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The parasitic parameters of an IGBT power module cause various problems, especially for electromagnetic compatibility (EMC) concerns. The high-variations in voltage and current produced by the inductances/capacitances near switches in the transient process are the main sources of high-frequency electromagnetic interference (EMI). To overcome the problems, the parasitic parameters of the module should be accurately characterized. In this paper, a precise detailed model of a commercial half-bridge IGBT module is presented. It includes the parasitic inductances of leads, bond wires, DBC plates, and the parasitic capacitances of the module and IGBTs. The new simplified analytical equations to calculate the partial inductance and parasitic capacitance are proposed and compared with ANSYS Q3D results. To evaluate the accuracy of the model, all the parameters are also derived from a two-port measurement-based parasitic extraction method. The results show an acceptable match between the simulated and experimental values. Finally, the proposed model is implemented by state-space dynamic coupling in ANSYS Simplorer circuit simulator, and a double-pulse test circuit is used to verify the model. By comparing the simulated current and voltage waveforms with experiment, it is proved that the proposed model is applicable to simulate the switching transients for EMC study.

The penetration level of the photovoltaic (PV) systems is growing in the distribution networks throughout the world. On the other hand, the voltage drop across the feeder and the voltage imbalance are important issues in radial distribution networks. One of the most effective methods to deal with these problems is reactive power injection by PV-based multiple distributed static compensators (D-Statcom). Hence, a method based on the integral to droop line algorithm, which can regulate the reactive current injection for the voltage control by optimizing the droop coefficient and integral gain, has been proposed in this paper. Therefore, genetic algorithm (GA) is used to minimize the voltage deviation (VD) and voltage unbalanced factor (VUF). The proposed method has been simulated and evaluated on the typical low voltage (LV) 3-phase distribution network. The results indicate that the voltage profile along the feeder has been improved from a poor range to the acceptable range of 0.95 to 1.05, and therefore VUF’s reach to under 0.15. Hence, optimal use of PV-Dstatcom’s capacity and validity of the mentioned method are obtained.