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ProfessorBikashPal

Faculty of Engineering, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering

Professor of Power Systems
 
 
 
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+44 (0)20 7594 6172b.pal Website CV

 
 
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Assistant

 

Miss Guler Eroglu +44 (0)20 7594 6170

 
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Location

 

1104Electrical EngineeringSouth Kensington Campus

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Summary

 

Publications

Citation

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@article{Kampitsis:2022:10.1109/tpel.2022.3174062,
author = {Kampitsis, G and Batzelis, E and Mitcheson, PD and Pal, BC},
doi = {10.1109/tpel.2022.3174062},
journal = {IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics},
pages = {1--1},
title = {A clamping circuit based voltage measurement system for high frequency flying capacitor multilevel inverters},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/tpel.2022.3174062},
volume = {37},
year = {2022}
}
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TY  - JOUR
AB  - In an era where high-frequency flying capacitor (FC) multilevel inverters (MLI) are increasingly gaining attention in energy conversion systems that push the boundaries of power density, the need for a compact, fast, and accurate FC voltage monitoring is also increasing. In this paper we designed and developed a new FC measurement system, based on precise sampling of the inverter switching node voltage, through a bidirectional clamping circuit. The deviation of FC voltages from their nominal values are extracted by solving a set of linear equations. With a single sensor per phase and no isolation requirements, as opposed to dozens of sensors in traditional FC monitoring, our approach results in significantly lower cost, complexity, and circuit-size. Detailed device-level simulations in LTspice and system-scale simulations in Matlab, validate the accuracy and speed of the proposed measurement system and the balancing strategy in steady state, abrupt load change and imbalance conditions. Experiments carried out in a 3-phase Gallium-Nitride 5-level inverter prototype, reveal a gain in precision and bandwidth that is more than 30 times that of conventional methods, at a fraction of their cost and footprint. The recorded performance renders the developed sensor an ideal solution for fast MLIs based on wide-bandgap technology
AU  - Kampitsis,G
AU  - Batzelis,E
AU  - Mitcheson,PD
AU  - Pal,BC
DO  - 10.1109/tpel.2022.3174062
EP  - 1
PY  - 2022///
SN  - 0885-8993
SP  - 1
TI  - A clamping circuit based voltage measurement system for high frequency flying capacitor multilevel inverters
T2  - IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/tpel.2022.3174062
UR  - https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9772421
UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/97334
VL  - 37
ER  -
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