Two Types of Common-Mode Voltage Suppression in Medium Voltage Motor Speed Regulation System Based on Solid State Transformer With Dual DC Bus

Two types of common mode voltage (CMV) exist in medium-voltage motor drive system based on modular multilevel converter (MMC) type topology, that are, arms CMV (ACMV) and system CMV (SCMV). The former will produce circulating current between phases, and the latter will do harm to the motor. This article proposes a suppression scheme of CMV with a dual dc bus MMC-based solid-state transformer ((DBMC)-C-2-SST) based drive system. The horizontal submodules (SMs) of MMC are cascaded with a quadruple-active-bridge (QAB), then a low voltage is formed. Plus the original medium voltage bus, the system is characteristic as a dual dc bus. The primary triple-active-bridge of QAB which characterized by low-impedance and synchronous-switching helps to achieve the natural suppression of the fluctuating voltage of the MMC horizontal three SMs within the entire operating frequency range under the relevant modulation strategy, thus realizing the full suppression of ACMV and low-frequency components suppression of SCMV simultaneously, and with the additional minimum method of SCMV high-frequency components, the (DBMC)-C-2-SST can achieve zero CMV. As the SMs fluctuating voltage and CMV are decreased, the values of SMs capacitance and arms inductance can be significantly reduced.

Automated summary

This article proposes a CMV suppression scheme based on DBMC-C-2-SST drive system, which achieves the natural suppression of fluctuating voltages of the three SMs of MMC using the primary triple-active-bridge of QAB, thus simultaneously achieving full suppression of ACMV and low-frequency components of SCMV.