A generalized multilevel inverter topology with self voltage balancing

By Fang Z. Peng. Conference Record of the 2000 IEEE Industry Applications Conference. Thirty-Fifth IAS Annual Meeting and World Conference on Industrial Applications of Electrical Energy (Cat. No.00CH37129), 2000

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Subfields: Control and Systems Engineering, Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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Multilevel inverters: a survey of topologies, controls, and applications (2002, background): “From this generalized multilevel inverter topology, several new multilevel inverter structures can be derived [19].”
Medium-Voltage Multilevel Converters—State of the Art, Challenges, and Requirements in Industrial Applications (2010, background): “MLCs have been investigated extensively, particularly for MV high-power applications [3], [5], [6], [10], [19], [24], [30], [39]–[45].”
A Comparison of Diode-Clamped and Cascaded Multilevel Converters for a STATCOM With Energy Storage (2005, background): “However, recent advances in charge-balancing methods have made the diodeclamped converter more attractive [14]–[17].”
Modular Multilevel Converters for HVDC Applications: Review on Converter Cells and Functionalities (2015, background): “Therefore, the comparably lower switching losses and considerably higher power quality are, in general, the advantages of multilevel converters compared to two-level converters [52]–[56].”
Active-neutral-point-clamped (ANPC) multilevel converter technology (2005, background): “Such approach is not advantageous for high power applications because the loop current that is created produces losses that are inversely proportional to the carrier frequency and the capacitance value connected between p and q [10].”
Active Neutral-Point-Clamped Multilevel Converters (2005, background): “Such approach is not advantageous for high power applications because the loop current that is created produces losses that are inversely proportional to the carrier frequency and the capacitance value connected between p and q [10].”
Voltage Balancing and Fluctuation-Suppression Methods of Floating Capacitors in a New Modular Multilevel Converter (2013, background): “Ithas been found that the existing multilevel inverters such as diode-clamped, flying-capacitor, and CHB multilevel inverters can all be derived from the generalized inverter topology [5]–[7].”
A Universal Selective Harmonic Elimination Method for High-Power Inverters (2011, background): “Several new multilevel inverter structures can be derived from this generalized multilevel inverter topology [46-58].”
A General Review of Multilevel Inverters Based on Main Submodules: Structural Point of View (2019, background): “is a generalized MLI and embrace NPC and FC topologies later proposed in 2000 [78].”