Solid-State Capacitor Switching Transient Limiter based on Kalman Filter algorithm for mitigation of capacitor bank switching transients

T. Ghanbari, E. Farjah, F. Naseri, N. Tashakor, H. Givi and R. Khayam

Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 2018, vol. 90, issue C, 1069-1081

Abstract: Capacitor banks are often utilized in conversion technologies of renewable energies for different reasons such as DC-link voltage regulation of power converters and power factor correction. During the capacitor bank energization process, voltage and current transients have negative impacts on the capacitor bank as well as the power quality of the system. In recent years, solid-state transient limiters have been proposed to rectify the problems relevant to capacitor bank switching. This paper presents a complete review of the recently proposed solid-state Capacitor Switching Transient Limiters (CSTLs). The objective of this review is to summarize and compare different methods for restraining the capacitor switching transients in terms of suppression capability, efficiency, power quality, complexity, cost, etc. Subsequently, a novel high-performance solid-state CSTL is proposed. During the energization process, the proposed limiter suppresses the transient currents through a limiting resistor. A bidirectional static switch bypasses the limiting resistor at the steady-state. The bidirectional static switch is controlled via a simple hysteresis controller based on Kalman Filter (KF) algorithm. In order to clarify the working principles, the proposed limiter is analyzed in detail. The performance of the limiter is assessed using some simulations in MATLAB/SIMULINK. In order to demonstrate the feasibility of the proposed limiter, a prototype of the device has been fabricated in the laboratory. The results of the simulations and experiments confirm the capabilities as well as some superiorities of this limiter in comparison with other solid-state CSTLs.

Keywords: Bidirectional switch; Capacitor switching transients; Capacitor Switching Transient Limiter (CSTL); Kalman filtering (KF); Limiting resistor (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (1)

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1364032118301096
Full text for ScienceDirect subscribers only

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:rensus:v:90:y:2018:i:c:p:1069-1081

Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from
http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/600126/bibliographic
http://www.elsevier. ... 600126/bibliographic

DOI: 10.1016/j.rser.2018.03.019

Access Statistics for this article

Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews is currently edited by L. Kazmerski

More articles in Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews from Elsevier
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Catherine Liu ().