TY - GEN
T1 - DC voltage balancing for PWM cascaded H-Bridge converter based STATCOM
AU - Barrena, Jon Andoni
AU - Marroyo, Luis
AU - Rodríguez, Miguel Ángel
AU - Alonso, Óscar
AU - Torrealday, José Ramón
PY - 2006
Y1 - 2006
N2 - This paper presents a new control method for Cascaded connected H-Bridge converter based STATCOMs. 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 mainly focuses the DC Bus voltage balancing problems, and proposes a new control technique that solves these balancing problems maintaining the delivered reactive power equally distributed among all the H-Bridges of the converter.
AB - This paper presents a new control method for Cascaded connected H-Bridge converter based STATCOMs. 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 mainly focuses the DC Bus voltage balancing problems, and proposes a new control technique that solves these balancing problems maintaining the delivered reactive power equally distributed among all the H-Bridges of the converter.
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U2 - 10.1109/IECON.2006.347549
DO - 10.1109/IECON.2006.347549
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:38349065730
SN - 1424401364
SN - 9781424401369
T3 - IECON Proceedings (Industrial Electronics Conference)
SP - 1840
EP - 1845
BT - IECON 2006 - 32nd Annual Conference on IEEE Industrial Electronics
T2 - IECON 2006 - 32nd Annual Conference on IEEE Industrial Electronics
Y2 - 6 November 2006 through 10 November 2006
ER -