Recent advances and industrial applications of multilevel converters

S Kouro, M Malinowski, K Gopakumar… - IEEE Transactions …, 2010 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
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 …

Hybrid neutral point clamped converter: Review and comparison to traditional topologies

D Zakzewski, R Resalayyan… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In applications such as transportation electrification there are strict requirements regarding
efficiency, reliability, power density, and cost. Therefore, a diverse array of circuit topologies …

Multilevel converters: An enabling technology for high-power applications

J Rodriguez, LG Franquelo, S Kouro… - Proceedings of the …, 2009 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Multilevel converters are considered today as the state-of-the-art power-conversion systems
for high-power and power-quality demanding applications. This paper presents a tutorial on …

Multilevel voltage-source-converter topologies for industrial medium-voltage drives

J Rodríguez, S Bernet, B Wu, JO Pontt… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2007 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents a technology review of voltage-source-converter topologies for
industrial medium-voltage drives. In this highly active area, different converter topologies …

A boost-type nine-level switched capacitor inverter

Y Nakagawa, H Koizumi - IEEE Transactions on Power …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A new boost-type multilevel inverter using switched capacitor structure is proposed. The
main feature of the proposed inverter is boosting and multilevel output with small number of …

A new topology of cascaded multilevel converters with reduced number of components for high-voltage applications

J Ebrahimi, E Babaei… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, a new topology of a cascaded multilevel converter is proposed. The proposed
topology is based on a cascaded connection of single-phase submultilevel converter units …

Phase-shifted carrier PWM technique for general cascaded inverters

R Naderi, A Rahmati - IEEE Transactions on power electronics, 2008 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Phase-shifted carrier (PSC) pulsewidth modulation (PWM) in its conventional form is a good
solution for single-phase Cascaded inverters as alternative phase opposition disposition …

Analytical modelling of voltage balance dynamics for a flying capacitor multilevel converter

BP McGrath, DG Holmes - 2007 IEEE Power Electronics …, 2007 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents a strategy for the analytic determination of the natural voltage balancing
dynamics of flying capacitor converters. The approach substitutes Double Fourier series …

Double flying capacitor multicell converter based on modified phase-shifted pulsewidth modulation

AK Sadigh, SH Hosseini, M Sabahi… - … on Power Electronics, 2009 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Multilevel converters are very interesting alternatives for medium and high-power
applications. The main reason is the increase in the number of output voltage levels and its …

Fault detection on multicell converter based on output voltage frequency analysis

P Lezana, R Aguilera… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2009 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Multilevel converters use a large amount of semiconductors, allowing the reconfigurate of
the converter to work even on internal fault condition. This paper presents a method to detect …