Multicell converters: basic concepts and industry applications

By Thierry A. Meynard, H. Foch, P. Thomas, J. Courault, R. Jakob, M. Nahrstaedt. IEEE transactions on industrial electronics (1982. Print), 2002

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Subfields: Control and Systems Engineering, Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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The Essential Role and the Continuous Evolution of Modulation Techniques for Voltage-Source Inverters in the Past, Present, and Future Power Electronics (2016, methodology): “In addition, PS-PWM method has also been applied to the FC converter (bipolar PWM with phase-shifting between consecutive carriers equal to 2π divided by the number of FC cells), achieving multiplicative effect of the output-voltage switching frequency and natural balance (but with low dynamic behav”
Multilevel Converters: An Enabling Technology for High-Power Applications (2009, background): “back-to-back necessity, and the fact that the transformer for CHB is too bulky, the preferred multilevel topologies used for this application are the FC [149] and NPC [25], [150].”
Power loss-oriented evaluation of high voltage IGBTs and multilevel converters in transformerless traction applications (2005, background): “Investigations of the FC converters reported in [ 10 ] have shown, that flying capacitor topologies are feasible in applications, where”
Active Neutral-Point-Clamped Multilevel Converters (2005, background): “At light load, however, it may be required the connection of booster circuits, which are passive networks to improve the voltage balancing performance [3].”
Efficient Modeling of Modular Multilevel HVDC Converters (MMC) on Electromagnetic Transient Simulation Programs (2011, background): “verters provide an output waveform with a several voltage levels so that each step in voltage waveform is a fraction of the total voltage swing [5]–[8].”
Modulation, Losses, and Semiconductor Requirements of Modular Multilevel Converters (2010, background): “Spectrum, THD, and WTHD show an excellent quality of the output voltage waveform as compared to that of conventional MV converters (e.g., [6], [36], and [ 37 ]).”
Active-neutral-point-clamped (ANPC) multilevel converter technology (2005, background): “The most known topologies are the neutral-point-clamped (NPC), the flying capacitor (FC), and the cascaded H-bridge multilevel converters [1] [2] [3] [4].”
Comparison of 2.3-kV Medium-Voltage Multilevel Converters for Industrial Medium-Voltage Drives (2007, background): “, [9]–[13] and [33]) can be fed by identical grid side converters since they operate at one dc voltage link [Figs.”
A Survey on Cascaded Multilevel Inverters (2010, background): “Nowadays, there exist three commercial topologies of multilevel voltage-source inverters: neutral point clamped (NPC) [3], cascaded H-bridge (CHB) [4], and flying capacitors (FCs) [5].”
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