Voltage balancing method for input-parallel output-series three-phase LCC resonant converters via negative sequence component injection
摘要
Pursuing high-average-power free electron lasers (FEL) imposes increasingly stringent requirements on electron sources. An electron gun equipped with a photocathode is crucial for generating high-quality, high-current electron beams, which requires a high-voltage direct current power supply (HVDCPS) rated at several hundred kilovolts, with stability superior to 10–5 to maintain a stable electric field. A three-phase input-parallel output-series (IPOS) LCC resonant converter is a suitable topology for this application. However, voltage imbalance arising from component parameter tolerances can result in up to a twofold difference between the highest and lowest phase voltages, posing a significant challenge to power supply stability. This study proposes a voltage balancing method based on negative sequence component injection. Combining the three-phase output voltages enables a new set of control phasor X to equalize output voltages across submodules. Opposing components are injected into the three-phase input voltage phasor based on the proportion of negative sequence components in X. This approach ultimately balances the output voltage by retaining only the positive sequence components of X. The effectiveness of the proposed method is experimentally validated. Results show that the voltage imbalance of the prototype decreases from 28.9% to 0.5% under full-load conditions after applying the balancing strategy. This method is also applicable to control systems with zero-sum three-phase phasors and can be extended to current balancing in the resonant tank.