Modular multilevel converters technology: a comprehensive study on its topologies, modelling, control and applications

MN Raju, J Sreedevi, RP Mandi… - IET Power …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
A modular multilevel converter (MMC) is one of the perfect topologies for high power and
medium‐/high‐voltage energy conversion systems. The MMC has attractive features such as …

The essential role and the continuous evolution of modulation techniques for voltage-source inverters in the past, present, and future power electronics

JI Leon, S Kouro, LG Franquelo… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The cost reduction of power-electronic devices, the increase in their reliability, efficiency,
and power capability, and lower development times, together with more demanding …

A hybrid cascaded multilevel converter for battery energy management applied in electric vehicles

Z Zheng, K Wang, L Xu, Y Li - IEEE Transactions on power …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In electric vehicle (EV) energy storage systems, a large number of battery cells are usually
connected in series to enhance the output voltage for motor driving. The difference in …

Design and control of a GaN-based, 13-level, flying capacitor multilevel inverter

CB Barth, P Assem, T Foulkes… - IEEE Journal of …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Multilevel topologies are an appealing method to achieve higher power density converters
for both mobile and stationary systems. This article discusses the design and high …

Space vector modulation for three-level NPC converter with neutral point voltage balance and switching loss reduction

Y Jiao, FC Lee, S Lu - IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper investigates the different control objectives, such as loss reduction, neutral point
(NP) balance and noise reduction of the space vector modulation (SVM), for the three-level …

An improved control system for modular multilevel converters with new modulation strategy and voltage balancing control

S Fan, K Zhang, J Xiong, Y Xue - IEEE Transactions on Power …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Modular multilevel converter (MMC) has become one of the most promising converter
topologies for future high-power applications. A challenging issue of the MMC is the voltage …

Analysis and design of a novel six-switch five-level active boost neutral point clamped inverter

YP Siwakoti, A Palanisamy, A Mahajan… - IEEE Transactions …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article presents an analysis and design of a new boost type six-switch five-level (5L)
active neutral point clamped (ANPC) inverter based on switched/flying capacitor technique …

A five-level inverter topology with single-DC supply by cascading a flying capacitor inverter and an H-bridge

P Roshankumar, PP Rajeevan… - … on power Electronics, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, a new three-phase, five-level inverter topology with a single-dc source is
presented. The proposed topology is obtained by cascading a three-level flying capacitor …

Improved natural balancing with modified phase-shifted PWM for single-leg five-level flying-capacitor converters

S Thielemans, A Ruderman, B Reznikov… - … on Power Electronics, 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Flying-capacitor converters (FCCs), like most multilevel converter topologies, require a
balancing mechanism of the capacitor voltages. FCCs feature natural voltage balancing …

A new family of modular multilevel converter based on modified flying-capacitor multicell converters

V Dargahi, AK Sadigh, M Abarzadeh… - … on Power Electronics, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Modular multilevel converters (MMCs) are one of the next-generation multilevel converters
intended for medium/high-voltage high-power market. This paper initially studies a modified …