TY - GEN
T1 - Design and comparison of cascaded H-bridge, modular multilevel converter and 5-L active neutral point clamped topologies for drive application
AU - Marzoughi, Alinaghi
AU - Burgos, Rolando
AU - Boroyevich, Dushan
AU - Xue, Yaosuo
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2015 IEEE.
PY - 2015/10/27
Y1 - 2015/10/27
N2 - This paper investigates the design procedure of cascaded H-bridge (CHB), modular multilevel converter (MMC) and five-level active neutral point clamped (5-L ANPC) topologies for medium-voltage and high-power industrial motor drive application. The design is performed using 1.7-kV insulated gate bipolar transistor (IGBT) technology for CHB and MMC converters, and utilizing 3.3- and 4.5-kV IGBTs for 5-L ANPC topology. When designing the converters, the effect from leakage parameters of the multi-pulse transformer used together with the diode front-end rectifier stage is taken into account via a model. Also comparison is done between the designed converter topologies at three different voltage levels: 4.16-, 6.9- and 13.8-kV (only first two voltage levels in case of 5-L ANPC) and three different power levels: 1-, 3- and 5-MVA. The comparison is done from several points of view like capacitance requirements, diode front-end and inverter stage losses, semiconductor rating, semiconductor die size and parts count.
AB - This paper investigates the design procedure of cascaded H-bridge (CHB), modular multilevel converter (MMC) and five-level active neutral point clamped (5-L ANPC) topologies for medium-voltage and high-power industrial motor drive application. The design is performed using 1.7-kV insulated gate bipolar transistor (IGBT) technology for CHB and MMC converters, and utilizing 3.3- and 4.5-kV IGBTs for 5-L ANPC topology. When designing the converters, the effect from leakage parameters of the multi-pulse transformer used together with the diode front-end rectifier stage is taken into account via a model. Also comparison is done between the designed converter topologies at three different voltage levels: 4.16-, 6.9- and 13.8-kV (only first two voltage levels in case of 5-L ANPC) and three different power levels: 1-, 3- and 5-MVA. The comparison is done from several points of view like capacitance requirements, diode front-end and inverter stage losses, semiconductor rating, semiconductor die size and parts count.
KW - 5-L Active Neutral Point Clamped (ANPC)
KW - Cascaded H-Bridge (CHB)
KW - Medium-Voltage High-Power Motor Drive
KW - Modular Multilevel Converter (MMC)
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84963563156&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/ECCE.2015.7310229
DO - 10.1109/ECCE.2015.7310229
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84963563156
T3 - 2015 IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition, ECCE 2015
SP - 4033
EP - 4039
BT - 2015 IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition, ECCE 2015
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 7th Annual IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition, ECCE 2015
Y2 - 20 September 2015 through 24 September 2015
ER -