Medium-Voltage Multilevel Converters—State of the Art, Challenges, and Requirements in Industrial Applications
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...It is possible that the solution makes it possible for active damping of system oscillations or transients in addition to the regenerative capability....
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...As the switching losses of MV semiconductor devices make up a major portion of the device losses, their reduction allows the maximum output power to be increased....
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...A simple way to establish a series connection of power devices without derating is with the 3L inverter topology [2], [21], [22]....
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...Recently, the use of ML configurations has become more prevalent in the active rectifier field [19], [29], [121]....
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...Recently, the use of ML configurations has become more prevalent in the active rectifier field [19], [29], [121]....
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...Only 3% of the currently installed MV motors are controlled by variable-speed drives [1]....
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...Recently, the use of ML configurations has become more prevalent in the active rectifier field [19], [29], [121]....
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...A simple way to establish a series connection of power devices without derating is with the 3L inverter topology [2], [21], [22]....
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...They have been investigated for other applications such as utility interface for renewable energy systems [63], [138]–[141], high-voltage dc transmission [45], flexible ac transmission system [46], electric traction systems, active power filtering [10], [45], unified power flow controllers,…...
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...The features include good power quality, low switching losses, high voltage capability, and low dV/dt [25]–[28]....
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...Nowadays, researchers are striving to improve MLC performances by using the following techniques [6], [23], [69]: 1) control simplification [87], [88] and optimization algorithms to enhance the total harmonic distortion (THD) performance [82], [83]; 2) balancing of the dc capacitor voltage [133],…...
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...New highly efficient power electronic technologies and proper control strategies are therefore needed to reduce energy waste and to improve power quality....
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