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Control strategy for an interleaved converter based on parallel H-bridge structures

In order to supply the new inner triplet magnets of the High Luminosity Large Hadron Collider (HL-LHC) with the required 18kA of DC current, new power converters are under development. Given the demanding requirements on current, efficiency, dynamic response, precision and availability, the use of a...

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Autores principales: Garcia Retegui, R, Wassinger, N, Maestri, S, Pittet, S, Burnet, JP
Lenguaje:eng
Publicado: 2020
Acceso en línea:https://dx.doi.org/10.23919/AADECA49780.2020.9301634
http://cds.cern.ch/record/2813066
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Sumario:In order to supply the new inner triplet magnets of the High Luminosity Large Hadron Collider (HL-LHC) with the required 18kA of DC current, new power converters are under development. Given the demanding requirements on current, efficiency, dynamic response, precision and availability, the use of a modular converter structure based on parallel operation of N sub-converters with M parallel H-bridges inside is adopted, as this strategy allows to continue operation even under a fault scenario. In this structure, it is expected that each sub-converter will operate autonomously and that their output current will be a fraction of the magnet current. Then, in order to keep the system modularity, a regulation strategy for sub-converter control that only requires local variables, i.e. no need for the information of the remaining sub-converters, is proposed.