期刊
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON POWER ELECTRONICS
卷 36, 期 7, 页码 7725-7735出版社
IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC
DOI: 10.1109/TPEL.2020.3041599
关键词
Topology; Modulation; Semiconductor diodes; Monitoring; Clamps; Voltage measurement; Voltage control; Diode-clamped circuit; modular multilevel converter; voltage balancing
资金
- Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure of Germany [VB5GFKAISE]
The article discusses the increasing use of Cascaded H-bridge and modular multilevel converters in renewable energy generation, energy storage, and electric motor drives. However, the complexity and cost associated with these converters have led to a trend in developing control and topologies that rely less on measurements. A proposed balancing technique for diode-clamped topologies leverages the dc component of arm current and a phase-shifted modulation scheme to ensure balanced operation, with benefits including sensorless operation, reduced computation, and lower overall cost.
Cascaded H-bridge and modular multilevel converters (MMC) are on the rise with emerging applications in renewable energy generation, energy storage, and electric motor drives. However, their well-known advantages come at the price of complicated balancing, high-bandwidth isolated monitoring, and numerous sensors that can prevent MMCs from expanding into highly cost-driven markets. Therefore, an obvious trend in research is developing control and topologies that depend less on measurements and benefit from simpler control. Diode-clamped topologies are considered among the more applicable solutions. The main problem with a diode-clamped topology is that it can only balance the module voltages of a string in one direction; therefore, it cannot provide a completely balanced operation. This article proposes an effective balancing technique for the diode-clamped topology. The proposed solution exploits the dc component of the arm current by introducing a symmetrically level-adjusted phase-shifted modulation scheme, and ensures the balancing current flow is always in the correct direction. The advantages of this method are sensorless operation, reduced computation, and control effort, lower communication requirement, removing the voltage sensors, and low overall cost. Analysis and detailed simulations provide insight into the operation of the new balancing technique and the experimental results confirm the provided discussions.
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