• DocumentCode
    3566140
  • Title

    A deterministic harmonics mitigation technique for five-level inverters

  • Author

    Buccella, Concettina ; Cecati, Carlo ; Cimoroni, Maria Gabriella ; Razi, Kaveh

  • Author_Institution
    DigiPower s.r.l., L´Aquila, Italy
  • fYear
    2014
  • Firstpage
    1007
  • Lastpage
    1013
  • Abstract
    A deterministic algorithm aiming at reduction of harmonic content in three phase, five-level cascaded inverters is proposed. The procedure starts from a non-linear system consisting of disequations and, using Chebyshev polynomials and Waring´s formula, for any assigned modulation index computes those switching angles α1 and α2 reducing harmonics amplitude such as to fulfill grid code specifications. Simulation and experimental results demonstrate the achievable results.
  • Keywords
    Chebyshev approximation; harmonic distortion; invertors; Chebyshev polynomials; Waring formula; cascaded inverters; deterministic harmonics mitigation technique; five-level inverters; harmonic content; modulation index; Chebyshev approximation; Harmonic analysis; Inverters; Mathematical model; Modulation; Polynomials; Switches; Grid codes; Multilevel power converter; Selective Harmonic Mitigation (SHM); Total Harmonic Distortion (THD);
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Industrial Electronics Society, IECON 2014 - 40th Annual Conference of the IEEE
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/IECON.2014.7048625
  • Filename
    7048625