Journal
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INDUSTRIAL ELECTRONICS
Volume 70, Issue 10, Pages 10134-10145Publisher
IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC
DOI: 10.1109/TIE.2022.3224157
Keywords
Switches; Modulation; Capacitors; Voltage; Voltage control; Matrix converters; Steady-state; Circulant matrix; coprime associated polynomial; dual-circulant modulation; inherent submodule (SM) voltage balancing; modular multilevel dc converter
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This article proposes a dual-circulant modulation method for balancing submodule capacitor voltages in modular multilevel dc-dc converters (MMDCs). The method combines two sets of circular switching patterns to fulfill the constraints on submodule voltages. The switching patterns are reallocated and optimized to ensure submodule uniformity and reduce capacitor voltage ripple. Simulations and experiments validate the voltage balancing capability and the optimization of capacitor voltage ripple with the proposed dual-circulant modulation.
The modular multilevel dc-dc converters (MMDCs) have attracted much interest in medium voltage dc applications, but have to face the main issue of balancing submodule (SM) capacitor voltages. This article proposes a dual-circulant modulation and proves it possessing the inherent balancing capability for arbitrary operation cases. High-speed communication for real-time sensor data transfer could be avoided, which reduces implementation costs and also enhances the system reliability. Two sets of circular switching patterns are preset and combined to complete the full constrains on SM voltages. The associated polynomial of circulant matrix is introduced and the coprime of polynomials demonstrates the full-rank feature of the extended switching matrix that promises the inherent balancing for any operation cases. Then, the switching patterns are reallocated and optimized to keep the SM uniformity and reduce the capacitor voltage ripple at the same time. Full-scale simulations on MMDC models and down-scaled experiments on prototypes are both presented, which validates the inherent voltage balancing capability and the optimization of SM capacitor voltage ripple with the proposed dual-circulant modulation.
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