Active transient voltage compensator (ATVC) has been proposed to improve VR transient response at high slew rate load, which engages in transient periods operating in MHZ to inject high slew rate current in step up load and recovers energy in step down load. Main VR operates in low switching frequency mainly providing DC current. Parallel ATVC has largely reduced conduction and switching losses. Parallel ATVC also reduces the number of VR bulk capacitors. Combined linear and adaptive nonlinear control has been proposed to reduce delay times in the actual controller, which injects one nonlinear signal in transient periods and simplifies the linear controller design. Switching mode current compensator with nonlinear control in secondary side is proposed to eliminate the effect of opotocoupler, which reduces response times and simplifies the linear controller design in isolated DC-DC converters. A novel control method has been carried out in two-stage isolated DC-DC converter to simplify the control scheme and improve the transient response, allowing for high duty cycle operation and large step-down voltage ratio with high efficiency. A balancing winding network composed of small power rating components is used to mitigate the double pole-zero effect in complementary-controlled isolated DC-DC converter, which simplifies the linear control design and improves the transient response without delay time. A parallel post regulator (PPR) is proposed for wide range input isolated DC-DC converter with secondary side control, which provides small part of output power and most of them are handled by unregulated rectifier with high efficiency. PPR is easy to achieve ZVS in primary side both in wide range input and full load range due to 0.5 duty cycle. PPR has reduced conduction loss and reduced voltage rating in the secondary side due to high turn ratio transformer, resulting in up to 8 percent efficiency improvement in the prototype compared to conventional methods.

Fundação de Amparo a Pesquisa do Estado de Minas Gerais / The search for solutions to the different power quality problems, in special the ones related to the voltage level compliance to the standard values has produced, up to now, an extensive range of commercial products using different techniques. Despite this recognition, the challenge for alternative strategies, presenting low cost and low maintenance properties, are very attractive and this subject is still motivating research worldwide. In this context, this dissertation is focused on the proposal of a voltage regulating device, here referred as CET (Electromagnetic Voltage Compensator), which presents an innovative design to obtain the process of voltage regulation. The main idea is based on the voltage injection, been as an additive or subtractive way, through a physical arrangement, presenting as a full electromagnetic power device. Aiming operative dynamic properties, the proposal in question, as far as their operational design concerns, is based on electronic switching and control device. The proposal outlined here will encounter emphasizes to the CET physical structure, the control unit composition and the evaluation of the electric complex performance under different voltage deviations occurrences. The studies are presented and then discussed, using the results provided by the computational simulation carried out in the time domain simulator ATP throughout its classical feature the MODELS language. / A busca por soluções para os distintos problemas da qualidade da energia elétrica, com destaque às variações das tensões de suprimento, conta, na atualidade, com uma extensa gama de produtos visando, sobretudo, a regulação dinâmica da tensão de suprimento. Não obstante tal reconhecimento, os desafios por estratégias alternativas por compensadores com propriedades operacionais e econômicas mais atrativas continuam motivando pesquisas em todo o mundo. Neste contexto, a presente dissertação encontra-se focada numa proposta de controle de um dispositivo regulador de tensão, aqui denominado por CET (Compensador Eletromagnético de Tensão), que se apresenta com uma concepção inovadora no que tange ao processo da regulação da tensão. A ideia central apoia-se na injeção série de reforços de tensão, aditiva ou subtrativa, através de um arranjo físico totalmente eletromagnético quanto às suas unidades de potência. Objetivando propriedades operativas dinâmicas, a proposta em pauta, no que tange a sua concepção operativa, fundamenta-se em chaveamentos eletrônicos controlados. À luz destes fatos, o trabalho vai de encontro a esta filosofia e ressalta a estrutura física do dispositivo, a composição da unidade de controle e avalia o desempenho do dispositivo sob condições associadas com a ocorrência de desvios de tensão. Quanto aos estudos feitos e discutidos, estes se encontram alicerçados em investigações computacionais conduzidas através da plataforma ATP e recursos oferecidos pela linguagem MODELS. / Mestre em Ciências