A vector control technique for medium voltage multilevel inverters

Author

Rodríguez, J. ; Correa, P. ; Morán, L.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron., Univ. Federal de Santa Maria, Brazil

Volume

1

fYear

2001

fDate

2001

Firstpage

173

Abstract

This paper presents a switching strategy for multilevel cascade inverters, based on the space vector theory. The proposed switching strategy generates a voltage vector with very low harmonic distortion and reduced switching frequency. This new control method is an attractive alternative to the classic multilevel PWM techniques considering the following aspects: (i) voltage and current THD, (ii) range of linear operation, and iii) number of commutations

Keywords

harmonic distortion; invertors; power conversion harmonics; switching circuits; voltage control; current THD; linear operation range; medium voltage multilevel inverters; multilevel cascade inverters; reduced switching frequency; space vector theory; switching strategy; vector control technique; very low harmonic distortion; voltage THD; voltage vector; Circuit topology; Harmonic distortion; Medium voltage; Phase modulation; Power generation; Pulse width modulation; Pulse width modulation inverters; Space vector pulse width modulation; Switching frequency; Voltage control;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition, 2001. APEC 2001. Sixteenth Annual IEEE

Conference_Location

Anaheim, CA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-6618-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/APEC.2001.911644

Filename

911644