TY - GEN
T1 - A novel PWM modulation strategy for DC Voltage Balancing in Cascaded H-Bridge multilevel converters
AU - Barrena, Jon Andoni
AU - Marroyo, Luis
AU - Rodríguez, Miguel Ángel
AU - Torrealday, José Ramón
PY - 2007
Y1 - 2007
N2 - This paper presents a novel Voltage Balancing PWM modulation strategy for Cascaded H-Bridge multilevel converters. These converters have been classically commutated at fundamental line-frequencies, but the evolution of Power Semiconductors has allowed to increase switching frequencies and the power ratings of these devices, permitting the use of PWM modulation techniques. This paper presents a new PWM modulation strategy that solves the DC Bus voltage balancing problems that appear in the cascaded converter working in reactive power compensation (STATCOM) applications.
AB - This paper presents a novel Voltage Balancing PWM modulation strategy for Cascaded H-Bridge multilevel converters. These converters have been classically commutated at fundamental line-frequencies, but the evolution of Power Semiconductors has allowed to increase switching frequencies and the power ratings of these devices, permitting the use of PWM modulation techniques. This paper presents a new PWM modulation strategy that solves the DC Bus voltage balancing problems that appear in the cascaded converter working in reactive power compensation (STATCOM) applications.
KW - Multilevel converter
KW - STATCOM
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=46149106790&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/EURCON.2007.4400602
DO - 10.1109/EURCON.2007.4400602
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:46149106790
SN - 142440813X
SN - 9781424408139
T3 - EUROCON 2007 - The International Conference on Computer as a Tool
SP - 1450
EP - 1456
BT - EUROCON 2007 - The International Conference on Computer as a Tool
T2 - EUROCON 2007 - The International Conference on Computer as a Tool
Y2 - 9 September 2007 through 12 September 2007
ER -