Medium voltage large-scale grid-connected photovoltaic systems using cascaded H-bridge and modular multilevel converters: A review

AI Elsanabary, G Konstantinou, S Mekhilef… - IEEE …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Medium-voltage (MV) multilevel converters are considered a promising solution for large
scale photovoltaic (PV) systems to meet the rapid energy demand. This article focuses on …

Fault management techniques to enhance the reliability of power electronic converters: An overview

S Rahimpour, O Husev, D Vinnikov… - IEEE …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The reliability of power electronic converters is a major concern in industrial applications
because of using prone-to-failure elements such as high-power semiconductor devices and …

A fault-tolerant hybrid cascaded H-bridge multilevel inverter

H Mhiesan, Y Wei, YP Siwakoti… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The cascaded H-bridge (CHB) inverter is one of the most attractive multilevel topologies for
renewable energy applications. Due to the fact that CHB inverters employ a large number of …

Fault-tolerant operation of three-phase cascaded H-bridge converters using an auxiliary module

H Salimian, H Iman-Eini - IEEE Transactions on Industrial …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents a new fault-tolerant solution for cascaded H-bridge (CHB) converters,
which generates equal output voltages in both prefault and single fault conditions. To …

Fault‐tolerant structure for cascaded H‐bridge multilevel inverter and reliability evaluation

MM Haji‐Esmaeili, M Naseri… - IET Power …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
In this study, a fault‐tolerant structure and its controlling method for a cascaded H‐bridge
multilevel inverter is introduced. When a fault occurs in one of the modules, the proposed …

Simplified space vector modulation techniques for multilevel inverters

I Ahmed, VB Borghate, A Matsa… - … on Power Electronics, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents simplified techniques for the space vector modulation (SVM) of any n-
level multilevel inverter. Three techniques have been presented to simplify the identification …

Analytical determination of conduction and switching power losses in flying-capacitor-based active neutral-point-clamped multilevel converter

AK Sadigh, V Dargahi… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Multilevel converters are mainly used in medium-voltage high-power applications. Active
neutral-point-clamped (ANPC) flying capacitor multicell (FCM) converter is a well-known …

A new fault-tolerant strategy for a cascaded H-bridge based STATCOM

Y Neyshabouri, H Iman-Eini - IEEE Transactions on Industrial …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper introduces a new fault-tolerant strategy for a cascaded H-bridge (CHB)-based
static synchronous compensator (STATCOM) with a single failure in power switches. A …

Optimal selective harmonic mitigation technique on variable DC link cascaded H-bridge converter to meet power quality standards

M Najjar, A Moeini, MK Bakhshizadeh… - IEEE Journal of …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, power quality standards such as IEC 61000-3-6, IEC 61000-2-12, EN 50160,
and CIGRE WG 36-05 are fulfilled for single-and three-phase medium-voltage applications …

An improved fault-tolerant control scheme for cascaded H-bridge STATCOM with higher attainable balanced line-to-line voltages

Q Xiao, L Chen, Y Jin, Y Mu… - IEEE Transactions …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Fault-tolerant operation ability is of great importance for stable operation of cascaded H-
bridge (CHB) converters, under open-circuit (OC) or short-circuit (SC) switch failures in …