Diode-clamped multilevel converters: a practicable way to balance DC-link voltages
Marchesoni, M.
Tenca, P.
Dipt. di Ingegneria Elettrica, Universita degli Studi di Genova, Genoa;
This paper appears in: Industrial Electronics, IEEE Transactions on
Publication Date: Aug 2002
Volume: 49,
Issue: 4
On page(s): 752- 765
ISSN: 0278-0046
INSPEC Accession Number: 7356029
Digital Object Identifier: 10.1109/TIE.2002.801237
Current Version Published: 2002-11-07
Abstract
The converter topologies identified as diode-clamped multilevel (DCM) or, equivalently, as multipoint clamped (MPC), are rarely used in industrial applications, owing to some serious drawbacks involving mainly the stacked bank of capacitors that constitutes their multilevel DC link. The balance of the capacitor voltages is not possible in all operating conditions when the MPC converter possesses a passive front end. On the other hand, in AC/DC/AC power conversion, the back-to-back connection of a multilevel rectifier with a multilevel inverter allows the balance of the DC-link capacitor voltages and, at the same time, it offers the power-factor-correction capability at the mains AC input. An effective balancing strategy suitable for MPC conversion systems with any number of DC-link capacitors is presented here. The strategy has been carefully studied to optimize the converter efficiency. The simulation results related to a high-power conversion system (up to 10 MW) characterized by four intermediate DC-link capacitors are shown.
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