New breed of network fault-tolerant voltage-source-converter HVDC transmission system

GP Adam, KH Ahmed, SJ Finney, K Bell… - … on Power Systems, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper proposes a new breed of high-voltage dc (HVDC) transmission systems based
on a hybrid multilevel voltage source converter (VSC) with ac-side cascaded H-bridge cells …

A solar power generation system with a seven-level inverter

JC Wu, CW Chou - IEEE transactions on power electronics, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper proposes a new solar power generation system, which is composed of a dc/dc
power converter and a new seven-level inverter. The dc/dc power converter integrates a dc …

Voltage balancing approaches for diode-clamped multilevel converters using auxiliary capacitor-based circuits

Z Shu, X He, Z Wang, D Qiu… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
An auxiliary capacitor-based balancing approach is adopted in this paper to equalize the dc-
link capacitor voltages of a diode-clamped multilevel converter (DCMC). Four balancing …

Hybrid multilevel converter: Capacitor voltage balancing limits and its extension

Y Zhang, GP Adam, TC Lim, SJ Finney… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents theoretical analysis of a network fault tolerant hybrid cascaded
multilevel converter when operated as one unit using multilevel pulse width modulation. The …

A novel control approach for protection of multiterminal VSC-based HVDC transmission system against DC faults

M Mobarrez, MG Kashani… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Overall performance of the voltage source converters (VSCs) has improved during the
recent years. Improvement of the VSCs along with the attractive features of the VSC-based …

Transformer‐based inverter with reduced number of switches for renewable energy applications

AA Gandomi, S Saeidabadi, SH Hosseini… - IET Power …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Multilevel inverters generate high‐level voltage with high quality and low‐harmonic
distortion, and these unique properties have increased their applications in renewable …

[HTML][HTML] Implementation of artificial neural network based controller for a five-level converter based UPQC

S Vinnakoti, VR Kota - Alexandria engineering journal, 2018 - Elsevier
To reduce the cost and complexity of the system, ANN controller is proposed for a five-level
converter based UPQC which eliminates mathematical operations such as abc to dq-0 …

Weight factor selection for model-based predictive control of a four-level flying-capacitor inverter

S Thielemans, TJ Vyncke, J Melkebeek - IET Power Electronics, 2012 - IET
Flying-capacitor (FC) converters need, besides an output current control, a control of the FC
voltages to be able to produce appropriate output voltage levels. The output currents and …

HVDC transmission systems: Bipolar back-to-back diode clamped multilevel converter with fast optimum-predictive control and capacitor balancing strategy

M Chaves, E Margato, JF Silva, SF Pinto… - Electric Power Systems …, 2011 - Elsevier
Voltage source multilevel power converter structures are being considered for high power
high voltage applications where they have well known advantages. Recently, full back-to …

Classification of multilevel converters with a modular reduced structure: implementing a prominent 31‐level 5 kVA class B converter

MJ Mojibian, M Tavakoli Bina - IET power electronics, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Multilevel converters are capable of generating AC voltages with low‐total harmonic
distortion, applicable to power system applications such as penetration of renewable …