DocumentCode
2189769
Title
A review on circulating current suppression control, capacitor voltage balancing and fault analysis of modular multilevel converters
Author
Sai Prasanna, P. ; Sreedhar, Madichetty ; Suresh Kumar, L.V.
Author_Institution
Dept. of EEE, GMR Institute of Technology, Andhra Pradesh, India
fYear
2015
fDate
24-25 Jan. 2015
Firstpage
1
Lastpage
6
Abstract
Modular multilevel converters (MMCs) have proven to be the state-of-art technology due to their distinctive advantages such as low harmonic content, reduced losses, modularity and flexibility in converter design. Despite of several advantages, there are few operational challenges such as circulating current suppression control, capacitor voltage balancing and fault tolerant operation which need to be addressed. This paper presents a comprehensive review on basic operation of MMC along with different control strategies.
Keywords
Capacitors; Circuit faults; Frequency modulation; Sorting; Switches; Voltage control; Modular multilevel converter; capacitor voltage balancing; circulating current suppression; fault tolerant operation;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Electrical, Electronics, Signals, Communication and Optimization (EESCO), 2015 International Conference on
Conference_Location
Visakhapatnam, India
Print_ISBN
978-1-4799-7676-8
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/EESCO.2015.7253622
Filename
7253622
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