Inverter Topologies Diode Clamped Flying Capacitor Cascade Inverters Modulation techniques PWM Space Vector Applications Motor

s Motor drives Active filters Practical problems Voltage balancing Control complexity

Multilevel Inverters. Topologies, Modulation Techniques and Practical Problems

Multilevel Inverter Topologies:

Diode Clamped Converter

VDC1

VDC2
Cascade Converter Flying Capacitor Converter Electronic Engineering Department. University of Seville Camino de los Descubrimientos s/n 41092 Seville, SPAIN

Prof. Leopoldo G. Franquelo lgfranquelo@ieee.org

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 Inverter Topologies Diode Clamped Flying Capacitor Cascade Inverters Modulation techniques PWM Space Vector Applications Motor drives Active filters Practical problems Voltage balancing Control complexity

Multilevel Inverters. Topologies, Modulation Techniques and Practical Problems

Modulation Techniques:

V b V a

Complex problem!

Simple algorithms Very low computational cost High efficiency

2D Modulation results

Vcn

Even for unbalanced topologies using 3D modulation algorithms!

3-phase unbalanced system with the third armonic

3-phase unbalanced system with zero sequence

Van

Vbn

3D Modulation results

Extremely simple and generalized modulation algorithms based on geometrical considerations

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 Inverter Topologies Diode Clamped Flying Capacitor Cascade Inverters Modulation techniques PWM Space Vector Applications Motor drives Active filters Practical problems Voltage balancing Control complexity

Multilevel Inverters. Topologies, Modulation Techniques and Practical Problems

2D and 3D modulation algorithms for multilevel converters are based on the reduction of the N-level problem to an 2-level problem using normalizations and geometrical considerations
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100 a c

100 a

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 Inverter Topologies Diode Clamped Flying Capacitor Cascade Inverters Modulation techniques PWM Space Vector Applications Motor drives Active filters Practical problems Voltage balancing Control complexity

Multilevel Inverters. Topologies, Modulation Techniques and Practical Problems

Applications:
Power Grid
AC/DC DC/AC Converter Converter Filter current: Reference Actual

Motor control

Practical problems: One of the most important problems in multilevel converters is the voltage balancing

Active Filters: Topologies Control algorithms

Generalized algorithms for several multilevel topologies and for any number of levels Very low computational cost High efficiency

MATHEMATICAL MODELS

SIMULATION MODELS MatLab/Simulink & PSCAD

EXPERIMENTAL RESULTS

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