Modular multilevel converter for medium-voltage applications

Grain Philip Adam; Khaled Ahmed; Stephen Finney; Barry Williams

doi:10.1109/IEMDC.2011.5994738

Modular multilevel converter for medium-voltage applications

Grain Philip Adam, Khaled Ahmed, Stephen Finney, Barry Williams

Electronic And Electrical Engineering

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Abstract

This paper investigates the suitability of the modular multilevel converter (M2C) for medium-voltage multi-megawatt machine drives and as an interface for the integration of renewable power to the grid. Therefore, emphasis is given to issues that may affect the performance in these applications such as ac and dc side harmonics, dv/dt the interfacing transformer or machine windings may experience, suppression of common mode voltage, and switching strategy that may minimize the overall number transitions per fundamental period in order to suppress switching losses without significantly compromising output voltage waveform quality. The modular multilevel converter with 16 cells per arm operated in inversion and rectification modes is used to demonstrate the viability of the M2C in medium-voltage high-power applications.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 2011 IEEE International Electric Machines & Drives Conference (IEMDC)
Publisher	IEEE
Pages	1013 - 1018
Number of pages	6
ISBN (Print)	978-1-4577-0060-6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/IEMDC.2011.5994738
Publication status	Published - May 2011
Event	2011 IEEE International Electric Machines & Drives Conference (IEMDC) - Niagara Falls, Canada Duration: 14 May 2011 → 19 May 2011

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Conference	2011 IEEE International Electric Machines & Drives Conference (IEMDC)
Country/Territory	Canada
City	Niagara Falls
Period	14/05/11 → 19/05/11

Keywords

capacitors
inverters
power harmonic filters
interfacing transformer
voltage control

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Adam, GP, Ahmed, K, Finney, S & Williams, B 2011, Modular multilevel converter for medium-voltage applications. in Proceedings of the 2011 IEEE International Electric Machines & Drives Conference (IEMDC). IEEE, pp. 1013 - 1018, 2011 IEEE International Electric Machines & Drives Conference (IEMDC), Niagara Falls, Canada, 14/05/11. https://doi.org/10.1109/IEMDC.2011.5994738

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