Journal
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON POWER ELECTRONICS
Volume 29, Issue 4, Pages 1720-1732Publisher
IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC
DOI: 10.1109/TPEL.2013.2264954
Keywords
Common mode voltage (CMV); leakage current; neutral-point voltage balance; photovoltaic (PV) system; three-level inverter
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- Human Resources Development program of the Korea Institute of Energy Technology Evaluation and Planning (KETEP) [20114010203030, G031462811]
- Korea government Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy
- Korea Evaluation Institute of Industrial Technology (KEIT) [20134030200310] Funding Source: Korea Institute of Science & Technology Information (KISTI), National Science & Technology Information Service (NTIS)
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Transformerless topologies of many topologies are widely used in photovoltaic (PV) systems because these topologies have many advantages in terms of the weight, size, and efficiency. A three-level inverter has an outstanding performance and is advantageous in the switching device selection than a two-level inverter. In the transformerless PV systems using the three-level inverter, the PV systems should suffer from the leakage current and generate the neutral-point voltage unbalance. To solve two problems, this paper proposes modulation techniques to reduce the leakage current and balance the dc-link voltages. The cause of the leakage current in the three-level inverter is analyzed. The proposed technique LMZVM using the large, medium, and zero vectors reduces the common mode voltage that causes the leakage current than that of the conventional PWM. Moreover, the proposed technique LMSVM using the large, medium, and small vectors balances the dc-link voltages with reduced CMV as the same in LMZVM. The effectiveness of the proposed techniques is verified by comparing its results with those of the convectional PWM. The results are obtained through simulations and experiments.
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