A comprehensive review of capacitor voltage balancing strategies for multilevel converters under selective harmonic elimination PWM

M Wu, YW Li, G Konstantinou - IEEE Transactions on Power …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In recent decades, applications of selective harmonic elimination pulsewidth modulation
(SHE-PWM) have been extended from two-level to multilevel converters (MLCs). For most …

A survey on capacitor voltage control in neutral-point-clamped multilevel converters

S Alepuz, S Busquets-Monge, J Nicolás-Apruzzese… - Electronics, 2022 - mdpi.com
Neutral-point-clamped multilevel converters are currently a suitable solution for a wide
range of applications. It is well known that the capacitor voltage balance is a major issue for …

Improved particle swarm optimization based selective harmonic elimination and neutral point balance control for three-level inverter in low-voltage ride-through …

Y Jiang, X Li, C Qin, X **ng… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In high-power applications, selective harmonic elimination pulsewidth modulation
(SHEPWM) method is widely used to eliminate low-order harmonics in three-level inverters …

Neutral-point voltage balancing method for five-level NPC inverters based on carrier-overlapped PWM

K Wang, Z Zheng, L Xu, Y Li - IEEE Transactions on Power …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Neutral-point voltage imbalance is one of the main problems of five-level neutral-point
clamped inverters that impedes their industrial application. In order to solve this problem, a …

Event-triggered neural-predictor-based FCS-MPC for MMC

X Liu, L Qiu, W Wu, J Ma, Y Fang… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Traditional predictive control schemes dominated the research field of numerous power
electronic applications over the past few years, since they usually lead to control solutions …

Cascaded multilevel structure with three-phase and single-phase H-bridges for open-end winding induction motor drive

VF Pires, A Cordeiro, D Foito, JF Silva… - IEEE Open Journal …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A new multilevel topology for an open-end winding motor drive is proposed in this article,
presenting a similar structure to the cascaded H-bridge multilevel inverter. The proposed …

A generalized simplified virtual vector PWM to balance the capacitor voltages of multilevel diode-clamped converters

QM Attique, K Wang, Z Zheng, H Zhu… - … on Power Electronics, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article presents a generalized simplified virtual vector pulsewidth modulation
(SVVPWM) to attain the capacitor voltage balancing of multilevel diode-clamped converter …

Hybrid connected unified power quality conditioner integrating distributed generation with reduced power capacity and enhanced conversion efficiency

J Wang, K Sun, H Wu, J Zhu, Y **ng… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this article, a hybrid connected unified power quality conditioner integrating distributed
generation (HCUPQC-DG) is proposed. Two dc ports are created at the dc link of the …

Carrier-based closed-loop DC-link voltage balancing algorithm for four level NPC converters based on redundant level modulation

J Wang, X Yuan, B ** - IEEE Transactions on Industrial …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Four-level neutral-point-clamped (NPC) multilevel converter topologies have been proposed
and actively studied for low/medium voltage applications. As an inherent issue with these …

A modulation scheme based on virtual voltage levels for capacitor voltage balancing of the four-level diode clamped converter

J Ebrahimi, S Shahnooshi, S Eren… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article proposes a modulation scheme based on the concept of virtual voltage levels for
regulating the dc-link capacitor voltages of a four-level diode clamped converter under …