• DocumentCode
    1447571
  • Title

    A Survey on Neutral-Point-Clamped Inverters

  • Author

    Rodriguez, Jose ; Bernet, Steffen ; Steimer, Peter K. ; Lizama, Ignacio E.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electron. Eng., Univ. Tec. Federico Santa Maria, Valparaiso, Chile
  • Volume
    57
  • Issue
    7
  • fYear
    2010
  • fDate
    7/1/2010 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    2219
  • Lastpage
    2230
  • Abstract
    Neutral-point-clamped (NPC) inverters are the most widely used topology of multilevel inverters in high-power applications (several megawatts). This paper presents in a very simple way the basic operation and the most used modulation and control techniques developed to date. Special attention is paid to the loss distribution in semiconductors, and an active NPC inverter is presented to overcome this problem. This paper discusses the main fields of application and presents some technological problems such as capacitor balance and losses.
  • Keywords
    invertors; capacitor balance; capacitor losses; loss distribution; multilevel inverters; neutral-point-clamped inverters; Neutral-point-clamped (NPC) inverters;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Industrial Electronics, IEEE Transactions on
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0278-0046
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/TIE.2009.2032430
  • Filename
    5256191
    • Link To Document
    https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=1447571