Controller-Hardware-in-the-Loop Test Bed for Fast-Switching SiC-Based 50-kW PV Inverter: Preprint

Akanksha Singh; Kumaraguru Prabakar

Controller-Hardware-in-the-Loop Test Bed for Fast-Switching SiC-Based 50-kW PV Inverter: Preprint

Power Systems Engineering

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Abstract

The recent advent of wideband gap power semiconductor devices will lay the path to the future power converters. These devices provide the advantage of high switching speed and lower losses. The high cost and high switching speeds of these devices provide a challenge in the development and validation of the fast switching inverter controls with accuracy of that of a hardware setup. In this paper an FPGA real-time simulator-based controller-hardware-in-the-loop (CHIL) testbed is used to verify the low-level and advanced inverter controls fast switching wide bandgap-based string photovoltaic inverter. The paper also includes development of the CHIL testbed, which is run at a time-step of 500 ns in order to implement 20 kHz switching frequency. The developed CHIL testbed is validated through experimental results from a three-phase, 50 kW, 480VLLrms SiC devices based inverter.

Original language	American English
Number of pages	10
State	Published - 2019
Event	44th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (IECON) - Washington, D.C. Duration: 21 Oct 2018 → 23 Oct 2018

Conference

Conference	44th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (IECON)
City	Washington, D.C.
Period	21/10/18 → 23/10/18

Bibliographical note

See NREL/CP-5D00-73466 for paper as published in IEEE proceedings

NREL Publication Number

NREL/CP-5D00-71544

Keywords

CHIL
Controller-Hardware-In-the-Loop
inverter
photovoltaic
PV
SiC

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Controller-Hardware-in-the-Loop Test Bed for Fast-Switching SiC-Based 50-kW PV Inverter: Preprint

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