Advanced topologies and modulation strategies for multilevel inverters

Author

Manjrekar, Madhav ; Venkataramanan, Giri

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Montana State Univ., Bozeman, MT, USA

Volume

2

fYear

1996

fDate

23-27 Jun 1996

Firstpage

1013

Abstract

Multilevel inverters have been attracting increasing attention in the past few years as power converters of choice in high voltage and high power applications. Various topologies to realize these inverters have been introduced and studied. Waveform synthesis methods for these inverters include staircase modulation, sine-triangle carrier modulation, space vector modulation, and other predictive methods. This paper presents the development of real-time voltage control techniques for multilevel inverters based on multilevel sigma delta modulators. The spectral performance of the output waveforms is investigated. Various design criteria, performance characteristics, comparison with existing modulation methods and other practical issues are discussed in detail in the paper

Keywords

DC-AC power convertors; invertors; sigma-delta modulation; voltage control; design criteria; high power; high voltage; multilevel inverters; multilevel sigma delta modulators; output waveforms; performance characteristics; power converters; predictive methods; real-time voltage control; sine-triangle carrier modulation; space vector modulation; spectral performance; staircase modulation; topologies; waveform synthesis methods; Circuit synthesis; Circuit topology; Delta modulation; Delta-sigma modulation; Insulated gate bipolar transistors; Inverters; Power system harmonics; Power system simulation; Switching converters; Voltage;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Power Electronics Specialists Conference, 1996. PESC '96 Record., 27th Annual IEEE

Conference_Location

Baveno

ISSN

0275-9306

Print_ISBN

0-7803-3500-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PESC.1996.548706

Filename

548706