of the power conversion device 10. In the example shown in FIG. 1, the power converter 10 connects the phase bridges 1 and 2 and the phase bridges 3 and 4 via external inductors 11 and 12 and a transformer 8. As shown, it may be connected via an external inductor 7. However, by using the transformer 8 as shown in FIG. 1, the input and output can be electrically insulated and safety can be improved.

  Thus, the power conversion device according to the present invention is a power conversion device capable of transferring power between a three-phase AC primary voltage source and a DC secondary voltage source. It is possible to maintain the soft switching by dulling the rising edge. Thus, electromagnetic noise and switching loss can be greatly reduced.

  The present invention is useful for any application that transfers power between an AC voltage and a DC voltage. For example, it can be used for power transfer between an inverter of wind power generation and a system voltage.

1-4 phase bridge 5,6 DC voltage source 7, 11, 12 External inductor 8 Transformer 10 Power converter 21-28 Switch with snubber 30 Power converter 80 Three-phase AC voltage source

Claims (3)

A three-phase AC voltage source and a DC voltage using a switch with a snubber comprising a three-phase AC voltage source, three power converters, and a DC voltage source, with a capacitor connected in parallel and a diode connected in reverse parallel to the switching element. A power converter for transferring power between sources,
The power converter includes a first switch in which a switch with a snubber whose cathode is connected to a positive electrode terminal and a switch with a snubber whose anode is connected to a negative electrode are connected in series in the same direction via a connection terminal. A phase bridge, a second phase bridge, a third phase bridge, and a fourth phase bridge,
The first phase bridge and the second phase bridge are connected in parallel, the third phase bridge and the fourth phase bridge are connected in parallel, and the first phase bridge and the second phase bridge The third phase bridge and the fourth phase bridge are connected via a load,
In the first phase bridge, each positive terminal is connected to each phase of the three-phase AC voltage source, and each negative terminal is short-circuited,
In the fourth phase bridge, the positive terminals are short-circuited to each other, the negative terminals are short-circuited to each other,
The DC voltage source is connected in parallel to any one of the fourth phase bridges;
The primary voltage, which is the voltage of the connection terminal of the first phase bridge with respect to the connection terminal of the second phase bridge, is the voltage of the three-phase AC voltage source in the phase period γ via a zero voltage every half cycle. And the switch with snubber of the first phase bridge and the switch with snubber of the second phase bridge are switched so as to alternately repeat the voltage and the inverted voltage of the voltage,
The secondary voltage, which is the voltage of the connection terminal of the third phase bridge with respect to the connection terminal of the fourth phase bridge, has a phase that is 180 degrees minus the control angle δ at the same frequency as the primary voltage. ), And the third phase bridge snubber switch so as to alternately repeat the voltage of the DC voltage source and the inverted voltage of the voltage in the phase period γ through a zero voltage every half cycle. And the switch with a snubber of said 4th phase bridge is switched, The power converter device characterized by the above-mentioned. The load of the power converter is
A first inductor connected to a connection terminal of the first phase bridge;
A second inductor connected to a connection terminal of the third phase bridge;
A primary winding is connected between the first inductor and the connection terminal of the second phase bridge, and a secondary winding is connected between the second inductor and the connection terminal of the fourth phase bridge. A transformer connected to the
The power conversion device according to claim 1, comprising: 3. The power converter according to claim 1, wherein the phase period γ is a linear function of the control angle δ with an intercept of a value equal to or greater than zero.

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