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Multirate Analysis Method for a Power Electronic System by Circuit Partitioning

2009; Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers; Volume: 24; Issue: 12 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1109/tpel.2009.2030959

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Toshiji Kato, Kaoru Inoue, Takayuki Fukutani, Yoshinori Kanda,

Electromagnetic Compatibility and Noise Suppression

Various fast and efficient computation techniques for a power converter simulation have been researched. According to the conventional methods, a single step size for a whole circuit is selected for the numerical integration. A real-power electronic system, however, is multirate in that its currents and voltages nonuniformly vary spatially and temporally, and its subcircuits have different transient rates. A simulation that selected an appropriate step size for each subcircuit independently would, therefore, be more efficient. Several multirate analysis techniques have already been proposed; this paper proposes a new method that divides the whole circuit into subcircuits by applying an explicit integration formula to series inductors and/or parallel capacitors, and then integrates subcircuits by applying an implicit formula with independent integration step sizes. As analysis examples, this method is applied to an ac-dc converter, a benchmark test circuit, and a dc-link inverter control system. The proposed method's effectiveness at reducing computational steps and CPU times is investigated, and its performance and efficiency are validated.