Title
Novel Balancing Approach For Multilevel Diode Clamped Converters In Medium Voltage Hybrid Statcom Application
Abstract
The paper proposes a new modulation technique developed for multilevel diode clamped converters (DCC) aimed to guarantee the equalization of the DC-Link voltages without resolving to the common mode voltage injection. The proportional balancing technique is especially suited for STATCOM applications where it is able to compensate for the voltage drift that a conventional modulation approach would introduce, without appreciably deteriorating the system efficiency. The novel modulation strategy, presented with a generalized approach for an N-level M-phase converter, can be applied also in presence of a neutral connection and has been numerically validated with reference to a four-wire MV network.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1109/IECON.2018.8592794
IECON 2018 - 44TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE IEEE INDUSTRIAL ELECTRONICS SOCIETY
Keywords
Field
DocType
Diode Clamped, Multilevel Converters, Modulation, Balancing, STATCOM
Phase converter,Capacitor,Control theory,Diode,Voltage,Converters,AC power,Modulation,Common-mode signal,Engineering
Conference
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
1553-572X
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Brando, G.101.69
Andrea Cervone201.35