IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON POWER ELECTRONICS, VOL. 29, NO. 12, DECEMBER 2014
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Bandwidth Expansion Method for Circulating
Current Control in Parallel Three-phase PWM
Converter Connection System
Zhang Xueguang, Member, IEEE, Chen Jiaming, Ma Yan, Wang Yijie, and Xu Dianguo, Senior Member, IEEE
Abstract—The use of common dc-link parallel three-phase PWM parallel module and degrade the overall performance of the par-
converters without isolating transformers will cause zero-sequence
circulating current problem. Previous works have proven that the
circulating current is mainly affected by zero vectors employed in
each PWM cycle. This paper proposes a novel method to suppress
allel system. Consequently, circulating current suppression has
become a focus in this field [4].
The zero-sequence circulating path can be cut open by using
an isolating transformer at ac side [5], but the parallel system will
the circulating current. Detailed analysis is presented on the causes
of zero-sequence circulating current based on a derived average become costly and bulky. Using separate dc power supply will
model. A zero vectors feed-forward control strategy in combina-
tion with traditional PI control method is proposed to reject dis-
turbances in zero-axis current system. In addition, a dual current
sampling and dual PWM duty ratio update (DSDU) scheme is used
encounter similar problems [6]. For parallel systems with both
common dc-link and ac bus to reduce costs and size, interphase
reactors may be used to provide high zero-sequence impedance
[7], [8]. Nevertheless, the reactors cannot prevent low-frequency
to expand the bandwidth of zero-axis current loop. As a result, bet-
ter circulating current suppression performance can be achieved in components in the circulating current.
different filter inductance and converter output currents condition.
The mechanism of circulating current has been analyzed
Compared with the PI control method, the converters operated in
parallel can be switched on and switched off separately with small
current impact. Experimental results confirm the performance and
effectiveness of the proposed method.
in pervious works [9], [10]. The paralleled converters can be
centrally controlled as one converter [11], for example, a two-
converter parallel system can be controlled as a six-phase con-
verter, however, whereas design of this control system will
be complicated. Special PWM techniques are proposed to in-
hibit the circulating current [12]–[14]. The discontinuous space
modulation-based interleaved PWM method would effectively
reduce the circulating current, but it would result in high cur-
rent ripple in converter output currents, and this drawback may
be alleviated by the phase-shifted scheme proposed in [13]. The
proposed HEPWM method of Chen [14] would effectively elim-
inate both the high-frequency and low-frequency components
of circulating current, but it suffers from high switching losses.
Due to the fact that the zero-sequence circulating current is
mainly affected by zero vectors employed in each PWM cycle,
control method for decreasing common mode voltage distur-
bance with multicarrier technique is proposed by Hou [15]. The
multicarrier can effectively mitigate the circulating current by
means of nullifying the use of zero vectors. On the other hand,
the circulating current control method for SVPWM technique
was discussed in [16]. A control variable was introduced to ad-
just the distribution of zero vectors in each PWM cycle with
a proportional integral (PI) controller. However, the limitations
to the bandwidth of zero-axis circulating current loop is rarely
discussed. Nonlinear control methods were also presented to
resist the circulating current [17], [18], yet the algorithms are
too complicated to implement. An open-loop control method
is proposed in [19] and the control methods on zero-sequence
circulating current caused by dead time effect [20] has been
developed.
Index Terms—Bandwidth expansion, circuiting currents control,
DSDU, module parallel connection, three-phase PWM converter,
zero vectors feed-forward.
I. INTRODUCTION
HREE-PHASEPWM converter hasbeenwidelyemployed
in low-voltage high-current applications [1]–[3] owing to
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its advanced features. As the capacity of converter is increased,
the use of parallel three-phase converters has become more pop-
ular due to its simplicity, low cost, and high flexibility. However,
when the common dc-link converters are connected in parallel
without using of isolating transformers, the zero-sequence cir-
culating current problem will occur. Circulating current can be
produced by the differences in inductors and converter currents,
other aspects such as dead time, measuring errors, analog to digi-
tal conversion, discretization, loose of synchronism between the
carriers cause the circulating current problem. The circulating
current will result in current distortion and harmonic loss in
Manuscript received December 15, 2013; revised February 17, 2014; accepted
February 23, 2014. Date of publication March 11, 2014; date of current version
August 13, 2014. This work was supported in part by the National Natural
Science Foundation of China under Grant 51107020 and Grant 51237002.
Recommended for publication by Associate Editor D. Vinnikov.
The authors are with the Department of Electrical Engineering, Harbin
Institute of Technology, Harbin 150001, China (e-mail: ;
; ; ; xudiang
@hit.edu.cn).
In this paper, an average model of the parallel system is de-
rived to analyze the mechanism of zero-sequence circulating
current with SVPWM modulation technique. It is found that the
circulating current suppression performance can be enhanced by
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