Publications by Renan Pillon Barcelos

Voltage Balancing of a Split-Capacitor IGCT 3L-NPC Leg for the Resonant DC Transformer

2024

DC Power Distribution Networks with Direct Current Transformers

The shift towards DC power distribution networks, enabled by power electronics technologies, is changing the nature of electrical power systems. Nowadays, DC power distribution networks can effectively support the high penetration of distributed energy res ...

EPFL2024

Static and Dynamic Voltage Balancing for an IGCT-Based Resonant DC Transformer

Drazen Dujic, Renan Pillon Barcelos, Nikolina Djekanovic

This paper focuses on the operational characteristics of a medium voltage resonant DC transformer based on a split capacitor IGCT 3L-NPC leg. The study delves into both the dynamic and static balancing aspects of the 3L-NPC when operating in a two-level, 5 ...

2024

Dynamics analysis for DC transformers integration in hybrid AC‐DC power distribution networks

Drazen Dujic, Andrea Cervone, Jules Christian Georges Macé, Max Dupont, Renan Pillon Barcelos

In AC/DC power distributions networks, power converters are interfacing buses to ensure DC voltage regulation and power distribution. Active front ends are used between AC and DC buses and two typical control schemes that can be implemented are voltage reg ...

2023

Learning With Your PETS

Drazen Dujic, Andrea Cervone, Jules Christian Georges Macé, Max Dupont, Renan Pillon Barcelos

Recently, we published an article [1] presenting how the Power Electronics course at the bachelor level is organized by the Power Electronics Laboratory and taught at Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, EPFL, Switzerland. For those avid readers who m ...

2023

DC Transformer Impact on Voltage Dynamics in Hybrid AC-DC Power Distribution Networks

Drazen Dujic, Andrea Cervone, Jules Christian Georges Macé, Max Dupont, Renan Pillon Barcelos

AC/DC power distribution networks use various types of power converters to interconnect their buses, active front ends between AC and DC buses, and DC transformers between DC buses. Different active front end control methods, like voltage or power regulati ...

VDE Verlag2023

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Voltage Balancing of a Split-Capacitor IGCT 3L-NPC Leg for the Resonant DC Transformer

DC Power Distribution Networks with Direct Current Transformers

Static and Dynamic Voltage Balancing for an IGCT-Based Resonant DC Transformer

Dynamics analysis for DC transformers integration in hybrid AC‐DC power distribution networks

Learning With Your PETS

DC Transformer Impact on Voltage Dynamics in Hybrid AC-DC Power Distribution Networks

Scalability assessment of the parallel operation of direct current transformers

On Features of Direct Current Transformers

Parallel Operation of Direct Current Transformers

Power Reversal Algorithm for Resonant Direct Current Transformers for DC Networks

DC Power Distribution Networks with Direct Current Transformers

Static and Dynamic Voltage Balancing for an IGCT-Based Resonant DC Transformer

Voltage Balancing of a Split-Capacitor IGCT 3L-NPC Leg for the Resonant DC Transformer

Dynamics analysis for DC transformers integration in hybrid AC‐DC power distribution networks

Learning With Your PETS

DC Transformer Impact on Voltage Dynamics in Hybrid AC-DC Power Distribution Networks

Scalability assessment of the parallel operation of direct current transformers

On Features of Direct Current Transformers

Parallel Operation of Direct Current Transformers

Power Reversal Algorithm for Resonant Direct Current Transformers for DC Networks