Modular Multilevel Converter: An universal concept for HVDC-Networks and extended DC-Bus-applications

By Rainer Marquardt. The 2010 International Power Electronics Conference - ECCE ASIA -, 2010

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Subfields: Condensed Matter Physics, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Surgery

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Citations in the corpus

• Precharging and DC Fault Ride-Through of Hybrid MMC-Based HVDC Systems (2015, methodology): “T HE HIGH-VOLTAGE direct-current (HVDC) system using modular multilevel converters (MMCs) has become increasingly popular due to its many advantages, such as modular design, high efficiency and scalability, and excellent output waveform with low harmonic distortion [1]–[11].”
• A review of LCC-HVDC and VSC-HVDC technologies and applications (2016, background): “The basic building block of VSC-HVDC topology start with two-level converter [28, 29].”
• Contribution of Fault Current Sources in Multiterminal HVDC Cable Networks (2013, background): “Other topologies, such as the modular multilevel converter (MMC) [20] with a sufficiently large number of submodules, do not need any filter capacitances and the blocked converter valves prevent a discharge of the storage capacitors during dc faults [21].”
• A New Topology of Cascaded Multilevel Converters With Reduced Number of Components for High-Voltage Applications (2011, background): “Also, the structures based on similar concepts have been presented in [22].”
• Analysis of the Phase-Shifted Carrier Modulation for Modular Multilevel Converters (2015, background): “7 shows another SM configuration of MMC, the fullbridge structure [5], [6].”
• Analysis and Control of Modular Multilevel Converters Under Unbalanced Conditions (2013, background): “Its structure and operation principle were studied in [1]–[4].”
• A Pole-to-Pole Short-Circuit Fault Current Calculation Method for DC Grids (2017, neutral): “[9]–[11].”
• Full bridge MMC converter optimal design to HVDC operational requirements (2016, methodology): “Several topologies of DC fault tolerant MMC have been reported in the literature [9] -[18], such as the MMC using the clamp double submodules [9], the hybrid cascaded multilevel converter (HCMC) [10], the alternate arm converter[11], a”
• Operation, Control, and Applications of the Modular Multilevel Converter: A Review (2015, background): “significantly higher than that of an MMC based on the half-bridge SMs [4].”
• Modular Multilevel Converter topologies with DC-Short circuit current limitation (2011, methodology): “Owing to these reasons, alternative topologies have been introduced, which enable the desired current limiting and voltage clamping functionality [ 11 ].”
• Circulating Current Suppressing Strategy for MMC-HVDC Based on Nonideal Proportional Resonant Controllers Under Unbalanced Grid Conditions (2015, neutral): “2329059 management, and so on [1]–[3].”