A novel DC-link voltage control of PWM-switched cascade cell multi-level inverter applied to STATCOM

Author

Fujii, Kenichi ; De Doncker, Rik W.

Author_Institution

Inst. for Power Electron. & Electr. Drives, RWTH Aachen Univ., Germany

Volume

2

fYear

2005

fDate

2-6 Oct. 2005

Firstpage

961

Abstract

The cascade cell multi-level inverter (CCMLI) is a multi-level inverter topology, which offers the advantage of avoiding clamping devices. Usually, this inverter is switched in block mode, i.e. single pulse operation. However, this operation needs a high number of levels or large filters to achieve an adequate THD of the current. To improve performance, it should be switched with PWM when it is connected to transmission lines. If a CCML is used as a STATCOM with PWM switching, a DC-link control method has not yet been proposed till present. The authors developed a novel method to control each DC-link voltage individually and verified it with a lab model and various simulations.

Keywords

PWM invertors; cascade networks; filters; harmonic distortion; network topology; static VAr compensators; switching convertors; voltage control; DC-link voltage control; PWM-switched cascade cell multilevel inverter topology; STATCOM; THD; clamping devices; large filters; transmission lines; Automatic voltage control; Capacitors; Circuit topology; Clamps; Costs; Filters; Frequency; Pulse width modulation; Pulse width modulation inverters; Voltage control;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Industry Applications Conference, 2005. Fourtieth IAS Annual Meeting. Conference Record of the 2005

ISSN

0197-2618

Print_ISBN

0-7803-9208-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IAS.2005.1518465

Filename

1518465