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Thermally-Compensated Magnetic Core Loss Model for Time-Domain Simulations of Electrical Circuits

Drazen Dujic, Min Luo, Nikolina Djekanovic

This paper introduces a thermally-compensated magnetic hysteresis model, capable of accurately determining core losses of ferrite materials while accounting for core temperature variations. The employed model is based on permeance-capacitance analogy and i ...

2021

Virtual Capacitor Concept for Computationally Efficient and Flexible Real-Time MMC Model

Drazen Dujic, Stefan Milovanovic, Min Luo

This paper demonstrates the splitting of the modular multilevel converter real-time simulation model into several independent parts through the use of the virtual capacitor concept. As a result, the number of state-space matrices the real-time solver needs ...

2021

Virtual Capacitor Concept for Effective Real-Time MMC Simulations

Drazen Dujic, Stefan Milovanovic, Min Luo

In this paper, the real-time simulation model of the modular multilevel converter was split into several independent parts through the use of the virtual capacitor concept. As a result, the number of state-space matrices the real-time solver needs to take ...

2021

Robust and Cost Effective Synchronization Scheme for a Multicell Grid Emulator

Drazen Dujic, Min Luo, Nicolai Hildebrandt

Steadily increasing requirements for grid connected converters, their growing unit power and output voltage call for flexible high-power medium-voltage grid emulators. Four-quadrant cascaded H-bridge topology features high output voltage resolution and hig ...

2021

Modeling and Integrating Losses of Magnetic Components Into Time-Domain Electric Circuit Simulations

Drazen Dujic, Min Luo, Nikolina Djekanovic

To shorten converter design time and maximize the cost efficiency, advanced design tools are needed. These tools need to be capable of performing simulations in multiple relevant converter domains, such as electric, magnetic, dielectric, and thermal, simul ...

IEEE2020

Integrated Simulation Approach to Loss Calculations of Power Converter Systems

Drazen Dujic, Min Luo, Nikolina Djekanovic

There is a strong need in the power electronics community to have design tools capable of performing simultaneous simulations in different domains, e.g. electric, magnetic, dielectric and thermal. Therefore, this paper presents an approach to the calculati ...

2020

Leakage Flux Modeling of Medium-Voltage Phase-Shift Transformers for System-Level Simulations

Drazen Dujic, Min Luo, Jost Allmeling

2018

Leakage Flux Modeling of Multi-Winding Transformers for System-Level Simulations

Drazen Dujic, Min Luo, Jost Allmeling

In multiwinding transformers, different geometry of the individual windings leads to unbalanced leakage flux paths. The unbalance affects the behavior of the power electronic converters, where these transformers are used. This paper proposes an approach to ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2018

Permeance Based Modeling of Magnetic Hysteresis with Inclusion of Eddy Current Effect

Drazen Dujic, Min Luo, Jost Allmeling

Magnetic hysteresis together with eddy current effects are typically present in metal based core materials and contribute significantly to the nonlinearity and power loss of the magnetic components operating in power electronic converters. In order to inve ...

IEEE2018

Dynamic Modeling of Magnetic Components for Circuit Simulation of Power Electronic Systems

Min Luo

Magnetic components play an important role in a power electronic converter system. They provide energy buffering, galvanic isolation and voltage ratio conversion and have significant impact on the overall performance of the system regarding power efficienc ...

EPFL2018