Browsing by Author "Rotella Macchiavello, Mauricio Humberto"

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    Cascaded Nine-Level Inverter for Hybrid-Series Active Power Filter, Using Industrial Controller
    (2010) Varschavsky Páez, Alexander; Dixon Rojas, Juan; Rotella Macchiavello, Mauricio Humberto; Morán, L.
    An industrial controller, specifically designed for two- and three-level converters, was adapted to work on an asymmetrical nine-level active power filter (APF). The controller is now able to make all required tasks for the correct operation of the APF, such as current-harmonic elimination and removal of high-frequency noise. The low switching-frequency operation of the nine-level converter was an important advantage in the application of the industrial controller. In addition, with the nine-level filter, switching losses were significantly reduced. The filter was designed to work as voltage source and operates as harmonic isolator, improving the filtering characteristics of the passive filter. The control strategy for detecting current harmonics is based on the “ p-q theory †and the phase-tracking system in a synchronous reference frame phase-locked loop. The dc-link voltage control is analyzed together with the effect of controller gain and delay time in the system's stability. Simulations for this application are displayed and experiments in a 1-kVA prototype, using the aforementioned industrial controller, were tested, validating the effectiveness of this new application.
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    PWM Method to Eliminate Power Sources in a Nonredundant 27-Level Inverter for Machine Drive Applications
    (IEEE, 2009) Rotella Macchiavello, Mauricio Humberto; Penailillo Salgado, Gonzalo Eduardo; Pereda Torres, Javier Eduardo; Dixon, Juan
    A nonredundant three-stage 27-level inverter using ldquoHrdquo converters is analyzed for medium- and high-power machine drive applications. The main advantage of this converter is the optimization of levels with a minimum number of semiconductors. However, the system needs six bidirectional and isolated power supplies and three more unidirectional if the machine is not using regenerative braking. In this paper, these nine power supplies are reduced to only four, all of them unidirectional, using three strategies: 1) the utilization of independent and isolated windings for each phase of the motor; 2) the utilization of independent input transformers; and 3) the most important of them, the application of special pulsewidth modulation (PWM) strategies on the 27-level converter, to keep positive average power at the medium power bridges and zero average power at the low-power bridges. The generation of this PWM and control of this multiconverter was implemented using DSP controllers, which give flexibility to the system.