A New Topology of Capacitor-Clamp Cascade Multilevel Converters

Author

Sneineh, Anees Abu ; Ming-yan Wang ; Tian, Kai

Author_Institution

Sch. of Electr. Eng. & Autom., Harbin Inst. of Technol.

Volume

2

fYear

2006

fDate

14-16 Aug. 2006

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

Use of multilevel converter has become popular in recent years. This paper will present a new topology of capacitor-clamp cascade multilevel converter that is derived from two popular topologies. The new concept of the novel capacitor-clamp cascade converter is based on the connection of multiple three-level capacitor-clamp converter modules. Nine level waveform of the proposed multilevel converter is synthesized by adding of each converter output voltage. Sub-harmonic PWM method is employed in the new topology. The proposed converter is also verified by computer simulation using MATLAB-Simulink. Simulation results are also presented in this paper

Keywords

PWM power convertors; cascade networks; power capacitors; MATLAB-Simulink; capacitor-clamp cascade multilevel converters; computer simulation; converter output voltage; converter topology; sub-harmonic PWM method; three-level capacitor-clamp converter modules; Automation; Computer languages; Computer simulation; Power conversion; Pulse width modulation; Switches; Switching converters; Switching frequency; Topology; Voltage; Capacitor-clamp; Cascade; Multilevel converter; Sub-Harmonic PWM; Topology;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Power Electronics and Motion Control Conference, 2006. IPEMC 2006. CES/IEEE 5th International

Conference_Location

Shanghai

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0448-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IPEMC.2006.4778203

Filename

4778203