Dr ALAN WATSON's Outputs (82)

A novel full soft-switching resonant power converter for mid-feeder voltage regulation of low voltage distribution network (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Ji, C., Watson, A. J., Clare, J. C., & Johnson, C. M. (2016, September). A novel full soft-switching resonant power converter for mid-feeder voltage regulation of low voltage distribution network. Presented at 2016 18th European Conference on Power Electronics and Applications, EPE 2016 ECCE Europe, Karlsruhe, Germany

This paper presents a novel resonant based, high power density power electronics converter solution for mid-feeder voltage regulation of a low voltage (LV) distribution network. Owing to the use of high switching frequency operation and a full soft-s... Read More about A novel full soft-switching resonant power converter for mid-feeder voltage regulation of low voltage distribution network.

Novel current-limiting strategy for solid-state circuit breakers (SSCB) without additional impedance (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Gu, C., Effah, F. B., Castellazzi, A., Watson, A. J., & Wheeler, P. (2016, September). Novel current-limiting strategy for solid-state circuit breakers (SSCB) without additional impedance. Presented at 2016 18th European Conference on Power Electronics and Applications, EPE 2016 ECCE Europe, Karlsruhe, Germany

Current-limiting strategies for solid-state circuit breaker (SSCB) without adding impedance is introduced in this paper. With the current limitation of novel phase-shifting method, the advantages are simple hardware structure, relatively low cost, no... Read More about Novel current-limiting strategy for solid-state circuit breakers (SSCB) without additional impedance.

A survey on configurations of current-limiting circuit breakers (CL-CB) (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Gu, C., Wheeler, P., Castellazzi, A., Watson, A. J., & Effah, F. B. A survey on configurations of current-limiting circuit breakers (CL-CB). Presented at 18th European Conference on Power Electronics and Applications

This paper presents a survey of topology configurations of current-limiting circuit breakers. Twelve different current-limiting topologies within four categories are detailed discussed and compared. It is concluded that active CL-CB may be a good cho... Read More about A survey on configurations of current-limiting circuit breakers (CL-CB).

Operation of a hybrid modular multilevel converter during grid voltage unbalance (2016)
Journal Article
Amankwah, E. K., Watson, A. J., & Clare, J. C. (2016). Operation of a hybrid modular multilevel converter during grid voltage unbalance. IET Generation, Transmission and Distribution, 10(12), 3102-3110. https://doi.org/10.1049/iet-gtd.2015.0766

© The Institution of Engineering and Technology. The recently proposed parallel hybrid modular multilevel converter is considered to be a low loss, low component count converter with soft switching capability of the 'main' H-bridge. The converter has... Read More about Operation of a hybrid modular multilevel converter during grid voltage unbalance.

An analytical modeling and estimating losses of power semiconductors in a three-phase dual active bridge converter for MVDC grids (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Lee, Y., Vakil, G., Watson, A. J., & Wheeler, P. An analytical modeling and estimating losses of power semiconductors in a three-phase dual active bridge converter for MVDC grids. Presented at IEEE Power and Energy Conference at Illinois

Due to the increasing installation of renewable and decentralized power sources, Medium-voltage dc (MVDC) grids has been considered for an alternative application to medium-voltage ac (MVAC) application. Three-phase dual active bridge DC-DC (3DAB) co... Read More about An analytical modeling and estimating losses of power semiconductors in a three-phase dual active bridge converter for MVDC grids.

Hybrid HVDC circuit breaker with self-powered gate drives (2016)
Journal Article
Effah, F. B., Watson, A. J., Ji, C., Amankwah, E. K., Johnson, C. M., Davidson, C., & Clare, J. C. (2016). Hybrid HVDC circuit breaker with self-powered gate drives. IET Power Electronics, 9(2), 228-236. https://doi.org/10.1049/iet-pel.2015.0531

The ever increasing electric power demand and the advent of renewable energy sources have revived the interest in high-voltage direct current (HVDC) multi-terminal networks. However, the absence of a suitable circuit breaker or fault tolerant VSC st... Read More about Hybrid HVDC circuit breaker with self-powered gate drives.

The pharmacokinetics and toxicity of morning vs. evening tobramycin dosing for pulmonary exacerbations of cystic fibrosis: A randomised comparison (2015)
Journal Article
Smyth, A., Knox, A., Prayle, A., Jain, K., Touw, D., Koch, B., Knox, A. J., Watson, A., & Smyth, A. R. (2016). The pharmacokinetics and toxicity of morning vs. evening tobramycin dosing for pulmonary exacerbations of cystic fibrosis: A randomised comparison. Journal of Cystic Fibrosis, 15(4), 510-517. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcf.2015.07.012

Background: Circadian variation in renal toxicity of aminoglycosides has been demonstrated in animal and human studies. People with CF are frequently prescribed aminoglycosides. Altered pharmacokinetics of aminoglycosides are predictive of toxicity.... Read More about The pharmacokinetics and toxicity of morning vs. evening tobramycin dosing for pulmonary exacerbations of cystic fibrosis: A randomised comparison.

Robustness analysis and experimental validation of a fault detection and isolation method for the modular multilevel converter (2015)
Journal Article
Shao, S., Watson, A. J., Clare, J. C., & Wheeler, P. (2016). Robustness analysis and experimental validation of a fault detection and isolation method for the modular multilevel converter. IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, 31(5), 3794-3805. https://doi.org/10.1109/TPEL.2015.2462717

This paper presents a fault detection and isolation (FDI) method for open-circuit faults of power semiconductor devices in a modular multilevel converter (MMC). The proposed FDI method is simple with only one sliding mode observer (SMO) equation and... Read More about Robustness analysis and experimental validation of a fault detection and isolation method for the modular multilevel converter.

Multi-objective modulated Model Predictive Control for a multilevel solid state transformer (2015)
Journal Article
Tarisciotti, L., Zanchetta, P., Watson, A. J., Wheeler, P., Clare, J. C., & Bifaretti, S. (2015). Multi-objective modulated Model Predictive Control for a multilevel solid state transformer. IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications, 51(5), https://doi.org/10.1109/TIA.2015.2429113

Finite Control Set Model Predictive Control (FCS-MPC) offers many advantages over more traditional control techniques, such as the ability to avoid cascaded control loops, easy inclusion of constraint and fast transient response of the control system... Read More about Multi-objective modulated Model Predictive Control for a multilevel solid state transformer.

Modulated Model Predictive Control for a Three-Phase Active Rectifier (2014)
Journal Article
Tarisciotti, L., Zanchetta, P., Watson, A., Clare, J. C., Degano, M., & Bifaretti, S. (2015). Modulated Model Predictive Control for a Three-Phase Active Rectifier. IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications, 51(2), 1610-1620. https://doi.org/10.1109/TIA.2014.2339397

Model predictive control (MPC) has a number of desirable attributes which are difficult to achieve with classical converter control techniques. Unfortunately, the nature of power electronics imposes restriction to the method, as a result of the limit... Read More about Modulated Model Predictive Control for a Three-Phase Active Rectifier.

Active DC voltage balancing PWM technique for high-power cascaded multilevel converters (2014)
Journal Article
Tarisciotti, L., Zanchetta, P., Watson, A. J., Bifaretti, S., Clare, J. C., & Wheeler, P. (2014). Active DC voltage balancing PWM technique for high-power cascaded multilevel converters. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, 61(11), https://doi.org/10.1109/TIE.2014.2308139

In this paper a dedicated PWM technique specifically designed for single-phase (or four wire three-phase) multilevel Cascaded H-Bridge Converters is presented. The aim of the proposed technique is to minimize the DC-Link voltage unbalance, independen... Read More about Active DC voltage balancing PWM technique for high-power cascaded multilevel converters.

DC fault ride-through capability and STATCOM operation of a HVDC hybrid voltage source converter (2014)
Journal Article
Feldman, R., Farr, E., Watson, A. J., Clare, J. C., & Wheeler, P. (2014). DC fault ride-through capability and STATCOM operation of a HVDC hybrid voltage source converter. IET Generation, Transmission and Distribution, 8(1), https://doi.org/10.1049/iet-gtd.2012.0713

HVDC transmission systems are becoming increasingly popular when compared to conventional AC transmission methods. HVDC voltage source converters (VSC) can offer advantages over traditional HVDC current source converter topologies; as such, it is exp... Read More about DC fault ride-through capability and STATCOM operation of a HVDC hybrid voltage source converter.

Modulated model predictive control for a 7-level cascaded h-bridge back-to-back converter (2014)
Journal Article
Tarisciotti, L., Zanchetta, P., Watson, A. J., Bifaretti, S., & Clare, J. C. (2014). Modulated model predictive control for a 7-level cascaded h-bridge back-to-back converter. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, 61(10), https://doi.org/10.1109/TIE.2014.2300056

Multilevel Converters are known to have many advantages for electricity network applications. In particular Cascaded H-Bridge Converters are attractive because of their inherent modularity and scalability. Predictive control for power converters is a... Read More about Modulated model predictive control for a 7-level cascaded h-bridge back-to-back converter.

Fault detection for modular multilevel converters based on sliding mode observer (2013)
Journal Article
Shao, S., Wheeler, P., Clare, J. C., & Watson, A. J. (2013). Fault detection for modular multilevel converters based on sliding mode observer. IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, 28(11), https://doi.org/10.1109/TPEL.2013.2242093

This letter presents a fault detection method for modular multilevel converters (MMC) which is capable of lo¬cating a faulty semiconductor switching device in the circuit. The proposed fault detection method is based on a sliding mode observer (SMO)... Read More about Fault detection for modular multilevel converters based on sliding mode observer.

Optimization of switching losses and capacitor voltage ripple using model predictive control of a cascaded H-bridge multi-level StatCom (2012)
Journal Article
Townsend, C. D., Summers, T. J., Vodden, J. A., Watson, A. J., Betz, R. E., & Clare, J. C. (2013). Optimization of switching losses and capacitor voltage ripple using model predictive control of a cascaded H-bridge multi-level StatCom. IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, 28(7), https://doi.org/10.1109/TPEL.2012.2219593

This paper further develops a Model Predictive Control (MPC) scheme which is able to exploit the large number of redundant switching states available in a multi-level H-bridge StatCom (H-StatCom). The new sections of the scheme provide optimised meth... Read More about Optimization of switching losses and capacitor voltage ripple using model predictive control of a cascaded H-bridge multi-level StatCom.

Space-vector-modulated three-level inverters with a single Z-source network (2012)
Journal Article
Effah, F. B., Wheeler, P., Clare, J. C., & Watson, A. J. (in press). Space-vector-modulated three-level inverters with a single Z-source network. IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, 28(6), https://doi.org/10.1109/TPEL.2012.2219627

The Z-source inverter is a relatively recent converter topology that exhibits both voltage-buck and voltage-boost capability. The Z-source concept can be applied to all dc-to-ac, ac-to-dc, ac-to-ac, and dc-to-dc power conversion whether two-level or... Read More about Space-vector-modulated three-level inverters with a single Z-source network.

Selective harmonic mitigation technique for cascaded H-bridge converters with nonequal DC link voltages (2012)
Journal Article
Napoles, J., Watson, A. J., Padilla, J. J., Leon, J. I., Franquelo, L. G., Wheeler, P. W., & Aguirre, M. A. (2013). Selective harmonic mitigation technique for cascaded H-bridge converters with nonequal DC link voltages. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, 60(5), 1963-1971. https://doi.org/10.1109/TIE.2012.2192896

Multilevel converters have received increased interest recently as a result of their ability to generate high quality output waveforms with a low switching frequency. This makes them very attractive for high-power applications. A cascaded H-bridge co... Read More about Selective harmonic mitigation technique for cascaded H-bridge converters with nonequal DC link voltages.

Control challenges and solutions for a multi-cellular converter for use in electricity networks (2009)
Journal Article
Watson, A. J., Dang, H. Q., Wheeler, P. W., Clare, J. C., Mondai, G., Kenzelmann, S., Rufer, A. R., & De Novaes, Y. R. (2009). Control challenges and solutions for a multi-cellular converter for use in electricity networks. EPE Journal (European Power Electronics and Drives Journal), 19(4), 25-31. https://doi.org/10.1080/09398368.2009.11463734

This paper presents the concept of a multi-cellular power converter structure targeted towards use in future electricity networks. Control of such a converter is challenging because of the distributed energy storage intrinsic to the concept. If the e... Read More about Control challenges and solutions for a multi-cellular converter for use in electricity networks.

Construction and testing of the 3.3 kV, 300 kVA UNIFLEX-PM prototype (2009)
Journal Article
Watson, A. J., Mondai, G., Dang, H., Wheeler, P. W., & Clare, J. C. (2009). Construction and testing of the 3.3 kV, 300 kVA UNIFLEX-PM prototype. Epe Journal, 19(4), 59-64. https://doi.org/10.1080/09398368.2009.11463738

This paper presents details of the experimental implementation of a prototype multi-cellular converter for application in future electricity supply networks. Such a converter is capable of independently controlling power flow between various parts of... Read More about Construction and testing of the 3.3 kV, 300 kVA UNIFLEX-PM prototype.

Feed-forward space vector modulation for single-phase multilevel cascaded converters with any DC voltage ratio (2008)
Journal Article
Leon, J. I., Vazquez, S., Watson, A. J., Franquelo, L. G., Wheeler, P. W., & Carrasco, J. M. (2009). Feed-forward space vector modulation for single-phase multilevel cascaded converters with any DC voltage ratio. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, 56(2), 315-325. https://doi.org/10.1109/TIE.2008.926777

Modulation techniques for multilevel converters can create distorted output voltages and currents if the dc-link voltages are unbalanced. This situation can be avoided if the instantaneous dc voltage error is not taken into account in the modulation... Read More about Feed-forward space vector modulation for single-phase multilevel cascaded converters with any DC voltage ratio.