TY - GEN
T1 - A simple method for capacitor voltages balancing of diode-clamped multilevel converters using space vector modulation
AU - Narimani, Mehdi
AU - Yaramasu, Venkata
AU - Wu, Bin
AU - Zargari, Navid
AU - Cheng, George
AU - Moschopoulos, Gerry
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - This paper presents a new and simple method for capacitor voltages balancing of an n-level diode-clamped multilevel converters using space vector modulation (SVM). The proposed method introduces a generalized approach to calculate dc-link capacitor currents without the use of look-up tables for an n-level diode-clamped converter. This approach balances dc-link capacitor voltages based on minimum energy property. The performance of the proposed method has been studied for a three-level, four-level and five-level diode-clamped converter in MATLAB/Simulink environment.
AB - This paper presents a new and simple method for capacitor voltages balancing of an n-level diode-clamped multilevel converters using space vector modulation (SVM). The proposed method introduces a generalized approach to calculate dc-link capacitor currents without the use of look-up tables for an n-level diode-clamped converter. This approach balances dc-link capacitor voltages based on minimum energy property. The performance of the proposed method has been studied for a three-level, four-level and five-level diode-clamped converter in MATLAB/Simulink environment.
KW - dc-ac power conversion
KW - diode-clamped converter
KW - multilevel converter
KW - space vector modulation (SVM)
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U2 - 10.1109/IECON.2013.6699154
DO - 10.1109/IECON.2013.6699154
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84893584388
SN - 9781479902248
T3 - IECON Proceedings (Industrial Electronics Conference)
SP - 310
EP - 315
BT - Proceedings, IECON 2013 - 39th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society
T2 - 39th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society, IECON 2013
Y2 - 10 November 2013 through 14 November 2013
ER -