This paper addresses the problem of controlling wind energy conversion systems (WECS) which involve permanent magnet synchronous generator (PMSG) fed by IGBT-based buck-to-buck rectifier-inverter. The goal of the control is to maximize wind energy extraction and this necessitates letting the wind turbine rotor operate in variable-speed mode. The control strategy involves: (i) a nonlinear regula...

Solid-state switch-mode rectification converters have reached a matured level for improving power quality in terms of power-factor correction (PFC), reduced total harmonic distortion at input ac mains and precisely regulated dc output in buck, boost, buck–boost and multilevel modes with unidirectional and bidirectional power flow. In this paper, an improved power quality converter employing con...

Randomized Pulse Width Modulation (RPWM) deals better than Deterministic PWM (DPWM) with Electro-Magnetic Compatibility (EMC) standards for conducted Electro-Magnetic Interferences (EMI). In this paper, we propose a dual RPWM scheme for DC-DC voltage converters: the buck converter and the full bridge converter. This scheme is based on the comparison of deterministic reference signals (one signa...

Behavioral models of common mode (CM) electromagnetic interference (EMI) are proposed herein for a GaN high-electron-mobility transistor (HEMT) synchronous buck converter. First, CM noise model is developed using linear equivalent circuit that consists voltage source, current and two impedances. The behavioral parameters the then extracted by changing input-side shunt A HEMT converter setup bui...

Background and Objectives: Power electronics infrastructures play an important role in charging different types of electric vehicles (EVs) especially Plug-in Hybrid EVs (PHEVs). Designing appropriate power converters is the topic of various studies. Method: In this paper, a novel bidirectional buck-boost multifunctional integrated converter is presented which is capable of handling battery and ...

A single-inductor dualoutput (SIDO) buck converter has recently found applications in handheld battery-powered electronic devices. The circuit operation and the functional interdependencies among basic converter parameters such as dc voltage gains, transistor duty cycles, and load current levels are much more complicated than those of the singleoutput counterpart. In this project, a rigorous an...