Title |
Performance Analysis for Auxiliary Resonant Commutated Pole Inverter with Clamping Diodes |
Authors |
이윤석(Yoon-Seok Lee) ; 김재혁(Jae-Hyuk Kim) ; 한병문(Byung-Moon Han) |
DOI |
http://doi.org/10.5370/KIEE.2018.67.12.1611 |
Keywords |
Auxiliary resonant commutated pole (ARCP) inverter ; Auxiliary switches ; LC resonant circuit ; Clamping diodes |
Abstract |
This paper proposes a new auxiliary resonant commutated pole (ARCP) inverter which has a modified auxiliary circuit. The proposed auxiliary circuit includes two auxiliary IGBT switches, an LC resonant circuit, and two clamping diodes. In order to analyze the performance of proposed ARCP inverter, computer simulations with PSCAD, and hardware experiments were carried out. Through analyzing the experimental results, it is known that the proposed ARCP inverter offers efficiency improvement of 1.5% compared with the hard-switching inverter. |