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In this chapter, a DC-link voltage protection (DCVP) control method is proposed to address the DC-link overvoltage issue due to power back-feeding in parallel Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS) system. The proposed control method is able to protect the inverter against the excessive DC-link voltage, which increases the system reliability and robustness. Moreover, a current sharing control strategy is proposed by online regulating the virtual resistance of each UPS module. The proposed current sharing control strategy is able to address the circulating fundamental and harmonic current caused by the line impedance mismatching or power back-feeding issue in the UPS system. In addition, an improved consensus-based distributed controller is proposed to alleviate the overshoot issue during the transient process in voltage amplitude and frequency restoration. Finally, the feasibility of the proposed methods is verified by experimental results from the parallel UPS prototypes.
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Lu, J. (2023). DC-Link Protection and Control in Modular Uninterruptible Power Supply. In: Lu, J., Wei, B., Hou, X., Sun, Y. (eds) Advanced Control and Protection of Modular Uninterruptible Power Supply Systems. Power Systems. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-22178-1_7
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