A capacitor voltage balancing method for cascaded H-bridge multilevel inverters with application to FACTS
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Abstract
Cascaded H-bridge multilevel inverters have attracted considerable attention in applications such as reactive power compensation, solid-state transformers, and PV systems. The main disadvantage of CHBMLI in these applications is the imbalance of the DC capacitor voltages, especially in high-level inverters. The DC-link voltage unbalance increases the stress on the semiconductor devices and may cause serious damages. To overcome this issue, this paper presents a new DC-link capacitor voltage balancing method for CHBMLI. This method has a very effective and fast voltage balancing capability. Furthermore, the proposed algorithm is independent of the number of modules and voltage distribution; therefore, it could be applied to any CHBMLI regardless of its number of cells and levels without considerable modification. This method reduces computation efforts that makes it suitable for high-cell-number inverters. To verify the performance of the proposed modulation scheme, the proposed method is applied to a four-cell CHBMLI, utilized in STATCOM applications, using simulation studies through the PSCAD/EMTDC <sup xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">®</sup> software package. The simulation results show the effectiveness of the method.
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