The high-bandwidth continuous conduction mode (CCM) current regulation allows the maximum power quality in terms of total harmonic distortion (THD) and power factor (PF). Figure 1. DC charging station UM2975 - Rev 1 - January 2022 www.st.com For further information contact your local STMicroelectronics sales office.
The high efficiency rectifier is designed for several end applications such as electric vehicle (EV), industrial battery chargers, and industrial equipment, which requires a very high PF and low THD. STDES-VRECTFD is a fully assembled kit developed for performance evaluation only, not available for sale. UM2975 - Rev 1 page 2/63...
Nominal rate for AC voltage: 400 V at 50 Hz – Maximum power: 15 kW – Power factor: >0.99 – Inrush current control and soft start-up – THD lower than 5% at nominal operation UM2975 - Rev 1 page 3/63...
Min. Typ. Max. Unit HVDC overvoltage protection DCovp HVCAP overvoltage protection CAPovp AC overcurrent protection ACovp Reference design description 1.5.1 Power board The figure below shows the power board of the STDES-VRECTFD reference design. UM2975 - Rev 1 page 4/63...
Boost inductors represent the energy storage elements that allow the PFC operation of the converter. This is obtained by controlling the inductor current and using a proper conduction pattern in the power device section. UM2975 - Rev 1 page 5/63...
Unit DC voltage Switching frequency Rated AC voltage Δ Max. ripple current iLppmax Boost inductance 470-6 1.5.2.2 Passive current limiter NTC Figure 7. Three and four-wire connections Figure 8. Focus on the STDES-VRECTFD NTC UM2975 - Rev 1 page 6/63...
Isol-Op-AMP output is limited in volts and is scaled with a second stage of op-amps with a proper gain and bias. This circuit allows measuring an AC voltage referenced by a virtual or grid neutral point. The circuit is replicated for each phase. UM2975 - Rev 1 page 7/63...
The DC voltages are obtained using two-stage sensing. The total DC bus voltage is split exploiting two voltage dividers. Both voltages are needed to obtain the monitoring of each capacitor to avoid overvoltage, offering independent DC voltages for the control. UM2975 - Rev 1 page 8/63...
1.5.3 Control board The figure below shows the control board of the STDES-VRECTFD reference design. Figure 14. STDES-VRECTFD reference design - control board The following figure shows the main sections of the control board. UM2975 - Rev 1 page 9/63...
Figure 17. PFC benefits Converter operation The figure below shows the current paths of the Vienna topology. To simplify the scheme, we considered the single phase representation. Figure 18. Switching paths of the Vienna topology UM2975 - Rev 1 page 11/63...
To operate the reference design power converter properly, consider the operating limits shown below. Table 4. Operation condition limits Description Value Unit Three-phase input voltage range 208-400 Line frequency range 47-63 Maximum output power at 230 V Voltage limit of the bulk capacitors UM2975 - Rev 1 page 12/63...
Step 2. Connect an external fan to manage the thermal dissipation. The auxiliary power supply can be externally provided. MCU programming and debugging You can program and debug the microcontroller unit (MCU) through different tools. UM2975 - Rev 1 page 13/63...
20- to 10-pin JTAG adapter to connect the platform to the PC. Figure 20. ST-LINK/V2 and adapter Figure 21. ST-LINK/V2 connected to the control board Step 2. Select the main.c file in the project/Application/User path. UM2975 - Rev 1...
The power supply needs two different input voltages. An embedded SMPS, based on the VIPER26 family, provides self-powering from the DC-link. As shown in the figure below, you can select either an internal or external supply voltage. Specific LEDs allow identifying the selected configuration. UM2975 - Rev 1 page 15/63...
Figure 25. Example of driver configuration Preliminary test procedure 2.4.1 AC sensing To verify the proper operation of the AC sensing (Figure 26), analyze the test points for voltages (Figure 27) and currents (Figure 28). UM2975 - Rev 1 page 16/63...
AC grid current sensing test procedure 2.4.2 DC sensing To verify the proper operation of the DC sensing, analyze the test points for voltages (Figure 29) and currents (Figure 30). Figure 29. DC voltage sensing test procedure UM2975 - Rev 1 page 18/63...
A three-phase sequence (ABC) is mandatory for the proper operation of the power converter. Figure 31. AC connection and sequence 2.4.4 DC connection The figure below shows the output DC connection. Ensure to apply the correct polarity. UM2975 - Rev 1 page 19/63...
However, a controlled step-by-step procedure is available. It is useful during the preliminary test or after hardware/sw modification. Figure 33. Startup procedure 2.5.1 Controlled startup procedure The AC power supply is slowly increased to verify the procedure step step-by-step as shown below. UM2975 - Rev 1 page 20/63...
1. Turn Off (AC) BLED “INIT” Error START 2. Turn Off (PS) Error/Fault 3. Disconnect Load This procedure takes the ICL NTCs into consideration. Figure 35. STDES- VRECTFD ICL NTCs The procedure consists of the following steps. UM2975 - Rev 1 page 21/63...
The finite state machine manages a direct startup procedure. The AC source takes the nominal voltage into consideration. The inrush current limitation and the burst mode operation must be completed after the DC load connection. UM2975 - Rev 1 page 24/63...
UM2975 Control strategy Figure 42. Continuous conduction mode in current control Figure 43. Current decoupling control of the reference design converter model UM2975 - Rev 1 page 26/63...
Figure 44. 3.1.2 Voltage control strategy The outer loop of the PFC operation is a voltage control. Figure 45. Converter DC side model The figure below shows the closed loop representation of the above model. UM2975 - Rev 1 page 27/63...
In converter control, the PI regulators are usually used. This kind of regulator gets the best results when using a DC reference term. Figure 47. PLL internal regulator loop Figure 48. PLL in AC main voltage UM2975 - Rev 1 page 28/63...
MCU peripheral and the DPC application configuration. On the basis of this information, an STM32CubeMX project, properly configured and initialized, is provided. Then, the needed DPC module is included and configured. UM2975 - Rev 1 page 29/63...
This allows managing the energy flow in terms of AC current. Figure 52. Simplified execution task of the control in AC-DC Configuration files STDES-VRECTFD power converter configuration is based on two main configuration files. UM2975 - Rev 1 page 30/63...
The “DPC_application_conf” header file contains the application specific DEFINE (that is the ADC gain factor PI regulator gain, FSM configuration, control reference value, etc.). The “DPC_Lib_conf” header file contains the configuration parameters linked to the MCU peripheral configuration. UM2975 - Rev 1 page 31/63...
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