Staircase modulated AC to AC converter

Author

Agarwal, Anshul ; Agarwal, Vineeta

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Motilal Nehru. Nat. Inst. of Technol., Allahabad, India

fYear

2010

fDate

Nov. 29 2010-Dec. 1 2010

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

Stair-case modulation technique, generally applied in multilevel inverter is now applied in AC to AC converter for reducing harmonics in the output for both cyclo-inverters as well as for cyclo-converter mode. Simulation results are shown for single-phase to single-phase matrix converter configuration using SIMULINK software. A relation has been obtained between the carrier frequency and output frequency for a given number of levels in staircase to obtain high fundamental output voltage and low distortion factor. The minimum total harmonic distortion factor (THD) obtained is 4.8% for cyclo-inverter operation while for cyclo-converter operation it is only 3.12%.

Keywords

AC-AC power convertors; harmonic distortion; matrix convertors; power conversion harmonics; AC-AC converter; SIMULINK software; cyclo-converter mode; harmonic reduction; matrix converter configuration; multilevel inverter; stair-case modulation; total harmonic distortion factor; Converters; Frequency modulation; Harmonic analysis; Inverters; Power harmonic filters; Pulse width modulation; AC to AC converter; Cyclo-inverter; Stair case modulation; THD;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Power, Control and Embedded Systems (ICPCES), 2010 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Allahabad

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-8543-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICPCES.2010.5698660

Filename

5698660