Steady-State Analysis of Interaction Between Harmonic Components of Arm and Line Quantities of Modular Multilevel Converters

By Kalle Ilves, Antonios Antonopoulos, Staffan Norrga, Hans-Peter Nee. IEEE transactions on power electronics, 2012

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• Precharging and DC Fault Ride-Through of Hybrid MMC-Based HVDC Systems (2015, background): “There are mainly three different SM topologies proposed for an MMC, that is, half-bridge-based submodule (HBSM) [1]–[6] shown in Fig.”
• An Inner Current Suppressing Method for Modular Multilevel Converters (2012, background): “In the steady state, icir can be expressed as [22]”
• Harmonic Instability in MMC-HVDC Converters Resulting From Internal Dynamics (2016, methodology): “Another important consideration is the steady state analysis of the MMC circuit which has been used to calculate the expression for the capacitor voltage ripple and the circulating current [5], [6].”
• Experimental Comparison of Model Predictive Control and Cascaded Control of the Modular Multilevel Converter (2015, background): “To achieve high dynamics and stable operation of the converter, a controller has to consider the inner dynamics of the MMC [7], [8].”
• Generalized Theory of Phase-Shifted Carrier PWM for Cascaded H-Bridge Converters and Modular Multilevel Converters (2016, background): “This conclusion can be found in [46] and [47].”
• Analysis and Control of Modular Multilevel Converters Under Unbalanced Conditions (2013, background): “However, the research in [10]–[14] is under a balanced ac system.”
• Efficient Modeling of Modular Multilevel HVDC Converters (MMC) on Electromagnetic Transient Simulation Programs (2011, methodology): “Using an explicit analytical approach, it is found that harmonic contents exist in the arm circulating currents as in the form of even multiples of fundamental frequency component and a dc component [73].”
• Quasi Two-Level Operation of Modular Multilevel Converter for Use in a High-Power DC Transformer With DC Fault Isolation Capability (2015, background): “Therein, it was concluded that a 10 mF cell capacitor is needed to achieve 30 kJ/MVA, which is the energy level typically required for conventional MMC operation within ±10% cell voltage ripple [53].”
• Analysis of the Phase-Shifted Carrier Modulation for Modular Multilevel Converters (2015, methodology): “Note that (21) focuses on the switching harmonics caused by PSC-PWM whereas not includes the low-frequency harmonics due to the energy oscillation between the upper and lower arms [9].”