Power electronic transformer and power supply system
This application discloses a power electronic transformer wherein each phase includes a plurality of power conversion modules. Each power conversion module includes a rectifier AC/DC circuit, a direct current bus capacitor, and a direct current-direct current DC/DC circuit. In each power conversion module, an output end of the AC/DC circuit is connected to an input end of the DC/DC circuit; the direct current bus capacitor is connected in parallel to the output end of the AC/DC circuit; and input ends of all the AC/DC circuits are connected in series, and output ends of all the DC/DC circuits are connected in parallel. The power electronic transformer includes a relatively small quantity of power conversion modules, thereby reducing occupied space and costs.
1. A power electronic transformer, the power electronic transformer comprising:
two or more phase power conversion modules coupled to a phase input of the power electronic transform, each phase power conversion module of the two or more phase power conversion modules comprising:
a rectifier AC/DC circuit, the rectifier AC/DC circuit including AC/DC input ends and AC/DC output ends;
a direct current bus capacitor coupled across the AC/DC output ends; and
a DC/DC circuit coupled to the AC/DC output ends and the direct current bus capacitor, the DC/DC circuit including DC/DC output ends, the DC/DC circuit comprising:
n number of LLC resonant DC/DC units, n comprising an integer greater than or equal to 2, the n number of LLC resonant DC/DC units including n number of LLC input ends and n number of LLC output ends, the n number of LLC input ends being coupled to the AC/DC output ends, and the n number of LLC output ends being connected in parallel and forming the DC/DC output ends of the DC/DC circuit;
two or more AC/DC input ends of the two or more phase power conversion modules of the phase input being connected in series;
two or more DC/DC output ends of the two or more phase power conversion modules of the phase input being connected in parallel and forming a phase output;
a voltage sampling circuit configured to collect a voltage on each direct current bus capacitor of the n direct current bus capacitors; and
a controller in communication with the voltage sampling circuit, the controller is configured to:
compare the voltage on each direct current bus capacitor with a preset voltage; and
when a voltage on an i th direct current bus capacitor is greater than the preset voltage, control a switching frequency of a switching transistor in an LLC resonant DC/DC unit corresponding to the i th direct current bus capacitor to decrease the voltage on the i th direct current bus capacitor; or when the voltage on the i th direct current bus capacitor is less than the preset voltage, control the switching frequency of the switching transistor in the LLC resonant DC/DC unit corresponding to the i th direct current bus capacitor to increase the voltage on the i th direct current bus capacitor, wherein i=1, . . . , and n.
2. The power electronic transformer according to claim 1 , wherein each phase power conversion module of the two or more phase power conversion modules comprises:
n direct current bus capacitors, the n direct current bus capacitors being connected in series, and connected in parallel across a direct current positive bus and a direct current negative bus of the AC/DC circuit output ends;
each LLC resonant DC/DC unit of the n number of LLC resonant DC/DC units corresponds to one direct current bus capacitor of the n direct current bus capacitors; and
a LLC input end of a LLC resonant DC/DC unit is connected to two ends of a corresponding direct current bus capacitor.
3. The power electronic transformer according to claim 2 , wherein the each LLC resonant DC/DC unit of the n number of LLC resonant DC/DC units comprises a first switching transistor, a second switching transistor, a direct current bus capacitor, an inductor, a transformer, a first diode, and a second diode;
the first switching transistor and the second switching transistor are connected in series and are further connected across the corresponding direct current bus capacitor;
common ends of the first switching transistor and the second switching transistor are coupled to a negative electrode of the corresponding direct current bus capacitor through the inductor and a primary side of the transformer, the inductor and the primary side of the transformer being connected in series;
an anode of the first diode is connected to a first electrode of a secondary side of the transformer, and a cathode of the first diode is connected to a DC/DC circuit positive output end of the corresponding DC/DC circuit; and
a cathode of the second diode is connected to the first electrode of the secondary side of the transformer, and an anode of the second diode is connected to a negative output end of the corresponding DC/DC circuit.
4. The power electronic transformer according to claim 3 , wherein in the each LLC resonant DC/DC unit, a first driving pulse signal of the first switching transistor and a second driving pulse signal of the second switching transistor are complementary to each other, and the first driving pulse signal and the second driving pulse signal have a same cycle and both have a duty cycle of 50%.
5. The power electronic transformer according to claim 4 , wherein phases of driving pulse signals corresponding to the LLC resonant DC/DC units are offset by T/n in sequence, wherein T represents a cycle of the driving pulse signals.
6. The power electronic transformer according to claim 3 , wherein phases of driving pulse signals corresponding to the LLC resonant DC/DC units are offset by T/n in sequence, wherein T represents a cycle of the driving pulse signals.
7. The power electronic transformer according to claim 2 , wherein phases of driving pulse signals corresponding to the LLC resonant DC/DC units are offset by T/n in sequence, wherein T represents a cycle of the driving pulse signals.
8. The power electronic transformer according to claim 2 , wherein the n direct current bus capacitors have a same capacitance.
9. The power electronic transformer according to claim 1 , wherein phases of driving pulse signals corresponding to the LLC resonant DC/DC units are offset by T/n in sequence, wherein T represents a cycle of the driving pulse signals.
10. The power electronic transformer according to claim 9 , wherein n is greater than or equal to 3; and
the second electrodes of the secondary sides of the transformers in the LLC resonant DC/DC units are connected together.
11. The power electronic transformer according to claim 9 , wherein n is an integer multiple of 3; and
every three LLC resonant DC/DC circuits are one DC/DC group, and second electrodes of secondary sides of three transformers in the three LLC resonant DC/DC circuits in each DC/DC group are connected together.
12. The power electronic transformer according to claim 11 , wherein when n is 3, each DC/DC circuit comprises a first LLC resonant DC/DC unit, a second LLC resonant DC/DC unit, and a third LLC resonant DC/DC unit; and
the direct current bus capacitor comprises a first direct current bus capacitor, a second direct current bus capacitor, and a third direct current bus capacitor;
an input end of the first LLC resonant DC/DC unit is connected across the first direct current bus capacitor, an input end of the second LLC resonant DC/DC unit is connected across the second direct current bus capacitor, and an input end of the third LLC resonant DC/DC unit is connected across the third direct current bus capacitor; and
second electrodes of secondary sides of the three transformers in the first LLC resonant DC/DC unit, the second LLC resonant DC/DC unit, and the third LLC resonant DC/DC unit are connected together; and output ends of the first LLC resonant DC/DC unit, the second LLC resonant DC/DC unit, and the third LLC resonant DC/DC unit are connected in parallel.
13. The power electronic transformer according to claim 11 , wherein when n is 6, each DC/DC circuit comprises:
a first LLC resonant DC/DC unit, a second LLC resonant DC/DC unit, a third LLC resonant DC/DC unit, a fourth LLC resonant DC/DC unit, a fifth LLC resonant DC/DC unit, and a sixth LLC resonant DC/DC unit; and
the direct current bus capacitor comprises a first direct current bus capacitor, a second direct current bus capacitor, a third direct current bus capacitor, a fourth direct current bus capacitor, a fifth direct current bus capacitor, and a sixth direct current bus capacitor;
first LLC input ends of the first LLC resonant DC/DC unit are connected across the first direct current bus capacitor, second LLC input ends of the second LLC resonant DC/DC unit are connected across the second direct current bus capacitor, third LLC input ends of the third LLC resonant DC/DC unit are connected across the third direct current bus capacitor, fourth LLC input ends of the fourth LLC resonant DC/DC unit are connected across the fourth direct current bus capacitor, fifth LLC input ends of the fifth LLC resonant DC/DC unit are connected across the fifth direct current bus capacitor, and sixth LLC input ends of the sixth LLC resonant DC/DC unit are connected across the sixth direct current bus capacitor;
second electrodes of the secondary sides of the three transformers in the first LLC resonant DC/DC unit, the second LLC resonant DC/DC unit, and the third LLC resonant DC/DC unit are connected together; and second electrodes of the secondary sides of the transformers in the fourth LLC resonant DC/DC unit, the fifth LLC resonant DC/DC unit, and the sixth LLC resonant DC/DC unit are connected together; and
LLC output ends of the first LLC resonant DC/DC unit, the second LLC resonant DC/DC unit, the third LLC resonant DC/DC unit, the fourth LLC resonant DC/DC unit, the fifth LLC resonant DC/DC unit, and the sixth LLC resonant DC/DC unit are connected in parallel.
14. The power electronic transformer according to claim 11 , further comprising a filter capacitor, wherein'
each DC/DC group corresponds to one filter capacitor, and the filter capacitor is connected in parallel to an output end of the DC/DC group.
15. The power electronic transformer according to claim 1 , wherein a phase of the phase input further comprises a filter inductor, wherein:
the filter inductor is connected in series between an alternating current power source and a power conversion module.
16. The power electronic transformer according to claim 1 , wherein the AC/DC circuit is any one of the following:
a two-level full-bridge rectifier, an I-type three-level rectifier, or a T-type three-level rectifier.
17. The power electronic transformer according to claim 1 , wherein the power electronic transformer is a single-phase power electronic transformer including a single phase input.
18. The power electronic transformer according to claim 1 , wherein the power electronic transformer is a three-phase power electronic transformer including three phase inputs.