A survey of cascaded multi-level PWM rectifier with VIENNA modules for HVDC system

For a Voltage Source Converter based High Voltage Direct Current Transmission(VSC-HVDC)system the most important part is the VSC part because it determines main performance of the whole system. This paper proposed a new topology of PWM AC/DC converter which is cascaded VIENNA rectifier. In addition, in this paper a current controller based on the working modes of three-phase VIENNA rectifier will be introduced to control input currents. By this current controller the input currents can follow the corresponding references to achieve the goal of unit power factor. When this current controller is applied on the proposed cascaded VIENNA rectifier the performance will be investigated too. In order to verify the correctness of the current controller and the cascaded VIENNA rectifier, the prototype of three-phase VIENNA rectifier and single-phase two modules cascaded VIENNA rectifier are developed. The current controller and the proposed topology is validated by the way of analysis of the experimental results.