Multilevel Voltage-Source-Converter Topologies for Industrial Medium-Voltage Drives

By José Raúl Rodríguez Rodríguez, Steffen Bernet, Bin Wu, Jorge A. Pontt, Samir Kouro. IEEE transactions on industrial electronics (1982. Print), 2007

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Solid-State Transformer and MV Grid Tie Applications Enabled by 15 kV SiC IGBTs and 10 kV SiC MOSFETs Based Multilevel Converters (2015, background): “The FEC stage handles various functions like unity power factor (UPF) operation at the 13.8 kV grid, reactive power compensation, bidirectional power flow, and regulating the MV-side 22 kV dc bus.”
Capacitor Voltage Balancing of a Five-Level ANPC Converter Using Phase-Shifted PWM (2015, background): “Among the existing multilevel converters, neutral-pointclamped (NPC), flying-capacitor (FC), and cascaded H-bridge (CHB) multilevel converters are three classical multilevel topologies that are the most widely used in the industry [2]–[7].”
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Survey on Fault Operation on Multilevel Inverters (2010, background): “In addition, due to the high power of these equipment, a fault is a very serious problem, because it causes significant production loss [1].”
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A Transformerless Medium-Voltage STATCOM Topology Based on Extended Modular Multilevel Converters (2011, background): “Due to the modularity of these converters, they are very attractive for high voltage dc transmission (HVDC), flexible ac transmission systems (FACTS), and medium-voltage drives [11], [12].”