Modular Multilevel Converter With Different Submodule Concepts—Part I: Capacitor Voltage Balancing Method
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...level neutral-point-clamped (NPC) or a three-level flying capacitor (FC) converter [17], [18]....
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...The efficiency of the cells can be improved, replacing the standard cell by multilevel structures, such as neutral point clamped or flying capacitor [18], as shown in Fig....
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...Due to the neutral-point balancing issue, the operating region of NPC-SM is limited at the higher modulation indices [58]....
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...These states are applied to the SMs in each PWM period [58], [133]....
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...Although other SM configurations have been considered in the literature [29], [30], the most extensively used is the half-bridge topology because of its simplicity....
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...scribed in depth in references such as [2], [16], [14], and [36]....
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...7, it is clearly observed that the apparent frequency of the output signal (VMO) is twice the amount because, in this topology, double the amount of triangular signals per phase is required [14]....
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...In publications such as [2] and [21]–[33], several capacitor voltage balancing methods have been treated with a MMC topology with 2L submodule concepts....
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...It must be pointed out that, for instance, in [2], in a different approach compared to previous cases, a space vector...
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...Several modulation techniques for multilevel inverters are explained in [38]....
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