TY - GEN
T1 - New active capacitor voltage balancing method for five-level stacked multicell converter
AU - Sadigh, Arash Khoshkbar
AU - Dargahi, Vahid
AU - Corzine, Keith
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2016 IEEE.
PY - 2016/5/10
Y1 - 2016/5/10
N2 - This paper proposes a new active capacitor voltage balancing method for five-level stacked multicell converter which is fully implemented using the logic-form equations. The proposed active voltage balancing method measures load current and flying capacitor voltages in order to generate the appropriate switching states to produce the required output voltage level as well as to balance the flying capacitor voltages at their reference values. Output voltage of the stacked multicell converter controlled with proposed active voltage balancing method can be modulated with any pulse-width-modulation techniques such as phase-shifted-carrier or level-shifted-carrier pulse-width-modulation. The advantage of the proposed active voltage balancing method in comparison with other control techniques is its simplicity without requiring complex computations. Simulation results of the five-level SM converters are presented to verify the performance of proposed active voltage balancing method.
AB - This paper proposes a new active capacitor voltage balancing method for five-level stacked multicell converter which is fully implemented using the logic-form equations. The proposed active voltage balancing method measures load current and flying capacitor voltages in order to generate the appropriate switching states to produce the required output voltage level as well as to balance the flying capacitor voltages at their reference values. Output voltage of the stacked multicell converter controlled with proposed active voltage balancing method can be modulated with any pulse-width-modulation techniques such as phase-shifted-carrier or level-shifted-carrier pulse-width-modulation. The advantage of the proposed active voltage balancing method in comparison with other control techniques is its simplicity without requiring complex computations. Simulation results of the five-level SM converters are presented to verify the performance of proposed active voltage balancing method.
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U2 - 10.1109/APEC.2016.7468020
DO - 10.1109/APEC.2016.7468020
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84973667649
T3 - Conference Proceedings - IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition - APEC
SP - 1191
EP - 1197
BT - 2016 IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition, APEC 2016
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 31st Annual IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition, APEC 2016
Y2 - 20 March 2016 through 24 March 2016
ER -