Capacitor clamped Multi-level Matrix converter

Author

Raju, S. ; Mohan, Ned

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA

fYear

2014

fDate

18-21 May 2014

Firstpage

1036

Lastpage

1042

Abstract

Multi-level matrix converter (MMC) is a three phase AC-AC converter that can synthesize three or more levels at the output voltage while maintaining desired input power factor. In this paper a new converter, Capacitor clamped Multi-level Matrix converter (CMMC) has been proposed as an addition to the MMC family. In comparison to conventional matrix converter, the CMMC offers an additional level at the output voltage. This leads to lower THD and voltage stress. This additional voltage is obtained by means of clamp capacitors which are maintained at half of input line to line voltages. An indirect space vector based modulation strategy is presented for generating desired output voltage at desired input power factor while balancing the clamp capacitor voltage at desired voltage level. The effectiveness of the proposed converter has been verified by means of numerical simulation.

Keywords

AC-AC power convertors; PWM power convertors; capacitors; harmonic distortion; matrix convertors; CMMC; THD; capacitor clamped multilevel matrix converter; clamp capacitor voltage balancing; power factor; space vector modulation; three phase AC-AC converter; voltage stress; Bismuth; Capacitors; Inverters; Lead; MATLAB; Switches; Vectors; capacitor clamped; matrix converter; multi-level; space vector PWM;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Power Electronics Conference (IPEC-Hiroshima 2014 - ECCE-ASIA), 2014 International

Conference_Location

Hiroshima

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IPEC.2014.6869714

Filename

6869714