Industrial Technology Research Institute

Horng-Jzer Shih

Chien-Yu Chen

Kai-Cheung Juang

Tzi-Cker Chiueh

Chung-Lin Tseng

Tsan-Huang Chen

Bo-Ting Yeh

A three-phase expandable AC system based on battery reconfiguration and a control method thereof are provided. The system includes a reconfigurable battery array capable of connecting to a load or being tied to a grid, and having a plurality of battery array modules. The reconfigurable battery array may perform charging or discharging with respect to the load or the grid, and may perform one of operations including: generating a single-phase AC voltage corresponding respectively to outputs of the battery array modules; generating a three-phase AC voltage corresponding to three battery array modules selected from the plurality of battery array modules; and generating a plurality of three-phase AC voltages in parallel from the plurality of battery array modules, and merging the three-phase AC voltages in parallel to scale power.

Three-phase expandable AC system based on battery reconfiguration and control method thereof

A direct current (DC) to alternating current (AC) converter in accordance with an embodiment includes a battery array module, a battery control module and a polarity converter, wherein the battery array module and the magnetic converter are respectively coupled to the battery control module. The battery array module is used to receive DC signals. The battery array module is controlled by the battery control module to reconfigure and generate a multi-phase step signal. The multi-phase step signal is sent to the polarity converter. The multi-phase step signal is converted into an AC signal output by the polarity converter.

DC to AC converter and control method thereof

In an embodiment, a power apparatus operating method includes receiving a mode switching signal to control an operating of a power apparatus to provide and/or receive a preconfigured load; sensing an enable route current of an enable route, and a bypass route current of a bypass route, wherein the enable route current flowing through a battery module including one or more batteries, and the bypass route current does not flowing through the battery module; and controlling driving a first and a second switches by using a negative feedback control and an open loop control, to perform a current switching between an enable mode and a bypass mode of the power apparatus, based on the mode switching signal, the enable route current and the bypass route current, wherein the enable mode uses the power apparatus and the bypass mode bypasses the power apparatus.

Power apparatus operating method, power apparatus, and power apparatus management system

A control circuit of a power converter including a first and a second control modules is provided. The first control module sets sampling points for a ripple signal of an input voltage according to a reference signal. The first control module determines whether a power point is the maximum power point according to ripple voltages of the sampling points. The second control module controls the power converter to output a maximum power according to the maximum power point based on the determination result of the first control module and the reference signal. An embodiment of a method for tracking a maximum power point is provided. The input voltage of the power converter is measured. The sampling points are set for the ripple signal of the input voltage and phase information of the ripple signal is determined, such that the maximum power point is determined by using the ripple voltages.

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Horng-Jzer Shih