TY - GEN
T1 - Development and Validation of a SiC Based 50 kW Grid-Connected PV Inverter
AU - Singh, Akanksha
AU - Chinthavali, Madhu
AU - Sudhoff, Scott
AU - Bennion, Kevin
AU - Prabakar, Kumaraguru
AU - Feng, Xuhui
AU - Wang, Zhiqiang
AU - Campbell, Steven
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 IEEE.
PY - 2018/12/3
Y1 - 2018/12/3
N2 - The future power grid will involve increasing numbers of power converters while growing the complexity of the power systems. The future of the power converters is driven by developments in the wide-bandgap semiconductor devices. In this paper, a 50-kW string photovoltaic (PV) inverter designed and developed using all silicon carbide (SiC) semiconductor devices is presented. The inverter design includes an additively manufactured power block, symmetrical Y-core inductors for the ac-side filter, and advanced inverter controls for grid support functionality. This inverter uses the conventional three-phase voltage source inverter topology and optimizes the design for SiC-based devices. The paper includes details on power module design, heatsink optimization, symmetrical Y-core filter inductor design, inverter thermal design, and further experimental validation of the inverter performance. In addition to presenting the quantification of inverter efficiency and quality of the output, the paper presents the validation of advanced grid-support functions required by the IEEE 1547 standards for the interconnection of distributed energy resources.
AB - The future power grid will involve increasing numbers of power converters while growing the complexity of the power systems. The future of the power converters is driven by developments in the wide-bandgap semiconductor devices. In this paper, a 50-kW string photovoltaic (PV) inverter designed and developed using all silicon carbide (SiC) semiconductor devices is presented. The inverter design includes an additively manufactured power block, symmetrical Y-core inductors for the ac-side filter, and advanced inverter controls for grid support functionality. This inverter uses the conventional three-phase voltage source inverter topology and optimizes the design for SiC-based devices. The paper includes details on power module design, heatsink optimization, symmetrical Y-core filter inductor design, inverter thermal design, and further experimental validation of the inverter performance. In addition to presenting the quantification of inverter efficiency and quality of the output, the paper presents the validation of advanced grid-support functions required by the IEEE 1547 standards for the interconnection of distributed energy resources.
KW - Advanced grid-support functions
KW - Inverter validation
KW - PV inverter
KW - SiC inverter
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85060313733&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/ECCE.2018.8557392
DO - 10.1109/ECCE.2018.8557392
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85060313733
T3 - 2018 IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition, ECCE 2018
SP - 6165
EP - 6172
BT - 2018 IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition, ECCE 2018
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 10th Annual IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition, ECCE 2018
Y2 - 23 September 2018 through 27 September 2018
ER -
