A new 7L-PUC multi-cells modular multilevel converter for AC-AC and AC-DC applications

Author

Sleiman, Mohammad ; Blanchette, Handy Fortin ; Al-Haddad, Kamal ; Gregoire, Luc-Andre ; Kanaan, Hadi

Author_Institution

Ecole de Technol. Super., Montreal, QC, Canada

fYear

2015

fDate

17-19 March 2015

Firstpage

2514

Lastpage

2519

Abstract

In this paper, a new cell based Modular Multilevel Converter (MMC) for AC-AC and AC-DC applications is presented. The new topology makes use of an efficient Packed U-Cells (PUC) structure to form the Multi-Cells Modular Multilevel Converters (M³C). It is a member of MMC root family, with extended operational capability covering therefore AC-AC and AC-DC modes of operation. A dynamic model of the PUC and the single phase M³C will be used along with predictive control method to validate the effectiveness of different operation modes of the converter.

Keywords

AC-AC power convertors; AC-DC power convertors; predictive control; 7L-PUC multicells modular multilevel converter; AC-AC power converter; AC-DC power converter; MMC root family; cell based modular multilevel converter; extended operational capability covering; packed U-cells structure; predictive control method; Capacitors; Converters; Inductance; Integrated circuit modeling; Switches; Topology; Voltage control; Modular Multilevel Converter (MMC); Multi-Cells Modular Multilevel Converters (M3C); Packed U-Cells; single phase AC-AC and AC-DC power converter;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Industrial Technology (ICIT), 2015 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Seville

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICIT.2015.7125468

Filename

7125468