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Cost-Effective Hundred-Year Life for Single-Phase Inverters and Rectifiers in Solar and LED Lighting Applications through Port-Based Ripple Management Port P. T. Krein Grainger Center for Electric Machinery and Electromechanics Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engineering University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign R. S. Balog SmartSpark Energy Systems

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Cost-Effective Hundred-Year Life for Single-Phase Inverters and Rectifiers in Solar and LED Lighting Applications through Port-Based Ripple Management Port P. T. Krein

Grainger Center for Electric Machinery and ElectromechanicsDept. of Electrical & Computer EngineeringUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

R. S. Balog

SmartSpark Energy Systems

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Key PointSingle-phase energy conversion requires

storage.

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Key PointsPower electronics life needs to match

application life.Energy storage requirements in single-

phase grid-connected applications lead to large (electrolytic) capacitors and limit life.Successful designs that minimize energy

storage and deliver extreme life at temperature are presented here.

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Single-Phase Conversion• In single-phase power, voltage and current

are sinusoidal.• Instantaneous power:

p(t) = V0I0cos(2wt + φ)• Desired output:

constant energy flow.• The difference:

storage0 0.01 0.02 0.03

200

100

0

100

200

pnet t th( )

pac t ( )

pC t th( )

t

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Application Push• LED lighting: 100,000 operating hours,

increasing quickly.

• Photovoltaic conversion: 30 to 40 year operation.

• Both benefit from integratedpower electronics.

www.philipslumileds.com

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Reliability Limitations• System reliability is limited by a few

relatively failure-prone components:– Fans – Electrolytic capacitors– Optocouplers

• Other problems areas:– Batteries– Connectors

• Also quality control and manufacturing

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Energy Storage: Single-Phase Applications.

• Usually storage is addressed withlarge electrolyticcapacitors.

• Must store thethe area under ahalf cycle of p(t).

• Amplitude: same as <P>.

LED flicker without energy storage

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Traditional Single-Phase Cases• Motors:

– Rotor acts as flywheel tostore the energymechanically.

• Lamps– Incandescent: thermal time constants– Fluorescent: yes, it flickers (some impact

from phosphors and ballasts)

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Power Supplies• Energy is stored in electrolytic capacitors.

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Operating Life and Reliability• Operating life and failure rates not the same.• Modern electrolytic capacitors have low

failure rates, but also limited operating life.• Example:

– 5000 hrs operating life at 105°C– Pre-wearout failure rate: 20 ppb/yr

• Expected life at 85°C: 20000 hrs.• Reliability dominated by life

expectancy.www.capacitorlab.com/visible-failures

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Energy Requirements• Integrate the time plot.• Required energy storage

for double-frequency power:• No topology or tricks can reduce this.

fPW2min

0

1

2

3

4

Storage (J)

Power (kW)

0 0.1 0.2 0.3 0.4 0.5 0.6 0.7 0.8 0.9 1

50 Hz

60 Hz

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Dc bus configuration• Capacitors: voltage nearly constant, but

energy variation requires voltage variation.• Capacitor current: double frequency.

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Dc bus configuration• The energy storage on the dc bus is

• Ratio of actual energy to required energy is

• 1% bus ripple means 50x energy storage, 10% means 5x, etc.

• Dual analysis holds for inductive storage

VfVPW

4

VV

WW dcdc

2min

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Dc Bus Configuration

Dc bus voltage Capacitance required

24 V 23000 uF

48 V 5760 uF

100 V 1330 uF

380 V 92 uF

600 V 37 uF

2% ripple, 100 W application

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• Known active filter configurations can reduce capacitance by decoupling voltage variation: inject compensation current1.

• In this case: double frequency filter current.

Active Filtering

1P. Midya, et al, U.S. Patent 5,668,464.

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Power Flows?• Obvious: capacitor voltage and

current are linked.– Notice that iC(t)=k cos(2t) is

not consistent with desired power– V-I product at 4t.

• Avoid this and truly minimize energy storage and capacitance requirements.

• Need instantaneous power match – deliver double-frequency power directly.

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Achieving the Minimum• Solution:

• Matches if

• Peak voltage:

Let iC(t) = I0 cos( t + )20( ) sin( ) cos( )IP t t tC

20

0,4 2

IPC

2 0c

PVfC

Patents pending

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Minimum Storage

Peak voltage Capacitance required

Before (2% ripple)

24 V 921 uF 23000 uF

48 V 230 uF 5760 uF

100 V 53 uF 1330 uF

380 V 3.7 uF 92 uF

600 V 1.5 uF 37 uF

0% ripple, 100 W application

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Film Capacitors• The higher voltage levels are an

ideal match to film capacitors.• The best film capacitors have high reliability with

no special wear-out mechanisms: failure rates are typically two orders of magnitude better than for electrolytic capacitors.

• Designs that completely eliminate electrolytic capacitors have much higher reliability.

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Sample Topology• Ac link with active filter port.

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Other Reliability Enhancements• Thyristors for grid connection

– Thoroughly proven in grid-connected configurations

– About an order of magnitude lower failure rates than IGBTs and MOSFETs

– Supports simple gate drives• Careful attention to parts count.• Parts fully qualified at 85°C.• As shown: bidirectional at dc port.

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Typical TracesLow-cost implementation, 100 W inverter.

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Reliability and Life Results• MIL-217F understood to

be extremely conservative.– Suitable basis for comparison

• Power electronicspackaged with application.– Design peak: 85°C.

• Recent MIL-217 analysis ofactual hardware for PV: 2 million hour MTBF.

Photovoltaic ac moduleSmartSpark Energy Systems, Inc.

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Reliability and Life Results• Expected result: likely to exceed 500

year MTBF or more in actual service.• Operating life now limited by MTBF, not

by additional wear-out mechanisms.• Result is 100x compared to electrolytics.• The result: grid-connected inverters and

rectifiers with true hundred-year operating life for single-phase applications.

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Conclusion• Single-phase conversion requires

substantial energy storage.• The minimum capacitance and energy to

eliminate double-frequency power ripple has been established.

• Cost-effective single-phase converters with at least 100 year expected operating life have been demonstrated in hardware.