• DocumentCode
    1686568
  • Title

    Multilevel converters and series connection of IGBT evaluation for high-power, high-voltage applications

  • Author

    Massoud, A.M. ; Finney, S.J. ; Williams, B.W.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Comput. & Electr. Eng., Heriot-Watt Univ., Edinburgh, UK
  • Volume
    1
  • fYear
    2004
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Abstract
    In this paper a detailed quantitative comparison between two competing high voltage converter technologies is performed, namely series connection of semiconductor power devices versus multilevel converters. The comparison is based on converter losses (conduction and switching), total harmonic distortion and distortion factor for the output phase arid line voltages, and common mode voltage at different modulation frequency ratios.
  • Keywords
    PWM invertors; insulated gate bipolar transistors; losses; switching convertors; PWM invertors; common mode voltage; conduction losses; converter losses; distortion factor; line voltage; modulation frequency ratios; multilevel converters; output phase; semiconductor power devices; series connected IGBT; switching losses; total harmonic distortion;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    iet
  • Conference_Titel
    Power Electronics, Machines and Drives, 2004. (PEMD 2004). Second International Conference on (Conf. Publ. No. 498)
  • ISSN
    0537-9989
  • Print_ISBN
    0-86341-383-8
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1049/cp:20040249
  • Filename
    1348881