Design, Construction, and Testing of a Hysteresis Controlled Inverter for Paralleling

Abstract

The U. S. Navy is pursuing an all electric ship that will require enormous amounts of power for applications such as electric propulsion. Reliability and redundancy in the electronics are imperative, since failure of a critical system could leave a ship stranded and vulnerable. A parallel inverter drive topology has been proposed to provide reliability and redundancy through load sharing. The parallel architecture enables some functionality in the event that one of the inverters fails. This thesis explores paralleling current-mode inverters of different power levels and fidelities. A 50-kVA, three-phase hysteresis controlled inverter is designed built and tested at low power. The inverter is then tested in parallel with a low frequency, bulk inverter to demonstrate current sharing capability.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 2003
Accession Number
ADA418560

Entities

People

  • Paul F. Fillmore

Organizations

  • Naval Postgraduate School

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Advanced Electronics
  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Circuit Boards
  • Computer Simulations
  • Converters
  • Current Source Inverters
  • Digital Signal Processing
  • Electrical Engineering
  • Electronics
  • Electronics Laboratories
  • Frequency
  • Hall Effect
  • Inverters
  • Power Electronics
  • Reliability
  • Sine Waves
  • Voltage Source Inverters
  • Waveforms
  • Wiring Diagrams

Fields of Study

  • Engineering

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  • Electrical Engineering
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Technology Areas

  • Microelectronics
  • Microelectronics - Microelectromechanical Systems