Energy Feed-Forward and Direct Feed-Forward Control for Solid-State Transformer

Abstract

There is large voltage deviation on the dc bus of the three-stage solid-state transformer (SST) when the load suddenly changes. The feed-forward control can effectively reduce the voltage deviation and transition time. However, conventional power feed-forward scheme of SST cannot develop the feed-forward control to the full without extra current sensor. In this letter, an energy feed-forward scheme, which takes the energy changes of inductors into consideration, is proposed for the dual active bridge (DAB) controller. A direct feed-forward scheme, which directly passes the power of DAB converter to the rectifier stage, is proposed for the rectifier controller. They can further improve the dynamic performances of the two dc bus voltages, respectively. The experimental results in a 2-kW SST prototype are provided to verify the proposed feed-forward schemes and show the superior performances.