The Neutral Point Clamped (NPC) Multi-Level Inverters (MLI) have been ruling the power
electronics industries for the past two decades. The Multi-Carrier Pulse Width Modulation …

This paper presents a comprehensive study on the state-of-the-art and emerging wind
energy technologies from the electrical engineering perspective. In an attempt to decrease …

In the last decades, multilevel converters have been developed usually for medium-voltage
high-power applications. They have become a mature solution for the increasing power …

The cost reduction of power-electronic devices, the increase in their reliability, efficiency,
and power capability, and lower development times, together with more demanding …

Over the last few decennia, power DC/DC converters have been the subject of great interest
due to its extensive increment of utilization in different applications. A thorough review on …

In this original book on model predictive control (MPC) for power electronics, the focus is put
on high-power applications with multilevel converters operating at switching frequencies …

Multilevel converters have been under research and development for more than three
decades and have found successful industrial application. However, this is still a technology …

With wide-spread application of power electronic converters in high power systems, there
has been a growing interest in system reliability analysis and fault-tolerant capabilities. This …

In this paper, finite-set model-predictive control (FS-MPC) methodologies for a grid-
connected three-level neutral-point-clamped converter are investigated. The proposed …

Multilevel inverter technology has emerged recently as a very important alternative in the
area of high-power medium-voltage energy control. This paper presents the most important …