A Comparison of Diode-Clamped and Cascaded Multilevel Converters for a STATCOM With Energy Storage

By Ying Cheng, C. Qian, Mariesa L. Crow, S. Pekarek, S. Atcitty. IEEE transactions on industrial electronics (1982. Print), 2005

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Advanced Power Electronic Conversion and Control System for Universal and Flexible Power Management (2011, background): “However, due to advances in power semiconductor devices, particularly in the IGBT technology, there has been increasing interest recently in multilevel power converters especially for medium to high-power at high-voltage [8]–[14].”
Recent Advances and Industrial Applications of Multilevel Converters (2010, background): “The CHB and NPC topologies seem to be the most suited for STATCOM applications.”
Multilevel Multiphase Space Vector PWM Algorithm (2008, neutral): “Recent industrial applications of multilevel inverters include induction machine drives [10], active rectifiers [11], interface of renewable energy sources to the utility grid [12] and static synchronous compensators [13].”
Power Electronics and Motor Drives Recent Progress and Perspective (2009, background): “Recently, R&D in multilevel converters and their applications have been very visible in literature [30]–[34].”