THREE DIMENSIONAL REPRESENTATION OF HARMONIC ANALYSIS RESULTS WITH SURFACE FITTING IN POWER ELECTRONICS APPLICATIONS
Abstract
Power semiconductor devices constitute the base of modern power electronics apparatus. They are used in power electronics converters in the form of a matrix of on-off switches, and help to convert power from ac-to-dc (rectifier), dc-to-dc (chopper), dc-to-ac (inverter), and ac-to-ac (ac controller, cycloconverter, matrix converter). The switching mode power conversion gives high efficiency; but the disadvantage is that harmonics are generated at both the supply and load sides due to the nonlinearty of switches. The harmonic currents generated by the power electronics related-equipment flow through the utility system and cause various power quality problems. Most of the power switches have different operating conditions; thus, they generate different order and different amplitude harmonics. Harmonics can be determined by harmonic analysis. Harmonic analysis result conventionally shows all harmonics’ features just for one operating condition. If harmonic analysis results at different operating conditions are displayed in same graphic, some confusion may occur. In this study, to prevent this confusion, a new method to represent harmonic analysis results is introduced. The proposed method shows harmonics in 3D space.
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Primary Language
English
Subjects
Engineering
Journal Section
Research Article
Authors
Publication Date
May 15, 2006
Submission Date
February 15, 2006
Acceptance Date
April 15, 2006
Published in Issue
Year 2006 Number: 010