Investigations on An Advanced Six-Phase Neutral Point Less Multi-Level Inverter
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Abstract
This paper investigates a new six phase neutral point less multi-level inverter (NPL-MLI) for high voltage and high-power applications such as heavy-duty electric vehicles, electric aircraft, and electric marine ships. The NPL-MLI topology has been studied recently for three phase applications, and it shows significant advantages in eliminating the need to balance the neutral current in the DC link and reducing the size of DC-link capacitor. In addition, it only requires a single DC-link capacitor that can contribute to additional size and cost reduction of the inverter. In this paper, the same NPL-MLI topology will be studied for six phase applications, and the performance will be analyzed and evaluated at first through extensive simulations. Afterwards, comparative analysis will be conducted to compare its performance with the state-of-the-art dual T-type and traditional 2-level six phase inverters. Based on the comparison, the six phase NPL-MLI topology requires a much smaller DC link capacitor in the design. The simulation results at 50 kHz switching frequency shows that it can achieve significant capacitor current and voltage ripple reduction, which also leads to a smoother power output. Moreover, the NPL topology displayed better thermal loss results at various switching frequencies and modulation indexes.
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