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Novel Design of the Converter for an Active UPS Application Based on Marx Modulator Concept with Supercapacitors

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A new Marx modulator 4-leg multilevel converter is proposed to replace the well-known 4-leg inverter fed from batteries in Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS) applications. The novel design concept for the Marx modulator based multilevel converter is presented and described. Each leg uses 2 Marx modulator modules, each one using an Electrochemical Double-Layer Capacitor (EDLC) (also known as supercapacitor (SC)) energy storage bank. The new topology concept enables multilevel operation with five voltage level per phase, allowing high quality voltage and current waveforms, distributed supercapacitor storage and reduction of supercapacitor bank voltage. The proposed converter can operate as UPS or as Active Power Filter (APF), powering non-linear or/and unbalanced loads, while balancing each leg supercapacitor voltage. A control strategy to choose the redundant vector configuration to balance the supercapacitor voltages is explained. Simulation results are presented for a Marx modulator based interactive 40 kVA UPS.

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This work was supported by national funds through Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT) with reference UID/CEC/50021/2019, and through Instituto Politécnico Lisboa (IPL) with reference MIPREQUATE/0712036/2018.

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  1. Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Lisboa, Instituto Politécnico de Lisboa, Rua Conselheiro Emídio Navarro, 1, 1959-007, Lisboa, Portugal

    Celso Pestana, Hiren Canacsinh, Miguel Chaves, Paulo Gamboa, Armando Cordeiro, Ricardo Luís, Ana Martins, Luís Encarnação, Fernando Pereira & Nuno Santos

  2. GIAAPP, Grupo de Investigação em Aplicações Avançadas de Potência Pulsada, Rua Conselheiro Emídio Navarro, 1, 1959-007, Lisboa, Portugal

    Hiren Canacsinh & Luís Encarnação

  3. Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa, Av. Rovisco Pais, 1049-001, Lisboa, Portugal

    José F. Silva

  4. INESC-ID, Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores – Investigação e Desenvolvimento, Rua Alves Redol, 9, 1000-029, Lisboa, Portugal

    Hiren Canacsinh, Miguel Chaves, Paulo Gamboa, Ricardo Luís, Luís Encarnação & José F. Silva

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Pestana, C. et al. (2019). Novel Design of the Converter for an Active UPS Application Based on Marx Modulator Concept with Supercapacitors. In: Camarinha-Matos, L., Almeida, R., Oliveira, J. (eds) Technological Innovation for Industry and Service Systems. DoCEIS 2019. IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology, vol 553. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-17771-3_36

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