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Voltage Balancing of a Modular Neutral-Point-Clamped Converter With a Carrier-Based Modulation Scheme

Abstract

The five-level modular neutral-point-clamped (5L-MNPC) converter is realized by connecting two three-level neutral-point-clamped modules in series. For five-level operation, each dc-bus capacitor voltage of the modular neutral-point-clamped topology should be regulated at one-fourth of the net dc-bus voltage. In this letter, a simple voltage-balancing approach based on the carrier-based modulation scheme is proposed to achieve the above …

Authors

Dekka A; Fuentes RL; Narimani M; Wu B

Journal

IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, Vol. 33, No. 10, pp. 8208–8212

Publisher

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

DOI

10.1109/tpel.2018.2807800

ISSN

0885-8993