A unidirectional DC-DC autotransformer for DC grid application

Meng Zhou; Wang Xiang; Wenping Zuo; Weixing Lin; Jinyu Wen

doi:10.3390/en11030530

A unidirectional DC-DC autotransformer for DC grid application

Meng Zhou, Wang Xiang, Wenping Zuo, Weixing Lin, Jinyu Wen

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Conventional unidirectional DC-DC converters for DC grid application employ DC-AC-DC two-stage conversion technology and suffer from high converter cost and power loss. To solve these issues, a unidirectional step-up DC-DC autotransformer (UUDAT) and a unidirectional step-down DC-DC autotransformer (DUDAT) are studied. The UUDAT and DUDAT are composed of a series connection of diode bridges and voltage source converters. Topologies of UUDAT and DUDAT are detailed. The harmonic and un-controllability issues are discussed. Control and possible application scenarios for UUDAT and DUDAT are depicted. DC fault isolation mechanism and the methods of dimensioning the voltage and power ratings of the components in UUDAT and DUDAT are studied. Extensive simulations on power system level and experiments on a UUDAT and DUDAT prototype verified their technical feasibility.

Original language	English
Article number	530
Number of pages	16
Journal	Energies
Volume	11
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3390/en11030530
Publication status	Published - 1 Mar 2018

Keywords

DC power systems
DC power transmission
DC-DC power conversion
HVDC circuit creakers
HVDC transmission

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